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The Playboy of the Western World staged |
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The Playboy of the Western World staged. The students of ENG 212: Modern British Drama of Summer ’10 semester have staged The Playboy of the Western World, a comedy by the famous Irish Playwright, J.M. Synge. 
The performance was held in ULAB Auditorium on 19th August. It was the final project of the course which made the students work on their own at every level, for example set and costume designing, direction etc. Students even took part in editing the play with their course teacher to a great extent. At the beginning of the show the course teacher Ms Nasrin Islam gave a brief introduction about the performance. Faculty members and students from all the other departments of ULAB along with the guardians of the performers enjoyed the 45 minute drama. At the end, Ms. Islam introduced the performers in front of the audience who applauded them for their brilliant show. Caption: Students of ENG 212: Modern British Drama perform the play: The Playboy of the Western World at ULA on August 19, 2010 |
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Alif Rahman Chowdhury is the Champion in the World Cyber Games 2010 |
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 ULAB BBA student Alif Rahman Chowdhury is the Champion in the World Cyber Games 2010: Bangladesh Site (in the "Need For Speed-Most Wanted" Category).
This competition is regarded as the National Cyber Games Championship.
Alif is a member of ULAB Computer Programming Club (UCPC) as well as a student of Business Administration. Click here for full story in Prothom Alo. |
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Digital Art, Visual Art and Photography Exhibit “Emerging Faces, Portraits and Identities of Bangladesh” |
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Digital Art, Visual Art and Photography Exhibit:
“Emerging Faces, Portraits and Identities of Bangladesh.”
The Media Studies and Journalism (MSJ) Department launched an exhibit entitled “Emerging Faces, Portraits and Identities of Bangladesh” on August 19, 2010 at ULAB Campus B. The exhibit featured three communication campaigns, 30 plaster masks, 32 face paintings, 32 photographs, 40 digital masks, the film adaptation of Syed Walliullah’s novel “Death before Dawn” and research findings on the Identity Construction and Visual Texts of Bangladeshi Youth. The exhibit will run until September 20.
All items produced by students of the Media Studies and Journalism (MSJ) Department from the courses: Development Communication (with Marium Akther as lecturer); Visual Communication (with Marium Akther as lecturer); Social Context of Media (with Abul Mansur Ahmed as lecturer); Introduction to Photography (with Razibul Hossain as lecturer); Multimedia Production (with Imtiaz Ahmed Chowdhury as lecturer); Video Communication 2 (with Razibul Hossain as lecturer); and Research Methodologies (with Anis Pervez as lecturer).
The exhibit took off from the Face Negotiation Theory of Stella Ting-Toomey, which divides cultures into collectivistic and individualistic. Based one’s culture, he/she constructs a public face and a private face. For Ting-Toomey, people who belong to individualistic cultures do not have distinct public and private faces but those who come from collectivistic cultures have very distinct public and private faces. However, Ting-Toomey added that people are not imprisoned by their cultures. They can have identities of their own choosing. As applied to Bangladesh, the country can be considered collectivistic where there is a huge gap between private and public faces.
The exhibit was part of the Department’s Curriculum Integration Program, which was established to facilitate faculty and students from various year levels and study concentrations to work together and learn from each other. It has two primary objectives. First, it utilizes active learning approaches to enhance the educational experience of students. Second, it encourages students to look inward – to reflect on their own personalities, aspirations and identities. The Department believes that students must be comfortable and confident with themselves before they can positively contribute to others.
The exhibit was the culminating activity under the Summer 2010 MSJ Department Curriculum Integration Programme. The first forum entitled “Portraits of Bangladesh” was held on June 17 with Abul Mansur Ahmed (Associate Professor, Dhaka University) and Anis Pervez (Associate Professor, MSJ Department, ULAB) as speakers. The second activity was conducted on July 8 with ULAB Senior Lecturer Marium Akhter tackling “Visual Texts of Bangladesh” at the ULAB Auditorium.
Aside from these, students from the “Development Communication” course featured the communication campaigns they produced for Spanish NGO Aid, Exchange and Development (AIDA). Three communication campaigns on raising awareness on women empowerment in Bangladesh was presented, along with prototype posters and other communication materials.
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Talk on Higher Studies in the USA |
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Talk on Higher Studies in the USA: Presenters from the Educational Advising Center of the U.S. Embassy met with students of ULAB to provide information on admission process, requirements and tips on applying to U.S. Universities on August 18, 2010. |
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Round table speakers welcome competition policy and law |
Round table speakers welcome competition policy and law.
The event, organised by the Media Studies and Journalism (MSJ) Department took place at the university’s auditorium in Dhanmondi on 12 August 2010. The round table was attended by economists, lawyers, journalists, academics, high officials from the corporate sector, and the teachers and the students from the ULAB.
The event started off with a presentation on competition law and policy by Advocate ABM Hamidul Mishbah who focused on the key features of the proposed Competition Act 2010 and stated that such a law would ensure country’s economic development, prevent, control or eliminate anti-competitive agreements, and abuse of dominant positions or market power.
While speaking on the occasion, Dr. A.K. Enamul Haque, Professor of Economics, United International University, posed why in Bangladesh the prices of the commodities increase during Ramadan whereas seasonality hardly affects prices in many other countries.
Tanim Ahmed, Assistant Editor, bdnews24.com, hoped that the competition policy and law would ensure a level playing field and fair competition in the market. He suggested that media reports on economic and business issues should be more reader-friendly devoid of jargons.
Competition law is very vital for Bangladesh, stated Alloisus Mohan Ramaiah, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Axiata (Bangladesh) Limited and added that the law would let the market evolve itself allowing new entrants to compete in the market.
The speakers further added that due to the absence of appropriate legal instruments in Bangladesh, we routinely witness anti-competitive and unfair trade practices like cartels, hoarding, collusive pricing and reducing supply of basic commodities. Given this scenario, they welcomed the Bangladesh government’s initiative to adopt Competition Policy and Law towards increasing competition in the market and ensuring delivery of better quality goods and services at fair prices.
It may be mentioned that Bangladesh is soon to join over 120 countries that had already enacted competition law in their respective countries.
About ULAB: ULAB opened its doors in October 2004 after obtaining permission from the University Grants Commission. The MSJ Department offers three study concentrations – Mass Communication, Journalism and Digital Production. It has around 200 students at present. It plans to launch a study concentration on Business Journalism, Public Relations and Digital Film Making next year. |
Bright Star Screened.
Department of English & Humanities, ULAB screened Bright Star, a feature film based on the life of the famous romantic poet John Keats on 5 August in the university auditorium. Ms Nasrin Islam arranged this show for her students of ENG 209: Romantic Poetry.  The plot of this film evolves around the love affair between 23 year-old English poet, John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawn, an out-spoken student of high fashion. The film demonstrates the last three years of the genius’s life, focusing on how he met and fell in love with Fanny Brawn, his neighbour in Hampstead, and what led to the lovers’ separation at the end. Shortly after meeting Fanny Keats began to show the first signs of tuberculosis, and after overseeing the publication of his final book of poetry, Keats left England for Italy. He died there in February 1821 at the age of 26.
At the beginning of the show, Ms Islam gave a brief introduction on John Keats’ life and work. Prof. Mohit ul Alam, Head of the Department of English & Humanities, enjoyed the film with the students.
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