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The South Asia Forum at MIT</div></span><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="color:#454545"></span></p>


<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia</span><span style="color:#454545"></span></p>




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Fundamentalism, Imperialism, and the State in </span></i></p><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222">Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan</span></i><span style="color:#454545"></span></p>


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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222">With</span><span style="color:#454545"></span></p>

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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Moderated by </b></span></p><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><font size="4">Abha Sur </font></p><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222"><br></span></p><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b><font color="#990000">Wed, Feb 27</font></b></span><span style="color:#454545"></span></p>



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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">77 mass ave cambridge</span></p>


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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">Nusrat
Chowdhury is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Amherst
College.  Her research focuses on the protest movement against open
pit coal mining and everyday ethical negotiations in a place called Phulbari in
northern Bangladesh. The confrontations between the state and the people, the
intimacy of corruption and development, and the nature of democratic thought
and practice in a country like Bangladesh make Phulbari a fecund site where
discourses of political crisis and energy crisis intersect and shape each
other.</span></i><span style="color:#454545"></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">Modhumita Roy
is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University. She works on Anglophone
literatures of Africa and the Africa Diaspora, South Asian Literature, Literatures
of Empire, Post-colonial Theory, Feminist Theory, and Literary
Theory.  Her article, "Some Like it Hot: Gender, Class and
Empire in the Making of Mulligatawney Soup" was awarded the Sophie Coe
Memorial Prize by the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, St. Catherine's
College, Oxford, UK.  She is currently working on commercial surrogacy in
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<i><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Afiya S. Zia is a feminist researcher and activist based in Karachi, Pakistan. She is author of ‘Sex Crime in the Islamic Context’, 1994; ‘Watching Them Watching Us’, 2001 (ASR, Pakistan), and has edited a series of books and contributed to scholarly journals. She is currently working on a book titled ‘Faith and Feminism in Pakistan’. She is an active member of Women’s Action Forum – a secular women’s rights organization in Pakistan and is an advisory board member of the Centre for Secular Space (UK). </span></i></p>
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