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Changing Occupations and Emerging Markets: The Becoming of the Indentured Labour Recruiter in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
By Sudipto Mitra (PhD Candidate)
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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
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Sunday 3 October 2021, 3-5 pm
The Changing Form of Memory: Poems, Stories, Pamphlets, Songs
By Dr Richard Williams
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Tuesday 5 October 2021, 6.30-8.30 pm
Van Bengalen (of Bengal)
By Maria Holtrop
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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)
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Thursday, 7 October 2021, 6.30-8.30pm
Bengal’s Muslims and the Global Politics of Feminism
By Professor Elora Shehabuddin
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Saturday 9 October 2021, 4 – 6 pm
Transformations within Bānglā-gān : Dylan consciousness since the 1960s
By Arka Chakraborty (PhD Candidate)
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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Saturday, 23 October 2021, 3-5 pm
Plassey Conspiracy- Reflections on the event (a new documentary)
By Mujibar Rahaman Seikh
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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
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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
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Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 6.30-8.30 pm
Growing up Bengali/Bangladeshi in North-East India
By Dr Nabanipa Bhattacharjee
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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)
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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
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Saturday 30 October 2021, 3-5 pm
In partnership with Oitijjo