Dr Priyanka Basu

‘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).

Doing Fieldwork: An Online BASAS Workshop with Dr Kasia Paprocki & Dr Sahana Ghosh - British Association for South Asian Studies BASAS is organising an online workshop for Graduate students and Early Career Researchers on how to do fieldwork. The session

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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...

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Retotalising Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction to its History - Historical Materialism I’ve divided this presentation into four distinct parts.[1] A shorthand description of these might be Conventional narratives of capitalist origins Commercial capitalism as a better alternative Modern...

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...

A cannon with a crown?

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...

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...

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...

CfP | Informal Workers in India Visit the post for more.

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. 😊