Monday 26 November 2012

Public Lecture: Contested Memories: the Shahid Minar [Monument] & the struggle for diasporic space, 28th November 2012

The Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Annual Lecture


Contested Memories: the Shahid Minar [Monument] & the struggle for diasporic space

Public lecture at SOAS:


Speaker: Professor Claire Alexander (Dept. of Sociology, University of Manchester)

Date: 28 November 2012Time: 5:00 PM -7.00 PM

Venue: SOAS, Russell Square: College Buildings Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre


Drawing on new empirical research conducted in East London as part of a project on ‘the Bengal diaspora’, this lecture explores the struggle over Bangladeshi identity in Tower Hamlets as exemplified in the monument of the Shahid Minar and the related celebration of Ekushe (Martyr’s Memorial Day), which is usually held to mark the beginning of the Bangladesh national liberation struggle. Bringing together theories of diaspora consciousness and memorialisation, the paper explores the ways in which rituals and memory work both as a form of continuity with the homeland and as a method of claims-staking for minority groups in multicultural spaces.

Organiser: Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies

Contact email: rg32@soas.ac.uk

Contact Tel: 0207 898 4434

http://www.soas.ac.uk/migrationdiaspora/seminarsevents/annuallecture/28nov2012-contested-memories-the-shahid-minar-and-the-struggle-for-diasporic-space.html

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