ARCHIVE 2021-22
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FALL 2021
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| September 15 Van Mai Tran, Cornell University “Engineering public hostility against popular movements: Tatmadaw’s suppressive repertoire in urban Myanmar” |
| September 22 Scot Alan Marciel, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University; U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar 2016 to 2020 Ma Thida, Burmese activist and Visiting Research Associate, Yale University, Tun Myint, Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science, Carlton University David Thang Moe, Ph.D Candidate, Asbury Theological Seminary, James C. Scott (Moderator), Emeritus Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale University “Panel Discussion on Events Since the Coup in Myanmar” |
| September 29 Joseph Scalice, Visiting Fellow, Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science “The Geopolitical Alignments of Diverging Social Interests: The Sino-Soviet Split in the Philippines” |
| October 13 Andrew Harris, Research Associate, University of Toronto’s Archaeology Centre (ACUT) “The Introduction of Theravada Buddhism to Angkor, Cambodia (c.13th-16th Centuries) - Mapping and Interpreting Religious Change Through the Archaeological Record |
| October 27 Jin Hee (Genie) Yoo, Department of History, Princeton University “Paper Chains from Fields to Archives: A View of the Information Economy in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Indonesia” |
| November 3 Eve Zucker, Lecturer Part Time, Anthropology, Yale University Ben Kiernan, A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Yale University “Political Violence in Southeast Asia Since 1945: Case Studies from Six Countries” |
| November 10 Elena Lesley, Department of Anthropology, Emory University “Testimony as Transformation: Resilience, regeneration and moral action through spiritually-adapted narrative therapy in Cambodia” |
| December 8 Jason Picard, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam “Vietnam’s Machiavelli: Lê Đức Thọ and His Quest to Shape the Communist Party of Vietnam” |
SPRING 2022
| January 26 Nu-Anh Tran, Assistant Professor of History and Asian and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut “Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam” |
| January 31 Featuring scholars, artists and poets from Myanmar, moderated by Ma Thida, activist, writer, and visiting research scholar, Yale University “A Year of Reckoning: Resistance to Myanmar’s Illegal Feb 1 Coup” An online gathering to recognize and mourn the sacrifices made for freedom and document the conditions under which Myanmar has lived since the coup. |
| February 23 Duy Lap Nguyen, Associate Professor, World Cultures and Literatures, University of Houston “The Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam” |
| March 2 Thawda Aye Lei, writer and independent researcher; Ko Ko Thett, poet and translator Ma Thida, physician, writer and activist; Visiting Scholar, Yale University “Resistance and Literature: Struggles for freedom and justice in Burma/Myanmar” |
| March 9 Jane Ferguson, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Southeast Asian History School of Culture, ANU “Reposessing Shanland: Ethnicity and Rock ‘n’ Roll Nostalgia in Upland Southeast Asia” |
| April 6 Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar; Senior Robina Human Rights Fellow, Schell Center, Yale Law School; Associate, Asia Center, Harvard University “Human Rights, Myanmar and the UN” |
| April 13 Tam Nguyen and Phuong Anh Nguyen, Fulbright University Vietnam “From Our Place to the Front Line: A Zine on Life in Post-Coup Myanmar” |
| April 20 Erick White, Independent Scholar “Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia” |
| April 25 Kyaw Hsan Hlaing, Independent Journalist “Reporting during the world’s longest internet shutdown and the post-military coup in Burma” |
| April 27 Lan Duong, Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California “On Water: Refugee Memories in Vietnamese Disporic Films” |