BSS-34 Annual Anthropology Conference held at JU

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Annual Anthropology Conference held at JU

SAVAR, Sep 11, 2018 (BSS) – A daylong conference on Anthropology was held
today on the Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus here.

JU Anthropology department organised the daylong conference at the Zahir
Raihan auditorium.

Presided over by Chairman of JU Anthropology department Professor Mirza
Taslima Sultan, Dean of Social Science faculty Professor Rasheda Akhter
inaugurated the programme as the chief guest this morning.

Addressing the inaugural session, Professor Rasheda Akhter said, ”Such
conference is a good platform for academic exchange in a cross cultural and
holistic approach. Our main aim is to stimulate discussion, debate, dialogue
and research to broaden our understanding and to generate new ideas to build
a better humane world.”

Dr. S M Nurul Alam presented the keynote paper on ‘Current Scenario of
Social Science Research in Bangladesh: A Way Forward’. The conference also
featured four academic segments on different anthropological aspects of
Culture, Power and History.

A total of 21 research papers were presented by the teachers and
researchers from different public universities.

Around 200 students, teachers and researchers took part at the conference.

BSS/CORR/ARS/1948 hrs