Public Lecture : Democratic Transition in Burma
Date - 8th February 2017
CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES (CSEAS)
Cordially invites you to the
Public Lecture
The Democratic Transition in Burma: Achievements and Challenges
by
Dr. Kenneth Holland
Professor, Political Science and
Executive Director, Center for International Development
Ball State University, USA
Date: 8 February 2017
Time: 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm
Venue: T2- 60 Seater Classroom No. -29 (entry from T3)
O. P. Jindal Global University
Short Bio of Spekaer
Dr. Kenneth Holland is Professor of Political Science and Executive Director of the Center for
International Development at Ball State University, USA. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the
University of Chicago, M.A. in Government and International Relations from the University of Virginia
and B.A. in Political Science from Furman University. He has held previous academic positions at Luther
College, the University of Wisconsin - Madison, the University of Vermont, the University of Memphis
and Kansas State University.
He has been a Visiting Professor at Tohoku University in Japan and the University of
Calgary in Canada and a Research Fellow at the Australian National University. He is the winner of three research
awards and has published 8 books and more than 60 refereed articles and edited five special issues of internationally
known journals. Dr. Holland is the immediate Past President of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United
States.
Dr. Holland specializes in strengthening the rule of law in developing countries and has been involved with the
democratic transition in Burma since February 2013, when he participated in the first official visit of higher education
leaders from the United States to Burma. In 2015, Dr. Holland spent six weeks in Yangon as a Fulbright Specialist.
Dr. Holland has been working with public universities in Myanmar and with the Myanmar Ministry of Education to help
institutions of higher education overcome more than 50 years of isolation and to connect with universities and nongovernmental
organizations around the world. He has also assisted the Yangon School of Political Science, a civil
society organization founded by former political prisoners, in establishing the Myanmar Political Science Association
to help re-introduce political science as an academic discipline, banned by the military regime in 1962.
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