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Daniel M. Kammen | The Clean Energy Transition in Bangladesh - Local and Global Impacts and Opportunities: The Chowdhury Center Distinguished Lecture for 2018

Lecture | November 1 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)

Samia Huq | Thinking about the Secular: Practices, Dispensations, and Possibilities in Bangladesh Lecture: Chowdhury Center | October 2 | 12-1:30 p.m.|10 Stephens Hall

Sabina Rashid | The Invisible Reality of ‘Chinthar Roge’ (A Life of Chronic Worry): The Illness of Poverty in Dhaka’s Urban Slum Settlements Lecture | September 25 | 12-2 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall)

Rohingya Crisis, One Year On: Research and Reflections
Panel Discussion | September 20 | 4-6 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)

The imprisonment of Bangladesh’s most respected photojournalist illustrates the country’s drift toward autocracy.

The scenes in Dhaka over the past week, leadingto the outrageous arrest and torture of one of Bangladesh’s greatest chroniclers, Shahidul Alam, highlight three crucial aspects about Bangladesh.

Dipu Moni | Rohingya Exodus: Beyond the Man-made Human Tragedy
July 19 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)

Bangladesh, which became independent from Pakistan in 1971, is a young country.

South Asian Art | Past, Present, Future: A Conversation between the Dhaka Art Summit founders, Nadia and Rajeeb Samdani and New York-based Artist, Chitra Ganesh
April 27 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | The Berkeley City Club, The West Courtyard & the Drawing Room

From Malthusia to the Aid Lab: A short history of Bangladesh’s surprising success
April 24 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)

The April 2013 Rana Plaza collapse, which resulted in the death of more than 1,125 people working in garment factories in the building, drew widespread attention to hazardous labour conditions in the export garment-manufacturing industry in Bangladesh. Five years later, two international agreements—the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, and the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety—signed in the aftermath of this tragedy, to monitor and inspect garment factories, have been analysed.

Vivek Bald | Documenting the Undocumented: Bengali Muslim Migrants In and Beyond 20th Century U.S. Archives
Lecture | April 12 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)

On 14 September, an Indian Air Force aircraft landed in Chittagong with 53 tonnes of relief materials, including food, salt, cooking oil and mosquito nets. The delivery was meant to help Bangladesh cope with the vast influx of Rohingyas—a minority community in Myanmar that is facing large-scale violence there.