GMS is Co-sponsoring “New Directions in Bangladesh Studies: Recent Scholarship and New Publications,” November 4, 2025, 9 – 10:30 a.m, on zoom. The panel discussion will feature recent scholarship on Bangladesh by David Jackman, Tanzil Shafique, and Lutfun Nahar Lata. The event will highlight and discuss their newly published books. Jackman’s book analyzes how syndicates systematically control labor, economic activity, and public order in Kawran Bazaar, Bangladesh’s largest market. Shafique’s book presents an ethnographically rich case study of Karail—the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh. Lata explores how street vendors and the urban poor in Dhaka negotiate formal and informal power structures to carve out counterspaces in contested public cityscapes. The event moderated by Zachary Lamb, UC Berkeley.
New Directions in Bangladesh Studies: Recent Scholarship and New Publications
