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BangladeshSummit

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳-UC Berkeley Bangladesh Summit

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

The South Asia Centre and the at the University of California-Berkeley is hosting the first-ever ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳-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 

2. Working paper #2 

3. Working paper #3 

 

10:15: Opening Remarks by Dr Kasia Paprocki 

KasiaPaprocki

 (@Kasiapaprocki) is Assistant Professor in Environment at the Department of Geography and Environment, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

 

 

10:30-12:00: Minority Rights

Panelists

KatyGardner

 is Professor of Anthropology at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. 

Moderator 

 

ShelleyFeldman

 is Retired Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University.

 

DelwarHussain

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

 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

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

 

KieranMitton

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

 

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

 (@MukulikaB) is Director of the South Asia Centre and Assistant Professor of Anthropology, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

Moderator 

 

JoeDevinereal

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

 

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

 (@lewisd100) is Professor of Social Policy and Development, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and a member of the Faculty Adivsory Group, South Asia Centre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

 

 

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

NailaKabeer

 (@N_Kabeer) is Professor of Gender and Development at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

 


 

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