Brick Lane Circle 
Working to help transform the intellectual landscape of the Bangladeshis in the UK and discover the shared common roots of Britain's diverse communities
Videos
Videos
Since January 2007 Brick Lane Circle organised many seminars, conferences and occasional events. We have video recordings of most of the sessions. In the next few weeks we will upload more videos.
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Since January 2007 Brick Lane Circle organised many seminars, conferences and occasional events. We have video recordings of most of the sessions. In the next few weeks we will upload more videos.
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How can we apply critical thinking to understand 1971?
By Sarmila Bose
She is Senior Research Fellow in the Politics of South Asia, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. She is an academic and journalist. She earned her degrees at Bryn Mawr College (History) and Harvard University (MPA and PhD in Political Economy and Government.
Sunday 29 May 2011, 4.15pm-6.15pm Lecture Theatre PP1, Peoples Palace, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS
The seminar was chaired by Professor Mushtaq Khan
He is Professor of economics at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Previously he taught at the universities of both Oxford and Cambridge. Information about his research interests and publications are available on his website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31246.php
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By Sarmila Bose
She is Senior Research Fellow in the Politics of South Asia, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. She is an academic and journalist. She earned her degrees at Bryn Mawr College (History) and Harvard University (MPA and PhD in Political Economy and Government.
Sunday 29 May 2011, 4.15pm-6.15pm Lecture Theatre PP1, Peoples Palace, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS
The seminar was chaired by Professor Mushtaq Khan
He is Professor of economics at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Previously he taught at the universities of both Oxford and Cambridge. Information about his research interests and publications are available on his website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31246.php
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Oral History of first generation Bangladeshis living in Camden
By Faridha Karim
She recently worked for Bengali Workers’ Association in Euston as an Oral Historian. She studied at universities of Greenwich and East London. Faridha has been involved in Community and youth work since 2004.
Second Paper, Saturday 23 April 2011, 11am - 6pmStory of Bangladesh and Bangladeshi People at Home and in the Diaspora A two conference in East London - 23 & 24 April 2011, Brady Arts Centre, Hanbury Street, London E1
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By Faridha Karim
She recently worked for Bengali Workers’ Association in Euston as an Oral Historian. She studied at universities of Greenwich and East London. Faridha has been involved in Community and youth work since 2004.
Second Paper, Saturday 23 April 2011, 11am - 6pmStory of Bangladesh and Bangladeshi People at Home and in the Diaspora A two conference in East London - 23 & 24 April 2011, Brady Arts Centre, Hanbury Street, London E1
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Ruhana Ali talks about the Battle of Plassey Young People’s Project and tea plantations in Sylhet by the East India Company
Ruhana Ali is a co-author of Plassey’s Legacy, who wrote a chapter on Tea: dividing politics, uniting heritage.
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Ruhana Ali is a co-author of Plassey’s Legacy, who wrote a chapter on Tea: dividing politics, uniting heritage.
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Dr. Georgie Wemyss talks about the East India Company and East India Docks
She is the author of The Invisible Empire:White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging
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She is the author of The Invisible Empire:White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging
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How inspiring ideas can energise a people into undertaking extraordinary deeds
By Jebi Rahman
She is Programme Officer, BRAC UK. She recently took part in a seven day cycle challenge from Sylhet to Cox’s Bazaar to raise money for Vision Bangladesh, a BRAC and Sightsavers International initiative to eradicate avoidable blindness in Bangladesh by 2020. The tour was organised by Xperime Adventures and part sponsored by the Akij Group to raise awareness about climate change.
Jebi made an inspiring presentation at Brick Lane Circle’s launch event for the Amazing Bangladeshis initiative at the Idea Store Whitechapel on Thursday 16 December 2010, 7-9pm. This was the 39th Anniversary of the 1971 Liberation War Victory.
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By Jebi Rahman
She is Programme Officer, BRAC UK. She recently took part in a seven day cycle challenge from Sylhet to Cox’s Bazaar to raise money for Vision Bangladesh, a BRAC and Sightsavers International initiative to eradicate avoidable blindness in Bangladesh by 2020. The tour was organised by Xperime Adventures and part sponsored by the Akij Group to raise awareness about climate change.
