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History of the Informal Northern Thai Group
The Informal Northern Thai Group came into being on the evening of Saturday, December 15th 1984, when eleven Chiang Mai residents met, discussed its formation, and heard the first lecture.
Founding a group had been talked about for some years, but an earlier planning meeting had come to nothing as participants differed radically on how it would function. In the Seventies, the INTG's predecessor, the Northern Thai Society, [see p.3], had a brief and eventful life but although interest was keen and attendance high, problems of organization and registration led to its demise. It was decided at the December 1984 meeting that the extraordinarily varied research being done in and around Northern Thailand made it worth trying again to arrange regular talks. The participants also agreed that the group's best chance of longevity lay in making its organization flexible and informal.
In the minutes issued after the first meeting, it was noted that there was a wish to found "a small informal group, mainly of professionals; anthropologists, sociologists, naturalists, etc., with interests in Northern Thai culture, with the aim of meeting to exchange information and ideas, attend and discuss talks, pool or make available materials [mainly written] concerned with matters of mutual interest centering on Northern Thailand but extending to Thailand as a whole and Southeast Asia."
As time passed, 'membership’ of the group became open to anyone attending its meetings. No fee was charged; expenses in the early years were covered by a small sum [Baht 20] contributed by those attending the talks. The Group has been run by a committee of volunteers, with the post of Convenor held by whoever can be persuaded to take it. The Treasurer and Archivist, on the other hand, have continued in office throughout the Group's twenty-one years. 
Meetings are usually held on the second Tuesday of each month, exceptionally at the American Alumni Association and Payap University plus other venues, but otherwise at the location the Group has come to regard as its home, the Alliance Française on Charoen Prathet Road. Thanks to the donation of funds originally contributed to the Northern Thai Society, the Group has been able to buy a few electronic media aids. It has also collected a complete set of Siam Society Journals, almost certainly the only one in Chiang Mai, and this is now being held at the Payap University Archives on Keonavarat Road.
The Founding Fathers and Mother of the INTG were: Hans Bänziger, John Cadet, Louis Gabaude, Garnet Hoyes, Harald Hundius, Ingrid Hundius, Richard Lando, Hans Penth, Howard Radley, Ron Renard, and John Shaw. The current committee members include: Hans and Saengdao Bänziger [Treasurer and Accountant], Brian Hubbard [Convenor], John Cadet, Louis Gabaude [Secretary, Database Manager and Archivist], Ken Kampe, Reinhard Hohler, and Ron Renard. The Group intends to continue to offer talks that will contribute to a better understanding of the region's cultural heritage and continuing development, and warmly invites researchers and others wishing to speak to contact the Convenor, Brian Hubbard: brihubb@loxinfo.co.th, or any other committee member.
A Note on the Northern Thai Society: 1972-74*
The original idea for the foundation of the Northern Thai Society [NTS] came from Roy Hudson in 1972, by then a resident of Chiang Mai for twelve years. He realized that he had met many other resi­dents socially, but hardly knew anything of the work any of them were engaged in. Major Hudson thought it might be possible to form a society and invite members, other residents, and interesting visitors to give talks about their work or subjects concerning Northern Thailand. An informal meeting was held at his home on July 7th 1972, and a committee was nominated to go ahead with the drafting of rules for an association similar to that of the Siam Society. The committee consisted of: Col. Phoon Asanachinda [Chair], Major Akhom Pattiya [Vice Chair], Major Roy Hudson [Secretary], Dr. Tom Scovel [Trea­surer], Dr. Hans Penth and Dr. Malcolm Shouls [Journal Editors], and Dr. Thaemsook Numnonda.
One indication of the interest the group generated was its membership, 163 persons comprising some twelve nationalities, all willing to pay Baht 200 annually for the privilege, at a time when the Society could provide accommodation for one of its visiting speakers in the city's best hotel, the Rincome, for Baht 198 a night.
Detailed records of the Society's activities have been mis­laid, but the Secretary remembers that an estimated 20 lectures were given, with topics such as:
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Three states stolen from Siam by Great Britain [Kachorn Sukhabanij]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Foreign words adopted into the Thai language [Tom Scovel]
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Buddhism [Venerable Phra Nyanyavachiro]
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The Northern Thai Society became inactive in 1975 due to the lengthy procedures and difficulties in registration, as well as the departure of some of the committee, and personal time constraints. The final talk was given by Hans Bänziger. The NTS funds deposited in a bank account continued to accrue compound interest over a period of many years. With the knowledge and consent of some of the original members still resident in Chiang Mai, it was agreed that the balance of
Baht 84,918.62 should be donated to the Informal Northern Thai Group, a body with similar aims, through the office of the Honorary British Consul in Chiang Mai, John Shaw.
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* This brief account of the Society's foundation and activities derives from notes kindly supplied by its initiator and secretary, Major Roy Hudson.
27 years of Talks at the Informal Northern Thai Group
Few parts of the world provide as rich a field for research as Southeast Asia, which makes selecting a handful of talks to give the flavor of the evenings the Group has enjoyed in the past twenty-one years rather difficult.
Regular participants are likely to remember particular meet­ings for different reasons. At first glance, for example, the question of how Thai children learn their classifiers doesn't seem inviting, as the size of the audience - six or seven persons - indicated. Yet that demonstration of how the problem of data gathering was approached and dealt with provided an evening of exceptional interest. On the other hand, journalist Bertil Lintner's description of his unique journey across war-torn Upper Burma with wife and newborn baby was obviously going to be out of the ordinary. And that was the experience a standing-room only audience was treated to. Intriguing, too, to hear the latest on Bronze Age Ban Chiang in Udon ThaniProvince, with Joyce White - a student of the late and regretted Chet Gorman - treading delicately around the controversial subject of that scholar's datings.
Of course, from time to time we've been taken out of our immediate area - to hear a surprisingly relaxed survey of life under the then-living Great Leader of North Korea; to see a film about the interior of Borneo, made by a woman who had not initially intended to go there, she just stepped off a tour boat and into a pirogue and there she was, so to speak, for the next couple of years; and rather more recently, out to Africa to take a look at the wildlife in Botswana.
Other talks which took us beyond the remit of our stated regional interests have included - ‘My Car-isma’, a study of car culture in modern Japan, ‘Transvestism, transexuality and sex-change operations’, delivered to a standing-room only audience by the occupant of the world's only Chair in Transexuality, ‘The Catholic Church and the Sexual Abuse Dilemma’, and ‘Intervention Radiology as a Substitute for Surgery’. At least no one can complain about the narrowness of the range of subjects offered.
Notwithstanding these occasional digressions, the scope of the research being done in the region has been well represented:
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Here is a chronological list of the topics and speakers for all INTG talks from December 1984.

