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Dr. S. (Sruti) Bala

Faculty of Humanities
Theatre Studies
Photographer: Christiaan Krop
Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18
Postal address
  • Postbus 93065
    1090 BB Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Profile

    Sruti Bala is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Theatre Studies of the University of Amsterdam, where she currently co-ordinates the MA Theatre Studies programme. She is affiliated to the  Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis and is a member of the ASCA advisory board.

    Sruti's research interests are at the intersections of performance and politics, which has taken shape in specific research projects on nonviolent protest, participatory art, artistic activism, feminist and postcolonial/decolonial literary and cultural theories and translation.

    She co-ordinates a five-year NWO-funded research project in co-operation with the University of Curaçao on the cultural practices of citizenship in the Dutch Caribbean. See project website here.

    She is an active member of the collective International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India).

    Sruti studies Indian percussion (Tabla) with Niti Ranjan Biswas.

  • News

    NWO Research Project:
    Cultural Practices of Citizenship under Conditions of Fragmented Sovereignty

    The five-year research project "Cultural Practices of Citizenship under Conditions of Fragmented Sovereignty: Gendered and Sexual Citizenship in Curaçao and Bonaire" (funded by the Dutch Research Council NWO) in partnership with the University of Curaçao will investigate how citizenship is practiced under conditions of fragmented national sovereignty. Departing from the recognition that citizenship is not only a legal status legal status based on (birth)-rights and filial duties, but equally a notion tied to the histories of the nation-state, its claims to modernity, and its legacies of colonialism, slavery, and gender inequalities, the project examines citizenship in Curaçao and Bonaire in terms of practices and incipient struggles for political subjectivity. It asks how citizenship is practiced and culturally articulated by subjects facing multiple forms of systemic inequalities. The proposed research consists of two multi-disciplinary doctoral projects on citizenship in relation to sexual minorities and gender relations respectively.

    For updates, see our Project Website

  • Teaching

    BA courses

    Kunst, Cultuur en Samenleving

    Studiereis Theaterwetenschap

    Participatory Art

    Dissertation Skills Seminar

    MA Courses

    Key Concepts and Research Methods in Theatre and Performance Studies

    Art and Activism

    Translation and Performance

  • PhD supervisions

    Current PhD supervisions

    Florence Evans: Art, Activism, and Memory in Buenos Aires, 1995-2003 (co-promoter: Dr. Boris Noordenbos)

    Julia Mullié: at this moment stanley brouwn is at the distance of x feet from this point (promoter: Prof. Dr. Margriet Schavemaker)

    Emily Shin-Jie Lee: Artist-in-Residencies: Dwelling Spaces of Art and Politics (promoter: Prof. Dr. Margriet Schavemaker)

    Ariane Gros: From the 19th Century August to the Contemporary Joker: The Cultural Figure of the Clown and its Political Significance in Arts, Media and Public Space(s) (co-promoters: Prof. Dr. Peter Marx and Prof. Dr. Stephen Packard, University of Cologne)

    Aronnette Martis (University of Curaçao): Dance and Citizenship in the Dutch Caribbean
    (promoter: Prof. Dr. Rose Mary Allen, co-promoter: Prof. Dr. Liesbeth Echteld) - part of NWO-funded project

    Hari Prasad A. Sacré (University of Ghent): Decolonial and Intersectional Art Education in Belgium
    (promoter: Prof. Dr. Kris Rutten)

     

  • Publications

    2023

    • Bala, S. (2023). The thorny entanglements of theater and colonial historiography in the Netherlands: Anti-colonial critique and imperial nostalgia in J. Slauerhoff’s play 'Jan Pieterszoon Coen' (1931). In E. Fischer-Lichte, M. Sugiera, T. Jost, H. Hartung, & O. Sultani (Eds.), Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater Historiography (pp. 145-164). (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003353461 [details]

