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

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

“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/

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

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

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

Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister. “I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"

Rising number of doctors among hundreds of medical staff detained in Gaza, say rights groups

Thailand's current crisis may finally end the cycle of populism and polarization that has crippled the country's democratic aspirations. But it is also revealing that there are far worse forces undermining Thai democracy. @dnsltr.bsky.social explains: www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

Notable new piece by @dnsltr.bsky.social‬ just out in @jodemocracy.bsky.social /provides a nuanced though brief sketch of Thailand's turbulent political history--& has astute comments on implications of the Thai story for thinking about global trends www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

New event 📆3rd - 17th Aug 📍 Kinjai Contemporary, Bangkok Thumb Rights hold new exhibition "ด้วยความคิดถึง / With Longing" Dedicated to all who are missing someone. Details: www.instagram.com/p/DMaTdYhpeaG #WithLonging #ดวยความคิดถึง #thumbrights

Looking forward to returning to @cwclub.bsky.social on July 30. Details here www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-... . This event in SF is being put on in association with @dissentmag.bsky.social which recently ran Ross Perlin's interview w/me about the book www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

I wrote about Liang Qichao as a thinker, reformer, exile & influence on Mao & Lu Xun & others for @chinabksreview.bsky.social (thanks at @alexludoboyd.bsky.social for the well thought out initial big edits & @alecash.net for the good final polishing ones) chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/17/l...

No one.

Thought provoking and informative piece by @shellyk.bsky.social for @chinafile.bsky.social www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...

terresottovento.altervista.org/arnon-nampa-... here I translated it in italian

Immigrants are and will always be a part of this country.

With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.

For those in NYC -- a book event organized by @sunycunyseac.bsky.social not to be missed with @burrata.bsky.social!

Thailand’s judiciary is flexing its muscles, but away from PM’s plight, dozens of grassroots activists are at the mercy of capricious courts - some face life terms for insulting the king theconversation.com/thailands-ju... By @turtelista.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social

I wrote about the judiciary, its violence and political imprisonment in Thailand for @us.theconversation.com —

Imagine this is you. You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

"I think together we can create a beautiful future for Hungary." Despite the government's ban on #budapestpride, tens of thousands showed up on Saturday to send #ViktorOrbán a clear message: freedom and love cannot be banned: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/07/free...

As part of our efforts to include the erased histories of all ethnic groups in China, @minjianarchives.bsky.social newsletter today discusses a key work of Uyghur resistance: A Land Drenched in Tears. This is also our first trilingual newsletter! chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/a30?utm_ca...

A short 🧵 on the interview Ross Perlin did with me for @dissentmag.bsky.social that just went live www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic... --an ideal intro to themes in my book for SoCal readers to check out ahead of Saturday's 2pm @wendemuseum.bsky.social event wendemuseum.org/event/the-mi...

NEW 🇹🇭 In "Memory Complex", an empty Bangkok shophouse becomes home to artworks that provide a potent reminder of the sacrifices made for the possibility of democracy in Thailand. By Tyrell Haberkorn (@turtelista.bsky.social) www.newmandala.org/art-in-a-tim...

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