We are pleased to announce the start of IRASEC’s 2024 Winter School on Sustainable Development Studies in Southeast Asia. The training takes place this week in Bangkok and the following week in Manila.

📌 Screening venue : Alliance française in Bangkok, 179 Thanon Witthayu, Lumphini, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330
📅 Date : 04 November 2024
🕒 Schedule : 8:45 AM – 4 PM

The seminar is jointly organized by the French Embassy in Thailand and the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC). It will gather experts from Thailand, the United Nations and France, providing a comparative approach to global issues of road safety and formulating concrete recommendations. It will include three round-table discussions and presentations led by experts from various Southeast Asian countries and France (magistrates and police officers), for a comparative approach to the context and challenges of road safety in Southeast Asia, and the formulation of concrete recommendations for improving road safety. The round tables will be held in English, with Thai interpretation.

2-3 October 2024

Faculty of Tropical Medicine,
Mahidol University

Bringing together the key stakeholders in global health in Thailand and the region and focusing 1) on the impacts of climate change on human health in SEA and 2) on a better anticipation, prevention and preparation for public emergencies and climate change under the One health approach, this meeting will provide space for the region’s climate and health stakeholders — civil society, governments, academies, development and technical partners :

1. To be equipped with the latest information and updates on climate and health science, evidence and discourses ;
2. To develop regional collaborations on climate and health and identify common key issues, priorities and concerns ;
3. To co-create and agree on a multi-stakeholder action agenda on climate and health for the region and recommendations for regional mitigation policies.

Olivier Telle has presented a panel summarizing the research progress of the One Urban Health 2023-2026 project, at CREATE SYMPOSIUM 2024 “DECARBONISATION”.

ICAS13 - Surabaya, Indonesia
Monday, July 29, 2024 ; 09:00 – 13:00 (GMT+7)
Location : Post Graduate School Building, P2.01

As part of the 13th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 13), Marielle Morin (GIS Asie France), Keng We Koh (NTU, Singapore) and Jérôme Samuel (IRASEC, Bangkok) have held two round tables entitled “Sustaining collections in the digital age/ Asian studies collections in the digital age”.
During these discussions, participants - librarians, curators, archivists, researchers and policy-makers - have been invited to share their experiences, best practices and innovative approaches.

Bangkok & Manila, 25 November - 7 December 2024
The Research Institute of Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) organises annually a doctoral winter school, in collaboration with a range of European and Southeast Asian universities and research centres.
In 2024, the IRASEC Winter school will be dedicated to Sustainable Development Studies in Southeast Asia, and will be co-organised and co-hosted by the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University and the Center for Integrative Development Studies, University of the Philippines in Diliman.

With a presentation entitled “ASEAN enlargement : a political decision”, Christine Cabasset took part in the seminar “Timor-Leste’s Regional Integration : ASEAN Focus” organized by the Center for Advanced Training of the National University Timor LoroSa’e (UNTL) on May 10, 2024, at the Oriente Foundation in Dili. Laurentina ’Mica’ Barreto Soares, a lecturer in UNTL’s Department of International Relations, was also on hand. Opened by UNTL Rector Professor Dr. João Soares Martins, the event brought (...)

As part of the Summer School 2024 “Southeast Asia at the Heart of Indo-Pacific Strategies” co-organized by IRASEC, Université de Montréal and the German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG) at Thammasat University, the 42 students present had the honor of exchanging views with French Ambassador Jean-Claude POIMBOEUF, European Union Ambassador David DALY and Canadian Embassy Political Affairs Counsellor Cathy HARDMAN, on the key points of Indo-Pacific (...)

On July 1st, 2024, at 7 pm, the IRASEC Occasional Paper Defiance, Civil Resistance and Violence in Post-Coup Myanmar edited by Carine Jaquet, will be presented at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand, Bangkok.

Various contributors, including writers, activists and artists, will delve into key aspects of the book’s themes. They will be joined by :

• Nyi Nyi Kyaw, research chair on forced displacement in Southeast Asia, Chiang Mai University.
• Kyle Nyana, Myanmar-based researcher with over 15 years of professional experience in governance and political economy analysis.

Dans le cadre de la Réunion régionale Asie-Océanie du réseau culturel et de coopération (30 et 31 mai 2024, Bangkok), Jérôme Samuel intervenait au nom de l’IRASEC dans une table ronde intitulée « Valoriser nos actions de diplomatie scientifique pour renforcer notre attractivité et notre influence dans la région ».