“Beetle fighting and Northern Thai cosmology”
A Talk by Stéphane Rennesson
Tuesday, 26 September, 2017, 7:30 pm
at the Alliance Française, Chiang Mai
422nd Meeting of the Informal Northern Thai Group
Free entrance - Conference in english
This talk is a story of a game that builds upon an uncanny cooperation between human beings and insects. Rhinoceros beetles (xylotrupes Gideon, or as they are known in Thailand: แมงกว่างชน: maeng kwaang chon) are found all over Southeast Asia. However, only in (...)

Continuation of the conference cycle "Time, Space, Memory" organised by IRASEC in partnership with the Institut Français du Cambodge. The presentation of social science researchers' work to a wide audience has been very successful.
The fourth conference of the cycle took place on 12 September 2017 in Phnom Penh. Fabienne Luco, an anthropologist associated with the Southeast Asia Centre, presented her research on "Legends and Guardian Geniuses in Angkor" (translated (...)

Religious Mobilities in Asia:
New networks for New Religious Spaces ?
Lundi 11 septembre 2017 - 09:30 - Mardi 12 septembre 2017 - 12:30
Inalco - Salle 4.07 / 5.18 - 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris
Convenors:
Hui Yeon KIM (Assoc. Prof. Inalco, Paris)
Claire TRAN (Director, IRASEC, Bangkok)
Florence GALMICHE (Assoc. Prof. Paris Diderot, Paris)
Zhe JI (Assoc. Prof. Inalco, Paris)
The concept of mobility has emerged as a new framework that challenges the sedentary and (...)

Legends and guardian spirits in Angkor
with Fabienne Luco, Anthropologist
Tuesday 12th September at 6:30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, translated in Khmer and English
Free entrance
Can landscapes serve as a tool in the cultural transmission? In Angkor, where traces of ancient history can be found everywhere, current inhabitants have filled the land with stories and divinities. What do they tell us? Read more
This conference is part of the IRASEC conference (...)

IRASEC is pleased to announce the parution of an article and two books with the participation of Eric Mottet, affiliated researcher to the IRASEC.
Assessing Maritime Disputes in East Asia
Political and Legal Perspectives
Edited by Barthelemy Courmont, Frederic Lasserre, Eric Mottet
Combining practical and theoretical approaches, this book addresses the political, legal and economic implications of maritime disputes in East Asia.
The maritime disputes in East Asia have multiplied over (...)

Food and the emerging cities : A crossed perspective
L'information géographique (3/2017), pp. 54-74, Armand Colin
IRASEC is pleased to announce the parution of the article "Food and the emerging cities : A crossed perspective" written by Gwenn Pulliat, holder of a research scholarship.
As a consequence of urban sprawl, the formalization of retail chains, as well as the shifts in food consumption patterns, the urban food system is undergoing rapid changes in emerging cities. (...)

Lecture at Chiang Mai University, Faculty of Social Sciences
Wednesday, September 13 (09h00 - 12h00).
International Program Meeting Room 1 (SB3201)
Speaker : Dr. Abigaël PESSES (deputy director of IRASEC)
Moderator/discussant : Dr. Robert Farnan (Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University)
Partners : IRASEC, RCSD Chiang Mai University, CAS (Center of Asean Studies, CMU)
Abstract : This lecture will present the work of the French anthropologist Philippe Descola and focus on the (...)

En route to the United Kingdom
A field survey of vietnamese migrants
Thi Hiep NGUYEN et Danielle TAN
IRASEC et France terre d’asile, mars 2017, 132 p.
ISSN : 2102-376X
France terre d'asile has realised a field survey of vitenamese migrants in transit in the Pas-de-Calais department, in the context of an innovative project conducted by France terre d’asile between the 1st November 2015 and the 30th April 2017, entitled “assistance project for victims of human trafficking”, a project to (...)

Chiang Mai International Exhibition and Convention Centre (CMECC)
456 Changpuak District, Tambon Changpuak,
Meung Chiang Mai, Thailand 50300
Tel : 66(0) 53-010571-3
IRASEC is involved in the tenth session of ICAS at Chiang Mai : our publications are presented on our booth (booth C3) and we will participate to a panel with the contribution of Anne Yvonne Guillou, Abigaël Pesses et Stéphane Rennesson (Panel 287 – 23 july, 11h30-13h15, room 10).
Download the programme book.
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The 6th of June, 2017, 110 persons attended the presentation by Anne Guillou, "How Khmer people create social memory?" in Phnom Penh. This is the 3rd presentation of the "Time, Space, and Memory" Conferences series, organized by IRASEC in partnership with the French Institute of Cambodia. The next one will be held in september 2017.