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Burma Update Conference at the Aust



Subject: Burma Update Conference at the Australian National University

BURMA UPDATE CONFERENCE

5th & 6th August 1999
Common Room, University House
The Australian National University

The Burma Update is the result of a growing interest at the Australian
National University in Burma studies, and an attempt to bring together
members of academic and non-academic communities that are interested in a
substantive examination of the contemporary issues facing Burma.  The
conference is modelled on the annual Indonesia Update and Vietnam Update
held at ANU, and is focused on current developments and future prospects in
Burmese politics. All are welcome.


THURSDAY 5TH AUGUST
Opening Address
Session One
Mary P. Callahan - Cracks in the Edifice? Military Changes since 1988
Andrew Selth - The Future of the Burmese Armed Forces

Session Two 
David I. Steinberg - The State, Power and Civil Society in Burma/Myanmar:
The Status and Prospects for Pluralism
Craig Reynolds - The Ethics of Academic Engagement

Conference Dinner
Dinner Speaker: Garry Woodard - The Unfinished Narrative

FRIDAY 6TH AUGUST
Session Three
Mya Than - Recent Economic Development in Myanmar: Impacts and Implications
of ASEAN membership and Asian Crisis
Bertil Lintner - Drugs and Economic Growth in Burma Today

Session Four
Morten B. Pedersen - Isolation, Constructive Engagement, or Just
Engagement?: Assessing the Claims
Mohan Malik - Burma's Role in Regional Security


Registration Details:
Cost: $40 (or $25 per day)
Students:$20 ($15 per day)
Please register as soon as possible.

Information and Registration Forms:
Beverly Fraser
Department of Political and Social Change
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Canberra ACT 0200
Phone +61 2 6249 5915
Fax   +61 2 6249 5523
e-mail: bevley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx