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PAST TALKS

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

Lectures

LECTURES

“ALL THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS: Rethinking Burma in the 21st Century”,  St lee lecture, Australian National University, June 2019

“MYANMAR, AN UNFINISHED NATION:  A Story of Race, Capitalism and Democracy In the 21st Century”, Keynote Address, Association For Asian Studies Annual Conference, Denver, March 2019 

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

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

“Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia”, Paulson Institute, 27 February 2014, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

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

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

“Getting Rangoon Right”, Asian Society Lecture, 1 May 2013

“WHITE ELEPHANTS AND BLACK SWANS: Thoughts On Myanmar's Recent History and Possible Futures”, Keynote Speech To Australian National University's Burma Update Conference, 16 May 2011

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