'Burma to Myanmar'
Dr. Alexandra Green (Henry Ginsburg Curator for Southeast Asia, Department of Asia, The British Museum)
Thursday 25th January, 2024
- This is a hybrid event, held at the Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site and on Zoom
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From influential superpower to repressive regime, Myanmar - also known as Burma - has seen dramatic fluctuations in fortune over the past 1,500 years. Experiencing decades of civil war and now ruled again by a military dictatorship, Myanmar is an isolated figure on the world stage today, and its story is relatively little known in the West. Picking up the thread around AD450, this talk explores how Myanmar's various peoples interacted with each other and the world around them, leading to new ideas and art forms. The extraordinary artistic output of its peoples, over more than a millennium and a half of cultural and political change, attests to its pivotal role at the crossroads of Asia.
Dr. Alexandra Green is the Henry Ginsburg Curator for Southeast Asia at the British Museum. She was the lead curator on the Burma to Myanmar exhibition at the British Museum and the editor of the accompanying volume published by the British Museum Press. Her other publications include Buddhist Visual Cultures, Rhetoric and Narrative in Late Burmese Wall Paintings (2018), Raffles in Southeast Asia: Revisiting the Scholar and Statesman (major contributor, 2019), Burmese Silver from the Colonial Period (2022), and Southeast Asia: A History in Objects (2023).