Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Vicky Bowman, Director of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business, will share her insights on the state of Myanmar’s private sector, business operation challenges since the 2021 coup, and the broader impact of investor decisions on the Myanmar people.

The New York Center for Global Asia at New York University will host a screening of the award-winning short film, The Ice Cream Sellers, followed by a discussion with director Sohel Rahman. This film follows the everyday lives of two resilient Rohingya children in a turbulent refugee community.

Hosted by the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, David Ludden, New York University, will discuss the Rohingya survival crisis in the borderlands of Myanmar and Bangladesh, and the broader imposition of national state boundaries on perceived outgroups during the ongoing global process of decolonization.

Hosted by the Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, U Moe Zaw Oo, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the National Unity Government, U Kyaw Moe Tun, Permanent Representative of Myanmar to the United Nations, and Priscilla Clapp, Senior Advisor to the United States Institute of Peace, will discuss the state of the anti-military movement in Myanmar.

Sponsored by the NYU Wagner School and NYSEAN, Elliott Prasse-Freeman will discuss his ongoing fieldwork from Cox's Bazar refugee camps and the Thai/Burma border, exploring the effects of the ongoing revolution on inter-ethnic relations.

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Htet Thiha Zaw, University of Michigan, will discuss the role of indigenous education providers,  anti-colonial resistance, and state control in the development of education policy in British Burma from 1901 - 1920.

Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, MK Long, Cornell University, will discuss the rhetorical force of relationships in biographies of Buddhist nuns in Burma.

Hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Michigan, Antoni Slodkowski, Financial Times and Reuters, will discuss the Pulitzer-prize-winning investigation carried out by Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo during the Myanmar military offensive against Rohingya Muslims in 2017.

Hosted by FCCT--The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand, Manny Maung, Human Rights Watch, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Chulalongkorn University, Show Ei Ei Tun, Myanmar Politics Analyst, Anthony Davis, Janes Defense Publishing Group, and Gwen Robinson, former FCCT President, will discuss the options for domestic, regional and international actors in Myanmar.

Hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Hawaii, Amporn Jirattikorn, Chiang Mai University, will discuss how masculinity is redefined among Shan male migrant sex workers from Myanmar who sell sex to gay men clients in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Hosted by The East-West Center in Washington, Dr. Nasir Uddin, University of Chittagong, Ambassador Scot Marciel, Former U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar, Steve Ross, Richardson Center for Global Engagement, and Dr. Satu P. Limaye, Vice President at East West Center, will discuss the roles that the United States and the international community play in addressing the Rohingya crisis. 

Marion Loddo, Representative of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Dr. Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, Research Coordinator at Landmine Monitor, Michelle Yesudas, Advocacy Advisor at Humanity & Inclusion, and Tom Andrews, Special Rapporteur, will discuss struggles to implement the United Nations Mine Ban Treaty in Myanmar. This event is hosted by the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Nyantha Maw Lin, Executive Director of the Anagat Foundation, Amara Thiha, Peace Research Institute Oslo, and Kyaw Hsan Hlaing, an independent journalist from Myanmar's Rakhine State, will discuss prevailing challenges in Myanmar's multidimensional crisis.

Nick Cheesman, Australian National University, will discuss how the language used by torturers encapsulates the relation between law, violence and political order in Thailand and Myanmar. This event is sponsored by Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program and Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

Hosted by the Australian National University, this webinar addresses the challenges facing teachers and students in Myanmar’s ongoing conflict, and the ways international aid efforts can navigate the ethical and legal challenges of rendering assistance.

Hosted by the ANU Myanmar Research Centre, Mai Van Tran, the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, and Megan Ryan, University of Michigan, will discuss the role of long-standing digitalized pro-democracy activism in post-coup Myanmar.

Hitomi Fujimura, York Centre for Asian Research, will lecture on how the Karen Baptists who later established the KNA nurtured the idea of claiming national identity through multi-layered settings. This event is hosted by the Southeast Asia Program and Religious Studies Program at Cornell University.

Dr. Zach Abuza, an expert on Southeast Asia and insurgencies, will discuss his recent Stimson policy paper with Priscilla Clapp, senior advisor to the U.S. Institute of Peace, and Yun Sun, a Senior Fellow and Co-Director at the Stimson East Asia Program. Abuza’s paper outlines a roadmap ahead for Myanmar’s shadow government and the tactics outside observers should watch in this new phase of the war.

Jangai Jap, an Early Career Provost Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, will examine patterns of protests in Myanmar using a unique dataset consisting of protest occurrences in post-coup Myanmar and township-level ethnicity data. This event is sponsored by the Council of Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University.

Hosted by Yale University, Professor Ken MacLean, will explore the many ways human rights “facts” are produced rather than found in the context of Myanmar as discussed in his new book Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar.

Shona Loong, a researcher who helped produce the Myanmar Conflict Map, and Zach Abuza, National Defense University, will discuss the geography and current reality of Myanmar’s battlespace. This event is hosted by the Stimson Center.

Please join NYSEAN for a talk by Gwen Robinson, editor-at-large at Nikkei Asia, mapping Myanmar’s intensifying crisis and exploring possible future scenarios. She will be in conversation with Margaret Scott, Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU and co-founder of the New York Southeast Asia Network.

Linda J. Yarr, George Washington University, Win Myo Thu, Association of Advancing Livelihood and Regenerating Motherland, Saw John Bright, Karen Environmental and Social Action Network, and Mira Käkönen, Tampere University, will discuss the impacts of dam construction on Myanmar's rivers. This event is hosted by Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia (PISA), Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and Siemenpuu Foundation.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, UN Special Envoy on Myanmar Noeleen Heyzer will discuss the challenges facing Myanmar since the February 2021 coup. She will discuss the need for political and humanitarian support, regionally and internationally, to foster inclusive peace.

Hosted by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Linda J. Yarr, Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia (PISA), U Win Myo Thu, the Association of Advancing Life and Regenerating Motherland (ALARM), Saw John Bright, the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN), and Mira Käkönen, the Tampere Institute for Advanced Studies, will discuss the environmental harm currently occurring in Myanmar due to dam construction.

Organized by Fortify Rights, this online press conference will launch the report Genocide by Attrition: The Role of Identity Documents in the Holocaust and the Genocides of Rwanda and Myanmar. Dr. Ambia Perveen, chair of the European Rohingya Council, Arsalan Suleman, Foley Hoag LLP, Dr. Ken MacLean, Clark University, and John Quinley III, Fortify Rights, will also discuss how the Myanmar junta is using identity documents to facilitate genocide.

Chris Beyrer MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Parveen Parmar, Associate Professor at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, will discuss the 2021 coup, attacks on health care facilities, and the ongoing health crisis in Myanmar. This event is hosted by the Harvard University Asia Center.

Hosted by the Stanford Asia Health Policy Program, Dr. Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw of the University of Hong Kong will discuss how Myanmar’s health system is endeavoring to respond to the syndemic crisis, a deadly combination of the global pandemic, the military coup, and post-coup civil conflicts. Dr. Nay Lin Tun, a humanitarian physician in Singapore, will provide a grassroots medical humanitarian perspective on what is happening in Myanmar.

Join the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley for a reading and conversation on Burmese poetry with Ko Ko Thett, Mae Yway, Kenneth Wong, and Maw Shein Win.