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…
Sacred Singing: A Baul Performance by Parvathy Baul
Performance by Parvathy Baul, Moderator – Sukanya Chakrabarti, April 13, 2017 – UC Berkeley Panel Discussion, April 15, 2017 – Stanford University Event information The Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley proudly present an evening with Parvathy Baul, Baul folk singer, musician and storyteller from Bengal.
Doctorate Completed, TAPS, Stanford University
Awarded the Charles R. Lyons Memorial Prize for Outstanding Dissertation June 12, 2016, Stanford University Commencement, June 12, 2016 Dissertation Defense, May 20, 2016
Session with Ms. Navi Pillay
Ms. Navi Pillay served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008-2014. May 2015, Stanford Faculty Club, Gold Room Reflections When I realized I was assigned a seat at the table where Navi Pillay would be sitting, I was both excited and intimidated at the same time. I did not know how approachable, friendly and ‘human’ she is till we started talking – first about my research and interests, then about her childhood, growing up as a South African in a Tamil household, while being recognized and…
Wisch Fellowship Recipient for 2014-2015
Awarded the Wisch Fellowship during academic year 2014-2015 May 2015, Stanford Faculty Club, Gold Room