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13th International
      Burma Studies Conference

Distant Past(s), Latest News: Scholarly Insights on Burma/Myanmar
                        August 3-5, 2018
                            Bangkok

                  Conference Program
                www.13ibsc2018.com/panels

                    Last updated: 12 July 2018
13th International Burma Studies Conference - Conference Program www.13ibsc2018.com/panels
Friday August 3
                                                                Registration of Conference Participants
 From 08:00
                                                                                4th Floor

                                                                           Opening Ceremony
                                                                                        ***
 9:00   10:30
                                                                        Guest Speakers’ Keynotes
                                                                            Grand Ballroom

10:30   10:40                                                       Coffee and Tea Break (4th Floor)

                             Grand Ballroom                    Junior Ballroom 1               Junior Ballroom 2       Junior Ballroom 3            Room 5
                               (4th Floor)                         (3rd Floor)                    (3rd Floor)              (3rd Floor)             (3rd Floor)

                                Panel #1                            Panel #2                       Panel #3                 Panel #4               Panel #5

                                                                                               From Crawfurd to
   Friday                                                                                                             The Burden/Benefit
                                                                                                Luce:Towards a
  August 3       Constructing the Political in Myanmar:                                                                of (Our) History-
                                                                  Women of                       Genealogy of
  Morning         Reflections on the Field through the                                                                Precarity and Youth        Pyu Cities and
                                                               Myanmar/Burma:                      Colonial
                    Scholarship of Robert H. Taylor                                                                    in Contemporary        Bagan: New Insights,
                                                               Voices, Vocations,              Historiography in
                     Organizer: Maitrii Aung-Thwin                                                                         Myanmar              New Initiatives
                                                                  and Visions                 Burma and Beyond
                   Discussant: Prof. Robert H. Taylor                                                                   Organizer: Mike
                                                                                                  Organizer:
                                                                                                                            Griffiths
                                                                                              Patrick McCormick

                                                                                                                       Justine Chambers
                                                                                  Patrick McCormick
                                                              Hilary Faxon & Pyo                                        Coming of Age in        Julian Wheatley
                      Tin Maung Maung Than                                       Luce and the Creation
                                                                    Let Han                                                 Hpa-An:            Pyu Inscriptions on
10:40   10:55     Myanmar State and Taylor’s “State in                                of the Mons
                                                              Who Are Myanmar’s                                        Navigating A More        Molded Tablets:
                             Myanmar”                                               as a Historical
                                                               Female Farmers?                                           Cosmopolitan           A Way Forward?
                                                                                        Subject
                                                                                                                            Morality

                                                                Rachelle Saruya                Stephen Lee Keck         Mya Thida Soe &
                                                                Forging Monastic               The Descent from         War War Pyone
                          Maung Aung Myoe                            Careers:                     Diplomacy:          Roadmaps: Pathways Charlotte Galloway
11:00   11:15   Sayar ​Robert H. Taylor and the Myanmar        Buddhist Nuns and               The Emergence of          to Adulthood       Protecting Cultural
                              Armed Forces                      their Experiences               British Colonial         of Street and     Heritage in Myanmar
                                                               with the Scriptural             Historiography in       Working Children in
                                                                  Examinations                       Burma                 Mandalay

                                                                                                                      Pwint Hlwar & Nyein
                                                                                               Carol-Ann Boshier             Chan Oo
                                                                Sandi Sein Thein
                                                                                                  Gordon Luce’s        Religious Teachings       Liu Yun
                                                               “The New Burmese
                            Kyaw Yin Hlaing                                                         Influence          or Family Pressure?   A New Historical
                                                                   Women’’ –
11:20   11:35     How Prof. R. Taylor and His Myanmar                                         on the Study of Early    Comparative Case     Perspective of the
                                                                 Redefining the
                    Audience Influenced Each Other                                              Burmese History          Studies of Drug   Chinese Inscription of
                                                                 Modernity with
                                                                                                through his ​JBRS      Avoidance amongst          Bagan
                                                                  Technology
                                                                                                     Articles            Youth from two
                                                                                                                         Myanmar Cities

                                                                                                   Thanapas
                                                                                                                     Aye Aye Aung & Lei
                                                                                                 Dejpawuttikul
                                                                                                                            Kay Thi
                                                                                                Colonial Burmese
                            Maitrii Aung-Thwin                   Mon Mon Myat                                         Dying Tradition or
                                                                                                     History
                A Political Scientist Among the Historians:   Politics as a Vocation                                    Living Truth?
11:40   11:55                                                                                 in Early Modern Thai
                Political Biography as Myanmar History in      Aung San Suu Kyi:                                     Traditional Festivals
                                                                                                 Historiography:
                       the Work of Robert H. Taylor            Politician or Activist                               of The Yinbaw Ethnic
                                                                                                The Theory of the
                                                                                                                    Group of Kayah State,
                                                                                               Migration of the Tai
                                                                                                                     Northeast Myanmar
                                                                                                       Race

                                                                                                                          Mike Griffiths
                                                                 Lisa Brooten
                                                                                                                         Furnival’s Folly:
                                                                  “The Lady”
                           Ang Cheng Guan                                                                             Intersectionality and
                                                                 Re-Presented:
12:00   12:15    Robert Taylor and Myanmar Studies: A                                                                     Youth Identity
                                                                 Media and the
                                Review                                                                                   Construction in
                                                              Gendered Politics of
                                                                                                                          Contemporary
                                                              Myanmar’s Transition
                                                                                                                            Myanmar

