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.” pp. 159-208.
Jenny, Mathias. “The Role of Shan in the Greater Burma Zone” pp. 209-232.
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.
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Coderey, Céline. The Power of Remainder: Politics and Poetics of Healing in Buddhist Myanmar. University of Hawaii Press, 2026.
Brown, Clare Therese, Minara Islam, and Showkutara Chocho. “International ‘Victim-centred’Justice and the Crisis of Legitimacy: Who Speaks on Behalf of Rohingya Women?” Progress in Development Studies (2026).
Rahman, Mahbubur, Abdur Rob Khan, and Md Rizwanul Islam, eds. Rohingya Repatriation: An Elusive or Achievable Agenda?. Taylor & Francis, 2026.
Friday August 28, 2026 at 8:30pm MMT • 7am PT • 10am ET • 3pm BST • 9pm ICT
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 has worked in Myanmar since 2014 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Environmental Social Science at the University of Montana, where she directs the International Conservation & Development Program.
Myat The Thitsar is an applied researcher working at the intersections of social anthropology, political economy, media, digital politics, and humanitarian governance, with a focus on Myanmar. She holds a Ph.D. in Global Studies and is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Nyan Corridor. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations. Her research has been published in Asian Ethnicity and The International Journal of Press/Politics, with recent work examining resistance, humanitarianism, and infrapolitics in post-coup Myanmar.
Naw Pe The Law is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDC), Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. She holds a dual PhD in International Development Studies from Chulalongkorn University and the University of Copenhagen. Her doctoral research examined public authority, land governance, and forest governance in conflict-affected areas of Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. With over 15 years of experience as a development practitioner, she has worked closely with local civil society organizations on indigenous rights, environmental governance, community-led conservation, and natural resource management. Her work bridges academic research and policy engagement, with particular interests in women’s leadership and participation in ethnic governance, locally led conservation, indigenous rights, and sustainable natural resource governance.
Tharaphi Than is an associate professor teaching Burmese language and culture at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Her work spans Burmese literature, media, feminism, and social movements in Myanmar, alongside efforts to expand educational opportunities for students whose academic journeys have been disrupted by conflict, displacement, and conscription. She also works pro bono at Virtual Federal University (VFU).
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See here for a Fall line-up of talks on New Books organized by Tea Circle Myanmar.
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 Karen people’s history from the pre-colonial era to the 21st century through a Karen Christian perspective. The presentation will explore religion, education, nationalism, military conflict and Burma’s political history, as well as the Karen people’s first encounters with Baptist missionaries, including Adoniram Judson.
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.
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Tin Maung Htwe. “Emotional resistance and identity formation in youth in post-coup Myanmar revolutionary landscape.” International Review of Sociology, 2026.
Lubina, Michał. “What could have gone wrong?: an anti-communist in a postcolonial country at the beginning of the Cold War: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s trip to Burma.” RES GESTAE. CZASOPISMO HISTORYCZNE 22 (2026).
Htee Thaw Thaw et al. “Myanmar Migration to Thailand Post-2021 Coup: Legal Status, Labor Turnover, and Socio-Economic Implications.” Economies 14.8 (2026): 327.
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
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.
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Zhang, Fangliang, and Tian Zhang. “Labelling Rohingya across borders: differential governance, label conversion, and mobility-induced stratification.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2026): 1-21.
Burma Coup Resistance Notes. “At last: A Foreigner’s Guide to Burma’s Opposition Organizations.” Substack. 26 July 2026.
Myat, Mon Mon. Aung San Suu Kyi: The Realities of Power in Burma’s Authoritarian Legacy. Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 2026.
This week’s New Pubs features Hassanien et al comparing oppression, liberation and humanitarianism in Palestine, Myanmar, and Sudan; Lee on language education for Rohingya children; and Kakati on Naga violence-workers in the India-Myanmar borderlands after WWII.
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Hassanien, Nora, Manny Maung, and Dustin Barter. “Oppression, liberation and humanitarianism in Palestine, Myanmar and Sudan.” HPG report, ODI Global (2026).
Lee, Charity. “Language education for Rohingya children in Southeast Asia.” Language Use in Southeast Asia. Routledge 2026, pp 65-78.
Kakati, Aditya. “Gangsters or guerrillas? Mobilizing Naga violence-workers after global war in the India–Myanmar borderlands, 1945–1975.” Critical Military Studies (2026): 1-21.
This week’s New Pubs features Frydenlund and Dunn on Rohingya refugee workers in the USA; Chao on how “two Chinas” fractured Myanmar’s Cold War-era state building; and Bauer on late colonial era Shan Tsao-hpas as existing between political ethnicity and Shan nationalism.
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Frydenlund, Shae and Elizabeth Cullen Dunn. “Violent Separations: Refugee Workers, Racial Capitalism, and the Production of Debility.” Antipode, 2026.
Chao, Chung-chi. “The Dragon on the White Elephant: Two “Chinas” Fracture Myanmar’s State-Building in the Cold War.” International Journal of China Studies 17.1 (2026): 135-142.
Bauer, Georg. “A Hybrid Generation: The Tsao-hpas of Late Colonial Burma between Political Ethnicity and Shan Nationalism.” ASEAS-Advances in Southeast Asian Studies 19.2 (2026).
This week’s New Pubs features Pe The Law and Middleton on territorialization from below in Kamoethway; Pum Za Mang on Christians in Burma under military rule; and Zhou et al on geoeconomic power competition between China and Japan in Myanmar.
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Pe The Law and Carl Middleton. “Territorialization-from-below: Community-rooted strategies towards public authority in Kamoethway, Myanmar.” Journal of Political Ecology 33.1 (2026).
Pum Za Mang. “Christians in Burma under Military Rule.” Currents in Theology and Mission 53.3 (2026).
Zhou, Zeqi, Zhiding Hu, and Luping Zhao. “The Tyranny of Distance: Geoeconomic Power Competition Between China and Japan in Myanmar.” China Report (2026)
This week’s New Pubs features Kakati on memorialization of the WWII participation of Zo fighters; Haines et al on production of the ideal female peace and security agenda participant in Myanmar; and Metro and Min Layi Chan on how to be a bee not a mosquito when conducting research on the Thai/Burma border.
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Kakati, Aditya Kiran. “Worlds of War: Zo Memorialisation of Global and ‘Total Wars’ in the Decolonising India–Burma (Myanmar) Borderlands.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2026): 1-34.
Rebecca Haines, Elisabeth Olivius, Khin Khin Mra, and Jenny Hedström. “(Un)desirable women: The production of the ideal Women, Peace and Security agenda participant in Myanmar” Review of International Studies, 2026.
Rose Metro and Min Layi Chan. “Be a bee, not a mosquito: Research ethics on the Thai-Myanmar border.” Tea Circle 8-June-2026.
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