Date: March 15, 2017 Venue: Kyoto University Inamori Memorial Building Small meeting room I Special Talk Thailand’s lèse-majesté and 1984’s Winston Smith THONGCHAI WINICHAKUL (IDE-JETRO) The lèse-majesté law (article 112 of the Criminal Code) epitomizes the peculiarity of the rule of law in Thailand. What peculiarity? How does it represent? Victims of this draconic law are in a similar dilemma faced by Winston Smith in George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four – to resist without freedom or to succumb without individuality. Is this also the fate of Thai citizens under the rule of such a law? BIO Thongchai Winichakul is currently Senior Researcher at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) in Japan, and […]