BangladeshSummit

LSE-UC Berkeley Bangladesh Summit

Tuesday, 5 June 2018, 10:00-17:30pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building (NAB), LSE

The South Asia Centre and the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at the University of California-Berkeley is hosting the first-ever LSE-UC Berkeley Bangladesh Summit 2018.

Working Papers

Read the working papers summarising the discussions and recommendations from each of the panels.

1. Working paper #1 Minority Rights

2. Working paper #2 The Idea of Bangladesh

3. Working paper #3 Civil Society and the State

Podcasts

Listen to a recording the disccusions from each panel.

1. Working paper #1 Minority Rights

2. Working paper #2 The Idea of Bangladesh

3. Working paper #3 Civil Society and the State

 

10:15: Opening Remarks by Dr Kasia Paprocki 

KasiaPaprocki

Kasia Paprocki (@Kasiapaprocki) is Assistant Professor in Environment at the Department of Geography and Environment, LSE.

 

 

10:30-12:00: Minority Rights

Panelists

KatyGardner

Katy Gardner is Professor of Anthropology at LSE. 

Moderator 

 

ShelleyFeldman

Shelley Feldman is Retired Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University.

 

DelwarHussain

Delwar Hussain is Lecturer and Chancellors Fellow at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh.

 

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Speaker on sexual minorities.

  

12:00-13:30: The Idea of Bangladesh

Panelists

SBSaxena

Sanchita Saxena is Director of the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, and Executive Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS) at the University of California-Berkeley.

Moderator 

 

MeghnaGuhathakuta

Meghna Guhathakurta is executive director of Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB), a research support organization based in Dhaka.

 

KieranMitton

Kieran Mitton (@kieranmitton) is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at King's College London.

 

shahpar-selim

Shahpar Selim is Visiting Researcher at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

 

14:30-16:00: Civil Society and the State

Panelists

Mukulika Banerjee

Mukulika Banerjee (@MukulikaB) is Director of the South Asia Centre and Assistant Professor of Anthropology, LSE.

Moderator 

 

JoeDevinereal

Joe Devine is Professor of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath.

 

Sara-Hossain

Sara Hossain is a barrister practicing in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, mainly in the areas of constitutional, public interest and family law, since 1992.

 

DavidLewis

David Lewis (@lewisd100) is Professor of Social Policy and Development, LSE and a member of the Faculty Adivsory Group, South Asia Centre, LSE.

 

 

16:00-17.30: Plenary Lecture: Parallel Narratives of Nationhood: Gender, Islam and Civil Society in Bangladesh by Professor Naila Kabeer 

NailaKabeer

Naila Kabeer (@N_Kabeer) is Professor of Gender and Development at LSE.

 


 

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