SAM Talks

Saturday University—Myanmar and Its Many Peoples The Upland Peoples of Southeast Asia: Evading States for More Than Two Millennia, James Scott November 3, 2012 9:30–11 am Stimson Auditorium

James Scott, Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University

Many groups of people living in mountainous areas of South and Southeast Asia have resisted settlement and full integration into their nations. Professor Scott speaks on this history, as in his recent book The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (2010).

Other lectures in this series:
Sept 22 : Myanmar in 2012
Sept 29: Imagining Myanmar: Conquest, Collapse, and the Struggle for Community
Oct 6: People of Myanmar in the Pacific Northwest: Strength, Struggle and Spirit
Oct 13 : Buddhist Art and Architecture of Myanmar
Oct 20: Performing Ethnicity in Myanmar
Oct 27: Buddhist Activism in Myanmar
Nov 3: The Upland Peoples of Southeast Asia: Evading States for More Than Two Millennia
Nov 10: Journalism in Myanmar
Nov 17: From the Field: Conversations with Partners Asia
Dec 1: Updates on Current Peace Negotiations

Members: $5.00
Adults: $10.00

SAM member series: $43
Nonmember series: $86