This week’s New Pubs features Thwe Thwe Lay Maw and Seo on Mandalay’s city grid development; Shahid and Lee on “saffron ethnocracy” in India, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka; and Salehin’s book on gendered vulnerabilities in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.

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Where is Myanmar heading for? Regarding the nation-state building in Myanmar (Burma), this seminar will focus on the period of Burmese Way to Socialism, when the state philosophy was re-examined and a ‘Burmese Way’ socialist state was built. What was the political and cultural context of this period in Burma’s modern and contemporary history? How was Burmese people’s desire for liberation from colonialism developed in this thought? What will emerge from the comparison with Poland in Eastern Europe? We would like to examine from various perspectives at this seminar.

Sophia University is hosting a hybrid event with Kei Nemoto, Michał Lubina, and Toru Kawabe to re-analyze the political and cultural meaning of the 26 year ‘experiment’

Saturday 21, 14:00-17:00 (Japan Time)    15:00‐18:00（Sydney）

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This week’s New Pubs features Schissler’s deep-dive into the relationship between Facebook and the Rohingya genocide; Thein-Lemelson on female prisoners and conceptions of self-sacrifice; and Pandat and Toqeer comparing forest Buddhist traditions in Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand.

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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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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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• 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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