SATURDAY UNIVERSITY: ARTS OF ENCOUNTER ACROSS AFRICA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN The Swahili Coast, where Africa and the Indian Ocean intersect, has been a vibrant arena of global cultural convergence for more than a millennium. For centuries, people have journeyed across the Indian Ocean from the Arabian Peninsula, South Asia, Europe, and many regions of...

SATURDAY UNIVERSITY: SPY PIGEONS AND STRAY HENS IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN ART “Pakistani ‘spy pigeon’ arrested in India,” announced BBC News in 2015, reporting on a bird found by a 14-year-old boy in the border village of Manwal, taken into custody by local police, and identified as a ‘suspected spy’ in their records. In Bani...