London's East End
AHRC ‘Writing British Asian Cities’ Networks Project
Tower Hamlets, September 20, 2006
Kobi Nazrul Centre 30 Hanbury St, London E1 6QR Tel: 020 7375 1320
11.00-11.15 Arrival and Coffee
11. 15-11. 30 Welcome and Introduction to Network Aims – Sean McLoughlin (AHRC Network/Leeds)
Session One Academic Writing about Ethnicity and Class in Tower Hamlets
11.30 - 12.00 Interdisciplinary overview of changing aspects of scholarly literature, e.g. cultural/religious studies, local/oral history, social science, etc – John Eade/Halima Begum/Georgie Wemyss/Nooruddin Ahmed. 12.00 - 12.30 Questions and Discussion.
11.30 - 12.00 Interdisciplinary overview of changing aspects of scholarly literature, e.g. cultural/religious studies, local/oral history, social science, etc – John Eade/Halima Begum/Georgie Wemyss/Nooruddin Ahmed.
12.00 - 12.30 Questions and Discussion.
Session Two Artistic Representations of Tower Hamlets’ Life
12.30-13.00 British-Asian writers/artists/musicians will discuss their own and other changing forms of cultural production and their context – Shahin Badar (award winning singer and song writer)/Abdul Latif (Baul singer and song writer)/Ashraf Mahmud Neswar (artist/K. Nazrul Centre) 13.00-13.30 Questions and Discussion
12.30-13.00 British-Asian writers/artists/musicians will discuss their own and other changing forms of cultural production and their context – Shahin Badar (award winning singer and song writer)/Abdul Latif (Baul singer and song writer)/Ashraf Mahmud Neswar (artist/K. Nazrul Centre)
13.00-13.30 Questions and Discussion
13.30-14.45 Lunch
Session Three Media Representations of Tower Hamlets’ Life
14.45-15.15 Bengali journalists will reflect on what they write about in the context of Tower Hamlets, its British Bangladeshi residents and continuing links with Bangladesh (Tareq Chowdhury, Editor,Weekly Bangla Post, London and London Correspondent, Amar Desh, Dhaka/Monsur Uddin, Surma) 15.15-15.45 Questions and Discussion 15.45-16.15 Tea
14.45-15.15 Bengali journalists will reflect on what they write about in the context of Tower Hamlets, its British Bangladeshi residents and continuing links with Bangladesh (Tareq Chowdhury, Editor,Weekly Bangla Post, London and London Correspondent, Amar Desh, Dhaka/Monsur Uddin, Surma)
15.15-15.45 Questions and Discussion
15.45-16.15 Tea
Session Four Local Authority Representations of Tower Hamlets and its Residents’ Needs
16.15-16.45 Ayub Korom Ali (Extended Schools Adviser, Extended Schools, London Borough of Tower Hamlets) 16.45-17.15 Questions and Discussion
16.15-16.45 Ayub Korom Ali (Extended Schools Adviser, Extended Schools, London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
16.45-17.15 Questions and Discussion
Session Five Community Activism and Collective Memory
17.15-18.15 British-Asian community activists from Swadhinata, a Bengali heritage group, will talk about their work and the Heritage Lottery project on oral history and collective memory as an example of wider cultural and political processes – Ansar Ahmed Ullah/Jamil Iqbal(both Swadhinata)/Abdul Momen (London Met) 18.15-18.30 Plenary/Reflections on Network Themes
