Le Saigon Social Sciences Hub (SSSH) est un groupe anglophone de jeunes chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales travaillant sur le Việt Nam, hébergé par le centre EFEO (École française d’Extrême-Orient) de Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville et soutenu par le GIS Asie depuis 2021. Le SSSH regroupe actuellement (2025) 300 membres à l’international et a organisé près de 70 événements scientifiques entre 2020 et 2025 (séminaires, tables rondes et présentations individuelles).

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.

Bangkok & Kuala Lumpur, 27 November - 9 December 2023

The Research Institute of Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) organises an annual winter school in the social sciences and humanities, in collaboration with a range of European and Southeast Asian universities and research centers. The purpose of these workshops is to stimulate discourse and exchange regarding research on Southeast Asia within the scope of social sciences and humanities. IRASEC’s winter schools are designed to endorse comparative and regional research methodologies, facilitate the interaction of students, and promote co-tutorship and co-supervision of dissertations for early-career researchers in Southeast Asia, particularly those who exhibit an interest in continuing their studies in France. In 2023, the IRASEC winter school will be dedicated to migration in Southeast Asia.

Candidates shall submit their application at the latest on September 15th 2023. Successful applicants will be notified on September 30th 2023.

The winter school Urban Theories Across Borders (UTAB) targets early career researchers — master and PhD students — who aim to pursue knowledge production about cities and urbanization in Southeast Asia from a social sciences perspective. It helps the students to engage with the most recent debates in the urban studies field, provides methodological tools to write and improve research proposals, and initiate the students to urban fieldwork activities.
This year, UTAB thematic focus is on (...)