ICGC Co-Sponsor ed Event
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
3:30-5:00pm, Humphrey 215
Image of Dr. Samia Kahtun acting as translator in Savar, Bangladesh at a
meeting between a workers’ cooperative set up by the victims of the Rana
Plaza collapse and the Australia Bangladesh Solidarity Network.
Presented by: Dr. Samia Khatun, University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh
Abstract: Dr. Khatun has begun a 400-year history of girls and young women (mostly between the ages of 13 and 21) engaged in textile work in what is now Bangladesh. Concentrating on worker-produced sources, Dr. Khatun is taking a “slices-through-time approach” and will focus on how workers have memorialized five key moments in the history of textile production through song and poetry, beginning with Mughal Bengal and ending with the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh in 2013.
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