A panel featuring experts Bangladesh experts Dina M. Siddiqi (New York University) and Saad Hammadi (Balsillie School of International Affairs) will launch a series focusing on contemporary South Asia.
The 18 September panel will focus on the massive student-led movement that ended the 15-year authoritarian rule of Bangladesh's former Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina.
This is the first of six in-person events in Demos, Democracy, Democratization , a South Asia Lecture series, which is organized in 2024–25 by Director Shubhra Gururani (Anthropology) and Shreyashi Ganguly (Sociology).
Rukmini Barua (History, York University) will speak on deindustrialization, urban politics and emotions in 20th century Ahmedabad on 23 October 2024 talk. Mona Bhan (Syracuse University) will give the final talk of the semester on 13 November 2024; she will the focus to the realities of hydropower in Kashmir.
In Winter 2025, Chris Balcom (York University) will give a talk in January 2025 and Lalit Vachani’s (University of Göttingen) film, Prisoner No. 626710 is Present, will be screened on 12 February 2025. The event on 12 March 2025 is to be confirmed.
All are welcome to the series’ events, which will take place on York University’s Keele Campus.