The K4DM 2025 Knowledge Marketplace will this year be held in conjunction with other events happening in Chiang Mai and Bangkok between July 2nd and July 19th.
An OVERVIEW listing of the different events is given below
Future Democratic Myanmar and Human Rights is a United Nations Human Rights Office report launch and panel discussion on human rights in Myanmar.
အနာဂတ် ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်မြန်မာနိုင်ငံနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး
Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand
Monday, July 7th 2025. 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Video of event available on FCCT YouTube channel
The International Public Policy Association‘s (IPPA) event, the 7th International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP7) is being held in Chiang Mai from July 2nd to July 4th.
A Myanmar session on July 4th (schedule)
Navigating post-conflict Myanmar: Institutions and Policies
Room B5 Friday July 4th 10.15am T03P04.
Photo exhibition: Ek Khaale – Once Upon A Time by Greg Constantine @ Alliance Française, Chiang Mai from July 9th to 19th with K4DM2 supported opening event on July 9th.
Book Launch “Exploring Gender” by Mote Oo. Included in this session is a workshop on Teaching Gender and Language using Content-based Instruction based on the new book.
July 11th|@ IBIS Styles, Chiang Mai. 5:30-7pm
The Decolonizing Southeast Asian Studies Workshop will be held 17-19 July, 2025. The workshop will be hosted and organized by RCSD at Chiang Mai University, in collaboration with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
OVERVIEW
For further information about the agenda and the event please contact: myanmar@idrc.ca
JULY 2nd – 4th CHIANG MAI
- 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PUBLIC POLICY (ICPP7)
- July 4th @10.15am Navigating post-conflict Myanmar: Institutions and Policies
Room B5 Friday July 4th 10.15am T03P04. Chair: Kai Ostwald (University of British Columbia) - Session details
- July 4th @10.15am Navigating post-conflict Myanmar: Institutions and Policies
July 5th – 8th CHIANG MAI
- Training sessions organized by Ottawa Dialogue (University of Ottawa) – Peace Negotiations
JULY 7th – 9th BANGKOK
- July 7th | @Asia Hotel, Bangkok.
- 9-4:00pm Freedom of Expression and Civil Liberties in Myanmar: Academic Freedom and Human Rights Education in Crisis. The Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University, in collaboration with the Center for Law and Democracy and the Pyin-Nya-Man-Daing Programme (PNMD) host a special panel discussion and digital platform showcase .
- July 7th | @ Foreign Correspondent Club, Bangkok. [Public Event]
- Evening 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Future Democratic Myanmar and Human Rights United Nations Human Rights Office report launch and panel discussion on human rights in Myanmar.
- To watch online, please register and we will send you the link before the event begins on 7th July 2025 at 5.30pm.
- အနာဂတ် ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်မြန်မာနိုင်ငံနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး
- July 8th – 9th| Internal meetings, including attendance to selected sessions at SEAREG Conference Agenda | Duke Center for International Development
JULY 9th – 14th CHIANG MAI
- July 9th | @ Alliance Française, Chiang Mai [Public Event]
- 6:00 pm Opening of PHOTO EXHIBITION: EK KHAALE . This will run from 9th to 19th July.
- 6:00 pm Opening of PHOTO EXHIBITION: EK KHAALE . This will run from 9th to 19th July.
- July 10th|@ IBIS Styles
- 9-4:30pm SecDev Foundation & K4DM, Myanmar Digital Research Series, closed-door discussion for researchers with advisors and DigiSec Lab team. See agenda. If you have any queries, please contact Khant Khant Zar Nyi <khant@ait.asia>
- July 10th|@ IBIS Styles [Public Event]
- 5-5:25pm Ideas in Motion: Myanmar Networking. Join us for a dynamic networking round designed to bring together a unique mix of researchers, activists, and experts working on Myanmar from different angles. Moderators: Chantal Braunwalder & Edgard Rodriguez
- July 10th|@ IBIS Styles [Public Event]
- 5.30pm-7:00pm Women Peace and Security (WPS) in Practice: An Exercise in Inclusive Peacebuilding
Women Peace and Security Agenda (UNSCR 1325 and subsequent resolutions) - This interactive exercise, led by the Ottawa Dialogue, invites participants to step into the role of women peacebuilders as we navigate a scenario relating to women’s inclusion in peace processes.
- 5.30pm-7:00pm Women Peace and Security (WPS) in Practice: An Exercise in Inclusive Peacebuilding
- July 11th -13th| 9-4:30pm
- Myanmar Emerging Leaders 2025 Policy and Leadership Program a three-day intensive training program held by the University of British Columbia’s Myanmar Initiative and Chiang Mai University’s School of Public Policy.
- Day 1 – July 11th | @IBIS Styles Hotel
- Days 2 and 3 – July 12th–13th @ Ang Kaew Villa, Chiang Mai University
- Myanmar Emerging Leaders 2025 Policy and Leadership Program a three-day intensive training program held by the University of British Columbia’s Myanmar Initiative and Chiang Mai University’s School of Public Policy.
- July 11th | @ Khum Phucome Hotel
- 9-4:30pm , “Towards Stronger Alliances: Gender and WPS Follow-up Dialogue” by GenderLab. Contact: Zar Chi <zarchi@ait.asia>
- July 11th|@ IBIS Styles [Public Event]
- 5-5:25pm Ideas in Motion: Myanmar Networking. Join us for a dynamic networking round designed to bring together a unique mix of researchers, activists, and experts working on Myanmar from different angles. Moderators: Chantal Braunwalder & Edgard Rodriguez
- July 11th|@ IBIS Styles [Public Event]
- 5:30-7pm – Book Launch “Exploring Gender” by Mote Oo. Included in this session is a workshop on Teaching Gender and Language using Content-based Instruction based on the new book.