12:30   13:30                                                          Lunch Break (on your own)

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Ballroom 1               Ballroom 2          Junior Ballroom 1       Junior Ballroom 2        Junior Ballroom 3             Room 5
                     (4th Floor)              (4th Floor)            (3rd Floor)             (3rd Floor)               (3rd Floor)             (3rd Floor)

                       Panel #6                 Panel #7              Panel #8                Panel #9                 Panel #10               Panel #11
  Friday
                                                                 Myanmar's Political
 August 3                                                                                                            Non-Burman
                                                                   and Economic          Local Responses to
 Afternoon      Myanmar/Burma-Ind Myanmar/Burma on                                                                Languages and their
                                                                  Transition under       the British Colonial                               Visual Culture in
                ia Connections and the Global Stage and                                                              Contact with
                                                                  NLD's Leadership        Administration of                                     Bagan
                   Border Affairs    in Global Affairs                                                             Burmese/Myanmar
                                                                   and its Future              Burma
                                                                                                                      Language
                                                                     Prospects

                                                                                          Takahiro Iwaki
                                                                                            Suspension,                                       Pyiet P.Kyaw &
                                                                                                                    Phyu Phyu Win
                                                Enze Han           Zaw Htet Aung        Reinstatement, and                                    Arsenio Nicolas
                                                                                                                         Danu, a
                     Amrita Dey               International      Pro-Business Circles      Dismissal: The                                 Musical Instruments
                                                                                                                     ‘Non-standard’
                 Kolkata-Myanmar           Condemnation and      vs. Individual & Civil   Experience of a                                 Illustrated on Bagan
13:30   13:45                                                                                                      Variety of Burmese,
                Relations: Possibilities   China’s Enticement:         Rights – A            Burmese                                         Monuments and
                                                                                                                   Burmese Dialect or
                   and Challenges          Myanmar’s Foreign     Perspective on Land Clerk and the Colonial                                      Temples,
                                                                                                                     Ethnic Minority
                                           Policy Predicament     Rights in Myanmar     Administration in the                                11th to the 13th
                                                                                                                       Language?
                                                                                          Late Nineteenth                                      Century, CE.
                                                                                              Century

                                                                                            Hitomi Fujimura
                    Deba Kumar
                                       Pinitbhand Paribatra       Richard Roewer             Baptist Karen
                    Chakraborty
                                            The Roles of         Understanding the       Intellectuals’ Pursuit     Rikker Dockum             Sally Bamford
                The Potentialities and
                                       International Actors in   NLD’s Approach of      of Official Recognition   Basic Word Order in     Imagery of the Inside
                Constraints of Border
13:50   14:05                                Myanmar’s                Reduced                   in British            Tai Khamti:         Thirty-Seven Lords at
                Tourism Development
                                          Democratization        Confrontation with      Burma: Participation      Language Contact          the Shwezigon,
                      along the
                                              Process                   the               in the 1881 Census         with Burmese                 Bagan
                   Indo-Myanmar
                                            (2008-2015)                Military         and the Formation of
                       Border
                                                                                                the KNA

                   L. Stubbs & P.                                                                                     André Müller             Tint Lwin
                                                                  Khin Maung Nyo
                  Mukhopadhaya                                                                                    Diglossia in Jinghpaw   Cultural Heritage of
                                                                 Political Economy of
14:10   14:25   A Potential Rail Link                                                                             Kachin and the Decay         Paintings
                                                                 Economic Reform in
                between Burma and                                                                                    of Grammatical       of the Abeyadanar
                                                                 Myanmar Since 2016
                        India                                                                                          Complexity          Temple in Bagan

                   Anup Shekhar                                                                                    Keisuke Huziwara
                                                                     Ian Holliday
                     Chakraborty                                                                                  The Autonym of Kadu
                                                                    Liberalism and
14:30   14:45   The Z
                    ​ o hnahthlak​ and                                                                                 in Burma
                                                                    Democracy in
                  the ‘​Burma mi​’ in                                                                              and Related Place
                                                                       Myanmar
                       Mizoram                                                                                          Names

                                                                                                                     Mathias Jenny
                                                                                                                  What’s in a “Word”?
14:50   15:05                                                                                                         The Hidden
                                                                                                                  Burmanization of the
                                                                                                                    Mon Language

15:20   15:35                                                         Coffee and Tea Break (4th Floor)

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Ballroom 1             Ballroom 2           Junior Ballroom 1      Junior Ballroom 2     Junior Ballroom 3           Room 5
                     (4th Floor)            (4th Floor)             (3rd Floor)            (3rd Floor)            (3rd Floor)           (3rd Floor)

                     Panel #12              Panel #13                Panel #14              Panel #15             Panel #16              Panel #17

