Resident Researcher from 2012 to 2014
Vanina Bouté is an Associate Professor at the Sociology Departement, University of Picardie (Amiens). She’s conducting anthropological fieldwork in Northern Laos since 2000. Her book entitled “En miroir du pouvoir : les Phounoy du Nord Laos : ethnogenèse et dynamiques d’intégrations” (Mirroring the power : The Phounoy of Northern Laos, ethnogenesis (...)

Resident Researcher from 2014 to 2016
Anthropologist and specialist of Burma, where she did her first fieldwork in 1981, Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière is again in Rangoon, for IRASEC (CNRS, Ministry of Foreign Affairs) from 2014 to 2016. She studied rituals and religious practices, particularly the cult of the Thirty-Seven Lords, but also the cults to the weikza and the way in which the religious field is articulated in different domains of practices that evolve over (...)

Thanawat Bremard holds a PhD in Social Sciences (ABIES Doctoral School, AgroParisTech, France). He is affiliated with the Center for Social Development Studies (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok) and the mixed research unit G-EAU (Montpellier). He also works as a research consultant for the Thai Water Partnership.
During his PhD, he focused on water governance in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region, examining urban riverside development policies, groundwater pumping and its effects on land (...)

President of ENSA Paris-Belleville

François BROUAT, he is the Director of the Paris-Belleville National School of Architecture since February 2014.
Civil Administrator of France’s Ministry of Culture and Communications, François BROUAT is a former student at the National School of Administration. The major part of his career is consisted of working in the public cultural service with local government and state. He also worked for the City of Paris, as the cultural advisor for Bertrand (...)

Researcher

Bernardo BROWN is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. His current research projects focus on Catholic seminaries and priestly vocations in South and Southeast Asia. His work on return migration to Sri Lanka has been published in several journals including Anthropological Quarterly (2017), Ethnography (2015), The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2017) and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (2015). He (...)

Kwanchewan BUADAENG is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology-Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Sydney (2001). Her recent works include “A Karen Charismatic Monk and Connectivity across the Thai-Myanmar Borderland,” in Charismatic Monk of Lanna Buddhism, edited by Paul T. Cohen (NIASb ress, 2017) and “The Karen Leke Religious Movement in the Thailand-Myanmar Borderland : (...)

Chitrlada BURAPHARAT (Department of Arts, Media and Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University) is a lecturer in Learning Process, and Information Design. She holds a doctoral degree in Adult Education (Workplace Learning and Change) earned at the University of Toronto. Her current research focuses on critical thinking, alternative teaching and learning ; and competency development. She was in charge for three years (2007-2009) in supervising and designing cooperative education (...)

Ms Jennifer Burn is an Australian Jurist, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, and Director of the Anti-Slavery Project at the University of Technology, Sydney. She joined the Faculty of Law in 2002, after 4 years of part-time association during which time she pioneered an entry-level Registered Migration Agents’ course in addition to teaching citizenship and immigration law at undergraduate level. She previously worked in a legal practice specializing in immigration law and is presently (...)

Deputy Director from 2018 to 2022
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Fields of interest
South-East Asia / ASEAN / Indonesia / Timor-Leste / Territory-Town-Coastal Pl

Aurore is a historian and associate researcher at the CNRS (Case, Paris and IRASEC, Bangkok). She has lived, worked and researched in Burma for more than 20 years. Her scholarly interests encompass intellectual, political and cultural history. She studies changes of ideas and knowledge in Burma in the longue durée and attempts to measure the impact of astrology on Burmese society throughout history.
Selected publications (in English)
Books chapters
2005 “Pragmatic Neutrality in a Rival (...)