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The Dark Subcontinent: Freud, Tagore, and Imagining the Female Nationalist Subject in Colonial Bengal
Lecture | November 12 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)

Development and Democracy in Bangladesh: Current problems and Prospects.
Conference/Symposium | November 6–8, 2015 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Clark Kerr Campus
Opening speech by BDI President Munir Quddus

Welcome address by Sanchita Saxena

The Erosion of Secularism in Bangladesh: A discussion between Political Scientists, Ali Riaz and Rounaq Jahan and Anthropologist, Dina Siddiqi
Panel Discussion | November 5 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)

Ocean of Stories: Telling Tales through Tagore's Music and Poetry.
Lecture | October 30 | 6-8 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315 (The Maude Fife Room)

A summary of the lecture
by Sridevi Prasad, ISAS Program & Publications Assistant

Communities in Transition - A student centered approach to Long Term Community Follow Up: Talk by Prof. M. Omar Rahman, Vice Chancellor, Independent University, Bangladesh
Lecture | October 28 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)

On 20 December last year, the Bengali language daily Prothom Alo published a statement signed by a group of 50 prominent individuals (one revoked her position a day later). It expressed concern over the effects on freedom of expression of the guilty judgment issued by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in a contempt-of-court case.

Every year in February the Dhaka University area proudly hosts its Ekushey Boi Mela or the the Book Fair commemorating the 21st of February, now celebrated as the International Mother Langauge Day. With spring in the air, the fair is a time of celebration of the Bengali language and the struggle for cultural sovereignty that gave the language its place in the world.

After three months of doom and gloom, arrested protests and tyranny on citizens through petrol bombs and strikes, Dhaka and Chittagong came alive in April with the call of the mayoral elections that were held on the 28th of April, 2015. The impending Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections were received jubilantly for several reasons.

Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world and estimates suggest 74% are married below the age of 18 years.1 From a health perspective, child marriage results in pregnancy and childbirth complications, and other adverse health consequences on young women and their newborns.

"Dying, Not Dying, and Not Being Born: Experimental Exuberance in Bangladesh" - Lecture by Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto at "Experimental Populations | Universal Life: Rethinking 20th-century Medicine, Public Health, and the Relation of Economy to Experiment in South Asia and beyond"
Conference/Symposium | April 7 | 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)

A Quiet Revolution in Bangladesh: Lecture by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed to inaugurate the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies
Lecture | March 30 | 5:30-7 p.m. | The Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Videorecording of the lecture

Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka - The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries: A book talk by Sanchita Saxena
Lecture | October 30 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)

Challenging the Injustice of Poverty: An agenda for inclusive development in South Asia
Lecture | Oct 11 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room

Repositioning Bangladesh: A Conversation on its Achievements and Future Challenges
Lecture | February 22 | 12-2 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall (CSAS Conf. Room)

Dealing with the largest mass poisoning in the history of mankind: Locally-affordable arsenic remediation of drinking water for South Asia
Lecture | November 17 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (CSAS Conference Room)