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The Department of Theatre and Performance studies is a pioneering department under Faculty of Arts of the University of Dhaka, since its inception in 1994, has recognized that an educational institution as a knowledge-producing nodule can perhaps never be an abstract principle of truth but a source that seeks to generate a set of ideals in a group of humans­ – its students, staff and the faculty. Because discourse, as “a fragment of history” and a means of producing and organizing meaning within a social context, generates knowledge and because knowledge always is inextricably enmeshed in circuities of power, theatre – as a production of knowledge and effect of discourse – is always-already entangled in the circuities of power. It is woven by numerous strands inscribed with fragments of history (and that history, it is acknowledged, is also a contested terrain). The department seeks to negotiate knowledge enmeshed in the circuities of power by recognizing its post-colonial location in a globalized-monopolized world. It seeks to reinvent the history of Bangladesh created by all the ethnic communities – the Santals, Marmas, the Chakmas, the Manipuris, the Garos, the ‘Bengalis’ and others, and negotiate its relation with the world. It recognizes the ‘tradition’ is a construction and the narratives of nations are fictions. Nevertheless, beyond these fictions and constructions, the department seeks to engage in praxis with the problematic terrain of living and rediscover with passion that will allow it to celebrate life beyond all forms of boundaries – because, after all, a boundary “indicates not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins its presencing.”

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