                                                                   Claiming the
                                                                   “Interstices”:
                                                                                                             Decentralization in
  Friday                                                        The Evolving Social
                 New Approaches to                                                                                Myanmar:
 August 3                                                         Dimensions of        Myanmar/Burma, its                                Portraying
                Old Problems: Armed                                                                              Challenges,
 Afternoon                            Localizing Economic         Human-Land           Society and Links to                        Myanmar/Burma and
                 Actors and Conflicts                                                                           Constitutional
                                      and Political Models       Relationships in      the Wider World in                          its Diversity through
                in the New Myanmar                                                                             Framework and
                                         and Practices            Contemporary          the Middle to Late                           Brush Strokes and
                    Organizer: John                                                                         Visions for the Future
                                                                     Myanmar              Modern Period                                Camera Shots
                      Buchanan                                                                                 Organizer: Mael
                                                                  Organizers: C.
                                                                                                                  Raynaud
                                                                 Allaverdian & M.
                                                                      Boutry

                                                                  U San Thein &
                                          Prateep Chayalee                                                                           Khin Lay Maung
                  John Buchanan                                     J.C.Diépart        Adrien Marest
                                        The Yangon School of                                                                        A Survey of the 101
                 Burma’s Conflicts:                              Large-Scale Land   The Importance of the
                                         Economics and the                                                       Tinzar Htun        Peoples Depicted in
                    A Subnational                                   Acquisitions    Kingdoms of Ava and
                                           Rise of Burma:                                                         The 2008         Mural Paintings with
15:35   15:50        Approach to                                  for Agricultural   Pegu for European
                                         Review the Past for                                                   Constitution and       a Focus on the
                   Understanding                                  Development in          Trading
                                         Sustainable Present                                                   Decentralization       Irrawaddy and
                Patterns of Militarized                              Myanmar:         Companies in the
                                            and Future of                                                                          Chindwin Rivers (17th
                       Violence                                   Genealogy and         18th Century
                                              Myanmar                                                                                    -18 C. AD)
                                                                Contemporary Issues

                                        Motohiko Osuka
                                                                                           Khin Thidar
                   Andrew Ong          Use of Electoral Lens                                                      Kim Jolliffe
                                                                                       Reconsidering King                             Marie-Pierre Mol
                Navigating Liminality: to Promote Human          Céline Allaverdian                             Ethnic Armed
                                                                                        Badon’s Exertions                            Ethnic Minorities in
                  United Wa State       Rights in Burma:        The New Land Front:                             Organisation
15:55   16:10                                                                            on Buddhism in                                Myanmar Art:
                   Army (UWSA)          Lessons from the         Land Allocations at                             Governance
                                                                                         Myanmar in the                            From Anthropology to
                  Political Practice       Past General            the Interstices                           and the Building of a
                                                                                       Late 18th and Early                                 Politics
                    2014-2018           Elections of 1990,                                                      Federal Union
                                                                                          19th Century
                                         2010 and 2015

                                                                   Maxime Boutry
                    David Scott                                 Land Titling Warfare
                                        A. Doffegnies & T.                                                                           Carmín Berchiolly
                     Mathieson                                     and Dominion:       Nant Aye Saw Nwe            Maw Htun
                                              Wells                                                                                  Capturing Burma:
                  A War of Words.                                   Post-Conflict        Socio-Economic          Challenges and
                                               The                                                                                 Reactivating Colonial
16:15   16:30      The Strategy of                                Territorialisation       Conditions               Avenues
                                       ‘Vernacularisation’ of                                                                      Photographic Images
                  Insurgent Public                                 Processes and        under King Badon     for Natural Resources
                                         Human Rights in                                                                            through The British
                    Relations in                                Livelihoods Changes       (1782-1819)              Federalism
                                             Myanmar                                                                                    Raj’s Gaze
                  Burma/Myanmar                                 in Eastern Myanmar
                                                                      Borderland

                                                                                                                    Nicolas
                                                                                                                 Salem-Gervais
                                                                                                             Language Policy and
                                                                                                                                    Anthea Snowsill
                                                            Kevin M. Woods                                      Decentralisation:
                   Kyungmee Kim         Ngu Wah Win                                                                                  Commodifying
                                                          “Conflict Rubber” and                                  Opportunities,
                 Political Legacy and  Gender Equality in                                                                                Culture:
                                                          Military-State Making                                  Prospects and
                Implications of Rebel      Myanmar:                                                                                   Exploring the
16:35   16:50                                                 in a Post-War                                    Challenges to the
                  Governance in the   Localizing Economic                                                                           Temporalities of
                                                                Context in                                     Teaching of Ethnic
                        Time of       Models to Decompose                                                                          Cultural Production
                                                               Southeastern                                   Languages in Public
                       Transition             Gaps                                                                                  and Photography
                                                                 Myanmar                                     Schools: Nation-Wide
                                                                                                                                  Tourism on Inle Lake
                                                                                                                 Issues and the
                                                                                                               Kengtung Region
                                                                                                                   Case-Study

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Ballroom 1             Ballroom 2            Junior Ballroom 1       Junior Ballroom 2       Junior Ballroom 3            Room 5
                     (4th Floor)            (4th Floor)              (3rd Floor)             (3rd Floor)              (3rd Floor)            (3rd Floor)

                     Panel #18         Panel #19 (session I)          Panel #20               Panel #21               Panel #22               Panel #23

