This week’s New Pubs features Chambers’ book on everyday ethics in Karen state; Mitra and Şahin-Mencütek on Rohingya refugees’ in/visibility in India; and Jefferson et al on the gendered dimensions of imprisonment in Myanmar.

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This week’s New Pubs features Roy on logistics in the first Anglo-Burma War; Coppel and Chang’s book on how the world responded to Myanmar’s digital coup; and Goeb et al on conflict, inclusivity, and transformation of Myanmar’s rice value chain.

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figure from Goeb et al

CPG Event Series on Peace and Security in Asia

Time: 30 August 2024, 3pm-4:30pm (GMT+7)

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with Anthony Davis, Sanjay Gathia, Htwe Htwe Thein, and Jason Tower

This week’s New Pubs features Pan Hsu Pyae Eain on post-coup inter-ethnic student solidarity; Vrieze on the transformation from anti-coup protests to ‘People’s War’; and Uddin conducting a discourse analysis of the Rohingya crisis.

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photo credit: RFA

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• The webinar features Greg Constantine, award-winning documentary photographer and APRRN member.
• We’ll explore the ‘Ek Khaale’ project and its importance in preserving Rohingya visual history.
• The agenda includes presentations, community voices, and a Q&A session.

Host: Asia Pacific Rights Network (APRN)

This week’s New Pubs features KK Aung Myint and Tangyin w/ a theological response to Nietzsche’s critique of Buddhism’s approach to pain; Verma on Rohingya refugees in India and the issue of Hindu nationalism; and Thu Thu Nwe Hlaing et al on “seeing like a donor:” the unintended harms of rendering civil society legible.

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featuring articles by Tomas Cole, Vincen Gregory Yu, Miriam Jaehn, Siu-Hei Lai, Jeonghyeon Kim, Yi-Chin Wu, Busarin Lertchavalitsakul, Hattori Ryuji, and Takahashi Tomoko.

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Strengthening fragmented health system units amidst recurrent attacks in Myanmar

Speaker: Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw
Date: Thursday 15 August 2024
Time zone: 5–6pm AEST (UTC+10), 1.30–2.30pm MMT, 9am–10am CEST 

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This week’s New Pubs features Medail and Chit Thet Tun on shifting inter-ethnic solidarities in post-coup Myanmar; Zaitsev on astrology from Ne Win to MAL; and Kratoska et al on Teh bin Said and his ‘escape’ from the Thailand-Burma railway.

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photo taken from National Museum of Australia archive