In collaboration with the Embassy of France in Bangkok, IRASEC and the Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Road Safety, ESCAP is hosting a side event during the 81st Commission Session on "Road Safety and Sustainable Urban Transport Development in Developing Countries." The event took place in-person at the United Nations Conference Centre and online on 22 April 2025.

As urbanization rapidly reshapes cities across Asia and the Pacific, road safety is essential for building resilient, sustainable, and inclusive urban transport systems. This side event will highlight the importance of integrating road safety into urban planning to promote multimodal transport solutions that reduce road traffic injuries and fatalities. It will also explore how road safety interventions, along with land-use planning and travel demand management, contribute to safer and more sustainable mobility for all. The session will showcase ongoing efforts in the region to optimize both motorized and non-motorized transport modes, reduce road exposure, and ensure equitable access to mobility, in alignment with the goals of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 and the Regional Plan of Action for Asia and the Pacific.

From 7 to 10 April 2025, a four-days training course on sustainability science was held at Mae Fah Luang University’s School of Social Innovation (Chiang Rai) with the support of IRD, IRASEC and Chulalongkorn University (CU). The training gathered 20 students.

From 7 to 10 April 2025, this training course for 2nd year BA students in International Development (25 participants) will take place at the School of Social Innovation, Mae Fah Luang University. It will be organized by Mae Fah Luang University ; Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) ; Chulalongkorn University ; French Research Institute for Development (IRD).

À l’occasion du lancement de l’édition 2025 de L’Asie du Sud-Est. Bilan, enjeux et perspectives, quatre auteurs viendront présenter le fruit de leurs recherches : Éric Daudé (CNRS) sur la surveillance de la dengue, et Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux et Muriel Périsse (INALCO et Université d’Artois) sur la question du travail. La présentation sera animée par Gabriel Facal (Directeur adjoint de IRASEC).

Mardi 11 Mars 2025, de 18:30 à 19:30

La présentation sera en français, l’entrée est libre sur inscription.

Nous avons le plaisir de partager l’annonce de la soutenance de l’Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches d’Emmanuelle Peyvel, qui se tiendra le vendredi 14 mars 2025 à 8h30 à l’Université Grenoble Alpes, ainsi qu’en visio.

This website contains sounds, mainly music and speech, recorded in Southeast Asia, during the colonial era and after.

Development of the Pratinada website began in June 2021. It is part of the project Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS), funded by European funds from the Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPICH), 2021-2024.

IRASEC was represented at this year’s GYSS by Clément Berthou, a doctoral student in economics at Grenoble Alpes University. He had the opportunity to present his research on the dollarization of Cambodia in a poster session, and to meet the two other CNRS representatives present : Paul Bruand and Lucile Vaschalde, both post-docs in Japan.

Organised by IRASEC and Géographie-cités,
Wednesday 15 January 2025 at 10.30-12.30,
ESSEC Business School, Asia-Pacific campus, Singapore.

In Indonesia, 2024 was punctuated by election campaigns and various ballots : presidential and legislative votes (February 14), then to renew 545 regional chiefs (November 27), most of whom were previously represented on an interim basis.
While some mass-based parties have experienced a setback, and the number of candidates from political dynasties has increased compared to previous elections, do these elections mark a renewal or, on the contrary, are they part of a continuity ? How should we interpret the large number of army and police officers (both active and veteran) appointed to the Cabinet of newly-elected President Prabowo Subianto ? Have the numerous modifications and manipulations of electoral regulations and mechanisms that have marked 2023 and 2024 eroded citizens’ confidence in the democratic system ?

Sustainable Development Studies in Southeast Asia (SUDSSEA)
Bangkok & Manila, November 25-December 7, 2024

The Institute for Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) held its third Winter Doctoral School from November 25 to December 7, 2024. Dedicated to sustainable development studies in Southeast Asia, the two-week event brought together 20 students in Bangkok and Manila. The organizing committee was made up of IRASEC, the main coordinator, and two partners : the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology at Thammasat University (Bangkok), and the Center for Integrative Development Studies (CIDS) at the University of the Philippines Diliman (Philippines).

On December 10 and 11, 2024, in Bangkok, Éric Daudé launched the SEA-ROADS project with his partners S. Boyer, A. Cebeillac, F. Girond, V. Herbreteau and R. Paul. among others, the SEA-ROADS project. He gave a presentation on intra-urban dengue risk models.