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Brahma Prakash Singh

Brahma Prakash Singh

Brahma Prakash Singh
Brahma Prakash Singh
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Arts & Aesthetics
Room No
007, SAA-I
Off. Phone
011-26738762
Email
bprakash@jnu.ac.in, prakash.brahma@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications
Ph.D. in Theatre & Performance Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2013.
M.A. in Chinese Aesthetics and Philosophy, National Central University, Taiwan, 2008. 
M.A. in Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2005 (one year).
B.A. (Hons) in Chinese Language, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2004.
Areas of Interest/Specialization
Theatre and Performance Theories; Rites, Rituals and Protest Studies; Regional Theatre and Performance Traditions; Non-Western Aesthetics; Dalits and Adivasi Cultural Performances; Marxism and Culture; Marginalised Cultural Performances, Oral Histories.  
Experience

Assistant Professor (tenure), School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, July 2012-15 July 2014. 
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Centre for Media Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, coterminous position with SAA, JNU, New Delhi.
Visiting Faculty, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, July 2014- July 2015.  

Awards & Honours

Dwight Conquergood Award of Performance Studies International (PSi),  2013
Central Research Fund Grant of University of London, 2010
Reid Research Scholarship (in the name of Elizabeth Jesser Reid, anti-slavery activist), 2009
Selected for the Republic of China (Taiwan) Government Scholarship, 2005
Junior Research Fellowship/ National Eligibility Test, UGC, 2008 

International Collaboration/Consultancy
Member, Peer Review Board, Journal of Artistic Research (JAR) - Society for Artistic Research (2018 to the Present)
Member, Editorial Board, Platform: Postgraduate Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts, 2010-2012.  
Best Peer Reviewed Publications (upto 5)
 
Books
 
Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019.
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=Fr3d0jwAAAAJ&hl=en
 
Journal Articles/ essays in edited volume
 
"Dangerous' Choreopolitics of Labouring Bodies: Biopolitics and Choreopolitics in Conflict in the Act of Jana Natya Mandali in India" in Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance: Danger, Im/mobility and Politics, edited by Aneta Stojnic and Marina Gržinic. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
 
"Bidesiya in Bihar; Strategy for Survival, Strategies for Performance," Asian Theatre Journal 33, 1 (January 2016): 57-81

"Review of Theatre in Colonial India: Play-House of Power, Edited by Lata Singh, and Performing Women, Performing Womanhood: Theatre, Politics and Dissent in North India, By Nandi Bhatia." Theatre Research International 37.1 (March 2012): 88-90. 

"Review of Theatre of Roots: Redirecting the Modern Indian Stage," By Erin B. Mee. Asian Theatre Journal 27.1 (Fall 2010):175-179.  
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books (upto 3)
 
"The Contingent of Contemporaneity: The 'Failure' of Contemporary Dance to Become 'Political'" in Tilt, Pause, Shift: Dance Ecology in India, edited by Anita Cherian. New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2016.
 
"Architectures of Fear and Spaces of Hope in Banaras: A City beyond Monolithic Identity," co-authored with B.K. Choudhary. Asian Journal of Social Science, 2016. 
Patents (if any)

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A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.