Bangladesh at Crossroads: the politics of Gender and Islam
Friday, October 24th, 2008
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, October 24, 2008 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
The Bangladesh State’s discourse on Islam and Gender have shifted over the years, both distinctively as well as in relation with each other. I will explore this trajectory and highlight two specific cases on how the Bangladesh state has viewed notions of gender and Islam. They are the (1) the Fatwa incidences and (2) the Taslima Nasrin case.
Meghna Guhathakurta ( Ph.D. University of York, UK) until recently was Professor of International Relations at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and is currently Executive Director at Research Initiatives, Bangladesh, an organization funding research on poverty alleviation. Her area of interest is development, gender and politics in South Asia. She has published extensively on gender, development, minority rights as well as conflict and peace-building. She served as member of the Netherlands Development Research Council from 1996 to 2002, where she chaired the sub-committee on post-conflict development. She was also member of the South Asian Peoples Committee on the Rights of Minorities, a commission formed by the organization South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR).
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