Talk on “Writing Our Lives” held at IUB

The School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organized a Talk on “Writing Our Lives: A Research Project with Successful Women in Bangladesh” on Thursday, April 6, 2017 at IUB’s own campus in Bashundhara, Dhaka. Dr. Ann Le Mare, a researcher and academic, working with UK and Norwegian universities and Dr. Angela Everitt, a researcher and a faculty member at Open University, UK, were the Key Speakers at the session. The event was based on a research project revealing the stories of successful Bangladeshi women in order to influence younger girls and women in [...]

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Seminar on Use of Imagery in Contemporary Prose Poetry Held at IUB

The Department of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) at School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (SLASS), Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organized a seminar titled ‘Use of Imagery in Contemporary Prose Poetry’ on Sunday, October 9, 2016 at their premise. Professor M Omar Rahman, Vice-chancellor, IUB, chaired the session while three distinguished guests participated in the discussion; Professor Dr. Syed Manzoorul Islam, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Professor Dr. Kaiser Hamidul Haq, Dean, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, and Dr. Gauranga Chandra Mohanta, Project Director (Additional Secretary), Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project [...]

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Talk on Ethnocentrism, Strategic Culture and Leadership Language held at IUB

The School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organized a Talk on Ethnocentrism, Strategic Culture and Leadership Language on Tuesday 12 April at IUB Campus in Bashundhara, Dhaka. Lieutenant General Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Principal Staff Officer, Armed Forces Division was the key-note speaker. Prof M Omar Rahman, Vice Chancellor, IUB, delivered the welcome remarks. Among others, Mr Rashed Chowdhury, Chairman, Board of Trustees, IUB and Mr Towhid Samad, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Chittagong Independent University also spoke on the occasion. The lecture followed by a question-answer session attended by the members of the Trustees of [...]

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Writer Dilruba Z. Ara Speaks at IUB

The Department of English, IUB organized a talk entitled ‘Heredity and Other Structures of Continuity’ by Dilruba Z. Ara, a poet and a fiction writer, on Thursday, 25 February 2016. Educated in Bangladesh and Sweden, Dilruba Z. Ara is the author of internationally acclaimed novel A List of Offences. Dilruba’s stories ‒ published in many international anthologies ‒ are studied at universities across the world. She has translated Selected Stories of Shahed Ali into English and some of Sweden’s Pippi Longstocking stories into Bangla. The writer spoke about how heredity transmits from generation to generation, and how other social [...]

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