When & Where:
Thursday, February 5, 2026| 12:30pm-2:00pm
Allard Hall, Room 121
Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP in advance.
Bangladesh and the Im(Possibility) of Climate Justice
Speaker: Dr. Naveeda Khan
Johns Hopkins University
About Dr. Khan
Naveeda Khan is Professor of Anthropology and affiliate faculty in Women, Gender, Sexuality; Islamic Studies; Comparative Thought and Literature; and Environmental Science and Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She has worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Dhaka and Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Travelers and Immigrants Aid (TIA) and The Field Museum of Natural History. Her research spans religious lives and urban form in Pakistan, riverine lives and national climate policy in Bangladesh, UN led global climate governance processes, German romanticism, and Bengali and Urdu literature.
She is the author of Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan (2012), River Life and the Upspring of Nature (2022) and In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South (2023) and editor of Beyond Crisis: Reevaluating Pakistan (2010) and Dream’s Navel: Reading Akhtaruzzaman Elias’ Khwabnama (forthcoming). She is currently working on a book on the July Uprising in Bangladesh in 2024 with a focus on political voice.
