Speaking
- Invited Speaker of Peter Blundell Jones Memorial Lecture Series, Title: “The Art of Living with the
Impermanence of Deltaic Landscape”, online lecture, hosted and invited by the School of Architecture,
University of Sheffield, on 7 December 2021.
- Invited Speaker, on the book titled: Envisioning Ru-Ban: Socio-Spatial Re-Vitalization Along Kumar Nod in Faridpur in The Seventh Asia-
Pacific Urban Forum (APUF-7), 15-17 October 2019, Penang, Malaysia. Invited by Urban Development Directorate of the Ministry of Housing and Public Works, Bangladesh Government.
- Presenter of Country Seminar as the Team Leader in the opening of the International Training Program on
Sustainable Urban Water and Sanitation – Integrated Processes” (ITP SUWAS Asia 2019 A), 6 May, 2019,
Stockholm, Sweden. Initiated and invited by SIDA in partnership with NIRAS and WaterAid.
- Guest Speaker, Training on ‘Role, Responsibility & Ethical Principles in Higher Education’, 7 October, 2018,
hosted and invited by Jashore University of Science and Technology (JUST), Jashore, Bangladesh.
- Exchange Seminar Speaker, as the Director, CETL-KU, on “Quality Assurance in Teaching-Learning: Reflections
on CETL-KU Experience”, 5 April 2017, hosted and invited by Arena, University College London, UK.
- Fulbright Outreach Lecture on “Autonomous Adaptation in Built Environment: Towards Resilient Informal
Settlements”, 28 January, 2016, hosted and invited by Dillard University, New Orleans.
- Fulbright Scholar Speaker, Fulbright Research Seminar in the Alumni Outreach Initiative, 17 November
Thursday 2016, organized and invited by The American Center, Dhaka.
- Lecture for graduate students on ‘Conducting Qualitative Research Using NVivo’, 6 December 2015, hosted by
The School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin.
- Invited Speaker of the City Forum seminar series, 6 November, 2015, hosted and invited by the Community and
Regional Planning Program (CRP) at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Invited speaker, ClimbUrb International Workshop, on Living in Low-income Urban Settlements in an Era of
Climate Change: Processes, Practices, Policies, and Politics, 9-10 September 2013, hosted and invited by The
University of Manchester, UK.
- Invited Speaker, DPU Dialogues in Development, on 5 December 2012, hosted and invited by The Bartlett
Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK.
- UGC Nominated Resource Person, Workshop on Challenges of 4IR and The Way Forward, Participants: VC, Pro-
VC, Deans and Directors from 52 Public Universities of Bangladesh, from October 2021 to June 2022.