IRASEC

A Vietnamese Le Canard Enchaîné ? The Vịt Đực newspaper and the pursuit of Vietnamese satire in the final interwar years (1938-1939)

Bertrand — 2026-06-22T05:01:01Z

26 Juin 2026, 5h30 - 17h (heure du Vietnam)
Hébergé par l'EFEO à Ho Chi Minh Ville
113 Hai Bà Trưng, Bến Nghé, D. 1

Conférence sur Vịt Đực — un journal satirique en langue vietnamienne publié de juillet 1938 à juillet 1939.

26 Juin 2026, 5h30 - 17h (heure du Vietnam)
Hébergé par l'EFEO à Ho Chi Minh Ville
113 Hai Bà Trưng, Bến Nghé, D. 1

Cette conférence présentera Vịt Đực — un journal satirique en langue vietnamienne publié de juillet 1938 à juillet 1939. L'exposé abordera quatre aspects de ce journal : la création du journal et le parcours de ses fondateurs au sein de l'univers intellectuel de Hanoï coloniale des années 1930, l'influence du Canard Enchaîné sur Vịt Đực, l'adaptation à un contexte local et la ligne politique contestataire du journal au travers de l'analyse de rubriques sélectionnées.

Dans un contexte marqué par l'échec des réformes coloniales et l'effondrement impérial en prévision d'un nouveau conflit mondial, l'engagement de Vịt Đực en faveur d'une satire populaire et d'un apolitisme affiché proposait une vision alternative du Vietnam, dépassant les clivages entre monarchisme, républicanisme et communisme.

Retour de terrain chez la société autochtone Kanekes. Un travail d'équipe pluridisciplinaire et multi-sectoriel

Bertrand — 2026-06-08T03:23:00Z

Le 30 mai, Gabriel FACAL a donné une communication en indonésien intitulée « Retour de terrain chez la société autochtone Kanekes. Un travail d'équipe pluridisciplinaire et multi-sectoriel », dans le cadre du séminaire de la Faculté de sciences sociales et politiques de l'Université Serang Raya – UNSERA (Indonésie). Cette présentation s'inscrivait dans un séjour de deux semaines de réunions et visites de terrain, menées sur deux sites avec l'équipe de l'ANR AltLife (Alternative life projects in rural South & Southeast Asia), en collaboration avec cinq enseignants-chercheurs et une douzaine d'étudiants d'UNSERA.

Autonomous Social Sciences and Alternative Development in Times of Multiple Crises

Bertrand — 2026-06-07T03:36:00Z

Les 21, 22 et 23 mai, l'IRASEC coorganisait une conférence internationale intitulée « Autonomous Social Sciences and Alternative Development in Times of Multiple Crises », en partenariat avec le Centre d'études sur le développement agricole et rural (PSP3) de l'Université IPB (Bogor) et le Programme sur le développement alternatif (AltDev) du Centre d'études intégratives et de développement de l'Université des Philippines (UP).

L'Institut Sajogyo agissait comme coordinateur, l'ouverture de la conférence coïncidant avec le centenaire de la naissance de M. Sajogyo, pionnier de la sociologie rurale indonésienne. L'événement, qui a rassemblé plus de deux cents cinquante présentateurs et près de six cents auditeurs, a bénéficié de l'implication de deux programmes dont Gabriel FACAL est co-responsable au nom l'IRASEC : l'ANR AltLife, qui a financé la participation d'une communicante, et l'IRN RUPTuRS, qui a financé la discutante d'un panel.

Les stations d'altitude vietnamiennes, des scènes performatives pour les classes moyennes urbaines kinh

Bertrand — 2026-05-07T09:46:52Z

Le 6 avril 2026, Emmanuelle PEYVEL, chercheuse associée à l'IRASEC, était invitée à l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Centre de recherche sur le développement territorial (CRDT) dans le cadre de la chaire Mesopolis portant sur les petites et moyennes villes en transformation, portée par Pham Thi Thanh Hien. Elle a présenté à cette occasion une partie de ses recherches sur les stations d'altitude vietnamiennes, plus particulièrement en lien avec les pratiques touristiques liés aux évènements matrimoniaux.

