Presented By: Institute for the Humanities
The Crafty Birdmen of Poa Mecca
A Hear, Here: Humanities Up Close event with Nachiket Chanchani
With the “Hear, Here” series, we aim to facilitate conversations around new research in the humanities. Faculty fellows at the Institute for the Humanities will discuss a part of their current project in a short talk followed by a Q & A session.
About this talk:
This talk explores how the bodies and behaviors of two Sunni Muslim men and a purple heron (Ardea purpurea) are periodically entangled as they work together at the threshold of their unassuming dwelling at Poa Mecca to make vessels from scrap metal gathered from a booming metropolis in Assam, India and explicates how their labor disrupts old ideologies and allows them to navigate new positionalities as geomorphologies shift and political currents change.
Nachiket Chanchani is a 2025-26 Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and Associate Professor of History of Art.
About this talk:
This talk explores how the bodies and behaviors of two Sunni Muslim men and a purple heron (Ardea purpurea) are periodically entangled as they work together at the threshold of their unassuming dwelling at Poa Mecca to make vessels from scrap metal gathered from a booming metropolis in Assam, India and explicates how their labor disrupts old ideologies and allows them to navigate new positionalities as geomorphologies shift and political currents change.
Nachiket Chanchani is a 2025-26 Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and Associate Professor of History of Art.
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