LSE, 26th January 2023 3pm GMT; register here

A special lecture to mark 75 years of Myanmar’s independence & the complex history of its anti-colonial struggle, focusing on Aung San.

SPEAKER – Angelene Naw is Professor Emerita in History at Judson University (@JudsonU), Illinois. She is author of ‘Aung San and the Struggle for Burmese Independence’ (2001), an academic biography of Aung San, and very recently, of ‘The History of the Karen People of Burma’ (ed. J. Cain; 2023).

DISCUSSANT – Michael W. Charney is Professor in the Department of History & the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS(@SOAS), University of London, and a specialist in the history of Southeast Asia. He is author of ‘A History of Modern Burma’ (2009), and more recently, ‘Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia: Burma, 1941-1942’ (2019).

CHAIR – Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).