MA
South Asian Area Studies from SOAS, University of London, UK
BA
Philosophy and Physics from Colby College, USA
Areas of Interest
Hiya has five years of experience doing multidisciplinary research in and out of academia. From 2015, Hiya has been a Fellow at Center for Bangladesh Studies (CBS) which is a crowdfunded think-tank. Hiya has worked as a copyeditor with University Press Limited for Parveen Ahmed’s book Under the Same Sky. They have also worked as a freelance researcher for CBS, UPL and community groups and organizations.
Current Projects:
Disposability: Beyond famine, democracy and development.
Resistance of the Perverts: Mark the neutral.
Living and Dying: Dhaka’s relationship with rivers.
Conference programmed:
“বাংলাদেশে নারীবাদ এবং সামাজিক আন্দোলন| CBS FemCon -1.” Center for Bangladesh Studies, at Bishwa Shahittya Kendro, Dhaka, 2016.
Layes,
Mohymeen and Hiya Islam. “Solidarity Quota Reform Movement”. The Daily Star,
2018.
“For Solidarity: Marxism and
Intersectionality,” CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium, USA, 2015. (Paper).
“Moncho: Designing and Implementing the community-based art project,” CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium, USA, 2015. (Presentation)
“Moncho: Designing and Implementing the
community-based art project,” CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium, USA, 2015.
(Presentation)
“Issues of Community: Rules of Exclusion,” CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium, USA, 2014. (Paper)
“Issues of Community: Rules of Exclusion,” Queering Media Conference, USA, 2014. (Paper)
