Bangladeshi research fellow at the International Centre for Study of Bengal Art SM Saiful Islam will attend the first ever collaboration around exhibition innovations as a visiting scholar at University of Troms酶 - the Arctic University in Norway on July 7.
The ICSBA and The Scandinavian Heritage Initiative are organising the research programme, said a press release.
鈥極ur emerging partnership is an addition to a distinguished record of state-to-state, academic, and people-to-people cooperation between Bangladesh and Norway,鈥� read the release signed by Tone Bleie, founder and head of SSINherit.
Norway officially recognised Bangladesh as an independent state early 1972.
Cooperation between Bangladesh and Norway acknowledged the longer but poorly documented history of Scandinavians, Santals and Bengalis in undivided Bengal. ICSBA and SSINherit aim to showcase this and related lesser known transnational legacies, applying educative multi-media tools, informed by contemporary exhibition policies.
Saiful Islam, visual artist and art-historian of Medieval India and Bengal, has prime affection in Indian Mughal paintings, following the methodology of Mughal historiography. He completed his BFA (honours) and MFA from drawing and painting department at fine arts faculty of Dhaka University. He also completed his PhD degree under Islamic history and culture department at the same University.
