From September 30th 2013 onward, the IRASEC’s offices will be located in the brand new Alliance Française building, on the 4th floor.
The IRASEC team will be ready to welcome you starting October 1st 2013.
Our new address is :
IRASEC
179 Thanon Witthayu
Lumphini, Pathum Wan
Bangkok 10330
Thailand
Our new phone numbers are :
Phone +66 (0) 26 70 42 91
Fax +66 (0) 26 70 42 (...)

Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
The Second and Third Indochina Wars are the subject of important ongoing scholarship, but there has been little research on the lasting impact of wartime violence on local societies and populations, in Vietnam as well as in Laos and Cambodia. Today’s Lao, Vietnamese and Cambodian landscapes bear the imprint of competing violent ideologies and their perilous material manifestations. From battlefields and massively bombed terrain (...)

On 3 September 2013, a public discussion and debate was held at Chulalongkorn University on the theme Continuity and Changes in Myanmar. Dr Renaud Egreteau and Mr Larry Jagan first presented their new book Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma, Understanding the Foreign Relations of the Burmese Praetorian State, published by NUS Press (Singapore) in cooperation with IRASEC.
Dr Sunait Chutintaranond, Director of the Institute of Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University, Dr Jacques Leider, (...)

Le 26 août 2013 à 13h30 a eu lieu au Centre d’économie internationale, faculté d’économie de l’Université Chulalongkorn, la conférence The Ruling Elite of Singapore : Networks of Power and Influence du Dr Michael D. Barr de l’Université de Flinders (Australie), à l’occasion de la sortie prochaine de son livre, en partenariat avec l’IRASEC.
Michael D. Barr a présenté un large panorama de l’élite singapourienne depuis les années 1960 et l’indépendance de la ville-État. L’auteur a également décrit les étapes de (...)

The Center for International Economics, Faculty of Economics Chulalongkorn University and the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) are co-organizing a conference on August 26th, 2013, by Dr. Michael Barr.
Since the dramatic General Elections of 2011, Singapore has been engaged in a period of unprecedented political change that has no clear destination, but is just as clearly not finished yet. The modest but unrelenting rise of the political opposition and the parallel (...)

par Eugénie Mérieau
Cette étude retrace les différents événements fondateurs du mouvement dit des Chemises rouges, depuis leur création embryonnaire à la veille du coup d’État du 19 septembre 2006 jusqu’à leur écrasante victoire électorale du 3 juillet 2011. Offrant un examen détaillé des actions et des motivations des différentes organisations et groupuscules qui composent les Chemises rouges, l’auteur s’attache à décrypter leur rapport au monde, les relations qui les lient à la personne de Thaksin (...)

Politics & Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia
By Dewi Candraningrum
This study will focus on the Indonesian jilbab, an ubiquitous piece of cloth that covers the hair and neck of women tightly, leaving no skin unconcealed. Achievement and role of jilbab after the authoritarian regime of Soeharto in 1998 is hardly known.
The author examines women perception but also the Sharia Ordinances and the narratives of censorship. Voices of both women and sexual minorities (transgenders, gays, (...)

On Friday June 7th 2013 at 10h30 Dr. François Robinne, director of IRASEC has been welcomed at the SEAMEO Regional Centre for Archeology and Fine Arts (SPAFA), a unit under the supervision of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization, by its director, Dr. M.R. Rujaya Abhakorn.
The meeting concerns the future cooperation for the projects on urbanism and archeology in Southeast Asia.
On photo from left to right : M.R. Rujaya Abhakorn, François (...)

Dr. François Robinne met on Tuesday 4th 2013 at IRASEC with Dr. Sunait Chutintaranond (director of the Institute of Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University), Dr. Ukrist Pathmanand (director of the Mekong Studies Center) and Dr. Jacques Leider (EFEO Researcher and Counselor of the Luxembourg Embassy in Thailand).
The objective of these meetings is to reinforce the academic cooperation between institutes and to prepare events in common, the first ones being expected coming September (...)

On the occasion of the release of the book Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma, by Renaud Egreteau and Larry Jagan, published by the University Press of Singapore, a lunchtime talk will first be organised at the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy, in the presence of François Robinne, Director of IRASEC. The official launch of the book, accompanied by a seminar with the two authors, will take place at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs in the evening of the same day.
Upcoming (...)