The Southeast Asian Movement - SEAM

🎥 EXCLUSIVE MOVIE SCREENING HAPPENING TOMORROW 🎥 Come watch Cambodian Director Kavich Neang’s with SEAM!

Time: 6PM
Date: Thursday 28 April
Location: HQ L01

A panel discussion with Kavich Neang, assistant director Sreylin Meas and lead actor Piseth Chhun will take place after the movie. They flew a long way from Cambodia to be here with us and talk about their creation - don’t miss this opportunity! (Photo Credits: Asian Times)

Movie Synopsis (Rotten Tomatoes): 20-year-old Samnang and two of his friends live in the White Building, a landmark tenement in Phnom Penh. In this fast-changing city, the three boys practice their dance routine dreaming of television talent contests while their parents lead a more traditional lifestyle. But the White Building is to be demolished. Samnang observes his father unsuccessfully attempting to bring together his divided neighbors on the government's compensation offers for residents to move out, and he must face his best friend's departure from Cambodia. Samnang finds that the stable environment he has always called home is on shaky ground.

💼 BROWNBAG SERIES 🗣 Fulbright University students Nguyen Phuong-Anh and Nguyen Tam discuss their mission to raise awareness about the Myanmar Coup among their peers in Vietnam. Collaborating with contacts at the Interim University Council - University of Yangon, they produced an English-language digital zine (https://fromourplacetothef.wixsite.com/my-site/zine) that is now reaching a wider audience than they anticipated. The independent publication, From Our Place to the Frontline, features interviews, poetry, artwork, and other Burmese reflections on post-coup life in Myanmar.

🟧 Reporting by Catherine Kausikan and Erica Vandenbulcke
➡️ Click here to read more: https://southeastasianmovement.org/Apr-13-From-Our-Place...

Photo Credits: From Our Place to the Frontline

💼 BROWNBAG SERIES 🗣 Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews does essential work to maintain the spotlight on the situation in Myanmar, particularly as the world’s attention is distracted by violence and conflict happening elsewhere today. Speaking to the Yale Council of Southeast Asian Studies, Andrews explained the work of expert investigators mandated by the UN to carry out independent fact-finding on human rights around the world, and shared the findings of recently-published reports he led.

🟧 Reporting by Sharmaine Koh
➡️ Click here to read more: https://southeastasianmovement.org/Apr-06-Perspectives-on-the-Situation-in-Myanmar

💼 BROWNBAG SERIES 🗣 On Mar 09, Jane Ferguson spoke to CSEAS about the struggles that the Shan people of Myanmar have faced in their six decade long fight for liberation, ever since the 1947 Union promised them an independent state. Their fight for repossession extends beyond that of militant combat and exists even in cultural survival, which Ferguson articulates through her discussion of music’s role in Shan nationalism.

🟧 Reporting by Hannah Hernandez

➡️ Click here to read more: https://southeastasianmovement.org/Mar-09-Repossessing-Shanland

Check out our interview with Professor Ferguson here!
https://southeastasianmovement.org/Transcript-Repossessing-Shanland-by-Jane-Ferguson

Last Tuesday (March 8), SEAM spoke with three leaders in the blockchain gaming industry to discuss the rise and implications of play-to-earn gaming for Southeast Asia. Speakers exchanged a wide variety of opinions on three key questions: How have cryptocurrencies and blockchain facilitated the possibility of earning through gaming? Where does the value of game tokens and items comes from? How sustainable are these gaming platforms?

To help us make sense of the rapid rise of play-to-earn gaming in SEA, SEAM's Chloe Young and Adriel Yong distil key learning points from the spirited discussion. Read more at: https://southeastasianmovement.org/Play-to-Earn-in-SEA

💼 BROWNBAG SERIES 🗣 SEAM’s Jonathan Chan reflects on Dr. Duy Lap Nguyen’s talk at the Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Yale about his book - The Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam. Dr. Nguyen examined the ideological underpinnings of the First Republic of Vietnam (1955-1963) under President Ngô Đình Diệm, as devised by his political advisor and brother Ngô Đình Nhu. Read more at https://southeastasianmovement.org/Feb-23-The-Unimagined-Community to understand how personalism and Marxist humanism, rather than pro-US conservatism, animated the Ngô's visions for the new South Vietnamese state.

🟠 EVENT 🟠 Can we Play to Earn in Southeast Asia?

Are Web3 games Ponzi schemes? Are they hurting the environment? Are they even fun? Join the Southeast Asian Movement at Yale in this conversation with leading Web 3 gaming companies from SEA: Zipmex Group, AcadArena, and Affyn.

8 March (Tue), 8-9.30pm EST

RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/playtoearninSEA