                                                                                                                     Myanmar
                                                                  Frontiers and the
                                                                                                                   Transnational
  Saturday                             The Consolidation of           Foreign:
                                                                                                                 Mobility in ASEAN:           Craft and
  August 4                                the Democracy          Place-making and
                                                                                          Performing Music        Social & Cultural       Craftsmen/women
  Morning                                  in Myanmar:              the Global in
                  Civil Society and                                                       and Experiencing       Capitals, Language         Across a Wide
                                           Domestic and          Myanmar's Colonial
                 Local Governance                                                          Soundscapes in          Policy, Upward            Spectrum of
                                       International Factors      and Postcolonial
                                                                                          Myanmar/Burma          Mobility and Social     Practices, Quotidian
                                            Organizer: Li               Past
                                                                                                                     Protection              and Sacred
                                             Chenyang             Organizer: Maitrii
                                                                                                                 Organizer: Morakot
                                                                    Aung-Thwin
                                                                                                                        Meyer

                                                                                                               Morakot Meyer
                                                                                                              Riding the Tide of
                                                                    Wang Zhiwei             Khin Saw Nwe
                                                                                                                Transnational
                                                                   Trouble with the      Aspects of Myanmar
                     Yu Szu-Tu                                                                               Mobility in ASEAN:
                                           Li Chenyang           Frontier: The British         History:                             Luke Corbin
                  The Emergence,                                                                             Offline and Online
                                        Trend Analysis of              Colonial            Culture Value of                       What’s Burmese
8:15    8:30       Crossover, and                                                                              Socio-Cultural
                                       Political Transition in    Administration of       National Races of                      About Burmese Craft
                 Connection of Local                                                                         Capitals of Female
                                        Current Myanmar              Trade in the          Lisu’s Music and                             Beer?
                 NGOs in Myanmar                                                                            Migrant Workers from
                                                                   China-Myanmar          Dances in Kachin
                                                                                                            Myanmar – Examples
                                                                 Borderland Region               State
                                                                                                             from Thailand and
                                                                                                                  Singapore

                                                                                                                 Wimonsiri Hemtanon          Thweep
                    Keiko Tosa                                                              Sayuri Inoue
                                                                 Phyo Win Latt                                   Out of the Ordinary:   Rittinaphakorn
                 Transformation of          Ko Ko Hlaing                                  Oral Transmission
                                                               The “Blasphemous”                                  Thai Language as      Luntaya Acheik,
                     Buddhist               Rhetoric and                                 System for Burmese
                                                                       Book:                                      Social and Cultural Myanmar’s Woven
8:35    8:50      Associations into    Realities; Dichotomies                              Classical Songs:
                                                              The Immediate Cause                                 Capital of Female   Signature: A Journey
                 Non-Governmental       in Current Myanmar                                 Bazat-hsaing​ or
                                                               of the Indo-Burman                                 Migrant Workers in     of its Enduring
                  Organizations in            Reforms                                      Mouth-music for
                                                                   Riots of 1938                                   Little Myanmar,      Production from
                     Myanmar                                                             Burmese Harp Music
                                                                                                                       Mahachai       Mid-19 th to 21th C.

                                                                                                             Sophana Srichampa
                                                                                                                 Searching for
                                                                                           Andrew Dicks                                      Beiyin Deng
                                                                    You Chenxue                                 Sustainable Thai
                   Ayako Saito             Thida Tun                                        Mediations of                                    Vitalising or
                                                                 Never the Right Time:                       Language Policy and
                      Muslim           Analysis on the NLD                               “Buddhist” Sound in                              Commodifying the
                                                                   Settling Burma’s                          Planning for Unskilled
8:55    9:10     Non-Governmental         Government’s                                   Mandalay: The Case                                  Sacred? The
                                                                       Huaqiao                                  Migrant Laborers
                  Organizations in     Approach to Peace                                       of the                                    Production of Marble
                                                                   Dual-Nationality                          from Myanmar: Some
                     Myanmar           Process in Myanmar                                Dhamma-Disturbing                                Buddha Images in
                                                                  Issue, 1949-1980                               Thoughts from
                                                                                             Dutchman                                         Mandalay
                                                                                                                  Fieldworks in
                                                                                                                    Thailand

                   Makiko Takeda                                                       Jon Fernquest              Narumol Nirathron
                       Local Civil                                 Moe Thuzar         The Trance-Like            Locating Left-Behind
                                            Kong Jianxun                                                                                 Catherine Raymond
                Society-Led Initiatives                        Finding the National Martial Sounds of the         People in the Social
                                        Demographic Factors                                                                                Reversed Glass
                for Securing Rights of                        in Myanmar’s Foreign   Burmese ​Hne​ and            Protection Scheme:
9:15    9:30                            of Populism Attitudes                                                                                Paintings:
                     Poor Children:                               Policy History:   Thai​ Pi Chawa​: From         Reflections from a
                                          in Democratizing                                                                                 A Comparative
                    Indication from                             A Historiographical        Nat Bwe                 Field Study in two
                                              Myanmar                                                                                        Approach
                  Northern/Southern                                 Approach         Accompaniment to                  Villages in
                         CSOs                                                        Thai Boxing Music               Myawlamyine

