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Scholar Lalitha Gopalan to discuss cross-cultural art in Texas
Indian-origin scholar joins discussion on South Asian and Latin American contemporary art and cinema.
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Ankita Baidya - Tue, 21, Jul 2026
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Lalitha Gopalan to speak at Asia Society Texas, Sept. 2026. / University of Texas at Dallas
Lalitha Gopalan, an Indian-origin scholar and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, will join art historian Roberto Tejada for a public conversation on contemporary art from Latin America and South Asia at Asia Society Texas on 2 September 2026, according to an event announcement.
The event, titled “Seeing Across Cultures: Art From Latin America and South Asia,” will feature excerpts from moving-image works and a discussion examining how artists engage with history, identity, and cultural exchange across the two regions, the announcement said. The evening will also celebrate the publication of Tejada’s new book, “Along the Diagonal: Art/Essays/América,” and will include an author talk followed by a book signing and reception.
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Gopalan is the author of several works on global cinema and moving-image art, including a recent critical study of filmmaker Guru Dutt’s “Kaagaz Ke Phool” (“Paper Flowers”), published by BFI Modern Classics in 2025, Asia Society Texas said. Her other books include “Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India,” “Cinema of Interruptions: Action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema,” and “Bombay,” along with an edited volume, “The Cinema of India.”
She has received a Tagore Fellowship from India’s Ministry of Culture and a Fulbright-Hays-Nehru Fellowship, the organization said. Gopalan serves as an associate professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film and as affiliate faculty in the Department of Asian Studies and South Asia Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.
Tejada, her co-panelist, is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston, where he teaches creative writing and art history. His work spans art and media history as well as poetry, including “Carbonate of Copper,” which was longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. He is also a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.
The event is free and open to the public, with RSVP requested, according to Asia Society Texas. It is part of the organization’s broader programming exploring the arts, business, culture, education, and policy across Asia and the Asian American experience.
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