IUB to host 5th International Conference on ‘Language, Literature, Culture, and Crises’

The two-day event will bring together academics, researchers, and practitioners from around the world

Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) is set to organise the 5th International Conference on “Language, Literature, Culture, and Crises” on Jun 26 on its campus.

The university said in a media statement on Tuesday that the two-day event is being organised by its Department of English and Modern Languages (DEML), and will bring together academics, researchers, and practitioners from around the world to explore global challenges through literary, linguistic, and cultural lenses.

Centred on the theme of “Crises”, the conference will examine disruptions across academic, technological, environmental, linguistic, and cultural spheres, and how they are represented, contested, and reimagined through different forms of expression.

Keynote speakers include noted scholars Prof Niaz Zaman, Prof Rob Waring, and Prof Kaiser Haq.

Plenary sessions will feature contributions from David A Peterson, Nimanthi Rajasingham, Nagesh Rao, Kittitouch Soontornwipast, and Professor Md Mahmudul Hasan.

According to IUB, this year’s conference will include three special sessions – Creative Writing and Crises, Bangladeshi Literature and Culture Now, and Minority Languages and Cultures – alongside regular sessions comprising dialogues, round tables, and interactive performances.

“The event aims to facilitate critical engagement and international collaboration, offering a platform for exchanging ideas on how crises shape, and are shaped by, cultural and linguistic narratives,” the statement read.

For details on registration and the full programme, interested participants have been asked to email [email protected]