Researcher at the Nehru Memorial Library, Mollica DASTIDER has devoted her doctoral research to the situation of religious, Buddhist and Muslim minorities in Nepal. His current research focuses on the mirror effects of South Asian religious fundamentalisms. She has published Religious Minorities in Nepal : An Analysis of the State of the Buddhists and Muslims in the Himalayan Kingdom (Editions Hardcover 1996). (...)

Resident Researcher from 2023 to 2025
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Eric Daudé is a CNRS research director at Institute for Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC), a French research center based in Bangkok. Eric Daudé is a health geographer interesting in the complexity linking vector born disesases and socio-environmental dynamics at suburban scales. Multisource and multiform data (satellite images, surveys, crowdsourcing) are used to conduct statistical analyses and calibrate spatial (...)

Kenneth DEAN is Raffles Professor of Humanities and Head of the Chinese Studies Department, National University of Singapore, and Professor Emeritus, McGill University. He is the Religion and Globalization Research Cluster Leader, Asia Research Institute, NUS.
Dean is the author of several books on Daoism and Chinese popular religion, including Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plains : Vol. 1 : Historical Introduction to the Return of the Gods, Vol. 2 : A Survey of Village Temples and Ritual (...)

Directeur de L’AUC Paris
François Decoster is an architect and urbanist. With Djamel Klouche and Caroline Poulin, in 1996, he founded l’AUC, an architecture and urbanism office based in Paris. He is involved in many projects and research dealing with the issues of metropolisation, including the Grand Paris consultation (2008-2009). He also teaches urbanism and urban design at the National University of Singapore, School of Design and Environment, since 2003. (...)

Researcher at the Centre of Studies of India and South Asia (CNRS-EHESS), Rémy DELAGE works on the processes of territorialization of religion, notably through the study of Hindu and Muslim pilgrimages, as well as on the historical formation of Muslim educational networks in South Asia and the discourses of reform in the contemporary period.
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Research areas
Territorial issues and development : maritime and land areas, natural resources, sustainable cities, land policies Dynamiques sociales : droit, éducation, place et statut des femmes, migrations, santé Societies, environment, climate change : nature/culture, disaster management, resource degradation, public policy and planning Social dynamics : law, education, place and status of women, migration, health Knowledge (...)

David Delfolie is a teacher-researcher at Sciences Po Lille. He is also co-director of the Pondok Perancis Institute (Kuala Lumpur), associate researcher at IRASEC and member of the editorial board of the journal Moussons. His work focuses on Southeast Asia (Malaysia), Islamic studies, the sociology of diplomacy and strategic issues. His publications, in addition to a contribution to the annual collective L’Asie du Sud-Est (IRASEC) since 2018, include “Les Chinois musulmans en Malaisie, une (...)

Philippe DESCOLA initially specialized in the ethnology of Amazonia, focussing on how native societies relate to their environment. He has published extensively on his field research with the Achuar of Ecuador and on the comparative analysis of the relations between humans and non-humans, including images. He is Professor of Anthropology at the Collège de France and a Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Among his books in English are In the Society (...)

Ratanaporn Dhammakosol, counsellor to several political parties in Thailand illustrates the links between the Chinese communities in South-east Asia with China and focus on the political influences of these communities in Thailand as well as in Myanmar. Her lecture examines how of the Chinese government tries to use these communities to develop its own influence in the region. (...)

Dr. Emmanuel Dialma is a French Jurist who teaches law in Cambodia, expert of the Cambodian code of laws, and the former Head of the Research and Development Department of a Cambodian University in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He is a graduate in Political Sciences, with a PhD in Law (University of Lyon, France), and focuses his research interests on Philosophy and in Social Anthropology. He taught and conducted research at the Royal Cambodian University of Law and Economics (Phnom Penh), and at (...)