Jebi made an inspiring presentation at Brick Lane Circle’s launch event for the Amazing Bangladeshis initiative at the Idea Store Whitechapel on Thursday 16 December 2010, 7-9pm. This was the 39th Anniversary of the 1971 Liberation War Victory.
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A panel discussion on A Bangladeshi Obama in the UK?
By Benjamin Zeitlyn, Ruhana Ali and Asif Saleh
Panel chair: Niaz Alom
Panel members:
Benjamin Zeitlyn. He lived in Bangladesh as a child and has a degree in geography and development studies, and a master's degree in migration studies from the University of Sussex. During his master's degree he researched the Bangladeshi community in Madrid. He has also worked in Bangladesh at the Refugee and Migratory Research Unit, attached to the University of Dhaka. There he was able to research migration to Spain and Italy from the Bangladeshi perspective.
Ruhana Ali. She has been working as a community organiser for The East London Communities' Organisation (TELCO) on social justice campaigns including safer streets and the London Living Wage. She has trained with the Citizen Organising Foundation in the UK; a sister organisation of the Industrial Areas Foundation in America where Obama trained and worked. She graduated from the London School of Economics and strongly feels that young people should take an active role and engage in civic life. She has also worked as a teacher, journalist and television presenter.
Asif Saleh. He recently retired from his post as Vice President at Goldman Sachs inLondon to be the full-time Executive director of Drishtipat, a Bangladesh human rights organization he founded in 2001. Drishtipat is an active force in the Bangladesh diaspora, with branches in eight cities on four continents, and numerous programs and fundraising initiatives that focus on human rights and humanitarian relief. Drishtipat's blog has been named one of the most influential in Bangladesh by The Daily Star, and its Writers' Collective are frequent contributors to print media.
6th event, 26 February 2009
2009 Annual Brick Lane Circle's
SEMINARS ON BANGLADESH AND BANGLADESHIS ABROAD
Every Thursday, 7-9pm, 22 January - 9 April 2009
Idea Store Whitechapel, London, UK
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By Benjamin Zeitlyn, Ruhana Ali and Asif Saleh
Panel chair: Niaz Alom
Panel members:
Benjamin Zeitlyn. He lived in Bangladesh as a child and has a degree in geography and development studies, and a master's degree in migration studies from the University of Sussex. During his master's degree he researched the Bangladeshi community in Madrid. He has also worked in Bangladesh at the Refugee and Migratory Research Unit, attached to the University of Dhaka. There he was able to research migration to Spain and Italy from the Bangladeshi perspective.
Ruhana Ali. She has been working as a community organiser for The East London Communities' Organisation (TELCO) on social justice campaigns including safer streets and the London Living Wage. She has trained with the Citizen Organising Foundation in the UK; a sister organisation of the Industrial Areas Foundation in America where Obama trained and worked. She graduated from the London School of Economics and strongly feels that young people should take an active role and engage in civic life. She has also worked as a teacher, journalist and television presenter.
Asif Saleh. He recently retired from his post as Vice President at Goldman Sachs inLondon to be the full-time Executive director of Drishtipat, a Bangladesh human rights organization he founded in 2001. Drishtipat is an active force in the Bangladesh diaspora, with branches in eight cities on four continents, and numerous programs and fundraising initiatives that focus on human rights and humanitarian relief. Drishtipat's blog has been named one of the most influential in Bangladesh by The Daily Star, and its Writers' Collective are frequent contributors to print media.
6th event, 26 February 2009
2009 Annual Brick Lane Circle's
SEMINARS ON BANGLADESH AND BANGLADESHIS ABROAD
Every Thursday, 7-9pm, 22 January - 9 April 2009
Idea Store Whitechapel, London, UK
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Community and Institutional Adaptation to Riverbank Erosion along the Jamuna River, Bangladesh
By Fuad Ali
He recently completed a PhD from the Department of Geography at King's College London, previously he studied Physics at Imperial College. He is Projects Coordinator at IMASE (www.imase.org), a constellation of Muslims who are interested in the society, development and learning; and Senior Researcher at Youth Think, a research organisation focusing on youth. The problem of river erosion in Bangladesh is a key technological and social challenge for Bangladeshis today, as it has been for decades. Annoyed with fatalistic and at times opportunistic climate change propaganda from one side, and religious platitudes about science and civilisation from another, Fuad (flukely) won an interdisciplinary research grant and went about investigating.