    2021

    • Bala, S. (2021). Interruption and Interpellation: Leaving the Theater in Search of the Theater. In S. Rai, M. Gluhovic, S. Jestrovic, & M. Saward (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Performance and Politics (pp. 455–470). (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190863456.013.51 [details]

    2020

    • Bala, S. (2020). Necessary misapplications: the work of translation in performance in an era of global asymmetries. South African Theatre Journal, 33(1), 5-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2020.1760126 [details]
    • Bala, S. (2020). Theatre and the risk of fire. Biblioteca Teatrale, 133, 99-111. [details]
    • Bala, S. (2020). ‘Een kolonie moeten wij planten’: Over Jan Pietersz. Coen (1931) van J. Slauerhoff. In R. van der Zalm, A. Krans, B. Ramakers, & V. Zangl (Eds.), In Reprise: Tweeëntwintig Nederlandse en Vlaamse toneelstukken om opnieuw te bekijken (pp. 63-75). Amsterdam University Press. [details]
    • Reznek, J., & Bala, S. (2020). ‘And while I am falling, I listen’: On translation processes in I turned away and she was gone (2014). Jennie Reznek in conversation with Sruti Bala. South African Theatre Journal, 33(1), 52-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2020.1754896

    2019

    • Bala, S. (2019). What is the impact of theatre and performance? In M. Bleeker, A. Kear, J. Kelleher, & H. Roms (Eds.), Thinking through Theatre and Performance (pp. 186-199). (Thinking Through Theatre). Bloomsbury. [details]
    • Bala, S. (2019). Workshops: The modularization of TO pedagogy. In K. Howe, J. Boal, & J. Soeiro (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Theatre of the Oppressed (pp. 304-308). (Routledge Theatre and Performance Companions). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315265704, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315265704-33 [details]
    • Fleishman, M. (Guest ed.), & Bala, S. (Guest ed.) (2019). Translation and Performance in an Era of Global Asymmetries. South African Theatre Journal, 32(1).
    • Fleishman, M., & Bala, S. (2019). Editorial: Translation and performance in an era of global asymmetries. South African Theatre Journal, 32(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2019.1641352 [details]
    • Rao, M. K., & Bala, S. (2019). 'When you hold your eyes wide open, you actually don't see fully': on translation processes in the solo performance Ravanama (2011). South African Theatre Journal, 32(1), 77-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2019.1623490 [details]

    2018

    • Bala, S. (2018). The Gestures of Participatory Art. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [details]

    2017

    • Bala, S. (2017). Decolonising Theatre and Performance Studies: Tales from the classroom. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 20(3), 333-345. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGN2017.3.BALA [details]
    • Bala, S. (2017). Scattered Speculations on the 'Internationalization' of Performance Research. In S. Bala, M. Gluhovic, H. Korsberg, & K. Röttger (Eds.), International Performance Research Pedagogies: Towards an Unconditional Discipline? (pp. 55-65). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53943-0_4 [details]
    • Bala, S. (2017). The Art of Unsolicited Participation. In T. Fisher, & E. Katsouraki (Eds.), Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy (pp. 273-287). (Performance Philosophy). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95100-0_14 [details]
    • Bala, S., Korsberg, H., Gluhovic, M., & Röttger, K. E. (2017). International Performance Research Pedagogies: Towards an Unconditional Discipline? In S. Bala, M. Gluhovic, H. Korsberg, & K. Röttger (Eds.), International Performance Research Pedagogies: Towards an Unconditional Discipline? (pp. 1-19). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53943-0_1 [details]
    • Lakshmi, C. S., & Bala, S. (2017). No more sewing machines! The challenge of a women's archive in India. In N. Willems, S. Holla, E. Buchheim, S. Bultman, M. Groot, E. Walhout, & I. de Zwarte (Eds.), Gender and archiving: Past, present, future (pp. 103-106). (Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis; Vol. 37). Verloren. [details]

    2016

    • Bala, S. (2016). Applied Theatre und die Frage der Institutionskritik. In M. Warstat, F. Evers, K. Flade, F. Lempa, & L. Seuberling (Eds.), Applied Theatre: Rahmen und Positionen (pp. 274-288). (Recherchen; Vol. 129). Theater der Zeit. [details]

    2015

    2014

    2013

    2012

    2011

    • Bala, S. (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. [details]

    2009

    • Bala, S. (2009). The performativitiy of nonviolent protest in South Asia (1918-1948). Mainz: Universitätsbibliothek Mainz. [details]

    2007

    • Bala, S. (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. [details]

    2006

    • Bala, S. (2006). Konzepte engagierten Schreibens. Berlin: Logos.