Informal Northern Thai Group
Topics and speakers from 1984
No.
Date
Topic
Speaker
1
Dec. 84
Illegal Hilltop Burial Site Excavations in Tak
John Shaw
2
Jan. 85
Wat Khan Thom Inscriptions and the Development of Thai Letters
Hans Penth
3
Feb. 85
Buddhist Ordination Rituals
Francois Bizot
4
Mar. 85
Buddhist Monastic Reforms in the Early Lanna Period
Gina Clifford
5
Apr. 85
Social Implications of Trade in the Chiang Mai Valley in the 19th Century
Katherine Bowie
6
May 85
Non-canonical Jatakas from Lanna c. 15th -17th AD
Harald Hundius
7
June 85
Lao Textiles
Patricia Cheesman
8
July 85
Peoples of Xishuang Banna
Ron Renard
9
Aug. 85
Shan Tattooing: and the nature of their belief system
Nikki Tannenbaum
10
Sept. 85
How Thai Children Learn Classifiers: and the problems they encounter
Kathie Carpenter
11
Oct. 85
North Korea: a slide presentation
M.R. Rujaya Abhakorn
12
Nov. 85
Observations of a Naturalist in SW China and Northern Laos
Hans Bänziger
13
Dec. 85
Traditional Northern Thai Irrigation Systems
Kathy Chindasri
14
Jan. 86
[now defunct] Northern Thai Society and Early Western Contacts with Chiang Mai from the 16th Century
Roy Hudson
15
Feb. 86
Tin People and the ‘Salot’ Ceremony
David Filbeck
16
Mar. 86
The Northern Thai Village of Ku Daeng [red tomb]
Konrad Kingshill
17
May 86
Patron-client ties in Northern Thailand
Clark Neher
18
June 86
Tibet
John Hobday
19
July 86
25 years of change in a Thai Lue Village
Michael Moerman
20
Aug. 86
Contradictions in the Minority Situation in Thailand: The mountain minorities case
Leo Alting von Geusau
21
Sept. 86
Wa Dialects in Burma
Paulette Hopple
22
Oct. 86
Applications of X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry in Northern Thailand
Alan George and Roxanna Brown
23
Nov. 86
Laotian Temples: Architecture, images and embellishments
Madeleine Giteau
24
Dec. 86
Northern Thai Temples: Looking for a plan
Julie Forbush
25
Jan. 87
Khuen Literature
Anatole Peltier
26
Feb. 87
Chao Rai Thai: Swiddeners in Nan Province: 30 year update
Laurence Judd
27
Mar. 87
Ban Chiang: Beyond painted pots and bronze bangles
Joyce White
28
Apr. 87
Funerary Rites in a Northern Thai Village: A comparison of Buddhist and Christian practices
Graham Fordham
29
June 87
Development, Bureaucracy, and Life in the Margins
Ken Kampe
30
July 87
Karen and Hmong: Recent studies of differential child survival
Peter Kunstadter
31
Aug. 87
Breast Milk: A report on the joint lactation project
Dorothy Jackson
32
Sept. 87
Methods of Religious Communication used by D. McGilvary and Buddhadasa Bhikku
Maen Pongudom
33
Oct. 87
Government Policy on Hill Tribe Relocation: Ways out of the maze
Chupinit Kesmanee
34
Nov. 87
Social Forestry in Chiang Mai: Establishing a dialogue between officials and hill tribes
Uraiwan Tankimyong
35
Dec. 87
What's so good about religion these days?  Focus on the Philippines: Questions about Thailand
Niels Mulder
36
Jan. 88
A Journey through Upper Burma
Bertil Lintner
37
Feb. 88
Changing Worlds of the Akha
Nina Kammerer
38
Mar. 88
Problems of Studying Northern Thai History
David Wyatt
39
Apr. 88
Buddhism and Development: How do people bring religious values and economic ambitions together?
Sue Darlington
40
May 88
Confessions of a Roving Baker
John Connell
41
June 88
Human Rights and National Development
Annop Pongwat
42
July 88
Secular Change and Cultural Continuity
Marjorie Muecke
43
Aug. 88
Interpretations of Buddhadasa and Thai Society
Louis Gabaude
44
Sept. 88
The Contemporary Situation in the Thai Highlands
W.R. Geddes, Wanat Bhruksasri, Peter Hinton
45
Oct. 88
Upland Tenure and Land Use in Northern Thailand Revisited
F.G. Keen
46
Nov. 88
Formation of Thai Anthropology
Anan Ganjanapan
47
Dec. 88
Who Invites Whom to Festivals and What Was Served? Field report from a Shan village
Nikki Tannenbaum
48
Dec. 88
Art for Development: A new role for traditional crafts
Steve Salmon
49
Jan. 89
Report on the Making of a Book: "Lao Textiles: Ancient Symbols – Living Art"
Patricia Cheesman
50
Jan. 89
A show of Amateur Films Shot in Laos and Cambodia in 1954-55
Michael Lantheaume
51
Feb. 89
Difficulties of Inscription No. 1
Hans Penth
52
Mar. 89
The Dhammanat Foundation: The Buddhist conservation and rural development philosophy and strategy
Geoffrey Walton
53
Mar. 89
Coded Messages to the Deceased on the Mouth Organ of the Hmong
Gretel Schwörer-Kohl
54
Apr. 89
Hmong Refugees
Robert Cooper
55
May 89
Surviving on the Salween: Burmese students along the border
Pippa Curwen and Marti Patel
56
June 89
AIDS: A silent threat to Thai youth
Vicharn Vithayasai
57
July 89
My Car-isma: Car culture in modern Japan
David Plath
58
July 89
Introduction of Central Thai language through Modern Schools in Northern Thailand 1898-1942
Vachara Sindhuprama
59
Aug. 89
Doi Chiang Dao: Natural history portrait
Hans Bänziger
60
Sept. 89
Wats in Lanna
Aroonrat Wichienkeo and Albert Lisec
61
Oct. 89
Bio-diversity and Conservation on Doi Suthep
J.F. Maxwell and Steve Elliott
62
Nov. 89
Vessantara Jataka: Ritual, text, analysis
John Cadet
63
Dec. 89
Recent Developments in the study of Thai Ceramics
John Shaw
64
Jan. 90
Olde Chiang Mai days
Dick Wood with Donald Gibson
65
Feb. 90
Introduction and Development of Western Psychology in Thailand
Sombat Tapanya
