Risk Management and Development :
Issues and Limits of the Post-“Natural” Disaster
Resettlements on Mount Merapi (Java, Indonesia)
by
(IrAsia, Aix-Marseille University)
Institut Français d’Indonésie - Centre de Yogyakarta (LIP)
Adeline Martinez
Jalan Sagan n°3, Yogyakarta 55223
13 october 2017 at 4 pm
After the 2010 Merapi volcano eruption, a new risk management program has been created by the Indonesian government for the victims, which associates risk mitigation and livelihood’s (...)

Coastal Areas Governance in the Context of
Rapid Tourism Urbanization and
Climate Change in Southeast Asia
Pattaya, Thailand, 15th september 2017
Following the first research restitution workshop held in Bali last April, a presentation of the interim results of the research on "Coastal areas governance in the context of rapid tourism urbanization and climate change in Southeast Asia" was held at the Zign Hotel in Pattaya on 15 September 2017.
It is a programme selected in (...)

“Beetle fighting and Northern Thai cosmology”
A Talk by Stéphane Rennesson
Tuesday, 26 September, 2017, 7:30 pm
at the Alliance Française, Chiang Mai
422nd Meeting of the Informal Northern Thai Group
Free entrance - Conference in english
This talk is a story of a game that builds upon an uncanny cooperation between human beings and insects. Rhinoceros beetles (xylotrupes Gideon, or as they are known in Thailand: แมงกว่างชน: maeng kwaang chon) are found all over Southeast Asia. However, only in (...)

Continuation of the conference cycle "Time, Space, Memory" organised by IRASEC in partnership with the Institut Français du Cambodge. The presentation of social science researchers' work to a wide audience has been very successful.
The fourth conference of the cycle took place on 12 September 2017 in Phnom Penh. Fabienne Luco, an anthropologist associated with the Southeast Asia Centre, presented her research on "Legends and Guardian Geniuses in Angkor" (translated (...)

Legends and guardian spirits in Angkor
with Fabienne Luco, Anthropologist
Tuesday 12th September at 6:30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, translated in Khmer and English
Free entrance
Can landscapes serve as a tool in the cultural transmission? In Angkor, where traces of ancient history can be found everywhere, current inhabitants have filled the land with stories and divinities. What do they tell us? Read more
This conference is part of the IRASEC conference (...)

Association of Asian Studies Conference:
Asia in Motion: Beyond Borders and Boundaries
Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
June 24-27, 2017
Claire Tran participated to the panel Plural Urbanities. Transnational Flows and the Management of Religious Diversity in South and Southeast Asian Cities, on the side (from left to right): Bernardo Brown (Asian Research Institute - NUS), Chiara Formichi, (Cornell University), Michael Feener (National University of Singapore) Ester Gallo (European (...)

How is folk memory created in Cambodia?
by Anne Yvonne Guillou,
Anthropologist at CNRS / IRASEC
Tuesday 6th June at 6:30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, translated in Khmer and English
Free entrance
Folk memory is the sum of representations of memorable past events that members of any given community build together – often without even realizing it – and then pass down from generation to generation. Folk memory in Cambodia is closely tied to the land and the (...)

Conference University Paris Sorbonne Cité/
National University of Singapore :
Science, Policy & Society
May 18-19, 2017, Singapore
This conference allowed for rich exchanges with fellows and strengthened existing relationships with partners.
(Maurizio Peleggi (NUS) et Hyacinthe Randriamahazaka (Paris Diderot))
Photo on the left : IRASEC's direction with Luc Le Calvez, representative of CNRS at Singapore.
Photo on the right : Claire TRAN with Mariana Losada, representative USPC (...)

Time, Space, Memory
Conference cycle in partnership with the Institut français in Cambodia
Organized by Anne Yvonne Guillou, anthropologist CNRS/IRASEC
What is left from the past, the past that is far or close from us? What does a society forget and what does it remember? How does collective memory evolve and how does it transform over time? What is the relation between memory and history?
IRASEC’s cycle of conference “Time, space and memory” explores the construction process of collective (...)

Health consequences of the deficits suffered
under the Khmer Rouge regime
by Patrick Heuveline,
Professor in Sociology (University of California at Los Angeles)
Tuesday 4th April at 6:30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, Khmer and English
Free entrance
Feed rations given during the Khmer Rouge regime to groups of deported population were highly inadequate given the physical effort that was required because of forced labor, and led to generalized malnutrition. The (...)