Faculty Workshop on Research Writing & Publishing 2018

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Apr 23-27, 2018
10 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley

Mon, Apr 23: 

• 9 AM - 12 PM: Writing a Strong Introduction 
  Session Lead: Clare Talwalker, Lecturer, Global Poverty & Practice; International & Area Studies
• 1 PM - 4 PM: Literature Review/Theory 
  Session Lead: Poulomi Saha, Assistant Professor of English 

Tue, Apr 24:

• 9 AM - 12 PM: Archival Research 
  Session Lead: Abhishek Kaicker, Assistant Professor of History
• 1 PM- 4 PM: Qualitative Methods 
  Session Lead: Jeanne Marecek

Wed, Apr 25:

• 9 AM - 4 PM: Deconstructing a Paper | Presenting your own Research 
  Session Lead: Isha Ray, Associate Professor, Energy & Resources Group

Thu, Apr 26:

• 9 AM - 3 PM: Survey Methods 
  Session Leads: Anustubh Agnihotri, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Anirvan Chowdhury, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science

Fri, Apr 27:

• 9 AM - 12 PM: The Publishing Process
  Session Lead: Clare Talwalker, Lecturer, Global Poverty & Practice; International & Area Studies
• 1 PM - 3 PM: Wrap Up
• Session Lead: Sanchita Saxena, Executive Director, Institute for South Asia Studies; Director, Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies

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C O N F E R E N C E
AGENDA

Saturday, April 28, 2018
10 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley

9:30 a.m.: Opening remarks

• Sanchita Saxena 
• Golam Mathbor 

10-10:30 a.m.:  Representing the Rohingya: A Critique of Identity Discourse and Historical Convictions on the Ethnocide 

• Speaker: Bokhtiar Ahmed, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Rajshahi 
• Discussant: Jason Cons,

10:30-11 a.m.: The Intertwined Relationship between Flood, Livelihood, and Gender in Two Bangladeshi Villages

• Speaker​: Fhamida Yasmin, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Dhaka. 
• Discussant: Golam Mathbor

11:15-11:45 a.m.:  Women’s Agency within Left Political Parties, Sisterhood and the Birth of Feminist organizations in Bangladesh

• Speaker​: Seuty Sabur, Associate Professor of Anthropology, BRAC University
• Discussant: Raka Ray

11:45-12:15 p.m.: Hate Speech as Political Communication: The media framing of the Hindu Other in wartime East Pakistan

• Speaker​: Kajalie Shehreen Islam, Assistant Professor of Mass Communication and Journalism, University of Dhaka
• Discussant: Angana Chatterji

12:15-12:45 p.m.: Believing in Democracy: thoughts of women on democracy and political participation in Sri Lanka

• Speaker​: Janaki Jayawardena, Lecturer of History, University of Colombo 
• Discussant: Jeanne Marecek

1:30-2 p.m.: Managing Self and Making Reproductive Choice for the Future: Contextualizing the Practices of New Medical Technologies for Freezing Gametes

• Speaker​: Khadija Mitu, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chittagong
• Discussant: Jeanne Marecek

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

• Speaker​: Mahruba Mowtushi, Associate Professor of English, ULAB
• Discussant: Frank Korom,

2:45-3:15 p.m.: Shilalipi and the de-aestheticization of ‘woman’: the making of a Bangladeshi women’s cinema

• Speaker​: Fahmida Akhter, Associate Professor of Drama and Dramatics, Jahangirnagar University
• Discussant: Sufia Uddin

3:15-3:45 p.m.: From Partition to Hegemony: Bangladesh and Bangladeshi Films in the South Asian Context

• Speaker​: Harisur Rahman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sociology, North South University
• Discussant: Lawrence Cohen

3:45-4 p.m.: Closing Remarks

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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