Organizer: SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium
Type/Location: Virtual
Description:
Join the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium (SEAC) for a webinar debriefing the recent elections in Myanmar and Thailand. Speakers include: Dr. Joel Sawat Selway, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University and co-founder and managing editor of ThaiDataPoints, and Dr. Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Chairman of the Myanmar Scholars Network and Visiting Senior Fellow in the Myanmar Studies Program at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. Meredith Weiss, Professor of Political Science at University at Albany–SUNY and Director of SUNY/CUNY SEAC, will moderate the discussion.
About the Speakers:
Joel Sawat Selway is an associate professor of political science at Brigham Young University. He has published extensively on Thai politics, on subjects ranging from the politics of health in Thailand, to Thai elections and electoral reform, ethnic inequality in Thailand, Thaksin and populism, Thai nationalism and regionalism, and Buddhism and politics. He is also the co-founder and managing editor of ThaiDataPoints, an academic blog on Thai politics.
Dr. Kyaw Yin Hlaing is the Chairman of the Myanmar Scholars Network and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore). He has been actively involved in community peacebuilding initiatives across various regions of Myanmar and possesses extensive experience in conducting research on Myanmar politics.
Registration:
To attend the event virtually, please register here.