Sruti Bala is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Theatre Studies of the University of Amsterdam, where she currently co-ordinates the MA Theatre Studies programme. She is affiliated to the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis and is a member of the ASCA advisory board.
Sruti's research interests are at the intersections of performance and politics, which has taken shape in specific research projects on nonviolent protest, participatory art, artistic activism, feminist and postcolonial/decolonial theories and translation.
She is an active member of the collectives International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India) and Amsterdam-based Other Indias.
Sruti studies Indian percussion (Tabla) with Niti Ranjan Biswas.
Handbook of Gender Studies in the Dutch Caribbean (co-edited with Rose Mary Allen), Brill Publishers, 2024
Rose Mary Allen and Sruti Bala, 'Editors' introduction' (open access)
03 May 2024, 16:00-18:00 hrs, University Theatre, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, 1012 CP Amsterdam
Speakers: Alaa Shehadeh (Palestine Comedy Club), Huda Odeh (Cultural policy professional), Jackie Lubeck and Jan Willems (Theatre Day Productions, Gaza)
Moderators: Nan van Houte and Sruti Bala
Waste Siege and Material Practices of Resistance
07 May 2024, 17:00-20:00hrs, workshop (online)
Led by Sakeb (Mariam Saleh and Raghad Saqfalhait) and Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Bard College)
17 May, 16.00 - 18.00, public lecture (online)
Speakers: Sakeb (Mariam Saleh and Raghad Saqfalhait); Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Bard College). Moderator: A. George Bajalia (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wesleyan University).
Register via https://tinyurl.com/mpjacmbx)
31 May 2024, 13.30 - 15.30, REC A.207 (Roeterseiland Amsterdam)
Speakers: Muna Dajani (London School of Economics), Lamis Q'demat (Climate and Water Diplomacy professional), Michelle Rudolph (ISS/EUR, The Hague)
Moderator: Margreet van Zwarteveen (UvA/IHE Delft)
Courses taught in 2023-24
Key Concepts and Methodologies in Theatre and Performance Studies (MA)
Culture Wars: Introducing Culture and Social Justice (BA)
Florence Evans: Art, Activism, and Memory in Buenos Aires, 1995-2003 (co-promoter: Dr. Boris Noordenbos)
Emily Shin-Jie Lee: Artist-in-Residencies: Dwelling Spaces of Art and Politics (promoter: Prof. Dr. Margriet Schavemaker)
Ariane Gros: From the 19th Century August to the Contemporary Joker: The Cultural Figure of the Clown and its Political Significance in Arts, Media and Public Space(s) (co-promoters: Prof. Dr. Peter Marx and Prof. Dr. Stephen Packard, University of Cologne)
Julia Mullié: at this moment stanley brouwn is at the distance of x feet from this point (promoter: Prof. Dr. Margriet Schavemaker)