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From: Jamie Hakim
Sent: 04 April 2014 09:46
To: _School of Law & Social Sciences Staff
Subject: The Sexual Lives of Borderlanders - Hijras on the Bangladesh-India Border, Dr. Delwar Hussein
*Apologies for cross-posting*
Dear all,
CMRB is pleased to announce, as part of its Borders and Bordering seminar series, 'The Sexual Lives of Borderlanders - Hijras on the Bangladesh-India Border' by Dr. Delwar Hussein (University of Edinburgh).
Abstract: Boropani is a coal-mining district situated on the Bangladesh-India Border. It is one of the largest land-ports between the two countries, dedicated exclusively to the import and export of coal. Amongst the thousands of seasonal, long and short term migrant workers to the area are hijras, traditionally known as the ‘third sex’. Members of the community travel from all across Bangladesh to participate in the coal trade. This paper looks at what draws the hijras here, to what is ostensibly a male-dominated industry. It presents an alternative argument to how hijras are presented in popular and established understandings and academic literature, placing them firmly within a larger political economy of cross border resource extraction and sociality.
Dr. Delwar Hussein is an anthropologist and the Crystal Macmillan Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. “Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border” (2013) is his first book. He is currently researching his second book, a social and cultural history of Dhaka
This seminar will take place between 4-6pm on Monday 19th May 2014. It will be held in EB.G.18, Docklands Campus, University of East London, E16 2RD, nearest tube: Cyprus DLR (http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands/).
The event is free but spaces are limited so please reserve a place by following the below link http://sexuallivesofborderlanders.eventbrite.co.uk.
Best regards
Jamie Hakim, Research Assistant, CMRB
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