This opening speech by ICBMS conference chair Chayan Vaddhanaphuti takes the occasion of commemorating a decade plus of the conference to set the broader context for ICBMS 5 by situating it within a focus on Myanmar’s prolonged political interregnum, following the 2021 coup. The empirical evidence presented at this conference documents the many challenges Myanmar…

ICBMS5 is please to host the launch for Kevin Woods’ new book, “The Fifth Cut: War and the Remaking of Nature in Myanmar,” on Sunday, 16 August from 11 am to 12:30 pm in room 2. While scholars have extensively analyzed the military, political, and economic dimensions of Myanmar’s civil war, the role of environmental…

The third plenary session of ICBMS is “Rare Earth: Extractive Industry, Global Supply Chain and Transboundary Water Pollution,” on Saturday 15 August from 9:40 to 11:10 am in Conference Room 4. Myanmar has become a major source of heavy rare earths, particularly in Kachin State along the Chinese border. Mining in northern Myanmar is estimated…

Plenary Session 2 of ICBMS5 is titled “Migration from Myanmar in Southeast Asia: Multiple Realities of Migration, Policy Implications, and Practices.” This session will bring together a range of experts from the non-governmental and academic sectors to view the multifaceted reality of migration from Myanmar in its multiple forms: refugees, migrant labor, long-term Thai border…

Plenary session 1 of ICBMS5, “The Way Forward for the Thai-Myanmar Border: Humanitarian Actions, Governance, Health, and Regional Responses” will be held on Friday, 14 August from 11 am to 12:30 pm in the Thong Khaw room of UNISERV. The crisis along the Thai-Myanmar border is no longer a temporary emergency; it is a protracted…

The ICBMS5 committee is happy to announce our conference’s keynote speaker, Saturnino (‘Jun’) M. Borras Jr., Professor, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. His keynote address will be “Crisis and Opportunity: Agrarian Transformations and the Struggles for a Just Myanmar Society and World.” This keynote address will be held Saturday,…

Due to overwhelming demand and the safety limitations of our conference venue, we regret to announce that registration for non-presenting observers will be closed automatically once we reach 800 registrants, which will likely be prior to the original deadline of 7 August. Registration for non-presenting observers will close immediately once we reach 800 participants. If…

Registration for non-presenting observers of ICBMS5 is now open. All fees are waived for observers, but we ask that everyone interested in attending please register online here as early as possible due to limited space and seating. For those participants (presenters, chairs, speakers, exhibitors, discussants) who have not yet registered, we kindly request that you…

Accepted ICBMS5 participants, including individual and panel presenters, roundtable participants, moderators, discussants and chairs can now register online at the ICBMS website registration page here. The schedule of fees for different types of participants, as well as early and regular payment rates is available through the link. Please note that the final date for all…

The announcement for accepted abstract, roundtable, and panel proposal submission to ICBMS5 will be postponed until April 18 due to the high volume of submissions received, and the extension to the original submission date. Our review committee is still at work going through all the submissions and we ask your patience before we announce the…