    2023

    • Bala, S. (2023). Can translation do justice? In A. Ganguly, & K. Gotman (Eds.), Performance and Translation in a Global Age (pp. 244-247). (Theatre and Performance Theory). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009296786.015 [details]
    • Bala, S. (Accepted/In press). Das Theater verlassen auf der Suche nach dem Theater. In M. D. M. Castro Varela, & L. Haghighat (Eds.), Double Bind postkolonial : Kritische Perspektiven auf Kunst und Kulturelle Bildung (Postcolonial Studies). Transcript .

    2022

    • Bala, S. (2022). Dekolonisierung der Theaterwissenschaft und Performance Studies: Geschichten aus dem Seminarraum. In A. Sharifi, & L. Skwirblies (Eds.), Theaterwissenschaft (post)kolonial, Theaterwissenschaft dekolonial : Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme (pp. 61-76). (Theater; Vol. 142). Transcript . https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839455531-004 [details]

    2021

    2017

    2015

    • Bala, S. (2015). Rashomon: Diversifying Perspectives on Spectatorship in the Theatre of the Oppressed. Zbornik radova Fakulteta Dramskih Umetnosti, 27, 31-42. [details]
    • Bala, S., & Zangl, V. (2015). Humor's Opponents: Artistic Activism and the Ludic Aesthetic. In P. Weibel (Ed.), Global activism: art and conflict in the 21st century (pp. 449-454). MIT Press. [details]
    • Tellis, A., & Bala, S. (Eds.) (2015). The Global Trajectories of Queerness: Re-thinking Same-Sex Politics in the Global South . (Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race; Vol. 30). Leiden: Brill Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004217942 [details]
    • Zangl, V. (Guest ed.), & Bala, S. (Guest ed.) (2015). Special issue on humour in art and activism. European Journal of Humour Research, 3(2/3), 1-169.

    2014

    • Bala, S. (2014). Losse speculaties over de internationalisering van performance onderzoek. In S. Alting van Geusau, P. Eversmann, & R. van der Zalm (Eds.), Theaterwetenschap aan de Amstel: vijftig jaar onderzoek en onderwijs aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam (pp. 121-135). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [details]

    2012

    • Bala, S. (2012). De-stultifying spectatorship in the theatre of the oppressed. In A. Klöck (Ed.), The politics of being on stage (pp. 229-246). (Schriften / Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig; No. 4). Hildesheim [etc.]: Olms. [details]

    2009

    • Bala, S. (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. [details]
    • Reich, H., & Bala, S. (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. [details]

    2008

    • Bala, S. (2008). Mirar algo a la luz de las candilejas: consideraciones teóricas acerca de la performance. Apuntes de Teatro, 130, 140-147. [details]
    • Bala, S. (2008). The dramaturgy of fasting in Gandhian nonviolent action. In M. Wagner, & W. D. Ernst (Eds.), Performing the matrix: mediating cultural performances (pp. 289-306). München: ePODIUM. [details]

    2021

    • Bala, S. (2021). Uitdagingen voor het kunstonderwijs: Een Keynote voor Need for Legacy. Theaterkrant magazine, 142(2), 48-52. [details]

    2020

    • Bala, S. (2020). 'Een kolonie moeten wij planten': Over Jan Pietersz. Coen (1931) van J.J. Slauerhoff. TheaterMaker, 141(4), 73-78. [details]

