School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences - SLASS

30/10/2025

Proud contribution from 𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒 and 𝐒𝐂𝐌𝐋𝐄 in promoting linguistic diversity through the publication of Mahale Voices.

10/07/2024

09/07/2024

If you are a creative writer writing in English, here is a platform you can consider. "Chaos," IUB's English Department's mouthpiece, has shifted its shape to become a creative writing journal with Professor Razia Sultana Khan as advisor, and Professor Ahsanuzzaman (Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman), Dr. Nagesh Rao (Nagesh DB Rumi Rao), Dr. Hafiza Nilofar (Hafiza Nilofar Khan), and me, collectively contributing to the editorial process. If we receive adequate support from our friends and colleagues, I'm certain that we will become successful. Attached below is the call for submissions. The deadline for the 2024 issue titled "Healing" is September 10, 2024.

Department of English & Modern Languages
Call for Submissions
CHAOS
Regular Issue, Winter 2024

After a hiatus of several years, Chaos, IUB’s English Department journal is back. The form, however, has changed from a collection of academic essays plus some creative work, to a peer-reviewed creative writing journal publishing only fiction, poetry, drama, life writing, and non-academic essays written in or translated into English.

About Chaos

The title of the journal, “Chaos,” is from Ancient Greek cosmology. Chaos was seen as the womb from which everything emerged. According to Hesiod's Theogony (the origin of the gods), “Chaos was the nothingness out of which the first objects of existence appeared.” It was the “vast and dark” void from which the first deity, Gaia, rose. Chaos can, therefore, be seen as the formless and disordered state of matter and the infinite space that is supposed to have existed before the ordered universe.

As a journal, Chaos alludes to the space provided to writers to create order out of disorder and form out of formlessness. In other words, it wishes to become the space where creativity takes shape and formlessness attains form.

Most university journals in Bangladesh adhere to theoretical or critical pieces, offering qualitative and/or quantitative analysis of language or literature. Chaos, on the other hand, welcomes creative writing, offering its space to anyone who wishes to publish a creative work in English.

Current Issue

The focus of this year’s issue is “Healing,” although any deserving piece remotely connected to that theme will be given due consideration. We take the word in its broadest possible sense, involving any form of internal or external recovery corresponding to human and/or non-human entities.

We invite previously unpublished short stories, poems, plays, autobiographical essays, and book
and film reviews for our 2024 issue. Experimental work traversing the boundaries of genres and
norms are equally welcome. Our intention is to select the best pieces possible, irrespective of
genre or style. We seek unpublished original work, written and edited by the authors themselves. Anything that bears the stamp of AI modification (ChatGPT, Google AI, etc.) and/or external editorial intervention (i.e. the use of Grammarly, editorial support, etc.) will not be considered.

The deadline for submission for this issue is September 10, 2024. All submissions will go through an initial screening followed by peer review. We will notify you about the status of publication by September 30, 2024. We consider our reviewers’ decisions as final.

Submission Requirements

All submitted works must be written in Times New Roman, using font size 12. Please email
us your work in a single word file, containing your name, address/affiliation, and the piece itself.
You may submit up to three poems, not exceeding six pages in total. For fiction and drama, the word limit is 4000. For reviews and reflective essays, we will adhere to a 1500-word cap.
All submissions must be made through our official email address: [email protected]

01/07/2024

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01/07/2024

30/06/2024

Admission is Open for Autumn 2024

Bachelor of Social Science in Anthropology

Application Deadline: Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Admission Test: Saturday, 6 July , 2024, 10.30 AM

To apply, please visit: Admission.iub.edu.bd

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30/06/2024

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09/06/2024

06/06/2024

IUB Debate Club secures a resounding victory in the Integrity Day 2024 Debate Competition!🏆

We are thrilled to share that a team from IUB Debate Club, consisting of our very own Ahmad Tousif Jami, Senin Chowdhury and Tahiya Ramisa Haque brought home the victory, showcasing their impressive debating skills against a team from North South University.💪🏼

In a compelling event "Integrity Day 2024" co-organized by the "Global Compact network Bangladesh" and the United Nations Global Compact, participants from two universities clashed on the topic: "Should ethical breaches by senior leaders result in harsher penalties than those by lower-level employees?"

We congratulate our team for their well-deserved win and extend our best wishes for continued dominance in future debates. 🎉

05/06/2024

A student and two alumni from IUB played pivotal roles in their team's runners-up finish at the prestigious Manchester City Corporate Cup 2024. The team, representing Bando Design Limited, competed from May 30 to June 1, 2024, at the Etihad Stadium, home of Manchester City FC in Manchester, UK.

Intishar Mostafa Chowdhury, a master's student in Media and Communication, along with Foyez Ahmed Peash and Rakibul Jony, graduates from the Finance and Human Resources Management Departments of IUB respectively, showcased remarkable skills and teamwork throughout the five-a-side tournament.

Read more: http://iub.ac.bd/news-and-events/news-and-media-archive/2024-June/665ecd9f4b012cab0b35ee40

02/06/2024

The Department of English and Modern Languages, School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Independent University Bangladesh (IUB) is delighted to organize the discussion on 'The Routledge Handbook of English Language Education in Bangladesh' on Tuesday, 04 June 2024 at 5.00 pm in ELRC (BC 7014)

You all are welcome to join!