ULAB MSJ Hosts Curriculum Integration Forum on “Necropolitics and the Media”

The Department of Media Studies and Journalism (MSJ) at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) hosted its Curriculum Integration Forum – Fall 2025 at the Osman Jamal Auditorium, Faculty of Fine Arts, focusing on the theme “Necropolitics and the Media.”
The forum explored how power, politics, and media determine which lives are valued and which remain invisible in public discourse.
 

In his welcome remarks, Professor A A M Kaoser Hassan, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, praised ULAB’s cross-disciplinary collaboration. “I am delighted that, for the first time, both sides have come together in a truly collaborative system,” he said. “ULAB’s initiative deserves recognition, and I believe such programs should continue in the future.”

Professor Dr. Sumon Rahman, Dean of the School of Social Science and Head of MSJ, delivered the keynote speech, examining how media frames life, death, and human worth. “While Biopolitics is the administration of life, Necropolitics examines how power decides who is allowed to live and who must die,” he said. “Our fight against necropolitics is not just a journalistic one — it is a human one. We must ensure that every life, and every death, retains its dignity.”

The event concluded with an interactive discussion among faculty and students, emphasizing the media's ethical responsibility in representing human suffering.