2009-04-02 19:00
2 April
Sapnara Khatun. She read law at the LSE and was called to the Bar and has been in practice since 1990. Appointed as Judge - Recorder of the Crown in 2006. In 2003 she was appointed to the government’s Family Justice Council to advise on all aspects of family justice...
2009-03-26 19:00
26 March:
By Photojournalist Sam Strickland. He will present and discuss his ongoing documentary examining how migration to Britain is transforming Sylhet and the UK. Engladesh began as a photojournalism MA thesis (London College of Communication). Sam's interest in photography...
2009-03-19 19:00
19 March
By Dr Ferhana Hashem. She is a Research Fellow at the University of Kent, currently working 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’....
2009-03-12 19:00
12 March:
By Sandra Kabir, Executive Director of BRAC UK, and Jebi Rahman, Programme Officer for Porishod, BRAC UK's Diaspora Volunteer Programme for British Bangladeshi Professionals. The programme is supported by DFID and VSO, who found that Diaspora communities are underrepresented in...
2009-03-05 18:20
5 March:
By Hafizul Hasan. He is an Assistant Professor, Architecture Department, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He graduated from BUET in 1989 and in 2003 completed his studies on Urban Environmental Management from Asian Institute and Technology. In 2006 he...
2009-02-26 19:00
26 February
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...
2009-02-19 18:18
19 February:
By Dr Hanne -Ruth Thompson. She spent almost four years in Bangladesh in the early 90s and her encounter with the Bangla language had a profound effect on her life / work. In 1999 her first book Essential Every Bengali was published in Dhaka. She then went on to do a PhD...
2009-02-12 19:00
12 February:
By Fuad Ali. He is a PhD student in 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...
2009-02-05 19:00
5 February:
By Zamila Bunglawala. She is a Senior Policy Analyst at HMG DIUS and Fellow at the Young Foundation. Zamila has previously worked with the UN in Darfur and Kathmandu on conflict issues, the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and Open Society Institute on UK labour market...
2009-01-29 19:00
29 January:
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...
