Lecture: Center for Southeast Asia Studies | September 24 | 12-1:30 p.m. |  Online - Zoom lecture: RSVP HERE!

Speaker:  Sunisa Manning, writer

Moderator:  Penny Edwards, Associate Professor of South & Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

Sponsor:  Center for Southeast Asia Studies

Sunisa Manning will discuss her recent novel A Good True Thai (Epigram, 2020), which tells the story of three young people who come of age in Thailand in the 1970s, a time of turbulent change and radical politics.

Her presentation will provide background to the events she covers in her novel, how she researched the period, and how art can contribute to understanding political uncertainties.

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Join us as we celebrate Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint’s lyric memoir, Names for Light: A Family History, with Thirii and author Sunisa Manning (A Good True Thai). Discussing memory, family, and legacies of postcolonial violence in Southeast Asia, our panel will illuminate connections between their work and craft. 

This event will be live-streamed on Zoom. Please RSVP to receive the Zoom link via email. The event will be uploaded to the AAWW YouTube channel the following week.

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THIRII MYO KYAW MYINT is the author of The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, a Haven. She has a BA from Brown University, an MFA from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD from the University of Denver. She teaches at Amherst College.

SUNISA MANNING was born and raised in Bangkok by Thai and American parents. She has a BA in English Literature from Brown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her first novel, A Good True Thai, was a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize for Southeast Asian writers. It was published in Southeast Asia in September 2020. It went into a second printing in February 2021.

The Brown Women's Network present the Alumnae Author Series! Connecting women of Brown through shared reading and book collecting.

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Join the Brown Women's Network for a virtual fireside chat between writer and artist Mary-Kim Arnold '93 MFA'98 and author Sunisa Manning '07. They will discuss Manning's debut novel, A Good True Thai, which is set in Thailand during the ‘70s student movement. The book tells the story of three young people whose paths converge while at university, where they are swept up by political activism and the thrill of first love.

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Sunisa Manning '07, author of A Good True Thai In Conversation with Leora Fridman '07

May 19, 2021 @ 5 pm PST

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After a brief reading and interview, Sunisa will visit breakout groups for mini book-club discussions and, finally, rejoin the full group for an audience-wide Q+A and reflection.

This event is 5 - 6:30 pm PST and is open to the public!

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After a brief reading and interview, Sunisa will visit breakout groups for mini book-club discussions and, finally, rejoin the full group for an audience-wide Q+A and reflection.

This event is 5 - 6:30 pm PST.

Zoom details to come.

Sunisa will be in conversation with Jonathan Head, the BBC’s Southeast Asia correspondent, in an event about the constant struggle to understand the 1970s in Thailand and what that means today.

This event is at 7:30 pm Bangkok time. In person and livestream details are below.

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Sunisa will be in conversation with Meng Jin, author of Little Gods. Monica Sok, author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On, will read an invocation to open the event.

This event is 5:30 - 6:30 pm PST.

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