{"id":170,"date":"2018-04-17T08:09:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T08:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utrechtutopianetwork.nl\/?p=170"},"modified":"2018-04-17T08:09:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T08:09:49","slug":"on-project-myopia-ibtisam-ahmed-on-rokeya-sakhawat-hossains-sultanas-dream-and-padmarag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utrechtutopianetwork.nl\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"On Project Myopia: Ibtisam Ahmed on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a scholar who has published widely on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s feminist utopian fictions\u00a0Sultana’s Dream<\/em> and Padmarag, not just\u00a0 through the Penguin Classics part-translation and edition of the two works I published, but also in articles in Paedagogica Historica<\/em>, Women’s History Review<\/em>, and Asiatic, <\/em>I was delighted to find Nottingham University graduate student Ibtisam Ahmed writing on these fantastic speculative fictions at Project Myopia, which\u00a0is devoted to diversifying university curricula through crowdsourcing material from students, revolutionising the way that curricula are designed.<\/p>\n

References to some of those articles:<\/p>\n

\u201cLadylands and Sacrificial Holes: Utopias and Dystopias in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Writings.\u201d The Politics of the (Im)possible: Utopia and Dystopia Reconsidered<\/em>. Ed. Barnita Bagchi. New Delhi, London, Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2012. 166-178.<\/p>\n

\u201cTowards Ladyland: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and the Movement for Women\u2019s Education in Colonial Bengal.\u201d Special Issue of Paedagogica Historica<\/em>. \u201cEmpire Overseas, Empire at Home\u201d 45.3 (December 2009): 743-755.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo Lives: Voices, Resources, and Networks in the History of Women\u2019s Education in South Asia.\u201d \u201cCollecting Women\u2019s Lives.\u201d Special Issue of Women\u2019s History Review<\/em> 19.1 (February 2010): 51-69.<\/p>\n

\u201cFruits of Knowledge: Polemics, Humour and Moral Education in the Writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Lila Majumdar and Nabaneeta Dev Sen.\u201d Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature.<\/em> 7.2 (December 2013): 126-138. Web.<\/p>\n

Ibtisam and I shared a great panel at the 2016 Lisbon conference of the Society for Utopian Studies. To more decolonization of utopian studies!<\/p>\n

Barnita Bagchi<\/p>\n

Sultana\u2019s Dream and Padmarag (Essence of the Lotus)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n