66
Mar. 90
The Buddhist Image Consecration Ceremony in Northern Thailand
Don Swearer and Sommai Premjit
67
Apr. 90
Another Asian Miracle Economy in the Making? Thailand as an NIC?
Jurgen Rueland
68
May 90
Problems in Opium Control in Northern Thailand
Lamar Robert
69
June 90
Chinese Views of Sipsongpanna
Ann Hill
70
July 90
Wiang Ta Murals
Vithi Phanichphant
71
Aug. 90
Phra Malai and Thai Buddhism: Art and literature
Bonnie Brereton
72
Sept. 90
Progress on an Ethnography of a Hmong Village
Kathie Culhane-Pera
73
Oct. 90
A Visit to Assam: Meeting Thai-speaking peoples in India
Raynou and Nongnutch
74
Nov. 90
The YMCA and Rural Development: Twenty years of experience
Michael Boeder
75
Nov. 90
Hysteria in the Hills: The Lisu case
Otome Hutheesing
76
Dec. 90
Spiders and Related Creatures in Thailand
Peter Schwendiger
77
Jan. 91
The Forests of Nepal: The problems of conservation and deforestation
Dietrich Schmitû-Vogt
78
Feb. 91
Tais of Northern Vietnam
B.J. Terwiel
79
Mar. 91
Hill Tribe Elites: Educational mobility and cultural consequences
Scott McNabb & Jeff Petry
80
Apr. 91
Some ethnic minorities in Assam
Jim Goodman
81
May 91
The Lao: As viewed by the Thai and as viewed by themselves
Charles Keyes
82
June 91
The Ho Chi Minh Trail and Other Parts of Laos
Ken Kampe
83
July 91
AIDS in Thailand and Barriers to the Development of AIDS Counseling in Northern Thailand
Kittiwut Taywaditep
84
Oct. 91
Homage to Coffee
Jacques Op de Laak
85
Nov. 91
Agricultural Changes in a Non-project Village
Peter Hansen
86
Dec. 91
Religious Syncretism of Southeast Asian Religion? Thai, Javanese and Filipino perspectives
Niels Mulder
87
Feb. 92
Beware! The synthesizer cometh – people, who needs people?
Bernard Sumner and Manoon Ploypradap
88
Feb. 92
Keng Tung in the Shan States of Burma – an island of Lanna
Vithi Phanichphant
89
Mar. 92
"Borneo: Inferno or paradise?" video presentation
Mady Villard
90
Apr. 92
Threads of Life: Hmong women's contribution to life cycle rituals
Susan Morgan and Kathie Culhane-Pera
91
Apr. 92
Dealing with Conflict among Children: A video ethnographic approach to cross-cultural comparison in pre-schoolers
Jacquetta Hill
92
May 92
From the Silk Road to Southeast Asian tracks: History of trade between China and Southeast Asia
Amphay Dore
93
June 92
Two Solitudes: Observations on trekking tourism in a Hmong village
Jean Michaud
94
June 92
He was always mean, but he’s much worse now: Transformation of Northern Thai village life
Graham Fordham
95
July 92
A Karen New Year Ceremony Inspired by Mon Theravada Buddhism
Bernard Moizo
96
Aug. 92
Tam Na Mai Pen [I don’t know how to grow rice]
Mark Richie
97
Sept. 92
Transvestism, Transexuality and Sex-change Operations
Louis Gooren
98
Oct. 92
Three Tons per Hectare and Dikes
Richard Lando
99
Nov. 92
Opening up to the Modern World
Niels Mulder
100
Dec. 92
Industrialization in Thailand
Jean Christophe Simon
101
Dec. 92
Upland Minorities in Cambodia
Peter Vail and Leif Jonsson
102
Jan. 93
The Characteristics and Logic of Lisu ‘Traditional’ Social Organization in Northern Thailand and the Impact of the Current Development Process
Yves Conrad
103
Feb. 93
The Mae Soi Valley Conservation and Rural Development Project
M.R. Smansnid Svasti
104
Mar. 93
Silk, Sex and Smiles
Christopher Moore
105
Apr. 93
A Cultural and Environmental History of a Thai-speaking Group in Northern Vietnam
Kathleen Gillogly
106
May 93
The Hani Peoples Conference in Kunming
Leo Alting von Geusau
107
June 93
Monks in Thailand involved in the Environmental Movement
Sue Darlington
108
July 93
The Differential Integration of the Karen into the Thai State during the Reigns of Rama V and VI
Ron Renard
109
Aug. 93
AIDS awareness among Hill Tribe Women
Otome Hutheesing, R Maneeprasert, Nina Kammerer, Pat Symonds
110
Sept. 93
International Schools in the 20th Century from Geneva to Chiang Mai
Harry Deelman
111
Oct. 93
Hill Tribes in the Philippines
Lamar Robert
112
Nov. 93
Botswana and its Wildlife
Linda & Allen Pfotenhauer
113
Dec. 93
Lantien Yao Ceremonial Paintings and Masks
Jess G. Pourret
114
Feb. 94
The Cambodian Border in Historical Perspective
Michael Vickery
115
Feb. 94
Perspectives on Yao/Mien History
Leif Jonsson
116
Mar. 94
Natural Dyeing in Thailand
Marjory Moeyers
117
Mar. 94
Identity and change as perceived among the Lahu people in Northern Thailand
Carina Strassen-Kossmann
118
Apr. 94
Developing Lisu
Kathleen Gillogly
119
May 94
AIDS in Thailand and Africa
Graham Fordham
120
May 94
Introduction to the Zhuang of Guangxi
Amphay Dore
121
June 94
"Threads of Life" video presentation
Susan Morgan
122
July 94
Lakkia Language
David Solnit
123
Aug. 94
Signs of the Buddha in the Northern Thai Chronicles
Don Swearer
124
Aug. 94
The Great Game in Southeast Asia: Thai-Vietnamese competition
Andrew Forbes
125
Sept. 94
Yi People of Yunnan
Jim Goodman
126
Oct. 94
A Vision of Chiang Mai
Sirichai Narumit
127
Nov. 94
Deceit in the Forest Canopy: The ravishing Lady Slipper orchid and the naive hoverfly
Hans Bänziger
128
Nov. 94
Luang Phrabang Temple Murals
Laurie Maund
129
Dec. 94
The World according to Thai Grade School Books
Niels Mulder
130
Feb. 95
Concert of traditional/classical Thai Music:
Talk - "Food in Thai literature."
