The production team wishes to thank MIT’s Global Humanities Initiative (GHI) for funding, of course, but above all for creative support, friendship, and inspiration. The GHI is that rare community of people working at the top of their fields with a kind, inclusive spirit and genuine interest in making our 21st century world a better, more tenable, more human place. Specifically, we wish to thank Wiebke Denecke, GHI Faculty Lead and Professor of Chinese, Japanese and Korean Literatures & Philosophies and S.C. Fang Chair of Chinese Language and Culture at MIT; Yoh Han Noh, GHI Program Coordinator and Research Professor at the Institute for Sinographic Literatures and Philology, Korea University, where he also heads the nascent Global Humanities Center; Magdelena Ho-yan Tang, GHI Research Coordinator and Choral Conductor and Researcher at the York Center for Asia Research at York University in the UK; and Zachary Peña, MIT financial and administrative assistant.
We also wish to thank the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre (CHRC) at the University of Cambridge (UK) for their long-term collaboration. Heartfelt thanks to Dacia Viejo-Rose, Co-Coordinator of the MIT GHI Heritage, Memory, and Identity Pillar, Cambridge Associate Professor of Heritage and the Politics of the Past, and Director of the CHRC, for essential guidance and the opportunity to present our early work at the 2025 CHRC Annual Symposium.
Above all, we wish to thank the participating artists and curators who, with open hearts and minds, gave their time, candor, and deeply personal insights into their creative processes, along with their original artwork and so much more: Wunna Aung, Thynn Lei Nwe, Kaung Su, Maung Day, Nge Lay, MayCo Naing, Pinky Htut Aung, Soe Yu Nwe, Sid Kaung Sett Lin, and Aung Myat Htay.
Additionally we thank Maung Day, who took the long hours of recordings, transcribed them, and turned them into beautiful translations from Burmese to English. We sincerely hope that the generosity, openness, and spirit of exchange that made our Phase One Workshops so meaningful will carry forward for years to come – growing to include others who wish to become part of what the MIT GHI has set in motion.
We also wish to thank the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre (CHRC) at the University of Cambridge (UK) for their long-term collaboration. Heartfelt thanks to Dacia Viejo-Rose, Co-Coordinator of the MIT GHI Heritage, Memory, and Identity Pillar, Cambridge Associate Professor of Heritage and the Politics of the Past, and Director of the CHRC, for essential guidance and the opportunity to present our early work at the 2025 CHRC Annual Symposium.
Above all, we wish to thank the participating artists and curators who, with open hearts and minds, gave their time, candor, and deeply personal insights into their creative processes, along with their original artwork and so much more: Wunna Aung, Thynn Lei Nwe, Kaung Su, Maung Day, Nge Lay, MayCo Naing, Pinky Htut Aung, Soe Yu Nwe, Sid Kaung Sett Lin, and Aung Myat Htay.
Additionally we thank Maung Day, who took the long hours of recordings, transcribed them, and turned them into beautiful translations from Burmese to English. We sincerely hope that the generosity, openness, and spirit of exchange that made our Phase One Workshops so meaningful will carry forward for years to come – growing to include others who wish to become part of what the MIT GHI has set in motion.