Friday, January 20, 2016 – 14h30 / 16h30
Alumni Meeting Room, 12th Floor,
Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University
Pinkaew Laungaramsri (Faculty of Social Science, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Chiang Mai University) will go on with the lecture series of the academic seminar with a session about nature conservation in Thailand..
This talk focuses on the process of social production of “nature” within the changing political economy of modern Thailand. By (...)

​Landscapes of violence, enchantment and social change in Cambodia’s highlands

Conference by Eve Zucker, Anthropologist,
Council on Southeast Asian Studies, University of Yale

Tuesday 17 January at 6:30pm
Institut français du Cambodge (Phnom Penh)

Malaisie – Chine : une « précieuse » relation
David Delfolie, Nathalie Fau et Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux
Carnet de l’IRASEC n°7 – Série Enquête
272 p. (ISBN 978-616-7571-30-0)
Le cas de la Malaisie est particulièrement révélateur de l’influence politique et économique croissante de la Chine sur l’Asie du Sud-Est. Le rapprochement entre la Malaisie et la Chine, longtemps entravé par des divergences idéologiques, s’est renforcé au cours de cette dernière décennie. Dans un contexte d’intégration régionale de (...)

IRASEC is proud to introduce the Myanmar Law Library website made by Rémy Nguyen, holder of an IRASEC International Mobility doctoral Contract.
This website is a first step towards simplified access to the Burmese law. It is the result of a long and thorough research and compilation of numerous legal sources (jurisprudence, university libraries etc.).
Myanmar-law-library (MLL) is a website hosted in France and created by Rémi Nguyen, Ph.D Candidate in Law at CNRS (French National Center for (...)

Friday, December 16, 2016 – 14h30 / 16h30
Alumni Meeting Room, 12th Floor,
Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University
Jakkrit Sangkhamanee (CSDS, Faculty of Political Science, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Chulalongkorn University) will go on with the lecture series of the academic seminar with a session about Modern Thai Water Engineering.
The talk will explore Thailand’s Royal Irrigation Department Museum for Heavy Engineering where the works and lives of (...)

Societies and Environments in Southeast Asia
CSDS-IRASEC Academic Seminar 2016-2017
Introduction session. Beyond nature and culture in Southeast Asian Societies.
Friday, November 4, 2016
Abigaël Pesses and Stéphane Rennesson (IRASEC-CNRS) opened the lecture series of the academic seminar with a session introducing the work of the French anthropologist Philippe Descola and how it can be adapted to analyse the diversity of Southeast Asian ethnographic materials.
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Jeudi 8 décembre 2016 à 19h
Médiathèque de l’Alliance française de Bangkok
Entrée libre
Langue : Français
Présentation du livre Chrétiens évangéliques d’Asie du Sud-Est. Expériences locales d’une ferveur conquérante par deux auteurs, Pascal Bourdeaux et Jérémy Jammes, avec la participation de la journaliste Carol Isoux. La rencontre sera animée par Claire Tran, directrice de l’IRASEC.
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Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia
How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a RegionSous la direction de Pál Nyíri et Danielle Tan
IRASEC avec University of Washington Press
312 p. (ISBN 9780295999302)
This is the first book to focus explicitly on how China's rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists, bureaucrats, longtime residents, and adventurers interact throughout (...)

As part of the relationship developed with the CNRS,
the AXA Research Fund, will be offering up to 25 Post-Doctoral Fellowships. The applicants can be awarded a grant for up to €130,000 for an 18 to 24-month period. This scholarship is open to all Ph.D. applicants without any condition of nationality. The applicants must have been awarded his/her first PhD (or equivalent doctoral degree) before the beginning of the Post-Doctoral grant and within the 3 years. The research project should (...)

Co-organized by Institute of Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) and Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS), Chulalongkorn University

In partnership with Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University ; the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Chiang Mai University ; and the Siamese Association of Sociologists and Anthropologists (SASA)
This seminar aims to discuss the relationship between Southeast Asian societies and their (...)