Speaker

Dr. Iftekhar Iqbal

Iftekhar Iqbal is an environmental historian of South and Southeast Asia. He is a faculty member and Programme Leader at the History and International Studies Programme at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. His works include The Bengal Delta: Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840-1943 (Palgrave Macmillan 2010) and The Range of the River: A Riverine History of Empire across China, India, and Southeast Asia (Stanford University Press, 2025). His other works include the co-edited Fluid Phenomena: The River and Anthropocene Life-World in the Asia-Pacific (forthcoming, Brill, 2026) and co-edited University of Dhaka: Making, Unmaking, Remaking (Prothoma, 2016). Iqbal is currently working on a book project, “Anthropocene South Asia: A Short History” (Under contract with Cambridge University Press).