    2019

    • Bala, S. (2019). Was wir von den Kritiker*innen Gandhis in Indien lernen können. Spinnrad: Zeitschrift des Internationalen Versöhnungsbundes (Österreichischer Zweig), 3, 6-9. [details]
    • Bala, S. (2019). [Review of: S. Saha (2018) Theatre & National Identity in Colonial India: Formation of a Community Through Cultural Practice]. Theatre Research International, 44(3), 321-322. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883319000427 [details]

    2018

    • Bala, S. (2018). Dekoloniseer het kunstonderwijs. Rekto:Verso, 79, 82-84. [details]

    2017

    2016

    2014

    2013

    2012

    2011

    • Bala, S. (2011). [Review of: P. Anderson, J. Menon (2009) Violence performed: local roots and global routes of conflict; J. Thompson, et al. (2009) Performance in place of war]. Theatre Survey, 52(1), 209-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557411000329 [details]
    • Bala, S. (2011). [Review of: P.A. Ybarra (2009) Performing conquest : five centuries of theater, history, and identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico]. Theatre Research International, 36(3), 303-304. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883311000368 [details]

    2010

    2009

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

    2014

    • Bala, S. (2014). De speelruimte van theater. India Nu, 209-210, 26-27. [details]

    2013

    • Bala, S. (2013). Eredoctoraat voor kapitalistische Ratan Tata schaadt geloofwaardigheid van UvA. Volkskrant.nl. [details]

    2009

    • Bala, S. (2009). A lifelong rehearsal for revolution: Augusto Boal. New Indian Express.
    • Bala, S. (2009). Dancing is painting smoke on stage: Pina Bausch dies at 68. New Indian Express.
    • Bala, S. (2009). Explosions on an emotional minefield. Theatre in conflict zones. New Indian Express.

