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Seeing Sovereignty: Hamida Banu Begam's Portraits and Gendered Power

Apr 27, 2026   5:30 pm  
Levis Faculty Center, Room 208
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South Asian Studies @ CSAMES
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South Asia General Events

Mika Natif is Associate Professor of Art at George Washington University. She focuses on the intercultural exchanges and global connections that Muslim societies forged with the European sphere during the premodern period. She is the author of Mughal Occidentalism: Artistic Encounters Between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580-1630 (Brill, 2018) and is co-editor and co-author of Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art (Ashgate, 2013). She is currently writing a book dedicated to the life, portraits, and patronage of Hamida Banu Begum (the mother of the Mughal emperor Akbar).

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