Join us Tuesday, February 9 from 6:30–7:45 pm (EST) for the next installment in the Conversations on South Asia series at Dartmouth College
This month, anthropologist Nusrat Chowdhury (Amherst College) joins us to discuss her recent book, Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh, which came out with Stanford University Press in 2019.
Using the idea of the “crowd,” Chowdhury examines the paradoxes, problems, and possibilities of democratic politics in Bangladesh—one of the world’s most crowded places. What are crowd politics? Who belongs to “the people”? And what can we learn from studying mass mobilizations?
Chelsey Kivland (Anthropology, Dartmouth College) and Rituparna Mitra (Liberal Arts, Emerson College) will join Chowdhury to explore these questions and offer some possible answers.
Elizabeth Lhost (Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College) will moderate the discussion.
Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/paradoxes.
Support for the Conversations on South Asia Series comes from the the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund, the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program, the Department of History, and the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth.
Free and open to the public.