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Book launch of Prof. Beyer’s monograph

Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer launched her new anthropological monograph „Rethinking Community in Myanmar. Practices of We-Formation among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon“ at the 15th International Burma Studies Conference held at the University of Zurich (9-11 June 2023)

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Programm Paris

Lecture by Prof. Beyer in Paris

Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer is going to present at the Group Recherche Birmanie of the Centre Asie du Sud-Ist (CASE) in Paris on Tuesday, 16 May 2023. The title of her lecture is „We-formation. Reflections on methodology, the military coup attempt and how to engage with Myanmar today.

Carolin Hirsch: The Gendered Rebel

Carolin Hirsch’s analysis focuses on resisting structural discrimination and violence, based on sexism, and concealed as gendered norms and expectations, in everyday life within the Yangon-based punk collective Rebel Community.

Dr. Lena Rose: Asylum Adjudications

In the new article by Dr. Lena Rose, she provides an overview of asylum decisions based on religious conversion, and also highlights the tensions between religion, culture, and power.

Prof Beyer: taz-commentary

„Distinguishing between government and rule of terror” – with this subheading, Prof Judith Beyer describes the responsibility in which she sees the international community, therefore Germany to be, regarding Myanmar in her commentary from March 31 2023.

Interview with Nickey Diamond

In an interview with Frankfurter Rundschau, Nickey Diamond, the first fellow of the DAAD`s Hilde-Domin-Programme, situated the ongoing situation in Myanmar in the international political context.

Hilde Domin Training Programme in Konstanz

Starting 22 March, the University of Konstanz will provide a four-year training programme for scholarship recipients in the Hilde Domin Training Programme. The goal is to provide continuing education for students in exile.

New Book by Judith Beyer:

This is the first anthropological monograph of Muslim and Hindu lives in contemporary Myanmar. In it, Judith Beyer introduces the concept of “we-formation” as a fundamental yet underexplored capacity of humans to relate to one another outside of and apart from demarcated ethno-religious lines and corporate groups. We-formation complements the established sociological concept of community, which suggests shared origins, beliefs, values, and belonging. Community is not only a key term in academic…

Beyer in interview with BR on statelessness

In an interview with BR, Prof Dr Judith Beyer talks about statelessness in the context of nation state and its implications for people affected. Furthermore, she strengthens, that people having a nationality rarely are aware of that fact and the possibilities, liberties and privileges that come with it.

Prosecuting Myanmar military’s crimes in Germany

On January 24, 2023, the human rights organisation Fortify Rights filed a criminal complaint in Germany under the principle of universal jurisdiction against senior Myanmar military generals and others for atrocity crimes. One of the 16 complainants is PhD student Nickey Diamond.

Current news

Book launch of Prof. Beyer’s monograph

Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer launched her new anthropological monograph „Rethinking Community in Myanmar. Practices of We-Formation among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon“ at the 15th International Burma Studies Conference held at the University of Zurich (9-11 June 2023)

Read more

 

 

Programm Paris

Lecture by Prof. Beyer in Paris

Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer is going to present at the Group Recherche Birmanie of the Centre Asie du Sud-Ist (CASE) in Paris on Tuesday, 16 May 2023. The title of her lecture is „We-formation. Reflections on methodology, the military coup attempt and how to engage with Myanmar today.

Carolin Hirsch: The Gendered Rebel

Carolin Hirsch’s analysis focuses on resisting structural discrimination and violence, based on sexism, and concealed as gendered norms and expectations, in everyday life within the Yangon-based punk collective Rebel Community.

Dr. Lena Rose: Asylum Adjudications

In the new article by Dr. Lena Rose, she provides an overview of asylum decisions based on religious conversion, and also highlights the tensions between religion, culture, and power.

Prof Beyer: taz-commentary

„Distinguishing between government and rule of terror” – with this subheading, Prof Judith Beyer describes the responsibility in which she sees the international community, therefore Germany to be, regarding Myanmar in her commentary from March 31 2023.

Interview with Nickey Diamond

In an interview with Frankfurter Rundschau, Nickey Diamond, the first fellow of the DAAD`s Hilde-Domin-Programme, situated the ongoing situation in Myanmar in the international political context.

Hilde Domin Training Programme in Konstanz

Starting 22 March, the University of Konstanz will provide a four-year training programme for scholarship recipients in the Hilde Domin Training Programme. The goal is to provide continuing education for students in exile.

New Book by Judith Beyer:

This is the first anthropological monograph of Muslim and Hindu lives in contemporary Myanmar. In it, Judith Beyer introduces the concept of “we-formation” as a fundamental yet underexplored capacity of humans to relate to one another outside of and apart from demarcated ethno-religious lines and corporate groups. We-formation complements the established sociological concept of community, which suggests shared origins, beliefs, values, and belonging. Community is not only a key term in academic…

Beyer in interview with BR on statelessness

In an interview with BR, Prof Dr Judith Beyer talks about statelessness in the context of nation state and its implications for people affected. Furthermore, she strengthens, that people having a nationality rarely are aware of that fact and the possibilities, liberties and privileges that come with it.

Prosecuting Myanmar military’s crimes in Germany

On January 24, 2023, the human rights organisation Fortify Rights filed a criminal complaint in Germany under the principle of universal jurisdiction against senior Myanmar military generals and others for atrocity crimes. One of the 16 complainants is PhD student Nickey Diamond.