Date – July 12, 2024 San Jose State University Podcast hosted by – Philip Salata Guest – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti Event Website Podcast Discussion – Reporter Philip Salata chats with Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti about her academic research on the Bauls – mystic troubadours in India and Bangladesh who have been singing songs that draw from the teachings of Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism. The World is a public radio program that crosses borders and time zones to bring home the stories that matter.
The Accidental Geographer S4 E5: Sukanya Chakrabarti, Associate Professor Dept of Film and Theatre
Date – June 6, 2024 San Jose State University Podcast hosted by – Provost Vincent Del Casino Guest – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti Event Website Podcast Discussion – The latest episode of the Accidental Geographer features Sukanya Chakrabarti, a professor in department of film and theater. The two will discuss her intellectual journey, the fantastic work happening at the intersection of theater and film, and the way in which we think about identities in everyday life.
Stanford TAPS Book Talk | Innovative Scholarship by TAPS Alumni
Date – May 31, 2024. 11:30am-1pm. Stanford University Online Webinar via Zoom Guest – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti Event Website Zoom Discussion – In 2023/2024, TAPS Alums produced a number of groundbreaking books in the field. This event celebrates the publication of Gigi Otálvaro’s Erotic Resistance: The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco (University of California Press), Kellen Hoxworth’s Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance (Northwestern University Press), Sukanya Chakrabarti’s In-Between Worlds: Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism (Routledge), and Kari Barclay’s Directing Desire: Intimacy Choreography and Consent in…
NERVE
August 13 and 19, 2023. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto. Written – Minita Gandhi. Directed – Kirsten Brandt. Dramaturg – Sukanya Chakrabarti. Theatre Works Event Page Jyoti, a recent widow with ailing health, finds the future of her well-being in her daughters’ hands. A multigenerational and multicultural journey that explores the love language of food, Nerve asks what our legacy is and that we truly leave behind. What is our value in the world when we are no longer of service to people? And what are the benefits and consequences…
Public Obscenities – Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2024
February 15 – April 09, 2023. Off-Broadway Production – Soho Rep, New York City Written and Directed – Shayok Misha Chowdhury. Cultural Dramaturg – Sukanya Chakrabarti. Pulitzer Prize finalist 2024 Soho Rep Event Page Public Obscenities is a bilingual play from writer-director Shayok Misha Chowdhury about the things we see, the things we miss, and the things that turn us on. Public Obscenities is produced by Soho Repertory Theatre and the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) through the NAATCO National Partnership Project. Reviews Juan A Ramirez, New York Times,…