En voici le résumé :

Bâties à l'époque coloniale pour les Français, les stations d'altitude de Sa Pa, Ba Na et Đà Lạt sont depuis largement fréquentées par les touristes domestiques dans les montagnes vietnamiennes. Cette réappropriation s'inscrit dans une certaine continuité postcoloniale en termes d'inégalités et de rapports de pouvoir. Dans une perspective foucaldienne, je propose ici de les analyser en tant que dispositifs visuels, dans le sens où ces stations sont conçues à la fois pour voir, c'est-à-dire négocier un droit de regard dans la zomia (Scott, 2009), et pour être vu.e.s. En effet, il s'agit pour les populations kinh, considérées comme majoritaires et dominantes dans le pays, de se mettre en scène à la faveur d'un séjour, de se donner à voir, et de tirer profit des gains symboliques ainsi retirés. Cette conférence s'organise autour des deux questions suivantes : En quoi les touristes kinh, par leur fréquentation croissante des stations d'altitude, installent des normes dominantes de consommation de la zomia, à la faveur de leurs performances touristiques ? Et relationnellement, dans quelles mesures se négocient des performances alternatives, transgressant en particulier des normes ethniques, de genre et d'orientation sexuelle ?

Plus de renseignements sur la page de présentation de l'ANR URBALTOUR.

Aguman Ning Belwan 2026

Bertrand — 2026-03-18T05:14:44Z

2^nd International Multidisciplinary Research Conference
Tarlac State University (Philippines), format hybride
25 mars 2026

Dans le cadre de la conférence Aguman Ning Belwan 2026, Gabriel Facal présentera une communication plénière intitulée : « Agroecology in Southeast Asia : Harnessing Interdisciplinarity to Study a Strong Driver of Sustainability » [L'agroécologie en Asie du Sud-Est : mobiliser l'interdisciplinarité pour étudier un puissant moteur de durabilité].

Tarlac State University (Philippines), format hybride
25 mars 2026

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Unwriting Academia

Bertrand — 2026-01-13T10:34:00Z

5 February 2026, 9h-17h
Room 2B, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei

An event co-organised by the French Center for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC Taipei) and the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC)

5 February 2026, 9h-17h
Room 2B, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei

An event co-organised by the French Center for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC Taipei) and the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC)

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Across the social sciences, scholars are increasingly engaging with creative and multimodal forms of knowledge production. At this workshop, participants will discuss their work with comics, video-making, film programming, artists' residencies, literary ethnography, podcasts, and other inventive approaches to research and writing. These practices open possibilities that exceed the boundaries of traditional academic prose—not only methodologically, but also epistemologically—by offering new ways of apprehending and conveying social experiences. The aim of this workshop is to explore how such alternative forms of writing and representation can meaningfully coexist with, and even enhance, conventional scholarly outputs. Rather than treating creative modalities as add-ons or outreach tools, we seek to understand how they can transform the very processes through which we analyze, interpret, and communicate research. What do these forms allow us to know, sense, or reveal that standard academic texts cannot ? How might multimodal experimentation reshape our analytical practices, ethical commitments, and engagements with wider publics ? By bringing together scholars who are already experimenting with these practices, the workshop invites a collective reflection on the methodological and epistemological contributions of creative research. Our goal is to imagine how a richer plurality of writing modes can deepen our understanding of the social world and broaden the ways we participate in scholarly conversation.

Organisers

Jérémy Jammes, IRASEC
Corrado Neri, CEFC Taipei
Beatrice Zani, CNRS

Speakers

Valentine Boucq
Yin C. Chuang, Taiwan Normal University
Alex Desmules, Tianma Project
Morgan Fraisse-László, French Office in Taipiei (BFT)
Emilie ‘Emy' Garcia
Wafa Ghermani, National Central University (Taiwan)
Jérémy Jammes, IRASEC
James Lee, Academia Sinica
Corrado Neri, CEFC Taipei
Chang Wen-chin, Academia Sinica
Beatrice Zani, CNRS

The Vietnam War : Ethnic minority, Conflicts, and Legitimacy

Bertrand — 2025-12-15T08:54:17Z

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que le site de l'IRASEC héberge le Saigon Social Sciences Hub (SSSH), un groupe anglophone de jeunes chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales travaillant sur le Việt Nam. Vous pouvez retrouver les détails des événements qu'ils organisent ainsi que l'historique des conférences passées.

