Silsila: Center for Material Histories

Silsila was founded to foster interdisciplinary conversations related to the historical value of material culture in general, and its value as a source for histories of transcultural and transregional contacts in particular. Both aspects foreground the entangled relations between artifacts, images, and materials, and the migrations and movements of human consumers and producers. They also highlight the often complex interrelationships between the circulation and mobility of certain cultural forms, practices and techniques and those that are more local, regional, or rooted in character.