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SUMMARY:Saturday University | Blue and Black Panthers
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Saturday University\, a monthly lecture series featuring experts
  from around the world. Gain new insights on Asia throughout time as our vi
 siting scholars\, authors\, artists\, and thought leaders delve into new th
 emes each season. Tickets include gallery access.\nBlue and Black Panthers:
  The Visual and Material Solidarities of the Dalit Panthers and Black Panth
 er Party\nPadma Dorje Maitland\nIn his recent work\, Archival Historicity/D
 alit Panthers (2023)\, the Mumbai-based artist Vikrant Bhise archives ongoi
 ng Dalit experiences and activism to combat pervasive caste discrimination.
  Painted on the covers of the Dalit Panther Manifesto from 1973\, the expan
 ding series features a recurring Black Panther motif\, the iconic symbol of
  the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP)\, founded in Oakland in 196
 6. The works accomplish a double narrative: They trace the history of the D
 alit Panthers in India and the ways in which the Dalit Panthers sought to a
 lign themselves with the Black Panther Party. They also place the legacy of
  those histories within more recent movements\, localizing events and calli
 ng to mind a longer record of international struggles as they play out in s
 pecific cities\, locales\, and regions. This talk considers the work of con
 temporary artists whose practices rearticulate and query ideological and ae
 sthetic connections across race and caste as the basis for an art historica
 l methodology not premised on geographic divisions but on visual and materi
 al affinities. In particular\, it explores the idea of layers and palimpses
 ts as the basis for more fluid forms of remembrance and calls to action.\nP
 adma Dorje Maitland is the Malavalli Family Foundation Associate Curator\, 
 Art of the Indian Subcontinent\, at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. 
 He holds dual doctoral degrees in Architectural History and South Asian Stu
 dies from UC Berkeley and a MArch from Princeton. He has curated shows at B
 AMPFA\, LACMA\, Mia\, and mostly recently co-curated After Hope: Videos of 
 Resistance at the Asian Art Museum and Peabody Essex Museum. His publicatio
 ns include the edited volume Art\, Hope\, Action: Creative Praxis in Pandem
 ic Times.
LOCATION:Seattle Asian Art Museum\, 1400 E Prospect St\, Seattle\, WA 98112
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