3rd event, 12 February 2009
2009 Annual Brick Lane Circle's
SEMINARS ON BANGLADESH AND BANGLADESHIS ABROAD
Every Thursday, 7-9pm, 22 January - 9 April
Idea Store Whitechapel, London, UK.
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By Fuad Ali
He recently completed a PhD from the Department of Geography at King's College London, previously he studied Physics at Imperial College. He is Projects Coordinator at IMASE (www.imase.org), a constellation of Muslims who are interested in the society, development and learning; and Senior Researcher at Youth Think, a research organisation focusing on youth. The problem of river erosion in Bangladesh is a key technological and social challenge for Bangladeshis today, as it has been for decades. Annoyed with fatalistic and at times opportunistic climate change propaganda from one side, and religious platitudes about science and civilisation from another, Fuad (flukely) won an interdisciplinary research grant and went about investigating.
3rd event, 12 February 2009
2009 Annual Brick Lane Circle's
SEMINARS ON BANGLADESH AND BANGLADESHIS ABROAD
Every Thursday, 7-9pm, 22 January - 9 April
Idea Store Whitechapel, London, UK.
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Tea for the Raj: a History of Tea in Assam and Sylhet
By Roy Moxham
He recently retired from the University of London. His most well-known book is The Great Hedge of India, part-travelogue, part-historical treatise on the author's quest to find a 1500-mile long customs hedge built by the British in India to prevent smuggling of salt and opium. His second book, Tea: Addiction, Exploitation and Empire focuses on the effect of British tea addiction on British policies in Asia and Africa, and includes the author's own experience as a tea plantation manager in Africa.
1st Seminar, 22 January 20092009 Annual Brick Lane Circle
SEMINARS ON BANGLADESH AND BANGLADESHIS ABROAD
Every Thursday, 7-9pm, 22 January - 9 April 2009
Lab 5, Idea Store Whitechapel, 321 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1BU
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By Roy Moxham
He recently retired from the University of London. His most well-known book is The Great Hedge of India, part-travelogue, part-historical treatise on the author's quest to find a 1500-mile long customs hedge built by the British in India to prevent smuggling of salt and opium. His second book, Tea: Addiction, Exploitation and Empire focuses on the effect of British tea addiction on British policies in Asia and Africa, and includes the author's own experience as a tea plantation manager in Africa.
1st Seminar, 22 January 20092009 Annual Brick Lane Circle
SEMINARS ON BANGLADESH AND BANGLADESHIS ABROAD
Every Thursday, 7-9pm, 22 January - 9 April 2009
Lab 5, Idea Store Whitechapel, 321 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1BU
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Partition and South Asia's Diaspora?
By Dr. Joya Chatterji
Dr Joya Chatterji was educated at the Universities of Delhi and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she is now a Fellow and Lecturer in History. Her first book published in 1994, Bengal divided, Hindu communalism and partition,1932-1947 was the first work which drew attention to the role of Hindu communalism in 1947. It was translated into Bangla by University of Dhaka press in 2003. In 2007, her second monograph on the consequences of the partition, The spoils of partition, was published by Cambridge University Press. Dr Chatterji has written widely on communalism, borders, refugees, migration and identity-formation, and recently lead a large AHRC project on the Bengali diaspora in the delta and the UK.
2 July 2008, 7-9pm
Brick Lane Circle's Occasional Events on
BANGLADESH AND BANGLADESHIS ABROAD
Idea Store Whitechapel, London, UK
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What role can the UK Bangladeshis play in the development of Bangladesh?
By Ayub Korom Ali
He was previous Labour Cllr. in LB Newham and until recently he has worked for LB Tower Hamlets as Extended Schools Adviser. He is a trained social worker and previously worked in social services education and regeneration. He left school at the age of 16 but subsequently obtained a social work qualification (CQSW) from Ruskin College and an MA in Social Policy from Brunel University Centre for Advanced Studies. He attended the December 2007 Dhaka conference on Non Resident Bangladeshis (NRB).
