Many NORNG, winner of the 2020 IRASEC field grants, will present her work in defense of her doctoral thesis on Wednesday, December 17, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. (Inalco – 2, rue de Lille).

Nous avons le plaisir de partager l’annonce de la soutenance de l’Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches d’Emmanuelle Peyvel, qui se tiendra le vendredi 14 mars 2025 à 8h30 à l’Université Grenoble Alpes, ainsi qu’en visio.

Sustainable Development Studies in Southeast Asia (SUDSSEA)
Bangkok & Manila, November 25-December 7, 2024

The Institute for Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) held its third Winter Doctoral School from November 25 to December 7, 2024. Dedicated to sustainable development studies in Southeast Asia, the two-week event brought together 20 students in Bangkok and Manila. The organizing committee was made up of IRASEC, the main coordinator, and two partners : the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology at Thammasat University (Bangkok), and the Center for Integrative Development Studies (CIDS) at the University of the Philippines Diliman (Philippines).

We are pleased to announce the start of IRASEC’s 2024 Winter School on Sustainable Development Studies in Southeast Asia. The training takes place this week in Bangkok and the following week in Manila.

Bangkok & Manila, 25 November - 7 December 2024
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.

Opening of the Irasec Winter Doctoral School at the Faculty of Political Science, Chlalongkorn University, November 27, 2023.

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.

IRASEC is pleased to announce the Second Graduate Students Forum of the UP Department of Anthropology, co-organized with Elisabeth Luquin.
This is an online workshop of graduate students’ papers on the theme, “indigenous elements in independent Christian religions of the contemporary Philippines.” The participants/presenters come from a broad range of disciplines such anthropology, history and Philippine Studies with invited discussants who are professors and experienced researchers in those (...)

Anne Yvonne Guillou, chercheuse affiliée à l’IRASEC de 2015 à 2018, soutiendra son Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR) en anthropologie le vendredi 13 janvier 2023.

After a first week in Chiang Mai, The winter school Urban Theories Across Borders (UTAB) moved to Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia. It is hosted by the Fakultas Teknik, Universitas Gadjah Mada, one of the most prestigious institutions in Indonesia. Tomorrow, participants will discover the culture of this royal city whose square shape is reminiscent of Chiang Mai.