IRASEC is offering two grants to support fieldwork research. These grants are open to applicants of all nationalities who are enrolled in a doctoral program at a French university and conducting research on contemporary Southeast Asia. They are intended to support fieldwork related to the applicant’s doctoral research topic. Proposed research projects should offer an original and innovative perspective on Southeast Asia and fall within the disciplinary areas covered by IRASEC’s research activities.

October 30, 2026, 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Singapore time)

Registration to the webinar.

Elisabeth Peyroux, CNRS Research Director, Associate Researcher at IRASEC and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute (ARI) of the National University of Singapore (NUS), will participate in this webinar as part of the “Critical Social AI webinar series,” alongside Bahia Guellai (CNRS@CREATE). They will present interdisciplinary reflections on the challenges of redefining human agency and responsibility from their respective disciplinary perspectives.

Thanawat BREMARD will presente a paper entitled “Pragmatism as social capital : Community responses to urban floods in Thai provincial cities” in “Climate Justice and Green Transition in ASEAN–ROK Cooperation : Community Resilience, Governance, and Cultural Identity” session at The 2026 International Conference of ASEAN Studies.

The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) and the Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine (IRASEC) are offering postdoctoral researchers residing in France who defended their PhD dissertation in 2021, a mobility grant to undertake a 2-, 3-, or 4-month research stay in the countries of Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam).

Audrey FARAL
IRASEC, Bangkok
October 2026, 32 p.
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The 2011 Tohoku disaster (Japan) and the 2018 Palu disaster (Indonesia) have highlighted the importance of considering interactions between hazards, as well as their consequences for increasingly exposed populations and rapidly urbanizing territories. These events have contributed to the emergence of a new paradigm in risk assessment, based on a multi-hazard approach that moves beyond the isolated analysis of individual natural hazards to better characterize their interactions and combined effects.

The 2027–2028 call for applications to host faculty researchers at a CNRS laboratory is now open. As a UMIFRE, IRASEC is able to host faculty researchers to support them in their research. All profiles and research projects in the social sciences and humanities focusing on Southeast Asia are welcome. Visits last for one year and may be renewed once. More information is available on the CNRS website.
The Galaxie application system will be open from Monday, September 21, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. (...)

Practices, Representations, and Identities in the Visual Archive
Edited by : Tim Allender , Inés Dussel , Ian Grosvenor and Karin Priem
Published by De Gruyter, 2026

Emmanuelle Peyvel, Associate Research Fellow, co-authered with Alexandra de Heering and Eric Jennings, the chapter “A Colonial Lens on the High Ground : Imperial Vantage Points in British Indian and French Indochinese Hill Stations”.


Read the book: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/docu...

Emmanuelle Peyvel with Eric Jennings, Alexandra de Heering, Judicaelle Dietrich and Isabelle Sacareau just published an article entitled « Asian hill stations : Defining and mapping a transcolonial phenomena » in the last issue of Journal of Historical Geography.

Read the article.

From the nineteenth century onwards in the British, French, and Dutch empires in Asia, colonial societies developed a new type of place in the mountains : the hill station. As simple as it may seem, this topic – in other words, what constitutes a hill station - proves slippery. […]

The Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the UMIFRE network, supports early-career researchers in Islamic studies by offering six-month field research fellowships to master’s students, doctoral candidates, and recent PhD graduates conducting research in this field. Fellows will be hosted by member centers of the UMIFRE network—which includes IRASEC—and other research institutes partnering with the (...)

Pana KANTHA
IRASEC, Bangkok
August 2026, 19 p.
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The recent and rapid adoption of pet culture in Southeast Asia is not simply a matter of the spread of the Western model, but rather a process of appropriation and reconfiguration shaped by local social structures and new lifestyles. This article analyzes this transformation through the concept of “multiple modernities,” showing how pet culture fits into societies characterized by the persistence of familism, despite profound demographic, economic, and urban changes.