                                                                                         Hsin-chun Tasaw Lu
                                                                                                                    Min Zarni Lin
                  Jérémie Sanchez                                                         Experience Macau,
                                                                                                                     Cause and
                   In the Wards of                                                        Touching Moments:
                                                                                                                  Consequence of
                      Mandalay:                                                           Burmese Music and
9:35    9:50                                                                                                        International
                   Everyday Urban                                                        Dance Performances,
                                                                                                                 Migration: The Case
                Governance in a Time                                                     Identity Negotiation,
                                                                                                                    of Mon State,
                 of Transformation                                                        and City Tourism in
                                                                                                                      Myanmar
                                                                                                Macau

10:10   10:40                                                         Coffee and Tea Break (4th Floor)

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Ballroom 1             Ballroom 2           Junior Ballroom 1      Junior Ballroom 2      Junior Ballroom 3            Room 5
                     (4th Floor)            (4th Floor)             (3rd Floor)            (3rd Floor)             (3rd Floor)            (3rd Floor)

                     Panel #24         Panel #19 (session II)        Panel #25              Panel #26              Panel #27               Panel #28

                   Community &
  Saturday      Occupational Health The Consolidation of                                    Freedom of       The Affordances of
  August 4      Associated with the      the Democracy                                     Expression in    Burmese Citizenship:
                                                                 Rivers, Estuaries,
  Morning           Sustainable           in Myanmar:                                    Myanmar/Burma         Opportunities,           Socio-linguistics
                                                                 and Livelihoods in
                Development Goals;        Domestic and                                   from the Age of       Exclusions, and              Studies
                                                                       Lower
                   Research and       International Factors                            Colonial Cartoons to    Contingencies           and Lexicography
                                                                 Myanmar/Burma
                Capacity Building in       Organizer: Li                                the 21st Century's    Organizer: Elliott
                 Central Myanmar            Chenyang                                        Cyberworld        Prasse-Freeman
                Organizer: Heidi West

                    Layhoon Lee &          Zhu Xianghui
                                                                                                               Gerard McCarthy             Kyi Kyi Moe
                   Hannah Speaks       The Responsibility to
                                                                                       Khin Saw Mya Hnin       Self-Reliance as a         A Study of the
                     Health Risk        Protect and State       Stephen Campbell
                                                                                           Cartoons on           Mechanism of           Mistakes made by
10:40   10:55    Perceptions Related    Sovereignty: From       Reading Myanmar’s
                                                                                        Myanmar Politics         Entitlement in         Foreign Students
                  to Mercury Use in     Myanmar’s Saffron         Inland Fisheries
                                                                                          (1915-1962)           Contemporary          Studying Myanmar as
                Artisanal Mining Sites   Revolution to the
                                                                                                                    Myanmar            a Foreign Language
                     in Myanmar           Rohingya Issue

                                                                   Benoit Ivars                                 Gillian Cornish         Mon Mon Aung
                    Heidi West                                                           Thomas Patton
                                            Kong Peng          Sharing the River,                             Exploring the Role of    A Sociolinguistics
                  Labor Migration                                                        On Monks and
                                           Civil-Military      Dividing the Land:                                Social Capital        Study of English
                     and Social                                                             Memes:
11:00   11:15                                Relations          Territoriality and                             after Relocation to      Code-Mixing in
                  Determinants of                                                       Buddhist Satire in
                                       during the Era of NLD   Village Settlement                              Rebuild Livelihood     Myanmar Language
                       Health                                                             Contemporary
                                            government       in Pyi Taw Htar Kyun,                              Assets in Lieu of     Based on Myanmar
                    in Myanmar                                                              Myanmar
                                                               Ayeyarwady Delta                                  State Support             Journals

                                                                                                                   Kirt Mausert
                                                                     Alan Potkin
                                                                                         Haroon Atcha           Two Sides of the
                 Tomoyuki Shibata          Meng Zi Jun                Interactive                                                   Jennifer Lewis-Wong
                                                                                          Facebook in           Same Arakanese
                   Risk Factors         The Implications of        Visualization of                                                   Corpus Studies in
                                                                                           Myanmar:           Coin: Ethnogenesis as
11:20   11:35     Associated with       Rohingya Issues for        Salween Basin                                                          Burmese -
                                                                                       Expression of Ethnic      Schismogenesis
                 Maternal and Child      Myanmar Political      Development and its                                                    Possibilities and
                                                                                       Preferences in Low      between/amongst
                 Health in Myanmar          Transition          Aggregate Impact on                                                        Pitfalls
                                                                                       Cost Environments          ‘Rakhine’ and
                                                                the Thanlwin Estuary
                                                                                                                    ‘Rohingya’

                                                                                                                     Elliott
                                                                                                               Prasse-Freeman
                                                                     Cherry Aung                                                      Nathan A. Waxman
                                                                                                               Burma’s Brokered
                                                                 Assessing Potential    Lennon Chang                                  The Myanmar English
                   Devin Metoyer                                                                                  Citizenship:
                                                                 Threats to Fisheries     Combating                                    Dictionary (MED) at
                Understanding Health                                                                             Responsibility
11:40   11:55                                                   and Socio-Economic       Cybercrime in                                    25: Trends in
                Seeking Behaviors in                                                                           Discourse and the
                                                                      Conditions      Myanmar: Trends and                                    Burmese
                     Myanmar                                                                                       Politics of
                                                                at the Thanlwin River     Challenges                                  Lexicography for the
                                                                                                               Passage for those
                                                                       Estuary                                                         Anglophone World
                                                                                                                outside ‘Political
                                                                                                                    Society’

