Performing Sites of Decolonial Entanglement

As part of Professor Bishnupriya Dutt’s Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, we are holding two events open to all on Friday 8th November 2024.

Location: The Historical Institute/School of Advanced Study, Senate House, Room 349.

4.00-5.30pm

Vijay Prashad

The Class and Cultural Struggle Against the Far Right of a Special Type

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. His latest book The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power (2022) and On Cuba (2024) was written with Noam Chomsky.

He is Executive Director of The Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter.

He is also the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi) and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China.

He has appeared in two films – Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017).

6.00-7.00pm

In conversation: Professor Bishnupriya Dutt and Tanika Gupta

Tangles of the Past: Histories and Stories Untold in the Theatre

Over the past 25 years Tanika has written over 25 stage plays that have been produced in major theatres across the UK. She has written 30 radio plays for the BBC and several original television dramas, as well as scripts for EastEnders, Grange Hill and The Bill.

She has taught drama and run workshops in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Cuba, India, USA, the Netherlands, Germany, Argentina, Chile and across the UK. She is a fellow of Rose Bruford College, runs courses for the Arvon Foundation and has led playwriting workshops in many UK universities (including Central School of Speech & Drama in London, Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow and Oxford Universities), as well as for the National Theatre, Royal Court, Hampstead, Young Vic and Theatre Royal Stratford East.

Tanika has been writer in residence at the National Theatre and at Soho Theatre, a fellow at the Playwright’s Studio in Glasgow and a writing tutor in Winchester Women’s Pr*son. She has won numerous awards for her work. She is presently a visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

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