BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.5//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:31@buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171206T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171206T190000 DTSTAMP:20171120T184525Z URL:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/tale-sub-human-rohingyas-my anmar-bangladesh/ SUMMARY:A Tale of the Sub-human: The Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh DESCRIPTION:The first lecture in our series “Buddhist/Muslim tensions in Myanmar and beyond” is a lecture by Professor Nasir Uddin\, entitled "A Tale of the Sub-human: The Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh."\n\nThe Ro hingyas\, considered by the United Nations as the world’s most persecute d people\, have recently experienced unprecedented violence and brutality committed by Myanmar security forces and vigilantes. Following alleged att acks on Myanmar police posts and a military base by the Arakan Rohingya Sa lvation Army (ARSA) on August 25\, 2017\, Myanmar security forces indiscri minately fired on Rohingya civilians\, burnt their houses down\, raped gir ls and women\, and killed thousands mercilessly in what the United Nations termed as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” This state-sponso red violence spurred 600\,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh in the past t wo months. The Rohingyas have experienced intense\, ongoing violence becau se they are non-citizens in Myanmar. In fact\, citizenship is a legal stat us conferred by the state that makes non-citizens a new ‘other\,’ a vu lnerable category viewed as less than human beings that Uddin refers to as being treated as “sub-human.” This talk will focus the state of Rohin gyas in Bangladesh and Myanmar illuminating an intricate relation of state lessness\, human rights and the paradox of the “sub-human.”\n\nNasir U ddin is a cultural anthropologist based in Bangladesh and a professor of a nthropology at the University of Chittagong. His research interests includ e statelessness and refugee studies\; human rights and non-citizens\; indi geneity and identity politics\; the state in everyday life\; the politics of marginality and vulnerability\; and borderlands and border people\, par ticularly those of Bangladesh and Myanmar\, the Chittagong Hill Tracts\, a nd South Asia. His publications include To Host or To Hurt: Counter-narrat ives on the Rohingya (Refugees) in Bangladesh (2012)\; Life in Peace and C onflict: Indigeneity and State in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (2017) and In digeneity on the Move: Varying Manifestation of a Contested Concept (2017) . Currently he is working on a new monograph\, Rohingyas: A Tale of Sub-Hu man (2018).\n\nThis event is sponsored by the Asian Institute and co-spons ored by the Richard Charles Lee Asian Pathways Research Lab\; the Global M igration Lab\, Munk School of Global Affairs\; the Centre for Southeast As ian Studies\, Asian Institute\, Munk School of Global Affairs\; the Centre for South Asian Studies\, Asian Institute\, Munk School of Global Affairs \; the Department of Geography and Planning\, University of Toronto\; and the Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies.\n\nPlease pre -register for this event. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u ploads/2017/11/nasir-photos-rohingya.jpg CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility\, 1 Devonshire P lace\, Toronto\, Canada GEO:43.6646809;-79.39667559999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1 Devonshire Place\, Toront o\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The Vivian and David Campbell Confer ence Facility:geo:43.6646809,-79.39667559999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20171105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR