Speakers: Hilary Faxon and Jenny Hedström 

Date: 30 May 2023

Time zone: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM +08

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photo credit: Frontier Myanmar

Speakers: Anthony Ware; Costas Laoutides; Sophia Htwe

Date: 29 May 2023 (Monday)

Time zone: 06:00 – 07:00 PM AEST Time (14:30-15:30 Myanmar/Yangon Time)  Duration: 1 hour

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This week’s New Pubs features Moore on what life was like outside of Bagan in the Bagan era; Kironska on Taiwan’s relationship with Myanmar; and Oh on types of geoeconomic power and competition over Myanmar before and during the reform era.

As ever, 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.

This week’s New Pubs features Coyle with an account of Rohingya camp life in Bangladesh during the Covid-19 epidemic; Kyaw Hsan Hlaing’s report on the Arakan Army; and Gaborit on the historical legacies impacting Myanmar prisons today.

As ever, 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.

Speakers: Elizabeth Rhoads and Aung Ko Ko

Date: Tuesday 16 May 2023

Time zone: 5-6pm (AEST) (UTC+10), 1.30- 2.30pm MMT (UTC+6.30)

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This week’s New Pubs features Nishikawa’s book on international norms and local politics in Myanmar; Auethavornpipat on hate speech against Rohingya refugees in Malaysia; and Paluch’s book on Olive Yang’s involvement in the opium trade in the 1950s.

As ever, see our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks.

Editors Olivius and Hedström call for contributions to the sequel to Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar, see the attachment below.

(Although this came out in March, we are running a bit behind here at the BSG website)

March 2023. Special Issue on “Journalism: The Inside Scoop After the Coup” [vol 2, 2023] with contributors: Thant Sin, Myo Thawdar, Lisa Brooten and Jane Madlyn McElhone, Kyaw Swar, Hsu Htet, Kay Mastenbroek, Shwe Yee Oo, Danny Fenster

This webinar is an opportunity for student researchers from Myanmar to share their findings from their research projects about the social contract of citizenship after the 2021 coup in Myanmar. It will also launch the webpage that showcases their work. The project was designed to shift traditional power dynamics and recognise the researchers as the experts with local knowledge best placed to influence the trajectory of developments in their communities. International participants will also be able to engage directly with researchers working in fragile and conflict affected settings in Myanmar and refugee areas. For the wider security and rule of law community, the webinar will provide space to learn, via a concrete example, how conflict affected youth can articulate their changing relationship with the state.

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This week’s New Pubs features Fiskesjö comparing genocides in China and Myanmar; Tran on how bystanders in Burma provide protection to protesters during crackdowns; and Habib on the “right to ecology” for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

As ever, see our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks.