BRAC University is honoured to host Professor Joya Chatterji as a speaker in our Distinguished Scholars Series program. The topic of her lecture is: Immobility and Poverty in Divided Bengal.
Date: September 23, 2015
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Venue: BRAC Centre Inn (Auditorium), 3rd Floor, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212
Register (free) at 01911365208, email: communications[at]bracu.ac[dot]bd
About host:
Professor Joya Chatterji read History at the University of Delhi before taking a PhD in History at Cambridge. She taught International History at the London School of Economics for several years, taking up a post at the University of Cambridge in 2007. Professor Chatterji teaches Modern South Asian and world history. She also teaches on South Asian migration and diaspora.
Her research interests include Modern South Asian history, British imperial and world history, partitions, borders, refugees and minorities, migration, and diaspora and citizenship.
Professor Chatterji’s key publications include Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947 (with a version in Bengali: Bangla bhag holo) and The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India 1947-1967 and Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora (with David Washbrook).