6th Congres of GIS Asie
June 26 - 28, 2017
Sciences Po, Paris
Claire TRAN took part to the panel co-organized by Case, Paris and IRASEC, Bangkok: Former and new elites in South-East Asia, training and legitimacy.
Panel participants: Jérôme SAMUEL (Inalco), Remy Madinier (CNRS-EHESS), Claire Tran (IRASEC), Sophie Boisseau du Rocher (Centre Asie, Ifri), Suppya NUT (Inalco/Université de Cologne), David Delfolie (l’IDHES-CNRS) et Gabriel Facal (Case).
On the right side: in the background are (...)

Association of Asian Studies Conference:
Asia in Motion: Beyond Borders and Boundaries
Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
June 24-27, 2017
Claire Tran participated to the panel Plural Urbanities. Transnational Flows and the Management of Religious Diversity in South and Southeast Asian Cities, on the side (from left to right): Bernardo Brown (Asian Research Institute - NUS), Chiara Formichi, (Cornell University), Michael Feener (National University of Singapore) Ester Gallo (European (...)

How is folk memory created in Cambodia?
by Anne Yvonne Guillou,
Anthropologist at CNRS / IRASEC
Tuesday 6th June at 6:30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, translated in Khmer and English
Free entrance
Folk memory is the sum of representations of memorable past events that members of any given community build together – often without even realizing it – and then pass down from generation to generation. Folk memory in Cambodia is closely tied to the land and the (...)

Conference University Paris Sorbonne Cité/
National University of Singapore :
Science, Policy & Society
May 18-19, 2017, Singapore
This conference allowed for rich exchanges with fellows and strengthened existing relationships with partners.
(Maurizio Peleggi (NUS) et Hyacinthe Randriamahazaka (Paris Diderot))
Photo on the left : IRASEC's direction with Luc Le Calvez, representative of CNRS at Singapore.
Photo on the right : Claire TRAN with Mariana Losada, representative USPC (...)

Transitions urbaines en Asie du Sud-Est
De la métropolisation émergente et de ses formes dérivées
Sous la direction de Karine Peyronnie, Charles Goldblum et Bounleuam Sisoulath
IRASEC et IRD Éditions - Collection : Objectifs Suds - 2017
360 pages, 978-2-70992-262-3
Les pays en transition vers l’économie de marché que sont le Cambodge, le Laos et le Vietnam n’échappent pas au mouvement d’urbanisation accélérée que connaît actuellement l’ensemble de l’Asie du Sud-Est. Ils rencontrent cependant des (...)

We are delighted to announce that the OpenEdition Scientific Council has approved the IRASEC's request to create an online publishing space on the OpenEdition Books platform. Today this platform includes more than 4,000 books in human and social sciences, and more than a half of which are freely accessible. This new partnership, in favor of a science open to all, will considerably improve the visibility, the ability to cite and access to the IRASEC (...)

Neak ta (land guardian spirits) in Cambodia.
Reflections on the ideas of humanity and nature from the Khmer perspective
Friday, May 12th, 2017 – 14h30 / 16h30
Alumni Meeting Room, 12th Floor,
Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University
Anne Yvonne Guillou (Cnrs, IRASEC) will go on with the lecture series of the academic seminar with a session about the ideas of humanity and nature from the Khmer perspective.
As a key element of the Khmer popular religious system, cults to (...)

On April 26, 2017, the Conference "Coastal areas governance in the context of rapid urbanization and climate change in Southeast Asia" was held in Bali, at the Bali Tourism Board (BTB), with four presentations given by Dr. Christine Cabasset And Dr. Agung Suryawan Wiranatha (Udayana University - UNDP Bali Indonesia), Dr. Vilas Nitivattananon (Asian Institute of Technology - AIT Thailand). The objective of the conference was to disseminate the first results of the research program (...)

Wednesday, 29 April 2017 – 9.00/16.00
PhD Programme Meeting Room
4th Floor, Faculty of Social Administration Building
Thammasat University, Tha Prachan
Stéphane Rennesson will participate to a workshop that will discuss the concept of Cultural Intimacy coined by Professor Michael Herzfeld's (Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) in his presence. The workshop organised by the Faculty of Sociology and Anthroplogy of Thammasat University and the Center for Contemporary Social (...)

Wednesday, 26 April 2017 - 14.00 / 17.00
Bali Tourism Board, Meeting Room, 2nd Floor
Jalan Raya Puputan No. 41, Renon - Denpasar 80235
Dr. Christine Cabasset will participate to the half day Seminar on coastal areas governance in the context of rapid tourism urbanization and climate change in Southeast Asia, Dr. Vilas Nitivattananon (AIT), and Dr. Agung Suryawan Wiranatha (UNUD).
This event is organised by University of Udayana (UNUD) in collaboration with Asian Institute of Technology (...)