Bunker Talk 173: Sukanya Chakrabarti
March 2, 2027 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Born and raised in Kolkata, Prof. Sukanya Chakrabarti is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at the School of Film, Theatre, and Dance at San Jose State University. Both as a scholar and an artist, she is interested in spaces and their contribution to meaning-making, placemaking and storytelling. She is the Editor of the journal Theatre Topics, and her current and ongoing research project is on performances of the South Asian diaspora in the US across generations of immigration. As an artist, she has worked as a playwright, director, dramaturg, and performer in New York, the Bay Area, and Kolkata. She served as the Cultural Dramaturg for Public Obscenities, written and directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury, which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2024. Recently, she translated Rabindranath Tagore’s Kingdom of Cards, which she directed and co-adapted with Matthew Spangler for a contemporary audience.
This talk is presented in association with the School of English as part of GoGlobal Week at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Bunker Talks
This event is part of Bunker Talks. Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do. Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art and the School of English, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical, ecological or economic concerns. The talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, provocation and dialogue as part of a civic conversation.
Originally conceived in the pandemic to explore how artists, writers, curators and researchers continued to make and share their work, live Bunker Talks now take place at The Salutation every month. Since 2020, over 170 talks have been hosted by Performance Researchers and colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. All talks are recorded, edited, captioned and then archived to create an online catalogue, capturing how artists, makers and curators think about the world today. Find previous talks here: https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/