Brick Lane Circle's third annual conference on the
STORY OF BANGLADESH & BANGLADESHI PEOPLE, AT HOME AND IN THE DIASPORA - 2013
Saturday 27 April 2013, 11am-7.30pm
Rich Mix Centre, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA
The conference is designed to help improve our understanding of Bangladesh, experiences of Bangladeshis around the world and the complexities and challenges faced by the country and its people.
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IT WAS A GREAT CONFERENCE - GREAT TURNOUT, GREAT SPEAKERS, GREAT PRESENTATIONS, GREAT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION, GREAT INTERACTIVITY AND GREAT FEEDBACK.
We wou
ld like thank all the speakers / presenters who gave up their valuable time to come and share their research findings with our audience. They are: José Mapril (Who sings for Sonar Bangla? (Trans) national imaginaries and political memories among Bangladeshis in Lisbon), Munsur Ali (Shongram - The movie. Trailer and Q&A), Shahida Rahman and Dr Nazneen Ahmed (Reimagining the Victorian East End: Islam, Lascar Seafarers and Subaltern Histories), Dr Anindita Ghosh (Bengali Pundits, the British and the Artificial Construction of the Bengali Language in the Nineteenth Century), Dr Delwar Hussain (The Future that did not Happen: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border) and Dr. Elora Shehabuddin (Developing the Modern Woman: Feminism, Nationalism, and Cold War Politics in East Bengal).
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Reimagining the Victorian East End: Islam, Lascar Seafarers and Subaltern Histories
Shahida Rahman. She is an author, writer and publisher, born and raised in Cambridge. Her first historical novel, Lascar was published in 2012. She is the co-founder and Director of a print-on-demand book publishing company, Perfect Publishers. Shahida has a number of published articles and is currently writing her second novel.
Dr Nazneen Ahmed. She is currently working as Research Assistant on the Oxford Diasporas Programme project “Religious faith, space and Diasporic Communities in East London, 1880-present.” Her D. Phil. in English Literature from Wadham College, Oxford, examined the cultural development of Bangladeshi secular nationalism through literature and cultural production from 1947-1971.
More videos will be uploaded in due course.
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Thinking about Peace: Oral History and Testimony after the 1971 War of Bangladesh
We were all very pleased with the seminar on Thinking about Peace: Oral History and Testimony after the 1971 War of Bangladesh by Yasmin Saikia at Davenant Centre on Sunday 25 March 2012, 3-5pm.
The presentation was very interesting, which generated heated interactions during the Q&A session. Many new areas were explored and fresh ideas presented as possible solutions to unresolved issues caused by the 1971 war. However, we could not take all the questions as we ran out of time. Hope we can continue the debate and discussion in the days, weeks, months and years to come.
Please click above to watch the video of the seminar.
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The Roots of Political Conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of BangladeshT
By Shapan Adnan
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Failure of the Pakistan experiment in East Pakistan: Economic Growth and Political Crisis 1947-71
Part 1
By Professor Mushtaq Khan
Failure of the Pakistan experiment in East Pakistan: Economic Growth and Political Crisis 1947-71
Part 2
By Professor Mushtaq Khan
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Are we Bengalis, Bangladeshis, Muslims, British or something else? Role of history in identity formation: a panel discussion
Panelists: Dr Nazneen Ahmed, Dr Fuad Ali, Dr Georgie Wemyss and Ruhul Abidin
Channel S Awards 2011
On the evening of 7 April 2011 Channel S held its annual awards at their mega studio in Walthamstow, where guests, celebrities and presenters created an amazing must be at event. Brick Lane Circle was among 19 categories of winners. The award to Brick Lane Circle was for Achievement in Education Research / Teaching, which was in recognition for publishing the book called Plassey's Legacy, researched and written by eight young people aged 18-25.

This initiative was part of a project ran by Brick Lane Circle called the Battle of Plassey Young People's Project, developed to encourage more research and learning about the shared past of Britain and Bengal / Bangladesh - funded by Heritage Lottery Fund. Further details of the project can be obtained by visiting www.the-eastindiacompany.org.

Three of the eight young researchers attended the event to collect the award if successful. They are: Lothifa Chowdhury, Ruhana Ali and Atif Kazi,who were thrilled when they found out that we won.

You can get the full list of winners of the Channel S Awards 2011 by clicking below:
Channel S Awards 2011
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