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abdullahmamun@ru.ac.bd

Associate Professor Dept. of Mass Communication and Journalism


A. Al Mamun
PROFESSOR
Mass Communication & Journalism


Education Summary  
IRTP (equivalent to M.Phil), CSSS,C Kolkata, India

Research Interest  
Media studies, Cultural studies, body politics, political studies, visual studies, film studies, the secular modern and religious studies.
Level Institution Year

Experience in Rajshahi University

Not Available

Experience in other Organization/Institute

Duration Organization/Institute Position
2021-07-01 to 2021-12-31 Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), Dhaka. Adjunct Faculty
2010-11-01 to 2011-04-30 Access to Information (UNDP) Communication Expert

Book

1. A Al Mamun "Cinema, Shomaj o Rajniti: Bangla Cinemar Katipoy Tarko (Cinema, Society and Politics: Few Debates of Bangla Cinema)." Dhaka: Kathaprakash.

Published: February 2023
2. Edited with preface A Al Mamun "Gautam Bhadra: Buddijibi Kare Kay (Gautam Bhadra: Who is an Intellectual)" Rajshahi: Majic Lanthan

Published: February 2021
3. A Al Mamun "Rashtra, Ganamadhyam o Jangibad (State Media and Militancy)" Rajshahi: Majic Lanthan

Published: February 2019
4. Edit. Fahmidul Haq and A. Al Mamun "Media Somaj Sangskriti (Media, Society and Culture)" Dhaka: Agami Prakashani. (ISBN 978-984-04-15571)

Published: February 2013
5. Edited with preface A Al Mamun "Bissrinkhal Drisshya: Pourush, Public Smriti o Censorship (Unruly Images: Masculinity, Public Memory and Censorship)" Dhaka: DRIK and Yogayog

Published: February 2008
6. Trans. A Al Mamun "Shammoti Uthpadan: Ganomadhyomer Rajnoytik Orthoniti. (A translation of Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Authored by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Pantheon Books, New York: 20002)" Dhaka: Shonghoti Prokashon, ISBN 978-984-8882-07-8

Published: February 2008
7. Trans. A Al Mamun "Manabprakriti: Nayanistha Banam Khomota: Mukhomukhi Noam Chomsky o Michael Foucault. (Human Nature: Justice vs. Power, A Debate between Noam Chomsky and Michael Foucault)." Rajshahi: Rodh

Published: February 2006
8. Edited by Fahmidul Haq and A Al Mamun "Corporate Mediar Judhya o Tathya Banijya (Information and War Business of the Corporate Media)" Dhaka: Shrabon Publishers. (ISBN 984-813-060-8)

Published: February 2004

Book Chapter

1. A Al Mamun "Mogoje Curfew: Kontake Boli Songbad (Curfew in the Brain: What is a News?)" A. Al Mamun and Fahmidul Haq (eds. 2013). Media Somaj Sangskriti (Media, Society and Culture). Dhaka: Agami Prakashani. (ISBN 978-984-04-15571)

Published: February 2013
2. A. Al Mamun "Prothom Aloy Iraqe Markn Hamla: Agression Jokhon Munafar Mauka (Representation of U.S Attak on Iraq on Prothom Alo pages: When Agression Becomes an opportunity for More Profit)" A. Al Mamun and Fahmidul Haq (eds. 2013). Media Somaj Sangskriti (Media, Society and Culture). Dhaka: Agami Prakashani. (ISBN 978-984-04-15571)

Published: February 2013
3. A Al Mamun "Cinema Representation: Bomb Jungi Madrassa Islam ebong Bangladesh (Cinema Representation: Bomb Militants, Madrassa Islam and Bangladesh)" A. Al Mamun and Fahmidul Haq (eds. 2013). Media Somaj Sangskriti (Media, Society and Culture). Dhaka: Agami Prakashani. (ISBN 978-984-04-15571)

