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ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳-UC Berkeley Bangladesh Summit 2

Friday, 22 February 2019, 9:30-17:15pm
B-100, Blum Hall, UC Berkeley

The South Asia Centre and the at the University of California-Berkeley hosted their second conference for the Bangladesh Summit. 

Working Papers

 

09:30-09:40: Welcoming Remarks by Dr Munis D. Faruqui & Dr Sanchita Saxena

Munis D Faruqui

, Director, Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley 

Watch Munis speak . 

 

Sanchita Saxena

, Director, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, UC Berkeley 

Watch Sanchita speak . 

 

 

09:40-10:00: Opening Remarks by Dr Isha Ray

Isha Ray

, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

Watch Isha speak .


 

10:00-11:30: The Entrepreneurship Model and Women's Empowerment  

Panelists

 

David Lewis

, Social Policy and Development, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

Moderator 

Watch David speak .

 

Juli Huang

 (@Juli_Q_Huang), Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

Watch Juli speak .

 

shameran-abed

 (@Shameran), Microfinance, BRAC and BRAC International

Watch Shameran speak .

 

Lamia Karim

, Anthropology, University of Oregon

Watch Lamia speak .

 Watch the full panel discussion .

 

11:45-13:15: Negotiating Uncertainty: Health, Politics, and Environment in Bangladesh 

Panelists

 

lawrence cohen

, Anthropology and Public Health, UC Berkeley 

Moderator 

Watch Lawrence speak .

SabinaRashid

, School of Public Health, BRAC University

Watch Sabina speak .

Benjamin-Chung

, Epidemiology, UC Berkeley

Watch Jade speak  .

AdnanHossain

, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Watch Adnan speak .

 

Watch the full panel discussion .

 

14:00-15:30: Forms of Sovereignty: Art, Cinema and Popular Culture

Panelists

 

Sugata Ray

, History of Art Department, UC Berkeley 

Moderator 

Watch Sugata speak .

Madhuja Mukherjee

, Film Studies, Jadavpur University 

Watch Madhuja speak .

Nusrat S Chowdhury

 Anthropology, Amherst College

 

LotteHoek

, Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh 

Watch Lotte speak . 

 Watch the full panel discussion . 

 

15:45-16:00: Closing Remarks by Dr Nilanjan Sarkar 

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, Deputy Director,  South Asia Centre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ 

Watch Nilanjan speak . 

 

16:00-17:00: KEYNOTE - Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society Revisited

David Lewis

, Social Policy and Development, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ 

 

Sanchita Saxena

, Director, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, UC Berkeley 

 

 

17:00-17:15: Presentation of the '' Award. To watch the video, click .