UPCOMING CONFERENCE: International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies [16-18 February]
/CSDS Researchers head to the 2nd International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies
16-18 February 2018, University of Mandalay, Myanmar
On 16 February, Mandalay University in collaboration with Chiang Mai University will host the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies. The three day conference will welcome scholars, researchers, journalists, NGO workers and observers from all over the world to present and debate on all topics surrounding the country of Myanmar/Burma. CSDS researchers will organize a series of panels and paper presentations for the conference, focusing on a variety of topics ranging from the new political and economic landscape of Myanmar, to local livelihoods along the Salween River. Below are the details (and links for individual abstracts) of the three panels being co-organized and led by CSDS, as well as an individual paper that is part of a series of presentations on Chin State.
Local Livelihoods and Change in the Salween Basin (Convener: Carl Middleton)
- Ethnobotanical Study on Plants Growing Along the Thanlwin River in Lashio District, Northern Shan State, Myanmar (Mar May Aye)
- Geographical Analysis on the Impact of Land Cover Changes on Socio-Economic Conditions of Bawlakhe District, Kayah State in Myanmar: A Case Study of Four Villages (Khin Sandar Aye)
- Gender Inclusion Is Key to Social Justice: A Case Study of Two Villages Downstream of the Proposed Mongton Dam, Shan State (Hnin Wut Yee)
- Assessing Potential Threats to Fisheries and Socio-Economy in the Thanlwin Estuary, Mon State, Myanmar (Cherry Aung)
Thanlwin-Khong-Nu-Salween River in a Cultural and Political Perspective (Convener: Vanessa Lamb)
- Rights and Rites for Water Justice: A Case Study of the Proposed Hatgyi Dam on the Salween River (John Bright)
- What Else Do Floods Do? Climate Change, Beneficial Flooding and Everyday Agricultural Practice in Monsoon Myanmar (Vanessa Lamb)
- Redefining the Rules of Water: Contestation and the Production of Scale in Water Governance in Myanmar (Johanna M. Goetz)
- Which Path to Take?: A Political Economy Analysis of Salween River Pathways in Myanmar (Alec Scott and Carl Middleton)
Development and Transition in Myanmar: Exploring a New Political and Economic Landscape Since 2010 (Convener: Nauremon Thabchumpon)
- Law, Development and Transnationalisation of the State in Myanmar (Wolfram Schaffar)
- Transitional Relation of China and Myanmar: a New Economic Geography Approach to Mandalay-Ruili Road Connection (Nattapon Tantrakoonsap)
- Understanding Myanmar’s Economic Transition Through Policies and Practices (Zaw Aung)
- Economic Development in Myanmar’s Transition to Democracy and the Politics of Changes in Public Sphere and Civil Society Movement (Naruemon Thabchumpon)
- Top Down or Bottom up Development? : The Dawei Road Link Project and the Reconfiguration of Social Relations (And Social Movements) (Carl Middleton, Naruemon Thabchumpon, Fransiskus Adrian Tarmedi, and Surada Chundasutathanakul)
Water Insecurity in Hakha Town, Chin State, Myanmar: Structural Violence and the Production of Water Scarcity (Paper presentation) (Carl Middleton)
