Announcements and Calendar

Calendar of Burma Studies Events (all times local)

  • 8 June: Burma Studies Conferences in Zurich, Switzerland. Register here.
  • 18 March: Annual Business Meeting of the Burma Studies Group. All AAS attendees are welcome to join! Saturday, March 18, 2023, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM, Boston Sheraton Hotel – Riverway (5th Floor). Non-AAS attendees may join via Zoom: please register here.
  • 18 March: The Theravada Studies Group invites you to attend a series of short presentations held in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies meeting in Boston on Saturday, March 18th, 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM. 

Past events

  • 15 December: Myanmar’s Voices for Freedom, hosted by Insight Myanmar, with Linn Thant; Thiri; Bart Was Not Here; Ma Thida; and Pyae Phyo Kyaw 15 Dec (7:30 am Yangon time). register here.
  • December: Tun Myint. “Collapse of Tatmadaw and the end of Burmanization in Myanmar,” see here.
  • 6 December: “Turning Land into capital” book launch and discussion, with Pasuk Phongpaichit; Naruemon Thabchumpon; Philip Hirsch; Kevin Woods; Natalia Scurrah; Carl Middleton (1pm ICT), zoom / in person registration link
  • 1 December: “Schools, Blood, Guns, & Bombs: Education in Myanmar’s Pro-Democracy Struggle” with Dr Ka Lok Yip; Dr Su Yin Htun; Yamin; and Jonathan Liljeblad (sign up here).
  • 29 November: James C. Scott and David Moe, “The Coup in Myanmar: The Politics of Buddhist Nationalism, Everyday Resistance, and the Future of Federal Democracy”; sign-up here
  • 29 November: “Defending Human Rights in Myanmar” panel (6-7 AEDT) panel with Chris Sidoti; Htwe Htwe Thein; Manny Maung; and Tun Aung Shwe) virtual link sign-up here.
  • 25 November: Stéphen Huard on “Local politics and violence in Myanmar’s drylands” (7:00 pm AEDT) virtual link sign-up here.
  • 23 November: Launch of “Stitching together a future – Myanmar’s garment workers fight for their lives against COVID-19 and a military coup” (4pm AEDT); register here.
  • 23 November: “Justice for Rohingya” hosted by Burma Rohingya Organization UK ( 2pm – 3:30pm (London); register here
  • 18 November: Mai Van Tran and Megan Ryan. “Democratic backsliding disrupted: The role of digitalized resistance in Myanmar,” see here.
  • 16 November: Gerard McCarthy, “Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality and Resistance in Myanmar” Registration – Zoom
  • 4 November: Aye Lei Tun. “Deconstructing and reinforcing gender norms and cultural taboos in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution,” see here.
  • 28 Oct: Nick Cheesman, “Myanmar’s Revolutionary Situation & Political Theory,” register here.
  • 21 October: Samuel Hmung and Tamas Wells. “Rebel governance and People’s Defence Forces in Myanmar,” see here.
  • 14 October: Luke Corbin. “Heritage Drinks of Myanmar,” see here.
  • 30 September: Marcus Brand. “Myanmar’s Federal Democracy Charter: Analysis and Prospects” register here.
  • 23 September: Matthew Venker, “An Anthropologist in the Archives.” sign up here
  • 9 September: “Soldier Defections since the military coup in Myanmar.” Helene Kyed at ANU; register here.
  • 30 August: “Rohingya Genocide Archive launch event.” hosted by Witness and The Rohingya Project; register here.
  • 25 August: “What’s Next for Myanmar’s Rohingya?” FCCT, details here.
  • 28 June: Thinzar Shunlei Yi and Janjiira Sombatpoonsiri “Protest and Digital Repression: Repercussions and Pushback in Myanmar and Thailand” (3:00pm to 4:30pm Sg) | register here.
  • 15 June: Rose Metro, “Wrong Things That I Got Taught: Top Five Things Regarding Myanmar’s History.” 11:30am to 12:30pm (Myanmar Time). Eng–> Bse translation provided. Register here.
