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Brahma Prakash Singh

Brahma Prakash Singh

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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; bprakash@mail.jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.academia.edu/BrahmaPrakashSAA
Qualifications
  • Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2014.
  • M.A. in Chinese Aesthetics and Philosophy, National Central University, Taiwan, 2008. 
  • M.A. in Arts and 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 Festival Studies; Regional Theatre and Performance Traditions; Oral histories and narrative traditions, Political performances, Cultural Enactments.
Experience
  • Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from July 2015 to the present. 
  • Assistant Professor (tenure), School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, July 2012-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
  • Visiting Fellow at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany for 2020-21
  • Fellow at the Centre for the Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge University, UK for 2019-20 
  • The Dwight Conquergood Award of Performance Studies International (PSi),  2013
  • The Reid Research Scholarship (in the name of Elizabeth Jesser Reid, anti-slavery activist) of the Royal Holloway College, 2009
  • Selected for the Republic of China (Taiwan) Government Scholarship, 2005. 
  • NET with JRF in Performing Arts of the UGC, 2008. 
International Collaboration/Consultancy
  • Team Member, South Asia Team of the World Humanities Report,  the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and the International Council of Philosophy and the Human Sciences (CIPSH) who are in further partnership with UNESCO. https://worldhumanitiesreport.org/region/south-asia/
  • Part of Erasmus+ KA 108 SWAGATA (2018) 
  • Coordinator, GIAN Lecture: South Indian Models of Mind, Lectures by Prof. David Shulman and Prof. H.S. Shivaprakash, 2016.
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
Single Authored Books: 
 
1.  Prakash, Brahma. Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India. LeftWord, 2023.
     
2  Prakash. Brahma. Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India. Oxford University Press, 2019. 
    
Journal Articles/ essays in edited volume
 
  • “Who is Afraid of Mourning: Mourning as a Site of Solidarity in South Asia,” Performance Research: A Journal of Performing Arts, 27.5 (2023): 35-44.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13528165.2022.2160911. 
  • "Bidesiya in Bihar; Strategy for Survival, Strategies for Performance," Asian Theatre Journal 33, 1 (2016): 57-81
  • "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.
  • "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.
  •  “Rasa-dhvani Meets Jingjie: Intercultural Metaphor as an Alternative Frame in Comparative Aesthetics,” in R.N. Mishra and Parul Dave Mukherjee edi. Rethinking Comparative Aesthetics in Contemporary Frame, Shimla: IIAS, 2019: 118-138. 
  
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  • "The erotic power of the dancer: labour of the erotic and the bodies of the sensory in the Arkestra of North India." South Asian History and Culture (2022): 1-16.  https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2022.2097424.
  • “Dialogue with a Dancer,” Seminar, May 2022, pp.17-22.
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.