Informal Northern Thai Group : Our history

History of the Informal Northern Thai Group

The Informal Northern Thai Group came into being on the evening of Saturday, December 15^th 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 7^th 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:

· Wat Phra Yuen in Lamphun [Alexander Griswold]

· Western gate of Chiang Saen [Hans Penth]

· House construction in a hilltribe village [Richard Davis]

· An unrecalled historical theme [Kraisri Nimmanahaeminda]

· Spirit Cave in Mae Hong Son [Chester Gorman]

· The Lahu [Robert & Eugene Morse]

· Three states stolen from Siam by Great Britain [Kachorn Sukhabanij]

· Foreign words adopted into the Thai language [Tom Scovel]

· Buddhism [Venerable Phra Nyanyavachiro]

· Meo New Year, a color film [William Geddes]

· Family planning in a Mae Chaem village [Christine Dunster]

· Blood-sucking moths [Hans Bänziger]

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 Thani Province, 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:

· Illegal hilltop burial site excavations in Tak [the first talk]

· The Northern Thai village of Ku Daeng

· Problems of studying Northern Thai history

· Wats in Lanna

· Bio-diversity and conservation on Doi Suthep

· Olde Chiang Mai days

· Phra Malai and Thai Buddhism

· Lisu actors and foreign film makers

· Teaching philosophy in a Thai university

· The Expedition Mekong 2002 in perspective

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. 15^th -17^th 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 20^th 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 Textile Museum 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 17^th 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 233^rd 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 19^th 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 Singharajwarapan, Sombat Tapanya
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, Vietnam and Yunnan	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 Leslie Nguyen 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 China and Thailand	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 Mai Province	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