This week is overflowing with BSG Pubs! We have Alison Francis on Burmese women’s voices of testimony; Renshaw and Lidauer on the UEC in the context of the coup; and the Women’s league of Burma’s report on female candidates of the 2020 election and their opinions on the coup. We also have two new books: Parthasarathi Bhaumik on “Bengalis in Burma” 1886-1948, and Marwah and Ramanayake on China in Myanmar (amongst other places). See here for full citations: https://burmastudiesgroup.wordpress.com/recent-publications-2/.

Lund University, The Faculties of Humanities and Theology announces two PhD positions. East and South-East Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that focuses on contemporary phenomena and processes in the region as a whole as well as in individual countries. The subject integrates theoretical and methodological perspectives from area studies with different humanities and social sciences disciplines.

See here.

Normally we link to our new publications, but since we couldn’t find this online, we have posted it here. The second section, entitled “Opinions of Female 2020 Election Candidates on the 2021 Military Coup,” is particularly compelling and topical.

IJBS has announced a conference + ensuring special issue on the media landscape in Myanmar post-coup

Yale university has a post-doc fellowship specializing in Myanmar (!).

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This week in BSG Pubs, we have Anne Décobert on development brokers in Kayin state; Tony Waters et al editors of a volume on mobility in Myanmar, and a book by François Robinne on looking beyond ethnicity. See here for full citations: https://burmastudiesgroup.wordpress.com/recent-publications-2/, and please dm / email me for PDFs if you are paywalled.  

An enormous number of non-native Burmese speaking members of the BSG learned ဗမာစကား from the late, great John Okell. His family – Sue, Lucy & Cathy, Tom & Helen – have put together this tribute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT2i_IXDs9c

This new paper prize is designed for grad students but also post-docs writing on Burma Studies topics, and it is offered in years when the Sarah Bekker Prize (earmarked for graduate students) is not given.

The call for submissions for the inaugural Okell paper prize will be around the March 2022 Association of Asian Studies conference. Please start preparing your submission now! See the Announcements and Calendar page to keep up on the opportunities and events such as this that are coming up.

The Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship has released its 3rd issue (Vol 1, 2021) on Rohingya and religious minority issues in Myanmar. See our Recent Publications page for full citations. It just so happens that its release falls on Rohingya National Day!

For this week’s publications we have Nivedita Sudheer and Debanjan Banerjee with a study of Rohingya refugees’ cultural idioms of distress; Nick Cheesman’s reflections on the current revolution; and Bérénice Guyot-Réchard on “Burma and India’s Unfinished Separation.” As always, see here for full citations: https://burmastudiesgroup.wordpress.com/recent-publications-2/

For this week’s publications we have Iselin Frydenlund on “Love Jihad” discourse in Burma; Su Mon Thant on the youth role in the current revolution; and Faheem Hussain and Yenn Lee describe challenges for Rohingya in accessing digital services in Bangladesh refugee camps. See here for full citations: https://burmastudiesgroup.wordpress.com/recent-publications-2/