Assistant Professor

Dr Sebanti Chatterjee

Department of Liberal Arts

Interests

  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Gender Studies
  • Sociology of Religion

Faculty Details

Education

2008

Presidency College,
University of Calcutta,
India
BA

2010

Jadavpur University,
India

MA

2012

Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta,
India
MPhil

2020

Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi,
India
PhD

Experience

  • February 2022 to July 2023 - Senior Academic Fellow- National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
  • July 2022 to December 2022 - Guest Faculty, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur (online).
  • September 2021 to December 2021- Guest Faculty, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur (online).
  • December 2020 to April 2021 - Guest Faculty, Department of Sociology, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi (hybrid).
  • August 2020 to December 2020 - Guest Faculty, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Christ University, Bengaluru (online).
  • July 2019 to July 2020- Assistant Professor, Sociology- Sharda University, Greater Noida.

    • Research Interest

  • Gender and Labour
  • Art, Labour, and Ecology

    • Awards & Fellowships

  • December 2019-June 2022 – IFA Arts Research program grant – India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore.
  • October- December 2016- SYLFF Research Abroad Award- Tokyo Foundation and Nippon Foundation, Japan
  • August 2009-July 2010- Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF)- Tokyo Foundation and Nippon Foundation, Japan

    • Memberships

  • SYLFF Network (http://www.jusylffprogram.org.in)
  • Association for Asian Studies (AAS)- https://www.asianstudies.org/
  • International Council of Traditional Music (ICTM)- https://www.ug.edu.gh/ictm/
  • International Society for Music Education (ISME)- https://www.isme.org

    • Publications

    • 2024, 'Do Sonic Communities perform Heritage?' Critical Collective, Art History Newsletter https://criticalcollective.in/ArtHistoryListing.aspx?id=15
    • 2023, Choral Voices: Ethnographic imaginations of sound and sacrality, Bloomsbury Academic (‘Music and Sound Studies’ Series), USA; ISBN: 9781501379857
    • 2022, ‘Choirs on the Coast: Impact of Covid-19 on Musical Pedagogy and Festivals’ in Priyanka Basu and Radha Kapuria (eds.), in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Research Vol. 45, no. 6; 1128-1145; DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2022.2133489
    • 2020. ‘Performing Bollywood Broadway: Shillong Chamber Choir as the Bollywood’s Other’ Society and Culture in South Asia 6(2); 304-327; ISSN: 23938617
    • 2019. ‘Childs Play India Foundation - A New mode of Community music making in India’ Revista do forum Internacional de Estudosem Musica e Danca, Vol 4 No 4 (2017); 231-239; ISSN: 2184-6138
    • 2013. ‘What Score Have You Got? Music Pedagogy in Indian Classroom’, Journal of Sociology, Culture and Social Category 6; 102-123; ISSN: 09765212
    • 2012. Dealing with ‘Western Classical Music’ in Indian Music Schools. A Case study in Kolkata, Bangalore, Goa and Mumbai in Knigge, Jens and Niessen, Anne (eds.) Music Education: Concepts, Practice, and Political Dimensions, 112-131, Verlag Die BlaueEule (Co-authored with Prof. Bernd Clausen); ISBN 978-3-89924346
    Invited Talks
    • Invited to a conversation with Dr Rochelle Pinto and Sandra Oberoi on my recently released monograph Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality at Champaca Bookstore, Bangalore. (2023)
    • Invited to speak at the Heritage Hour by the Museum of Christian Art (MOCA), Goa to speak on Sacred Manifestations: An Ethnographic Memory in Goa. (2023)
    • Invited to speak on Exploring Christian-Musical Belonging: An Ethnographic Inquiry by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Mandi. (2023)
    • Invited by Conflictorium (Museum of Conflicts), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to conduct a sound walk titled Listening to Spaces: the Sacred, Public, and Intimate. (2023)

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