From the lecture series: ‘Looking at marginalised knowledge — Multi-perspective contributions to knowledge justice with a special focus on childhoods’
Topic: What does the border mean for children? An analysis of drawings from Bengal, India
Speaker: Samata Biswas (Assistant Professor, The Sanskrit College and University, Kolkata, India)
Abstract
Manjira Sinha's Chhotoder Border (Children's Border) is a collection of line drawings and short descriptions written by students of Matiari Banpur High School, located just a few km from the India Bangladesh border. Reading the images and the texts together, we come across a complicated everyday negotiation with the world's most violent border by the children, where historical ties, kinship networks, violence and 'smuggling' surround shiny new border infrastructure. Alongside this collection, I have also had the opportunity to take a look at some drawings by children who were part of a workshop dealing with the history of India's partition. I read both sets of tests (visual, linguistic) together to understand how contemporary narratives about the border are negotiated through children's perception and representation of it.
The lecture series will take place from October 14, 2025 to January 27, 2026, every Tuesday from 4:15 to 5:45 p.m. The events will be held in a hybrid format at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences (Stendal Campus, Building 3, Audimax) and via Zoom (Zoom link provided after registration).
The lecture series is aimed at students, researchers and the interested public. Registration by email is requested.
More information can be found on the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences website.
Next date
13 January 2025 | 4:15-5:45 p.m.
Topic: On ‘unheard knowledge’: Marginalised actors talk about everyday life and anti-racism struggles in a migration society
(Photo: Pixabay)
Event Details
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