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Notes from Thongchai’s FCCT Talk on lèse-majesté

Last night Thongchai Winichakun gave a talk at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand about the increased application of the lèse-majesté law since 2006.

Thongchai is a professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of the well known 1997 book Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation.

Here are my Tweets from the event, in reverse-chronological order. I thought it might be helpful to provide them all together here.

More soon on this topic, perhaps, but I wanted to post these snippets for now.