28/05/2021
Professor Dina M. Siddiqi will speak on: "Haunted by Ekattur: Gender, Nation and Islam in Bangladesh" in the Department of History's Web Lectures Series (Lecture No. 4).
Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/xeo-dccj-ans
Date and time of the lecture: Thursday, 3 June 2021, from· 5:30 – 7:30pm IST (8:00 - 10:00 am in New York)
We look forward to having you join us.
About the speaker:
Professor Dina M. Siddiqi is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Faculty of Global Liberal Studies at New York University. Her research, grounded in the study of Bangladesh, joins development studies, transnational feminist theory, and the anthropology of Islam and human rights. She has published extensively on supply chain capitalism and the global garment industry on gender justice and Muslim women, and the cultural politics of nationalism. Her publications are available at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dina-Siddiqi. Professor Siddiqi is on the advisory board of Dialectical Anthropology, and serves on the editorial board of Routledge’s Women in Asia Publication Series. She sits on the Executive Committee of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS); is on the Advisory Committees of the Saida Waheed Gender Initiative, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and of the South Asian feminist network SANGAT. She has frequently collaborated with Bangladeshi human rights organizations including Ain o Salish Kendra, Nagorik Uddyog, and Bangladesh Legal and Services Trust (BLAST).