La prochaine se tiendra à l'EFEO de Ho Chi Minh Ville et en ligne sur Zoom, le vendredi 19 décembre 2025. Khang Do, doctorant à l'université de Leeds (Royaume-Uni), présentera ses travaux de recherche qui portent sur les politiques menées par la République du Vietnam à l'égard des minorités ethniques entre 1955 et 1975.

Plus de détails sur cette conférence.

Au coeur des détroits : l'évolution des infrastructures et leurs rôles dans les réseaux globaux

Bertrand — 2025-12-09T10:42:00Z

Du 9 au 11 décembre, Christine Cabasset a participé à la conférence sur Au cœur des détroits. L'évolution des infrastructures et leurs rôles dans les réseaux globaux : ponts, tunnels, câbles et ports, organisée par l'ANR DéCoDé, à l'université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Dunkerque. Sa présentation a porté sur « Quelles gouvernance et sécurisation des détroits d'Ombai et de Wetar ? ».

Rights of Nature and Human Rights in Southeast Asia

Bertrand — 2025-11-12T09:06:00Z

Monday, 1st December 2025,
Alumni Association Meeting Room, 12th floor
Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

Coorganized by the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC), the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, and the Asian Research Institute for Environmental Law (ARIEL), with the support of Norwegian People's Aid.

Monday, 1^st December 2025, from 9am to 5pm
Alumni Association Meeting Room, 12th floor
Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

Coorganized by the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC), the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, and the Asian Research Institute for Environmental Law (ARIEL), with the support of Norwegian People's Aid.

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Our planet and humanity are confronting multiple, interconnected ecological crises, from climate change and biodiversity loss to rising levels of pollution. Despite the proliferation of policies, laws, directives, and international treaties intended to protect the environment, the planet's health continues to decline. In this context of faltering environmental governance, one emerging proposal is to embrace a new legal paradigm : the recognition of the rights of nature.

This approach challenges the dominant, human-centered view that treats nature primarily as an object, rooted in anthropocentric assumptions of a separation between humans and the rest of the natural world. Instead, the rights of nature movement advances an alternative perspective : one that sees the natural world as an interconnected system of diverse, interdependent forms of life, encompassing the biosphere in its entirety—both human and non-human.

In light of recent progress in debates and decision-making aimed at bringing human rights and the rights of nature closer together, Southeast Asia has witnessed the emergence of several initiatives. While the formal recognition of the “rights of nature” has not yet taken shape at the regional level, multilateral dialogues (ASEAN, OHCHR/ESCAP) are increasingly opening up to these issues. In this respect, the ASEAN Declaration on the Right to a Safe, Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment (ADER), adopted at the 47^th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur in October 2025, marks a historic step in integrating environmental rights into ASEAN's human rights framework.

Nevertheless, civil society organizations have voiced serious concerns about the drafting process, citing short public input periods, limited translation, and minimal consultation. Indigenous representation is particularly lacking, despite references to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Also, progress toward formal recognition of the Rights of Nature remains uneven and slowed by institutional inertia and limited inclusivity. Sustained pressure, reform, and meaningful participation—especially from indigenous and grassroots voices—will be essential to transform current momentum into lasting rights recognition.

Challenges thus remain, particularly regarding the drafting of texts and their legal force. Potential advances include stronger recognition of Environmental Human Rights Defenders (EHRDs), the establishment of binding mechanisms, and enhanced accountability. These legal and governance efforts can be further enriched by political, geographical, and anthropological perspectives. Against this backdrop, this conference will bring together governance actors, civil society representatives and researchers, to share recent progress and explore future challenges for the development of legislative frameworks linking nature rights and human rights.

Conference Approach and Objectives

This conference will focus on the triptych of conventional human rights, the right to a healthy environment, and the rights of nature—analyzing their interdependence and exploring how development actors can approach these issues from an ecocentric perspective.

