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Associate Director for Center for Southeast Asian Studies - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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After a twelve-year struggle against military conscription in Thailand, Buddhist conscientious objector Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal faces potential incarceration in July. The following is an essay he wrote in anticipation of entering prison.

I Shall Not Live in Fear - Dissent Magazine

After a twelve-year struggle against military conscription in Thailand, Buddhist conscientious objector Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal faces potential incarceration in July. The following is an essay he wrote in anticipation of entering prison.

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New video from Karen Women's organisation "The burden of Tomorrow: Women's Lives in Refugee Camps" to mark World Refugee Day. Video brings the voices of those in from Umpiem refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border to the fore. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

The Burden of Tomorrow: Women's Lives in Refugee Camps

YouTube video by Karen Women's Organization (ကညီပိၥ်မုၣ်ကရၢ)

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NEW 🇹🇭 Interviews with students and educators show how the conservative indoctrination effort that has become an increasingly key part of Thailand's ROTC program is undermined from within by apathy and quiet defiance.

At the coalface of military indoctrination: the Thai ROTC - New Mandala

Propaganda versus apathy, defiance

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NEW 🇹🇭 We are pleased to share a Thai translation of Pasit Wongngamdee's recent essay on the not-so-successful propaganda efforts being mounted under the Thailand's ROTC program.

ณ จุดปะทะทางอุดมการณ์: การปลูกฝังและการต่อต้านในหลักสูตรรักษาดินแดน - New Mandala

นี่คือการแปลบทความที่ตีพิมพ์เป็นภาษาอังกฤษดั้งเดิม

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Then a good piece via engage Thailand highlighting the work of freedom bridge who support political prisoners & their families, and also highlighting the work of @jsealab.bsky.social & @turtelista.bsky.social who translate & distribute the words of political prisoners, helping give them voice 15/

Care as Resistance: The People Supporting Thailand’s Political Prisoners — Engage Thailand

Written by Sutavee Thaivanich Since the 2020 pro-democracy protest , hundreds of activists, students, and regular people have been charged for criticizing the monarchy under Article 112 of the Cr...

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New event! 📆23rd May 🕑2pm Thailand Time Join Mad Feminist Book Club & Se—ri Studio for book talk "Human Acts" a book that is set on the 18th May 1980 in the Gwangju Uprising (May 18 Democratization Movement) in South Korea At Se-ri Studio in Bangkok www.instagram.com/p/DX6jRZrk9kF/

Are you planning to conduct research in Timor-Leste for the first time? Join GETSEA to learn about fieldwork preparation, opportunities, and challenges in conducting research in Timor-Leste. Register for the Zoom webinar here: bit.ly/GETSEA-TL

Capitalist patriarchy drives mineral extraction, treating nature and women as interchangeable resources for profit. This is not a failure of policy. It is how the system works. And it is now dressed in green. bit.ly/4cJBw8H #criticalminerals #naturalresources #feminism #gender #southeastasia

Dressed in Green: How Capitalist Patriarchy Drives Extraction in Southeast Asia | Heinrich Böll Foundation | Southeast Asia

Capitalist patriarchy drives mineral extraction, treating nature and women as interchangeable resources for profit. Materialist eco-feminism reveals how this system makes exploitation look natural.

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New week begins #MilkTeaAlliance & here's the events🧵for it. To begin. Amulin Thai artist & author of a historical Boy Love graphic novel has had a Lèse-majesté complaint levelled over a depiction of a historical figure. Moreover the complaint is homophobic & well beyond the bounds of the law. 1/

The “Ayothaya Eyawadee” Case: Weaponizing Lèse-Majesté to Freeze History and Stifle Creative Expression

The application of Article 112 against the author of the historical BL novel Ayothaya Eyawadee represents a dangerous legal expansion aimed at freezing historical interpretation and stifling creative ...

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New event! 📆21st April 🕑14:00 Thailand Time @asia-ajar.bsky.social & Cross Cultural Foundation hold Talk: "Post Election Situation for HRD in Myanmar, Thailand, and Bangladesh" Details: www.instagram.com/p/DXOpsb-kgUC Reg: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us for a virtual discussion with Faizah Zakaria, author of “The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia” and winner of the 2025 Benda Prize. April 15, 7 pm ET tinyurl.com/347yxymz

New week is almost here #MilkTeaAlliance & here is the events🧵 To start, It's been a bit over 2 years since the Junta decided to start conscription, forcing 2 years service on many people. For the 1st batch demobilising it appears only 12% made it home. The rest killed or forced to stay on. 1/

Only 12 percent of conscripts return home after mandatory two-year military service ends - DVB

An estimated 631 male conscripts from the first batch of 5,155 new recruits, who began training on April 8, 2024, have reportedly been allowed to return home after completing their mandated two years ...

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Marcus Mietzner’s new book on the Jokowi presidency in Indonesia is free and online: press.umich.edu/Books/R/Ruli...

Re-upping this #translation from the @jsealab.bsky.social ! _Faces of the Dead, Lives of the Murdered: The Martyrs of 10 April 2010_ (คนที่ตายมีใบหน้า คนที่ถูกฆ่ามีชีวิต: วีรชน 10 เมษา), by Korakot Phiengjai, published by the Heroes of Democracy Foundation. Download here: bit.ly/3V499dg

Join NIU CSEAS Lecture on “Toward Decolonizing Research on Digital Authoritarianism: Reflections from Studying Big Tech-mediated Politics in Southeast Asia” with Mai Van Tran, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University. Apr 10 @ 1 pm EDT tinyurl.com/28p5x4sd

Join us for a virtual discussion with Faizah Zakaria, author of “The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia” and winner of the 2025 Benda Prize. April 15, 7 pm ET tinyurl.com/347yxymz

Join @getsea.bsky.social for this spring's Southeast Asian Simulcast Film Screening! 6 April, 2 pm PST/5 pm EST. Two urgent films on expression, art, and belonging in Malaysia. Details and links at: bit.ly/GETSEASimulcast

GETSEA@getsea.bsky.social · 4mo ago

GETSEA is back with another Simulcast Film Screening! 15 universities across the nation will come together to watch two short documentary films on expression, art & self-identity in Malaysia. Join us if you are near a screening location! April 6 @ 2:00pm (PT) / 5:00pm (ET) bit.ly/GETSEASimulc...

