Dr. Dina M. Siddiqui, Professor at ESS has presented the paper titled “Secular (izing) Histories and Contested Narratives of the Bangladeshi Nation.” at Bangladesh-Myanmar Initiative Conference. Yangon, August 13.
Dr. Seuty Sabur, Assistant Professor at ESS has recently presented her paper titled ‘Shahabag, Politics of Remembering and Forgetting: Nation at an Uneasy Intersection with Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Religion’ in the panel, ‘Memory, Agency and Reconfiguration of the ‘other’’ at the Inter Asia Cultural Studies Society (IACS) conference on ‘Undercurrents: Unearthing Hidden Social and Discursive Practices’. This was held at Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia, from 5-9th August, 2015. She was the organizer of the panel and was invited as the member of the board of the IACS. Published by Rutledge since 2000, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies has been a collective attempt to build an international platform for critical intellectuals who locate their own work and concerns in the larger social and political world beyond the academia. Now with the IACS Society and its Consortium of institutions in place, the journal’s collective is nurturing younger generations of active scholars to make the next leap to shape alternative conditions of knowledge for the future. With sustainable “passion and integrity”, the Inter-Asia project is continuing to move. She has represented ESS, BRAC University in the board for the third time in a row. It is worth mentioning here that Professor Firdous Azim, the Vice Chair and the Executive Committee of member of the IACS (2013-2015) has been a wonderful mentor and source of inspiration to Dr. Seuty Sabur, who feels extremely privileged to serve with her in the IACS Board.