Jul 31, 2022
The book is a result of the research on refugee diaspora depicted in two films by Tanvir Mokammel ‘The Border Line’ (Seemantorekha) and ‘The promised Land’ (Swapnabhumi). The research was conducted under the Bangladesh Film Archive fellowship 2020-2021. The vulnerability of the diasporic situation presented in these two documentaries is analyzed by contemporary political philosophical theory. The issues of statelessness, identity crisis, and diasporic condition of the displaced people as visualized in the films are also the major concerns in contemporary global politics. Due to the partition in 1947 many people had to leave their homeland under cruel violence and massacres. A huge number of the Bengali Hindu population left the then East Bengal and took refuge in many places in India. Similarly, many Biharis and Bengali Muslims migrated from India and came to the then East Pakistan which is Bangladesh now. Seventy years have passed since then. How are these people now? And how the political boundaries of barbed ware have affected people’s lives and relations? All these have been presented in these two films. The book attempts to understand the eternal human relationship with one's motherland under the new structure of political identity as depicted by the state boundaries.
- The Election Debate for Philosophy Student Union election-2024 has been done successfully
- The Chairman and the faculty members of Philosophy Department meet Vice Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, Professor Dr. Mohammad Kamrul Ahsan
- On 5th September 2024, eminent faculty of philosophy Professor Dr. Mohammad Kamrul Ahsan has been appointed as the Vice Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Heartiest congratulations to the respected Vice Chancellor from the Chairman, faculty, staff and students of philosophy department. We wish under Professor Dr. Mohammad Kamrul Ahsan’s learned leadership JU will be an institution of global excellence.
- Professor Dr. Md. Munir Hossain Talukder has been appointed as the Chair of the Department of Philosophy
- আগামী ৩০ শে আগস্ট 2022 "State, Identity and Diaspora in Tanvir Mokammel's Films" বইয়ের প্রকাশনা উৎসব।
- The Book "State, Identity and Diaspora in Tanvir Mokammel's Films" authored by Muhammad Ullah has been published by the Bangladesh Film Archive, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
- Professor Dr. A S M Anwarullah Bhuiyan will deliver lecture on "Importance of Value and Ethics in Contemporary Society" in One Day International Webinar in West-Bengal, India
- Professor Dr. Munir Hossain Talukder along with others published an article on Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine
- Professor Dr. ASM Anwarullah Bhuiyan pubilshed a research article in Bioethics Journal
- Professor Dr. A.S.M Anwarullah Bhuiyan has taken the charge of the department