Topic:Challenges and Opportunities for Securing Land Claims by Smallholder Farmers in Myanmar
Speaker: SiuSue Mark，The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, The Hague)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Date: December2, 2016, 19:30-21:30 (Friday)
Venue:Mootcourt at College of Humanities and Social Development, North Campus of Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100
Language: English (with bilingual slides)
Contact:RuiLi, 18829352158, angela12321@163.com

Short-bio of the speaker:
SiuSue Mark is a PhD candidate in the International Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, the Netherlands. She received her Masters in International Development from Columbia University in New York City.  She was born in Guangdong, but grew up in the United States.  She has been living in Myanmar since 2008 and working the country's land governance reforms since late 2011. 
Her research looks at how land politics shape state-building after aregime transition, integrating three dimensions: shifting state-society relations, ethnic politics, and increasing investment pressures on land. In her work, she examines a number of variables including the politics of the legal framework, land and federalism, contested sovereignty of land, customary land, regulation of land-based investments, state-society alliances in land reform, rural mobilization & resistance