Rohingya Statelessness and its implications for Bangladesh: Rohini Haar

Conference | February 7, 2020 | Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley

AGENDA

9:00-9:20: Event opening
• Sanchita Saxena, Executive Director, Institute for South Asia Studies and the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, UC Berkeley)
• Rick Spees, Executive Director, CAORC

9:30-11:00: Statelessness & the Politics of the Nation
• Navine Murshid, Associate Professor of Political Science, Colgate University
• Steve Ross, Senior Advisor and Program Director, Richardson Center for Global Engagement
• Ali Riaz, Professor Political Science, Illinois State University
• Patrick DeSutter, Anthropology PhD student, UC Berkeley
• Moderator: Dina Siddiqi, Clinical Associate Professor, Liberal Studies, NYU

11:15-12:45: Violence and Identity
• Shireen Huq, Founder, Narippokho
• Rahima Begum, Co-Director, Restless Beings
• Prashanta Tripura, Project Director, Aparajita
• Yasmin Ullah, President, Rohingya Human Rights Network
• Moderator: Khatharya Um, Professor, South and Southeast Asian Studies and Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

1:30-3:00: Physical and Mental Health in the Rohingya Camps
• Rohini Haar, Lecturer, Epidemiology & Research Fellow, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley
• Ruhul Abid, Associate Professor, Brown University Medical School
• Christopher LeBoa, Researcher, Department of Epidemiology, Stanford University
• Moderator: Lawrence Cohen, Professor, Medical Anthropology, UC Berkeley

3:15-4:45: Development Interventions
• Ashley Toombs, Director of External Affairs, BRAC USA
• Samira Siddique, PhD Student, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
• Sharif Mukul, Research Fellow, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
• Mabrur Ahmed, Director, Restless Beings
• Moderator: Isha Ray, Professor, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

5:00-6:00: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
• Hannah Beech, Southeast Asia Bureau Chief, The New York Times