Sarkar Presents Rohingyas Research at King’s College London
[Updated March 31, 2021] Jayita Sarkar, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, presented her research on the Second World War-origins of the Rohingya crisis during a lecture hosted by King’s College London.
Her presentation, titled “Frontiers to Battlefields to Borderlands: The Connected Partitions in the Rohingya Question, 1942-1952,” is part of an ongoing workshop-style conference called, “South Asia Unbound” hosted by the New International Histories of South Asia. The conference explores the impact of the erection of “national” borders on who gets defined as a citizen or a migrant, and how the complex relationship between states and their diaspora.
Sarkar’s presentation can be viewed below.
Jayita Sarkar is Assistant Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where she is also the founding director of the Global Decolonization Initiative. She teaches diplomatic and political history at graduate and undergraduate levels. Professor Sarkar’s areas of research expertise are 20th century South Asia, history of U.S. foreign relations, politics of nuclear technologies, and connected partitions. Her book, Ploughshares & Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War, (Forthcoming, Cornell University Press, 2022), examines the first forty years of India’s nuclear program through the prisms of geopolitics and technopolitics. Read more about Professor Sarkar on her faculty profile.