Discovering Bangladesh and Bangladeshis Abroad


Article archive

2008-04-03 19:00

How does Bangladesh engage with the rest of the World?

3 APR - Panelists are Piya Muqit, Niaz Alam, Georgie Wemyss and Anawar Babul Miah (Lab 4&5) 1. Piya Muqit is a practicing barrister in the UK and works full-time as a lawyer for the Refugee Legal Centre. Piya specialises in human rights law. She has worked in Bangladesh and USA for...

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2008-03-27 19:00

Where is the Bangladeshi Community in the London Economy?

27 MAR - By Murad Qureshi, AM, Labour Group, LONDON ASSEMBLY

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2008-03-26 13:00

SPECIAL NETWORKING & COMEDY EVENT

10 APRIL - A special event to celebrate the culmination of  our  programme of events for Spring 2008. MORE    

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2008-03-20 19:02

The current reform programme in Bangladesh and prospects for the future

20 MAR - The current reform programme in Bangladesh and prospects for the future By Professor Mushtaq Khan, 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...

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2008-03-13 19:04

Partition and South Asia's diaspora?

13 MAR - By Dr Joya Chatterji who was educated at the Universities of Delhi and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she is now a Fellow and University Lecturer in History. Her first book published in 1994, Bengal divided, Hindu communalism and partition, 1932-1947 was the first work which drew...

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2008-03-06 19:06

Home and Away: reflections on an ongoing research project with Bangladeshi children in transnational families

6 MAR - By Kanwal Mand, who obtained a PhD in Social Anthropology in 2004 (Sussex), where she examined the relationship between marriage, migration in the creation and establishment of transnational Punjabi households, spanning Tanzania, Indian Punjab and London. She expanded her interest in...

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2008-02-28 19:00

Marginalisation and resistance amongst Bangladesh's minority adivasis: The Santal

28 FEB - By Dr Fauzia Shariff (Phd Laws), who completed doctoral research on the Santal of India and Bangladesh in 2006. Currently ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Worked as policy adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and...

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2008-02-22 19:00

Unleashing the Potentials of British Bangladeshi Women

22 Feb - Panelists are Tamanna Talukder, Sandra Kabir, Rehana Parvin and Rushanara Ali 1. Tamanna Talukder has a Masters degree in Economics with a career in banking, specialising in credit risk management. Currently working for the Financial Services Authority implementing new capital...

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2008-02-14 19:00

What role can the UK Bangladeshis play in the development of Bangladesh?

14 Feb -  By Ayub Korom Ali, Labour Cllr. in LB Newham. Currently works 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...

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2008-01-31 19:00

Climate Change after Bali

 31 JAN - By Dr Saleemul Huq, International Institute for Environment and Development   Head of Climate Change Group of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). He is a specialist on links between climate change and sustainable development, particularly on...

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