Founded in 1993, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) is one of the oldest and leading private universities in Bangladesh where academic excellence is a tradition, teaching a passion and lifelong learning a habit. IUB currently has more than 9,800 undergraduate and graduate students and over 13,700 alumni. The students of IUB experience an exciting academic life with copious opportunities to explore and nurture their innate talent.
Live in Field Experience (LFE) is a signature course of IUB. It allows IUB students, most of whom come from urban settings, to have an immersive experience of everyday life in rural Bangladesh. Unique in Bangladesh, the overarching idea, which owes its roots to some of the leading social thinkers of this region, is to bridge the gap in knowledge that an urban student has about their rural counterparts. As part of the LFE, which is a mandatory course, small groups of students (usually 5-10, mix of male and female, and English and Bangla medium backgrounds) spend a certain amount of time at different locations in Bangladesh and experience life in the fields.
Prof. Zakir Hossain Raju speaks at the 2023 AAS-in-Asia Conference in South Korea
10/05/2024
Professor Zakir Hossain Raju, PhD, Head of IUB's Media and Communication Department and Director of King Sejong Institute, spoke at the 8th AAS-in-Asia Conference in Daegu, Republic of Korea. The conference, held during June 24-27, 2023 at the Humanities Korea Hall, Kyungpook National University (KNU), aimed to foster academic exchanges among Asian scholars. This year's conference focused on the theme of "Memory, Preservation, and Documentation."
Prof. Raju was invited to participate in a panel discussion on "Japaneseness and Mixedness Beyond Japan", which explored the complexities of cultural identity and the impact of cross-cultural exchanges on modern Japanese society. He presented a paper titled "From Inter-Asia Migration to Japanese-South Asian Families: Asianizing of Japan in the Age of Globalization." The paper explored the dynamics of inter-Asia migration and its influence on the formation of Japanese-South Asian families. It also shed light on the "Asianization" of Japan in the context of globalization, emphasizing the diverse cultural intersections and the evolving concept of Japaneseness beyond its national borders.