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

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,…

Event: Faxon on Surviving the State (28 Aug)

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…

Event: History of the Kayin with Angelene Naw (21 Aug)

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…

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