Indian Elephant Chess Piece (c. 17th-18th Century)
Manuela Gressani checks out the Asian cultural and intellectual roots of gameplay, through an Indian Elephant Chess Piece from the late 17th to early 18th century. Chaturanga was first played in 6th c...
12 Aug 202115min
A New Map of the Island of Barbados, Philip Lea and John Seller (1686)
Dr. Lou Roper explores the uncharted history of enslaved Africans in England's 17th century colonies, via Philip Lea and John Seller's A New Map of the Island of Barbados. In 1686, Lea and Sellers met...
29 Juli 202114min
Mexican Enconchado of the Virgin of Guadalupe (c. 1700s)
Dr. Sonia Ocaña Ruiz illuminates New Spain at the continental crossroads of colonialism, Catholicism, and Japanese culture from the 16th century, through a Mexican Enconchado of the Virgin of Guadalup...
15 Juli 202116min
Four Ports Panorama, Carlos Julião (c. 1780s)
Patrícia Martins Marcos maps out Portugal’s designs for imperial civilisation in the 18th century, through Carlos Julião’s Four Ports Panorama. From urban slaves to street peddlers, the Four Ports Pan...
1 Juli 202116min
European Photographs in the Illustrated Weekly of India, Debalina Majumdar and Manobina Roy (1959-1960)
Dr. Mallika Leuzinger pictures post-colonial Indian perspectives, through Debalina Majumdar and Manobina Roy’s European photographs published in the Illustrated Weekly of India in 1959 and 1960. In 19...
17 Juni 202117min
Vatcha Adaran Zoroastrian Fire Temple, Bombay (1881)
Dr. Talinn Grigor sets light to the interimperial identities in 19th century Parsi architecture, through the Vatcha Adaran Zoroastrian Fire Temple, Bombay. Building Bombay was at the forefront of the ...
3 Juni 202116min
Yugoslavia Pavilion for the Paris Expo, Josip Seissel (1937)
Dr. Aleksandra Stamenkovic constructs the struggle to unify post-imperial South Slavic identities, through Josip Seissel’s Yugoslavia Pavilion for the Paris Expo in 1937. The collapse of the Ottoman a...
20 Maj 202116min
Illustration of the Empress Visiting a Field Hospital (in Hiroshima), Kobayashi Kiyochika (1895)
Dr. Alison Miller depicts the domestic and feminine faces of 19th century Japanese imperialism, in Kobayashi Kiyochika’s Illustration of the Empress Visiting a Field Hospital (in Hiroshima). The publi...
6 Maj 202113min
