ZURICH, November 28, 2024 — In the "Talk at the Library: Myanmar's Borderworlds with India and China," political geographer Jasnea Sarma explores how borders function not only as physical dividers of territorial states, but also as spaces of control, resistance, extraction, and negotiation. Rebecca Farner, outreach and communications manager at Asia Society Switzerland, moderates the conversation. 

Dr Jasnea Sarma is an ethnographer and political geographer from Assam, Northeast India. She works on borders, migration, conflict and resource frontiers with a focus in the borderlands of China, Burma, India and Bangladesh where she has conducted multi-lingual and multi-sited fieldwork since 2014. She is currently a senior scientist and lecturer in Political Geography at the University of Zurich, and nonresident research fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. She is an editor of Geopolitics as well as supporting editor of the Tea Circle, which publishes new perspective on Burma/Myanmar. More of Jasnea's research and other public publications can be found here.

About Talks at the Library

Talk at the Library is a members-only series where we invite an expert to our office library, over lunch, for a conversation on specific niche topics on a variety of countries and regions of Asia. The program consists of a moderated discussion and subsequent audience Q&A. Participants have the opportunity interact with the experts, asking questions live or online. Online participation is open to the public.