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From the Asia Society:
The Asia Society wants to let you know about an upcoming webcast, Tearing the Land Apart: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand, featuring the author, Duncan McCargo, Southeast Asian Politics, University of Leeds. This event will take place at the Asia Society headquarters in New York tomorrow, Friday, November 6, 2009 from [...]

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The latest program for the 2009 Thailand Update is pasted below. The Update has been organised by the National Thai Studies Centre at the Australian National University.
New Mandala will be experimenting with some live coverage of the update using Twitter. Our Twitter account is newmandala.  If you don’t already have a Twitter account create one (here) and add newmandala to [...]

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The 2009 Thailand Update will be held at the Australian National University on Monday 2 November 2009. The Update is an activity of the National Thai Studies Centre. We are hoping to have some live blogging and twitter from the event. Here are the details that have been released so far:
Thailand in Turmoil: Crisis, Coalition [...]

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Asia-Pacific Week at the ANU will be held from 8-11 February 2010. Applications close 31 October. Tyrell Haberkorn and I will be convening the Southeast Asia group and we encourage PhD, Masters and advanced Undergraduate students to apply. It will be lots of fun!
Here are the details from the Asia Pacific Week website. Go online to apply.
Asia-Pacific [...]

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In February 2010 the Southeast Asian Centre of the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University (ANU), is hosting a workshop on the topic of ‘Intersections of Area, Cultural and Media Studies’.  All of the details on the workshop are available here. The organising committee is seeking expressions of interest from prospective participants.  For further [...]

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New Mandala readers will be interested in the following announcement for the 2nd Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network.  The first of these conferences was held in 2008 in Guwahati, northeast India.  It was a very worthwhile conference and I imagine that the Chiang Mai iteration will be similarly good.
The details are:
Asian Borderlands: Enclosure, Interaction and Transformation [...]

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The Shan Herald Agency for News has a report on the International Conference on Shan Studies that will be held in Bangkok in October 2009.  More details about the conference are available here.

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An announcement that arrived in my inbox yesterday may be of interest to New Mandala readers in Bangkok.  A translation is:
Invitation to lecturers and academics from every institution who disagree with the abolition of the lese majeste law to join a discussion meeting and press conference.
Friday 13 March 2009
10:30 am discussion meeting,  1:30 pm press conference
At the 9th floor [...]

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New Mandala readers who focus their energies on contemporary life in Burma will want to see this report about an exhibition and conference being held in Canberra.  Showcasing art made by refugees living along the Thailand-Burma border, it seeks to highlight their plight and give greater exposure to their experiences.  It looks very worthwhile.

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Last year I highlighted an interesting conference at Thailand’s Mahidol University on the topic of Buddhism and Science. 
The same institution, the College of Religious Studies at Mahidol, has now issued an announcement for a conference on Buddhism and consumerism.  It will be held at the Salaya campus from 1-3 December 2008, and hopes to attract 200 monks [...]

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