‘Unfurling with a Song: Ecological Themes and of Creative Labour in Contemporary Scroll-Paintings’-

Delivering this public lecture (hybrid) in Vienna next month. Organised by the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna.

20th November, Thursday, 5:30PM (CET).

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This is happening tomorrow. Details in the link below. The event is free and open to all.

Happy to share that I and Radha Kapuria will be speaking at the Khushwant Singh Literary Festival 2025 on ‘Nature as Muse: The Ecological Lens in South Asian Arts’ (chaired by Iqtedar Alam).
Date: 31 May
Time: 3:00-4:00PM
Venue: SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Register here: kslitfestlondon.com

I have a fully-funded, 4 yr AHRC collaborative PhD studentship 'Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870' supervised by myself and Matt Ingleby with colleagues at The Museum of the Home. Deadline 23 May See: www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/postgra...

REF management urged to acknowledge realities of the sector’s current crisis and maintain portability of outputs to avoid further damage to humanities research careers @englishassociation.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social

Jairus Banaji's recent talk at UCL is now published. A great introduction to the origins of capitalism debate and his own contributions to it.
www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/reto...

Thank you so much for the kind words, Katherine. Grateful!😊🙏🏽

The author copies are finally here!!!
“‘Performing’ Nature: Ecology and the Arts in South Asia’ (Routledge, 2025) co-edited with Radha Kapuria. With a foreword by Jim Sykes and afterword by Sugata Ray.
Available for order on the Routledge website: www.routledge.com/Performing-N...

Almost there! The book is releasing next month but is available for pre-order this coming week- 28th January.Please recommend to your institutional libraries.🙏🏽
Order here👇🏾
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A resource I've been working on for over a year with Clare Horrie at The National Archives, Kew intended primarily for upper secondary school students has gone live. It's based on research for my current book project. Do take a look: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/re...

Southasiasky : SEWA India is sponsoring research projects on women's informal work in India. More info here: npei.in/cfp-informal...

My essay, ‘The Hand in the Song: Understanding Performative Labour, Gender, and Livelihood in the Arts of Chitrakar Women of West Bengal’ is finally out in Anna Morcom & Neelam Raina’s book- ‘Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia: Craftspeople and Performers’. Please tell your uni libraries.😊🙏🏽

And @priyankabasu.bsky.social on 'The Poet’s Song:
‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia' newbooksnetwork.com/the-poets-song

Very happy to share that Radha Kapuria & my edited volume—‘Performing’ Nature: Ecology and the Arts in South Asia—is coming out from Routledge in February 2025. The book has 8 essays, a Foreword (Jim Sykes) and an Afterword (Sugata Ray).
The book is available for pre-order. Please spread the word.🙏🏽

Spent a wonderful one week in Colombo doing research and learning the basics of Kandyan dance. Sad to leave but will be back soon to this beautiful country. So long, Colombo! 💜

My book chapter, ‘Travelling Along “Untrodden Tracts”: Joachim Stocqueler and the Making of Early Colonial Theatre in India’ is finally out in the edited volume on ‘European Theatre Migrants in the Age of Empire’ by Berenika Syzmanski-Düll and Lisa Skwirblies. It is open access & free to download. 😊