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Special Issue: PopMyanmar, with contributions from Alfred Scott and Rory Gill on the role of newspapers in the 1930 dockworker riot; Htay Htay Myint on Chinese literature in Myanmar; MacLachlan on music as a key dimension of courtship; and Chiarofonte on revolutionary music and Thingyan chants. Ferguson’s introduction is here.

This week’s New Pubs features Dunford’s PhD diss on tea and Ta’ang, Mosberg’s on the politics of climate change adoption in southeastern Myanmar; Joseph’s master’s thesis on Karen nation-building during the Spring Revolution; and Vrieze’s diss on coalition building in the spring revolution.

See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if anyone wants a PDF but is excluded by pay wall, please email us and we will help if we can.

photo by Dunford

Burma Studies Group Travel Award for the 2025 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting

The Burma Studies Group (BSG) is delighted to announce Travel Awards to support graduate students attending the 2025 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, which will take place in Columbus, Ohio, in March 2025.

This award is open to graduate students conducting research in the field of Burma studies. Preference will be given to applicants of Burmese nationality.

The award is intended to assist with travel expenses for the conference. The exact amount will be determined based on available funding and the number of recipients.

We strongly encourage all eligible graduate students to apply. Any questions, drop us a line, you can find our contact details here. https://burmastudiesgroup.com/contact-us/. Please support BSG by paying your dues, for details https://burmastudiesgroup.com/support-bsg/

Link for application

This week’s New Pubs features Debnath on armed insurgent groups in Myanmar; Romaniuk and Roul reading ARSA thru an Islamic insurgency framework; and Palmgren on migrant survival and economic development at the Thai/Myanmar border.

See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if anyone wants a PDF but is excluded by pay wall, please email us and we will help if we can.

ONLINE: Zoom

Student research seminar: Health, education and non-violent resistance in Myanmar

This seminar features presentations from three post-graduate students on their Myanmar research. Zay Bo Tun (Mahidol University) addresses healthcare gaps for Myanmar political migrants in Thailand, based on fieldwork conducted in Mae Sot. Kay Thwe Phyo (Flinders University) examines the impact of the military coup on Myanmar’s higher education sector and the personal and professional lives of teachers. Finally, Nyo Mee Oo (Flinders University) explores how diverse communities engage in non-violent resistance to the coup, especially online, and the role of community solidarity. Each speaker will present for 10 minutes, followed by a 30-minute Q&A with the audience. 

Speakers

• Zay Bo Tun, Mahidol University, Thailand
• Kay Thwe Phyo, Flinders University, Australia
• Nyo Mee Oo, Flinders University, Australia 

For more information on the MRC 2024 Dialogue Series please see the MRC website or contact the Chair: David Hopkins, david.hopkins@anu.edu.au

The ANU Myanmar Research Centre Dialogue Series is a conversation concerning current research on Myanmar aimed at providing scholars with an opportunity to present their work, try out an idea, advance an argument and critically engage with other researchers. International and Myanmar researchers from any discipline are invited to contribute. The Dialogue Series is particularly seeking to provide a space for early career researchers wishing to receive constructive feedback. Each dialogue is one hour long, including a 30-minute presentation followed by a 30-minute Q&A. As a hybrid series, the Dialogues are presented in both virtual and in-person format, hosted by the ANU Myanmar Research Centre.

This week’s New Pubs features Mosyakov et al on Myanmar’s role in China’s BRI; Bhattacharyya and Das on Rohingya precarity; and Martuscelli et al on Rohingya refugees in Malaysia and their hopes for resettlement elsewhere.

See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if anyone wants a PDF but is excluded by pay wall, please email us and we will help if we can.

Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University will host a book talk by Ken MacLean on “CRIMES IN ARCHIVAL FORM: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar” on November 18, 2024 from 9:00pm HST.

More info: https://go.hawaii.edu/6jb

To attend online: https://go.hawaii.edu/bj9

The State of Buddhism and Buddhist Nationalism After the Coup in Myanmar

• Thursday, November 14, 2024
• 12:00 PM  1:15 PM (EST)
• zoom link
• for more info

This week’s New Pubs features two works of ethnomusicology – first Kiik on singing for nationalist and religious environmentalism amid war; then Greenwood with a dissertation on “sonic kinship” in post-coup Myanmar. Then Simion and Cheesman on how Rule of Law brokers operate internationally.

See our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks, and if anyone wants a PDF but is excluded by pay wall, please email us and we will help if we can.