This week’s New Pubs features Saruya on Burmese American youth experiences with Buddhism in the SF bay area… and that’s the only new pub we have this week.
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Title: Reflections on the revolution in Myanmar
Speakers: Swe Win, Moe Thuzar, and Jason Tower
Date: Tuesday 4 June 2024
Time zone: 5–6pm AEST (UTC+10), 1.30–2.30pm MMT, 9am–10pm CEST
More than three years since the military coup in Myanmar, fierce opposition to the junta continues in different forms around the country. Almost daily, there are new shifts in conflict and new episodes of junta repression, as well as stories of resistance, survival and hope. This panel event explores key aspects of the revolution in Myanmar, from the borderlands to foreign relations, presenting an up-to-date overview from different perspectives. Each speaker will deliver a short presentation, followed by a 30-minute Q&A.
Speakers
Swe Win is the editor-in-chief at Myanmar Now. He holds a masters degree in journalism from the University of Hong Kong.
Moe Thuzar is a Senior Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, where she coordinates its Myanmar Studies Programme.
Jason Tower is the country director for the Burma program at the United States Institute of Peace.
hosted by the ANU Myanmar Research Centre’s MRC Dialogue Series 2024
This week’s New Pubs features the late Saw Eh Htoo (w/ Waters) on Ne Win’s legacy of Burmanization; Pedersen on Myanmar’s fragmented state; and Chu et al using a biopolitics lens to explore why the ULA supports the Kyaukphyu SEZ.
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The New UN Special Envoy on Myanmar: A Mission Impossible?
Date: May 27, 2024 (Monday)
Time: 06:00 – 07:00 PM AEST Time (14:30-15:30 Myanmar/Yangon Time)
Zoom Meeting here
The appointment of former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop as new UN Special Envoy to Myanmar has been met with a mix of quiet hope and vocal scepticism. Many see the job of the Envoy as essentially impossible, and some have even called for the position to be terminated. The webinar will reflect on the past 30 years of UN mediation in Myanmar and discuss how the mandate might be most useful today.
Dr Morten B. Pedersen is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of New South Wales Canberra (Australian Defence Force Academy) and a former senior analyst for the International Crisis Group in Myanmar. He has been working on Myanmar politics and development affairs for more than twenty years and has served as a policy adviser to the Australian government, the United Nations, the European Commission, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari, among others. His major publications include A Good Office: Twenty Years of UN Mediation in Myanmar (International Peace Institute, 2012), with Sofia Busch; Principled Engagement: Negotiating Human Rights in Pariah States (Ashgate, 2013), with David Kinley; and The Rohingya Crisis, Myanmar, and R2P ‘Black Holes’ (Global Responsibility to Protect, 2021).
Moe Thuzar is a Senior Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, where she coordinates its Myanmar Studies Programme. Moe joined ISEAS in 2008, as lead researcher in the ASEAN Studies Centre up to August 2019. Prior to joining ISEAS, Moe spent ten years at the ASEAN Secretariat, where she headed the Human Development Unit from 2004 to 2007. A former diplomat, she researched Burma’s foreign policy implementation (1948-88), for her PhD at the National University of Singapore. Moe was a Fox International Fellow (2019-2020) at Yale University’s MacMillan Center during her PhD candidacy. Her research interests include Myanmar’s foreign policy, ASEAN integration impacts and issues (socio-cultural areas) and ASEAN’s dialogue relations. Moe has co-authored, co-edited, and contributed to several compendia and edited volumes on ASEAN, and on Myanmar
This week’s New Pubs features Campbell and Aung on bringing an analysis of imperialism back into analyses of 21st century pol-econ; MacLean on digital human rights storytelling about ethnic cleansing in Myanmar; and Uddin on understanding Rohingya refugee resettlement “from below”.
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This week’s New Pubs features Independent Journal of Burma Scholarship’s release of the second part of their two part issue on Feminism. Compiled by Tharaphi Than and with contributions from Zaw Yin, Collins, Gynn, Wala Kaw, Min Lwin, Shunn Lei Swe Yee, Hlaine, Hnin Wai, Htin Lynn, Nyi Aye, Ma Kyay, Pyo Let Han, and Su Su Maung.
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This week’s New Pubs features Ahmed and Islam’s edited volume on understanding Rohingya displacement; Ware and Laoutides arguing that Rohingya repatriation is likely impossible; and Mortensen on the illegalization of Burmese migrant laborers in Thailand’s agro-industry.
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This week’s New Pubs features Ryan et al on digital solidarity building among Myanmar’s revolutionaries; Aung on logistical turbulence along the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor; and Rhoads and Das compare the postcolonial citizenship regimes of Myanmar and India.
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but with logistics…
Date: April 29, 2024 (Monday)
Duration: 1 hour
Time: 06:00 – 07:00 PM AEST Time (14:30-15:30 Myanmar/Yangon Time)
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This month’s webinar is a pre-recorded discussion between former US Ambassador to Myanmar (2016-2020) Scot Marciel and AMI’s own former Australian Ambassador to Myanmar (2015-2018) Nicholas Coppel. The launchpad for the conversation will be the Myanmar chapters in Ambassador Marciel’s recently published book Imperfect Partners – The United States and Southeast Asia.
Scot Marciel is currently the Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, California. A retired career diplomat, Ambassador Marciel also served as US Ambassador to Indonesia (2010-2013) with earlier assignments in Turkey, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Brazil and the Philippines.
In addition to the assignments noted above, he has served in senior roles in the State Department in Washington, including as Director of the Office of Maritime Southeast Asia, Director of the Office of Mainland Southeast Asia, and Director of the Office of Southern European Affairs. He also was Deputy Director of the Office of Monetary Affairs in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs.
Mr. Marciel earned an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a BA in International Relations from the University of California at Davis.
Owing to the time difference between Melbourne and the US West Coast, Ambassador Marciel will not be available to participate in our regular question and answer session. There will be a live questions and comments session with Nicholas Coppel (speaking in his own capacity only) following the broadcast interview.
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