« Du non-alignement à la diplomatie islamique - Le facteur religieux dans la politique étrangère indonésienne »Jeudi 17 mai 2018 à 19hIndonesian Heritage Society
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Delphine Allès donnera une conférence pour la section francophone de l’Indonesian Heritage Society à Kemang sur les dimensions religieuses des Relations internationales et les questions stratégiques en Asie du (...)

Theravāda Buddhism: Rules? Rites? Or Civilization?
with Louis Gabaude, former member of the French School of the Far East (EFEO).
Tuesday 22 May 2018 at 6.30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, translated in Khmer and English
Free entry subject to availability
Buddhism as practiced by the elders (theravāda) claims to come closest to the experience of a man of high rank who discovered the inanities of mundane life based on the satisfaction of one’s desires. He came to the (...)

Theravāda Buddhism in Khmer Lands
with TUN Puthpiseth, PhD in Art History at the University Paris-Sorbonne, and Director of the Research Unit at the Royal University of Fine Arts.
Tuesday 13 February 2018 at 6.30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, translated in Khmer and English
Free entry subject to availability
The appearance of Theravāda buddhism in Khmer lands during the second half of the 12th century, under the reign of Jayavarman VII (1270/1271 – 1295) is (...)

Conference « Unity in Diversity: Transgressive Southeast Asia »
organised by SEASIA (Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia)
at Chulalongkorn University on december 16th and 17th, 2017.
Claire Tran, director of IRASEC, participated to the panel Catholicism in Southeast Asia : Building Religious Elites beyond the Colonial Encounter with Bernardo Brown (International Christian University), Shanthini Pilai (National University of Malaysia), Suppya Nut (Köln university) and Julius (...)

Claire TRAN has participated in the second edition Aur@sia International Symposium, organized by CNRS, together with the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies of CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences), on 28 – 29 November 2017. With the participation of Patrick Nedellec (CNRS Director, European Research and International Cooperation Office) and Sylvie Démurger (Deputy Director, CNRS institute of Social Sciences and Humanities) . The Director of IRASEC has presented the activities of her Center (...)

On 24 November 2017, Anne Guillou was invited by the director of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (Phnom Penh) to give a lecture (in Khmer) on "Care and Nursing under the Khmer Rouge regime". The public was made up of high school students and staff from the Genocide Museum.

On Tuesday, 21, November 2017 Ashley Thompson (Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, SOAS, University London) gave a lecture on "Ghosts of the past: About the four Buddhas after Angkor" at the French Institute of Cambodia. 140 persons attended it.
This is the last presentation of the 2017 IRASEC conference series "Time, Space, Memory" organized by Anne Yvonne Guillou, Anthropologist at CNRS / IRASEC in Cambodia.
A new IRASEC conference series will be organized in 2018 on (...)

Ghosts of the past: About the four Buddhas after Angkor
With Ashley Thompson, Professor Hiram W. Woodward, Chair in Southeast Asian Art, Centre for Southest Asian Studies (SOAS, London).
Tuesday 21st November 2017 at 6:30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, translated in Khmer and English
Free entrance
What became of Angkor after Angkor? How do people remember the empire after its fall? What about its future? This conference will try to answer those questions based on (...)

The Institute of Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) and the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS), Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University present
A public lecture at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
Rethinking the Nature/Culture Divide
By Philippe Descola
Professor at Collège de France, Chair in Anthropology of Nature
Discussants :
Dr. Yukti MUKDAWIJITRA (Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University) Thanes WONGYANNAWA (Faculty of (...)

The Institute of Research on Contemporary southeast Asia (IRASEC) and the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Faculty of Social Science of Chiang Mai University
International Workshop : "Natures and Cultures in Southeast Asia" at Chiang Mai University
With the participation of Philippe Descola
Professor at Collège de France, Chair in Anthropology of Nature
November 7 and 8 th 2017 from 9h00 h to 17h00.
4th floor meeting room, Operational (...)