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Plenary Session: Panel of Experts (1)

July 19, 2022
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Please join us for the plenary session (1) on July 23 at 9:30 am with our distinguished panel of experts: Dato' Sri Saifuddin Bin Abdullah, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia (online) Ambassador Gautam Mukhopadhaya, Senior Visiting Fellow, CRS; Former Indian Ambassador to Syria, Afghanistan and Myanmar (in-person) Ambassador Robert H.K. Chua, Dean, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic Academyformer Singapore Ambassador to Myanmar (2006 – 2017) (in-person)

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Pre-publication launch: Turning Land in Capital

July 15, 2022
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Join the pre-publication launch of "Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region" to be released by University of Washington Press in August 2022 for a book talk/roundtable with editors Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah and Michael B. Dwyer along with Tyrell Haberkorn and Anan Ganjanapan on 22 July in Room 1.

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Participant Registration: No Fees!

July 15, 2022
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Please confirm your attendance at ICIRD7 here either on-site or online. There are no fees for participants, but on-site space is limited so please register before 18 July for in-person attendees, or 20 July for online participants. Looking forward to seeing all of you very soon in Chiang Mai!

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Panel: Land Contestation in the Mekong

July 8, 2022
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This panel gathers a collection of new research exploring attempts to govern or acquire land and the actions of different authorities (state, private, community), often pitted against one another by their claims. The research presented was conducted by master’s students from the Development Studies program at Chiang Mai University, with a focus on land relations and who are supported by Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG). View the entire list of abstracts for the panel here (panel #5) and join in person or online for the full presentation during ICIRD7!

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Panel: Border and Migration between China & Southeast

July 3, 2022
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Convened by Long Xiaoyan and Wang Yueping from Yunnan University's School of Ethnology and Sociology, this panel focuses on connectivity between China and Southeast Asia, both through long-running geographic, ethnic, and migratory ties and also examines connectivity through modern means and phenomenon like tourism, transnational investment and trade, and the impact of covid-19. Please follow this link to view all abstracts for this panel (panel #1).

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ICIRD7 Panel: Peasant Agroecology as a Social Movement

June 28, 2022
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Panel 13 of ICIRD7 will be convened by Peter Rosset of El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) to give an overview of different peasant movements and processes in Africa, Latin America and Asia as they struggle against trade liberalization, the non-enforcement of antimonopoly legislation, dangerous pesticides and industrial livestock operations. At the same time, the panel looks at how peasant movements are building new food systems based on food sovereignty, land occupations, defense of land and territory, and peasant-based agroecology. Read the collected abstracts for the panel here and watch for the full ICIRD7 schedule to be posted soon...

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Accepted Abstracts now available

June 22, 2022
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The full list of abstracts accepted for individual presentation at ICIRD7 is now available online here! Feel free to browse through the many presentations and papers in store for ICIRD7 in July and a full schedule of presentations grouped into panels will be coming soon!

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Keynote Speaker Announced!

June 19, 2022
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The keynote speaker for ICIRD7 will be Professor Jonathan Rigg, Chair in Human Geography, School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. His keynote presentation will be "Out of the Blue: Paradigmatic Blinds Spots and Explanatory Catch up in Southeast Asia." Long focused on development in the context of Southeast Asia, Professor Rigg's work has centered on understanding the effects of agrarian transformations on rural livelihoods throughout Asia, especially on poorer sections of rural society. His research began in Thailand in the early 1980s and has expanded geographically to include fieldwork in Laos, Vietnam, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Professor...

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