Dr. Ahmed Abidur Razzaque Khan (alias Ahmed Abid) is an Assistant Professor of General Education, University of Liberal Arts (ULAB) Bangladesh. He is an adjunct fellow of Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI), School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Australia. He holds a joint Ph.D. in ‘Human Rights, Society, and Multi-level Governance’ through the Human Rights Centre- University of Padova, Italy, and School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Australia. He also holds Master of Arts, Philosophy (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh); Master of Arts, Human Rights and Social Development (Mahidol University, Thailand); and a Diploma in Cinema and Human Rights (European- Inter University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization (EIUC) in Venice, Italy).
His previous academic roles include: Assistant Professor, Development Studies, Asian University for Women (AUW), Bangladesh (August 2021-August 2022); Research Assistant and Tutor, Western Sydney University, Australia (2017-2019); and Research Assistant and Project Manager, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (2013-2015).
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Ph.D., Social Science (Higher Degree Research in Sociology)
Course: Doctor of Philosophy in Human Rights, Society, and Multi-level Governance.
Institutions: School of Social Science, Western Sydney University, Australia &
Human Rights Centre- University of Padova, Italy.
International Master of Arts, in Human Rights and Social Development.
OHRSD, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand
Master of Arts in Philosophy. Department of Philosophy, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Bachelor of Arts. (Honours) in Philosophy. Department of Philosophy, University of Dhaka.
Human Rights Education (HRE), irregular migration, refugees and labour trafficking; digital humanities; social movements and social justice; creative methodology and postcolonial studies.
Recently completed (selected)
- May 2023, completed a policy review for the Canadian Government on Mapping Human Rights Due Diligence and Compliance Monitoring on Human Trafficking with Michael Miner and Dr. Melinda MacDonald.
- 2020: Evaluation and appraisal of South Asian Theatre Festival 2019, Sydney, Australia.
Recent Conferences
- 2023: 10 November, 3rd BSSCR Conference Belief, Believe and Behaviour: Shared Cultural Heritage of South Asia: Paper Presentation on ‘Reality of traditional matrilineal Khasi people and their culture in Bangladesh: An ethnographic study.
- Panel Chair and presenter (Bangladesh at 50: A review of Culture, Society and Symbols) 9th SSEASR Conference, Sacredness, Symbolism and Society: Paractices in South and Southeast Asia, 2-4 April, 2023, Kathmandu, Neapl , Organized by Central Department of Nepalese History, Culture & Archeology, Tribhuvan University.
- Research Presentation, Cultural Performances and Social Cohesion in a Multicultural Society: The Case of ‘Nautanki Theatre’ in Western Sydney (Co-author: Dr. Arnab Roy Chowdhury) in 3rd Advancing Community Cohesion Conference – The Way Forward, Western Sydney University, 10-13 February,2020, Parramatta Campus, Australia.
Awards
- PhD Scholarship: Doctor of Philosophy in Human Rights, Society and Multi -level Governance (December, 2016 - April, 2021), Awarded by : School of Social Science, Western Sydney University, Australia and Human Rights Centre, University of Padova, Italy.
- Research Fellow: Theatre as a Means of Raising Awareness on Violence against Women and Women’s Rights, Position: Principal Investigator and Research Fellow. ( Dec15, 2005-June15, 2006),Funded by: Academy for Educational Development (AED), supported SARI/Equity, Delhi.
- International Master of Arts scholarship to study Human Rights and Social Development. Mahidol University, Thailand, Awarded by: Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA)
- Khan, Ahmed Abidur Razzaque, and Georgeau Nichole (2021), Returned Bangladeshi migrant workers: the need for Psychosocial support in Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Nichole Georgeou and Anis Chowdhury (eds). COVID-19 and Bangladesh: Response, Rights and Resilience, UPL, Dhaka.
- Arnab Roy Chowdhury and Ahmed Abid (2019). Emergence of ‘Protest Publics’ in South Asia: A Comparative Study of Anti-corruption and Shahbag Protest, in Nina Belyaeva, Dmitry Zaytsev, Victor Albert, (eds.) Protest Publics: New Actors of Social Change and Civic Participation, (pp.49-66), Basel, Switzerland: Springer.
- Khan A. A. R. (2011). Pan Islamic Hizbut-Tahrir Network and the Public Sphere in Bangladesh: Confronting the crisis, in Mårtensson, Ulrika, Bailey, Jennifer, Ringrose, Priscilla, Dyrendal, Asbjørn (eds.), Fundamentalism in the Modern World, Volume 2: (pp.192–215), London: I.B.Tauris.
- Chinachote, Chaluiwan. & Khan A. A. R. (2005). Community-based Transdisciplinary Learning: An Experience from Human Mapping Research in Nakhon Pathom, Transdisciplinary Commons, TransTeam, Mahidol University, Thailand.
- Arnab Roy Chowdhury & Ahmed Abidur Razzaque Khan (2023): ‘South Asian’ Diaspora Theatre in Sydney: Cultural Politics of the Proscenium and Transforming the Mise-En- Scène, Journal of Intercultural Studies, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2023.2247344
- Arnab Roy Chowdhury & Ahmed Abid (2022) Treading the border of (il)legality: statelessness, “amphibian life,” and the Rohingya “boat people” of Asia, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 23:1, 68-85, DOI: 10.1080/14649373.2022.2026595
- Khan A.A. R. and Akhter, H. (2021), Politics of Theatre for Human Rights: An overview of pedagogy and good practices of Janam Theatre in India. Harvest, Department of English, Jahangirnagar University.
- Khan A. A. R. (2015). Public Space, Virtual Space and the Shahbagh Movement in Bangladesh: A Critical Review. ICT for Development: Working Paper Series., ULAB, 5(2), 69–81.
- Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, South Asia @ Lse, The Business Standards, The Hindu, The Daliy Prothom Alo and The BDNEWS24.com