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Seminar Series: Food for Thought |
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Seminar Series: "Food for Thought" by the Department of English and Humanities. Shahnewaz Kabir, Senior Lecturer of the department, will present a draft paper entitled, "Food for Thought" on Thursday, November 25, 2010.
Food for Thought
Is there an art of cooking, or food and drink? It is common to find people talking about food and drink described as a variety of aesthetic experience. For example the food writer M.F.K. Fisher suggests that when it is combined with herb and butter, "eating meat becomes not a physical function like breathing or defecating but an agreeable and almost intellectual satisfaction of the senses." It is quite common to find people talking about food and drink, and their preparation, and presentation, in the sort of language that we typically use to discuss works of art and their production.
However, how seriously should we take them? When someone describes a fluffy omelet with fine herbs, or a plate of chatpati decorated with crashed fuchka, slices of boiled egg, green chili and coriander leaves as something beautiful, or the bottle of wine, or a small bowl of colorful faluda as a work of art, is this merely pretentious hyperbole - or could what they say be literally true?
Posing these questions raise larger issues of what makes an exercise a form of art, and a particular thing into a work of art. This is indeed quite important to ask that if our experience of food and drink ever correctly thought of as aesthetic experience? Is cooking better thought of as a craft than an art? Aren’t food and drink too functional to be thought of as work of art?
The presentation plans to raise these questions and engage the audience to think about them methodically instead of reacting with preconceived opinions. |
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ULAB will celebrate Victory Day on December 15, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. There will be a cultural program by the finalists of Sanskriti Sangsad's ULABian No 1. |
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ULAB 1st runners up in NTV G-Factor |
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ULAB team finished 1st Runners Up in G-Factor, an adventure reality show of NTV, which aired Wednesday, November 17, 2010. Teams from ULAB, Stamford, BUET, UODA, Close Up singers & ramp models participated in the show. ULAB fought neck-and-neck till the third round but could not do well in the last round. Stamford became the champion and earned Tk. 50,000. |
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Meeting to explore a new project on “Gender in Development” |
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Meeting to explore a new project on “Gender in Development” Dr. Rathana Peou, Deputy Director (ISD) who has worked with the Embassy of Spain previously in matters related to Gender and Development, has prepared a proposal to study the situation of sex workers in Bangladesh, in view of a project aiming to enhance their situation, i.e. if something further can be done about it.
The next meeting on this research proposal will take place at the Embassy of Spain (12, Kemal Ataturk Avenue, Gulshan 2, Dhaka) next November 22 2010 at 10 am. The ideas from the meeting will be presented in Madrid, with an aim to get support as a new project.
The focus point of Development Cooperation of the Embassy of Spain is “Gender in Development”. Within this scope of activities, Embassy of Spain (Dhaka) have been planning the possibility of presenting to headquarters a proposition to finance a study on the situation of sex workers in Bangladesh, in view of a project aiming to enhance their situation. A number of activities and contacts have already been done in this direction.
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Training on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction |
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Training on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
Conducted by: Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD)
Participants from AIDA Aid, Exchange and Development
Date: 1st Dec, 2010
Time: 10am-4pm
Venue: ULAB, Campus A
Room 401
Facilitated by: Ehsanul Kabir
Lecturer, ISD |
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Training on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (Nov – Dec, 2010) |
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Training on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (Nov – Dec, 2010)
Conducted by: Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD)
Participants from AIDA Aid, Exchange and Development
Date: 11th Nov & 1st Dec, 2010
Time: 10am-4pm
Venue: ULAB, Campus A
Room 401
Facilitated by: Ehsanul Kabir
Lecturer, ISD |
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