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”

This week in BSG Pubs we are giving love (b/c Valentines Day) to borderlands: we have Ken MacLean’s new book on how human rights “facts” are produced in Karen state; McConnachie, Ho, and Kyed have published an introduction to a special issue they have edited on Burma borders; and Bülbül, Islam, and Khan have a volume on the Rohingya. See here for full citations: https://burmastudiesgroup.wordpress.com/recent-publications-2/.

This week in Deep Cuts, coinciding with Tharaphi Than’s upcoming talk on images in the uprising, are a few texts that consider visuality and visual practices in Myanmar. We have Mandy Sadan’s 2014 article on the history of photography in Burma, Jane Ferguson’s (2012) writings on the portrayal of Shan/Tai people in Burmese cinema, and Thurein Naing’s recent paper (2021) on the sit-tat’s annual propaganda films. They are not meant to be exhaustive, certainly, and please add yours to the comments. See here for the PDFs and citations

11 Feb 2022, Helen Maria Kyed with DIIS and DIGNITY. More details, see here.

see here for our calendar of events.

BSG Pubs: this week is an all reports edition: Mohinga Matters has its first issue of 2022 (and 12^th post-coup issue in total); Myanmar Project Collective and Researchers’ Republic co-authored report entitled “The internet is a battlefield,” and USIP provides an “anatomy of the military coup.” See here for full citations: https://burmastudiesgroup.wordpress.com/recent-publications-2/.

This week in ‘deep cuts’ we feature work from the late Michael Aung-Thwin, whose article about omens and prophecies feels particularly relevant to these revolutionary times (for instance, recent flocks of hornbills alighting in Yangon had social media speculating; the popular Pale PDF leader is calling himself Bo Naga, the leader of the Royal Dragon Army, because the Tabaung foretold that the Dragon army will win; etc.). 

See our page for the growing archive of under-appreciated or hard to find Burma Studies texts.

8 Feb 2022, 2pm [EST]

[update: use this link to register]

Call for applications at Chiang Mai University: MA in Social Science (Development Studies) – Focus on Land Relation. Scholarships are available.

For further details, please see the program brochure

The deadline is 25th April 2022