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CHAE Speaker Series: “Navigating Shomoyscapes”
March 9, 2021 @ 10:00 am EST
Navigating Shomoyscapes and Faculty Life in the Urban Global South: Bangladeshi Faculty Perspectives
Co-sponsored by MSU Asian Studies Center & MSU Muslim Studies Program
Tuesday, March 9, 10:00AM ET
Zoom Webinar, Registration Required by Monday, March 8
http://bit.ly/CHAESpeakerSeries
Our study on Bangladeshi faculty illuminates the inter-relationships between temporality, work experiences, and daily life in a Global South urban context. Drawing on interviews and participant observations with faculty in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we illuminate the notion of shomoyscapes and how such timescapes manifest among our faculty respondents. We highlight three major temporal forces salient in our respondents’ shomoyscapes: a) traffic, b) university politics, and c) the future of others. We argue that Bangladeshi faculty negotiate their shomoyscapes by subjectively responding to the external precarity (and temporal constraints) evoked by larger spatial, structural or cultural temporal forces.
SPEAKERS
Riyad A. Shahjahan, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education (HALE), Michigan State University
Riyad A. Shahjahan is an Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education (HALE) at Michigan State University. He is also a core faculty member of Muslim Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, Asian Studies Center, and Center for Advanced Study of International Development. His areas of research interests are in globalization of higher education policy, temporality and embodiment in higher education, cultural studies, and de/anti/postcolonial theory.
Tasnim A. Ema, Undergraduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Tasnim A. Ema is an undergraduate student at the Department of Anthropology at University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her interests primarily include medical anthropology, the political economy of health and illness, political ecology and migration.
Nisharggo Niloy, Post-graduate, Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Nisharggo Niloy completed his post-graduation from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Dhaka. His interests include political communication in the public sphere, modernity in South Asia, partisan tendencies in South Asian politics, neocolonialism, rhetoric, and semiotics.