This week’s New Pubs features Scott on female ordination in Burma and the decline in debates about it; Bächtold on technologies and imaginaries about them in post-coup Myanmar; and a report by Researchers’ Republic and Visual Rebellion Myanmar on Myanmar pipelines after the coup.

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

This week’s New Pubs is a bit different than usual. It only includes two texts, but they are both doozies: first, we feature a unique scholarly object – the website Yangon Stories – that visualizes and describes the violence of dispossession in Yangon over the years; second, we bring your attention to a special issue of Mānoa edited by several Burma studies scholars and artists (Penny Edwards, ko ko thett, Kenneth Wong), featuring the work of several Burmese poets and singers, including Aung Khin Myint, Thida Shania, Kyaw Zwa Moe, and Saw Phoe Kwar, and including Greg Constantine’s photography of the Rohingya genocide.

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

Date: 30 January 2023 (Monday)  

Time: 06:00 – 07:00 PM AEST Time (13:30-14:30 Myanmar/Yangon Time)

Join Zoom Meeting: please click here

Australia Myanmar Institute is honoured by the readiness of Prof Sean Turnell to speak at this seminar.  He is a member of AMI’s special advisory group and he has unequalled knowledge of the Myanmar economy and what will be needed to restore its vitality after two years of destruction by the military junta’s actions.

source: ABC

This week’s New Pubs features Wickaksana et al on Asean, Covid-19, and Myanmar’s crisis; Charney on Myanmar 75 years after independence; and Verma on India’s treatment of Rohingya amidst Covid-19.

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

LSE, 26th January 2023 3pm GMT; register here

A special lecture to mark 75 years of Myanmar’s independence & the complex history of its anti-colonial struggle, focusing on Aung San.

SPEAKER – Angelene Naw is Professor Emerita in History at Judson University (@JudsonU), Illinois. She is author of ‘Aung San and the Struggle for Burmese Independence’ (2001), an academic biography of Aung San, and very recently, of ‘The History of the Karen People of Burma’ (ed. J. Cain; 2023).

DISCUSSANT – Michael W. Charney is Professor in the Department of History & the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS(@SOAS), University of London, and a specialist in the history of Southeast Asia. He is author of ‘A History of Modern Burma’ (2009), and more recently, ‘Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia: Burma, 1941-1942’ (2019).

CHAIR – Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).

This week’s New Pubs features Frydenlund on Buddhist Constitutionalism through a comparative legal perspective; Joseph and Balakrishnan on the 1942 Burmese refugee exodus to India; and McKay and Frydenlund on the role of women in Myanmar’s right-wing Buddhist movement.

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

with Thiri; Ko Ko Thett; Simon; Eh Nay Thaw; Akari Win:

hosted by Better Burma and One Light Global

time: Friday, January 13th, 7.30 am (Yangon)

Register here.

This week’s New Pubs features McAuliffe on the relationship between gender and statelessness in Burma and Egreteau’s book assessing parliament during the transition.

As ever, see our Recent Publications page for all of the citations and for past weeks. And, you may note that this is the first time in more than a year where we haven’t had three publications to feature – please do send yours on to soceep@nus.edu.sg if you want yours circulated.

Proposals are due by  9 January 2023 via this form

with the conference to take place at The Australian National University on Fri 21 – Sat 22 July 2023.

(Photo credit: Phoe Thar)

This week’s New Pubs features Coffey on the influence of India and Ireland on the drafting of Burma’s 1947 constitution; Richard et al on the the impact of the One Belt One Road (OBOR) Initiative on Myanmar; and Gabusi and Neironi with an edited volume on Myanmar after the coup.

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