Students will engage with landscape, culture, customs, architecture, and how it all connects to a lived experience from the past unto the present.

Date:
21st October 2022
Duration:
3 Day Course in October 2022
Mode:
Virtual Course using Zoom

Skills Gained:

•  Ability to understand landscape and culture in the Western Himalayas.

• Ability to understand basic architectural forms.

• Understanding the past for a sustainable future

Recommended For:

Archaeologists, anthropologists, architects, architectural historians,art historians and just about anyone who wants to know about Himalayan architecture.

• Sonali Gupta LL.B., Ph.D. (UCLA) specializes in Archaeology and has worked for nearly a decade in Egypt, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia. She is an anthropological archaeologist and has led the first international field school in India under her project “Myth and Reality in the Himalayas.” She has taught at UCLA, the National Museum, New Delhi, and her Institute of which she is the Founding Director, the Himalayan Institute of Cultural & Heritage Studies, situated in Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh. Her core area of research is cultural transmission of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage. She has various projects in collaboration with Flinders University, Institute of Field Research, University of Delhi and, the Archaeological Survey of India