Published: February 2013
4. A Al Mamun "Faruqui's Telivision, Dur Darshaner Media ebong 'Imagined Community' (Faruqui's Television, Media for Tele Vision and Imagined Community" A. Al Mamun and Fahmidul Haq (eds. 2013). Media Somaj Sangskriti (Media, Society and Culture). Dhaka: Agami Prakashani. (ISBN 978-984-04-15571)

Published: February 2013
5. A Al Mamun "‘Chandrakathar Biruddhe ek-kisti Katukatha’ (A Bunch of Harsh Critique Against Chandrakatha)." Fahmidul Haq and Shakhawat Mun (Eds.). Shomoyer Cholochitro Cholochitrer Shomoy (Films of this time and the Time of the Films). Dhaka: Oitijha.

Published: February 2006
6. A Al Mamun "‘Shangskritic Oviprokash O Shamrajjik Bashonar Etibrittyo’ (Cultural Manifestation and the History of Imperial Desire)." Benjir Khan (ed.). Edward W. Said: Abissaw Bibeker Konthossor. Dhaka: Shangbed.

Published: February 2005
7. A Al Mamun "‘Prothom Aloi Iraqe Markini Hamla: Aggression Jokhon Munafar Mouka’ (Prothom Alo’s coverage of American War Against Iraq: When Aggression Turns to an Opportunity for Profit)." A. Al Mamun and Fahmidul Haq (eds.). Corporate Mediar Judhya O Tathya Banijya (Information and War Business of Corporate Media). Dhaka: Shrabon Publishers.

Published: February 2004
8. A Al Mamun "‘Mokkel Rastrer ekti Potrikai Markin ‘Shontrashbirodhi Juddha’’ (U.S. ‘War Against Terrorism’ in a Client-state Newspaper)" A. Al Mamun and Fahmidul Haq (eds.). Corporate Mediar Judhya O Tathya Banijya (Information and War Business of Corporate Media). Dhaka: Shrabon Publishers.

Published: February 2004
9. A Al Mamun "‘Media o khomotar Mithojibita: Gonotantrik Babosthar Shohayok naki Humki?’ (Symbiotic Relation between Media and Power: Whether it is Supportive or Threat to the Democratic Order?)" Kamrul Hasan Monju and Jannatul Ferdous (eds.). Jonoporishore Gononaddhom O Onnanyo Proshongo (Mass Media In Public Sphere and other Issues). Dhaka: Mass-line Printers.

Published: February 2003

Journal

1. A Al Mamun "Bangla Cholocchitre Baul o Faquir Poribeshonar Rajniti (Politics of Representing Bauls and Faquirs in Banglka Cinema)" Tarko, 1st Year, 1st Issue, Dhaka.

Published: May 2022
2. A Al Mamun "Botam Khule Fatiye Bacho Kimba Morokboddho Sohingshotar Kotha ( Live Unbuttoned or A story of Covert violence" Agrayon, A Communication journal for Media Society and State. Dhaka University.

Published: October 2019
3. A Al Mamun "Text and the Context: Locating Explicitly Religious TV serials in Bangladesh" Sundeep R. Muppidi and Maria Mercedes F. Robles (Ed.), Media Asia, Vol. 39, Number 1. AMIC, Singapore.

Published: October 2012
4. A Al Mamun "Rupturing imagination of a nation through Press photography in Bangladesh" Jojon, special publication on 20 years celebration of the department of Mass Communication and Journalism, Rajshahi University

Published: September 2011
5. A Al Mamun "Moner Manush: Beshara Faquir Lalonke nie Voddorlokder shukkho premer mormo bojha vaar (Moner Manush: It’s hard to gauge the delicate love affair of the Vaddarloks towards the beshara faquir Lalon)" Kazi Mamun Haider (ed.), Magic Lanthan, Issue 1, Rajshahi.

