This week’s New Pubs features Wittekind on speculation as subsistence in peri-urban Myanmar; Selth on Myanmar’s authoritarian intelligence apparatus; and Wu on Burmese exiles on the Thai border during this revolutionary era.

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This week’s New Pubs features Thein-Lemelson on contestations over the memory of political imprisonment in Myanmar; Faxon et al trace a “feminist counter-topography” of Myanmar’s wars; and Sengupta on activism, law, and Rohingya life in Bangladesh camps.

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“Writers and Myanmar conflict“

Date: January 22, 2025 (Wednesday)

Time: 06:00 – 07:00 PM (Melbourne Time)/01:30-02:30 PM (Myanmar/Yangon Time)

Zoom: here

Ma Thida is a human rights activist, surgeon and writer who was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for endangering public peace, distributing unlawful literature and having contact with illegal organisations. She was released in 1999 after facing 6 years of harsh conditions. She is currently chair of PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee. She continues to speak out about the current difficult environment for freedom of expression and the cases of other writers in prison in Myanmar.

Michelle Aung Thin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication, teaching in the disciplines of Communication and Creative Writing. Her research spans in cultural history of colonial mixed-race groups such as the Anglo-Burmese, Anglo-Indians, Zerbadi and other Asian diaspora in cosmopolitan Rangoon to contemporary Myanmar literary production. She has taught writing in Mandalay and Yangon and more recently, collaborated with Myanmar artists, writers and translators on creative and academic works. Michelle has been a guest at southeast Asia and Australia’s most prestigious literary festivals and events. Michelle was born in Burma and her personal connection to the region enable her to offer insight into cross-cultural creative practices. 

Questions and Answers will follow the presentations. For more information about AMI, please visit aummi.edu.au/.

This week’s New Pubs features Campbell on how the coup enables labor exploitation in Thailand; Rellensmann w/ a book on the way the military regime has appropriated Buddhist sacred spaces; and Cerretani on transnational Rohingya social movements.

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This week’s New Pubs features articles on education in Myanmar – Wong on a decade of crisis and change for English teachers in Burma; Fretheim on faith-based higher ed; and Brown on higher ed in the coup context.

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We have now been doing “New Pubs” for a while, and the pubs are piling up. We don’t claim to be exhaustive, but otoh, we have amassed quite a few of them! Take a look at our archive here.

This week’s New Pubs features Venker considering litigation as an act of citizenship in colonial Burma; Cornish on forcibly resettled Yangonites, 25 years later; and the venerable Varasiri arguing the Maṅgala Sutta may aid with peacebuilding in Myanmar.

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This week’s New Pubs features Ma Thida’s book on the Spring Revolution; Thame’s political theory on constituent power in that revolution; and Scham’s book, “An Archaeology of Persecuted Peoples,” which focuses on mountainous Asia and includes the Rohingya.

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This week’s New Pubs features A names only: Abb et al on the BRI in post-coup Myanmar; Aung Naing on emergent citizenship in the context of post-coup social protection; and Abd Jalil and Hoffstaedter on Malaysia schemes for registering (mostly Burmese) refugees.

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Scott, James C. In Praise of Floods, Yale University Press, 2025.

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