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Dr Priyanka Basu @priyankabasu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My article, ‘The Early Film Song Booklet As Visual Art and the “Intermedial Scope” of Indian Cinema Histories” is out now in ‘Contributions to Indian Sociology’ (SAGE Journals) in a special issue on ‘The Evolving Landscape of Art in India’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Dr Priyanka Basu @priyankabasu.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Very happy to share that my article, ‘Women dancers of World War II: performance, autobiography, and emotional histories of war’ is now published in ‘Theatre Research International’. Grateful to Prof. Silvija Jestrovic and Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick. Available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/permissi...

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Dr Priyanka Basu @priyankabasu.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

‘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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Dr Priyanka Basu @priyankabasu.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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

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Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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...

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Alex Thomson @byebyepride.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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

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Dr Priyanka Basu @priyankabasu.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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

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Dr Priyanka Basu @priyankabasu.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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...

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Dr Priyanka Basu @priyankabasu.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

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...

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Antara Datta @antaradatta.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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...

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Refugees in South Asia during Second World War (1939-1945) - The National Archives

In contrast to dominant narratives about refugees from Asia and Africa arriving at the borders of Europe, between 1939 and 1945 thousands of European refugees took shelter in South Asia. They were joi...

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

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

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CfP | Informal Workers in India

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Dr Priyanka Basu @priyankabasu.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

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.😊🙏🏽

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Dr Priyanka Basu @priyankabasu.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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.🙏🏽

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Dr Priyanka Basu @priyankabasu.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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! 💜

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Dr Priyanka Basu @priyankabasu.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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. 😊

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