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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 2d

New event!
📆17th Oct
🕓4pm Thailand Time

To close out the Exhibition "Constellation of Complicity" at BACC in Bangkok, Live performance "Kage" by Teerawat Mulvilai

Details:
www.instagram.com/p/DPkr-A0kkgJ

ก่อนปิดนิทรรศการ ขอเชิญทุกท่านร่วมชมและร่วมปลดปล่อยเสียงและร่างกายในกิจกรรมแสดงการสด (Live Performance) บนพื้นที่ห้องนิทรรศการหลัก ชั้น 8 หอศิลปวัฒนธรรมแห่งกรุงเทพมหานคร ซึ่งเป็นหนึ่งในโปรแกรมที่เชื่อมขยายจากบริบทของนิทรรศการ ดาราภิวัตน์ ภูมิทัศน์เงา (Constellation of Complicity) โดยฝ่ายนิทรรศการ หอศิลปกรุงเทพฯ
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กับศิลปะการแสดงสดที่ไร้การปิดกั้น เพื่อยืนหยัดในเสรีภาพการแสดงออก ในวันศุกร์ที่ 17 ตุลาคม 2568 เวลา 16:00 น. โดยศิลปินและนักแสดงระดับสากล คาเงะ - ธีระวัฒน์ มุลวิไล
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Before the exhibition comes to an end, we cordially invite you to experience and free your voice and body in the live performance at the Main Exhibition Gallery, 8th floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre – part of program extended from the Constellation of Complicity exhibition’s context, organized by the Exhibition Department, BACC.
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!! Don’t Miss !!
An unbound live performance that stands firm for freedom of expression, on Friday, October 17, 2025, at 4:00 PM. Featuring internationally renowned artist and performer, Kage – Teerawat Mulvilai.

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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 3d

Powerful words from author Saleem Haddad, reminding us of the power of stories to resist attempts to control the truth. What are you reading for #BannedBooksWeekUK?

Let us know in the thread ⬇️
www.indexoncensorship.org/bannedbooksw...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17d

I'm appalled but unfortunately unsurprised to hear that ICE is targeting my neighbors in Rogers Park today. Unidentifiable and unaccountable agents are roaming the streets with their faces covered targeting schools and community centers. It needs to end. Abolish ICE.

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 23d

I'll be speaking with @jwassers.bsky.social on Friday, October 3 (3:30pm) at the Wagner School at NYU on the topic of music, Southeast Asia, and transnational aesthetics.

It's a joint book talk! Jeff's is lovely (and available as an audio edition). Come one come all.

www.nysean.org/events/songs...

Songs Beyond Borders: Thailand and Transnational Musical Connections — New York Southeast Asia Network

Join NYSEAN and NYU MAIR for a talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Benjamin Tausig about the way that music features in their new books and how they engage with songs in their various writings. B...

www.nysean.org

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Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab at UW-Madison) @jsealab.bsky.social · Sep 10

ICYMI, recording of ** Indonesia in Crisis: #AffanKurniawan, Protest, and a Polity on the Brink ** held on 8 September 2025.

Organized and hosted by the Justice in Southeast Asia Lab, SEA Coalition for Academic Freedom and @nysean.bsky.social

Indonesia in Crisis: Affan Kurniawan, Protest, and a Polity on the Brink

YouTube video by JSEALab

www.youtube.com

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · Sep 9

ACLS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards. These prizes recognize and reward the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open access humanities books published from 2018 to 2023: bit.ly/4mS9oDX

ACLS Announces Winners of 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards

$50,000 prizes award four open access books in the humanities and fund future open access publications

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Rachel Rinaldo @rarinald.bsky.social · Sep 9

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Cats belonging to Indonesian politicians are the unexpected symbol of protests

Images of these frightened cats rescued by concerned citizens have struck a deep chord in cat-obsessed Indonesia.

www.abc.net.au

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Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab at UW-Madison) @jsealab.bsky.social · Sep 10

TT Assistant Professor Position in Modern Southeast Asian Humanities at UC-Berkeley!

Further details below --

Assistant Professor -Modern Southeast Asian Humanities - Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · Sep 8

So grateful to write for @dissentmag.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue "Authoritarianism and Resistance." I drafted the piece in June with the new school year in mind, as an immigrant scholar severed from her homeland: What can we teach the young about how to exist and persist at this historic juncture?

To Outlive Tyranny - Dissent Magazine

Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · Sep 6

They have just enough (im)plausible deniability here to say that it’s about the Ride of the Valkyries scene from Apocalypse Now but yeah that’s the “game” they are playing

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Sep 6

If you're conversant in the lingua franca of the online right, you know the helicopter emojis the official White House account is using here are a reference to the Pinochet dictatorship's practice of flying people above the ocean and dropping them to disappear them.

That's what they're threatening.

