Development Praxis

CSEAS Next Wed (4/8 at 5pm)! Hadler Graduate Lecture: Beyond the Text: Fieldwork, Communities, and the Emotional Archives of Myanmar

This talk is the third annual event in the Hadler Graduate Lecture Series, a graduate student-nominated speaker series established in memory of Jeffrey Alan Hadler, in the spirit of his academic contributions, generous mentorship, and deep commitment to Southeast Asian studies.

This talk reflects on two decades of navigating Myanmar’s living and institutional archives—from national repositories in Yangon and university libraries to newspaper collections at SOAS and the British Library. This living archives is drawn from interviews with women soldiers, s*x workers, teachers during Cyclone Nargis, humanitarian workers during the 2025 Mandalay earthquake, CDM educators, and communities in the delta and conflict-affected regions.

Learn more at https://conta.cc/4lMvesO.