- 5:30-7pm – Book Launch “Exploring Gender” by Mote Oo. Included in this session is a workshop on Teaching Gender and Language using Content-based Instruction based on the new book.
- July 12th | @ IBIS Styles
- K4DM2/IDRC + all partners meeting, (only morning)
- July 12th | @ Alliance Française Theatre
- 3-5pm Visual Presentation by Greg Constantine – Alliance Française
- 3-5pm Visual Presentation by Greg Constantine – Alliance Française
- July 14th | @ RCSD, Chiang Mai University
- 10-12 noon. Public Seminar: “Ek Khaale” Once Upon a Time – The Rohingya, a Visual Restoration; Memory, Identity and Shared Histories. Greg Constantine gives special lecture at Chiang Mai University (RCSD)
JULY 17th – 19th CHIANG MAI @ UNISERV, Chiang Mai University
CONTACT
For further information about these events please contact: myanmar@idrc.ca
ALL PARTNERS’ MEETING
By invitation only
Date/time: 12 July 2025
Venue: Ibis Styles Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Scope/agenda:
PUBLIC SESSIONS
Future Democratic Myanmar and Human Rights
အနာဂတ် ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်မြန်မာနိုင်ငံနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး
United Nations Human Rights Office report launch and panel discussion on human rights in Myanmar.
July 7th | @ Foreign Correspondent Club, Bangkok.
To watch online, please register and we will send you the link before the event begins on 7th July 2025 at 5.30pm.
Registration closed for in person attendance.
- July 9th | @ Alliance Française, Chiang Mai
- 6:00 pm Opening of PHOTO EXHIBITION: EK KHAALE . This will run from 9th to 19th July.
- 6:00 pm Opening of PHOTO EXHIBITION: EK KHAALE . This will run from 9th to 19th July.
- July 10th|@ IBIS Styles, Chiang Mai
- 5-5:25pm Ideas in Motion: Myanmar Networking
- 5.30pm-7:00pm Women Peace and Security (WPS) in Practice: An Exercise in Inclusive Peacebuilding
Women Peace and Security Agenda (UNSCR 1325 and subsequent resolutions)
- July 11th|@ IBIS Styles, Chiang Mai
- 5-5:25pm Ideas in Motion: Myanmar Networking
- 5:30-7pm – Book Launch “Exploring Gender” by Mote Oo. Included in this session is a workshop on Teaching Gender and Language using Content-based Instruction based on the new book.
PHOTO EXHIBITION
Ek Khaale
တရံရောအခါက
Once Upon A Time
Jul 9th – July 19th at Alliance Française, Chiang Mai
Event website
(c) Greg Constantine/Ek Khaale
The project Ek Khaale was launched by photographer Greg Constantine in 2021 in collaboration with Rohingya in refugee camps in Bangladesh, as well as those still living inside Burma, and among the diaspora in the US, UK, Canada, Malaysia and Europe. Ek Khaale is the Rohingya expression for Once Upon A Time. It is a collaborative, co-participatory storytelling and visual restoration project. Working with Rohingya youth and Rohingya elders, the project seeks out historical visual materials that Rohingya have miraculously preserved, secretly held on to all these years (often at great personal risk) or have salvaged and carried with them under the most unimaginable circumstances.
Old photographs, family collections, documents, letters and illustrations contributed by Rohingya are combined with historical materials from a variety of public and private archives. These memories of family and evidence of historical existence as a community have been displaced and separated into pieces all over the world, just like the Rohingya community. This project brings these materials and stories from the past back together again and activates them in the present. By exposing this unseen past, this project aims to share a visual portrait of the Rohingya most people have never seen before. It also challenges narratives and reconstructs what Burmese regimes and other communities have spent decades trying to destroy. www.ekkhaale.org
Please join us for an exhibition of Ek Khaale – Once Upon A Time in the gallery at Alliance Française in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The exhibition will run from July 9-19th
This exhibition is an important opportunity for this project to reach those in Thailand as well as the large diaspora community from Burma in northern Thailand. The project Ek Khaale and this exhibition about Rohingya heritage, belonging and community hope to challenge narratives and facilitate in creating a space of shared memory, identity, history and solidarity among other communities from Burma and beyond, especially at this important time.
July 9th (Wednesday) 6:00 pm: Opening Reception of Ek Khaale – Alliance Française
July 12th (Saturday) 3:00 – 5:00pm: Visual Presentation by Greg Constantine – Alliance Française
July 14th (Monday) 10:00am: Guest Lecture @ Chiang Mai University hosted by Regional Centre for Social Science & Sustainable Development
Ek Khaale is an independent project and will be part of the Knowledge for Democracy Myanmar (K4DM) initiative Knowledge Marketplace event.
Ek Khaale has been supported by grants and funding from the National Endowment for Democracy, Queen Mary University of London, the Independent Social Research Foundation and CENTER Santa Fe. www.ekkhaale.org
ORGANIZERS
This event is organized by The Knowledge for Democracy Myanmar (K4DM) initiative of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in partnership with Global Affairs Canada (GAC).
For further information about these events please contact: myanmar@idrc.ca
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