  • 14 June: Aung Tun and Jacques Leider, “Whither Rakhine state” 3pm – 4:30pm (Sg) | Details here
  • 14 June: Nicholas Ross, “Interpreting the role of ideology in Myanmar’s revolutionary situation,” ANU. 12.30-2.00pm AEST. Zoom here.
  • 10 June: “Yangon Stories” part of the Stories of Spatial Violence in Asian Cities.” UCL. 9:30 am–10:30 am. Register here.
  • 8 June: “Genocide by Attrition,” Fortify Rights. 8:30 am Myanmar time. Register here.
  • 30 May: Elliott Prasse-Freeman, “Nothing to lose but their (block)chains: Biometrics, Techno-imaginaries, and Transformations in Rohingya Lives.” Zoom link here.
  • 26 May: Tharaphi Than, May Oo Mutraw, Eaint Thiri, Ye Naing Moe, John Bowen, “Pots and Pans, Resistance and Rebellion.” Info here.
  • 25 May: Chris Beyrer and Parveen Parmar, “Chronic Emergency: The Health and Human Rights Crises in Burma/Myanmar,” Harvard Asia Center. Register here.
  • 20 May: Dipannita Maria Bagh, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India, “India’s Approach to the Myanmar Crisis,” ANU’s MRC 2022 Dialogue Series. Register here.
  • 18 May: Ethnocine Collective – Film Screening and Talk on Nobel Nok Dah (a film about three Burmese refugees) at University of California Riverside’s CIS Interdisciplinary Working Group Speaker Series “Art, Authoritarianism, Activism in Contemporary Southeast Asia.” Zoom here.
  • 13 May: Francesca Chiu, University of East Anglia and University of Copenhagen, “Unpacking youth struggles, resistance, and cohesion in post-coup Myanmar,” ANU’s MRC 2022 Dialogue Series. Register here.
  • 10 May: Melody Tzu-Lung Chiu, “Death Rituals in Chinese Buddhist Monasteries of Present-Day Myanmar.” 6pm (PDT), Register here.
  • 9 May: Jonathan Saha, “Racial Capitalism and Peasant Insurgency in Colonial Myanmar,” 16:00 – 17:30 (EDT). Register here.
  • 6 May: Saw John Bright, Myat Thet Thitsar, and Nick Cheesman, “The future of research in Myanmar: ethics and practice” 12:00-1:30pm (AEST). Register here.
  • 5 May: Adam Burke, “Security in Myanmar’s borderlands” ANU​​​, 12.30 – 1.30pm AEST (UTC+10), Zoom: Register here
  • 2 May: Ken MacLean, Clark University, “Crimes in Archival Form.” 3-4:30pm (WDT), Zoom link here.
  • 27 April: Book Discussion with Ko Ko Thett (hosted by UC Berkeley SEA Center); 11:00a (PDT); zoom sign up here
  • 25 April: Kyaw Hsan Hlaing, “Reporting during the world’s longest internet shutdown and the post-military coup in Burma.” More information here.
  • 22 April: Kim Joliffe, Independent researcher, “Political Authority in Areas of Armed Resistance,” ANU’s MRC 2022 Dialogue Series. Register here.
  • 21 April: James C. Scott, Yale University, “The Flood Pulse” (and follow-up roundtable discussion). More here
  • 19 April: Cecile Medail, ANU, “Mon and Pa-O perspectives on race, ethnicity and Burman-ness.” Zoom link here. [postponed]
  • 13 April: “From Our Place to the Front Line: A Zine on Life in Post-Coup Myanmar” More info here
  • 11 April: Vicky Bowman, Win Myo Thu, Aung Tun on “Socio-Economic Impacts of the 2021 Coup in Myanmar.” More here.
  • 6 and 7 April: Soe Myint, “Reflections on the Struggle for Media Freedom and Democracy in Military-Ruled Myanmar,” and “Personal Inspiration in the Quest for (Media) Freedom.” More here.
  • 6 April: “The Role of Law: Interrogating the Contributions of Lawyers and Complexities of Legal Reform in Burma’s Democracy’s Movement.” More here.
  • 5 April: Tony Neil, “Ceasefires as statebuilding: Evidence from Myanmar and other places,” ANU More here.
  • 30 March: “Where is Myanmar’s anti-coup movement heading?” Frontier Myanmar. Facebook event, here.
