Azrin Afrin

Biography

Background

I completed my BA in History and MA in International history from the University of Dhaka. After that, I started teaching at Jahangirnagar University, and a year later, I joined the University of Dhaka. My research interests are focused on migration history, the gender perspective of migrants' lives, and 'left-behind' families. I am currently researching the Lives of Eastern Bengali Migrants in Colonial Burma and how they are Remembered in present-day Bangladesh. 

CV

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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 and September 2024

Research summary

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Migration network in Indian Ocean Arena. Primarily focused on the Chittagong-Burma Labour Migration. 

Current research interests

South Asian History Colonial Migration Memory, Nostalgia & Identity in Post-Colonial South Asia

Current project grants

FfWG Emergency Grant-2025

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

BASAS conference, at the Kings College London, September, 2024

52nd Annual South Asian Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 29-November 2, 2024

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, 2023

Participated in an Ethnography Workshop organised by the Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences, 2024 

Papers delivered

 

  1. ‘Journeys of Loss and Longing: Postcolonial Dynamics of Chittagong-Burma Relationships through Intergenerational Memory’ at the 52nd Annual South Asian Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (October 2024, the USA)
  2. ‘In Pursuit of 'Rangoon: The Place of Prosperity and Joy' - Eastern Bengali Migrants in Burma’ at the conference arranged by the British Association for South Asian Studies (September 2024, London, the UK)
  3. ‘Memories of Burma in Chittagonian Household’ at the Beyond Fieldnotes organised by the Centre for the South Asian Studies of the University of Edinburgh. (July 2024, Edinburgh, Scotland)
  4. ‘Postcolonial Interplay between Chittagong and Burma: State Relationships and Family Memories’ at South Asia in Writing Workshop by the Centre for the South Asian Studies of the University of Edinburgh. (August 2024, Edinburgh, Scotland)
  5. ‘The Second World War and the City of Chittagong: Bringing Back the Forgotten Long March’ at the conference arranged by the European Association for South Asian Studies (July 2023, Turin, Italy)
  6. ‘Tales of the Arakan Road: The Faded History of the Chittagonian Migrants’ at the conference From the Personal to the Global: Lived Experiences of the Second World War (June 2023, Edinburgh, Scotland)
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