Join historian and journalist David Mould on a journey to borders, both real and imagined on Tuesday, February 16 at 7pm on Zoom, hosted by the Little Falls Public Library.
In his latest book on travel, history and culture, Postcards from the Borderlands, David explores the meaning of borders. Do posts, walls and fences, mark them simply political and geographical, or should we think of them more broadly? David’s journey begins with maps and cartoons that poke fun at how we view other parts of the US. He moves on to the carve-up of Africa, the artificial (and often straight-line) borders drawn by colonial powers. In South Asia, he explores “the world’s craziest border” between India and Bangladesh. He ends up in Central Asia, in that gerrymandered jumble of former Soviet republics whose names end in -stan.
Zoom Meeting : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82505532811