NUS-USPC Collaborative Project Intersecting Mobilities:
Southeast Asia from the Perspective of Religious Mobility
Workshop on Muslim Networks and Mobilities in Southeast Asia
Institute of Religion, Culture & Peace
Payap University, Mae Khao Campus
Superhighway Chiang Mai-Lampang Road, Amphur Muang
Chiang Mai 50000 THAILAND
Thursday & Friday, March 1st & 2nd, 2018
This two-day workshop on the historical and contemporary dynamics of Muslim networks in Southeast Asia is (...)

Theravāda Buddhism in Khmer Lands
with TUN Puthpiseth, PhD in Art History at the University Paris-Sorbonne, and Director of the Research Unit at the Royal University of Fine Arts.
Tuesday 13 February 2018 at 6.30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, translated in Khmer and English
Free entry subject to availability
The appearance of Theravāda buddhism in Khmer lands during the second half of the 12th century, under the reign of Jayavarman VII (1270/1271 – 1295) is (...)

Anthropologie comparée du bouddhisme
vendredi 2 février, de 9h30 à 12h30
EHESS – salle 651
54, bd. Raspail – 75006 Paris
La prochaine séance du séminaire "Anthropologie comparée du bouddhisme" sera dédiée à la catégorie des rituels bouddhiques de renouvellement de l’ordre cosmique et social. La séance sera centrée sur une intervention par Alexandra de Mersan (IRASEC) sur le thème : "Rituels de Nouvel An en Arakan (Birmanie), rituels de renouvellement de l’ordre social et cosmique."
La période du (...)

The Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia wishes you a Happy New Year.
May this year be full of fruitful research !

Conference « Unity in Diversity: Transgressive Southeast Asia »
organised by SEASIA (Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia)
at Chulalongkorn University on december 16th and 17th, 2017.
Claire Tran, director of IRASEC, participated to the panel Catholicism in Southeast Asia : Building Religious Elites beyond the Colonial Encounter with Bernardo Brown (International Christian University), Shanthini Pilai (National University of Malaysia), Suppya Nut (Köln university) and Julius (...)

Claire TRAN has participated in the second edition Aur@sia International Symposium, organized by CNRS, together with the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies of CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences), on 28 – 29 November 2017. With the participation of Patrick Nedellec (CNRS Director, European Research and International Cooperation Office) and Sylvie Démurger (Deputy Director, CNRS institute of Social Sciences and Humanities) . The Director of IRASEC has presented the activities of her Center (...)

On 24 November 2017, Anne Guillou was invited by the director of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (Phnom Penh) to give a lecture (in Khmer) on "Care and Nursing under the Khmer Rouge regime". The public was made up of high school students and staff from the Genocide Museum.

Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting 2017
Tropical Medicine 4.0 : Effective Collaboration for
an Impact on Global Health
Date : December 6-8, 2017
Venue : Amari Watergate, Bangkok, Thaïlande
Abigaël PESSES and Stéphane RENNESSON, researchers at IRASEC, will present their work in the S8 panel : Investigating Neglected Infectious Diseases at the Interface between Ecology and Anthropology chaired by Serge Morand (CIRAD, Kasetsart University) and Paron Dekumyoy (Mahidol University) (...)

On Tuesday, 21, November 2017 Ashley Thompson (Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, SOAS, University London) gave a lecture on "Ghosts of the past: About the four Buddhas after Angkor" at the French Institute of Cambodia. 140 persons attended it.
This is the last presentation of the 2017 IRASEC conference series "Time, Space, Memory" organized by Anne Yvonne Guillou, Anthropologist at CNRS / IRASEC in Cambodia.
A new IRASEC conference series will be organized in 2018 on (...)

IRASEC participates in AUR@SIA 2 organized by the CNRS and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shaghai Institute for Advanced Studies) in Shanghai from 27 to 29 November 2017.
The director of IRASEC, Claire TRAN, will take part in the summit meeting of CNRS Asian entities from 27 to 29 November in Shanghai. During these three days of the Symposium, the different actors will highlight their research work. Such a gathering represents an ideal opportunity for our partners in Asia, such as (...)