Iftikhar Dadi was awarded $220,000 from the Getty Foundation to lead the Climate Congress, a weeklong intensive series of seminars, workshops, lectures, panel discussions and field trips in Lahore, Pakistan in November 2024.
Dadi, the John H. Burris Professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, co-convened the Climate Congress with John Tain of the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong. The Congress was made possible by the Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories initiative, which aims to strengthen art history globally by increasing opportunities for sustained intellectual exchange across nations and regions.
The conference featured more than thirty guest scholars, curators, artists, and other practitioners and twenty-seven emerging scholars who formed the core Climate Congress delegates. As the closing program of the third Lahore Biennale, a large-scale art exhibition held every two years to highlight the city's heritage, the Climate Congress extended the research developed as part of the main exhibition by convening leading and emerging scholars, curators, and artists focusing on Asia.
"Art history as a discipline has tremendous relevance for Asia and Africa, places rich in modern and contemporary cultural production," Dadi said.
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