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South and Southeast Asia boast centuries of prolonged artisticexchange with diverse cultures including those of the Middle East,Turkey, Persia, and various Asian countries. This panel seeks to chartthe multivalent forms of material exchange in South and Southeast Asiaand their connection to the transmission of knowledge across cultures.Numerous scholars have enriched the historiography on the materialcultures of these regions by analyzing the role of Europeancolonialism and by utilizing subsequent post-colonial and Orientalistinterpretive methodologies. While these methods have their place inthe study of the 19th and 20th centuries, this panel attempts to lookoutside this approach by focusing on pre-colonial forms of artistic,cultural and scientific interchange and by advancing newmethodological approaches for thinking about cross-cultural contactoutside of a colonial paradigm.Can and should post-colonial models and their attendant applicationsin visual culture be adapted to account for contact between pre-modernSouth and Southeast Asia's many empires and their subjects? What newmodels can be formulated for interpreting the production, circulation,and collection of art objects across cultures outside of a colonialframework? How did malleable trade networks create visualentanglements among various artistic traditions?  What were thepossibilities and limits of knowledge transmission and translation ina visual format in the pre-colonial world of South and Southeast Asia?Papers addressing artistic and cultural interchanges in South andSoutheast Asian historiography from the medieval period through the18th century or papers that deal with intra-regional exchange betweendiverse cultures are welcome.http://www.acsaa.us/careers-a-conferences/1192-acsaa-2013-precolonialPlease email abstracts to: elizabetholiver2013@u.northwestern.eduDeadline for submission: March 31, 2013For more information on the 2013 Symposium of the American Councilfor Southern Asian Art (ACSAA), held 7-10 November 2013 at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles, visit:http://www.acsaa.us/careers-a-conferences/1174-acsaa-2013-symposiumsource: H-Asia