On March 23, 2017, Professor Firdous Azim, Chairperson of ENH, acted as a discussant in the event, Raise Your Voice, Break the Silence: Right to Consent and Choice and Gender Based Violence, jointly organised by JPC BRAC School of Public Heath and BLAST. The panel discussion interrogated gender-based violence from feminist, activist, and legal perspectives.
On 9 March, 2017, Dr Rifat Mahbub, assistant professor of ENH, was invited at Central Women's University to give a talk on her PhD research. The title of the talk was Life in Diaspora: Educated Bangladeshi Women in 21st Century Britain.
Drawing on her Phd work Education as Capital: Educated Bangladeshi Women in 21 stCentury’s Britain, the speaker has formulated academic question on Bangladeshi women's diasporic experiences in Britain within the framework of social science. The key point of her presentation focuses on how the intersectionality of gender, social class, national and transnational contexts can develop a complicated trajectory of the Bangladeshi immigrants’ value of academic capital beyond national boundaries. In the discussion session, the audience speaks of the contemporariety of this topic. The programme was graced by Prof. Dr. Parween Hasan, Vice Chancellor of the university, faculty members and students of various departments.