Panggah Ardiyansyah
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Research Associate
Full contact details
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Humanities Research Institute
Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7QY
- Profile
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Panggah is a Research Associate at the Digital Humanities Institute (DHI), focusing on the intersections of colonial and imperial history, digital collections and archives, and digital mediation of history and culture. Trained as an art historian, his interest lies broadly in the production of knowledge related to historical and/or religious materials both on-site and in museum. This preoccupation with knowledge production has been directed towards probing new methodologies to decolonising the field of art history and archaeology, in particular for Southeast Asian art.
His interest in colonial collecting histories has also brought him to actively meditating on issues related to object restitution. He is a core project member for Getty-funded Circumambulating Objects: on Paradigms of Restitution of Southeast Asian Art (CO-OP), in which he supervised an internship project on the digitisation and (digital) repatriation of Yogyakarta manuscripts at the British Library. Previously, he consulted for Leverhume-funded Beyond Restitution: Exploring the Story of Cultural Object After Their Repatriation by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL).
- Qualifications
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Panggah completed his PhD at SOAS University of London, generously supported by Alphawood Scholarships, entitled: Accumulating Meanings, Transcending Borders: Appropriations and Transactions of “Hindu-Buddhist” Materials in Early Modern Indonesia. While working as a teaching assistant and module co-convenor at SOAS, he concluded a doctoral placement at CHASE (Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England, AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership) responsible for convening Dialogues roundtable series to probe collaborative methodologies between the field of arts and humanities and STEM-related subjects. He was also a Fellow of Southeast Asian Art for Smarthistory, a digital art history resource committed to rewriting the colonial legacies of art history.
Before his PhD, Panggah had worked extensively in the cultural heritage sector in Indonesia, broadly on UNESCO World Heritage and Memory of the World programmes.
- Research interests
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Decoloniality
Knowledge production
(Digital) restitution
Collecting histories
Art history and archaeology of Southeast Asia