"Foreign Asia/Foreign Shakespeare": a talk by Rustom Bharucha

Brought to you by the Shakespeare in Asia Initiative and the Stanford Department of Drama:

Foreign Asia/Foreign Shakespeare:

Reflections on inter-Asian interculturality, postcoloniality and neo-Orientalism

A talk by Rustom Bharucha, an independent scholar, director, and dramaturg based in Calcutta. Bharucha is an important and exciting critical and creative thinker who brings together discourses of globalization, violence, religion, and politics and its relationship to theatre. His books include Theatre and the World (Routledge), The Question of Faith, In the Name of the Secular, The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking Through Theatre in an Age of Globalization (Oxford UP, 2001), and the forthcoming Rajasthan: An Oral History.