Meeting with Mr Antoine Ripoll, Minister Counsellor for Parliamentary Affairs at the Delegation of the European Union to ASEAN.
The meeting provided an opportunity to discuss potential avenues for collaboration ahead of the 50th anniversary of EU–ASEAN relations and the 60th anniversary of ASEAN. Promising prospects ahead.

Rencontre de la directrice de l’IRASEC, Claire TRAN avec l’ambassadeur de France au Myanmar, Christian Lechervy, le 2 mars 2020.

French Institute of Indonesia (IFI),
30th August 2019, Jakarta
During her operations in Indonesia and Timor-Leste, Christine CABASSET was able to attend the Research Institutes on Indonesia’s meeting, organised by and at the French Institute of Indonesia (IFI) in Jakarta.
The director of EFEO Indonesia, Véronique Degroot, and the director of IRD Indonesia, Edmond Dounias, were present; the director of the Insular South East Asia CIRAD branch, Alain Rival, was not able to make the meeting. (...)

Invitated by Kyoto University, IRASEC Director Claire TRAN visited Japan from 19 to 23 June 2019. She met with the Director of the Center of Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) Prof. Yoko Hayami and the Center's researchers for future collaborations. She spoke at a seminar on A Vietnamese Catholic family in the Red River Delta and beyond: The Story of Dr Nguyễn Xuân Mai, his ancestors and descendants.
She also met Prof. Prof. Motoki Takahashi, Deputy Director of the Center for African Area (...)

As part of her mission in Vietnam, IRASEC Director Claire Thi Lien TRÂN continued her working meetings in Hanoi with Thi Anh-Dao TRÂN, researcher in the IRASEC delegation in Vietnam. They presented IRASEC's projects in Vietnam for the year 2019 to the French ambassador Bertrand Lortholary, the Cooperation and Cultural Action Advisor Etienne Rolland-Piegue and the scientific cooperation attaché Eric Mollay.
They also held discussions with Hanoi's academic partners: the Graduate Academy (...)

The Director of IRASEC Claire Trần is on a mission to Vietnam to set up scientific cooperation projects led by the IRASEC representative in Ho Chi Minh City, Trần Thị Anh Dao:
Presentation of IRASEC's projects in Vietnam for the year 2019 during a meeting with the French consul in Ho Chi Minh City, Vincent Floreani and Jean Philippe Rousse, attaché for cooperation and cultural action.
Meeting with the partners of the University of Rouen Vincent Merlin and Arsène Rieber, the Director of (...)

Myanmar – Thailand Higher Education Institutions Leadership and Networking
November 16th, 2018 - OHEC, Bangkok
At the invitation of Professor Romyen Kosaikanont, Vice President of Mae Fah Luang University, Claire TRAN, Director of IRASEC, participated in the Myanmar - Thailand Higher Education Institutions Leadership and Networking Programme on 16 November 2018 at the Office of Higher Education Commission (OHEC) of the Thai Ministry of Education.
The objective of this programme is to (...)

On 26 October 2018, IRASEC was visited by Mr Gleford Jr. N. LAGCAO, Professor in the Department of History, International Studies and Political Science at Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan (Cagayan de Oro, Philippines) and a group of 7 students on a study tour to Thailand. The objective was to discover IRASEC as a regional research centre on South-East Asia and to gather concrete points of view and information on the research (...)

Carol L MITCHELL, Director of the Regional Office of the Library of Congress in Jakarta and Sunantha MUANGNIL Representative of the Antenna in Bangkok, visit IRASEC on February 26th, 2018.

Very happy to welcome Peter Schoppert and Paul Kratoska from NUS Press at IRASEC the 15th December!