White House official Twitter account tweeting helicopter emojis

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · Sep 5

Statement by @amnestyuk.bsky.social supporting Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Thailand’s first conscientious objector www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne... cc @marcusrediker.bsky.social

Thailand authorities must immediately drop charges against conscientious objector

Ahead of the witness examination and hearing of activist and conscientious objector to military service Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal on 9 September, Amnesty International’s Regional Research Director Mont...

www.amnesty.org

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Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab at UW-Madison) @jsealab.bsky.social · Sep 7

Join @jsealab.bsky.social, @nysean.bsky.social and SEACAF for this upcoming webinar:

“ #Indonesia in Crisis: #AffanKurniawan, Protest,and a Polity on the Brink”

📅 Sunday, September 7, 2025
🕗 8 PM CST | 9 PM EST
📅 Monday, September 8, 2025
🕗 8:00 AM ICT | 11 AM AEST

🔗 Register : bit.ly/4ncNJpT

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · Aug 30

A new translation from JSEALab breaks down the process of remilitarization in Indonesia which has led to civil unrest this week & the death of an innocent food delivery driver, Affan Kurniawan.

bit.ly/4naCIp7

#polisiindonesia #JusticeForAffan #BubarkanDPR #affankurniawan #indonesiagelap #demodpr

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tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social · Aug 30

New #JusticeinTranslation from the @jsealab.bsky.social on #AffanKurniawan in #Indonesia!

** Justice for Affan Kurniawan: The First Civilian Casualty of the Remilitarization of Indonesia, a collection of documents introduced and translated by Christopher Hulshof. **

Read/Download: bit.ly/4naCIp7

Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab at UW-Madison) @jsealab.bsky.social · Aug 30

New #JusticeinTranslation on #Militarization, #media, #AffanKurniawan in #Indonesia out!
** Justice for Affan Kurniawan: The First Civilian Casualty of the Remilitarization of Indonesia, a collection of documents introduced and translated by Christopher Hulshof. **

Read/Download: bit.ly/4naCIp7

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · Aug 28

The fall issue of Dissent, with a special section on Authoritarianism and Resistance, is off to the presses and will be in mailboxes soon. My editor's note contains this observation about our suspension of states between authoritarianism and democracy

A few decades ago, when the study of transitions to democracy rather than away from it occupied the attention of political scientists, one would occasionally encounter an apparent paradox. Consider Mexico’s slow exit from a complicated single-party autocracy under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. The PRI lost control of Congress for the first time in almost seventy years in 1997. But no one was certain if the country met the standard to be called a democracy until the PRI also accepted its loss in the presidential elections of 2000. Only at that point did it seem reasonable to say that Mexico probably was a democracy in 1997 too. That process is now playing out in reverse around the globe. Core components of democracy are being lost, but people often don’t know what kind of system they are in at any given moment. That suspension between states may only be revealed by future events.

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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal @asiancha.bsky.social · Aug 25

Contributors to the RAINSTORM feature so far: www.facebook.com/media/set?va...

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Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab at UW-Madison) @jsealab.bsky.social · Aug 25

Powerful and urgent zine from @focussouth.bsky.social on #care and #resistance in #socialmovements. Available in multiple languages! Download the zine here:
www.agrowingculture.org/care-and-res...

Focus on the Global South @focussouth.bsky.social · Aug 18

“Care and Resistance” brings together five diverse movements — Abahlali baseMjondolo (South Africa), LILAK (Philippines), West Street Recovery (U.S.), MST (Brazil), and SPFT (Thailand) — to share how care is embedded at the core of their struggles.

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · Aug 20

2 review essays on fictional works set in Asia came out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social this week: Darran Wan's on 2 novels about Southeast Asia lareviewofbooks.org/article/emer... & Rhoda Kwan's on Fang Fang's Soft Burial & Tsering Döndrup’s The Red Wind Howls lareviewofbooks.org/article/howl...

Howling Memories | Los Angeles Review of Books

Rhoda Kwan reviews two newly translated novels reckoning with China’s bloody past, Fang Fang’s “Soft Burial” and Tsering Döndrup’s “The Red Wind Howls.”

lareviewofbooks.org

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Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab at UW-Madison) @jsealab.bsky.social · Aug 20

Listen to Scholars at Risk's latest 'Free to Think' podcast about academic freedom in Thailand and the targeting of Dr. Paul Chambers under the country's draconian lèse majesté law --

www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/po...

Free to Think Podcast | Scholars at Risk

Subscribe: Season 5: Episode 44: “Somebody wanted me in prison…” Paul Chambers and Tyrell Haberkorn on laws silencing scholars in Thailand Dr. Tyrell Haberkorn and Dr. Paul Chambers join Free to Think...

www.scholarsatrisk.org

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

“How does a communist guerilla in one of the Cold War’s forgotten battlefields regain his footing at the end of history?” Darren Wan reviews "Delicious Hunger" by Hai Fan and "State of Emergency" by Jeremy Tiang. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/emergency-unending/

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tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social · Aug 20

Upcoming @getsea.bsky.social minicourse on "Global Zomias: Highland Southeast Asia"!

Priority for graduate students in Southeast Asian Studies, but open beyond also --

Full syllabus available here: tinyurl.com/55jf69s5

Applications are available here: tinyurl.com/44ms234z

GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · Aug 19

GETSEA Minicourses are Back!

Join us for "Global Zomias: Highland Southeast Asia" taught by Aditya Kiran Kakati, University of Groningen

Offered virtually from September 24 to October 29, 2025, Wednesdays, 2:00pm-4:00pm Eastern Time.

Application Deadline: September 1st!

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tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social · Aug 12

Rethinking Social Movements.Indonesian Studies talk coming up on Tuesday morning (EST) and Tuesday evening (ICT)! Details below --

GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · Aug 10

Join IndoSteelars’ last program of their Summer Discussion Series: Rethinking Social Movements — a five-week online forum exploring how civil society navigates shrinking democratic space and challenges structural control.

Aug 12 @ 10 am EDT
tinyurl.com/3j247fcm

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 10

I was very moved by my conversation with @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social...

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