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From: Amazing Bangladeshis [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 08 October 2018 09:40 DEEP IMPACTS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY A conference by participants of recent projects on the East India Company https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deep-impacts-of-the-east-india-company-a-conference-by-participants-of-recent-projects-on-the-east-tickets-51011675294 SUNDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2018, 1.00-6.00PM Venue 2, Rich Mix Centre, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, E1 6LA BENGAL HISTORY WEEK 2018 20-28 October 2018 An annual event in London By Brick Lane Circle Programme 1.30pm: “Bottles of the Juice of Limons”: Surviving Scurvy and the First East India Company Voyage - By Dr Rosita Aiesha She is a urban town planner and academic, who has always been interested in social and cultural heritage and its appropriation. Living in East London, she became fascinated by the social and physical legacy of the East India Company on her doorstep. To understand and explore further the power of the East India Company, she became drawn into participating in this project. It is her interest in the poor dietary and sanitary conditions on the long voyages on ships that led her to examine further the challenges of surviving scurvy in an age before refrigeration and modern medicine. 2.15pm: Vizagapatam and an 18th Century Workbox By Charlotte Hopkins She is an Information Officer at the London Metropolitan Archives and has a background in the History of Art and Victorian Studies. Over the past 12 years she has built up a back catalogue of talks and articles on various subjects relating to aspects of London History ranging from the ostrich feather trade, playbills of theatrical London and more recently the suffragettes. She is looking at the detail in the small things and is constantly fascinated by the archives that surround her. In her spare-time she likes hanging out at the BFI. 3.00pm: East India Company and Shipbuilding in Calcutta By Dr Sanjukta Ghosh She was born in Kolkata (India) and currently lives in the UK where she has been a researcher with an interest in community service and outreach publications. She is a Post doctoral Research Associate of the SOAS South Asia Institute (SSAI). Her research interests in modern South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present day focus on the Bengal Presidency, West Bengal and Bangladesh. Her work on Calcutta Ships stems from a piece she contributed to the EIC project publication that has been further developed based on current research in urban infrastructure and the impact of colonial governance. 3.45pm: Re-discovering my creative self through the journey of Bengal Muslin fabrics in the 17th to 19th century in Britain By Lucky Hossain She works in the NHS and is currently a Commissioning Manager for Older Peoples services. Over the last few years, she has been discovering her creative side. Lucky is studying a Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy, with the aim of becoming a practicing transpersonal integrative therapist. Lucky’s interest in textile has been revived by her involvement in the heritage textile recreationproject and hopes to ontinue to grow in her creativity. 4.30pm: Invisible women: Indian women and the East India Company By Sharmen Haque She studied English Literature at Oxford University and also more recently completed a Masters in South Asian Studies at SOAS. She is of Bengali origin and is very interested in the impact of the East India Company (which had its head-quarters in Calcutta in West Bengal) on Indian women of the time. She currently works as an English teacher and has previously been a solicitor and legal librarian) 5.15pm: The Bhodrolok Terrorists - Why Bengal produces Gentlefolk revolutionaries and terrorists By Bhaskar Dasgupta He is a Father, cyclist, punster, student, corpulent, banker, blogger, professor, cyclist, charity trustee, bibliophile, logophiliac, traveller, gardener, photographer, entrepreneur, cook, Londoner. Image removed by sender. -- M Ahmedullah Secretary Brick Lane Circle w: www.bricklanecircle.org e: [log in to unmask] f: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=8966253245 t: http://twitter.com/BrickLaneCircle m: 07914119282 Please reply with 'unsubscribe' if you no longer wish to be on our mailing list. -- -- M Ahmedullah Secretary Brick Lane Circle w: www.bricklanecircle.org <http://www.bricklanecircle.org/> e: [log in to unmask] <https:[log in to unmask]> f: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=8966253245 t: http://twitter.com/BrickLaneCircle m: 07914119282 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BASA list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BASA&A=1