28 January 2021 (from 5:30 pm)
Alliance française de Bangkok
179 Thanon Witthayu, Lumphini, Pathumwan
Bangkok 10330 Thailand
Free admission upon registration
Language : English
The second edition of the Night of Ideas will take place at the Alliance Française in Bangkok and online. A debate with six panelists on the role of citizens in the urban fabric in Southeast Asia with screenings.
Celebrating the free flow of ideas between countries, cultures, topics and generations : each year, (...)

GEMMES VN Project has launched a webinar series dedicated to disseminate its preliminary research results.
Thi Anh-Dao TRAN (Research Associate at IRASEC) and her PhD student presented in the 3rd session held on 17th December 2020 in Hanoi and online for participants.
Chaired by Mrs DANG Thi Thu Hoai (CIEM, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Vietnam), this 3rd workshop’s topic of this series was dedicated to “Macroeconomics of climate change and adaptation (to 2050)” with the presentation (...)

Contradictions, Controversies and Challenges
Edited by Erdinç Çakmak, Hazel Tucker and Keith Hollinshead
15th January 2021, 192 p.
ISBN : 9781845418144
Emmanuelle PEYVEL contributed to the book edited by E. Çakmak, H. Tucker and K. Hollinshead Tourism Paradoxes : Contradictions, Controversies and Challenges, with the chapter entitled "Go West ! Overcoming the Paradoxes of Kinh Tourism in Vietnamese Mountains : A Postcolonial Geography".
At a time when COVID-19 is transforming the tourism (...)

Happy 2021 !
The whole Irasec team
wishes you a happy new year ! Research Studies Cooperation Exchanges Debates

Insights from Alternative Southeast Asian Constitutional Modernities
Asian Studies vol 51 No 3-4 (2020) : New Area Studies and Southeast Asia
Published : 2020-11-23
Eugénie MÉRIEAU, IRASEC associated researcher, just published an article in the Special Issue on New Area Studies, Disciplines and Southeast Asia edited by Peter Jackson and Andrea Fleschenberg.
Like “philosophy”, constitutional law is a disguised form of area studies that should more adequately be called “Western” or (...)

Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective
Edited by Lisa B.W. Drummond and Douglas Young
2020, 336 p.
ISBN 9781442632530
Emmanuelle PEYVEL contributed to the book edited by L. Drummond and D. Young, Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms : Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective, with the chapter written with Marie GIBERT entitled "The Reshaping of Post-Socialist Hồ Chí Minh City : Leisure Practices and Social Control".
Socialist cities have special qualities which endure in (...)

Appel à communication pour les journées scientifiques du GIS Asie
Le GIS Asie organise les 2 et 3 juin 2021 deux journées scientifiques sur la thématique du « Care » : AsieS « en care » : Le souci d’autrui au prisme des études asiatiques. Ces Journées se tiendront au Campus Condorcet en présentiel pour les participant.e.s qui le souhaitent et en distanciel via une application logicielle.
L’appel à communication est désormais lancé et ouvert à l’ensemble des chercheur.e.s, enseignant.e.s-chercheur.e.s, (...)

The role of the renminbi in trade partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region
Research article written by Phi Minh Hong and TRAN Thi Anh-Dao, affiliated researcher at IRASEC, in Post-Communist Economies journal, Volume 32, 2020 - Issue 8.
The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on 15 November 2020 by leaders of 15 Asia Pacific countries has created the largest regional free trade zone in the world. As part of the 37th ASEAN Summit chaired by Vietnam in Hanoi, (...)

Fututre climate scenarios over Vietnam :
preliminary results from Gemmes
GEMMES VN Project is launching a webinar series dedicated to disseminate its preliminary research results. This series would take the form of 5 Workshop from December 2020 and be organized in Hanoi and online for participants.
We will have the 1st webinar/seminar session on 03 December 2020 (Thursday) from 15:30 Vietnam time (GMT+7), with some papers as below :
Building high-resolution future climate scenarios in (...)

a multispecies ethnography of the Khamti and elephants in Northeast IndiaMuséum national d’Histoire naturelle
Paris, 26 novembre 2020, 272 p.
ISBN : 978-2-85653-928-6
We are pleased to announce the publication of the book by Nicolas LAINÉ, IRASEC scholarship holder in 2018, published by the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Presentation of the book / Table of contents / Buy the (...)