Wondering how you can contribute to the anti-coup uprising? The Virtual Federal University is seeking content input from Burma Studies scholars. See our Collaborations and Resources page for more information:

Book Launch and Panel Discussion. Friday 17 Dec 2021, 130 PM Thailand Time. Zoom ID: 932 1980 5165 . See here for more details.

Coming up tomorrow, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung will give a talk “Myanmar Ten Months After the Coup,” at ISEAS (Dec 17, 2021 09:00 AM Singapore Time). For details, see the calendar of events in Burma Studies: https://burmastudiesgroup.wordpress.com/announcements/.  

For this week’s publications we have Adam Simpson and Ashley South on climate change governance in Myanmar; Magdalena Kozłowska and Michał Lubina on a collaboration between Nu’s government and Israel during the late 1950s that focused on the building of cooperative settlements; and Kristian Stokke et al look at “illiberal peacebuilding in a hybrid regime.”

On reader recommendation, we have redesigned the Publications page, with “books,” “articles,” and “reports,” sections helping you parse your new Burma studies knowledge. See here for the new design, and for full citations to the article above: https://burmastudiesgroup.wordpress.com/recent-publications-2/

The University of Konstanz (Germany) is looking for a (political/legal) anthropologist, and is particularly interested in someone working on Myanmar or SE Asia. See our Announcements and Calendar page for more information about the position.

We know you’ve been waiting for this all week! It’s well worth the wait: we have Jasnea Sarma on road building projects in the India-Myanmar borderlands; Zeyar Lynn with three poems (in both Burmese and English) in the aftermath of the coup; and Ian Brown on how British colonial officials dealt with the failure of “Rule of Law” in Burma. See here: https://burmastudiesgroup.wordpress.com/recent-publications-2/ and if you are paywalled, please feel free to DM us for PDFs.

A reminder about the mentorship initiative that BSG launched a few weeks ago: https://burmastudiesgroup.wordpress.com/collaborations-and-resources/. We already have 40 scholars signed up, and we currently have seven mentors who do not yet have mentees – so if you know of any young scholars in Burma studies who would like support with an application or something academy-related, let them know of this opportunity!

Tired of feeling like you’re missing out on those good good Burma studies events? You no longer have to fret. We are keeping a calendar of events so you can make your plan: https://burmastudiesgroup.wordpress.com/announcements/

If you have an event coming up, let us know and we’ll put it on!

Is it Tuesday already? That means Burma Studies Publication Time! This week we have two bangers, one on soldier defections (by Helen Kyed and Ah Lynn) and the second on daily survival as seen through the Burmese concept of nalehmu (by Jayde Roberts and Izzy Rhoads). Want to learn more? See here