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আজকাল, the Chowdhury Center’s e-Newsletter for Fall 2024 is out!! Please click this link to find out about all the exciting events that we have planned for this semester.

Last month, young people in Bangladesh revolted against their government over a jobs quota bill that would have reserved 30 percent of public-sector jobs for family members of veterans of the 1971 war with Pakistan.

আজকাল, the Chowdhury Center’s e-Newsletter for Spring 2024 is out!! Please click this link to find out about all the exciting events that we have planned for this semester.

Bangladesh Development Initiative (BDI) is pleased to announce its 7th multidisciplinary international conference. It will be held on November 8–10, 2024 (Friday–Sunday) at the University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the Institute for South Asia Studies and the Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley. All academics, scholars, and practitioners working on Bangladesh in their respective fields are invited to submit extended abstracts or full papers related to the conference theme.

It’s been 10 years since the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, which killed 1,134 people and injured thousands more, most of whom were working in factories supplying clothing for international brands. What did we learn from this disaster about how businesses and governments can better protect the rights of workers? How have business and human rights interventions that followed the disaster fallen short? What still needs to happen to better protect workers in global supply chains?

UC Berkeley’s Institute for South Asia Studies and the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies are delighted to host a panel discussion on recent scholarship on Bangladesh-related studies with Elora Halim Chowdhury, Nayma Qayum, and Camelia Dewan.

AGENDA

Moderator/Panelist: Sanchita Banerjee Saxena, Executive Director, Institute for South Asia Studies; Director, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies; Professional faculty, Responsible Business, Haas School of Business

Panelist: Natasja Sheriff, Senior Program Manager, NYU Stern’s Center for Business and Human Rights

Congratulations to Tausif Noor, SAAI Graduate Student Representative and PhD student in the History of Art Department, for winning the 2023 Dudley Prize for Art Writing, alongside T. J. Clark, Professor Emeritus, History of Art Department, UC Berkeley. Read more HERE

আজকাল, the Chowdhury Center's e-Newsletter for Fall 2022 is out!!

আজকাল, the Chowdhury Center's e-Newsletter for Spring 2022 is out!! Highlights include distinguished lectures by Sukanta Chaudhuri and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and talks on lead exposure in Bangladesh and on the Bangladesh War of Independence.

To celebrate the 50th year of independence of Bangladesh, the Department of Global Studies & Governance (GSG), Independent University Bangladesh (IUB) published a ‘GSG: 50th Victory-day Anniversary Souvenir’.

The 2021 Subir and Malini Chowdhury Fellowships recipients, Nazmul Ahasan and Ariana Pemberto, were recently featured in The Daily Star, the largest circulating daily English-language newspaper in Bangladesh.

Please click HERE to access the article and read about what our two newest Fellows have to say about winning the award and their hopes for the future. 

The Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies' rapid response survey of garment workers under Covid-19 (in collaboration with BRAC), and discussion on the film Threads (co-sponsored with the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Textile Arts Council) was covered in the Business Standard.Click here to read the full article.