The event has been designed so as not to conflict with existing events going on around the world, but rather to nest in between their break time

Register here.

The AAS conference in Hawai’i is quickly approaching. The BSG is pleased to provide travel support to graduate students who are attending, with preference given to scholars from Burma and those who demonstrate financial need. In the past BSG has covered between $250 and $400 for students, so as to reach as many people as possible. Please fill the form here.

* To give people enough time to plan their travel arrangements, the application will close Feb 4, and awardees will be notified by the 7th.*

… a two-part series of testimonials from Burmese living through the coup, entitled Real Stories Not Tales; Sharif Wahab on regulation of Rohingya refugee camps; and Luke Corbin on alcoholic drinks across the golden land. See here for citations.

The Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies provides $50,000 for “Southeast Asian nationals based in Southeast Asia and at Southeast Asian institutions”

Read more on our Announcements page, where you can find announcements about other cool things too.

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 (!).

See https://wordpress.com/view/burmastudiesgroup.wordpress.com for more details.

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