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SUMMARY:Seminar: Fishing for Knowledges: Karen Riverine Livelihoods in Northern Thailand
DESCRIPTION:RCSD invites all to join a public seminar\, “Fishing for Knowledges: Insights for Environmental Governance from Karen Communities’ Riverine Livelihoods in Northern Thailand” presented by Peter Duker\, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Guelph\, Canada on Monday\, 2 February from 2 to 3:30 pm at the Subaltern Room\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University. \nThe uplands of Northern Thailand have long been the subject of environmental governance conflicts. Competing discourses of upland communities\, including the Karen\, tend to focus on agricultural and forest-based livelihoods\, often with attention to the impacts on water that in turn effect communities further along the watershed. And yet\, why has there been comparatively so little attention on how communities like the Karen manage the rivers that run through their communities? And rivers are not simply channels for water—why is there also comparatively so little attention on the aquatic life that call these rivers home? Addressing this gap\, doctoral researcher Peter Duker will present preliminary findings after more than a year of studying riverine practices and knowledges with four Karen communities across Northern Thailand. He will demonstrate the role of these practices and knowledges for community wellbeing and how they enable engagement with traditional knowledges that are otherwise diminishing. He will then discuss how these insights help inform an environmental governance that is more open to multiple ways of being and knowing and subsequently better positioned to lead to improved social and environmental outcomes.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/seminar-fishing-for-knowledges-karen-riverine-livelihoods-in-northern-thailand/
LOCATION:Subaltern Meeting Room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Ethnic Politics,Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20260212T153000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20260212T180000
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Climate Change and Conflict in Myanmar
DESCRIPTION:How do violent conflict and climate change shape each other on the ground? This seminar presents new research on the politics and lived experiences of climate change in Myanmar’s post-coup rupture. It offers rare insights into how conflict-affected communities experience and interpret extreme weather and environmental disruption. The seminar also explores how climate and environmental issues are deeply entangled in struggles over power\, territory\, and legitimacy\, involving the military\, resistance movements\, and civil society activists. The seminar is part of the MyCClimate project and draws on contributions to a new special issue of the Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/seminar-climate-change-and-conflict-in-myanmar/
LOCATION:4th floor meeting room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20260213T133000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20260213T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T174652
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SUMMARY:Book Launch and Discussion: Tai Magic with Susan Conway
DESCRIPTION:RCSD invites all to join author Susan Conway on Friday\, 13 February from 1:30 to 3:30 pm in the Subaltern Meeting Room at RCSD\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University for the launch of the newly revised edition of her book\, Tai Magic. This is a superbly illustrated book that introduces manuscripts\, textiles and talismans associated with the supernatural. Within the context of Tai cosmology and numerology\, Theravada Buddhism and spirit religion\, the book examines how good and bad spirits are represented in figurative illustrations and how mystical diagrams and spells are formulated to bring good luck and protection or cause bad luck. Extensive field work studies over a period of four years were conducted in the Shan States and in northern Thailand. Using her field notes and photographs Susan Conway provides a colourful picture of the people who create magic and explains how mystical remedies are prescribed and the rituals involved. The author includes comparative material from museum collections in the USA\, UK and Thailand. \nAbout the Author\nSusan Conway is an author specializing in the arts and culture of Southeast Asia\, particularly Thailand\, and Burma (Myanmar). Susan studied fine art as an undergraduate\, and her Ph.D. was a study of the history and culture of Lanna (northern Thailand). More recently\, she became fascinated with healing practices and the magico-religious power of chants\, spells\, and rituals. She is an artist whose work is based on Thailand’s landscapes and murals paintings.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/book-launch-and-discussion-tai-magic-with-susan-conway/
LOCATION:Subaltern Meeting Room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20260223T103000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20260223T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T174652
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SUMMARY:Online Seminar: Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:This seminar series explores displacement issues in Southeast Asia\, investigating various forms of displacement\, enhancing understanding of the legal frameworks that govern displacement\, and examining community responses to displacement. This seminar series is hosted by the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD)\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University\, with support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)\, under the Research Chair on Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia program. \nRegister online here \nSeminar speakers and agenda: \n10:30-10:45 \nWelcome Remark: Dr. Sirada Khemanitthathai\nResearch Chair on Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia; Lecturer\, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration\, Chiang Mai University \n10:45-12:00 \nPanel on ‘Researching Forced Displacement Issues in Southeast Asia’ \nYee Mon Oo Kyaw\, Chiang Mai University\nTitle: Leaving to Resist: How Myanmar’s Students Reclaimed Agency Through Displacement \nSyifa Salsabila Nasution\, Asian Institute of Technology\nTitle: The ‘New Bali’ Disputing: The Politics of Displacement\, Resistance\, and Intersectional Inequality in Mandalika’s\, Lombok Tourism Infrastructure \nAndi Subhan Husain\, Chulalongkorn University\nTitle: A Multidimensional Approach to Refugee Protection in Indonesia: Integrating Siyar\, Humanitarian Ethics\, and Policy Innovation \nModerated by Dr. Andrew Wai Phyo Kyaw\, Research Associate\, Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia\, the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development\, Chiang Mai University
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/online-seminar-forced-development-in-southeast-asia/
LOCATION:Chiang Mai
CATEGORIES:Mobility and Border,Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20260224T133000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch and Discussion: Young Tigers - Chao Tzang Yawnghwe and the Shan Rebellion in Myanmar
DESCRIPTION:RCSD invites all to join a book launch of “Young Tigers: Chao Tzang Yawnghwe and the Shan Rebellion in Myanmar\,” along with discussion with author Bertil Lintner\, on 24 February from 1:30 to 3:30 pm at the Subaltern meeting room\, RCSD\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University. \nYoung Tigers traces Myanmar’s turbulent post-independence history through the life of Chao Tzang Yawnghwe\, son of the country’s first president and last Saohpa of Yawnghwe. Born into aristocratic privilege\, he was thrust into political upheaval after the 1962 military coup\, which led to his father’s disappearance and his brother’s death. Forced into exile and armed struggle\, he joined the Shan resistance\, navigating the complex world of ethnic insurgency\, shifting alliances\, and the political economy of the opium trade. \nDrawing on extensive research\, the book examines the collapse of the federal promise envisioned in the 1947 Panglong Agreement\, the consolidation of military rule\, and the enduring struggles of Myanmar’s ethnic minorities. At its core\, it presents a contest between authoritarian centralism and the vision of a genuinely federal political order. \nThe book is written by Bertil Lintner and Hseng Noung Lintner. Bertil is a veteran journalist and the author of twenty books on Asian politics and history\, including several published by Silkworm Books. His notable works include Outrage: Burma’s Struggle for Democracy; Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency Since 1948\, Bloodbrothers: Crime\, Business and Politics in Asia\, Great Leader\, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea Under the Kim Clan\, Merchants of Madness: The Methamphetamine Explosion in the Golden Triangle\, Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s Struggle for Democracy\, and The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest for Global Dominance. He resides in Chiang Mai\, Thailand. For more information about his work\, please visit his website.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/book-launch-and-discussion-young-tigers-chao-tzang-yawnghwe-and-the-shan-rebellion-in-myanmar/
LOCATION:Subaltern Meeting Room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Ethnic Politics
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