                                                                                                              Jayde Lin Roberts &
                                                                                                                Elizabeth Rhoads
12:00   12:15                                                                                                 Nalehmu​: Myanmar’s
                                                                                                               common practice of
                                                                                                                everyday politics

12:30   13:30                                                           Lunch Break (on your own)

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                     Panel #29               Panel #30               Panel #31              Panel #32               Panel #33               Panel #34

                                                                                                                   Reimagining
 Saturday
                                                                   From Shadow                                      Pluralism –
 August 4        Environmental and
                                                                Economy to Special        Documenting,            Shifting/Parallel
 Afternoon      Sustainability Issues                                                                                                Architectural History
                                                                 Economic Zones:          Exploring, and        Identity Boundaries
                    in Myanmar          The Rohingya Crisis                                                                          across Borders, Time,
                                                                    Looking for        Supporting Dissent      and Performativity in
                 Organizer: Melissa                                                                                                     and Functions
                                                                Opportunities across   in Myanmar/Burma              Myanmar
                    Lenczweski
                                                                  Time and Space                                  Organizer: Mike
                                                                                                                      Griffiths

                                              Wathanyoo
                                              Phakthong
                                                                                        Ji Eun Baek
                                        From “Bengalis” in U     Wen-Chin Chang                                                             Chotima
                                                                                    The Bold and Brave           Gerard McCarthy
                                           Pho Kyar’s Time        Illicit Economic                                                        Chaturawong
                                                                                         of Burma:                Disasters and
                                        Testing Short Story to       Exchanges                                                          Sukhothai Viharas:
13:30   13:45                                                                       A Micro-Level Study           Post-Socialist
                                              “Rohingyas”             across the                                                        Cultural Relations
                                                                                   of the Early Movers of         Citizenship in
                                         in Reality: The Roots Sino-Burmese Border                                                      between Thailand
                                                                                     Dissent Between                Myanmar
                                        of Racial Prejudice in during the Cold War                                                        and Myanmar
                                                                                        1988-2011
                                             the Myanmar
                                               Literature

                                                                                          Chinami Oka
                                                                                        Transnational Civil                                  Ei Kay Zin
                                                                                                                    San San Oo
                                                                    Hein Khaing           Revolt Against                                     Study on
                                                                                                                How Shall We Die
                                         Christopher Blood       Living Space and        National Military                                 Architectural
                                                                                                                       Now?
                                          Rohingya Crisis        Myanmar-Chinese       Regime: Emergence                                 Characteristics of
13:50   14:05                                                                                                        The Rise of
                                         and Rakhine State         Identification:     and Development of                               Colonial Residential
                                                                                                                   Co-Operative
                                               Politics           A Case Study of          Grassroots                                        Buildings
                                                                                                                 of Funeral Service
                                                                 Mongwun-Burma         Connectivity of Japan                               in Nyaung U,
                                                                                                                Societies in Yangon
                                                                                         and Burma Since                                 Mandalay District
                                                                                              1988
                Melissa Lenczewski
                                                                                       Kyungmee Kim                                    Ye Yint Aung
                    (Moderator)         Costas Laoutides &        Moe Thida Lwin                               Su Su Hlaing & Cho
                                                                                     Popularizing Dissent:                                Study on
                Tomoyuki Shibata;         Anthony Ware          The Labour Market in                                Cho Winn
                                                                                        The Interplay                                   Architectural
                 James L. Wilson         (Re)Constructing       Mae Sot (1990-2017)                             Are We Trapped in
14:10   14:25                                                                        between Violent and                               Characters of
                 Wesley Swingley;       Realities of Conflict   and Thailand’s New                                 the History?
                                                                                         Non-Violent                                Vernacular Houses in
                  Laura Richards          and Violence in        Special Economic                              Ethnic and Religious
                                                                                        Resistance in                                 Shankalay Kyun,
                                          Rakhine State             Zone Policy                                Othering in Myanmar
                                                                                          Myanmar                                        Mandalay

                                                                                        Andy Buschmann
                                           Ishrat Hossain                                                      Nilar Tin & Lwin Lwin
                                                                                         Introducing the
                                          Buddhist-Muslim                                                               Aung
                                                                                        Myanmar Protest
                                             Relations in          John Walsh                                    Seeds of Change:
                                                                                         Event Dataset:
14:30   14:45                           Bangladesh-Myanma       Spatial Economic                                     Traditional
                                                                                           Motivation,
                                         r Borderland in the Initiatives in Myanmar                            Agriculture Practices
                                                                                          Methodology
                                           Shadow of the                                                       and Ethnic Identity in
                                                                                          and Research
                                           Rohingya Crisis                                                          Kayah State
                                                                                            Prospects

                                           Anthony Ware
                                               Conflict
                                        Transformation and
                                           Peace Building                                                          Mike Griffiths
                                        Intervention Options                                                    Parahita​ and Place:
14:50   15:05
                                                 for                                                            The Boundaries of
                                            International                                                        Localized Welfare
                                            Development
                                        Agencies Working in
                                           Rakhine State

15:20   15:35                                                        Coffee and Tea Break (4th Floor)

