Welcome to the Department of Folklore Studies!
We study folklore to learn and explore our own traditions, cultures and other cultures to become well equipped for understanding how our cultural practices and identities are produced, circulated and changed. The Department of Folklore Studies (DFS) studies inter-cultural communication and artistic practices in the global and digital society through a pragmatically inter-disciplinary approach in which anthropology, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, history, political sciences, aesthetics and ethical perspectives are integrated. We offer Bachelor of Social Science (Hons), Master of Social Science, MPhil and PhD degrees to the students and research scholars to transform them into culturally galvanized and socially globalized human through theory and practices. We firmly believe that our graduates and scholars can stand by the human society by virtue of their knowledge, wisdom, skills, spirits, and responsibilities for building a livable planet earth.
Our core research includes contemporary socio-cultural lives at all levels and in all domains of our society, and the analysis and understanding of various new activities, media strategies and creative phenomenon in micro and macro public spheres in the digital world. We try to better train young minds about the impact of digital technologies and application of powerful social media spectrum in the society at this modern age as well. We analyze the online and offline dimensions of socio-cultural life as fundamentally intertwined and inseparable. This node implies a new phase of globalization demanding acumens transcending those of single societies and raising new and unprecedented issues about transcultural contact, borrowing and influencing. At the same time, this new stage of globalization demands historical contextualization of contemporary social, communicative, cultural and artistic phenomenon.
The emergence of independent Bangladesh is no wonder but the invisible power of Bengali culture and identity intellection what united us against occupying Pakistan and led us to fight them strongly through a people’s war- Muktijuddha in 1971. Our history, culture, tradition and folklores are all deeply rooted in our struggle for independence. Students are nurtured by the faculties candidly to ignite their hearts and thoughts to explore their creative minds with the spirit of the war of liberation what gave us ultimate identity as a proud nation in the world by the behest of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the greatest Bengali of all ages in the planet earth.
The Department of Folklore Studies rightfully nurtures the hard-earned Bengali nationhood and embraces the pride of Bengali identity across the globe in the sharp light of socio-academic phenomenon.
Mostafizur Rahman MSW, MPhil, PhD
Chairman
Department of Folklore Studies (DFS)
Islamic University Bangladesh