Prof Rustom Bharucha Guest Lecture: Interculturalism and its Discontents Historicizing the Problems of Intercultural Performance and Theory Today

Monday 29 April
4pm
Stage One, stage@leeds, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds
£Free

We are delighted to welcome writer, cultural critic and dramaturg, Professor Rustom Bharucha as our guest lecturer for our 2024 Public Lecture series.
Rustom’s lecture will reflect on his four-decade intercultural journey and re-examine some of the key moments that shaped his thinking - the creative possibilities of interculturalism as well as its Eurocentric constraints in relation to equity, inclusion and social justice.

Rustom will ask what has changed over the years and will attempt a critical stocktake on social and political attitudes, helping us to rethink the intercultural in relation to performance and cultural policy.

He will argue the absolute necessity of interculturalism as a philosophy and practice in dealing with racism, social bigotry and intolerance.

His lecture will increase our awareness of how the world of performance can shape attitudes and policies, and help us to coexist with a deep respect for differences.

Rustom Bharucha is based in Kolkata. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a retired Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has written several books including Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture (1993), The Politics of Cultural Practice (2000) and Terror and Performance (2014).

Part of a Public Lecture Series hosted by the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds.
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