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dr. S. (Sruti) Bala


  • Faculty of Humanities
    Theatre Studies
  • Nieuwe Doelenstraat  16-18
    1012 CP  Amsterdam
    Room number: 314
  • S.Bala@uva.nl
    T:  0205254785

Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Theatre and Performance Studies

Sep 2014 - Aug2015: Fellow at International Research Centre "Interweaving Performance Cultures", Freie Universität Berlin

2008-2013: Co-ordinator of the Erasmus Mundus MA International Performance Research Programme (MAIPR) at the University of Amsterdam. This programme was organised in collaboration with the universities of Warwick (UK), Helsinki/Tampere (Finland) and Belgrade (Serbia).

MAIPR Website University of Warwick 

Visiting Faculty at the University of Ghent (Belgium), University of Hull at Scarborough (UK), College of Music and Drama, Khartoum (Sudan), University of Cape Town (South Africa), Central University of Hyderabad and Delhi University (India).
Ph.D. from the University of Mainz (2007) with a study on the performativity of nonviolent protest.
M.A. in German Literature (University of Bonn, 1999)
B.A. in German Philology (Bombay University, 1994)

Student of tabla with Niti Ranjan Biswas

Teaching

BA courses

20th Century European Theatre Avantgarde: Brecht

Applied Theatre

Participatory Art

MA Courses

Key Theories in International Performance Research

Dissertation Working Group

Key Issues and Methods in Theatre and Performance Studies: MA Colloquium

Art and Activism

Research Interests

Participatory art, Theatre of the Oppressed, art and activism, feminist theory, performance theory, pedagogy.

Professional Memberships

Rethink UvA

I join and support the protests against the financialisation of the university and the struggle for the democratisation of higher education!

 

Platform RethinkUvA

The New University

The Gestures of Participation 

Presentation at Colloquium, Aesthetics of Applied Theatre (ERC Research Programme), Berlin

16 Apr 2015

The Micropolitics of Participatory Art 

Presentation at Weekly Colloquium, Research Centre "Interweaving Performance Cultures", Berlin

03 Feb 2015

Guest Lecture:

THROUGH WORDS AND SILENCES: UNDERSTANDING WOMEN’S WORDS AND WOMEN’S LIVES IN INDIA

Dr. C.S. Lakshmi (Ambai)

11 December 2014

Details

50 Jaar Theaterwetenschap Amsterdam 

1964-2014 - Silver Jubilee Celebrations of Theatre Studies in the University of Amsterdam 

24-25 October 2014

Conference and Publication Launch 

Masterclass with Frie Leysen, Erasmus Prize Awardee 2014 "Localizing the International: Visions of Curatorship in Theatre and Performance" (together with Stichting Erasmus Praemium)

Research fellowship

International Research Centre "Interweaving Performance Cultures"

Freie Universität Berlin, Sep 2014 - Aug 2015

International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR-FIRT) Conference 2014

University of Warwick (UK),  28 July - 01 August 2014

Paper on Elfriede Jelinek's 2011-12 performance text 'Kein Licht' (No Light) in the Feminist Working Group

Respondent on Special panel on "Terror and Performance" discussing the recent book by Rustom Bharucha

Details

Visiting Fellow, Central University of Hyderabad

Seminar on Research Methodologies in Theatre and Performance Studies

Dept. of Theatre Arts, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication

14-18 July 2014

Feminist Performance, Activism, Humour? 

A talk with Laia Ribera Americana Canenguez, Teatro Siluetas collective, Guatemala 

 Art and Activism Lecture and Discussion Series 2014

02 June 2014, 16-18hrs., University Theatre, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Amsterdam 

Inauguration of the Amsterdam Underground University

Friday, 23 May 2014, 15.00hrs, Basement, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Amsterdam

The Underground University is an unofficial, autonomous, student-led initiative in the UvA, offering a space to critically explore the inner workings of university life, topics that are high on the student agenda, or issues that are usually left unspoken. Do you want to find out what is really going on amongst students? Come downstairs and check it out.

Post-migrant Turkish and Kurdish Theatre and Activism

Art and Activism Lecture and Discussion Series 2014

24 April 2014, 16-18hrs, University Theatre

Dr. Pieter Verstraete (PostDoc, Bilgi University, Istanbul) and Celil Toksöz (Theater RAST, Amsterdam)

Artistic Activism in the Museum

Excursion and Master-class in co-operation with Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

06 March and 10 March 2014

Details - registrations via nica-fgw@uva.nl

Moment!