  • 28 March: Nicholas Farrelly, University of Tasmania, speaking at Southeast Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence and the Asia Forum. Register here.
  • 26 March: Theravada Studies Conference (at AAS but on zoom too). Details to come.
  • 26 March: “Shifting Sands” Film Screening & Dialogue with Director. Register here.
  • 24-27 March: Association of Asian Studies Conference (Hawai’i). For schedule of events, see here
    • 26 March: BSG Business Meeting, 7:30pm | Hilton, Room: Hibiscus 125 Mar 2022: Aung Kaung Myat, University of Hong Kong, “The role of identity and anti-coup armed resistance in Burma,” ANU’s MRC 2022 Dialogue Series. Register here.
  • 15 Mar 2022: “Everyday Justice and State Evasion in Myanmar” panel discussion. Register here.
  • 11 Mar 2022: Dorothy Mason, “Contested Terrains: Lineages, logics and effects of land reforms during Myanmar’s interrupted political transition (2011-21),” ANU’s MRC 2022 Dialogue Series. Register here.
  • 4 Mar 2022: Keepers of the Faith: The Buddhist Nuns of the Sagaing Hills (1996). Film Screening and Webinar by Royal Anthropological Institute. Register here
  • 2 Mar 2022: Resistance and Literature with Thawda Aye Lei, Ko Ko Thett, and Ma Thida, at Yale’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Register here.
  • 2 Mar 2022: Stephen Rosenbaum at University of Washington Law, “The Myanmar Coup/Genocide: One Year Later. More information here:
  • 25 Feb 2022: Rose Metro, “Creative Engagement with Myanmar: Using our Knowledge Outside Academia,” ANU’s MRC 2022 Dialogue Series. Register here.
  • 25 Feb 2022: Jane Ferguson, “Repossessing Shanland: Rock & Roll, Nostalgia and Hope in the Thai-Burma Borderlands” CSEAS (NIU). More info / register here.
  • 20 Feb 2022: Marxist Leftist Review’s online forum: Myanmar’s unfinished revolution w/ Burmese activists. More information here.
  • 18 Feb 2022: Tharaphi Than, “Provocative Images and Slogans,” NTU, see here.
  • 11 Feb 2022: “Sensing Myanmar – exploring violence and resistance” DIIS et al. see here.
  • 1-13 Feb 2022: Burma Spring Film Festival – Over 40 Films, plus Speaker Forums see here.
  • 4 Feb 2022: Poetry Against Tyranny: A Reading and Conversation with Three Burmese Poets,” Register here.
  • 2 Feb 2022: Berkeley’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies hosts Shae Frydenlund (University of Pennsylvania), giving a talk: “Theatre of Women Workers: Burmese Refugee Resettlement and Low -Wage Jobs” 5-6:30pm [WST]. More information here.
  • 2 Feb 2022: “One year on from the military coup in Myanmar, what comes next?” Sydney Southeast Asia Center (Australia), more information and register here
  • 1 Feb 2022: “One Year after the Myanmar Coup,” panel event at Columbia University with James Scott, Esther Ze Naw Bamvo, and David Moe. Register here.
  • 1 Feb 2022: “A Year of Reckoning: Resistance to Myanmar’s Illegal Feb 1 Coup,” hour-long memorialization event hosted by Yale University. Register here.
  • 1-2 Feb 2022: “Myanmar One Year Post-Coup: Implications & Responses to the Political and Humanitarian Crises,“ Deakin University (Australia) more information and register here.
  • 27 Jan 2022: Cornell Southeast Asia Program hosts Magnus Fiskesjo to discuss “Stories from an Ancient Land: The Wa of the Burma-China Borderlands.” See here.
  • 17 Dec 2021: “Myanmar Ten Months After the Coup” with Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, at ISEAS (Singapore). For more information and register here
  • 17 Dec 2021: “Repossessing Shanland” Book Launch and Panel Discussion with Jane Ferguson, 1:30 PM Thailand. Zoom ID: 932 1980 5165

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