Rustom Bharucha, former IRC-Fellow and Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, joined the conference Open City – Towards an Intercultural Social Center that was held from 13 until 15 October 2016 in Zagreb, Croatia. On this occasion, Rustom Bharucha was interviewed by Ivan Hromatko, journalist at Kulturpunkt, a non-profit web portal that is part of Kurziv – Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society, a non-profit organization working towards the development of a critical and analytical discourse in Croatia.
In this interview, Bharucha elaborates on the ideas and challenges of interculturalism and how those could be made productive not only for the idea of a cultural center in Zagreb but also for the challenges arising with the current migration into Europe. We publish parts of the interview here on Textures – the full-length interview can be read on the Kulturpunkt website. 
Rustom Bharucha
Fellow
Independent writer, director, dramaturg and cultural critic based in Kolkata, India. Combining intercultural theory and practice with social concerns, he is the author of several books on cultural exchange, globalization, secularism, oral history, and the question of faith. At an activist level, he has conducted workshops on land and memory, the politics of touch, and migration in India, the Philippines, South Africa and Brazil. A former advisor to the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development in The Netherlands, he has worked as a consultant for Ford Foundation and the Arts Council in Dublin on policies relating to cultural diversity and artistic practice. More recently, he has worked as Project Director of Arna-Jharna: The Desert Museum of Rajasthan on traditional knowledge and as Festival Director of the Inter-Asian Ramayana Festival in Adishakti, Pondicherry.
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Independent writer, director, dramaturg and cultural critic based in Kolkata, India. Combining intercultural theory and practice with social concerns, he is the author of several books on cultural exchange, globalization, secularism, oral history, and the question of faith. At an activist level, he has conducted workshops on land and memory, the politics of touch, and migration in India, the Philippines, South Africa and Brazil. A former advisor to the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development in The Netherlands, he has worked as a consultant for Ford Foundation and the Arts Council in Dublin on policies relating to cultural diversity and artistic practice. More recently, he has worked as Project Director of Arna-Jharna: The Desert Museum of Rajasthan on traditional knowledge and as Festival Director of the Inter-Asian Ramayana Festival in Adishakti, Pondicherry.
July 24, 2017
October 15, 2014
In June 2014, Stephen Barber and Rustom Bharucha met for a conversation on Bharucha's latest book Terror and Performance. In this talk, Bharucha and Barber explored the key notions of the book as well as the process of writing itself. Listen to the entire conversation here.
In June 2014, Stephen Barber and Rustom Bharucha met for a conversation on Bharucha's latest book Terror and Performance. In this talk, Bharucha and Barber explored the key notions of the book as well as the process of writing itself. Listen to the entire conversation here.
September 18, 2013
On the occasion of the conference DANCE/BODY AT THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES, which took place in Nicosia, Cyprus in June 2011, Rustom Bharucha presented the opening keynote lecture on the notion of the dance body, movement, transformation, and the politics of touch.
Listen to the lecture here.
On the occasion of the conference DANCE/BODY AT THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES, which took place in Nicosia, Cyprus in June 2011, Rustom Bharucha presented the opening keynote lecture on the notion of the dance body, movement, transformation, and the politics of touch. Listen to the lecture here.
August 6, 2011
To welcome the new Fellows to the International Research Centre “Interweaving Performance Cultures”, Erika Fischer-Lichte and Christel Weiler convened a meeting at the beginning of the academic year 2010/11 to discuss the Centre’s programme and concepts. The following conversation between Erika Fischer-Lichte and Rustom Bharucha about “interweaving” versus “intercultural” took place on this occasion.