Fifty Years of Opium and Conflict in the Shan State of Burma: A Visual Retrospective: Participants and Program

 

Guest speakers:   Alfred McCoy, Prof. Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison Bertil Lintner, Journalist and author writing on Burma Patricia Zimmermann, Prof., Media Arts, Sciences and Studies, Ithaca College

 

 

Panelists:

 

Jane Ferguson, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney

John Buchanan,  PhC., Dept of Political Science, UW Seattle

James Bradford, Lecturer, Babson College

Ba Win, Independent researcher

 

 

 

Conference Schedule

 

Friday, May 29^th, 2015

Odegaard Library, Rm 220, 9 am – 5 pm

Screening of Films by Adrian Cowell 

 

Morning Session

Introductions : 9.00 to 9.30

Welcome to UW Libraries: Judith Henchy, Southeast Asian Studies Librarian, Paul Constantine, Associate Dean of University Libraries, Special Collections

"The Adrian Cowell Film Archive:"  Hannah Palin, Libraries, Special Collections, Film Archivist

Introduction to Films: Bertil Lintner

Screenings of Films Morning Session 9.30 - 12.00 Raid into Tibet (1966), ATV, 16mm black and white, 25 min  The Unknown War (1966), ATV, 16mm black and white, 25 min  The Masked Dance (1976), ATV, 16mm colour, 52 min Lunch: 12 – 1 30 pm    Afternoon Session: 1. 30 – 5.00 pm Commentary on Films by Bertil Lintner/Patricia Zimmermann/Al McCoy Opium - Series    The White Powder Opera (1978), ATV, 16mm colour, 52 min    The Warlords (1978), ATV, 16mm colour, 52 min    The Politicians (1978), ATV, 16mm colour, 52 min   Reception:  5.30 - 8.00 Communications 220

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Huskey Union Building, Room 334, 9am - 5.00 pm

Panels and Discussion

 

Morning Sessions:

Panel 1, 9.00 - 10.30:  Creating the Shan State through media production

Andrew Weaver and Libby Hopfauf:  "Odds and Sods: The Hidden Music of the Adrian Cowell Films and Research Collection”

Jane Ferguson : "Mediating Insurgency: Sixty Years of Shan Media Production."

Discussants:  Patricia Zimmermann,  Al McCoy

 

Panel 2, 11.00 - 12.30 :  Opium and Conflict in Burma and Afghanistan

John Buchanan: “Conflict, Opium and Local Authority: The Rise of Opium and Resistance in the Shan State.”

Ba Win:  "An Overview of Politics and Opium in Burma."

James Bradford: "Poppies and Power in Afghanistan: The Evolution of Drug Control, from Taxation to Prohibition"

Respondants:  Ferguson/ Zimmerman

 

Keynotes Panel: 2.00 – 4.30: “Civil War and its Chaos in the Shan State”

Alfred McCoy:  Global Opium Trail: Tracking the Distinctive Dynamics of an Illicit Commodity

Bertil Lintner

Response from Patricia Zimmermann

Discussion