Workshop Christian Networks in Southeast Asia
Georgetown, Penang Dec 1 & 2, 2017
co-organized by IRASEC within the NUS-USPC project “Project Intersecting Mobilities: Southeast Asia from the Perspective of Religious Mobility”
This two-day workshop focused on the historical and contemporary dynamics of Christian networks in Southeast Asia is part of the broader comparative exploration of religious networks in Asia supported by a collaborative grant awarded by Université Sorbonne Paris (...)

Ghosts of the past: About the four Buddhas after Angkor
With Ashley Thompson, Professor Hiram W. Woodward, Chair in Southeast Asian Art, Centre for Southest Asian Studies (SOAS, London).
Tuesday 21st November 2017 at 6:30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, translated in Khmer and English
Free entrance
What became of Angkor after Angkor? How do people remember the empire after its fall? What about its future? This conference will try to answer those questions based on (...)

‘Cities in Transition in Southeast Asia.
New Challenges for Urban Development’
Wednesday, November 22nd 2017, at 6:00pm
Alliance française de Bangkok
Conference in French, Thai and English
Free entrance
The French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) organises a roundtable entitled ‘Cities in Transition in Southeast Asia. New Challenges for Urban Development’, in partnership with the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) and Alliance Française (...)

The Institute of Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) and the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS), Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University present
A public lecture at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
Rethinking the Nature/Culture Divide
By Philippe Descola
Professor at Collège de France, Chair in Anthropology of Nature
Discussants :
Dr. Yukti MUKDAWIJITRA (Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University) Thanes WONGYANNAWA (Faculty of (...)

The Institute of Research on Contemporary southeast Asia (IRASEC) and the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Faculty of Social Science of Chiang Mai University
International Workshop : "Natures and Cultures in Southeast Asia" at Chiang Mai University
With the participation of Philippe Descola
Professor at Collège de France, Chair in Anthropology of Nature
November 7 and 8 th 2017 from 9h00 h to 17h00.
4th floor meeting room, Operational (...)

Risk Management and Development :
Issues and Limits of the Post-“Natural” Disaster
Resettlements on Mount Merapi (Java, Indonesia)
by
(IrAsia, Aix-Marseille University)
Institut Français d’Indonésie - Centre de Yogyakarta (LIP)
Adeline Martinez
Jalan Sagan n°3, Yogyakarta 55223
13 october 2017 at 4 pm
After the 2010 Merapi volcano eruption, a new risk management program has been created by the Indonesian government for the victims, which associates risk mitigation and livelihood’s (...)

Le partenariat UE-ASEAN face aux partenariats concurrents des puissances d’Asie-Pacifique
Colloque international
École Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur/ Foreign Trade University (ESCE/FTU),
91 Chua Lang St., Dong Da Dist Hanoï, Viêt Nam
9 - 10 octobre 2017
L’IRASEC a le plaisir de faire part du colloque organisé par l’École Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur de Hanoï (ESCE/FTU), le GIS- Centre d’Excellence Jean Monnet et l’Université Rennes 2 auquel participeront quatre de ses chercheurs associés : (...)

Coastal Areas Governance in the Context of
Rapid Tourism Urbanization and
Climate Change in Southeast Asia
Pattaya, Thailand, 15th september 2017
Following the first research restitution workshop held in Bali last April, a presentation of the interim results of the research on "Coastal areas governance in the context of rapid tourism urbanization and climate change in Southeast Asia" was held at the Zign Hotel in Pattaya on 15 September 2017.
It is a programme selected in (...)

Religious Mobilities in Asia :
New networks for New Religious Spaces ?
11-­‐12 September 2017
Inalco, 65 rue des Grands Moulins
75013 Paris
Convenors :
Hui Yeon KIM (Assoc. Prof. Inalco, Paris)
Claire TRAN (Director, IRASEC, Bangkok)
Florence GALMICHE (Assoc. Prof. Paris Diderot, Paris)
Zhe JI (Assoc. Prof. Inalco, Paris)
The concept of mobility has emerged as a new framework that challenges the sedentary and territorial precepts of twentieth century social sciences (Urry 2006 ; (...)

“Beetle fighting and Northern Thai cosmology”
A Talk by Stéphane Rennesson
Tuesday, 26 September, 2017, 7:30 pm
at the Alliance Française, Chiang Mai
422nd Meeting of the Informal Northern Thai Group
Free entrance - Conference in english
This talk is a story of a game that builds upon an uncanny cooperation between human beings and insects. Rhinoceros beetles (xylotrupes Gideon, or as they are known in Thailand: แมงกว่างชน: maeng kwaang chon) are found all over Southeast Asia. However, only in (...)