The Saigon Social Sciences Hub (SSSH) is an English-speaking network of young researchers in the humanities and social sciences working on Vietnam, hosted by the EFEO Center (École française d’Extrême-Orient) in Ho Chi Minh City and supported by the GIS Asie since 2021. The SSSH brings together 300 members worldwide and has organized nearly 70 academic events between 2020 and 2025 (seminars, round tables and individual presentations).

The Research Institute of Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) organises annually a doctoral winter school, in collaboration with a range of European and Southeast Asian universities and research centres.
In 2024, the IRASEC Winter school will be dedicated to Sustainable Development Studies in Southeast Asia, and will be co-organised and co-hosted by the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University and the Center for Integrative Development Studies, University of the Philippines in Diliman.

Bangkok & Kuala Lumpur, 27 November - 9 December 2023

The Research Institute of Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) organises an annual winter school in the social sciences and humanities, in collaboration with a range of European and Southeast Asian universities and research centers. The purpose of these workshops is to stimulate discourse and exchange regarding research on Southeast Asia within the scope of social sciences and humanities. IRASEC’s winter schools are designed to endorse comparative and regional research methodologies, facilitate the interaction of students, and promote co-tutorship and co-supervision of dissertations for early-career researchers in Southeast Asia, particularly those who exhibit an interest in continuing their studies in France. In 2023, the IRASEC winter school will be dedicated to migration in Southeast Asia.

Candidates shall submit their application at the latest on September 15th 2023. Successful applicants will be notified on September 30th 2023.

The winter school Urban Theories Across Borders (UTAB) targets early career researchers — master and PhD students — who aim to pursue knowledge production about cities and urbanization in Southeast Asia from a social sciences perspective. It helps the students to engage with the most recent debates in the urban studies field, provides methodological tools to write and improve research proposals, and initiate the students to urban fieldwork activities.
This year, UTAB thematic focus is on (...)