    Prize / grant

    Talk / presentation

    • Bala, S. (speaker) (9-6-2021). Verdiepende dialoog over participatieve kunst, Nieuwe Makers Festival , Rotterdam. https://www.rotterdamswijktheater.nl/productie/gesprekken-tijdens/
    • Bala, S. (speaker) (26-3-2021). Leaving the theatre in search of the theatre, University of Arts London . http://youtu.be/QJuAmjZV530
    • Bala, S. (speaker) & Allen, R. (speaker) (8-3-2021). Gender and Citizenship in the Dutch Caribbean, Spui 25.
    • Bala, S. (speaker) (7-12-2020). Participation, translation and the institution, Beyond participation, Aarhus.
    • Bala, S. (speaker) (20-11-2020). Embodied practices: looking from small places, Minor Constellations in Conversation Lecture Series, Potsdam.
    • Bala, S. (speaker) (30-9-2020). Thoughts on inviting community participation, Seminar on Community Arts , Helsinki.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (13-11-2019). Kritiek op eurocentrisme in het kunstonderwijs, Art Education Lecture Series, Arnhem.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (28-9-2019). Was wir von den Kritikern Gandhis in Indien lernen können, Etwas tun aber wie? , Linz.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (6-9-2019). Netherlands and the Black Atlantic Roundtable, The Netherlands and the Black Atlantic, Amsterdam.
    • Bala, S. (keynote speaker) (5-9-2019). The Need for Legacy, Netherlands Theatre Festival 2019, Amsterdam. https://www.academia.edu/40296434/Keynote_The_Need_for_Legacy
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (11-6-2019). Welcome Table: Colonialism on Stage, Holland Festival, Amsterdam.
    • Bala, S. (keynote speaker) (24-5-2019). Can the European translate?, There's No Going Back!, Rotterdam.
    • Bala, S. (speaker) (14-3-2019). The gestures of institutional critique, Performance Philosophy, Amsterdam.
    • Bala, S. (keynote speaker) (9-10-2018). Artistic Approaches to Colonial Legacies, Afrovibes Festival, Amsterdam.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (3-10-2018). Postcolonial Theory and Globalisation, Erasmus University College.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (24-9-2018). Sensing Race in the Theatre, Race and the Senses, Amsterdam.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (8-9-2018). Een blik op de onzichtbare canon, Panel Discussion: The Need for Legacy, Amsterdam.
    • Bala, S. (speaker) & Cremers, F. (speaker) (19-6-2018). Introductory talk for performance 'Legacy' by Nadia Beugre, Holland Festival , Amsterdam.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (12-6-2018). The theatrical scramble for "Africa" in 'Reverse Colonialism' (2017), Theatre as an Enriched Environment, Rome.
    • Bala, S. (speaker) (1-6-2018). Artistic representations of colonialism, Verschuivende perspectieven, Amsterdam.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (7-5-2018). Research and the task of epistemic diversity, ISS The Hague. https://www.iss.nl/en/events/research-and-task-epistemic-diversity-2018-05-07
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (2-5-2018). Gayatri Spivak's critique of the sovereign subject in 'Can the Subaltern Speak?', Erasmus University College.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (22-3-2018). Representatie, Stereotypering en Typecasting in het theater, Representatie, Stereotypering en Typecasting, Utrecht.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (23-1-2018). Artistic Critiques of Sovereignty: Perspectives from the Dutch Caribbean, Freie Universität Berlin.
    • Bala, S. (keynote speaker) (13-10-2017). Notes on the Theatre Workshop, Back to the Senses, Helsinki.
    • Bala, S. (speaker) (4-10-2017). Colonial Conversations: Panel discussion with Jay Pather, Katlego Disemelo and Sruti Bala, Afrovibes Festival, Amsterdam.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (14-7-2017). The translator's note, Translation and Performance, Pondicherry.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (24-5-2017). Theatre and Participation, Texte.Zeichen.Medien, Erfurt.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (8-5-2017). Translation in/and Performance, Translation and Performance, Cape Town.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (4-5-2017). Cultural Analysis and the Making of Intended Mistakes, Studies in Performing Arts and Media Lecture Series, Ghent.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (22-3-2017). Desiring the stage: Female Theatre Artists in India, Dissident Desires , Amsterdam.
    • Bala, S. (keynote speaker) (18-11-2016). The Gestures of Participatory Performance, Research Seminar, Finnish Society for Theatre Research, Helsinki, Finland.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (16-9-2016). Female Theatre Artists in India and their Solitary Struggles On and Off-Stage, Sexing the City, Leiden. http://www.hera-single.de/sexing-the-city-hera-single-final-conference/
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (16-9-2016). Three Female Theatre Artists in India and their Solitary Struggles On and Off-Stage, HERA Final conference 'Sexing the City', Leiden, Netherlands.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (19-8-2016). The Gestures of Participatory Art, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication: UGC Special Assistance Programme on Visual Culture, University of Hyderabad, India.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (20-4-2016). After Performance, After Performance, London.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (20-4-2016). On the necessity of working with inadequate concepts, After Performance: Symposium (King's College, London and National University of Singapore), London, UK.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (16-7-2015). Postdramatic theatre, Dept. of Comparative Literature Lecture Series, Kasargod, Central University of Kerala.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (10-7-2015). Unsolicited gestures of participation in performance and public life, Annual Conference of the International Federation of Theatre Research, Hyderabad, India.
    • Bala, S. (speaker) (3-2-2015). The Micropolitics of Participatory Art, Weekly Colloquium, Freie Universität Berlin, International Research Centre "Interweaving Performance Cultures".
    • Bala, S. (speaker) (29-7-2014). The task of reparative translation in Elfriede Jelinek's 'Kein Licht', International Federation of Theatre Research Annual Conference, Feminist Working Group Presentation, University of Warwick.
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) (31-1-2014). The Art of Unsolicited Participation, Conference: Politics of the Applied. Theatre and Art as Intervention, Free University of Berlin, Research Programme Aesthetics of Applied Theatre. http://www.applied-theatre.org/de/dates/konferenz-politics-applied-theater-und-kunst-als-intervention
    • Bala, S. (invited speaker) & Zangl, V. (invited speaker) (25-1-2014). Humour, Art and Activism in the Global Moment, Global Activism Symposium, ZKM, Karlsruhe. http://www.global-activism.de/content/global-activism-symposium-0