Published: April 2011
6. A Al Mamun "Meril-Prothom Alo Cholochitro-shomalochona-puroskarer Rajnoitik Orthoniti (Political Economy of the film critic award of Meril-Prothom Alo)" A. Al Mamun and Fahmidul Haq (eds.), Yogayog, a journal of communication and culture, Issue 10 (ISSN-1727-0594)

Published: February 2010
7. A Al Mamun "Letter from Jail." Antara Dev Sen (ed.). The Little Magazine (Security issue, Vol. VII: Issue 3 & 4), Delhi

Published: November 2008
8. A Al Mamun "বাংলা সিনেমা উদ্ধারপ্রকল্পঃ ব্যাচেলর চন্দ্রকথাদের পোয়াবারো ((The Bangla film rescue scheme: An Instance of Impetus for the Films like Chandrakatha and Bachelor)" A. Al Mamun and Fahmidul Haq (eds.). Yogayog, a journal of communication and culture, Issue 8, (ISSN-1727-0594)

Published: February 2007

Conference

1. A Al Mamun "Moner Manush: Travelling of Fakir Lalon Shah in the World of Hindu Saints and the Question of Bangali Nation" Association for Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA 12) Conference, 3rd-6th April 2012, Panel 35: Imagining Bangladesh and 40 Years of Its Aesthetic Trajectory, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Published: April 2012

Seminar / Symposium / workshop attended

1. A Al Mamun "Beyond Political Islam and Secularism: Art and Crafts of Tarek Masud" A memorial lecture delivered at National Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka

Published: November 2019
2. A Al Mamun "Tarek Masud and His Films: Beyond the Secular-Islamist Binary" Anthropology forum’s ‘Seminar on nationalism’. BRAC University, Dhaka

Published: November 2019
3. A Al Mamun "Representing the Underrepresented: Tarek Masud and His Films" Seminar organized by Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSS,C) India

Published: October 2017
4. A Al Mamun "Representation of Baul and Faquirs in cinema" Badal Rahman Memorial Lecture, National Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka

Published: October 2017
5. A Al Mamun "Baul Status in front of ZIA: Controversy, Contest and the Question of “National Culture”" The Cultural Studies Workshop on Sacred in Contemporary Culture. Shantiniketan, organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSS,C), India.

Published: March 2010

Origin and Development of Journalism

Journalism is a modern practice. It is an evolving practice as well; from the beginning technological transformations have especially impacted upon its mode of operation and the medium it used. Journalism, as we know today, emerged only when society in Eu

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Society and Politics in Bangladesh

Major aim of this course is to map historical processes and the struggle of the people living in the riverine delta who formed a new nation-state of Bangladesh. In consonense with this broader aim, topics of this course will evolve around the social and p

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Advanced Research Methodologies

The principal aim of this course is to cultivate in students a critical research sensibility that addresses questions of communication and culture and their intersection, with research being defined as an engaged process of inquiry and discovery that lead

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Mass Communication

This course will deal with the basic concepts, characteristics and functions of mass communication, mass media and its impacts on the society. The course will critically analyze the leading mass communication theories with a particular focus on Harold Ada

Communication and Media Theories

This course will offer a critical analysis of contemporary theories of communication. It will discuss issues in the study of mass communication, the nature of communication theories, general system theories, symbolic interactionism and theories of languag

Journal Editing

 

       Editor, Yogayog, a journal of communication and culture, publishing since 1997. (ISSN-1727-0594).

       Editor, Mediamanoosh (2017), an especial publication from the department of Mass Communication and Journalism, Rajshahi University.

       Editor, Jojon (2011), an especial publication on 20 years celebration of the department of Mass Communication and Journalism, Rajshahi university.

       Member of the editorial board, Manoosh: Terrorism-Media-War issue; (ISSN 984-8243-20-8), edited by Selim Reza Newton, February 2003, published by Patthak Samabesh, Dhaka.

       Member of the editorial board of ADCOMSO, a journal of administration, communication and society, published from Rajshahi University (defunct).

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