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 (...)

Continuation of the conference cycle "Time, Space, Memory" organised by IRASEC in partnership with the Institut Français du Cambodge. The presentation of social science researchers' work to a wide audience has been very successful.
The fourth conference of the cycle took place on 12 September 2017 in Phnom Penh. Fabienne Luco, an anthropologist associated with the Southeast Asia Centre, presented her research on "Legends and Guardian Geniuses in Angkor" (translated (...)

Religious Mobilities in Asia:
New networks for New Religious Spaces ?
Lundi 11 septembre 2017 - 09:30 - Mardi 12 septembre 2017 - 12:30
Inalco - Salle 4.07 / 5.18 - 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 (...)

Legends and guardian spirits in Angkor
with Fabienne Luco, Anthropologist
Tuesday 12th September at 6:30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, translated in Khmer and English
Free entrance
Can landscapes serve as a tool in the cultural transmission? In Angkor, where traces of ancient history can be found everywhere, current inhabitants have filled the land with stories and divinities. What do they tell us? Read more
This conference is part of the IRASEC conference (...)

Lecture at Chiang Mai University, Faculty of Social Sciences
Wednesday, September 13 (09h00 - 12h00).
International Program Meeting Room 1 (SB3201)
Speaker : Dr. Abigaël PESSES (deputy director of IRASEC)
Moderator/discussant : Dr. Robert Farnan (Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University)
Partners : IRASEC, RCSD Chiang Mai University, CAS (Center of Asean Studies, CMU)
Abstract : This lecture will present the work of the French anthropologist Philippe Descola and focus on the (...)

Chiang Mai International Exhibition and Convention Centre (CMECC)
456 Changpuak District, Tambon Changpuak,
Meung Chiang Mai, Thailand 50300
Tel : 66(0) 53-010571-3
IRASEC is involved in the tenth session of ICAS at Chiang Mai : our publications are presented on our booth (booth C3) and we will participate to a panel with the contribution of Anne Yvonne Guillou, Abigaël Pesses et Stéphane Rennesson (Panel 287 – 23 july, 11h30-13h15, room 10).
Download the programme book.
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RESHAPING (...)

The 6th of June, 2017, 110 persons attended the presentation by Anne Guillou, "How Khmer people create social memory?" in Phnom Penh. This is the 3rd presentation of the "Time, Space, and Memory" Conferences series, organized by IRASEC in partnership with the French Institute of Cambodia. The next one will be held in september 2017.

6th Congres of GIS Asie
June 26 - 28, 2017
Sciences Po, Paris
Claire TRAN took part to the panel co-organized by Case, Paris and IRASEC, Bangkok: Former and new elites in South-East Asia, training and legitimacy.
Panel participants: Jérôme SAMUEL (Inalco), Remy Madinier (CNRS-EHESS), Claire Tran (IRASEC), Sophie Boisseau du Rocher (Centre Asie, Ifri), Suppya NUT (Inalco/Université de Cologne), David Delfolie (l’IDHES-CNRS) et Gabriel Facal (Case).
On the right side: in the background are (...)

Association of Asian Studies Conference:
Asia in Motion: Beyond Borders and Boundaries
Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
June 24-27, 2017
Claire Tran participated to the panel Plural Urbanities. Transnational Flows and the Management of Religious Diversity in South and Southeast Asian Cities, on the side (from left to right): Bernardo Brown (Asian Research Institute - NUS), Chiara Formichi, (Cornell University), Michael Feener (National University of Singapore) Ester Gallo (European (...)