IN THE NEWS: "Salween River Dams Intrude on Contested Land"

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IN THE NEWS: "Salween River Dams Intrude on Contested Land"

By Brett Walton [Circle of Blue, 8 November 2016]

In a HotSpots H2O interview with Circle of Blue reporter Brett Walton, Dr. Carl Middleton discusses the strain that hydropower development is adding to one of the region’s most politically, culturally, and biologically diverse watersheds. Dr. Middleton, director of the Center for Social Development Studies at Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok, Thailand, also explores alternate futures for the Salween River.

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UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "2016 Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food, and Energy" [9-11 November 2016]

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UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "2016 Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food, and Energy" [9-11 November 2016]

The Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy has been planned as an annual event with the first iteration occurring in 2011. It is the largest event of its kind in the Mekong Region. 

It is a major, regional knowledge-sharing event, interfacing knowledge producers with knowledge users.

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UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "Mekong, Salween and Red Rivers: Sharing Knowledge and Perspectives Across Borders" [12 November 2016]

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UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "Mekong, Salween and Red Rivers: Sharing Knowledge and Perspectives Across Borders" [12 November 2016]

The objectives of the International Conference on the Mekong, Salween and Red Rivers:

Sharing Knowledge and Perspectives Across Borders are:

  • For research fellows to present their research findings in full, and receive feedback from discussants and other participants
  • To enable networking between fellowship programs, including with alumni from past fellowships
  • To evaluate the impact of existing and past research fellowship programs, and deliberate future direction
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UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "The Mekong: Law, Dams and Development [17 February 2016]

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UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "The Mekong: Law, Dams and Development [17 February 2016]

Authors Ben Boer, Philip Hirsch and Natalia Scurrah (University of Sydney) will introduce the book, to be followed by a panel discussion and questions from the audience with responses from all five authors, including Fleur Johns (University of New South Wales) and Ben Saul (University of Sydney) .

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UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "2015 Constitution and Thailand's Political Reform: Solution or Dead-end" [3 September 2015]

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UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "2015 Constitution and Thailand's Political Reform: Solution or Dead-end" [3 September 2015]

This event was held at the alumni hall of Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University at 1 PM. There were a number of participants from a combination of human right organization, people's freedom organization, academics and press. The key speakers are, Dr. Likit Therawekin, Mr.Adisorn Kerdmongkol, Dr. Chanthana Wankeaw, Mr. Pairoj Polpetch and Dr. Bantoon Sethasiroj who is a member of the drafting committee.

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UPCOMING WORKSHOP: "Chula - Right Livelihood Summer School" [24 July – 7 August, 2015]

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UPCOMING WORKSHOP: "Chula - Right Livelihood Summer School" [24 July – 7 August, 2015]

To realize this mission four organizations have prepared to pioneer the co-creation of the international Chulalongkorn University – Right Livelihood Summer School. This is a proposed partnership between Chulalongkorn University and its Master Program in International Development Studies (MAIDS), the Right Livelihood College, and Sathirakoses Nagapradipa Foundation / Suan Nguen Mee Ma social enterprise. The academia – civil society partnership is planned to be inaugurated during the CURLS 2015.

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