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Ballroom 1             Ballroom 2         Junior Ballroom 1      Junior Ballroom 2      Junior Ballroom 3           Room 5
                     (4th Floor)            (4th Floor)           (3rd Floor)             (3rd Floor)            (3rd Floor)           (3rd Floor)

                     Panel #35              Panel #36             Panel #37              Panel #38              Panel #39               Panel #40
 Saturday
                                                                                     Myanmar's Shifting                             Preserving Built
 August 4          Environmental
                                                                                     Media Landscape:                                   Heritage
 Afternoon          Governance                                Myanmar/Burma's
                                        Public Health and                              Changes and           Myanmar’s Pillars     across Myanmar’s
                 Revisited through                            Peace Process and
                                        Medical Practices                               Challenges             Re-Framed           Cultural and Ethnic
                  State/non-State                                 Ceasefire
                                                                                       Organizer: Lisa                               Diversity: Case
                    Perspectives
                                                                                          Brooten                                        Studies

                                           Soe Thet Nyo
                 Frances O’Morchoe
                                             Childcare          Michal Kouřil                                                       Saung Hsu Pyae
                Lootable Resources in                                                                          Htet Min Lwin
                                          Arrangement of          Ceasefire                                                               Kyaw
                  Shan Borderlands:                                                                         Buddhist Nationalist
                                         Migrant Women           Externalities:                                                      Ancient Floating
15:35   15:50       The Politics of                                                                             Movements
                                          Workers in the       A Case Study of                                                           Pagodas
                    Extraction in                                                                            and their Uses and
                                        Garment Industry: A    Armed Conflict in                                                     in Samka Area,
                 ‘Non-State’ Spaces,                                                                         Abuses of History
                                        Case from Magway          Myanmar                                                          Southern Shan State
                    C.1880-1900
                                              Region

                                                                Tony Waters &
                     Laur Kiik            Céline Coderey           Soomboon            Lisa Brooten                                  Zin Zin Win Moh
                  Northern Forest       Negotiating Medical        Panyakom             (Moderator)    Hans Bernd Zollner           Architectural Study
                 Complex or Kachin         Efficacy in the    Why is Peace Elusive G. Venkiteswaran;
                                                                                                            Buddhist               on Kayan Traditional
15:55   16:10   Land? Conservation         Context of an          in Myanmar?      Yan Naung Oak; Mon    Metamorphoses                Houses and its
                 and Ethnicity amid          Emerging         An Answer from the         Mon Myat      of Marxism in Burma            Compounds in
                 Northern Burma’s          Pan-national        Perspective of Thai  Sarah Oh; Jennifer                             Loikaw, Kayah State
                        War                   Medicine        Philosopher Prawase         Leehey;
                                                                      Wasi            Carine Jacquet
                                                                                                                                 Thandar Phyoe &
                  Matthew Baird         Yuzana Khine Zaw
                                                                                                                                 Urszula Strugala
                   Environmental        Gender, Medicines        Ashley South
                                                                                                               Amara Thiha        Conservation of
                   Governance in            and Care:          Exploring Interim
                                                                                                            Myths and Framing –     Decorative
16:15   16:30      Myanmar and          An Anthropological    Arrangements in the
                                                                                                             Reconstructing the Woodwork at 19th C.
                 Transition Process          Study of           Myanmar Peace
                                                                                                                Tatmadaw          Shwe-nandaw
                   amid Northern         Antimicrobials in         Process
                                                                                                                                   Monastery in
                   Burma’s War               Yangon
                                                                                                                                    Mandalay

16:35   16:50

                                             ​Cocktail Dinner in the Grand Ballroom at the 'Siam Society'
                                                                     19:00-21:00pm

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Ballroom 1             Ballroom 2         Junior Ballroom 1         Junior Ballroom 2       Junior Ballroom 3            Room 5
                  (4th Floor)            (4th Floor)           (3rd Floor)               (3rd Floor)              (3rd Floor)            (3rd Floor)

                   Panel #41             Panel #42              Panel #43                 Panel #44              Panel #45               Panel #46
  Sunday
 August 5                                                     Agriculture,
              From State Building     State Authority,                                                                                 Belief Systems,
 Morning                                                     Irrigation and
              to Reform Process:     Insurgencies, and                                  Studies on the       Language Learning       Religious Practices
                                                              Resilience of
              Perspectives on the     Development of                                     Tatmadaw              and Pedagogy           and Behavioural
                                                           Communities across
                 longue durée           Borderlands                                                                                        Studies
                                                                  Time

                                                             Asuka Mizuno
                                                          Reorganization of the                               Soe Soe Myint &
                                                                                       Myo Min Hlaing                                   Su Su Khin
                                       Patrick Meehan     Relationship between                                  Sandar Htay
                                                                                     Myanmar’s Defence                             A Comparative Study
                 Jörg Schendel          The Militia Fix:    State and Rural                                 A Linguistics Study of
                                                                                         Diplomacy:                                   of the Beliefs in
8:00   8:15   The Konbaung State    Ordering Space at the  Areas During and                                 Myanmar Rhymes in
                                                                                        Stance and                                     Plants among
              and Its Borderlands          Margins         Post-World War II:                               the New Syllabus for
                                                                                      Challenges of the                             Myanmar and Thai
                                    of the Myanmar State Through the Analysis                                   Primary Level
                                                                                         Tatmadaw                                          People
                                                              of Two Paddy                                  Students in Myanmar
                                                          Cultivation Schemes

