Shan New Year 2118 / 2023: Academic and cultural presentations
Key information
- Date
- Time
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9:00 am to 4:30 pm
- Venue
- Brunei Gallery
- Room
- BGLT and B102
- Event type
- Event highlights
About this event
This year, we will hold the Shan New Year event again at SOAS University of London.
As in previous years, we will have a combined academic and cultural programme for the event this year, co-hosted by the SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies and the Shan Cultural Association in the UK. We will begin the event with our hybrid-format academic sessions, which will include a wide range of presentations on Shan cultural area studies.
This will be followed by a cultural performance programme in the afternoon.
Programme
| Time | Presentation | Speaker/Performers |
|---|---|---|
| Academic Session One (Room B102) MC: Ven. Phramahasena Suraseno; Chair: Ven. Pannyavamsa; Moderator: Xu Peng |
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| 8:45am | Registration; Tea/Coffee | |
| 8:55am | Welcome | Venerable Phramahasena Suraseno (MA Student/King's College London & Abbot Assistant of the Oxford Buddha Vihara) |
| 9:00am | Chanting of Blessing | Buddhist Monks from the Oxford Buddha Vihara and Wat Buddharam London |
| 9:05am | Opening Speech | Kate Crosby (Numata Professor in Buddhist Studies, University of Oxford) |
| 9:15am | Composers of Culture: The Shan Zare Tradition | Olivia Porter (Alumni, King's College London & Teaching Fellow, Roehampton University) |
| 9:30am | Traditional Tai Ahom Methods of Preparing Writing Materials: With Special Reference to Sanchi Pat and Mohi (online) | Chao Sukham Chaosing a.k.a. Manash Protim Chetia (Independent Scholar, Assam, India) |
| 9:45am | Q&A | |
| 9:50am | The Shan Chevening Fellowship at the British Library | Myo Thant Linn a.k.a Sai Line (Chevening Research Fellow, British Library) and Maria Kekki (Burmese Curator, British Library) |
| 10:05am | Shan manuscript textiles in the British Library collection | Jana Igunma (Curator for Cambodia, Lao and Thai Collections, British Library) & Maria Kekki (Burmese Curator, British Library) |
| 10:20am | Making Merit, Making Museums: Walking around the inner museum at Yadana Man Aung Pagoda, Nyaungshwe Town | Heidi Tan (Lecturer in Museology at the School of Arts, SOAS) |
| 10:35am | Q&A | |
| 10:40am | Break for Refreshment / Lunch for the monks | |
| Academic Session Two (Room B102) MC: Nang Nidarphorn; Chair: Jana Igunma; Moderator: Tongchen Hou |
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| 11:00am | The Shan in the History of the Irrawaddy Valley: Towards a Federal “National” History | Michael Charney (Professor in History and International Studies & Director of the Centre of South East Asian Studies, SOAS) |
| 11:15am | The Archaeology of the Shan Plateau | Elizabeth Moore (Professor Emeritus in Art and Archaeology, SOAS) & Khin Kyi Pyu Thant (SOAS Alumni) |
| 11:30am | A Brief History of Laikha | Sao KhunHti Laikha (Independent Scholar) |
| 11:45am | Q&A | |
| 11:50am | A Manuscript of Tai Herbalism | Susan Conway (Research Associate, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University) |
| 12:05pm | Surveying Manuscripts Collections for Future Digitization across the Greater Shan country (online) | Francois Tainturier (Director, Inya Institute, Yangon) |
| 12:20pm | A Shan Manuscript from SOAS Special Collections: Tracing the Origin of the Manuscript and the Story of Nang Yi Seng Kaw | Jotika Khur-Yearn (Librarian & Researcher, SOAS) |
| 12:35pm | Q&A | |
| 12:40pm | A Reflection on the Shan New Year event and Updates on Southeast Asian Studies programmes at SOAS University of London | Michael Charney (Professor in History and International Studies & Director of the Centre of South East Asian Studies, SOAS) |
| 12:45pm | Closing speeches | Jotika Khur-Yearn, Olivia Porter, SCA-UK members |
| 1:00pm | Lunch | |
The book of abstracts is available for download.
Contact
- Organiser: SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies and The Shan Cultural Association in the UK
- Email: jk53@soas.ac.uk or info@sca-uk.org.uk
