Tomorrow! We’ll journey from South Asia to the Caribbean to explore the colorful world of the textile trade by Connecting Threads with @deepthimurali.bsky.social. Register to join us!

The @jimambuske.bsky.social will be moderating!

Speaking at @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Coffeehouse series tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct 14, 12pm EST) about my project Connecting Threads: Fashioning Madras in the Caribbean. I am talking about 18th-19th century Indian textiles & Caribbean dress/identity. Sign-up: omohundro.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/o...

Wrote a brief intro about the 2 Sati Stones at the Archaeological Museum in Thrissur, Kerala. Curious to see how this tradition developed on the Malabar Coast. In other parts of peninsular India they became quite elaborate in narrative structure. www.deepthimurali.com/kerala/2025/... #art #kerala

Can’t wait!

The @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Projects Coffeehouse Series returns October 14th!

We're kicking things off with @deepthimurali.bsky.social, co-director of Connecting Threads: Fashioning Madras in India and the Caribbean

Sign up now to join the conversation.

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Talking about Indian textiles, colonialism and 18th-19th century dress and identity in India and the Caribbean. Friday. Online and in-person at @georgemasonu.bsky.social

Getting back into the habit of blogging about research. Here’s a rather random account of tea and handkerchief smuggling on board an East Indiaman. Doors were broken. www.deepthimurali.com/thieves-in-t... #history #eastindiacompany #tea

Thank you for letting me be part of the episode. It was fun!

"One of many!"

How did the East India Company get its start on the Indian sub-continent? Contributing expert @deepthimurali.bsky.social of George Mason University takes us back to the reign of Elizabeth I in this clip from Episode 16: The Tea.

The #NEHfunded @deepthimurali.bsky.social 's Connecting Threads project focused on the global history of fashion. It connects small museums & archives to places with larger collections through a queryable database connectingthreads.co.uk

Our NEH grant for the Connecting Threads project was terminated along with many others. With little pomp and no warning. Also not sure if we will ever have any grants to apply for at the NEH. This is a big hit on grants-based, collaborative and digital humanities research in the US.

The Dept of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University is hiring an Analyst, IT - Digital Humanities Specialist. Position works primarily with fac/staff/students in our Digital Art History and Visual Culture Research Lab and related programs. Posting: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-A...

Postdoctoral position in critical caste studies at the university of Chicago- still accepting applications!

apply.interfolio.com/157701

We end the semester with presentations on nationalism in Bengali plays, materiality of Partition, and some well-deserved samosas and pani puri. #teachinghistory

Thanks to Dr. Neilesh Bose for putting together this colloquium at University of Victoria (BC). This was such a productive experience. I finally shared research I have been sitting on, on these beautiful ivory tankards from Travancore. Tankard featured: early 20th century at Napier Museum, Kerala.

I also made the mistake of thinking that’s academia. 🫢

Slowly posting about Connecting Threads project launch/symposium at V&A Museum last month. This is a digital public history project and the website is now live at: connectingthreads.co.uk The whole day was incredible! #connectingthreads #academicsky #digitalhistory #indianhistory #caribbeanhistory

At University of Victoria for the Global South Asia Colloquium. We discussed Indian Ocean World history and book projects for two very productive days. Thanks to Prof. Neilesh Bose for putting this together and the CAPI team for being wonderful hosts.

Victoria BC has the loveliest little Chinatown. The Fan Tan Alley has a little museum on the history of Chinese-Canadians. It’s the second oldest Chinatown in North America and the oldest in Canada.

cc: @rrchnm.bsky.social

Our project was featured in the @georgemasonu.bsky.social news site! www.gmu.edu/news/2024-11... There's a bit of both me and @jasonheppler.org talking about the project on there.

We are excited that two RRCHNM projects have been awarded grants by the NEH! This funding will support the work of @deepthimurali.bsky.social and @jasonheppler.org on the digital project Connecting Threads, and @amandamadden.bsky.social translating La sefra (The World). www.neh.gov/news/NEH-gra...

We are approaching our thirtieth anniversary! To honor that occasion, Roy Rosenzweig's pioneering work and work being done now, we are hosting an open-house event, hors d'oeuvres included, on November 11 from 4 pm to 5:30 pm. Register today and join us! alumni.gmu.edu/s/1564/GID2/...