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DESCRIPTION:Swati Chattopadhyay is an architect and architectural historian
specializing in modern architecture and urbanism\, and the cultural lands
cape of the British empire. As a professor in the Department of Art Histor
y at UC Santa Barbara\, she is one of the most theoretically innovative hi
storians of Asian architecture and urbanism working today. \;Her \
;public lecture\, "The Architecture of Sovereignty: Making and Unmaking th
e British Empire in India\," is an invitation to consider the process by w
hich sovereignty in the modern era is constituted through visual and spati
al means. Drawing on the archive of the long career of the British empire
in India\, Chattopadhyay examines the affective investment in land and ter
ritory that enabled the exercise of sovereignty. The argument is anchored
in two sets of architectural events: first\, the destruction of the Palace
of Tipu Sultan in Mysore in the aftermath of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
(1798-99) and the coeval construction of Government House in Calcutta (180
3)\, and second\, the making of the Memorial Well Monument in Kanpur (1863
) in the aftermath of the Sepoy Rebellion (1857-59) and its unmaking betwe
en 1947 and 1950. These events\, in precipitating crises of sovereignty\,
are opportune moments to reflect on the conditions that reside at the core
of sovereign claims\, colonial or otherwise.This event is co-sponsored by
the Syracuse University Humanities Center\, the School of Architecture\,
the Department of Art and Music Histories\, and the South Asia Center as p
art of the \;Syracuse University Humanities Center’s 21st annual Syrac
use Symposium\, focused on the them “Community” \;for 2024-2025.
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SUMMARY:Swati Chattopadhyay-The Architecture of Sovereignty: Making and Unm
aking the British Empire in India
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Swati Chattopadhyay is an architect and arc
hitectural historian specializing in modern architecture and urbanism\, an
d the cultural landscape of the British empire. As a professor in the Depa
rtment of Art History at UC Santa Barbara\, she is one of the most theoret
ically innovative historians of Asian architecture and urbanism working to
day. \;
Her \;public lecture\, "The Architecture of Sovereig
nty: Making and Unmaking the British Empire in India\," is an invitation t
o consider the process by which sovereignty in the modern era is constitut
ed through visual and spatial means. Drawing on the archive of the long ca
reer of the British empire in India\, Chattopadhyay examines the affective
investment in land and territory that enabled the exercise of sovereignty
. The argument is anchored in two sets of architectural events: first\, th
e destruction of the Palace of Tipu Sultan in Mysore in the aftermath of t
he Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798-99) and the coeval construction of Govern
ment House in Calcutta (1803)\, and second\, the making of the Memorial We
ll Monument in Kanpur (1863) in the aftermath of the Sepoy Rebellion (1857
-59) and its unmaking between 1947 and 1950. These events\, in precipitati
ng crises of sovereignty\, are opportune moments to reflect on the conditi
ons that reside at the core of sovereign claims\, colonial or otherwise.
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