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We are pleased to announce the 2026 Myanmar Update - Contours of a New Myanmar. The Update will be held on Friday, 24 July and Saturday, 25 July 2026 at the Australian National University in Canberra.
The conference is convened by the ANU Myanmar Research Centre in the College of Asia and the Pacific, and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales Canberra.
The conference will explore the social, political, economic, technological, and international changes wrought by the 2021 military coup in Myanmar and the subsequent countrywide resistance to military rule, and consider how these changes are likely to shape a post-conflict Myanmar.
This is an opportunity to explicate and celebrate the revolutionary changes brought about by the Myanmar people’s resistance to military rule, while also reckoning with more problematic aspects of the five-year long civil war.
The program and speaker details will be available soon. For now, please save the date!
Myanmar Update 2026 Convenors
- Prof Bina D’Costa – Board Member, Myanmar Research Centre, ANU; CEVAW Chief Investigator and ANU Node lead on migration and trafficking. bina.dcosta@anu.edu.au
- Dr Morten Pedersen – Policy director, Myanmar Research Centre, ANU; Senior Lecturer in International Politics, UNSW Canberra. Morten.Pedersen@unsw.edu.au
Sponsors
The 2026 Myanmar Update is supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific; and The Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW Project # CE230100004).
Photo credit: Phoe Thar
