Prof. Korom invited to give the Distinguished Lecture in Social Anthropology.
Frank J. Korom, Professor of Religion and Anthropology, has been invited to give the Distinguished Lecture in Social Anthropology at Presidency University in Kolkata, West Bengal, India on the topic of “The Dynamics of Contemporary Sufi Hagiographies in South Asia” in January 2023. While in West Bengal, he will also deliver a special lecture on transnational Sufism at the Centre for Islamicate Studies in Asia at Jadavpur University, then run a workshop at Vidyasagar University on museum anthropology, in which he will give three lectures on the origins of museums, colonization and cabinets of curiosity, and finally decolonizing museums through repatriation and collaborations with indigenous communities, respectively.