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SUMMARY:Shift Maps Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:On 4 November 2017 at 5PM\, the month-long exhibition “Shift Maps” will be launched at SEA Junction exposing the personal live histories of refugees and migrants living in Bangkok as written and illustrated by them on palm leaf manuscripts made from the Talipot Palm\, also known as the ‘Shadow Palm’ (Corypha umbraculifera; Thai: Bai Larn). \nThe bulk of manuscripts were produced in two workshop sessions conducted by Bangkok-based artist Varsha Nair at SEA Junction on 26 and 28 October by a group of refugees and migrants composed of clusters of family members as well as young refugees on their own from a variety of countries including Vietnam\, Myanmar\, Sri Lanka\, Pakistan\, and Sudan. They worked with leaves to tell their personal stories\, reflecting about “who we are\, where we come from\, our connection with the past\, and present way of being”. Recording oral histories\, they drew and wrote their stories\, from memory and based on their current reality – life stories connected with location\, relocation\, dislocation – the physical\, emotional and psychological shifts – at times subtle and at times tectonic. \nAdditional palm works were created at a workshop for 365 Days: LIFE MUSE (Model study for Nongpo community’s foreign laborers)\, a project by Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture\, curated by jiandyin (Jiradej and Pornpilai Meemalai). \nThe Palm can be considered as being one of the first migrants in the world – dispersing itself by floating on the seas\, arriving in far-flung places and rooting down way before humans appeared on the scene. Palms continue to be an important part of our daily life. We also revered them using their leaves to record what was once oral history and sacred discourses\, as evident in traditional palm leaf manuscripts. This tradition is a common one that connects India\, Myanmar\, Thailand\, Cambodia\, Laos\, and Indonesia. \nIndividuals from different parts of the world who now find themselves in-between places created the palm leaf documents presented here. They can be seen as current records of flux and of memory – of horizons lost\, found\, and desired. \nAt the opening\, and intermittently during the course of the exhibition\, short videos created by some of the same refugees and some others will be shown. They were made as part of a research project conducted by Rebecca Warren\, in which several young refugees wrote and created digital poetry based on a poem by George Ella Lyon\, called ‘Where I’m From’. The poems explored the young person’s sense of identity\, memory\, and attempted to capture their journey through life with images and descriptions of things that they’ve felt\, sensed\, touched\, heard\, smelt\, seen\, the experiences that make us who we are. Irrespective of varying degrees of elaboration\, each is unique and poignant in its own way. \nThe opening will also feature a panel discussion including Varsha Nair\, Rebecca Warren as well as representatives of refugee organizations. \nThis event is the sixth of a series of events on movements of people in Southeast Asia entitled ASEAN People in Flux\, which is organized by SEA Junction in collaboration with the Heinrich Boll Stiftung Southeast Asia. The series consisting of seven interrelated events aims to examine the complexity of intraregional mobility spurred by regionalization efforts and to discuss the policies governing it. In particular\, by putting a spot on different kinds of people’s movements\, the series highlights the double standards in the ASEAN’s approach to mobility. \nOn one side\, ASEAN promotes “people to people connectivity” by facilitating movements for business\, study and tourism\, while on the other side it limits migration of much needed “un-skilled” workers to exploitative contract labor schemes and it refuses to recognize refugees\, asylum seekers and displaced persons. These double standards were clearly illustrated by the first event of the series on “refugee crisis in ASEAN” as contrasted to the booming industry of medical tourism discussed in the second event. The third event presented an additional dimension of policy discrimination from a gender perspective by focusing on women migrant workers in ASEAN\, while the forth focused on the often-neglected topic of pre-departure policies to protect migrants. The fifth event returns to explore privileged flows\, this time the facilitated intraregional movements of students\, as contrasted to the young refugees who tells their stories of dislocation and exclusion from education opportunities in this sixth event. \nContributors \nVarsha Nair was born in Kampala\, Uganda\, and studied at Faculty of Fine Arts\, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University\, Baroda\, India. Inviting multidisciplinary collaborations her work encompasses various approaches and genres including making\, writing\, and organizing projects. Nair has lived in Bangkok since 1995. See www.varshanair.studio  \nRebecca Warren works for The British Council in Bangkok\, Thailand. She also volunteers as a teacher with refugees and is conducting doctoral research into the educational experiences of young refugees in Bangkok. \nThe participating refugees for now prefer to remain anonymous\, but names/pseudonyms may be provided at a later date if conditions allow it. \n \nFor information/reservation for our events please email southeastasiajunction@gmail.com or phone/wa: +66970024140 \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/shift-maps-exhibition/
LOCATION:SEA Junction\, Room 408\, BACC\, 939 Rama 1 Rd\, Pathum Wan\, Khet Pathum Wan\, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10330 Bangkok\, Thailand\, Bangkok\, Thailand
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SUMMARY:“All of My Body Was Pain”: Report Discussion by Phil Robertson
