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PAST SEMINARS
The Challenges of Regime Change: 1988 and Today
by Martin Smith | Saturday, September 2, 2023 | Public | Online
Martin Smith is an independent analyst who has researched and reported about Burma since the early 1980s for a variety of media, non-governmental and academic organizations. His publications include Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups in Burma: Development, Democracy and Human Rights and Arakan (Rakhine State): A Land in Conflict on Myanmar’s Western Frontier. He is a former independent expert member of the Three Diseases Fund board and presently senior advisor to the Transnational Institute.
by Martin Smith | Saturday, September 2, 2023 | Public | Online
Martin Smith is an independent analyst who has researched and reported about Burma since the early 1980s for a variety of media, non-governmental and academic organizations. His publications include Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups in Burma: Development, Democracy and Human Rights and Arakan (Rakhine State): A Land in Conflict on Myanmar’s Western Frontier. He is a former independent expert member of the Three Diseases Fund board and presently senior advisor to the Transnational Institute.
Reading Textbooks Upside Down and Sideways: New Possibilities for Educational Policymakers in Post-Coup Burma
by Rosalie Metro | Friday, July 7, 2023 | Public | Online
Dr. Rosalie Metro is an Associate Teaching Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the US. She has been doing research with teachers from Burma about the history curriculum since 2001. She is the co-author, with Aung Khine, of Histories of Burma: A Source-Based Approach to Teaching Burma’s History.
by Rosalie Metro | Friday, July 7, 2023 | Public | Online
Dr. Rosalie Metro is an Associate Teaching Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the US. She has been doing research with teachers from Burma about the history curriculum since 2001. She is the co-author, with Aung Khine, of Histories of Burma: A Source-Based Approach to Teaching Burma’s History.
Visions of Autonomy: Wa Region at the Edges of Burma
by Andrew Ong | Saturday, June 10, 2023 | Exclusively for SGPA Class | Online
Dr. Andrew Ong is a political anthropologist and Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, where his research examines questions of autonomy, conflict and peace processes in Burma and Southeast Asia. His wider research interests include Southeast Asian politics and the futures of diplomacy and ASEAN. Andrew's recently published book, Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the Myanmar-China Border (Cornell University Press), is an ethnography of Wa Region in Burma, and the United Wa State Army’s quest to maintain its autonomy from the surrounding states. Andrew received his PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University.
by Andrew Ong | Saturday, June 10, 2023 | Exclusively for SGPA Class | Online
Dr. Andrew Ong is a political anthropologist and Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, where his research examines questions of autonomy, conflict and peace processes in Burma and Southeast Asia. His wider research interests include Southeast Asian politics and the futures of diplomacy and ASEAN. Andrew's recently published book, Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the Myanmar-China Border (Cornell University Press), is an ethnography of Wa Region in Burma, and the United Wa State Army’s quest to maintain its autonomy from the surrounding states. Andrew received his PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University.
Burma-Thailand International Relations: A Close Look at the Internationalization of Burma's Political Crisis
by Sirada Khemanitthathai |Saturday, May 20, 2023 | Public | Online
Dr. Sirada Khemanitthathai is a lecturer at the School of International Affairs, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She graduated with a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research interest includes politics of international migration, human rights in international relations and contemporary politics of Burma. Her doctoral research focuses on the politics of international migration between Burma and its receiving states.
by Sirada Khemanitthathai |Saturday, May 20, 2023 | Public | Online
Dr. Sirada Khemanitthathai is a lecturer at the School of International Affairs, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She graduated with a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research interest includes politics of international migration, human rights in international relations and contemporary politics of Burma. Her doctoral research focuses on the politics of international migration between Burma and its receiving states.
International Support for the Struggle of Myanmar
by Scot Marciel | Saturday, November 5, 2022 | For the combined class of SGPA, PLRI, CLRI | Online
Scot Marciel is Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, affiliated with the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Previously, he was a 2020-22 Visiting Scholar and Visiting Practitioner Fellow on Southeast Asia at APARC. A retired diplomat, Mr. Marciel served as U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar from March 2016 through May 2020. Prior to serving in Burma, Ambassador Marciel served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asia and the Pacific at the State Department, where he oversaw U.S. relations with Southeast Asia. From 2010 to 2013, Scot Marciel served as U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country. He led a mission of some 1000 employees, expanding business ties, launching a new U.S.-Indonesia partnership, and rebuilding U.S.-Indonesian military-military relations. Prior to that, he served concurrently as the first U.S. Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Southeast Asia from 2007 to 2010. Mr. Marciel earned an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a BA in International Relations from the University of California at Davis.
