Bangladesh

BANGLADESH @ 50

GENDER & LABOUR MARKETS IN SOUTH ASIA: FEMINIST ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVES

Three feminist economists reflect on: the interaction between economics & culture in the segmentation of labour markets in Bangladesh; factors explaining frequency of entry-exit in women’s labour force participation in India; and how the ‘recognition’ of women’s work in agriculture in Pakistan feeds into policy redistribution.

Date/Time: Thursday, 25 November 2021 | 3.30pm UK | 9.30pm Dhaka 

Speakers: Ashwini Deshpande (@AshwDeshpande) is Professor of Economics, Ashoka University, Sonipat, and author of The Grammar of Caste: Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India (new edn, 2019); Haris Gazdar (@HarisGazdar) is Senior Researcher at the Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi.

Discussant: Naila Kabeer (@N_Kabeer) is Professor of Gender & Development at LSE, author of Gender & Social Protection Strategies in the Informal Economy (2014), and co-editor (with Caroline Sweetman) of Gender and Inequalities (2018). 

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).

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BANGLADESH @ 50

CLIMATE CHANGE: What Bangladesh Can Teach the World

The next in our series of events to mark Bangladesh's Golden Jubilee, this Roundtable will discuss what Bangladesh can teach the world from its experiences and innovative soutions to tackle climate change.  

Thursday, 20 May 2021 | 3.30pm UK | 8.30pm Dhaka

Panelists: Saleemul Huq (@SaleemulHuq) is Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD); Farah Kabir (@kabirfarah) is Country Director, ActionAid Bangladesh; Khushi Kabir (@KhushiKabir) is Secretary & Coordinator, 'Nijera Kori', Dhaka; Shahpar Selim (@garam_cha) is Mission Environmental Officer & Climate Intergation Lead, USAID, Dhaka.     

Moderator: David Lewis (@lewis100) is Professor of Social Policy & Development at LSE; his research expertise is  on Bangladesh. 

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre.

A video-recording of this event is available here.

BECOMING BANGLADESH

A global multi-perspective on the independence & making of Bangladesh through 6 English-language books.

Monday, 8 February 2021 | 3 pm UK | 9 pm Dhaka

Panelists: Gary J Bass (@Gary_Bass) is author of The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide; Meghna Guhathakurta (@meghdola) is a contributor to Of the Nation Born: The Bangladesh Papers; Nayanika Mookherjee (@NakaMookherjee) is the author of Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971; Srinath Raghavan (@srinathraghava3) is the author of 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh; Yasmin Saikia has written Women, War and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971; Salil Tripathi (@saliltripathi) is the author of The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy.

Moderator: Katy Gardner is Professor in LSE Anthropology, and author of Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh.

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre.

This event inaugurates our series of specially curated events to mark the Golden Jubilee of Bangladesh's independence in 2021.

Please click here to watch the video-recording of the event.