top of page

Upcoming Talks and Lectures

29 September 2026, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Chicago

​"Can the World Still Make Peace?"

2 November 2026, London 

"Peacebuilding in a Divided World:  Christian Aid Annual Lecture"​

1 October 2026, Yale University, New Haven

"2026 Coca Cola World Lecture"

​

Selected Talks and Lectures

27 August 2026, Daunt Books, Marylebone, London

Peacemaker

17 May 2026, The Bruno Kreisky Forum, Vienna

How Peace Was Made in the 1960s

9 May 2026, Danish Institute for Human Rights

Peacemaker

26 April 2026, The Ford Foundation, New York

Peacemaker

24 March 2026, University of Oxford Blavatnik School

Peacemaker

19 March 2026, The Conduit Club

When Peace Seemed Possible

16 March 2026, The London Review of Books

The Slow Death of Democracy 

27 November 2025, The Old Combination Room (OCR)

Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations, and the Untold Story of the 1960s

27 November 2025, The Old Combination Room (OCR)

Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations, and the Untold Story of the 1960s

4 November 2025, New York University, New York 

Peacemaker: Thant Myint-U on the UN’s Past and Future

14 October 2025, United Nations, Geneva

Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World

4 October 2025, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies

The United Nations: a new history for a possible new future

1 October 2025, The Institute of International & European Affairs

Peacemaking and the Future of the United Nations

June 2025 
The UN Charter 80th Anniversary – Back to the Future: A New United Nations for a World on the Verge

 June 2019, St lee lecture, Australian National University
All The World's Problems: Rethinking Burma in the 21st Century

March 2019, Keynote Address, Association For Asian Studies Annual Conference, Denver
Myanmar, An Unfinished Nation:  A Story of Race, Capitalism and Democracy In the 21st Century

1 October 2014, UN University
Accelerated Nation Myanmar In an Age of Reform

27 February 2014, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Burma’s Historic Moment

27 February 2014, Paulson Institute, University Of Chicago
Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia

19 September 2015, Fukuoka Grand Prize Lecture, Fukuoka, Japan
Myanmar Past, Present, and Future

24 February 2014, Paul Mellon Lecture
Saving Yangon's History City Center

1 May 2013, Asian Society Lecture
Getting Rangoon Right

16 May 2011, Keynote Speech To Australian National University's Burma Update Conference
White Elephants And Black Swans: Thoughts On Myanmar's Recent History and Possible Futures

30 September 2009
Testimony On Burma, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee

©2019 by Thant Myint-U. 

bottom of page