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 (...)

The Institute of Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) and the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS), Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University present
A public lecture at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
Rethinking the Nature/Culture Divide
By Philippe Descola
Professor at Collège de France, Chair in Anthropology of Nature
Discussants :
Dr. Yukti MUKDAWIJITRA (Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University) Thanes WONGYANNAWA (Faculty of (...)

The Institute of Research on Contemporary southeast Asia (IRASEC) and the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Faculty of Social Science of Chiang Mai University
International Workshop : "Natures and Cultures in Southeast Asia" at Chiang Mai University
With the participation of Philippe Descola
Professor at Collège de France, Chair in Anthropology of Nature
November 7 and 8 th 2017 from 9h00 h to 17h00.
4th floor meeting room, Operational (...)

On October 6, 2017, Anne Guillou served on the jury for the thesis defense of the 4th year students of the Faculty of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA), Phnom Penh. In 2016 IRASEC had signed a MoU involving teaching and research programmes with RUFA
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Risk Management and Development :
Issues and Limits of the Post-“Natural” Disaster
Resettlements on Mount Merapi (Java, Indonesia)
by
(IrAsia, Aix-Marseille University)
Institut Français d’Indonésie - Centre de Yogyakarta (LIP)
Adeline Martinez
Jalan Sagan n°3, Yogyakarta 55223
13 october 2017 at 4 pm
After the 2010 Merapi volcano eruption, a new risk management program has been created by the Indonesian government for the victims, which associates risk mitigation and livelihood’s (...)

Le partenariat UE-ASEAN face aux partenariats concurrents des puissances d’Asie-Pacifique
Colloque international
École Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur/ Foreign Trade University (ESCE/FTU),
91 Chua Lang St., Dong Da Dist Hanoï, Viêt Nam
9 - 10 octobre 2017
L’IRASEC a le plaisir de faire part du colloque organisé par l’École Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur de Hanoï (ESCE/FTU), le GIS- Centre d’Excellence Jean Monnet et l’Université Rennes 2 auquel participeront quatre de ses chercheurs associés : (...)

Alexandra de Mersan, chercheure associée à l’IRASEC, vient d’écrire un article sur la situation en Birmanie et plus particulièrement dans l’état Rhakine.
Retour en Arakan ou comment comprendre la lente exclusion des Rohingyas
Elle a aussi participé avec Sophie Boisseau du Rocher, au débat de Géopolitique, émission de Marie-France Chatin sur RFI diffusée le 16 septembre 2017.
Géopolitique, le débat - La transition démocratique et la stabilité de la Birmanie sont-elles menacées (...)