Buffet dinner on the banks of the Ping River
Suphon Suetachat, Ron Renard, Em-on Chittasophon
131
Feb. 95
Foreigners in Thailand and their Legal Problems
Phipat Prasatsuwan
132
Mar. 95
The Forgotten Libraries of Laos
Harald Hundius
133
May 95
The (Siam Society) Journal and the Restructuring of the Siam Society
Pitya Bunnag
134
June 95
Akha and Trekking
Mika Toyota
135
Aug. 95
Research for Restoring Northern Thailand's Forests
Steve Elliott and Kate Hardwick
136
Sept. 95
Bamboo Hut Construction and the future of a TextileMuseum in Chiang Mai
Pitya Bunnag
137
Oct. 95
Lua Architecture
Vithi Panichphant
138
Oct. 95
Men, Alcohol, and AIDS in Northern Thailand
Graham Fordham
139
Nov. 95
Brief Survey of Lan Na History
Hans Penth
140
Dec. 95
Stone Images of Sri Lanka
Ron Emmons
141
Jan. 96
Society according to Thai High School Books
Niels Mulder
142
Feb. 96
Aspects of Change in Hmong Society
Peter Kunstadter
143
Mar. 96
Problems in setting up a UNDP Highland Development Project in Southeast Asia
Ron Renard
144
Apr. 96
A Hot Topic: Fire in agriculture
Koen van Keer
145
May 96
A Visit to My-son: The valley of kings in Vietnam
Reinhard Hohler
146
June 96
Shipwrecks in the South China Sea
Roxanna Brown
147
Sept. 96
The Yao in Vietnam
Jess G. Pourret
148
Oct. 96
HIV is Not the Cause of AIDS
Dan Reid
149
Oct. 96
Ethnicity in Thailand
G. Wijayewardene
150
Nov. 96
Infectious Diseases Unique to Northern Thailand
Thira Sirisanthana
151
Nov. 96
Science and its Critics: The case with HIV/AIDS
Margery Lazarus
152
Jan. 97
The State of Hani-Akha Studies
Leo Alting von Geusau
153
Feb. 97
The Chinese Ho ('Chin Ho') in Northern Thailand
Andrew Forbes
154
Feb. 97
Introducing Thai Images
Niels Mulder
155
Mar. 97
History of Northern Thai Forests
J.F. Maxwell
156
May 97
Buddhist Art: What is its future?
Venetia Walkey
157
May 97
Ethnic Conflict in Burma
Bertil Lintner
158
June 97
Measurement of Pacification in Vietnam: Reminiscences
Ed Rose
159
July 97
Corruption In Local Elections
Katherine Bowie
160
Aug. 97
Hong Kong: Borrowed place, borrowed people
Michael Webster
161
Sept. 97
Birds of Doi Inthanon
Rungsrit Kanjanavanit
162
Oct. 97
Search for Authenticity: The mind of the tourist, art & modernity
Robert Peters
163
Nov. 97
Living with HIV: Video/Testimony
Laurie Maund
164
Dec. 97
Japanese & Chinese Gardens: A comparison
David Engel
165
Jan. 98
Possessing Writing: Lahu literacy in Northern Thailand
Judy Pine
166
Feb. 98
The Situation of Elephants in Northern Thailand
M. Willemse and S. Chailert
167
Mar. 98
Inter-species Communication & ‘Love Animal' House
Marianne Willemse
168
Apr. 98
Buddhist Architecture: From India to Pagan and Thailand
Pierre Richard
169
Apr. 98
The Psychology of Cross-cultural Relationships
Brian Hubbard
170
June 98
Thai Cats
Ed Rose
171
July 98
Trance Dances of Northern Thailand
Vithi Panichphant
172
Aug. 98
Rural Communications in Thailand
Lamar Robert
173
Sept. 98
Community Forestry in Northern Thailand
Karan Aquino
174
Oct. 98
Expatriate Hypothesis
Frank Kelly
175
Nov. 98
Worshipping the Great Moderniser, King Chulalongkorn the Great
Irene Strengs
176
Dec. 98
Buddhist Monks & HIV/AIDS Management
Laurie Maund
177
Jan. 99
Is Thailand One of the World's Few Non-homophobic Cultures?
Andrew Matzner
178
Jan. 99
Thai Revenue Stamps
Bob Drexler
179
Feb. 99
Magnificent Buddha Images of Lanna Thai
Carol Stratton
180
Feb. 99
Women NGOs in Northern Thailand
Lee Ray Costa
181
Feb. 99
‘Candy’ Readings from his own works
Luke Davies
182
Feb. 99
Is Thai a Sexist Language?
Panit Bunyavatana
183
Mar. 99
Does Participatory Land Use have a chance with Hilltribes?
Oliver Puginier
184
Apr. 99
Wildlife in the Kingdom of Thailand (slide presentation)
Bruce Kekule
185
May 99
Misadventures of an Amateur Telescope Maker in Chiang Mai
Botter Reeves
186
June 99
The Patcharaphorn Thai Education Fund
Graham Enwright
187
July 99
A Christian looks at the Buddhist Religion
John Butt
188
Aug. 99
Mad Elephants & Missionaries at Ko Klang Island
Ted Brown
189
Sept. 99
Fine Book Publishing
Trasvin Jittidecharak
190
Oct. 99
Being a Foreign Monk in Thailand
Santikaro Bhikkhu
191
Nov. 99
Delving for Information in Chiang Mai: Panel discussion
Frank Kelly (chair)
192
Dec. 99
Thai Buddhism through Cartoons
Louis Gabaude
193
Jan. 00
Electronic & Human Connectivity: The Internet
David Alexander
194
Feb. 00
Anna & the King - The movie. Panel discussion
Larry Ashmun (chair)
195
Feb. 00
Betel Quid Chewing in Northern Thailand
Peter A. Reichart
196
Mar. 00
Traditional Akha Concept of Spirits
Leo Alting von Geusau
197
May 00
Censorship in Southeast Asia
William Tuchrello
198
May 00
Foreigners and the Thai Judicial System
Nitaya Wangpaiboon
199
June 00
Creating Counseling and Therapy Approaches
Richard Nelson-Jones
200
July 00
Drunk Husbands: Bias or Blind Spot in the Thai Judicial System
Marjorie Muecke
201
Aug. 00
Social & Economic Observations of Moo Ban Living in Chiang Mai
Mike Long
202
Sept. 00
Killers & Healers: Fantastic flora of Thailand
David Engel
203
Sept. 00
Glimpses of Anarchy: Experiences of an election observer in Cambodia & E. Timor
Bill Rose
204
Nov. 00
Eco-tourism and Hilltribes in Northern Thailand
John Davies
205
Dec. 00
Does Chiang Mai Need Flyovers?
Sirichai Narumit
206
Feb. 01
