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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

This week’s New Pubs features a volume edited by Jaquet on defiance, civil resistance, and experiences of violence under post-coup military rule; a book by Brinham on Rohingya and ‘genocide cards’; and Egreteau and Aung Kaung Myat on the exclusion of Rohingya in Myanmar’s parliamentary discourse (2011-2021).

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A. Thomas Kirsch Award for Southeast Asia Studies

The A. Thomas Kirsch Award for Southeast Asia Studies is an annual award established in memory of A. Thomas Kirsch, a pioneer in Thai studies and cherished professor of anthropology at Cornell University, to support graduate student members of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) engaged in the study of Southeast Asia.

Award Details

• Amount: $1,000
• Frequency: One award will be given annually at the AAA annual meeting
• Funding Use: The scholarship funds can be used towards ground and air travel, accommodation, meals and living costs, visa and passport fees, international health insurance, language study/program costs, research/field study expenses, and/or AAA membership dues.

Eligibility

Applicants must:

1. Be enrolled as a student in a full-time academic program anywhere in the world leading to a graduate degree in anthropology.
2. Demonstrate a commitment to the anthropological study of Southeast Asia. Students working in any subfield in anthropology are eligible to apply. For the purposes of this award, the definition of “study of Southeast Asia” includes research carried out within the geographical region of Southeast Asia as well as research conducted outside it, including but not limited to research conducted in libraries, or among Southeast Asian diasporic communities living outside of the region.
3. Be a member of the American Anthropological Association at the time of receiving the award. Students who are not currently members may still apply for the award, but winners will be asked to become a student member of the AAA as a condition of receiving the award. Award funds may be used to pay for the cost of the student membership.
4. Non-US citizens are eligible to apply.

This week’s New Pubs features Xu et al on stigma, spirituality, and coping strategies of Burmese people living with HIV; Sanchez Molano on the experiences of young Muslim inhabitants of Mingala Taungnyunt and Tamwe; and the Wares on the role of art in peacebuliding in Rakhine state.

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This week’s New Pubs features Salem-Gervais et al on education in post-coup Myanmar; Khairi on the role of Rohingya refugee CBOs in Malaysia; and Ven et al with a linguistic study of Burmese kinship terms in Taungdwingyi.

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table from Ven et al