Conferences

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Upcoming

Language Weaponization and Socio-Political Change: 10th DEH Inter-University Student Conference and Cultural Competition on December 19-20, 2024
Venue: University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

International Conference on The Trans- Phenomenon in Language, Literature, and Culture on November 15-16, 2024
Venue: University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh


Past


National Symposium for Teachers and Students of English
ENGLISH CONNECTS
 on Friday, December 8, 2023
Venue: University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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GENDER: THE BINARY AND BEYOND: 9th DEH Inter-University Student Conference and Cultural Competition on October 19-20, 2023
Venue: University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Third Conference English Pronunciation in Bangladesh (EPIB3): Issues and Practices on January 13, 2023
Venue: University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka
Keynote Speaker: Professor Andy Kirkpatrick, Professor Emeritus, Griffith University, Australia and Professor SOAS, University of London
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10th BELTA International Conference 2022: Sustainable Approaches to English Language Education in a Changing World on November 18-19, 2022
Venue: University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhanmondi, Dhaka
Partner: Department of English and Humanities (DEH), ULAB
Keynote Speaker: Professor Richard Smith, Warwick University

 

FACETS AND FACES OF CONFLICT: 8th DEH Inter-University Student Conference and Cultural Competition on October 20-21, 2022
Venue: University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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ULAB Multicultural Conclave 2022 | A Dialogic ImagiNation of Bangladesh: Literary-Linguistic-Cultural Representations, Non-representations and Misrepresentations on February 25-26, 2022
Keynote Speakers: Ganesh N. Devy, People's Linguistic Survey of India; Professor Syed Manzoorul Islam, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh; Professor Saugata Bhaduri, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Plenary Speakers: Professor Rachel McDermott, Columbia University; Professor Kaiser Haq, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh; Professor Azfar Hussain, Grand Valley State University; Professor Angshuman Kar, University of Burdwan; Professor Cara Cilano, Michigan State University; Professor Mohammad Azam, University of Dhaka; Professor Shoaib Gibran, Bangladesh Open University; Dr. Avishek Parui, IIT Madras; Dr. Christin Höne, Maastricht University; Professor Fahmida Akhter, Jahangirnagar University; Sudeep Chakravarti, Writer, Journalist, and Visiting Professor, ULAB
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FIFTY YEARS OF BANGLADESH’S INDEPENDENCE: LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, CULTURE: 7th DEH Inter-University Student Conference and Cultural Competition on December 29-30, 2021
Venue: Zoom and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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From Kabuliwala to the Fall of Kabul: Afghanistan in Popular Imagination: An International Colloquium on October 30-31, 2021
Keynote Speaker: Professor Himadri Lahiri, Department of English, Netaji Subhas Open University (NSOU), India
Plenary Speakers: Dr. Claire Chambers, Professor of Global Literature, University of York, UK; Professor Lily Want Head, Department of English, Islamic University of Science & Technology, Kashmir, India
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Entangled Englishes in Translocal Spaces: An International Conference on September 2-4, 2021
Keynote Speaker: Professor Alastair Pennycook, Professor Emeritus, University of Technology Sydney, Australia and Research Professor, MultiLing Centre, University of Oslo, Norway 
Plenary Speakers: Dr. Shyam Sharma, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, State University of New York, Stonybrook, NY, USA & Dr. Sender Dovchin, Senior Research Fellow, School of Education, Curtin University, Australia

 

Of Nation and Narration: 6th Inter-University Student Conference and Cultural Competition on September 3-4, 2020
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The Romantic and the Gothic: 5th Inter-University Student Conference and Cultural Competition on April 18-19, 2019
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Language, Literature, Culture and Politics: Marx’s Bicentenary Conference on November 30-December 1, 2018
Inaugural Speaker: Dr. Serajul Islam Choudhury, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bret Benjamin, Associate Professor, Department of English, State University of New York (SUNY), Albany
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200 Years of the Brontes: 4th Inter-University Students’ Conference on April 20-21, 2018
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Refugees in the Public Imagination: Discourses on (Dis)location and (Dis)placement: A two-day international conference on December 22-23, 2017
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Anjali Gera Roy, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur & Dr. Debjani Sengupta, Associate Professor, Department of English, Indraprastha College, University of Delhi
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Jane Austen 200: 3rd Inter-University Students’ Conference on April 20-21, 2017
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Magic and Literature – International Conference on May 27-28, 2016
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Subir Dhar, Professor of English and Director, School of Languages and Culture, Rabindra Bharati University
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Shakespeare: Then and Now – 2nd DEH Inter-University Students’ Conference on April 21, 2016
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Language, Literature and Community – International Conference on July 10-11, 2015
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jenny Sharpe, Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Gender Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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1st DEH Inter-University Undergraduate Conference on April 30, 2015
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Bridging the Gap: Facilitating Student-Centered Learning – Workshop on November 1, 2014
Facilitators: American Center’s English Language Fellows, Ms. Christina Torres, Ms. Jimalee Sowell, Ms. Kathy Green, and Ms. Maggie Espino.
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The 21st Century Classroom: Directions, Issues, and Changes – 2nd International ELT Conference on August 8-9, 2014
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Andy Curtis, President, TESOL International