Past events
Myanmar transformed?Probing change and continuity in contemporary Myanmar
Ben Belton, Michigan State University, Lwin Cho Latt, International Relations Department at University of Yangon; Gerard McCarthy, ANU Myanmar Research Centre; Si Thura, Community Partners International, Myanmar; and Matthew Walton,University of Toronto
The triumph of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy at the 2015 election was supposed to mark the consolidation of a reformist trajectory for Myanmar society. What has followed has not been so straightforward. This panel discussion, featuring authors of the recently released Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) publication ‘...
2018 Thadingyut @ ANU
ANU Burmese Program and ANU Myanmar Student Association
The full moon day of the month of THADINGYUT is approaching (24th of Oct for this year). The three month long Buddhist Lent will be over soon. Let’s celebrate together this Myanmar’s traditional festival at ANU. Come along and enjoy!
Understanding Myanmar today: launch of Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar
Dr Nicholas Farrelly, Dr Charlotte Galloway, Dr Su Mon Thazin Aung, Gerard McCarthy, and Dr Jacqueline Menager. Discussant comments by Professor Michael Wesley
This panel discussion brings together authors from the recent Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar (ed. Simpson, Holliday and Farrelly) to describe the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of this crucial period of transition in Myanmar and launch this important new publication.
Governing change: Myanmar’s executive policymaking in transition (2011-2018)
Dr Su Mon Thazin Aung, Institute for Strategy and Policy Myanmar
This seminar addresses the research question: how has policymaking taken place in Myanmar’s transitional governments after the end of the military junta as the ‘central policymaking device’? Establishing structures and processes for effective policymaking is critical to providing guidance for government policy makers, most of whom are grappling with many...
Myanmar and North Korea: Divergent Paths
Dr Andray Abrahamian, Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
Registration is free and essential on Eventbrite The stories of North Korea and Myanmar (Burma) are two of Asia’s most difficult. For decades they were infamous as the region’s most militarized and repressed, self-isolated and under sanctions by the international community while, from Singapore to Japan, the rest of Asia saw historic wealth creation....