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SUMMARY:Be an Entrepreneur or Stay a Farmer? The Anxiety of Specialty Coffee Value Chain Upgrading for Indigenous Smallholders in Northern Thailand
DESCRIPTION:Public lecture (and coffee tasting) with Po-Tao Chang\, Phd student in the Department of Geography\, University of Wisconsin-Madison. \nThis presentation is designed for people who are interested in topics related to sustainable agriculture\, indigenous peoples\, coffee commodity chains\, and industry in Thailand. Po-Tao Chang will present his latest research findings about the transformation of highland Arabica coffee production with (mostly) Akha people\, and the revolution of the Thai (specialty) coffee industry. Briefly speaking\, the Akha people have played a crucial role in expanding and upgrading both the quantity and quality of Arabica coffee production over the past two decades. There has been a dramatic number of Akha coffee producers elevating the quality and value of their coffee parchments and green beans. While some of them are becoming entrepreneurs\, the uneven development of coffee production is also happening among different ethnic groups and villages. In addition\, the anxiety of massive investment and the uncertainty of market transformation have also been emerging challenges for indigenous coffee smallholders in northern Thailand.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/be-an-entrepreneur-or-stay-a-farmer-the-anxiety-of-specialty-coffee-value-chain-upgrading-for-indigenous-smallholders-in-northern-thailand/
LOCATION:Subaltern Meeting Room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Ethnic Politics
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20250714T100000
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SUMMARY:Public Seminar: "Ek Khaale" Once Upon a Time - The Rohingya\, a Visual Restoration; Memory\, Identity and Shared Histories
DESCRIPTION:For people in Myanmar (Burma)\, the Rohingya community’s history has been\, at best\, questioned\, and at worst —and in reality—rejected outright. Much of the Rohingya’s visual history has been lost\, confiscated or destroyed during waves of violence\, forced displacement and genocide over the past 60 years. This destruction continues today. This has severely undermined ways in which the Rohingya preserve and share their collective memory\, identity and history with others.\n\n \n\nEk Khaale is the Rohingya expression for ‘Once Upon A Time’. The project Ek Khaale was launched by award winning documentary photojournalist Greg Constantine. It is a collaborative storytelling and visual restoration project with Rohingya all over the world.\n\n \n\nThis project brings together rare and never before seen old photographs\, family collections\, documents\, letters\, illustrations and other historical materials from the past and activates them in the present. By exposing this unseen past\, this project aims to share a visual portrait of the Rohingya most people have never seen before. It also challenges historical narratives and reconstructs what Burmese regimes and other communities have spent decades trying to destroy.\n\n \n\nIn this special lecture\, Greg will talk about the history of this groundbreaking project\, the use of research-based archival work\, and the significance of the project for the Rohingya community and other communities from Burma. He will share several of the most important discoveries over the past four years as well as the stories behind them.\n\n \n\nView the Ek Khaale project online here.\n\n \n\nEk Khaale will also be on exhibit at the Chiang Mai Alliance Francaise Gallery from July 9-19th.\n\n \n\nGreg Constantine is an award winning documentary photojournalist and author. He has dedicated his career to long-term\, independent projects that explore the intersection of human rights\, inequality\, injustice\, citizenship\, identity\, belonging and the power of the state. His long term projects include: Nowhere People\,  Exiled To Nowhere and Seven Doors.  He is the author of three award winning photography books and his work has been exhibited in over 40 cities around the world. Constantine has been documenting the persecution of the Rohingya community for the past 19 years.  In 2020\, he began working with Rohingya on the project Ek Khaale. In early 2017\, he received his PhD from Middlesex University in the UK and has since received Independent Scholar as well as Early Career Fellowships from the Independent Social Research Foundation and Queen Mary University in London.  Most recently\, he was a Hearst Visiting Fellow at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/public-seminar-ek-khaale-once-upon-a-time-the-rohingya-a-visual-restoration-memory-identity-and-shared-histories/
LOCATION:Subaltern Meeting Room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Ethnic Politics
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing SEA Studies Conference
DESCRIPTION:Supported by the Luce Foundation\, Chiang Mai University Faculty of Social Science\, and the University of Wisconsin – Madison Center for Southeast Asian Studies\, the Decolonizing Southeast Asia Studies Conference will be held 17-19 July at Chiang Mai University’s Uniserv. Organized by RCSD\, over 200 presenters and observers from throughout the region will come together for a diverse range of panels\, roundtables\, and keynote presentations. They will examining the challenges of decolonization from different vantage points: from within Southeast Asian nation states\, from the viewpoint of Western academia with its baggage of direct colonization\, and the position of indigenous peoples living under the shadow of both of these contexts. \nFor full description of the conference themes and goals please visit the Decolonizing SEA Studies website\, and for observers who have not yet registered to participate\, please register here.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/decolonizing-sea-studies-conference/
LOCATION:Uniserv\, 239 Nimmanahaeminda Road\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Rethinking Ethnic Studies in SEA
DESCRIPTION:RCSD invites all to attend a public seminar: Rethinking Ethnic Studies in Southeast Asia\, from July 20-22\, 2025 at the Faculty of Social Sciences First Floor Meeting Room (4107)\, Chiang Mai University\, \nThis seminar is jointly organized by the School of Ethnology and Sociology\, Yunnan University (YNU)\, and the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD)\, with the participation of the Center for Ethnic Studies and Development\, Chiang Mai University and hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University. \nKey participants include Wasan Panyagaew\, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at CMU; He Ming\, Dean of the School of Ethnology and Sociology at YNU; and Chayan Vaddhanaphuti\, Director of RCSD. Other participants include Gam A. Shimray from the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)\, Suchart Setthamalinee from the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRC)\, and Catherine Baron from Toulouse University\, France. Several scholars from Yunnan University\, Chiang Mai University (including its Center for Ethnic Studies and Development – CESD\, and Department of Sociology and Anthropology)\, Minzu University of China\, Thammasat University\, Dali University\, Xiamen University\, and Sorbonne Paris 1 University will also present. \nThe seminar will explore a range of topics within ethnic studies in Southeast Asia. Discussions will cover the Culture and Memory of Ethnic Lue in Thailand and Vietnam\, the dynamics of Chinese Communities outside China focusing on Yunnan Studies in Thailand and Sino-Thai family businesses in Northern Thailand\, and the Study of Lahu in both Thailand and China with case studies in Chiang Mai. Further sessions will delve into State and Ethnicity\, examining historical exclusion of minorities in Cambodia and Thai state policies toward highlanders. The relationship between Ethnicity and Coffee in Doi Chang\, Thailand will be explored\, including comparative studies with Qingkou Village in China and the concept of “Ethnic Coffee Capitalism.” The seminar will also address Ethnicity and Society in Myanmar\, touching upon anthropological research on rural society\, the formation of plural societies in Colonial Burma\, and the role of ethnic civil society. Finally\, Cultural Sharing will be examined through a case study of Malaysia\, focusing on heritage politics and the construction of shared cultural identity. \n 
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/seminar-rethinking-ethnic-studies-in-sea/
LOCATION:First Floor Meeting Room (4107)\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Ethnic Politics,Mobility and Border,Regional Integration
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