• Inside IRASEC: new Deputy Director
• Scholarships: Research Grants in Islamic Studies
• Workshop: Singapore and the infrastructural imagination
• Newly released: The Rise of Pet Culture in Southeast Asia

• Staying Afloat in the Wave of Zero-Fees Policies: Agreement on Reciprocal Trade and its Impact on the Taiwanese Fishing Industry
• Mapping urban Aedes aegypti breeding containers: Landscape-driven analysis in Bangkok, Thailand

After more than five years of existence, the Saigon Social Sciences Hub has reached a decisive new stage in its development when it became, on 19 February 2026, a nonprofit organization under the 1901 law. This formalization confirms an already well-established scholarly momentum and opens a new phase in the structuring of their activities, in particular, by providing early-career researchers with a stimulating, rigorous, and consistently supportive environment in which to present their (...)

• Newly released: Épargne et grande pauvreté. L’expérience des familles du cimetière Nord de Manille
• Call for proposals: SSSH Fall-Winter Session 2026 (October–December 2026)
• Call for Applications: Support for short-term international mobility (SMI)

• Book : Rebel Art : Myanmar Artists Respond to Repression 
• Symposium : Inaugural symposium of the IRN RUPTuRS
• Symposium : Seminar on Combating Child Sexual Abuse

• Inside IRASEC: new Research Officer and Project Manager 
• Articles: Pouvoirs en Asie-Pacifique. Territoires et populations, contrôles et résistances
• Colloquium: From the “Far East” to the “Indo-Pacific”

• A symposium dedicated to legal influences between France and Thailand
• Call for paper : Becoming Infrastructure : Digital Ubiquity, Societal Transformation, and Spaces of Possibility
• Conference : A Vietnamese Le Canard Enchaîné? The Vịt Đực newspaper and the pursuit of Vietnamese satire in the final interwar years (1938-1939)
• Workshop : Negotiating Mobilities and Borders in Digitalising and Globalising Asia

• Conference : “Autonomous Social Sciences and Alternative Development in Times of Multiple Crises”
• Newly released : La main-d’œuvre touristique face à la crise de la Covid-19 à Chiang Mai : des mobilités professionnelles sous contrainte
• Conference :“Returning from the Field with the Kanekes Indigenous Society: A Multidisciplinary and Multi-Sectoral Team Effort”

• Colloque : De l’« Extrême-Orient » à l’« Indopacifique »
• Radio : Interview of Beatrice ZANI, IRASEC resident researcher
• Article : Learning from animals ? shared plant use between Lua herders and water buffalo in Northern Thailand

• Inside IRASEC : On 5–6 April, IRASEC hosted a laboratory meeting at its Bangkok office
• Conference : Vietnamese mountain resorts : performance spaces for the urban Kinh middle class
• Articles : Insecurity in Asia. Large-scale maneuvers