W O R K S H O P O N R E S E A R C H W R I T I N G & P U B L I S H I N G 2 0 1 8
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Apr 23-27, 2018
10 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Mon, Apr 23:
Tue, Apr 24:
Wed, Apr 25:
Thu, Apr 26:
Fri, Apr 27:
Saturday, April 28, 2018
10 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
9:30 a.m.: Opening remarks
10-10:30 a.m.: Representing the Rohingya: A Critique of Identity Discourse and Historical Convictions on the Ethnocide
10:30-11 a.m.: The Intertwined Relationship between Flood, Livelihood, and Gender in Two Bangladeshi Villages
11:15-11:45 a.m.: Women’s Agency within Left Political Parties, Sisterhood and the Birth of Feminist organizations in Bangladesh
11:45-12:15 p.m.: Hate Speech as Political Communication: The media framing of the Hindu Other in wartime East Pakistan
12:15-12:45 p.m.: Believing in Democracy: thoughts of women on democracy and political participation in Sri Lanka
1:30-2 p.m.: Managing Self and Making Reproductive Choice for the Future: Contextualizing the Practices of New Medical Technologies for Freezing Gametes
2-2:30 p.m.: ‘The air we breathe, a forgotten colour’:A surrealist enquiry into memories and meanderings of the exilic self in selected poems of Rajat Neogy
2:45-3:15 p.m.: Shilalipi and the de-aestheticization of ‘woman’: the making of a Bangladeshi women’s cinema
3:15-3:45 p.m.: From Partition to Hegemony: Bangladesh and Bangladeshi Films in the South Asian Context
3:45-4 p.m.: Closing Remarks
Reflections from the Bangladeshi Faculty
Bokhtiar Ahmed, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Rajshahi
Fhamida Yasmin, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Dhaka
Seuty Sabur, Associate Professor of Anthropology, BRAC University
Kajalie Shehreen Islam, Assistant Professor of Mass Communication and Journalism, University of Dhaka
Janaki Jayawardena, Lecturer of History, University of Colombo
Khadija Mitu, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chittagong
Mahruba Mowtushi, Associate Professor of English, ULAB
Fahmida Akhter, Associate Professor of Drama and Dramatics, Jahangirnagar University
Harisur Rahman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sociology, North South University
The Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center
Institute for South Asia Studies
UC Berkeley
10 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2310
510.642.3608
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