As most of us don’t live in Heidelberg, this post is mostly a *pre* Future Pub announcement for Beyer’s book that will be out at the end of 2022 (hopefully).

We have one exciting event on our calendar this week – Dipannita Maria Bagh, of North-Eastern Hill University (Shillong, India) will talk about “India’s Approach to the Myanmar Crisis,” at ANU’s MRC 2022 Dialogue Series. Register here.

But after that… the cupboard is bare! Please let us know about upcoming talks or events so we can promote them here.

Online via Zoom | Call for Panels and Papers – extended deadline, 27 May 2022 | email proposals to: aseasconference2022@gmail.com

“ASEAS(UK) invites scholars and PhD students from all academic disciplines to submit panels or papers on any research topic within the field of Southeast Asian Studies.” see below for website:

In linguistic anthropology, there is a theory called “linguistic relativity” (often described through the so-called Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which never actually was advanced by either Sapir or Whorf, tbf) that holds that there is a recursive relationship between cognition/culture and language. Meaning that if your language is shaped a certain way, you will think about the world in a certain way; that if you and your kind think about the world in a certain way, your language may eventually come to reflect it. So, as an example, if your language has a strongly grammatically marked future tense, you may think about the future in different ways than languages that do not.

Anyway, A.L. Becker’s obscure writings on Burmese language probably could be described as taking the ling relativity hypothesis too far, but they are nonetheless pretty fascinating as suggestion rather than science: compelling us to open up our eyes to the way that language may operate on thought.

see here for PDFs and for the entire Cuts series.

The letter circulated on our site here the other day has been published at Tea Circle. Have a look.

we have a new page devoted to anticipation. See here for new publications coming soon!

And send us your news about new manuscripts, especially after they have a link on a press website. This way we can publicize them (and help them get reviewed, etc.).

(Cornell U Press, 2022 or 2023)

Myanmar Conference 2022, 01 – 03 September 2022
Hosted by the Humboldt-University Berlin and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, organized by the Myanmar-Institut e.V.

submit to: conference [at] myanmar-institut.org

This week we feature Foxeus on the relationship between Buddhist sermons and anti-Muslim moral panic; Charney on non-sanguinary warfare before colonialism; and Kyaw Win Tun on the role of English in the construction of identity for Burmese refugees in US schools (open access!). See here for full citations and all the other recent publications.

Please see the open letter here that Burma scholars are welcome to sign (https://docs.google.com/…/1pBPFa1W0aod5Q5YnTZuK-E…/edit). It objects to PDF resistance being characterized as “terrorism” by a think-tank called the Institute of Economics and Peace.

The author, David Brenner, adds: “All professional Burma scholars and researchers are more than welcome to sign, including PhD researchers of course.”