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Public/Scholarship on Justice in Southeast Asia: Translation, Workshops, Lectures | Based in UW-Madison Center for SEAsian Studies | coordinated by @turtelista.bsky.social Web: https://seasia.wisc.edu/sjsea-project/jsealab/
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"daddy, what did you do in the war" son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet we all did our part

JVS condemns the sentencing on February 27 of the journalist and historian Huy Duc (Huy Đức, given name Trương Huy San) to thirty months in prison following a trial in Hanoi. 1/

Thailand sent 40 Uyghurs back to China, where they face torture and persecution. 🇹🇭➡️🇨🇳 They were jailed in Thailand for 10+ years with no rights. Now, they are in even more danger. This breaks international law! 🛑⚖️ (Source: OMCT) #HumanRights #Uyghurs 🔗 www.omct.org/en/resources...

Deeply troubling that 40+ Uyghur men held in Thai detention for more than a decade are now at imminent risk of being sent to China. We iterate our call to Thai PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra not to send them to China where they risk imprisonment & torture. www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

The statement we've received from @thaigov1 of their presser earlier this evening re. the deportation of 40 Uyghurs to China, it strikes a defiant and at times bitter tone (see highlighted parts, translation in next posts):

All five of them! The five HK women that China put a bounty on, hunting them around the globe. Event on March 4, 2025

Call for papers! We are inviting scholars working on public opinion manipulation through social media in SEA to gather in Undip, Semarang in august, to discuss recent findings & steps forward. Do send your abstract by 15 April. www.kitlv.nl/news/online-...

Writer Raisa Kamila, and poets Yee Heng Yeh (@hengyeh42 .bsky.social) and Jerrold Yam will be joining SOAS South East Asian Studies for its second seminar session on “Literary writing in and about South East Asia” Feb 28 @ 10:00 am (GMT) tinyurl.com/2hxzsury

IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE: In Pursuit of Justice: Arnon Nampa, Article 112 and Human Rights in Thailand Zoom Webinar Wednesday, 5 March 2025 7 am CST | 8 am EST | 8 pm ICT Registration: bit.ly/4gTghBq Speakers: Akarachai Chaimaneekarakate (TLHR) Akanit Tadi (Freedom Bridge ) Frank Munger (NYLS)

Job Opening: The Asian Studies Program at Colorado College is accepting applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies for this fall. Details on the position at the link below. App Deadline: Mar. 1 tinyurl.com/3j7wnnep

Professor and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison Nam Kim joins CSEAS (@cseasniu.bsky.social) at NIU for a hybrid talk on “’Barbarians’, Bronzes, and the Legendary Capital of Ancient #Vietnam” Feb 28 @ 12pm (CST) tinyurl.com/y4rwk4rh

Next week! For those in Madison, please join this *in-person* lecture by Paul Chambers (Naresuan University) "Comprehending the Military in Thailand's State of Exception" Friday, 7 March, 3:30 pm | 206 Ingraham Hall Questions: [email protected]