Events

FACT & FICTION

PUBLIC HEALTH IN EMERGING BANGLADESH

Tuesday 6 June | 5.30pm UK 

Roundtable on advances in public health in Bangladesh, as the country's economic development and growth improves steadily. The discussion will be focused on the recently published 50 Years of Bangladesh: Advances in Health (2023).

Panelists: Wendy Graham (@profwendygraham) is Professor in the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Naila Kabeer (@N_Kabeer) is Professor in Gender Studies, LSE; Mushtaq Khan (@mushtaqkhan100) is Professor in Economics at the School of Oriental & African Studies, London; and Dr Mushtaque Chowdhury, co-editor of the volume, is an LSE alumnus & an expert on public health in Bangladesh. 

Chairs: H.E. Saida Muna Tasneem (@MunaTasneem) is Hon'ble High Commissioner of Bangladesh in the United Kingdom; Alnoor Bhimani (@AlnoorBhimani), Director, LSE South Asia Centre & Professor of Management Accounting at LSE.

This is an in-person event, open to everyone but seats are limited. Please e-mail southasiacentre@lse.ac.uk if you would like to attend the event, and await confirmation. Places will be offered/confirmed strictly on a first-come first-served basis.   

This event is part of our 'Fact & Fiction' series, in collaboration with the High Commission of Bangladesh in the United Kingdom. 

NEPAL-UK: 100 YEARS ON

Wednesday 14 June | 5.30pm UK 

A special event to commemorate & celebrate the centenary of the Nepal-Britain Treaty of 1923.

Speakers: David Gellner (@DavidGellner) is Professor of Social Anthropology & Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, and an expert on Nepal; Barrister Surya P. Subedi (@Law_Leeds) is Professor of International Law, University of Leeds; Dr Katie Oven (@KatieOven) is Associate Professor in the Northumbria University in Newcastle, and is engaged in research on Nepal. 

Chairs: H.E. Gyan Chandra Acharya (@NepalEmbassyUK) is Hon'ble Ambassador of Nepal to the United Kingdom; Alnoor Bhimani (@AlnoorBhimani), Director, LSE South Asia Centre & Professor of Management Accounting at LSE.     

This is an in-person event, open to everyone but seats are limited. Please e-mail rsvp@nepembassy.org.uk if you would like to attend the event, and await confirmation.    

This event is in collaboration with the Embassy of Nepal in the United Kingdom. 

Image © Sachin Khadka, Unsplash.

AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN, GOVERNMENT & THE WAY FORWARD 

Monday 19 June | 2.30pm UK 

Roundtable to discuss how global powers may be able to engage, and engage with, the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan, and how it may determine the lives of Afghans in the country, and across the world.  

Speaker: Obaidullah Baheer (@ObaidullaBaheer) is Lecturer at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul (currently pursuing his Doctoral Studies at The New School, New York), and a regular commentator on Afghanistan.

Panelists: Dr Antonio Giustozzi (@AntonioGiustoz2) is Senior Research Fellow in Terrorism & COnflict at the Royal United Services Institute in London, and authornof several books on Afghanistan including The Islamic State in Khorasan (2018) and The Taliban at War: 2001-2021 (2022); Dr Orzala Nemat (@Orzala) is an Afghan academic, civil society activist and currently Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London; Mirwais Wardak is a development worker and researcher & has worked extensively with the aid community in Afghanistan, and is currently Managing Director at Peace Training and Research Organization (PTRO) in Kabul. 

Chair: Dr Martin Bayly (@mjbayly) is Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE, and author of Taming the Imperial Imagination: Colonial Knowledge, International Relations, and the Anglo-Afghan Encounter, 1808-1878 (2016).  

This is an in-person event, open to everyone but seats are limited. Please e-mail southasiacentre@lse.ac.uk if you would like to attend the event, and await confirmation. Places will be offered/confirmed strictly on a first-come first-served basis.   

This event is in collaboration with the Royal United Services Institute, London.

Image © Farid Ershad, Dasht-i Barchi, Kabul, 2020, Unsplash.

MYANMAR @ 75 

Saturday 24 June | 9.30am UK onwards Alumni Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE

A day-long conference to mark the 75th anniversary of Burma/Myanmar's independence. 

Panel discussions: 'Future of Democracy' and 'Humanitarian Aid in Military Myanmar'.

Confirmed participants (to be updated) include Dominique Dillabough-Lefebvre, Zunetta Herbert, Stephen Huard, Theingyi Lynn, Kota Watanabe, and Kyaw Win Tun.        

Professor James Scott, Sterling Professor in Political Science, Yale University, will deliver a short plenary talk (online). 

This is an in-person event, open to everyone but seats are limited. Please e-mail southasiacentre@lse.ac.uk if you would like to attend the event, and await confirmation. Places will be offered/confirmed strictly on a first-come first-served basis.

Image © The ‘Myanmar @ 75’ logo is copyrighted by the LSE South Asia Centre, and may not be used by anyone for any purpose. It shows the national flower of Myanmar, Padauk (Pterocarpus macrocarpus), framed in a design combination adapted from Burmese textile weaves and sacral architectural motifs. The logo has been designed by Oroon Das.