by Scot Marciel | Saturday, November 5, 2022 | For the combined class of SGPA, PLRI, CLRI | Online
Scot Marciel is Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, affiliated with the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Previously, he was a 2020-22 Visiting Scholar and Visiting Practitioner Fellow on Southeast Asia at APARC. A retired diplomat, Mr. Marciel served as U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar from March 2016 through May 2020. Prior to serving in Burma, Ambassador Marciel served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asia and the Pacific at the State Department, where he oversaw U.S. relations with Southeast Asia. From 2010 to 2013, Scot Marciel served as U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country. He led a mission of some 1000 employees, expanding business ties, launching a new U.S.-Indonesia partnership, and rebuilding U.S.-Indonesian military-military relations. Prior to that, he served concurrently as the first U.S. Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Southeast Asia from 2007 to 2010. Mr. Marciel earned an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a BA in International Relations from the University of California at Davis.
Mapping the Myanmar Conflict: How, Why and for Whom?
by Shona Loong | Saturday, August 20, 2022 | Exclusively for SGPA Class | Online
Dr. Shona Loong is a lecturer and researcher in political geography at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research focuses on civil society, peacebuilding and the politics of international development in Karen areas of Burma. She has worked with various non-governmental organizations, think-tanks, and international organizations including the International Institute of Strategic Studies, with whom she developed the Myanmar Conflict Map and the accompanying research series.
by Shona Loong | Saturday, August 20, 2022 | Exclusively for SGPA Class | Online
Dr. Shona Loong is a lecturer and researcher in political geography at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research focuses on civil society, peacebuilding and the politics of international development in Karen areas of Burma. She has worked with various non-governmental organizations, think-tanks, and international organizations including the International Institute of Strategic Studies, with whom she developed the Myanmar Conflict Map and the accompanying research series.
The Current Conflict Situation in Myanmar and Federalism as the Key Answer
by Sai Kyaw Nyunt | Saturday, July 16, 2022 | Exclusively for SGPA Class | Online
Sai Kyaw Nyunt is the Joint General Secretary of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy and the Technical Advisor to the United Nationalities Alliance. He also provides technical assistance to the Committee for Shan State Unity. From 2013 to 2015, Sai Kyaw Nyunt was elected to serve as the Director of Myanmar Institute for Democracy, a political organization founded by former political prisoners who were involved in the 1996-1998 student uprising. From 2015-2020, he served as the Secretary representing political parties in the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee. From 2015-2016, he served as the Country Director for Ethnic Nationalities Affairs Center.
by Sai Kyaw Nyunt | Saturday, July 16, 2022 | Exclusively for SGPA Class | Online
Sai Kyaw Nyunt is the Joint General Secretary of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy and the Technical Advisor to the United Nationalities Alliance. He also provides technical assistance to the Committee for Shan State Unity. From 2013 to 2015, Sai Kyaw Nyunt was elected to serve as the Director of Myanmar Institute for Democracy, a political organization founded by former political prisoners who were involved in the 1996-1998 student uprising. From 2015-2020, he served as the Secretary representing political parties in the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee. From 2015-2016, he served as the Country Director for Ethnic Nationalities Affairs Center.
Thailand's Last Opium War: Governance, Ethnicity and Development
by Patamawadee Jongruck | Saturday, June 4, 2022 | Exclusively for SGPA Class | Online
Dr. Patamawadee Jongruck (Jan) is an Assistant Professor in Public Administration at the Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She holds a PhD in Development Policy and Management (Governance) from the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests cover the following issues: network governance; good governance; local governance; sustainable development; and illicit drugs control policy. The focus of her research is particularly on Thailand and other Asian countries.
by Patamawadee Jongruck | Saturday, June 4, 2022 | Exclusively for SGPA Class | Online
Dr. Patamawadee Jongruck (Jan) is an Assistant Professor in Public Administration at the Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She holds a PhD in Development Policy and Management (Governance) from the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests cover the following issues: network governance; good governance; local governance; sustainable development; and illicit drugs control policy. The focus of her research is particularly on Thailand and other Asian countries.
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