The Buddha and His Image
Carol Stratton
207
Mar. 01
The Thai in Keng Tung in World War II
M.R. Rujaya Abhakorn
208
Apr. 01
Historical Considerations on Thai Cuisine
William Sammon
209
May 01
International Education and Thai Education: Diverging or Converging?
Lister Hannah
210
June 01
Money Matters in Marriage
Brian Hubbard
211
July 01
NGOs and the AIDS Crisis in Chiang Mai
Vincent del Casino
212
Aug. 01
Restoring Northern Thailand's Degraded Forest Land
Steven Elliott
213
Sept. 01
The Karen: Past, present . . . future?
Ron Renard
214
Nov. 01
What is the Alternative to Violence in our Multicultural World?
Andrew Forbes, John Butt, Dean Henderson
215
Nov. 01
Medicine and Public Health in Chiang Mai during World War Two
Ted Brown
216
Dec. 01
The Laotian Hmong in the United States
Pongkaset Suwannakun
217
Jan. 02
Thai – Foreigner Marriage
Eric Cohen
218
Jan. 02
Akha Literature in Transition from Totally Oral to Partly Written
Inga-Lill Hansson and Leo Alting von Geusau
219
Feb. 02
The Mekong Nobody Knows
Steve van Beek
220
Mar. 02
The Railways of Thailand
Robert M. Boer
221
Apr. 02
Stupas in Asia
Joe Cummings
222
May 02
The Role of the Christian Missionary
John Butt
223
June 02
Traders & Travelers: The Dutch in 17th Century Laos and Cambodia
Carool Kersten
224
June 02
Why Do the Vietnamese Write the Way They Do? A political issue.
Roland Jacques
225
July 02
Lisu Actors and Foreign Film-makers
Otome Klein Hutheesing
226
Aug. 02
The Catholic Church and the Sexual Abuse Dilemma
Peter Clarke
227
Sept. 02
Teaching Philosophy in a Thai University
Mark Tamthai
228
Oct. 02
Intervention Radiology as a Substitute for Surgery
Steven C.H. van de Ven
229
Nov. 02
Which Cosmos for Which Identity? Dilemma Among the Kantu of the Annamese Hills
Yves Goudineau
230
Nov. 02
Arakan: A Buddhist kingdom of Southeast Asia
Jacques Leider
231
Dec. 02
The Use of Science in Contemporary Western Buddhist Apologetics
Geoffrey Redmond
232
Jan. 03
A Buddhist Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care
Laurie Maund
233
Oops!  There was no 233rd talk. The convenor lost count
234
May 03
A Passage to Thailand
Brian Hubbard
235
June 03
Annual variations in the use of, and exposure to Pesticides among Hmong Farmers in N. Thailand
Peter Kunstadter
236
July 03
The Wild Wa: Wilder without opium?
Ron Renard
237
Aug. 03
Ugetsu (a classical Japanese story collection) Cinematized
Paul McCarthy
238
Sept. 03
Development Interventions, State Administration and Local Responses of Ethnic Minorities in Upland Northern Thailand
Hans-Dieter Bechstedt, Patcharin Nawichai
239
Oct. 03
Peer-to-Peer: Premises of a new layer in civilization?
Michel Bauwens
240
Nov. 03
The WTO in Cancun: The negotiations and what went wrong?
Heike Löschmann
241
Dec. 03
A Social Psychologist at the Burma Border
Richard Gorsuch
242
Jan. 04
Missionaries, Martyrs, and Political Change in Northern Thailand in the Late 19th Century
Don Swearer
243
Feb. 04
Politics in the Thai Parliament: Has much changed since the 1997 Constitution?
Aaron Stern
244
Feb. 04
In Between a 'Feeling of Natural' and the Burmese Buddhist Order:
An Encounter with Burmese spirit possession
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière
245
Mar. 04
Expedition Mekong 2002 in perspective
Reinhard Hohler
246
Mar. 04
Hilltribes in Cambodia and Vietnam
Andrew Hardy
247
Apr. 04
Perceptions of Education in Thailand
Alain Mounier
248
May 04
Masks and Selves in Contemporary Java: The Dances of Didik Nini Thowok
Jan Mrázek
249
June 04
Say What, Mr. President?
Gary Suwannarat
250
July 04
The Impact of Air Quality on Chiang Mai residents
Duongchan Charoenmuang
251
Aug. 04
Reflections on 40 years of research on Thailand
Niels Mulder
252
Sept. 04
Chiang Mai Tourism: Its problems and solutions
Jack Kelly
253
Oct. 04
Protected Areas in the Lao PDR
Klaus Berkmüller
254
Nov. 04
Introduction to the History and Significance of Champa
Michael Vickery
255
Dec. 04
Textiles as a Material Lexicon of Tributary Relations in the Lao-Tai world
Patricia Cheesman
256
Jan. 05
Proposal to Redevelop and Reposition Chiang Mai
Shane K. Beary
257
Jan. 05
The Tsunami and its Aftermath: A Panel Discussion
Dave Percy, Sampan
Sombat Tapanya Singharajwarapan,
258
Feb. 05
The Khmer Rouge Ideology, as drilled into people's ears under Democratic Kampuchea
Henri Locard
259
Feb. 05
How Does an Artist Become International? Thailand as a case study
Annabelle Boissier
260
Mar. 05
The ‘Singhalese’ Buddha: Thailand’s highly revered guardian image
Carol Stratton
261
Apr. 05
Violence in Thai society
Sombat Tapanya
262
May 05
Geohazards of Northern Thailand: How dangerous are they?
Sampan Singharajwarapan
263
June 05
Wat Ban Ngaed & Wat Ban Saen: Exotic mountain temples of Keng Tung in Shan States, Myanmar
Vithi Phanichphant
264
July 05
Daoist tradition and modern subjectivities: Transformations of Daoist practice in China and the West
David Palmer & Elijah Siegler
265
Aug. 05
Dr. Muller's Asian Journey: Thailand, Cambodia, VietnamYunnan and
Carool Kersten
266
Sep. 05
Reconciliation in Southern Thailand: Lessons from past attempts and present directions
Mark Tamthai
267
Oct. 05
Politics and Professionalism in Community Development 
Katherine McKinnon
268
Nov. 05
Is “Taization” equivalent to assimilation?