3rd event, 14 February 2008
2009 Annual Brick Lane Circle's
SEMINARS ON BANGLADESH AND BANGLADESHIS ABROAD
Every Thursday, 7-9pm, 31 January - 10 April 2008 , Idea Store Whitechapel, London, UK.
Ayub has now relocated to Bangladesh to undertake a really inspiring initiative to build a modern, state of the art, English medium school in Sylhet called Bridge Academy (Gobinda Gonj, Chhatak, Sunam Gonj).
You can obtain more details of the school by visiting http://www.bridgeacademybd.com.
Ayub hopes to attract and welcomes the involvement of British Bangladeshi teachers and professionals in creating an excellent teaching and learning environment / opportunities for school pupils and the local communities of the surrounding areas. For more details please phone or email Ayub Ali (+8801731147809, info@bridgeacademybd.com).
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By Ayub Korom Ali
He was previous Labour Cllr. in LB Newham and until recently he has worked for LB Tower Hamlets as Extended Schools Adviser. He is a trained social worker and previously worked in social services education and regeneration. He left school at the age of 16 but subsequently obtained a social work qualification (CQSW) from Ruskin College and an MA in Social Policy from Brunel University Centre for Advanced Studies. He attended the December 2007 Dhaka conference on Non Resident Bangladeshis (NRB).
3rd event, 14 February 2008
2009 Annual Brick Lane Circle's
SEMINARS ON BANGLADESH AND BANGLADESHIS ABROAD
Every Thursday, 7-9pm, 31 January - 10 April 2008 , Idea Store Whitechapel, London, UK.
Ayub has now relocated to Bangladesh to undertake a really inspiring initiative to build a modern, state of the art, English medium school in Sylhet called Bridge Academy (Gobinda Gonj, Chhatak, Sunam Gonj).
You can obtain more details of the school by visiting http://www.bridgeacademybd.com.
Ayub hopes to attract and welcomes the involvement of British Bangladeshi teachers and professionals in creating an excellent teaching and learning environment / opportunities for school pupils and the local communities of the surrounding areas. For more details please phone or email Ayub Ali (+8801731147809, info@bridgeacademybd.com).
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Post 1980 Drivers of Economic Change in Bangladesh
By Professor Mushtaq Khan
H is Professor of economics at School of African and Oriental Studies. He was born in Dhaka in 1961, completed his undergraduate studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford and then won a scholarship for his PhD studies in Economics at Cambridge. Previously he taught at the universities of both Oxford and Cambridge . Information about his research interests and publications are available on his website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31246.php
5th Seminar, 15 February 2007
2007 Annual Brick Lane Circle
SEMINARS ON BANGLADESH AND BANGLADESHIS ABROAD
Every Thursday, 7-9pm, 18 January - 5 April 07
Whitechapel Sports Centre, Durwood Street, London E1 5BA
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By Professor Mushtaq Khan
H is Professor of economics at School of African and Oriental Studies. He was born in Dhaka in 1961, completed his undergraduate studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford and then won a scholarship for his PhD studies in Economics at Cambridge. Previously he taught at the universities of both Oxford and Cambridge . Information about his research interests and publications are available on his website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31246.php
5th Seminar, 15 February 2007
2007 Annual Brick Lane Circle
SEMINARS ON BANGLADESH AND BANGLADESHIS ABROAD
Every Thursday, 7-9pm, 18 January - 5 April 07
Whitechapel Sports Centre, Durwood Street, London E1 5BA
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Mixed Race Young People in Britain
By Dr Ferhana Hashem
She is a Research Fellow at the University of Kent and recently worked on a Nuffield Foundation Small Grants funded research project entitled ‘What kind of language service should public authorities provide to minority groups: the case of Bangladeshis in London’. She has also completed research on a two-year ESRC research project, which explored 'Ethnic Options of Mixed Race Identity' in Britain. Ferhana completed her doctorate in political sociology in 2003, which examined Bengal Muslim identity in the Indian subcontinent.
1st Seminar, 18 January 20072007 Annual Brick Lane Circle's
SEMINARS ON BANGLADESH AND BANGLADESHIS ABROAD
Every Thursday, 7-9pm, 18 January - 5 April 07
Whitechapel Sports Centre, Durwood Street, London E1 5BA
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