For reasons that escape us, AAS has not listed the papers at the Theravada studies meeting in their program, and there is a risk that people attending (or not) may not know about them. Risk averted!:

Saturday 3/26, 2:15-3:45 (Hawai’i time); room 306A (zoom link TBA)

• Mary Kate Long, “Reconsidering Renunciation: Models of Practice and Devotion in Biographies of Myanmar Buddhist Women”
• Olivia Porter, “Thai Zawti Theravada Buddhist Tradition in the Myanmar-China Border”
• Anthony Scott, “The Optics of Enlightenment: Capturing Nirvana in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia”

See here for more information and it is now on our calendar as well, which you can see here.

The Department of Asian and North African Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Marco Polo Center for Global Europe-Asia Connections are pleased to offer a Summer School on Social Movements in Contemporary Southeast Asia.

The Summer School will be held in Venice, Italy, on September 18 to 24, 2022.

see here for more information.

With a week to go before the AAS meeting, here’s another reminder to please pay your BSG dues! https://members.asianstudies.org/donate-now?id=825e404a-0f34-eb11-8441-501ac55528ed&reload=timezone. Here’s an explanation of what the dues support.

For those who will be in Hawai’i, we will have an in-person meeting on Saturday night (7:30pm to 9, March 26th, room: Hibiscus 1). We will provide a zoom link for those who want to participate in the meeting remotely. Stay tuned.

After the meeting we will have the traditional BSG party, which tends to involve sing-alongs and general revelry. All are invited.

Event: “Everyday Justice and State Evasion in Myanmar”

15 March 2022, 1:30 to 3:30pm, Chiang Mai University (+ zoom).

See our entire event calendar here.

This week in BSG Pubs we feature Moe Moe Inya’s short stories that have just been translated into English; Aruna Global South’s recent series on national identity in Myanmar (first three pieces) available in both Burmese and English; and Stéphen Huard’s ethnography of a Buddhist initiation ritual. See here for full citations: https://burmastudiesgroup.wordpress.com/recent-publications-2/.

Mar 26th: Film Screening & Dialogue with Director; $10 suggested donation for those outside of Burma.

Register here; see here for our calendar

This week we feature a volume for ဗမာစကား / မြန်မာစာ lovers out there. Edited by Justin Watkins, it contains a ton of fascinating investigations into how the language works: Phonology! Syntax! Verb semantics! Discourse and stylistic register! Old Burmese! Lexicography! It’s not for everyone… it’s for us. [See here for PDF download]

Watkins, Justin, ed. Studies in Burmese Linguistics. Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University, 2005.

17 March – Jonathan Saha talks about his Colonizing Animals. Register here.

see here for our calendar of events

on the origins of the Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship (IJBS). See here for his reflections.

11 Mar 2022: Dorothy Mason, “Contested Terrains: Lineages, logics and effects of land reforms during Myanmar’s interrupted political transition (2011-21),” ANU’s MRC 2022 Dialogue Series. Register here and see here for the whole calendar of Burma Studies events.