Azrin Afrin
PhD
Year of study: 2
- School of History, Classics & Archaeology
Contact details
- Email: A.Afrin@sms.ed.ac.uk
- History of Chittagong as a Colonial Port City: 1880s to 1940s
PhD supervisors:
Background
I grew up in Bangladesh. I completed my Graduation and Post-Graduation from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. After that, I started teaching at different universities in Bangladesh.
Qualifications
MA in International History (1st Class) Distinction
BA in History (1st Class)
Responsibilities & affiliations
Post Graduate Representative at Centre of the Study of Modern and Contemporary History (CSMCH)
Undergraduate teaching
Tutor-
Introduction to Historiography, Semester-1, 2023
The Historians Toolkit, Semester-1, 2022
Research summary
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Migration network in Indian Ocean Arena. Primarily focused on the Chittagong-Burma Labour Migration.
Conference details
European Conference for the South Asian Studies, in Italy, 26-29 July 2023.
From the Personal to the Global: Lived Experiences of the Second World War, 9-10 June 2023
Invited speaker
At the Edinburgh Centre for Global History, I was invited to present at a Graduate Workshop.
Participant
Participated in an Oral History Methodology Workshop organised by the Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences
Papers delivered
1. The Second World War and the City of Chittagong: Bringing Back the Forgotten Long March, in the European Conference for the South Asian Studies, Italy, 26-29 July 2023.
2..Tales of the Arakan Road: The Faded History of Chittagonian Migrants, in the conference titled From the Personal to the Global: Lived Experiences of the Second World War, Edinburgh, 9-10 June 2023.