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DESCRIPTION:Ayesha Vemuri (Ph.D candidate in the Department of Art History 
 and Communications Studies\, 9IÖĆ×÷ł§Ăâ·Ń) \n\n'The Case for Letting Assam Flood
 : Speculative Infrastructure in the Brahmaputra Floodplain'\n\nThe transna
 tional Brahmaputra River is a site where ecological uncertainty\, geopolit
 ical anxiety\, and state securitization converge. Flowing through Tibet\, 
 India\, and Bangladesh\, the river is central to both transnational tensio
 ns and domestic struggles over citizenship and land. This presentation tra
 ces how state discourse on China’s supposed “weaponization” of water and t
 he threat of Bangladeshi “climate refugees” are linked through the logic o
 f speculation. I argue that border\, military\, and surveillance infrastru
 ctures can be understood as forms of what I theorize as “speculative infra
 structure”—projects that materialize imagined future threats\, transformin
 g uncertainty into a rationale for intervention in the present. In doing s
 o\, the talk contributes to debates on environmental media\, infrastructur
 e\, and the speculative temporalities of state power in South Asia.\n\nLig
 ht refreshments served.\n
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LOCATION:Room 116\, Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460 rue
  McTavish
SUMMARY:IOWC Speaker Series: Ayesha Vemuri
URL:/history/channels/event/iowc-speaker-series-ayesha
 -vemuri-367660
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