Situating Bangladesh, Workshop, 17th-19th May 2013
Situating Bangladesh in South Asian Studies 17.05-19.05.2013
Programme
- Friday, 17 May 2013
4.00-5.00 pm Opening Remarks
His Excellency the Ambassador of Bangladesh, Mosud Mannan (tbc)
Prof. Dr. Michael Mann, Director, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
Prof. Dr. Iftekhar Iqbal, Georg Forster Fellow, Humboldt Stiftung, Dhaka University
5.00-5:30 pm Coffee Break & Snacks
5.30-7.00 pm
Cláudio Costa Pinheiro
Mulaqat: Colonial Studies, Folk Art and Audio-Visual Making in India
(Documentary, Brazil 2010)
8.00 pm
Workshop Dinner at Restaurant “Honigmond”
- Saturday, 18 May 2013
10.00-11.00 am
Willem van Schendel (University of Amsterdam)
Biases and Blind Spots in Bangladesh Studies
11.00 am-12.00 pm
Neilesh Bose (University of North Texas, USA)
Periodization and the Twentieth Century: Grappling with the Pre-Histories of Bangladesh
12.00-1.00 pm
Eva Gerharz (Ruhr-University Bochum)
“We invite them and they come” –Transborder Exchange and Indigenous Activism in Bangladesh
1.00-3.00 pm Lunch Break
(at one’s own expense, small restaurants in 5 minutes walking distance)
3.00-4.00 pm
Iftekhar Iqbal (Dhaka University, Bangladesh/Humboldt University, Berlin)
The Bengal Muslim: Locating Identity through Mobility and Language
4.00-4.30 pm Coffee Break
4.30-5.30 pm
Hans Harder (South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University)
Between the Chairs: Some Problems of Textual Studies on Bangla/Bangladesh
5.30-6.30 pm
Sonia Nishat Amin (Dhaka University, Bangladesh)
Nawab Faizunnessa Chaudhurani and her Elusive Legacy
- Sunday, 19 May 2013
10.00-11.00 am
Annu Jalais (National University Singapore)
Tazia Trajectories in Bangladesh: Mapping Moharram’s North Indian Past
11-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 am-12.30 pm
Elora Shehabuddin (Rice University, Houston/Texas, USA)
Purdah, Piety, and Progress:
Competing Notions of the Modern Woman in Late 20th Century East Bengal
12.30-1.00 pm
Concluding Debate and General Remarks