[Peace-discuss] Transnational Seminar with Sulak Sivaraksa Fri 22 Oct, 10.30 am

[Lisa Chason]

please distribute
 
 Transnational Seminars

 

Sociology - Geography - Urban and regional Planning - Global Studies

Friday 22 October 2004

 

  

 


Sulak Sivaraksa

 


Transnational movements: A Siamese Buddhist perspective

 


Friday 22 October, 10:30-12 am

 


Lincoln Hall, Room 336

 

 Note that this talk takes place in the morning from 10:30-12 

 

 

 BIO

Sulak Sivaraksa, born 1933, is a prominent Thai intellectual and social
critic. He is a teacher, a scholar, a publisher, an activist, the
founder of many organizations, and the author of more than a hundred
books and monographs in both Thai and English (with titles such as
Loyalty Demands Dissent and Alternative Politics for Asia). In 1984 he
was arrested in Bangkok on charges of criticizing the King, but
international protest led to his eventual release. In 1991 another
warrant was issued for his arrest and he went into political exile but
won the court case in 1995. In 1995 he was granted the Right Livelihood
Award, also known as Alternative Nobel Prize. He is co-founder of the
Asian Cultural Forum on Development and the International Network of
Engaged Buddhists. In Thailand he has been active in many social and
environmental movements such as the Assembly of the Poor. He is known
for his criticisms of consumerism and of the social engineering approach
in activism. For a complete bio (and downloads of speeches) see
<http://www.sulak-sivaraksa.org/about5.php>
http://www.sulak-sivaraksa.org/about5.php

This visit is also supported by the College of Law.

 

Jan Nederveen Pieterse 
Sociology, University of Illinois 
Email jnp at uiuc.edu 

 

 

 

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