2-day history confce starts tomorrow

A two-day “The Daily Star-Heritage Chatigram History Conference” will begin at Theatre Institute Auditorium in Chittagong tomorrow.
The conference, part of “The Daily Star Odommo Chattagram” festival scheduled to be held from March 30 to April 6, aims at disseminating the port city's history.
The conference will begin at 3:30pm tomorrow with a welcome speech by Mahfuz Anam, Editor and Publisher of The Daily Star.
It will be followed by “The Daily Star-Abdul Karim Sahityavisharad Lecture” by Prof Ranabir Chakravarti of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
He will then present a keynote paper on Chittagong and the Bay of Bengal.
Dr Shamsul Hossain, moderating the day's session, will present a PowerPoint presentation on Andarkilla area at 5:15pm.
A cultural programme will be staged by “Raktakarabi” at 6:00pm as The Daily Star's tribute to Rabindranath Tagore on his 150th birth anniversary.
The second day of the conference, titled “Pre-historic and pre-mediaeval Chittagong”, comprises three sessions and will begin at 10:00am.