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Issue of the e-Journal Uploaded The January issue of the e-Journal
is now available. This is a special issue on “Exploring the
Sociological Perspective on Poverty”, featuring articles on the
problems of theory, methodology and data on poverty. It also contains an
article on the “Politics of Poverty” in South Africa and another on
urban poverty in Bangladesh. The issue also features Malin Arvidson who
writes on the “Expectations as Limitations: Sociology’s Challenges
in Development Studies”, and a review of S. Aminul Islam’s recent
publication Unnayanchintar Palabodol (Transition in Development
Theory). Click on the links below to log on to the e-Journal and the
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Asia Link Project: Society Members Back from Ireland Professor Ishrat Shamim, S. Aminul
Islam and Dr. Mahbub Ahmed of the Department of Sociology, University of
Dhaka visited The Euro-Asia center of the University of Limerick in
Ireland in connection with curriculum development and technology
transfer under the Asia-Link Project ICCD during 17th and 21st
January 2005. It was the second meeting of the project. The first
meeting took place at Dresden in the Summer of 2004. The Asia-Link ICCD project is a
highly innovative project for developing a common standard of learning
and teaching across four partner countries and four
universities/institutions through the use common syllabus and
web-assisted teaching. Currently two teaching modules have been
developed under this project. The partner institutions are Centre for
East Asian Studies at Dresden University of Technology, Germany; Euro
–Asia Centre at University of Limerick, Ireland; School of Management
and Economics at Beijing Institute of Technology, China and Department
of Sociology at University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The project is being
funded by the EU. The visit was centred on a number
of activities
Professor
Ishrat Shamim presented a paper under the title “ The Nexus between
Feminization of Migration and Trafficking: Bangladesh as a Case
Study.” Professor
S. Aminul Islam read out a paper entitled Social Change, Charisma and
Crisis of Identity in Two South Asian Novels: ‘Tree without Roots’
and ‘The Guide.’ Dr.
Mahbub. Ahmed presented a paper entitled “Constructing Ethno-gender
Identity in Migratory Situation in Monica Ali’s Novel, ‘Brick
Lane.’
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Society President and Secretary off to India to attend Workshop Society President Professor Nazrul Islam and General Secretary Professor Mahbub Uddin Ahmed are visiting India to attend a Workshop on the “The state of Sociology: Issues of Relevance and Rigour” to be held from February 23 to 25, 2005 at Surujkund, Haryana. The Workshop is being organized by the Indian Sociological Society and sociologists from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are likely to attend. The possibility of forming an association of the South Asian sociologists may also be discussed during the Workshop.
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German Professor Visiting Bangladesh Professor
Dirk Kaesler of Marburg University is visiting Bangladesh from
February 19 to 25, 2005 on an invitation from the Society and the
University of Dhaka. Professor Kaesler will address the professors of the
Faculty of the Social Sciences on February 23, 2005 and meet the
students of the Sociology Department at a workshop on February 24 -25,
2005. Professor Kaesler will also address the faculty and the students
at the Independent University of Bangladesh on February 22, 2005. Professors Kaesler’s visit is being sponsored jointly by
the Society and the Goethe Institute, Dhaka.
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