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International Volunteering and the Bangladeshi Diaspora
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...
Evolution of Architectural practice in Bangladesh
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...
A panel discussion on A Bangladeshi Obama in the UK?
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...
Celebrating Bangla - past and future
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...
Community and Institutional Adaptation to Riverbank Erosion along the Jamuna River, Bangladesh
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...
“Valuing Family, Valuing Work: British Muslim women and the labour market”
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...
The Global Financial Crisis and Implications for Developing Countries like Bangladesh
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...
Tea for the Raj: A History of Tea in Assam and Sylhet
2009-01-22 19:00
22 January:
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...
Climate Injustice, Bangladesh and Coal Power
2008-07-17 14:40
A World Development Movement Seminar in conjunction with Brick Lane Circle
Tuesday 29th July 2008, 7-9pm
Idea Store, Labs 4 & 5, 321 Whitechapel Rd , London E1 1BU
Climate change is the most urgent issue facing humanity. It is likely to have devastating effects for many...
BLC Workshop | An introduction to the India Office Records
2008-06-29 10:37
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,...
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