Dr Priyanka Basu
@priyankabasu.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts, King’s College London. Author of ‘The Poet’s Song: “Folk” and its Cultural Politics in South Asia’ (Routledge 2024). Previously Curator of ‘Two Centuries of Indian Print’, British Library. Phd, Felix SOAS. Odissi dancer.
‘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).
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).
October 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
‘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).
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).
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
Date: 31 May
Time: 3:00-4:00PM
Venue: SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Register here: kslitfestlondon.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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
Date: 31 May
Time: 3:00-4:00PM
Venue: SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Register here: kslitfestlondon.com
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...
“‘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...
February 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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...
“‘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👇🏾
www.routledge.com/Performing-N...
Order here👇🏾
www.routledge.com/Performing-N...
January 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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👇🏾
www.routledge.com/Performing-N...
Order here👇🏾
www.routledge.com/Performing-N...
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.😊🙏🏽
December 15, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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.😊🙏🏽
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.🙏🏽
The book is available for pre-order. Please spread the word.🙏🏽
December 5, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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.🙏🏽
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! 💜
November 25, 2024 at 6:41 AM
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. 😊
November 24, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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. 😊