Scholar to Discuss the Causes of and Responses to Genocide in Myanmar

Event Information

Time: 4 p.m.
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 31
Place: Room 101 of the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center, 1115 Eighth Ave., Grinnell

Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung will talk about the root causes of communal violence and human rights violations against the Rohingya Muslims and highlight how these issues have been framed and interpreted inside and outside Myanmar. She has conducted research in Myanmar with the help of a Fulbright grant from the U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program. She has written extensively about Burmese politics, ethnic conflicts, and communal violence. Her publications include Signs of Life in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement? Finding a Way Forward, The Politics of Everyday Life in Twenty-First Century Myanmar, and Beyond Armed Resistance: Ethnonational Politics in Burma (Myanmar).

Event Sponsors

Peace and Conflict Studies Program and Concentration, Institute for Global Engagement and the departments of history, political science, religious studies, and sociology.