Public Lecture

Title: The Burmese women’s movement at the Thai-Burma border

Time: March Wednesday 29, 2006

1 – 3 PM

Location: Conference Room 12, 2nd Fl.

Political Science Bldg 3.(Udhyanin)

Chulalongkorn University

Speaker: Mary O’Kane, Ph.D. Candidate,

School of Political & Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts

Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Short Biography:

Mary O’Kane graduated with first class honours in politics from Monash University. In addition to her ongoing academic research she has worked in different capacities with the Burmese opposition movement-in-exile for over 10 years, with organizations such as the Burmese Women’s Union, the Burma Support Group in Melbourne, Mizzima News, the Women’s League of Burma, Altsean-Burma, and Images-Asia. She also worked as a project coordinator and editor for the Ecumenical Migration Centre in Melbourne, and for the Centre for Cultural Research into Risk at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, Australia.

Referred Publications:

O’Kane, M., (2006), “Gender, Borders and Transversality: the Emerging Burmese Women’s Movement in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands” in Behera, N., (ed.), Women and Migration in Asia: Conflict, War and Violence, Delhi, Sage.

O’Kane, M., (2005) Borderlands and women: transversal political agency on the Burma-Thailand border, Working Paper No. 126, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University.

O’Kane, M., (2004), “Portals of Possibility: Gender, Dissidence and Transversality in the Thailand-Burma borderlands”, Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Australian National University, 14-16 July 2004, sourced at http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ir/Oceanic/OCISPapers/index.html.

Pickering, S., and O’Kane, M., (2002), “Policing, Exile and Gender in States’ Borderlands”, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 14, 1, 106-110.