    Others

    • Bala, S. (participant), Bonilla , Y. (participant) & Allen, R. (organiser) (8-4-2021). Non-Sovereign Citizens: Puerto Rico, USA and the Aporias of Empire, Curaçao. Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Yarimar Bonilla, Rutgers University (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Bala, S. (organiser) & Mazadiego, E. (organiser) (2-2021 - 6-2021). Politics and Performance Speakers Series. Organized by Sruti Bala (Theatre) and Elize Mazadiego (Art History)A 5-part online speaker series that runs complementary to our jointly taught MA (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://asca.uva.nl/programme/seminars/politics-and-performance/politics-and-performance.html
    • Bala, S. (participant) (20-1-2021). Dahlem Humanities Centre Annual Lecture, Berlin. Respondent to lecture by Prof. Dr. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni: The Politics of Knowledge in Africa and African Scholarship on Decolonization (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Bala, S. (organiser), Allen, R. (organiser) & Kamugisha, A. (participant) (26-11-2020). Caribbean Thought against Neocolonial Citizenship: Towards a Future Beyond Coloniality, Curaçao. Guest Lecture by Prof. Aaron Kamugisha, University of the West Indies (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.dutch-caribbean-citizenship.info/events/2020/11/26/caribbean-thought-against-neocolonial-citizenship-towards-a-future-beyond-coloniality
    • Bala, S. (other) (11-10-2020). Black History Month (other).
    • Bala, S. (participant) (18-5-2019). Other Radicals, Amsterdam (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Bala, S. (participant) (14-11-2018). Het boek gaat op! Nieuwe publicaties van Amsterdamse theaterwetenschappers (other).
    • Bala, S. (participant) (30-10-2018). Stuart Hall's Voice, Amsterdam (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Bala, S. (participant) (12-7-2018). International Federation for Theatre Research World Congress, Belgrade. Can the European translate?

      Can the European translate? (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Bala, S. (participant) (21-6-2018 - 24-6-2018). Dynamics of Interweaving Performance Cultures, Berlin (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Bala, S. (organiser) (6-6-2018 - 7-6-2018). Decolonial Desires, Amsterdam. Talk and seminar with Dr. Vanessa Agard-Jones, Columbia University (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Bala, S. (organiser) & Isenia, W. G. S. J. (organiser) (3-4-2018 - 6-4-2018). Critical Thinking in Curaçao and the Construction of Forgetting, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Bala, S. (organiser) & Allen, R. (organiser) (21-11-2017). Gender and Culture in the Dutch Caribbean, Curaçao (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Bala, S. (organiser) & Isenia, W. G. S. J. (organiser) (27-3-2017 - 28-3-2017). Sexual Politics in Colonial Curaçao, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Bala, S. (organiser) (13-10-2016). Dramaturgies of Whiteness, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Bala, S. (organiser) (11-10-2016). Symposium: Dramaturgies of Cultural Translation, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Bala, S. (organiser) & Zangl, V. (organiser) (10-3-2014 - 15-12-2014). Art and Activism - Lecture and Discussion Series, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Bala, S. (other) (2014 - 2015). Research Fellow, International Research Centre "Interweaving Performance Cultures" (other). http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/interweaving-performance-cultures/about-us/index.html
    • Bala, S. (organiser) & Zangl, V. (organiser) (18-9-2013 - 20-9-2013). Exploratory Workshop, Wassenaar. Humorous Approaches to Art and Activism in Conflict (organising a conference, workshop, ...).

    2023

    2022

    2020

    • Deng, L. (2020). “Be water, my friend”: Non-oppositional criticalities of socially engaged art in urbanising China. [details]
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