Tea Circle Myanmar

Tea Circle Myanmar Tea Circle is a forum for new and emerging perspectives on Burma/Myanmar, currently hosted at the Asian Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.

It highlights analysis, research, opinions, and creative works from global contributors. A forum for new and emerging perspectives on Burma/Myanmar, located at the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto.

TODAY: Tea Circle Myanmar's New Books on Myanmar series presents Mon Mon Myat's Aung San Suu Kyi: The Realities of Power...
09/18/2026

TODAY: Tea Circle Myanmar's New Books on Myanmar series presents Mon Mon Myat's Aung San Suu Kyi: The Realities of Power in Burma’s Authoritarian Legacy.
Friday, September 18, 2026 at 8:30pm MMT • 7am PT • 10am ET • 3pm BST • 9pm ICT
Author Mon Mon Myat in conversation with Tony Waters and Zar Chi Nyeinn.
To register, please scan the QR code or visit: https://teacirclemyanmar.com/new-books-on-myanmar-fall-2026/
The book traces the deep historical roots of Burma's authoritarian legacy, examining how royal absolutism, British colonial bureaucracy, Japanese fascism, and military dictatorship created a political culture dominated by fear. Against this backdrop, the author explores how Suu Kyi's "revolution of the spirit"—drawing on Buddhist concepts of fearlessness (abhaya), justice (dhamma), and loving-kindness (metta)—sought to transform not just political institutions but the psychological foundations of Burmese society itself.
ဤစာအုပ်တွင် မြန်မာ့ အာဏာရှင်အမွေအနှစ် အမြစ်တွယ်နေသော သမိုင်းနောက်ခံများကို ဆန်းစစ်ပြီး သက်ဦးဆံပိုင် ဘုရင်စနစ်၊ ဗြိတိသျှကိုလိုနီအုပ်ချုပ်ရေး၊ ဂျပန်ဖက်ဆစ်ဝါဒနှင့် စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ်တို့သည် ကြောက်ရွံ့မှုလွှမ်းမိုးသော နိုင်ငံရေးယဉ်ကျေးမှုကို မည်သို့ဖန်တီးခဲ့ကြောင်း လေ့လာထားသည်။ ဤနောက်ခံတွင်၊ စာရေးသူသည် ဒေါ်စု၏ ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာအယူအဆများဖြစ်သော မကြောက်တရား (အဘယ)၊ တရားမျှတမှု (ဓမ္မ) နှင့် မေတ္တာ (မေတ္တာ) တို့ကို အခြေခံသည့် “နှလုံးရည်တော်လှန်ရေး” သည် နိုင်ငံရေးအဖွဲ့အစည်းများကိုသာမက မြန်မာ့လူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်း၏ စိတ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ အခြေခံအုတ်မြစ်များကိုပါ ပြောင်းလဲနိုင်ရန် မည်သို့ကြိုးပမ်းခဲ့ကြောင်း စူးစမ်းလေ့လာထားသည်။

THIS FRIDAY: Tea Circle Myanmar's New Books on Myanmar series presents Mon Mon Myat's Aung San Suu Kyi: The Realities of...
09/13/2026

THIS FRIDAY: Tea Circle Myanmar's New Books on Myanmar series presents Mon Mon Myat's Aung San Suu Kyi: The Realities of Power in Burma’s Authoritarian Legacy.

Friday, September 18, 2026 at 8:30pm MMT • 7am PT • 10am ET • 3pm BST • 9pm ICT

Author Mon Mon Myat in conversation with Tony Waters and Zar Chi Nyeinn.
To register, please scan the QR code or visit: https://teacirclemyanmar.com/new-books-on-myanmar-fall-2026/

The book traces the deep historical roots of Burma's authoritarian legacy, examining how royal absolutism, British colonial bureaucracy, Japanese fascism, and military dictatorship created a political culture dominated by fear. Against this backdrop, the author explores how Suu Kyi's "revolution of the spirit"—drawing on Buddhist concepts of fearlessness (abhaya), justice (dhamma), and loving-kindness (metta)—sought to transform not just political institutions but the psychological foundations of Burmese society itself.

ဤစာအုပ်တွင် မြန်မာ့ အာဏာရှင်အမွေအနှစ် အမြစ်တွယ်နေသော သမိုင်းနောက်ခံများကို ဆန်းစစ်ပြီး သက်ဦးဆံပိုင် ဘုရင်စနစ်၊ ဗြိတိသျှကိုလိုနီအုပ်ချုပ်ရေး၊ ဂျပန်ဖက်ဆစ်ဝါဒနှင့် စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ်တို့သည် ကြောက်ရွံ့မှုလွှမ်းမိုးသော နိုင်ငံရေးယဉ်ကျေးမှုကို မည်သို့ဖန်တီးခဲ့ကြောင်း လေ့လာထားသည်။ ဤနောက်ခံတွင်၊ စာရေးသူသည် ဒေါ်စု၏ ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာအယူအဆများဖြစ်သော မကြောက်တရား (အဘယ)၊ တရားမျှတမှု (ဓမ္မ) နှင့် မေတ္တာ (မေတ္တာ) တို့ကို အခြေခံသည့် “နှလုံးရည်တော်လှန်ရေး” သည် နိုင်ငံရေးအဖွဲ့အစည်းများကိုသာမက မြန်မာ့လူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်း၏ စိတ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ အခြေခံအုတ်မြစ်များကိုပါ ပြောင်းလဲနိုင်ရန် မည်သို့ကြိုးပမ်းခဲ့ကြောင်း စူးစမ်းလေ့လာထားသည်။

Happening now!Surviving the State: Land and Democracy in MyanmarFriday August 28, 2026 at 8:30pm MMT • 7am PT • 10am ET ...
08/28/2026

Happening now!

