The South Asia Centre and the at the University of California-Berkeley is hosting the first-ever ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳-UC Berkeley Bangladesh Summit 2018.
Listen to a recording the disccusions from each panel.
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3. Working paper #3
10:15: Opening Remarks by Dr Kasia Paprocki
(@Kasiapaprocki) is Assistant Professor in Environment at the Department of Geography and Environment, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.
10:30-12:00: Minority Rights
is Professor of Anthropology at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.
Moderator
is Retired Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University.
is Lecturer and Chancellors Fellow at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh.
Speaker on sexual minorities.
12:00-13:30: The Idea of Bangladesh
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
is executive director of Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB), a research support organization based in Dhaka.
(@kieranmitton) is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at King's College London.
is Visiting Researcher at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
14:30-16:00: Civil Society and the State
(@MukulikaB) is Director of the South Asia Centre and Assistant Professor of Anthropology, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.
Moderator
is Professor of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath.
is a barrister practicing in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, mainly in the areas of constitutional, public interest and family law, since 1992.
(@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
(@N_Kabeer) is Professor of Gender and Development at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.
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