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AIBS Fellow Naveeda Khan's report

I conducted nine months of field research in Bangladesh during my AIBS fellowship tenure.  My specific field site is a silt island in the middle of the River Jamuna in between the districts of Sirajganj and Tangail of Bangladesh.  This site was selected as one that well depicts the capacities of the River Jamuna to both accrete and erode land.  It holds a sizable population that has experienced repeated displacement and migration due to the workings of the river.  My effort was to study how this society has accommodated river erosion within its major institutions such as kinship, land tenur

Submitted Thursday, March 8th, 2012

AIBS Travel Grantee presents paper

AIBS supported Kimberley Thomas' paper presentation, entitled “Water Under the Bridge? International Resource Conflict and Post-Treaty Dynamics in South Asia”, at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York City on February 25, 2012. This AIBS  travel award contributed to Bangladesh studies in three significant ways. First, this paper revealed how power asymmetries between India and Bangladesh underpin on-going conflicts in Bangladesh over the Ganges River despite a landmark bilateral agreement over the shared management of the watercourse.

Submitted Monday, March 5th, 2012

AIBS 2011-2012 Fellowship Awardee

AIBS is pleased to announce the 2011-12 Fellowship Awardee: Amy Moyer

Amy Moyer has been awarded a 5-month research project , “Transferring training to practice: Improving primary teaching in Bangladesh” that will begin Summer of 2012.

Submitted Friday, January 20th, 2012

AIBS Fellows in Bangladesh

  1. Misha Quill began her research, “From Missing Daughters to Missing Sons? The Global Labor market and Daughter Valuation in Bangladesh” and will be in the field through September of 2012. Read full abstract
Submitted Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Dhaka Center

The inaugural opening of the AIBS office in Dhaka took place on 31 July, 2010. This event included members of the Embassy staff in Dhaka, AIBS fellows, members of the Government of Bangladesh, academic faculty from a host of Dhaka based institutions, and public intellectuals.

Submitted Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Calendar

Call for Papers
06/15/2012 - 5:00pm
The Faculty Club
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
United States
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AIBS Fellowship Call
09/01/2012 - 5:00pm