Claire TRAN has participated in the second edition Aur@sia International Symposium, organized by CNRS, together with the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies of CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences), on 28 – 29 November 2017. With the participation of Patrick Nedellec (CNRS Director, European Research and International Cooperation Office) and Sylvie Démurger (Deputy Director, CNRS institute of Social Sciences and Humanities) . The Director of IRASEC has presented the activities of her Center (...)

La revue Moussons vient de faire paraître, dans son dernier numéro, un compte rendu de l’ouvrage Transitions urbaines en Asie du Sud-Est. De la métropolisation émergente et de ses formes dérivées, sous la direction de Karine Peyronnie, Charles Goldblum & Bounleuam Sisoulath.

On November 29, 2017, Anne Guillou has presented to the students of the Department of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA), Phnom Penh, the Master of Devopment Studies of the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RSCD) at Chiang Mai University. The RSCD offers scholarships to foreign students and the Cambodian students have showed great interest in the Master curriculum. This presentation takes place in the context of the cooperation between IRASEC and (...)

On 24 November 2017, Anne Guillou was invited by the director of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (Phnom Penh) to give a lecture (in Khmer) on "Care and Nursing under the Khmer Rouge regime". The public was made up of high school students and staff from the Genocide Museum.

Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting 2017
Tropical Medicine 4.0 : Effective Collaboration for
an Impact on Global Health
Date : December 6-8, 2017
Venue : Amari Watergate, Bangkok, Thaïlande
Abigaël PESSES and Stéphane RENNESSON, researchers at IRASEC, will present their work in the S8 panel : Investigating Neglected Infectious Diseases at the Interface between Ecology and Anthropology chaired by Serge Morand (CIRAD, Kasetsart University) and Paron Dekumyoy (Mahidol University) (...)

On Tuesday, 21, November 2017 Ashley Thompson (Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, SOAS, University London) gave a lecture on "Ghosts of the past: About the four Buddhas after Angkor" at the French Institute of Cambodia. 140 persons attended it.
This is the last presentation of the 2017 IRASEC conference series "Time, Space, Memory" organized by Anne Yvonne Guillou, Anthropologist at CNRS / IRASEC in Cambodia.
A new IRASEC conference series will be organized in 2018 on (...)

IRASEC participates in AUR@SIA 2 organized by the CNRS and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shaghai Institute for Advanced Studies) in Shanghai from 27 to 29 November 2017.
The director of IRASEC, Claire TRAN, will take part in the summit meeting of CNRS Asian entities from 27 to 29 November in Shanghai. During these three days of the Symposium, the different actors will highlight their research work. Such a gathering represents an ideal opportunity for our partners in Asia, such as (...)

Workshop Christian Networks in Southeast Asia
Georgetown, Penang Dec 1 & 2, 2017
co-organized by IRASEC within the NUS-USPC project “Project Intersecting Mobilities: Southeast Asia from the Perspective of Religious Mobility”
This two-day workshop focused on the historical and contemporary dynamics of Christian networks in Southeast Asia is part of the broader comparative exploration of religious networks in Asia supported by a collaborative grant awarded by Université Sorbonne Paris (...)

Ghosts of the past: About the four Buddhas after Angkor
With Ashley Thompson, Professor Hiram W. Woodward, Chair in Southeast Asian Art, Centre for Southest Asian Studies (SOAS, London).
Tuesday 21st November 2017 at 6:30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, translated in Khmer and English
Free entrance
What became of Angkor after Angkor? How do people remember the empire after its fall? What about its future? This conference will try to answer those questions based on (...)

‘Cities in Transition in Southeast Asia.
New Challenges for Urban Development’
Wednesday, November 22nd 2017, at 6:00pm
Alliance française de Bangkok
Conference in French, Thai and English
Free entrance
The French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) organises a roundtable entitled ‘Cities in Transition in Southeast Asia. New Challenges for Urban Development’, in partnership with the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) and Alliance Française (...)