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Regular meetings are at: the Medical Society of London, 11 Chandos Street, LONDON W.1. Admission is £5.00 per person. Meetings are confined to members and their guests - and are subject to reporting restrictions. NB - Click HERE for some non-Society coming events in the UK. Members can click on grey buttons, for a

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2007	2008
Monday 29th January 2007 'The Lizard Cage' by Karen Connelly The Canadian author read from her new book - and showed photographs, many of them accompanied by poems of her own composition.	Friday 8th February 2008 'Train Journeys in Burma' by Paul Whittle Trains and train journeys are a fascination for the speaker - and he offers us a view of Burma from this unique perspective.
Tuesday 13th March 2007 The Wa Dilemma by Tom Kramer The Wa are a people on the edge - known as head hunters, then Burma Communist Party troops, then narco-traffickers. They have now renounced opium coltivation completely - and their biggest challenge is how to earn their living without it.	Wednesday 26th March 2008 'Ethnic Plus Twenty' by Martin Smith 2008 happens to be the 50th anniversary of the Britain-Burma Society - and also the 20th anniversary of Martin Smith's first talk to us. Martin is the author of the definitive work 'Burma - Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity', and this time he will be looking back over the situation of the ethnic peoples in the last 20 years, and seeing how it has arrived at the present stage.
Thursday 3rd May 2007 Chin State and Pyinmana by Dr Robert H Taylor Dr Robert Taylor visits Burma often, and is currently working on several books about it. Recently his travels have included two out-of-the-way areas - Chin State in the west, and Pyinmana, where the new administrative capital is sited. He showed slides of both places, and described many of the high and low points of his journeys.	Thursday 8th May 2008 Back to Maymyo by Colin van Orton Maymyo (now known as Pyin Oo Lwin) is on a cool plateau, and in colonial days the British administrators used to move up there en masse with their families during the hot months. Their children often went to school there in term time. This means that many of our members or their families will have known it in the old days. Colin van Orton stayed there recently in connection with the restoration of a stained glass window in an Anglican church - but while there he has looked around, talked to people and taken photos.
Thursday 14th June 2007 Archaeology in Burma by Dr Elizabeth Moore Elizabeth Moore is one of the leading experts on Burmese archaeology, and her talk is to mark the release of her new book - Early Landscapes of Myanmar - some of whose 400 colour illustrations she will be showing to us. The book will cost £19.90.	Tuesday 17th June 2008 Cyclone Help - Burmese Style By May Tha Hla May Tha-Hla is a Londoner who despaired at the NGOs' difficulties in getting aid to cyclone victims - so she personally stuffed her pockets with money and went out to the Delta, to drive in rice sacks every day to feed the hungry. And she found thousands of other Burmese people were already doing just the same, from Rangoon and further afield in Burma. She showed scores of pictures to a packed audience in London. Anyone who would like to contribute towards more rice on her next trip - please click here for more details.
Tuesday 2nd October 2007 The October Reception was also a special celbration of the Britain-Burma Society's 50th anniversary. A very long-standing former Hon Secretary - Anna Allott - gaves us a short history of the Society from her own perspective, and if you are interested, why not have a look?	Thursday 2nd October 2008 The October Reception
Tuesday 6th November 2007 24 Years between Worlds Sally Thompson of the Thailand Burma Border Consortium talked of the refugee situation on the Thai-Burma border, and how her own organization has done its best to cope with it for more than 20 years.	Tuesday 4th November 2008 (Subject and Speaker to be announced later)
Tuesday 11th December 2007 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by Justin Wintle For a whole generation, she has probably had the highest international recognition factor of any player on the Burmese stage - and is the winner of a Nobel Peace Prize. Justin Wintle tells how he came to write a book about her, and the difficulties he had to overcome, and will then open a discussion on her life.	Thursday 11th December 2008 In Search of Bats - All Over Burma By Dr Paul Bates

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