Guest Lecture: Dr. Victoria K. Sakti: Ageing, Mobility, and Care across the Indonesian and East Timorese Borders
On Wednesday, December 11th of 2024, from 12:15 to 13:40 Ct, Dr. Ferdiansyah Thajib’s course on What is Southeast Asia hosts Dr. Victoria K. Sakti’s guest lecture.
Dr. Victoria K. Sakti is a social anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow with the Max Planck Research Group “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her research centres on the intersections of ageing, displacement, care, memory, and post-conflict recovery. She has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and their borderlands, exploring the profound impacts of borders, (im)mobility, political identity, translocal practices, and belonging.
The event will take place in a hybrid format in Room 2.275, Henkestraße 91, 91052 Erlangen. For interested persons please confirm your participation to ferdi.thajib@fau.de by December 1st, 2024.
