BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e3eea0836f30c4af23803d6ab905c539 DTSTAMP:20260607T104824Z SUMMARY:Changing spatialities and agency at Myanmar’s highest borderlands DESCRIPTION:Contact: elizabeth.rhoads@ace.lu.se\n\nMyanmar’s highest bord erlands are defined by naturally connected but politically and geopolitica lly dissected vast mountainous spaces of the eastern Himalayas around the tri-junction of China\, Myanmar and India. Their sweeping extent\, but mor e so the politics and challenges of access allow us to produce knowledge o f these places and their societies in tiny bits. The presentation provides a glimpse of the changing socio-political dynamics at the borderlands bet ween Arunachal Pradesh and Kachin State through two key themes. One is the effects of space on theories and local actions\, interactions and develop ments. The other is the community\, livelihood and wider cultural resilien ce at and across Myanmar’s highest borderlands. \;Karin Dean is a se nior researcher at Tallinn University’s School of Humanities\, trained i n political geography. She currently heads the Eur-Asian Border Lab (https ://borderlab.eu/)\, an active platform to foster trans-regional dialogue i n border studies. Karin’s research interest revolves around borders—on how different actors construct\, negotiate and cross physical\, symbolic or virtual borders in their claiming of political space. Most of her resea rch has focused on the contested spatialities at Myanmar’s borderlands a nd the Kachin connectivities across China and Myanmar\, while most recentl y she has extended her research to the Indian ‘side’ at Arunachal Prad esh-Myanmar borderlands \; \;\n\nMore information about the event: https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/changing-spatialities-and-agency-myanmars- highest-borderlands DTSTART;TZID=GMT:20250513T131500 DTEND;TZID=GMT:20250513T150000 LOCATION:Asia Library\, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies\, Söl vegatan 18 B\, Lund END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR