Organizer: Myanmar Studies Program, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

Type/Location: Virtual

Description:

Join the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for a seminar assessing what to expect from the State Security and Peace Commission’s recent polls, which are viewed widely as being orchestrated to continue the military’s political dominance in Myanmar. Speakers include: Dr. Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Visiting Senior Fellow in the Myanmar Studies Program at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute and a visiting scholar at Cornell University, and Dr. Mary P. Callahan is an associate professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.

About the Speakers:

Dr. Kyaw Yin Hlaing is Visiting Senior Fellow in the Myanmar Studies Programme at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute and a visiting scholar at Cornell University. Dr Kyaw has taught at the City University of Hong Kong and the National University of Singapore. From 2012-15, Dr Kyaw was a member of the National Economic and Social Council, headed the Myanmar Peace Center’s political dialogue programme, and founded the Center for Diversity and National Harmony in 2014. He has co-authored and edited several compendia on Myanmar, and is currently researching issues related to Myanmar’s democratic transition.

Dr. Mary P. Callahan is an associate professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She teaches classes on Southeast Asian politics, Human Rights in Asia, and The Politics of Development Assistance. She has spent 12 years in Myanmar conducting extensive research on electoral politics, gender and conflict, and foreign assistance. She has authored “Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma” (2003), and is currently working on a book on revolutionary politics in Myanmar’s Dry Zone.

Registration:

To attend the event virtually, please register here.