New mini-course from @getsea.bsky.social! Details and how to apply below —

GETSEA@getsea.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Last call! GETSEA Minicourses are back! Chit Wityi Ooo & Bao-Son Trinh will teach "Microplastics & Environmental Effects: From Pollution to solution this Spring. More details & sign-ups below! Full Syllabus: tinyurl.com/mrj77u5a App Deadline: April 7 tinyurl.com/mrxcxec4

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Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab at UW-Madison)@jsealab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Save the date! Next Friday, 20 March, 12 noon, Bencharat Sae Chua, director of the Southeast Asian Coalition for Academic Freedom, will talk about "Activist Scholarship and Academic Freedom in Peril in Southeast Asia" at UW-Madison!

Save the date! Next Friday, 20 March, 12 noon, Bencharat Sae Chua, director of the Southeast Asian Coalition for Academic Freedom, will talk about "Activist Scholarship and Academic Freedom in Peril in Southeast Asia" at UW-Madison!

#Iran: PEN International condemns all breaches of international law amid escalating hostilities across the Middle East and is gravely concerned by mounting civilian casualties in Iran and across the region. Read our full statement ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/iran-pe...

Iran: PEN International calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities that undermine international peace and security law — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression...

‘ We are witnessing grave challenges to world peace and security, with political leaders utterly failing to uphold international law and actively dismantling the rules-based order. The international c...

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Last year, GETSEA & friends brought you two webinars with faculty covering how to get into graduate studies programs. Next month, we are putting on a webinar with graduate students to provide insight into the same topic! March 10th @ 6:00pm (PT) tinyurl.com/4e9jtsed

If you are headed to the Association for Asian Studies conference in Vancouver and want to know what to expect, join @getsea.bsky.social for "How to AAS." 5 March -- morning in Asia, evening in North America -- details below!

GETSEA@getsea.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Are you planning to attend the @aasasianstudies.bsky.social Conference? Are you a little nervous & don't know where to start? Join us for a special webinar next month as faculty & grad students show you the ropes & answer your questions! March 5 @ 7:30pm (ET) bit.ly/howtoAAS

One week from today, Dwinelle Hall 370, the building where I first studied the history of the symbolism of struggles as a history grad student in the 1980s, 5pm start, March 10 events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/... — cc @nilsgilman.bsky.social

On the subject of Letters from Political Prisoners: @turtelista.bsky.social recently both gave an interview to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights: tlhr2014.com/archives/81975 and with @jsealab.bsky.social published translations of Arnon Nampa seasia.wisc.edu/wp-content/u... Both are well worth a read

มองประวัติศาสตร์ไทยผ่านชีวิต เลือดเนื้อ และความเจ็บปวดของนักโทษการเมือง : สนทนากับ ไทเรล ฮาเบอร์คอร์น  | ศูนย์ทนายความเพื่อสิทธิมนุษยชน

ในประวัติศาสตร์การเมืองไทย ท่ามกลางการต่อสู้ช่วงชิงเพื่อเข้าสู่อำนาจและรักษาสถานะนำตลอดเกือบศตวรรษ ย่อมปรากฏว่ามีทั้งผู้แพ้และผู้ชนะ ผู้ชนะนั้น

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Join the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium (SEAC) for a webinar “Making Sense of the Myanmar and Thai Elections: Complicated Processes, Fraught Results”. Speakers include Dr. Joel Sawat Selway and Dr. Kyaw Yin Hlaing. February 23 @ 5 pm ET tinyurl.com/ysrj3hzr

Yale Conference on Indonesia calls on scholars, scholar-artists, activists, policymakers, and other interested parties to submit proposals on the theme “Ways of Water: Drains, Viscosities, Leaks, Overflows, and Bursts in Indonesia.” Submission deadline: February 21 tinyurl.com/ms7zbduk

Lao vocal state critic Bao Mo Khean missing after facing escalating death threats, days before Laos’ national elections. He's not been seen since 13th Feb & its suspected that he's been subject to enforced disappearance by the gov't #ຖ້າການເມືອງລາວດີ #SurfaceKhaen Read more from Manushya Foundation:

‼️ 𝗛𝗨𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧 ‼️ Lao vocal state critic Mr. Khaen missing after facing escalating death threats, days before Laos’ national elections

The recent disappearance of Mr. Khean (widely known as Bao Mo Khean) has raised alarms in Laos. Evidence suggests he was under intense pressure and threats from authorities and anonymous individuals p...

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** งานแปลใหม่ๆ จาก @jsealab.bsky.social ** จดหมายทั้ง 95 ฉบับ ที่ ทนาย อานนท์ นำภา เขียนหลังลูกกรงในปีที่สองของการถูกจองจำในคดีมาตรา 112 ที่โดนจากการเคลื่อนไหวทางสังคมและการเมือง การเรียกร้องประชาธิปไตย และกล้าฝันถึงความยุติธรรม อ่านฉบับแปลภาษาอังกฤษตามลิงค์นี้: bit.ly/467TWxu