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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, 7 September 2026

This week’s New Pubs features Medail et al eds of Myanmar Rises: the Spring Revolution; Neil and Saw Day Chit Htoo on reconsidering territoriality in rebel governance; and Ish and Bilay on Pyusawhti militias in central Myanmar. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if anyone wants a PDF…

Recent Pubs, 31 August 2026

This week’s New Pubs features Buchanan on the challenges of moving opium through Shan State; Liljeblad on the prospects for federalism in Myanmar’s current conflict; and McCarthy and Nyana on the role of roadblocks in post-coup Myanmar. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if anyone wants a PDF…

Special New Pubs: JoBS on Language Contact in Burma (30.1 / 2026)

McCormick, Patrick. “Language and the Study of Southeast Asia.” pp. 3-74 Müller, André. “The Areal Linguistics of the “Kachin Zone”: Language Contact across the Kachin Languages.” pp. 75-115 Ring, Hiram. “The Khasian Languages of Northeast India: Between, but Not Wholly of, South and Southeast Asia.” pp. 117-158 McCormick, Patrick. “Tavoyan: Language Contact in a Burmese Dialect.”…

Recent Pubs, 24 August 2026

This week’s New Pubs features Coderey’s new book on the politics and poetics of healing in Buddhist Myanmar; Brown et al asking who speaks on behalf of Rohingya women; and Rahman et al with an edited volume on whether Rohingya repatriation is possible. See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks,…

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