PhD @cornellgov on Myanmar, studying mass contention & social media in Southeast Asia
Joined October 2010
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30 Jan 2025
Update on my social media use: I'll limit my professional updates on Facebook & X from now on. If interested, you can find me on LinkedIn or Blue Sky:
linkedin.com/in/mai-van-tran…
bsky.app/profile/vmtran.bsky…
I'll share some useful resources in this thread.
Happy Year of the Snake!
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Dr. Mai Van Tran retweeted
Join us next week!
On April 22 at 5pm ECT we will have @vmtran (@Brussels_School) presenting "Social Media's Algorithmic Affordances for Authoritarian Repression: Evidence from Myanmar" and Jennifer Whitten-Woodring (@UMassLowell) and Eddie Yang (@LifeAtPurdue) discussing.
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30 Jan 2025
Update on my social media use: I'll limit my professional updates on Facebook & X from now on. If interested, you can find me on LinkedIn or Blue Sky:
linkedin.com/in/mai-van-tran…
bsky.app/profile/vmtran.bsky…
I'll share some useful resources in this thread.
Happy Year of the Snake!
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30 Jan 2025
Please also let me know if there are (OR if you have created) any Blue Sky starter packs for Burma/Myanmar studies, Myanmar news, Southeast Asian politics, etc.
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13 Jan 2025
Fresh off New Media & Society! First publication in 2025 on "covert political campaigning" focused on investigating influencers across 4 social media platforms during elections using field and computational methods economic modeling ✨doi.org/10.1177/146144482413… With my co-authors—
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13 Jan 2025
🚨 APPLICATIONS OPEN🚨
Applications for the Southeast Asia Student Dissertation Fieldwork Grant are now open.
Providing up to £500 of funding for field research in Southeast Asia. Open to all disciplines. Deadline 12 Feb 2025.
lse.ac.uk/seac/Support-for-S…
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Dr. Mai Van Tran retweeted
8 Jan 2025
We’re excited about our lineup of insightful talks at SEAC this winter term!
Don’t miss out - sign up now! Visit lse.ac.uk/seac/events for more information.
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Check out my open-access article in @JEAS_journal, where I explore the South Korean ruling party, the PPP, and its supporters.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
17 Dec 2024
Where not #OpenAccess the articles in our 2023 volume are free to read until the end of 2024 - cup.org/3Zz1F4w
With papers by @ImMyungheeLee, @PaulSchuler10, @MaedaPoliSci, @SKimLeffingwell, @taegyun_lim, @StephanHaggard, @TomPepinsky, & more...
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2 Dec 2024
This was a really fun interview to do (and includes a cartoon from the book!)
New #AsiaNow post: an interview with Elliott Prasse-Freeman @_e_pf_ about his 2023 @stanfordpress book, RIGHTS REFUSED: GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM AND STATE VIOLENCE IN MYANMAR.
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ALT Front cover of RIGHTS REFUSED: GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM AND STATE VIOLENCE IN MYANMAR, by Elliott Prasse-Freeman
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27 Nov 2024
International criminal court prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar military leader Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity linked to the alleged persecution and deportations committed against the Rohingya a mainly Muslim minority.
(Reuters News)
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13 Nov 2024
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13 Nov 2024
🚀@ComDem_ECREA & @AcsjIca are co-organizing "Voices of Change: Activism Democracy & #SocialJustice" talk series
📆Nov 29
⌛️10am CET
First talk to feature @anne_kaun @icahdq award-winning book 'Prison Media'
👇sign up here & find out more about the series
cts.ku.dk/projects/to-use-or…
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Dr. Mai Van Tran retweeted
We’re announcing Call for Submissions: ASEAS 2025 Conference “Global Southeast Asia: Continuity and Change”
St John’s College, University of Cambridge, 15–17 September 2025.
📌Deadline: 30 April 2025📌 More info, please visit: aseasuk.org/aseas-conference…
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Courtney Wittekind (@ctwittekind) joins @UMCSEAS for a hybrid lecture on, "Real Farmers, Dream Cities: Agrarian Change, Demonstration, and the Politics of Visibility in Myanmar"
Nov 8 @ 12 PM (Michigan)
tinyurl.com/4vcne8v3
#Myanmar #Burma #Yangon #SoutheastAsia #Activism
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30 Oct 2024
Probably the best Southeast Asian Studies graduate student conference in the world!
The 27th Cornell SEAP Graduate Student Conference: Mobility
Conference Dates: March 7-9, 2025
Abstracts Due: November 30, 2024
einaudi.cornell.edu/programs…
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