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MIT exhibit exploring history of South Asians completes a year
A final in-person tour will be available one last time on September 30.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is hosting a closing ceremony for an exhibit dedicated to generations of South Asians at the Institute. The exhibition called ’South Asia and the Institute: Transformative Connections’ to honour their contribution to the advancement of knowledge at MIT opened at the university’s Maihaugen Gallery on October 14, 2022. After approximately a full year of being open for viewing, the curtains will come down on September 30, 2023. The exhibition will be launched digitally starting October 1.
The exhibit will receive MIT’s Great Dome Award on September 29th. A day later, the JAGA band, made up of musicians from the Berklee Indian ensemble will perform at the closing reception at the Walker Memorial Morss Hall at MIT. The central focus of the project was capturing the personal stories of South Asian alumni who went on to become pioneers in society. Those stories, as shown in the exhibit, offered a window into issues like immigration and race in the U.S. and decolonization and nation-building in South Asia. Researchers included students from MIT and Wellesley College who repeatedly discovered the histories of South Asians at the university woven into the larger histories of MIT, the U.S., and South Asia, the release said.
“The first South Asian student came in 1880 — it's mind-blowing. Walking around this [exhibit], you see how all of the South Asian countries are integrated into all of the different schools at MIT and infused into the community,” MIT-India managing director Nureen Das said in November 2022, as per a news release about the exhibit. An in-person tour of the exhibit will be available one last time between 6-7 p.m. on closing reception day.
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