Regular readers will have noticed some of the visual changes to New Mandala. Some of you may be interested in the mandala logo itself. In fact, it is a neatly arranged pile of rice seedlings, ready for transplanting into ploughed and flooded fields. Here is a brief photo essay on how this fascinating – and fundamentally important [...]
The rice mandala
November 15th, 2006 by Andrew Walker · 1 Comment
Thai Studies Conference, Bangkok, 2008
November 15th, 2006 by Nicholas Farrelly · 10 Comments
The 10th International Conference on Thai Studies will be held in Bangkok for 3 days early in 2008. For some of us, this might seem like a lifetime away but the handsome conference website is already starting to take shape and a wide-ranging call for papers has been issued.
The theme of the conference is “transnationalism” which [...]
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Lecture: Thongchai in London on the Coup
November 15th, 2006 by Nicholas Farrelly · 5 Comments
Word has gone out that on Tuesday 28 November, South East Asia Research and the Centre of South East Asian Studies, SOAS will host a special lecture by Thongchai Winichakul.
Thongchai is, of course, a professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is best known for his 1994 book, Siam Mapped: [...]
Tags: Conferences · Coup