Eminent Indian historian Dr Dipesh Chakrabarty, Professor Dr Mohammed Farashuddin, Chief Adviser and founder Vice Chancellor of EWU, Professor Dr M M Shahidul Hassan, Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dr Fakhrul Alam, former Pro Vice Chancellor and Air Cdre Retd IshfaqIlahi Choudhury, Treasurer of EWU, attended the programme. East West University (EWU) organised the 5th Nahreen Khan Memorial Lecture programme at the 'Manzur Elahi' auditorium on the university campus in the city on Sunday, says a statement.
Dr Dipesh Chakrabarty, an eminent Indian historian, and Professor of History at the University of Chicago, USA, was the keynote speaker on the occasion.
In his paper on 'The planetary age in human history', Dr Chakrabarty focused on the differentiation between the globe and the planet.
He said the globe is human-centric, human-made. The planet is not made by humans, and humans are not central to its history, he added.
By planetary history, Prof Chakrabarty means 'the much longer history of the ways in which geological and biological processes have combined on this planet to help it sustain complex and multicellular forms of live for hundreds of millions of years'. The speech concludes by the potential loss of biodiversity and the impact of humans as a geophysical force on the planet.
The lecture was organised in memory of a former student of EWU, Nehreen Khan (late), the daughter of the late Dr Akbar Ali Khan, a former adviser to a caretaker government of Bangladesh.
Professor Dr Mohammed Farashuddin, Chief Adviser and founder Vice Chancellor of EWU, Professor Dr M M Shahidul Hassan, Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dr Fakhrul Alam, former-Pro Vice Chancellor and Air Cdre Retd IshfaqIlahi Choudhury, Treasurer of EWU attended the programme.
Students, faculty members, officers and staff of the university and relatives of Nehreen Khan were also present on the occasion.
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