Lecture Series at Dept. of Theatre Studies - Spring 2014

Programme

Conference: Politics of the Applied. Theatre and Art as Intervention

Paper on "The Art of Unsolicited Participation"

Free University of Berlin, Research Programme "Aesthetics of Applied Theatre"

30 Jan - 01 Feb 2014

Symposium: Global Activism

presentation together with Dr. V. Zangl: "Humour, Art and Activism in the Global Moment"

24-26 January 2014, ZKM Karlsruhe

 

Investigative Theatre: Discussion with Svetlana Sugako, Belarus Free Theatre 

 18 December 2013, 16-18 hrs, Nieuwe Doelenstr. 16, Amsterdam (Room 101 A)

Details

Women, Environment and the Media in India's North-East: Discussion with Tongam Rina

 16 December 2013, 16h | Atria Institute for Gender Equality | Vijzelstraat 20, Amsterdam (Atria Library)

Details

Moment! Lecture Series at the Dept. of Theatre Studies

Panel discussion: Humour and Cultural Differences 

 Stichting de Visiefabriek, Hogeschool van Amsterdam

06 November 2013

Link

Performance and Pedagogy: A Scrapbook for Imaginative Teaching and Learning (2014)

Call for Papers

Exploratory Workshop "Humorous Approaches to Art and Activism in Conflict" 

co-organised with Dr. Veronika Zangl

18-20 September 2013 - NIAS  (Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies), Wassenaar

Launch event "Humorous Approaches to Art and Activism in Conflict"

18 September 2013 at Spui25, Amsterdam

ASCA Article Award 2013

Sruti Bala,  Performance Anxieties in Elfriede Jelinek’s online private novel 'Envy'. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis, 32, 2012, 31-44.

Laudatio

 

ACGS Lecture: The Figure of the Minority: Dismantling Queer in India

Dr. Ashley Tellis, Associate Professor, Jindal Global University, Haryana, India

12 June 2013

Details

 

NICA Masterclass: What is a Minority?

13 June 2013

Details

 

2014

2013

2012

2011

  • S. Bala (2011). 'Unsere Waffe ist die Beharrlichkeit': Auftreten, Konzept und Aktivitäten der gewaltfreien paschtunischen Armee der Khudai Khidmatgar (1929-1948). In R. Steinweg & U. Laubenthal (Eds.), Gewaltfreie Aktion: Erfahrungen und Analysen (pp. 119-125). Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel.

2009

2007

  • S. Bala (2007). Embodying autonomy: Gandhi's fasts as a form of nonviolent protest. In F.E. Boucher, S. David & J. Przychodzen (Eds.), La paix: esthétique d'une éthique (pp. 37-50). Bern: Peter Lang.

2006

2014

2012

2009

  • S. Bala (2009). Khuda-i Khidmatgar: Pashtun non-violent resistance force (1929-1948). In I. Ness (Ed.), The international encyclopaedia of revolution and protest: 1500 to the present (pp. 1965-1970). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • H. Reich & S. Bala (2009). Theaterräume als Methode der Wissensgenerierung in der Friedensarbeit: das Unsagbare zeigen. In M.M. Baumann, H.M. Birkenbach, V. Brandes, S. Dieterich, U. Gundermann & U. Suhr (Eds.), Friedensforschung und Friedenspraxis: Ermutigung zur Arbeit an der Utopie: Festschrift für Reiner Steinweg zum 70. Geburtstag (pp. 193-205). Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel.

2008

2014

2013

  • S. Bala (2013). [Review of the book Development dramas: reimagining rural political action in Eastern India]. Research in Drama Education, 18(1), 99.[go to publisher's site]

2012

  • S. Bala (2012). [Review of the book Das Drama des Prekären: über die Wiederkehr der Ethik in Theater und Performance]. Theatre Research International, 37(3), 292-293.[go to publisher's site]
  • S. Bala (2012). [Review of the book Community art: the politics of trespassing]. Research in Drama Education, 17(1), 127-129.
  • S. Bala (2012). [Review of the book Engaging performance: theatre as call and response]. Theatre Research International, 37(1), 93-94.

2011

  • S. Bala (2011). [Review of the book Performing conquest : five centuries of theater, history, and identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico]. Theatre Research International, 36(3), 303-304.
  • S. Bala (2011). [Review of the books Performance in place of war & Violence performed: local roots and global routes of conflict]. Theatre Survey, 52(1), 209-211.

2010

  • S. Bala (2010). [Review of the books Theatre and globalization: Irish drama in the Celtic Tiger era & Theatres of the troubles: theatre, resistance and liberation in Ireland]. Theatre Research International, 35(1), 78-79.
  • S. Bala (2010). [Review of the book Performance affects: applied theatre and the end of effect]. Theatre Research International, 35(3), 301-302.

2009

  • S. Bala (2009). Von den Chancen der Intervention in Krisen. Impuls (Internationales Theaterinstitut Zentrum Bundesrepublik Deutschland), 2009 (2), 23-25.
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