How Money Talks: Woman Power

Dr. Shailendra Bhandare: The numismatic curator of the Ashmolean Museum gives us a talk on:

"How Money Talks: Woman Power"

My talk will draw on the recently concluded major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford - "Money Talks: Art, Society & Power". Women are associated in many ways which bring Art and Money together: as subjects, designers and artist-interventionists. However, their contribution is seldom acknowledged. In my talk, I will chart and illustrate these varied contexts, thereby 'engendering' the intersections of Art and Money.

Shailendra Bhandare is Assistant Keeper, South Asian and Far-eastern Numismatics and Paper Money Collections, a Fellow of St Cross College and a member of Faculty of Oriental Studies. He started his career as a Numismatist with a visiting fellowship at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. He was then appointed as a post-doctoral fellow of the Society for South Asian Studies, and worked as a curator in the British Museum on the coins of Later Mughals and the Indian Princely States. He was appointed as curator of coins in the Ashmolean Museum in 2002.