Changing Occupations and Emerging Markets: The Becoming of the Indentured Labour Recruiter in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
By Sudipto Mitra (PhD Candidate)
Saturday, 2 October 2021, 3-5 pm
The Nightingale is a Graceful Dancer’: Bulbul Chowdhury’s Dance Tours in the UK and Europe (1953)
By Dr Priyanka Basu
Sunday 3 October 2021, 3-5 pm
The Changing Form of Memory: Poems, Stories, Pamphlets, Songs
By Dr Richard Williams
Tuesday 5 October 2021, 6.30-8.30 pm
Van Bengalen (of Bengal)
By Maria Holtrop
Wednesday 6 October 2021, 6.30-8.30 pm
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/van-bengalen-of-bengal-by-maria-holtrop-tickets-165795253065
Currying to tunes: musical tales from Bengal in the curry houses of Britain
Budhaditya Bhattacharyya (PhD Candidate)
Thursday, 7 October 2021, 6.30-8.30pm
Bengal’s Muslims and the Global Politics of Feminism
By Professor Elora Shehabuddin
Saturday 9 October 2021, 4 – 6 pm
Transformations within Bānglā-gān : Dylan consciousness since the 1960s
By Arka Chakraborty (PhD Candidate)
Sunday 10 October 2021, 3-5 pm
Trade, Conquest, Enlightenment and Revolution: the forgotten history of French colonialism in Bengal
By Dr Robert Ivermee
Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 6.30-8.30pm
Robert Clive’s colossal Bengal loot after the Battle of Plassey (23 June 1757) – how much money he took and how he spent it
By Dr M Ahmedullah
This event is being rescheduled from Wednesday 13 October 2021, 7-9 pm to 23 June 2022. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Popular East India Company Dockside Walk
By Dr Georgie Wemyss
Saturday 11am-1.00pm, 16 OCTOBER 2021
Places are free but advance booking only
“Add another lak to it”
A reading of the play on the Habshi (Ethiopean) rule of Bengal (1487-94), written by M Ahmedullah, and scripted and directed by Dr Canan Salih (theatre director, Arts Without Border)
The event originally scheduled for 16 October 2021 has been rescheduled for Saturday 18 December 2021, time to be confirmed
Kobi Nazrul Centre
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/add-another-lak-to-it-tickets-168989695729
From an old banger to the mighty RMX-1
How I transformed in two months, by hand, an old Capri into a futuristic super Capri
By Nizam Uddin Awlia Leepu
This event scheduled for Monday 18 October 2021, 6.30-8.30pm has been postponed. A new date will be announced in due course.
https://www.eventbrite.se/e/from-an-old-banger-to-the-mighty-rmx-1-tickets-165606739215
‘Secular’ politics and the ‘communal’ outcome: Sachar committee report and the marginalization of Bengali Muslims in contemporary India
By Abdul Matin
Tuesday 19 October 2021, 6.30-8.30 pm
The History and Challenges of Bangladesh’s Transition into a Middle-income Country
By Professor Mushtaq Khan
Wednesday 20 October 2021, 6.30-8.30 pm This event scheduled for Monday 18 October 2021, 6.30-8.30pm has been postponed. A new date will be announced in due course.
Thieves of Bengal: In Search of a Marginal Character
By Prabir Mukhopadhyay (Librarian)
Thursday 21 October 2021, 2.30-4.30pm
https://www.eventbrite.se/e/thieves-of-bengal-in-search-of-a-marginal-character-tickets-166996766825
The Migrant Non-Bengali Shiʿas in Dhaka: Urban Settlement and ʿAshura Processions as Sites of Contestation
By Muhammad Abdur Raqib
Friday 22 October 2021, 6-8 pm. This event has been postponed. A new date will be announced in due course.
The Lives and Times of Foreign Soldiers in Bengal, 1942-46
By Reeti Basu (PhD Candidate)
Saturday, 23 October 2021, 3-5 pm
Plassey Conspiracy- Reflections on the event (a new documentary)
By Mujibar Rahaman Seikh
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 6.30-8.30 pm
Bengali Seafarers in the Archives and Beyond: How researching the seafaring life of my grandfather led to sources about Bengali seafarers
By Asif Shakoor, Abdus Saleh and Dr Georgie Wemyss
25 October 2021, 6.30-8.30 pm
https://www.eventbrite.se/e/bengali-seafarers-in-the-archives-and-beyond-tickets-168129502869
Disappearing Villages: Social and Economic Change in Rural Bangladesh, 1942-2020
By Dr Shapan Adnan
Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 6.30-8.30 pm
Growing up Bengali/Bangladeshi in North-East India
By Dr Nabanipa Bhattacharjee
Wednesday 27 October 2021, 5.30-7.30pm
https://www.eventbrite.se/e/growing-up-bengalibangladeshi-in-north-east-india-tickets-167433589373
Bihari Indian Refugees in Bangladesh
By Khalid Hussain (Advocate)
Thursday 28 October 2021, 3.00-5.00 pm
Evolution of Indigenous attire
By Moh Hla Yee
The history of cultures of the hill people of Bangladesh
By Noe Tha Yee
Saturday 30 October 2021, 3-5 pm
In partnership with Oitijjo