Join a discussion with members the Danish Institute Against Torture (DIGNITY) on the history of political detention in Burma as it links up with the country's democracy movement and with the current Civil Disobedience Movement. DIGNITY has been conducting research on historical and contemporary Burmese prisons since 2016.

The speakers, from DIGNITY's Legacies of Detention in Myanmar project, are:

Andrew M. Jefferson, Senior Researcher, DIGNITY
Liv Gaborit, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology, Lund University
Tomas Martin, Senior Researcher, DIGNITY

The panel will also include testimony from Nay Tin Myint, former political prisoner and Chairman, National League for Democracy Supporting Organization (NLDOS) in the U.S. (in Burmese), to be translated by Kenneth Wong, Lecturer in Burmese, UC Berkeley.

Moderated by Seinenu Thein Lemelson (Lecturer, Anthropology, UCLA)

The event is co-sponsored by UC Berkeley's Center for Southeast Asia Studies, and UCLA's Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

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