This week in Deep Cuts, we feature anthropologist Jennifer Leehey’s 2010 dissertation, which contains one of the most insightful analyses of regime propaganda of the era. To wit: “I would emphasize that this is something other than a persuasive campaign to win the hearts and minds of state subjects. The authorities are much more concerned with producing a facsimile of public opinion than with convincing people, affecting their inner lives in some way” (13).  

Leehey, Jennifer. “Open Secrets, Hidden Meanings: Censorship, Esoteric Power, and Contested Authority in Urban Burma in the 1990s,” Dissertation, University of Washington, 2010. 

See here for the PDF.  

The Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Washington Presents – The Myanmar Coup/Genocide: One Year Later (featuring Berkeley Law’s Stephen Rosenbaum)

2 March 2022 | Time: 12:30-1:20 PM [PST]

More information here:

see here for more info, and here to register

“Creative Engagement with Myanmar: Using our Knowledge Outside Academia,” ANU’s MRC 2022 Dialogue Series. Register here.

see our full calendar here: https://burmastudiesgroup.wordpress.com/announcements/

CSEAS Spring Lecture Series: Jane Ferguson, “Repossessing Shanland: Rock & Roll, Nostalgia and Hope in the Thai-Burma Borderlands”

Friday, February 25 at 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (CST)

More info / register here.

This week in BSG Pubs we have a two volume comparative study on “social transformations” in India, Myanmar, and Thailand (edited by Yamahata, Seekins, and Takeda). Saruya has an article on gender and Buddhism. Then Ray with a monograph on the Chin-Lushai border. See here for full citations.

see here for PDFs.

Marxist Leftist Review will host an online forum: “Myanmar’s unfinished revolution” featuring w/ Burmese activists, 7pm Sydney Time, more information here.

The Australia National University’s Myanmar Research Center will host the following talks from late February through late May; click here to register, and see here for our entire calendar of upcoming events.

25 Feb: Rose Metro, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

“Creative Engagement with Myanmar: Using our Knowledge Outside Academia”

11 March: Dorothy Mason, ANU

“Contested Terrains: Lineages, logics and effects of land reforms during Myanmar’s interrupted political transition (2011-21)”

25 March: Aung Kaung Myat, University of Hong Kong

“The role of identity and anti-coup armed resistance in Burma”

22 April: Kim Joliffe, Independent researcher

“Political Authority in Areas of Armed Resistance”

13 May: Francesca Chiu, University of East Anglia and University of Copenhagen

“Unpacking youth struggles, resistance, and cohesion in post-coup Myanmar”

20 May: Dipannita Maria Bagh, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India

“India’s Approach to the Myanmar Crisis”