The Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley is honored to welcome Bangladeshi social economist and Professor of Gender and Development at the Gender Institute, LSE, Prof. Naila Kabeer to deliver the Chowdhury Center Distinguished Lecture for 2020.
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DATE: Thursday, October 1, 2020
TIME: 8 am (Berkeley) | 4 pm (London) | 8 pm (Pakistan) | 8:30 pm (India & Nepal) | 9 pm (Bangladesh) | Calculate Your Local Time
This event will also be live streamed on the Center's FB page: ChowdhuryCenter
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Abstract: These are thoughts in progress. They pick up on a paper I wrote in the 1990s when I believed that the contestations about national identity in Bangladesh were about secular versus religious definitions. Those tensions remain and they give to parallel narratives about what has happened in Bangladesh since 1971 but I think the underlying contestation may be about different interpretations of religion rather than a secularism versus Islam dichotomy. I would like to explore this hypothesis in my presentation.
Bios:
Naila Kabeer is Professor of Gender and Development at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, social protection and citizenship and much of her research is focused on South and South East Asia. Naila is currently involved in ERSC-DIFD Funded Research Projects on Gender and Labour Market dynamics in Bangladesh and India. Read more about Prof. Kabeer and her work at her faculty page HERE.
Deniz Kandiyoti is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is the author of Concubines, Sisters and Citizens: Identities and Social Transformation (1997) the editor of Fragments of Culture: The Everyday of Modern Turkey (2002), Gendering the Middle East (1996), Women, Islam and the State (1991) Deniz is the editor of the journal Central Asian Survey.
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Established in 2013 the Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley champions the study of Bangladeshs cultures, peoples and history. The first of its kind in the US, the Centers mission is to create an innovative model combining research, scholarships, the promotion of art and culture, and the building of ties between institutions in Bangladesh and the University of California.
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