Tuesday 14th of June
Centre de colloques – Auditorium 250 | 9.00am – 8.00pm
Auditorium 250 Campus Condorcet | 9.00am – 8.00pm
Introduction | 9.00am – 10.15am
Public entrance | 9.00am Introduction to the conference by Michel Boivin (CNRS – CEIAS) | 9.15am – 9.30am Introduction by the keynote speaker | 9.30am – 10.15am Bangladesh at 50: Secular Power and Religious Dispensations – Samia Huq (BRAC University)
Panel 1 Contesting dominant narratives | 10.15am – 12.30am ‘We have to do something’: forestalled futures in Pakistan, 1947 – 1952 – Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London) | 10.15am – 10.40am Sheikh Mujibur Rahman: the rise of a ‘Father of the Nation’ in his Prison Diaries. – Philippe Benoit (INALCO) | 10.40am – 11.05am Examining Narratives on South Asian Past in Textbooks of Bangladesh – Shreya Ghosh (Jawaharlal Nehru University) | 11.05am – 11.30 am (online from India) Understanding mobility and immobility of Bengali immigrants in the Chittagong Hills of Bangladesh – Nasrin Siraj (VU University Amsterdam) | 11.30am – 11.55am (online from Bangladesh) Q&A – Moderator Samia Huq | 11.55am – 12.30am
Lunch Break | 12.30am – 2.00pm
Panel 2 Defining Islam in Bangladesh or the diversity of Islamic traditions | 2.00pm – 5.15pm Madrasa education in Bangladesh: competition, integration, modernization – Charza Shahabuddin (EHESS) | 2pm – 2.25 pm Islam in Bangladesh: Humanists, Muslims, and Islamists – Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury (Shuddhasar) & Lisa Knight (Furman University) | 2.25 – 2.50 pm
Coffee Break | 2.50pm – 3.30pm
Politics of Islam in Everyday Lives among the Bangladeshi Youths – Mubashar Hasan (University of Western Sydney) | 3.30pm – 3.55pm (online from Australia) Sufis with Interreligious Appeal: the Maijbhandaris of Chittagong- Hans Harder (Heidelberg University) | 3.55pm – 4.20pm (online from Germany) Devotion to a Hindu Saint in Bangladesh: The Case of Lokenath Brahmachari – Raphael Voix | 4.20pm – 4.45pm (online from India) Q&A – Moderator Dina Siddiqi | 4.45pm – 5.15pm
Cocktail au Petit salon du Faculty Club | 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Wednesday 15th of June Auditorium INALCO | 9.00am – 8.00pm
Public entrance | 9.00am Introduction to the conference by a CERLOM researcher | 9.15am – 9.30am Introduction by the keynote speaker | 9.30am – 10.15am (online from Bangladesh) The aesthetic experience of Bengali poetry and Bangla culture – Kaiser Haq (Dhaka University)
Panel 3 Reassessing Gender Equality in Bangladesh | 10.15am – 1.00pm Untold stories, domestic violence against women in Bangladesh – Nelufar Parvin (Dhaka University) | 10.15am – 10.40am (online from Bangladesh) The Continuum of Violence: Sexual Violence and Body Politics in Bangladesh- Nayanika Mookherjee (Durham University) | 10.40am – 11.05am Gender and the religious subject in Bangladesh: Negotiations of complementarity and equality – Samia Huq, BRAC University | 11.05am – 11.30am Laboring Bodies, Muslim Bodies: Reflections on “Empowerment” in the Time of Neoliberal Capitalism – Dina Siddiqi (NYU) | 11.30am – 11.55am Q&A – Moderator Layli Uddin | 12.20am – 1.00pm
Lunch Break | 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Panel 4 Bangladesh between borders, migrations and refugees | 2.00pm – 3.45pm Leaving to pick up the neighbors’ waste: a migratory niche for Bangladeshi peasants – Marie Percot (IIMAD) | 2.00pm – 2.25pm Mask of authoritarianism – Arild Engelsen Ruud (University of Oslo) | 2.25pm – 2.50pm (online from Norway) Polity, Rule of Law & Human Rights: a viable equation in Bangladesh? – Nordine Drici (ND Consultance) | 2.50pm – 3.15pm Q&A – Moderator Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury | 3.15am – 3.45pm
Coffee Break | 3.45 pm – 4.15pm
Panel 5 Bangladesh historical homelands | 4.15 pm – 5.30pm The religious environment of the urban center of Mahasthangarh in Bangladesh from the 6th to the 13th century CE: the contribution of written sources and material culture – Coline Lefrancq (CNRS) | 4.15pm – 4.40pm (online from Thailand) The transformative power of love: Epic romances and conversion in Middle Bengali poetry- Thibaut d’Hubert (University of Chicago) | 4.40pm – 5.05pm (online from Chicago) Q&A – Moderator Philippe Benoit | 5.05pm – 5.30pm
Keynote speaker | 5.30pm – 6.10pm Misreading the Bengal Delta Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh – Camelia Dewan (University of Oslo) | 5.30pm – 6.10pm (online from Oslo) Q&A – Moderator Charza Shahabuddin | 6.10pm – 6.30pm
Screening of the documentary “Quran Children” by Shaheen Dill-Riaz | 6.30pm – 7.30pm Q&A in presence of the filmmaker | 7.30pm – 8.00pm
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