When: Thu, 20 Jul 2023

Where: The Australian National University, Canberra

Cost: Free

Deadline for expressions of interest is Friday 19 May 2023.

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This week’s New Pubs features Missbach on “dimensions of stuckedness” faced by Rohingya; Lyman on how the Burmese fought off the Japanese in 1944-45; and an edited volume with Ma Thida, Khine Win, Khin Mai Aung, Mon Mon Myat, Seekins, Lee and McCarthy, Khen Suan Khai, Dan Seng Lawn, Lubina, Renshaw, Takeda, and Yamahata, edited by the latter two.

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

Baptizing Burma explores the history of how the American Baptist mission to Burma failed to convert the country yet succeeded in transforming its religious landscape. Alexandra Kaloyanides examines how the Burmese majority positioned Buddhism to counter Christianity, how marginalized groups took on Baptist identities, and how Protestantism was reimagined as a Southeast Asian religion. She considers a series of holy objects to reveal the mechanics of religious practice in a period of entangled empires—British, Burmese, and American. By telling stories of four key things—the sacred book, the school house, the pagoda, and the portrait—this book illuminates the histories of Burma’s last kingdom and the unexpected consequences of America’s first overseas mission.

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This week’s New Pubs features Amporn on Myanmar’s CDM teachers; Anwary on the relationship between extractive capital and the Rohingya; and Ma Cheria on labour struggles in Myanmar after the coup.

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

Photo from Amporn (2023)

University of Vienna has the upcoming event packed with talks from Myanmar people.

link to register: https://symposium-revolution-myanmar.univie.ac.at/

This week’s New Pubs features Campell’s review essay making sense of the “transition” and how it was problematic before it was foreclosed; Priamarizki on the development of the sit-tat; and Hedström and Herder on insights into women’s sexual and reproductive health gleaned from Myanmar.

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

Date: Tuesday 4 April 2023
Timezone: 5-6pm (AEST) (UTC+10), 1.30- 2:30pm MMT (UTC+6.30)
host: Myanmar Research Centre (ANU)

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This week’s New Pubs features Khin Thazin and Campbell on how Covid/ the coup have affected Burmese migrant workers in Singapore; Simpson et al on Myanmar’s arrested environmental activism; and Thako and Waters on Karen Mother-Tongue based education on the Thai-Burma border.

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

Peninsula Plaza, Singapore

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This week’s New Pubs features McCarthy’s book on non-state service provision from 1990 to the coup; a podcast on Fiskesjö’s 2021 book on the Wa, hosted by Cheesman; and Banki on transnational solidarity art vis-a-vis the Myanmar revolution.

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