Robert Hockett, professor of law, discusses FDIC proposals to help prevent another bank collapse.

Millions have risen up in Myanmar since a coup d’état removed the country’s democratically elected leader — the topic of a March 27 SEAP panel.

Applications are now open for GETSEA’s Spring 2023 Mini-Course!

A recording of Brenda Yeoh (National University of Singapore)'s 12th Frank H. Golay Memorial Lecture, "Transnational Families and the Temporary Migration Regime in Southeast Asia," is now available on CornellCast.

In 2013, the Journal of Burma Studies published an article titled “An Introduction to Wa Studies.” It seems that even within the last decade the Wa, an upland people living predominantly on what is today the Burma-China frontier, still needed to be introduced to other scholars of the region. Magnus Fiskesjö, the article’s author, began with the caveat that it was by no means complete and was intended only by way of brief introduction. But the article held out the promise of more, and now its author has delivered, with Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture (Berghahn, 2021). In this episode, Magnus joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to discuss everything from rice beer to silver mining, opium production and warfare, the tension between the Wa egalitarian ethos and practices of slave holding, and the present and possible future conditions for a people on the periphery of mainland Southeast Asia in an age of intolerant ethno-nationalism.

Kaushik Basu, professor of economics, writes this piece about inflation’s influence on politics

In the months right after the February 1st military coup in Myanmar, a PhD student initiated a conversation with Cornell’s Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) faculty and staff about how they could help at-risk scholars come to Cornell for safety, and to participate in SEAP. Drawing on Title VI, National Resource Center funding from the Department of Education, SEAP, and other Cornell academic programs, assisted four at-risk, scholars, activists, and artists, along with their families, to find visiting fellow positions at Cornell. Thamora Fishel, Associate Director of SEAP, described this process in an interview with East-West Center Young Professional Drake Avila. One of these dissidents is May Sabe Phyu, co-founder of the Gender Equality Network (GEN), and prominent human and women's rights activist.

Eswar Prasad, a trade professor at Cornell who studies the digitization of currencies, said Treasury’s report “takes a positive view about how a digital dollar might play a useful role in increasing payment options for individuals and businesses” while acknowledging the risks of its development.

September 15–17: Kaushik Basu, Einaudi, and Cornell's Department of Economics welcome economists from around the world. Find out how to attend.