INTG Convenor 272nd INTG Meeting – A Talk by Bertil Lintner Summary of the Talk This summary has been compiled by your convenor from the (scant) notes that Bertil used for his talk. Bertil started by saying that after studying and writing about Burma for 20 years, he decided it was time for a change. Casting around … Read more
271st INTG Meeting – A Talk and Video Presentation by Terris and Leslie Nguyen Temple About Terris and Leslie Terris Temple (USA) has been involved in studying, creating and teaching Tibetan thangka art for the last thirty years. Prior to working on this project he focused on teaching thangka iconography and painting to his students. … Read more
270th INTG Meeting – A Talk and Presentation by Dr. Kwanchewan Buadaeng 1, 2 Full Text of Dr. Kwanchewan’s Talk and Presentation The majority of the Karen peoples live in the frontier between Burma3 and Thailand. In Burma, while some Karen live in the mountainous areas near to the border, many live on the plain … Read more
269th INTG Meeting – A talk and presentation by Dr. Bonnie Brereton, PhD Bonnie Brereton Resume: brereton.b@gmail.com Professional Experience: Free-lance editor, writer, researcher, Chiang Mai, August 2005-present.Lecturer, Thai and Southeast Studies Program, Payap University, Chiang Mai, 2003-2005.Academic Director, Thai and Southeast Studies Program, Payap University, Chiang Mai, 2003-2005.Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Khon Kaen University Jan-June, 2003.Project … Read more
268th INTG Meeting – A talk by Olivier Evrard Acculturation and Perpetuation of Ethnic Boundaries in Northern Thailand and Laos About the Speaker Olivier Evrard is an anthropologist at IRD (Institut de Recherché pour le Developpement, previously called Orstom) and is currently collaborating with the Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University. He has been doing … Read more
267th INTG Meeting – A Talk and LCD Presentation by Dr. Katharine McKinnon About Dr. McKinnon Katharine was recently awarded her PhD in Human Geography at the Australian National University. Her dissertation was written following a year of fieldwork based in Chiang Mai. She is now a post-doctoral research fellow in Development Studies at Massey … Read more
266th INTG Meeting – A talk by Dr. Mark Tamthai, Institute for the Study of Religion and Culture, Payap University, Chiang Mai About the Speaker Mark Tamthai was a professor at Chulalongkorn University for 30 years and is now the director of the Institute for the Study of Religion and Culture at Payap University. For … Read more
265th INTG Meeting – Author, Carool Kersten, Talks About his New Book The Full Text of Carool’s Talk This talk introduces my latest book, published with White Lotus Press in Bangkok. It is based on a travelogue by one Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, a kind of gentleman-traveler, relating his experiences during a two-year journey in … Read more
