करो Drama, खोज करो

Student Symposium & Public Talk by Prof Shruti Tambe

This symposium is a part of the course, ‘Drama, Performance and Society’ offered by Dr Ashutosh Potdar. It provides a forum for students to present their assignment-work that explores connections between drama, performance and society. The symposium will be followed by the public talk by Prof Shruti Tambe on the topic, ‘Roles, Rehearsals and Performance in the Contemporary World’.

All are welcome to the symposium, respond to students’ presentations and attend the talk by Prof Tambe.

Dr Shruti Tambe: is Professor and Head at the Department of Sociology, Savitribai Phule Pune, Pune, India. She has written and published for academic journals including Current Sociology, Interventions: The Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Economic and Political Weekly and E-Sephis. The main themes she has been writing about are and Urban Studies with a focus on informal sector labour, Gender and Development and Sociological Theory. She has edited two books titled Urban Poverty in the context of JNNURM and ‘Vedha Shaharancha’ (Tracking the cities). She has received Fellowships instituted by the U. G. C., CODESRIA- SEPHIS, UNESCO- ISA. She was a Visiting Professor at OISE, University of Toronto, Canada. At present, she is also the Director, Euroculture Masters Programme under Erasmus Mundus at Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. She is also the Coordinator for Social sciences of the Teaching Learning Centre under PMMMNMTT sponsored by the MHRD, Government of India. A trained classical singer, Prof Tambe has been contributing to the vibrant genre of feminist movement songs in Marathi. She has done the voice-over work for the alternative media.

Drama, Performance and Society: Blurring boundaries of theory and practice, the course enables the students to study the key issues of an interface of a literary form of drama, performance culture, society and history through the reading of dramatic literature, performances and analysis of drama-histories. 

Venue: Chandragupta(East) Third floor Hall