DESCRIPTION:On 24 November 2017 at 6-7.30 PM at SEA Junction\, Phil Robertson\, the Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW)’s Asia Division\, will discuss the recently launched report “All of My Body Was Pain: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Burma.” \nThe context of the report is the latest attacks against Rohingyas in Rakhine State\, which were launched on 25 August 2017 in retaliation for the raids on 30 police posts and an army base allegedly by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). The large-scale destruction of Rohingya villages under the guise of military counter-insurgency operations has driven the population across the border into Cox’s Bazar\, Bangladesh. Persecution is of such intensity and scale that is has become one of the most serious humanitarian crises in the world today and the most serious in Southeast Asia. An estimated 615\,500 Rohingya have joined other refugees from previous waves bringing the total to an estimated 917\,500 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh who are traumatized and live in extremely difficult conditions with glim hope of a better future (adapted from ISCG Situation Report 12 Nov 2017) \nAlthough sex and age segregated numbers are still lacking\, it has been repeatedly observed that the majority of the refugees are women and children. From their stories and from medical examination in the camps\, it is becoming clear that rape has once more been used as a tool of war. Women groups in Myanmar have repeatedly reported state violence experienced by minority groups\, ranging from molestation to gang rape. Now\, UN medics in refugee camps have found that this is also the case for Rohingya with “dozens of women with injuries consistent with violent sexual attacks”. \nTo expose these crimes against women and humanity\, HRW interviewed 52 Rohingya women and girls who had fled to Bangladesh\, including 29 rape survivors\, 3 of them girls under 18\, as well as 19 representatives of humanitarian organizations\, United Nations agencies\, and the Bangladeshi government. The rape survivors came from 19 villages in Rakhine State and were raped both during major attacks on villages and in the weeks prior to these attacks after repeated harassment. All\, but one\, were gang raped. \nSource: Cover photo of the HRW report \nAt the SEA Junction event\, Phil Robertson will explain the current situation and the report’s findings\, and discuss next steps for stopping the violence\, helping the survivors and their families\, and holding the perpetrators accountable. He will also show a video produced by Human Rights Watch on this same issue. \nHis presentation will once more underscore that “violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread\, persistent and devastating human rights violations” and the need to subscribe to the call “Leave no one behind: end violence against women and girls” of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign from 25th November to 10th December\, which is Human Rights Day. \nThe activity further complements the month-long exhibition “Shift Maps” which can be seen at our venue until 4 December as part of the series on movements of people in Southeast Asia entitled ASEAN People in Flux\, which is organized by SEA Junction in collaboration with the Heinrich Boll Stiftung Southeast Asia. The exhibition highlights the personal live histories of refugees and migrants living in Bangkok\, including Burmese\, as written and illustrated by them on palm leaf manuscripts made from the Talipot Palm\, also known as the ‘Shadow Palm’ (Corypha umbraculifera; Thai: Bai Larn). \n  \nSpeaker Profile \nPhil Robertson\, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division\, oversees the organization’s work throughout Asia\, especially in Southeast Asia\, North Korea and Japan. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 2009\, he worked for more than a decade in Southeast Asia on human rights\, labor rights\, protection of migrant workers\, and counter-human trafficking efforts with a variety of non-governmental organizations\, international and regional trade union federations\, and UN agencies. As program manager of the UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP)\, he oversaw the successful negotiation of the first regional inter-governmental agreement on human trafficking in the greater Mekong sub-region. Prior to UNIAP\, he led the Mainland Southeast Asia office of the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center\, working on trade union rights\, democratic political reform\, and rights of migrant workers\, focusing primarily on Burma\, Cambodia\, Laos\, Malaysia\, and Thailand. A 1997 graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies\, he is fluent in Thai and Lao.  \n  \nFor information/reservation for our events please: \nemail southeastasiajunction@gmail.com  \nphone/wa: +66970024140 \nAbout SEA Junction\, OUR Venue on Southeast Asia  \nSEA Junction aims to foster understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia in all its socio-cultural dimensions –from arts and lifestyles to economy and development. Conveniently located at Room 408 of the Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre or BACC (across MBK\, BTS National Stadium) SEA junction facilitates public access to knowledge resources and exchanges among students\, practitioners and Southeast Asia lovers. For more information see www.seajunction.org and join the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1693055870976440/ \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/body-pain-report-discussion-phil-robertsons/
LOCATION:SEA Junction\, Room 408\, BACC\, 939 Rama 1 Rd\, Pathum Wan\, Khet Pathum Wan\, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10330 Bangkok\, Thailand\, Bangkok\, Thailand
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