Olivier Evrard
269
Dec. 05
Chasing Shadows: The elusive Isan Nang Talung
Bonnie Brereton
270
Jan. 06
Continuation and Disruption of the Karen Religious Movement: Case of the Myitta Byamasoe in Burma
Dr. Kwanchewan Buadaeng
271
Feb. 06
The Giant Appliqué Thangkas of Tsurphu Monastery, Tibet
Terris and LeslieNguyen Temple
272
Mar. 06
Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea under the Kim Clan
Bertil Linter
273
Apr. 06
Chiang Mai: Disneyfication or Rational Development?
Panel Discussion
274
May 06
Cambodia’s The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Why has it taken so long to establish Asia’s first genocide tribunal? Will it achieve justice both for the living and the dead?
Tom Fawthrop
275
June 06
A Chameleon’s Tale: True Stories of a Global Refugee
Mo Tejani
276
July 06
Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China's Southwest Borders
Sara Davis
277
Aug. 06
Mishima: Letters, Eros, Death
Paul McCarthy
278
Sept. 06
How to Plant a Forest
Stephen Elliott
279
Oct. 06
SOS: a non-profit organisation helping foreigners living in Chiang Mai
Alan Hall and Andrew Williams
280
Nov. 06
The Jewel of Suvannaphoum
Reinhard Hohler
281
Dec. 06
“Beyond the Gate”
Francois Bizot
282
Jan. 07
Gold and Silver Roads to Chiang Mai and Shan States in 1837
Andrew Turton
283
Jan. 07
Border Landscapes: The Politics of Akha Land Use in ChinaThailand and
Janet Sturgeon
284
Feb. 07
‘Altar of Fire’ A Vedic ritual  
Frits Staal
285
Feb. 07
The Tree of Immeasurable Wealth - Rmeet Society, Highland Laos
Guido Sprenger
286
Mar. 07
Traditional Thai Mural Painting: The Thai Cosmos and the Jatakas
Carol Stratton
287
Apr. 07
It’s not just Haze: The effects of air pollution in Chiang Mai
Duongchan Charoenmuang
288
May 07
Mystery in the Mist of the Borderland of Thailand and Myanmar
Rasmi Shoocongdej
289
June 07
“Will the snakes swallow the singers?” Traditional music of the hill tribes
John Moore
290
July 07
“More tribes at risk – in Farm Animal Genetic Resources. The Thai situation”
Vanida Khumnirdpetch and David Steane
291
Aug. 07
“Sacrifice” - The Story of Child Prostitutes from Burma
Hseng Noung and Laurie Maund
292
Sept. 07
‘Big Brother Mouse’ - Book publishing in Laos
Sasha Alyson and Khamla Panyasouk
293
Sept. 07
Life for an English teacher in Present-day Viet Nam
Richard Fuller
294
Oct. 07
"Prayer of Peace: Relief & Resistance in Burma's War Zones"
Matt Blauer and Saw Doh Say
295
Oct. 07
“Sacrifice” – The Story of Child Prostitutes from Burma. Second Showing
Hseng Noung
296
Nov. 07
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
Carol Grodzins and Nikom Putta
297
Jan. 08
Swimming Against the Tide: The Cuban Health system
Tom Fawthrop
298
Feb. 08
"Murder, Mayhem, and Malarkey: An Evening of Japanese Detective Fiction."
Ivan P. Hall
299
Mar. 08
Chiang Rai and the Mae Fah Luang Art and Cultural Park
Rebecca Weldon
300
Apr. 08
“Making Chiang Mai a Great Place to Live”
Deuntemduang Na Chiengmai, Mayor of Chiang Mai
301
May 08
‘Opportunities for Expat Volunteers in Chiang Mai’
Duenpen Chaladlam
302
June 08
A Tribute to the late Roxanna M. Brown (1946-2008)
Patricia Cheesman and John Shaw
303
July 08
Global Warming Scenarios for Thailand
Jere Locke, Marty Bergoffen and Julia Schonharl
304
Aug. 08
The Administrative and Political Structure of Chiang MaiProvince
Tanet Charoenmuang
305
Sept. 08
An evening with at home with John and Pat Shaw
John and Pat Shaw
306
Oct. 08
Textiles and Clothing of the Lao-Tai Peoples as Community Markers
Patricia Cheesman
307
Nov. 08
Knowing the Lua and Wa: The State of Knowledge of a Barely Known Group
Ronald D. Renard
308
Jan. 09
“Treading the boards”
Stephan Turner
309
Feb. 09
“Buddhist Murals from the Isan Heartland”
Bonnie Brereton
310
Mar. 09
"HIV research and public health in Thailand: prevention and care"
Marc Lallemant and Gonzague Jourdain
311
May 09
Examining Tung: Northern Thai Banners and their Cambodian Counterparts
Rebecca Hall
312
June 09
18th – 20th Century Thai and Other Southeast Asian Paintings of the Lord Buddha
James Bogle
313
July 09
‘AFTER THE CRASH’: Reclaiming architecture for the other side of the economic miracle.
Kevin Moore
314
Aug. 09
Wildlife in Asia is in Crisis
Adam Oswell
315
Sept. 09
Magic and Modernity in Southern Thailand : Reconfigurations of a multi-religious Performance and Art Genre
Alexander Horstmann
316
Oct. 09
Living Silence in Burma : Surviving under Military Rule
Christina Fink
317
Nov. 09
Science and Technology Park Development in Northern Thailand
Martin Venzky-Stalling
318
Dec. 09
Universal Health Care in Thailand : Dissertation Fieldwork
Joseph Harris
319
Jan. 10
“Dharma as Man” A Myth of Jesus in Buddhist Lands
Lindsay Falvey
320
Feb. 10
New Strategies to Stop Global Warming
Michael Tuckson
321
Apr. 10
Dokmai Dogmas and the Joy of Monsoon Gardening
Eric Danell
322
May 10
Documentary: ‘ Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country’
Ashin Sopaka and Jan Krogsgaard
323
June 10
Monastic Discipline and Social Change in Sipsong Panna
Roger Casas
324
July 10
The Fortifications of Chiang Mai and the Finlayson Map
Andrew Forbes and David Henley
325
Aug. 10
The Democratic, Erotic, Moral, and Fun-Loving murals of Isan
Bonnie Brereton
 
