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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Climate Injustice, Bangladesh and Coal Power</title>
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A World Development Movement Seminar in conjunction with Brick Lane Circle

Tuesday 29th July 2008, 7-9pm 
Idea Store, Labs 4 &amp; 5, 321 Whitechapel Rd , London E1 1BU
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Climate change is the most urgent issue facing humanity.&#160; It is likely to have devastating effects for many people on the planet, with an increase in drought, famine and disease. Bangladesh is already seeing the consequences of climate change, with increases in flooding affecting millions of...]]></description>
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         <title>BLC Workshop | An introduction to the India Office Records </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[by Dr Margaret Makepeace
7 July 08, 2.30-4.30pm
The British Library, St Pancras, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB
Dr Margaret Makepeace is a Senior Archivist in the India Office Records at The British Library and an author. She has researched various aspects of the history of the East India Company, including trade with the Guinea Coast 1657-1666; the relationship between the Company and Armenian merchants during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; and the management of the Company's...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Partition and South Asia's Diaspora?</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[2 July 2008, 7-9pm
Seminar by Dr Joya Chatterji

Venue: Lab 1&amp;2, Idea Store Whitechapel, 321 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1BU

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...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>The Battle that changed East End</title>
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&#160;Brick Lane Circle is delighted to announce that it has received a grant of £46,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to engage a group of young people (18-25) to explore East London’s historical links with Bengal through researching and writing about the area’s East India Company sites.&#160;
&#160;The project idea emerged out of the series of events that Brick Lane Circle organized in &#160;June 2007 to commemorate the 250 Years Anniversary of the Battle of Plassey (23 June...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>‘251 years after the Battle’ Conference on the English East India Company</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Battle that changed East End
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Sunday 22 June 08, 11am-5pm
Lab 4 &amp; 5, Idea Store Whitechapel
321 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1BU
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23 June 2008 will be the 251 years anniversary of the Battle of Plassey, a decisive day when the British conquered Bengal underthe leadership of Robert Clive. It was also the beginning of the British Indian Empire, under the banner of the English East India Company. Brick Lane Circle is currently running a highly unique project which will engage a...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>OPEN DAY - Sunday 01 June 2008 2pm - 5pm</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The event will look at the scope of The Battle of Plassey Young People’s Project; local East India company sites and researching about thearea’s past links with Bengal. It will include presentations by Nick Robbins (author of The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational) and Georgie Wemyss, who teaches Social Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Tower Hamlets College and is a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths College.
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The...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 18:31:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Aims and Objectives</title>
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The project will engage a group of young people (18-25) from diverse backgrounds to explore East London’s historical links with Bengal through researching and writing about the area’s East India Company sites. The context is the 250 Years Anniversary of the Battle of Plassey (23 June 1757), which was a decisive day in 1757 when the British achieved victory in Bengal under Robert Clive. It was also the beginning of the British Indian Empire, under the banner of the British East India Company....]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 22:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>SPECIAL COMEDY EVENING / DINNER / NETWORKING (Lab 4&amp;5)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Brick Lane Circle is organising a special comedy and networking evening to celebrate the culmination of its programme of events for Spring 2008.
Thursday, 10 April 2008, 6.30pm - 9.00pm
Lab 4 &amp; 5, Idea Store, 321 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1BU
FREE ENTRY,&#160;Advance booking only! &#160;For booking please call 07903 671787 or email bricklanecircle@yahoo.co.uk 
PROGRAMME
6.30PM: PRESENTATIONS BY
Including:


    The bobNetwork by Misbah Mosobbir (Chair)
    &#160;Brick Lane Circle on The...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Migration from Bangladesh to Spain, class, adventure and danger </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[7 FEB -
By Benjamin Zeitlyn, who studied MA in Migration Studies in 2003/4 (University of Sussex), researching on Bangladeshi community in Spain for his dissertation. Subsequently he went to Bangladesh to conduct research about migration from Bangladesh to Italy and Spain, where he spent six months at the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit at Dhaka University. Currently he is studying for a PhD about children of Bangladeshi origin in London.]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>The Battle of Plassey Young People’s Project</title>
         <link>http://bricklanecircle.webnode.com/news/the-battle-of-plassey-young-peoples-project/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The project will engage a group of young people (18-25) from diverse backgrounds to explore East London’s historical links with Bengal through researching and writing about the area’s East India Company sites.  The context is the 250 Years Anniversary of the Battle of Plassey (23 June 1757), which was a decisive day in 1757 when the British achieved victory in Bengal under Robert Clive.  It was also the beginning of the British Indian Empire, under the banner of the British East India Company. ...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>How does Bangladesh engage with the rest of the World? </title>
         <link>http://bricklanecircle.webnode.com/news/a3-apr-how-does-bangladesh-engage-with-the-rest-of-the-world/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[3 APR -&#160;Panelists are Piya Muqit, Niaz Alam, Georgie Wemyss and Anawar Babul Miah
(Lab 4&amp;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 non-profit legal organisations and also at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. She is a trustee for the Citizenship Foundation in London and is currently co-ordinating a project on Bangladeshi migrant...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title> Where is the Bangladeshi Community in the London Economy?</title>
         <link>http://bricklanecircle.webnode.com/news/a27-mar-where-is-the-bangladeshi-community-in-the-london-economy/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[27 MAR -
By Murad Qureshi, AM, Labour Group, LONDON ASSEMBLY]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>SPECIAL NETWORKING &amp; COMEDY EVENT</title>
         <link>http://bricklanecircle.webnode.com/news/special-networking-comedy-event/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[10 APRIL - A special event to celebrate the culmination of&#160; our &#160;programme of events for Spring 2008. MORE 
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         <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>The current reform programme in Bangladesh and prospects for the future </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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 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...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Partition and South Asia's diaspora? </title>
         <link>http://bricklanecircle.webnode.com/news/a13-mar-partition-and-south-asias-diaspora/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[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 attention to the role of Hindu communalism in 1947. It was translated into Bangla by University of Dhaka press in 2003. Last year, her second monograph on the consequences of the partition, The spoils of...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Home and Away: reflections on an ongoing research project with Bangladeshi children in transnational families</title>
         <link>http://bricklanecircle.webnode.com/news/a6-mar/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[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 transnational families during her work as a Research Fellow at the Families and Social Capital Research ESRC Centre (London South Bank University). At present she is working on an AHRC funded research...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>BLC 2007 Activities</title>
         <link>http://bricklanecircle.webnode.com/news/blc-2007-activities/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The Brick Lane Circle inaugurated its series of innovative events in 2007.
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2007 Seminar Series
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Battle of Plassey Conference]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>2008 Seminar Schedule</title>
         <link>http://bricklanecircle.webnode.com/news/information-for-visitors/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A new series of Brick Lane Circles launched. Visit here
Download programme: 2008_BLC_Programme.pdf (270,1 kB)
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         <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
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