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International Conference “Bangladesh Studies: an Overview” — Paris and online, 14-15 June 2022

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MESSAGE RETRANSMIS PAR LE CEIAS
CENTRE D’ÉTUDES DE L’INDE ET DE L’ASIE DU SUD

BANGLADESH STUDIES: AN OVERVIEW


14TH & 15TH OF JUNE 2022


In 2021, Bangladesh celebrated the 50th anniversary of its independence. On this occasion, the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies (CEIAS) and INALCO (Cerlom) with the support of Groupement d’intérêt scientifique Études asiatiques (GIS Asie), the Scientific Council of INALCO and École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) are organizing an international conference on June 14 and 15, 2022, which aims at honoring Bangladeshi studies. 

 

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Hybrid format (online on Zoom and in presence in Paris)

Send an email to: Bangladeshstudiesparis[at]gmail.com
to receive the Zoom link

Or register here: https://forms.gle/Rzto74pbfCpd1Kt67

 

14th of June

9.00am – 8.00pm

Centre de colloques – Auditorium 250

Place du Front populaire, 93300 Aubervilliers

 

15th of June

9.00am – 8.00pm

INALCO – Auditorium

65 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris

 

 Convenors:

Philippe Benoit, Olivier Bougnot, Charza Shahabuddin, Raphaël Voix

Scientific event funded by the Scientific Council of INALCO, CERLOM, CEIAS, EHESS and GIS ASIE.

 

The program schedule may be subject to change

Download the program  →
 
 
 

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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OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Chargé de diffusion scientifique (3 juin 2022). International Conference “Bangladesh Studies: an Overview” — Paris and online, 14-15 June 2022. IISMM. Consulté le 20 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/q2bz


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