Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Dr. Malini Sur

4.30pm, Monday

24th August, 2015

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

Please Register at: dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

Hosted by Dr. Eric Kerr

Malini is an anthropologist of borders, bicycles and ‘boulder’ couws. She is coming to talk with us about time’s relationship to border fences and cattle smuggling. She will share her thoughts about how to study time in dangerous places.

Malini is happy to also discuss other aspects of her work:

For eight years she has been travelling and living in remote villages along the India and Bangladesh border, the longest international boundary in South Asia. Her photographs of border societies have been exhibited in Amsterdam, Berlin, Chiang Mai and Kathmandu. Over the last year, Malini has been following cyclists who are protesting a restriction on cycles from Kolkata’s roads. She is making a documentary film on this subject.

Before returning to university, Malini campaigned on issues of displacement, education, and human rights. She has written on political violence, smuggling and what it means to eat with fingers.

This Fellow’s Tea counts as a Special Event for the Senior Seminar on Time and Life

Photos taken may be used for Tembusu publicity materials