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📢 Social Theory Network – Session 07

In honour of Prof. K.A.M. Saaduddin, Social Theory Network warmly invites you to attend its seventh session:
Bangladesh Sociology: Past, Present and Future

🎙️ Presenter: Prof. Shahadat Hossain
Director, Law and Policy Centre
Sessional Academic of Law, Western Sydney University

🎤 Moderator: Shamsul Arefin
Faculty, GSTU, Bangladesh
PhD Student, Sociology Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

📅 Date: Sunday, 21 June 2026
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM (Bangladesh Time)

📍 Zoom Meeting Details
Meeting ID: 951 1962 8114
Passcode: 311104

This session will offer a critical reflection on the historical development, contemporary trajectories, and future possibilities of sociology in Bangladesh. Scholars, students, researchers, and all those interested in sociological thought and social inquiry are cordially invited to join this discussion.

Please share widely among colleagues, students, and friends interested in sociology and the social sciences.

Abandoning Marx’s Asiatic Mode of Mode of Production was a Fatal Mistake of Indian Communism! Introduction  Asiatic Mode of Production (AMP) was conceptualized by Marx mainly in his writings on Asia, more specifically India, during the 1850s. Through AMP, Marx pointed out the incompatibility of European mode of production (social formation) and class analysis in t...