South-East Asia is one of the fastest developing areas in the Asian continent, from a socio-political, economic and cultural point of view. Therefore, the Asia Institute promotes and supports collaborative and research projects with several countries in the region.
Presentation of "Resistance through Higher Education. Myanmar Universities’ Struggle against Authoritarianism", Bristol University Press, 2025, by Licia Proserpio
Speakers: Licia Proserpio (UNIBO, author of the book), Antonio Fiori (UNIBO and Scientific Committee of Amilcar Cabral Library), Zo Bilay (Burmese researcher and activist), Francesco Buscemi (UNIBO)
In February 2021, Myanmar experienced its third coup. In response, the country’s civil society displayed extraordinary strength, resolutely opposing this new wave of authoritarianism. Where did this strength come from? At the forefront of the "Spring Revolution" are students, professors, activists, and educators who, over the past four years, have fought against the regime at great personal cost.Starting from an analysis of the coup in Myanmar, the book offers two main discussion points. The first explores Myanmar’s social and political struggles through the lens of its universities' history and student movements. The second focuses on universities as places of resistance—vital spaces for fostering a more just society. This is an especially urgent and relevant issue, particularly in light of recent global events.
CHINLONE - Connecting Higher education Institutions for a New leadership On National Education - is a three-year (2017-2020) international project in the field of Higher Education funded by the European Union in the frame of the Erasmus+ Capacity Building Key Action 2. Its key aim is to contribute to the modernization and internationalization of Myanmar's Higher Education System (HES), in order to facilitate the country's transition towards the "knowledge economy".
ENGAGE is a multi-year capacity-building project, co-financed by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union. ENGAGE aims to promote and support students’ engagement within the Higher Education System (HES) in three Partner Countries located in South-East Asia: Cambodia (KH), Laos PDR (LA), and Myanmar (MM). Specifically, the ENGAGE project intends to address the problem of student engagement from three different perspectives, using three distinct platforms which constitute the main levels of action for the students: classroom, campus and community.
Those who are conducting or who are willing to start a research project on South- East Asia, and would like to work together with the Asia Institute or to give visibility to their projects on this webpage, are kindly invited to send an email to the Contact person for South-East Asia with a short description of their research project.