 
 
 
326
Sept. 10
Hunting Northern Thailand ’s Snakes on a Motorbike
Sjon Hauser
327
Oct. 10
Memorial Tribute to Edward Rose (1931-2010)
Various Speakers
328
Nov. 10
Buddhist Economics and Thailand 's Sufficiency Economy
Don Swearer
329
Jan. 11
“What’s What in a Wat”
Carol Stratton
330
Jan. 11
Killing the Mekong Dam by Dam
Tom Fawthrop
331
Jan.11
Art and Community in Cambodia
Phare Ponleu Selpak
332
Mar. 11
A Sangha without a King
Betty Nguyen
333
Apr. 11
Tom / Trans / Thai
Jai Arun Ravine
334
May 11
The Most Secret Place on Earth: The CIA’s Covert War in Laos
Rebecca Weldon
335
June 11
Twisting Buddhism Through the Christian Lexicon: Ordination
Louise Gabaude
336
July 11
HIV-Related Health Services for Minorities and International Migrants
Peter Kunstadter
337
Aug 23
The Preah Vihear conflict and the current political debate in Thailand
Volker Grabowsky
338
Sep 13
Pu Sae -Ya Sae Spirit Worship: Highlighting the two sacred mountains of Chiang Mai
Reinhard Hohler
339
Oct 11
Hmong Kinship Identity under Thai State Formation
Prasit Leepreecha
340
Nov 15
The 11th Panchen Lama: a Chinese political recognition of a Tibetan spiritual master
Fabienne Jagou
341
Dec 13
Return to Mae Sariang: Ethnic Relations in a Thai Frontier District
Charles Keyes
342
Jan 7
“Small Farmers Secure Food: Survival Food Security, the World’s Kitchen & the Crucial Role of Small Farmers”.
Proffessor Lindsay Falvey
343
Feb 7th
“The Plain of Jars in a New Light”.
Hans Lipp, Geographer, University of Tuebingen, Germany UK.
344
 Feb 28th
 "Searching for pre-Lan Na cities in the Golden Triangle area"
 
