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Dear Isabel,
Thank you for your emails. Preparations for the XXIst Biennial Symposium of the American Council for Southern Asian Art are nicely underway. About 90 art historians and museum curators specializing will be traveling to Ann Arbor especially for the event.
From 11:00 am - 12:30pm on April 5, symposium participants will have a choice of viewing experiences.
tour the Special Collections Library (Hatcher 6th floor) to examine medieval and early modern South Asian and Islamic manuscripts
OR visit the Object Study Room and Works on Paper study room in UMMA to examine a selection of UMMA's collections of South Asian Art
OR join me on a tour of the Angkor Complex exhibition that I have curated.
Because of restrictions on numbers I will make a clear announcement that no more than 17 individuals may visit the study rooms in UMMA. (The rest may visit the Special Collections or join me in my walkabout the exhibition)
My graduate student will escort these 17 scholars to UMMA Study Rooms. They will reach by 11:10am latest and will stay until 12:00pm. They can then make their way back to the Rackham Amphitheater, the main venue of the conference, for the next round of talks and presentations, or visit UMMA cafe for a coffee of their own.
In the UMMA study rooms I would be grateful if you could pull out the following artworks representing 2,000 years of South Asian art in UMMA's collections.
The scholars' visit will be self-guided. They are all experts so we will not need to provide commentary. My graduate student will stay with them throughout.
