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Nusrat S. Chowdhury, assistant professor of anthropology at Amherst College, will speak on “Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowds and the Ambivalence of Resistance in Bangladesh” on Tuesday, Oct. 30 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. in 145 Integrated Sciences Building.

The talk is part of the Resistance Studies Initiative Fall Speaker Series.

Chowdhury teaches and writes on popular sovereignty and political communication with particular focus on Bangladesh. Her book, “Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh,” makes an original case for the crowd as a defining feature and a foundational force of democratic practices in and beyond South Asia.

Chowdhury says, “I ultimately argue that crowds are a true political pharmakon in the sense that they are both solutions and scapegoats in performances of popular politics, thereby complicating the concept of resistance.”

The program is free and open to all. Refreshments will be served.