Talk Oct. 24: Samia Khatun on Power and Protest: Bengali Textile Workers and Resistance Narratives

Power and Protest: Bengali Textile Workers and Resistance Narratives
By: Dr. Samia Khatun,
University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh

Date:   Tuesday October 24, 2017
Time:   3:30-5:00 pm
Place:  215 Humphrey

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.

Sponsors:  The ICGC Research Circle on “Subjects, Objects, Agents: Young People’s Lives and Livelihoods in the Global South” and Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY)


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