New Directions in Bangladesh Studies: Borders, Belonging, and the Lived Experience of Political Exclusion in South Asia

Event details Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2026 Time: 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM Location: On Zoom Type: Lecture / Workshop About this event A panel discussion featuring recent scholarship on Bangladesh by Farhana Afrin Rahman and Md. Azmeary Ferdoush. The event will highlight and discuss their newly published books. Farhana Afrin Rahman: After the Exodus: Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh’s Rohingya Refugee Camps (Cambridge University Press, 2024) Md Azmeary Ferdoush: Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border. (Cambridge University Press, 2024) Kirtana Dasa Mausert (PhD Candidate, Anthropology) and Patrick DeSutter (PhD Candidate, Anthropology) will serve as discussants. Event moderated by Elora Shehabuddin, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Global Studies and Director, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, UC Berkeley. Official event details: https://events.berkeley.edu/csas/event/327335-new-directions-in-bangladesh-studies-borders-belongin