Students will know the Himalayas from an interdisciplinary point of view encompassing art history, archaeology, anthropology, history, geography, geology, and literature.

Duration:
3 Months Course in March 2022 starting from 15/03/2022 for 4 hours/week.
Mode:
Virtual Course using Zoom

Skills Gained:

• Ability to understand landscape and culture in the Western Himalayas

• Ability to customs, traditions, architecture, and belief systems

• Understanding the Himalayan past for a sustainable future

Recommended For:

Recommended for archaeologists, anthropologists, architects, architectural historians, art historians and just about anyone who wants to know about things Himalayan.

• 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