                  Adam Howe
                                                                                                            Rosalie Metro
              How State Capacity        Shona Loong
                                                               Tin Nwe Oo           Zaw Min Thant         Possibilities and      Mark Stanford
                    Matters:         At The Margins of a
                                                            Promoting Disaster     Military Personnel       Challenges for      Beyond Buddhism
                 A Study of the         “Development
                                                                Resilience             Motivation:         Mother-Tongue          and Animism:
8:20   8:35      Cooptation and     Darling:” Sovereignty,
                                                           in Rural Settlements: The Impact of Political Based Education in Two New Dimensions
                   Coercion of       State-Making, and
                                                           Case Study from the          Transition             Myanmar:            of Burmese
              Organized Religion in Development in Karen
                                                            Ayeyarwady Delta       on the Motivation     Lessons from Other        Religiosity
                Burma/Myanmar               State
                                                                                                         Multilingual Societies
                    (1948-)

                                       SiuSue Mark
                                                               Thura Aung                                    Khin Khin Myint &
                                    Who Will Secure Our                                Kaung Htet San
                   Kihong Mun                              Brief Account of the                               Than Than Htay          Nyein Ma Ma
                                           Land?                                     Security Perspective
                 Possession and                               Socio-Cultural                                  A Brief Study of       Myanmar Cultural
                                      Navigating Land                                 of the Tatmadaw
8:40   8:55        Persuasion:                               Development of                                 Current Linguistic and     Values and
                                       Access in the                                  During the Military
              The Political Economy                        Paithel villages in the                          Sociolinguistic Status    Organizational
                                         Ceasefire                                         Regime
               of Power Transition                          Chin Hills of Chin                                   of the Mon             Behaviors
                                    Mixed-Control Karen                                  (1988-2011)
                                                            State in Myanmar                                     Language
                                     Areas of Myanmar

                                                                                       Maung Aung Myoe
                                     Justinas Stankus                                    Command and
                                         The Recent                                       Civil-Military
9:00   9:15
                                      (Re)Construction                                     Relations
                                     of Shanni Ethnicity                             in Myanmar: Past and
                                                                                            Present

9:30   9:45                                                      Coffee and Tea Break (4th Floor)

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Grand Ballroom                 Junior Ballroom 1     Junior Ballroom 2      Junior Ballroom 3          Room 5
                             (4th Floor)                      (3rd Floor)          (3rd Floor)             (3rd Floor)           (3rd Floor)

                              Panel #47                       Panel #48             Panel #49              Panel #50             Panel #51
   Sunday
                                                                                Political Economy,
  August 5
                                                                                 Livelihood, and                            The Myanmar Public
  Morning
                           Film Screening                 Re-Visiting Ne Win         Economic                                  in the Age of
                                                                                                       Book Presentation
                         Starting at 10:00am             and Ne-Win’s Period    Marginalization in                            Abundance and
                                                                                  Myanmar and                                Market Economy
                                                                                      beyond

                                                                                         Mary
                                                                                Mostafanezhad &
                                                                                   Robert Norum          Ashley South             Hein Latt
                                                              Myint Zan
                                                                                 From Silk Road to                            Social Marketing
                                                             Two Recent                                  Citizenship in
                                                                                      Belt Road:                                Strategies for
                                                          Biographies of Ne                            Myanmar: ways of
9:45    10:00                                                                          Internet,                            Behaviour Change of
                                                           Win and Enver                               being in and from
                                                                                 Infrastructure and                          Diabetic Patients in
                                                          Hoxha Juxtaposed                                   Burma
                                                                                     the Political                            Yangon Region in
                                                           and Contrasted
                                                                               Ecology of Livelihood                              Myanmar
                                                                                Transition in Burma       edited by
                 Emily Hong & Mariangela Mihai Jordan
                                                                                    and Thailand       Ashley South and
                                                                                                          Marie Lall
                                                          Martin Michalon       Shae Frydenlund
                                                                                                                               Aye Thu Htun
                                                          Sightseeing in Ne    Rohingya Women’s        ISEAS-Chiang Mai
                       Glimmers of Subjectivity:                                                                            Service Quality of the
10:05   10:20                                               Win’s Burma:          Labor and the         University Press
                Karen Women and the Refugee Experience                                                                        Private Hospital
                                                            Glimpse into a     Political Economy of
                                                                                                                             Sector in Mandalay
                                                          Forgotten History       Displacement

                                                                                                                              Thomas Bruhn
                                                                                                         Rosalie Metro        The Practise of
                                                                                                                              Making Merits in
10:25   10:40                                                                                          Have Fun in Burma    Myanmar – Is There a
                                                                                                                             Generation Gap? A
                                                                                                        Northern Illinois       Case Study
                                                                                                        University Press
10:45   11:00

                                                           Roundtable on Current Affairs
11:05   11:50                                             Organized by the Asia Foundation
                                                                  Grand Ballroom
11:50   12:00                                            Closing Ceremony - Grand Ballroom

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Hotel Floor Plan
Conference Participants are invited to use the escalators during the entire conference (not the lifts).
                The Conference Registration Desk will be located on the 4​th​ Floor.

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