Talk:Anna Seastrand

By Rutvi Dattani

Anna Seastrand is Assistant Professor of Art History at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, as of November 2022. As per her bio, her research focuses on early modern southeastern India, with a broad interest in the embodied experience of sacred space.

As per her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva.

In 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to India

1. Seastrand, Anna. “Narrative, Site, and Performance: Histories of Encountering the Temple Hall,” A Temple Within a Temple: The South Indian Mandapam in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Darielle Mason with contributions by Crispin Branfoot, Eleanor Coates, Anna Lise Seastrand, Susan P. Treadway, and Archana Venkatesan. Yale University Press, 2022.
2. Seastrand, Anna. “Imagination, Image, and Inscription in the Nāyaka Temple,” The Long Arc of South Asian Art: A Reader in Honour of Vidya Dehejia. Ed. Annapurna Garimella. Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2022.
3. Seastrand, Anna. Motivated Reading: Text and Image in the Expanded Temple: Seastrand, Anna, South Asian Studies, 35:2, 206-219, 2019.
4. Seastrand, Anna." Text, Image, and Portrait in Early Modern South Indian Murals." Artibus Asiae 78, no. 1 (2018): 29-60.
5. Seastrand, Anna. ஓராண் வழிையத் ேதடி: ஆழ்வார் திருநகரி சுவெராவியங்களில் குருகுருபரம்பைர பிரபாவம் = Finding an Unbroken Lineage: The Splendor of Alvar Tirunakari's Guruparampara Wall Paintings. Maṇarkēṇi, September-December 2017 (40). ISSN 2249-9164
6. Seastrand, Anna. “Wall Painting of South Asia and Allied Textile Traditions.” Oxford Bibliographies, Jan. 2014, https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199920105-0068.
7. Seastrand, Anna. “Tracing a Line: Guruparamparā in the Murals of Alvar Tirunakari.” Journal of Vaishnava Studies. Spring 2013.
8. Seastrand, A. L.. Text, image, and portrait in early modern South Indian murals. Artibus Asiae. 2018. 78(1), 29-60.