Events archive
Matthew J. Walton (Aung San Suu Kyi Senior Research Fellow in Modern Burmese Studies, St Antony’s College)
13 June 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre
The field of Burma Studies has expanded rapidly in the past decade. Part of this growth has been fuelled by changes in Myanmar’s political conditions, as research opportunities have opened up on... Read more
Kyaw Myo Win (Site Manager, Sri Ksetra UNESCO World Heritage Site)
11 June 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room
Sriksetra is the largest and latest Pyu city, once the capital of unified sovereign of early Myanmar might have been entitled it in Sanskrit and in Myanmar called as Thaye Khittya means “Field of... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Junko Asano, Jieun Baek and Adrian Calo
9 May 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room
The Making of the Indonesian Migrant Labour Movement Junko Asano (St Antony’s, International Development) The Bold and Brave of Burma: A Micro-Level Study of the first Movers of Dissent between 1988-... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
R. Michael Feener (Centre for Islamic Studies; History)
28 February 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony's College
Religion has been profoundly reconfigured in the age of development. The past half-century has witnessed broad transformations in the understandings and experiences of ‘religion’ across traditions in... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Matthew J Walton, Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi and Aye Thein
14 February 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony's College
Myanmar’s formal religious authority, the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee (Ma Ha Na), was formed in the 1980s, as part of the military government’s efforts to centralise religious control. Popular... Read more
Brian Victoria (Centre for Buddhist Studies)
27 January 2018 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
The 1997 publication of Zen at War sent shockwaves through Western adherents of Buddhism because it revealed allegedly enlightened Buddhist leaders had been fervent, even fanatical, supporters of... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Shapan Adnan
23 January 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
The Rohingyas violently expelled by Myanmar are not recognized as international refugees by Bangladesh. Despite lacking citizenship and the right to work, they have sought to survive through covert... Read more