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Surviving the State: Land and Democracy in Myanmar Friday August 28, 2026 at 8:30pm MMT • 7am PT • 10am ET • 3pm BST • 9pm ICT Zoom registration here Author Hilary Faxon in conversation with Myat The Thitsar, Naw Pe The Law, Tharaphi Than. Hilary Faxon is a political ecologist who investigates critical geographies of environment, development and technology. She…
The Sydney Southeast Asia Centre invites you to a special hybrid seminar exploring the history of the Karen, or Kayin (ကရင်), people of Myanmar and Thailand. Join us on Friday 21 August 2026, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm, zoom link. Professor Angelene Naw will share insights from her book, The History of the Karen People of Burma, tracing the…
This week’s New Pubs features Tin Maung Htwe on youth emotional resistance and identity formation in post-coup Myanmar’s revolutionary landscape; Lubina on an anti-communist’s trip to Cold War-era Burma; and Htee Thaw Thaw et al on Myanmar migration to Thailand post-2021 coup. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and…
This week’s New Pubs features Zhang and Zhang on the many different ways that Rohingya are labeled, based on multi-sited field research; Burma Coup Resistance Notes provides a foreigner’s guide to Burma’s opposition organizations; and a book by Mon Mon Myat on Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s authoritarian legacy. See our Recent Publications page for all…
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