Spencer Wood, Boise State University
 345
Mar 20th 
 “WWII in Northern Thailand: The Flying Tigers and 64th Hayabusa Sentai Clash in Chiang Mai.”
Jack Eisner
346
April 3rd
 “Switching from print publishing to the global digital marketplace: A travel writer's perspective”.
Mohezin Tejani
347
May 22nd
Merchants and Missionaries – Western incursions into Lan Na between 1829 and 1921”
Ian Bushell
348
June 19th
Creating a Temple Museum
Supachai Sittilert
 
 
 
 
349 
 July 17th
“Record Production: combining Thai and Western Instrumentation."
 Michael Zager
 
 
 
 
350
July 24th
The Monks and the Hmong: the Case of Tham Krabok”
Ian Baird, Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin at Madison
 
 
 
 
352
Sept 11th
'The Peace Corps' 50th Anniversary in Thailand. 
Hugh Leong.
 
 
 
 
353
 Oct 9th
 “Restitution of Stolen Works of Art”.
 Manus Brinkman
 
 
 
 
354
 Nov 6th
 “The Right Wing Capture of American Politics”
Gary Suwannarat 
 
 
 
 
355
Dec 11th
"The last Executioner"
Don Linder
 
 
 
 
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Jan 15th
“Hmong Women, Gender, and Power: Post-refugee Conditions and the Politics of Transnational Belonging”
Dr. Chia Youyee VANG

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April 9th
Tai Khuen culture, Burmanization and the 600th Anniversary of Songkran in keng Tung.
Klemens Karlsson

 
 
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