Welcome to The Burma Studies Group

The Burma Studies Group is a scholarly, nonpolitical, and nonprofit professional association of all persons interested in Burma studies. For more information in both English and Burmese, see the About Us page.

Latest from BSG

Recent Pubs, 16 March 2026

This week’s New Pubs features Metro on the politics of acknowledgements in Burma Studies and Tsai on Kachin ethnic education in northern Shan state. Note there are only two this week, so send us your publications! See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if anyone wants a PDF but…

Recent Pubs, 9 March 2026

This week’s New Pubs features Houtman examining “do ayei” from chant to compact; Kim and Potter on Japan and Korea’s responses to Myanmar’s autocratization; and Lwin Cho Latt and Thidar Kyaw providing a Myanmar perspective on China/Indian machinations in the Indo-Pacific. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if…

Recent Pubs, 2 March 2026

This week’s New Pubs features Lee and Zarandona on war, genocide, and heritage in Myanmar; K Yhome on Myanmar as an in-between space, in many ways; and Naung Naung on the use of transnational repression and the creation of new state spaces withing ASEAN. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past…

Recent Pubs, 23 Feb 2026

This week’s New Pubs features You and Li on BRI-related Chinese migration in Myanmar; Akhter-Khan et al theorizing the exiled Burmese activist; and Naw Pe The Law et al on the Karen Women’s Organization. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if anyone wants a PDF but is excluded…

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