Sponsors: Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Rohingya Green Nature Society, Youth Action for Myanmar, UC Berkeley Human Rights Center

This event is coordinated in collaboration with a Year Two SEALIVES Small Grants Program grantee, Christopher LeBoa, and his interlocutors.

Since the colonial period, the Rohingya people have struggled for rights and recognition in Myanmar. While the Rohingya conflict has been protracted over decades, ethnic cleansing (under investigation as genocide by the International Court of Justice) perpetuated against the Rohingya in 2017 by the Myanmar Army caused nearly one million to flee across the border to Bangladesh. Here in Cox’s Bazaar is where they still live without legal permissions to pursue work, open a bank account, or enroll in higher education. Recently, US cuts to international humanitarian assistance have cut food aid in the camps by nearly 50% and shuttered many learning centers.

This event focuses on providing an understanding of the Rohingya history, life in the camps, asylees in the US, and the politics of the long process towards peace.

Please RSVP for the event here if you would like to attend in person.

Please register for the event if you will join over zoom: https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-ChPloq2Q0CZb-C6rBFmjQ

Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | 6:30 PM – 8 PM (Pacific)
Location: IEAS Conference Room, 2111 Bancroft Way 5th Floor, Berkeley, CA 94720 or Zoom