Surviving the State: Land and Democracy in Myanmar
Friday August 28, 2026 at 8:30pm MMT • 7am PT • 10am ET • 3pm BST • 9pm ICT

Author Hilary Faxon in conversation with Myat The Thitsar, Naw Pe The Law, Tharaphi Than.

IN ONE WEEK: Tea Circle Myanmar's New Books on Myanmar series presents Hilary Faxon's Surviving the State: Land and Demo...
08/21/2026

IN ONE WEEK: Tea Circle Myanmar's New Books on Myanmar series presents Hilary Faxon's Surviving the State: Land and Democracy in Myanmar

Friday August 28, 2026 at 8:30pm MMT • 7am PT • 10am ET • 3pm BST • 9pm ICT

Author Hilary Faxon will discuss her new book in conversation with Myat The Thitsar, Naw Pe The Law, Tharaphi Than.

To register, please visit: https://teacirclemyanmar.com/new-books-on-myanmar-fall-2026/

This academic year, Tea Circle will be holding a series of open conversations about new books published in Burma/Myanmar...
08/14/2026

This academic year, Tea Circle will be holding a series of open conversations about new books published in Burma/Myanmar Studies. These conversations will be accessible in English and Burmese, and will include presentations by authors and a select set of commentators for each text.

Selected books for the fall are below. If you have a book you'd like to suggest, please message us, as we plan to continue in winter and spring!

Surviving the State: Land and Democracy in Myanmar
Friday August 28, 2026 at 8:30pm MMT • 7am PT • 10am ET • 3pm BST • 9pm ICT
Author Hilary Faxon in conversation with Myat The Thitsar, Naw Pe The Law, Tharaphi Than.

Aung San Suu Kyi: The Realities of Power in Burma’s Authoritarian Legacy
Friday September 18, 2026 at 8:30pm MMT • 7am PT • 10am ET • 3pm BST • 9pm ICT
Author Mon Mon Myat in conversation.

Possessed Landscapes: Experiments in Conservation and Sovereignty in Southeast Myanmar
Friday October 16, 2026 at 8:30pm MMT • 7am PT • 10am ET • 3pm BST • 9pm ICT
Author Tomas Cole in conversation.

City of Speculation: Unsettled Futures in Urban Myanmar
Friday November 12, 2026 at 8:30pm MMT • 7am PT • 10am ET • 3pm BST • 9pm ICT
Author Courtney T. Wittekind in conversation.

https://teacirclemyanmar.com/new-books-on-myanmar-fall-2026/

This fall, join authors of new and forthcoming books in Burma/Myanmar Studies for moderated, dual-language conversations...
08/12/2026

This fall, join authors of new and forthcoming books in Burma/Myanmar Studies for moderated, dual-language conversations about their new works.

First up is Hilary Faxon's "Surviving the State: Land and Democracy in Myanmar" on Friday August 28, 2026 at 8:30pm MMT • 7am PT • 10am ET • 3pm BST • 9pm ICT

Author Hilary Faxon will be in conversation with Myat The Thitsar, Naw Pe The Law, Tharaphi Than.

This fall, join authors of new and forthcoming books in Burma/Myanmar Studies for moderated, dual-language conversations about their new works.

What is Old is New Again: Buddhist Pigments and Brushstrokes in the Amarapūra Mahāgandhāyon’s Political ProgrammeIn this...
08/05/2026

What is Old is New Again: Buddhist Pigments and Brushstrokes in the Amarapūra Mahāgandhāyon’s Political Programme

In this short, experimental piece, Tony Scott puts the Mahāgandhāyon’s Future of the Affairs of the Sāsanā in conversation with roughly contemporaneous modernist painters in Burma.

In this short, experimental piece, I will put the Mahāgandhāyon’s Future of the Affairs of the Sāsanā in conversation with roughly contemporaneous modernist painters in Burma.

In "If We Don’t Change Education and Culture, We Will Carry the Junta into the New Union," James Shwe argues that a new ...
07/31/2026

In "If We Don’t Change Education and Culture, We Will Carry the Junta into the New Union," James Shwe argues that a new model for education, culture, and religion is needed for Myanmar's future.

James Shwe argues that a new model for education, culture, and religion is needed for Myanmar’s future.

Towards Northwest Southeast Asia StudiesEwan Cameron asks what reality the term “Myanmar” expresses and what it might hi...
07/29/2026

Towards Northwest Southeast Asia Studies

Ewan Cameron asks what reality the term “Myanmar” expresses and what it might hide....

Ewan Cameron asks what reality the term “Myanmar” expresses and what it might hide.

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