Dear Friends,
Welcome back to Berkeley! Hope you all had a wonderful break.
The Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies welcomes our students, community, faculty, and visiting scholars to Spring 2023. Please join us in 10 Stephens Hall at the many diverse lectures, performances, and discussions happening throughout the semester. Although our home base at 10 Stephens Hall continues to be wrapped in construction tarp, we expect to be back by mid-February.
The Chowdhury Center is pleased to host or co-host a number of exciting programs this semester. The Center is sponsoring a side panel on
responsible sourcing practices for garment workers as a part of the
OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector (Feb 13) and a panel discussion titled "
New Directions in Bangladesh Studies" (Apr 6). This event will explore recently published works by
Elora Halim Chowdhury (on the complex relationship among transnational feminism, human rights, and visual practices),
Nayma Qayum (on the role of NGOs in involving women in the political and development process in rural Bangladesh), and
Camelia Dewan (on climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh).
The Chowdhury Center is also co-sponsoring the Pirzada Lecture in Pakistan Studies by
Amna Qayum (Feb 7), the Tagore Program Visiting Scholar Lecture by
Ashis Nandy (Mar 6), the Maya Mitra Das Lecture on Tagore by
Sudipta Kaviraj (Mar 15), as well as
Choi Chatterjee's talk on Tagore and Tolstoy (Feb 9),
Elora Shehabuddin's new book talk titled,
Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism (Mar 2),
Peter Lund-Thomsen's talk on corporate social responsibility (Mar 20), and
Deepa Purushothaman's talk on how women of color can redefine power in corporate America (Mar 21).
We are in the process of planning a series of events focused on 10 years after the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh and its implications for workers' rights and corporate accountability. In addition, the Chowdhury Center will be celebrating its 10 year anniversary later this year with a conference, a keynote speaker, and a new publication. More details to follow!
We are excited to announce a
Year End Reception on April 27 where we will celebrate our amazing students and faculty, say good bye to some old friends, welcome new ones, and get a preview of events planned for Fall 2023. Please mark your calendars. See you then, if not before, at 10 Stephens!
A detailed list of all our events lined up for this semester is included below. All our events are video recorded and made available on our website. Please scroll to the bottom of the page to see all the newly added videos.
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We look forward to seeing you at one of our many events this semester!