The conference will first examine how development policies intersect with the incorporation of the rights of nature into national environmental regulations. Particular attention will be given to the challenges of articulating human rights and the rights of nature in Southeast Asia, especially the “inter-legalities” arising from the coexistence of diverse normative systems and the potential conflicts between these categories of rights. Such conflicts may be analyzed both at a theoretical and normative level—for instance, through questions of hierarchy of norms—and at a practical level, notably in relation to territorial dynamics such as green colonialism or land grabbing, often at the expense of the customary or informal rights of local populations.

Another focus of the conference will explore how the rights of nature are defined and constructed, the actors driving this process, and the legal strategies employed—whether through case law, regulation, or constitutional reform. Particular attention will be given to territorial contexts, especially those marked by conflict, where narratives and power dynamics between actors crystallize into the legal recognition of new rights for natural entities.

Finally, a third axis will address the epistemological generativity of the rights of nature by examining the personality and identity of their objects. The discussions will ask : to what extent does granting rights to a natural entity foster the creation of new ecosystemic, landscape, territorial, and cartographic assemblages, thereby contributing to an ontological transformation of the entity itself ?

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One Health ASEAN-France Scientific Conference

Bertrand — 2025-10-30T10:23:26Z

The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Embassy of France in Indonesia, Timor-Leste and to ASEAN, the Indonesian Ministry of Health, and ASEAN, are organizing with the Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and with the support of the Indonesia National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) and of the French Agricultural Research Centre for Sustainable Development (CIRAD), an ASEAN-France One Health Conference on 25-26 November 2025.

Registration required.

This conference aims to support ASEAN and France's efforts in the collective and synergised measures in the prevention, detection and response to communicable and emerging infectious diseases, public health emergencies and pandemics.

This two-day event will bring together stakeholders linked to the One Health approach applied in research, policy, education and country development, with a focus on building synergies between ASEAN, French institutions and other key stakeholders in the region.

The conference serves as a platform for addressing the myriad health challenges detailed below under the One health approach, which integrates the health of humans, animals, plants, and the wider environment. It will highlight how environmental health factors ultimately impact human health, particularly in terms of increased vulnerability to emerging infectious diseases and public health emergencies.

The conference will be organized in four thematic sessions :

One Health Systems (at the Global, Regional and National levels) ;
Planetary Boundaries ;
Climate Change ;
Protected Areas.

As part of Session 4 – Protected Areas (Day 2, afternoon), Gabriel Facal will present, together with Arif Kirdiat (Director of the NGO Sahabat Relawan), a paper entitled “Healthcare in the Kanekes Customary Territory (Banten) : Challenges of Time and Trust.”

IRASEC

A Vietnamese Le Canard Enchaîné ? The Vịt Đực newspaper and the pursuit of Vietnamese satire in the final interwar years (1938-1939)

Retour de terrain chez la société autochtone Kanekes. Un travail d'équipe pluridisciplinaire et multi-sectoriel

Autonomous Social Sciences and Alternative Development in Times of Multiple Crises

Les stations d'altitude vietnamiennes, des scènes performatives pour les classes moyennes urbaines kinh

Aguman Ning Belwan 2026

Unwriting Academia

5 February 2026, 9h-17h Room 2B, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei

An event co-organised by the French Center for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC Taipei) and the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC)

Organisers

Speakers

The Vietnam War : Ethnic minority, Conflicts, and Legitimacy

Au coeur des détroits : l'évolution des infrastructures et leurs rôles dans les réseaux globaux

Rights of Nature and Human Rights in Southeast Asia

Monday, 1st December 2025, from 9am to 5pm Alumni Association Meeting Room, 12th floor Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

Coorganized by the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC), the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, and the Asian Research Institute for Environmental Law (ARIEL), with the support of Norwegian People's Aid.

Conference Approach and Objectives

One Health ASEAN-France Scientific Conference

5 February 2026, 9h-17h
Room 2B, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei

Monday, 1^st December 2025, from 9am to 5pm
Alumni Association Meeting Room, 12th floor
Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University