October 30, 2026, 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Singapore time)

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Elisabeth Peyroux, CNRS Research Director, Associate Researcher at IRASEC and Visiting Senior Research Fellow à l’Asia Research Institute (ARI) de la National University of Singapore (NUS), will participate in this webinar as part of the “Critical Social AI webinar series,” alongside Bahia Guellai (CNRS@CREATE). They will present interdisciplinary reflections on the challenges of redefining human agency and responsibility from their respective disciplinary perspectives.

Thanawat BREMARD will presente a paper entitled “Pragmatism as social capital : Community responses to urban floods in Thai provincial cities” in “Climate Justice and Green Transition in ASEAN–ROK Cooperation : Community Resilience, Governance, and Cultural Identity” session at The 2026 International Conference of ASEAN Studies.

On August 25 and 26 2026, Elisabeth Peyroux, CNRS Research Director, Associate Researcher at IRASEC and Visiting Senior Research Fellow à l’Asia Research Institute (ARI) de la National University of Singapore (NUS) participated in the workshop “Singapore and the Infrastructural Imagination : Locating the City-State In and Of the World,” organized by the Urban Institute at the Singapore Management University (SMU). She presented a paper entitled “AI as Critical Infrastructure in Singapore : Revisiting the Urban Infrastructure Debates.”

On 9 and 10 July, the inaugural symposium of the International Research Network (IRN), funded by the CNRS, “Rethinking Urban Planning and Transitions under Resource Scarcity : Indo-Pacific Cities within Planetary Limits” (RUPTuRS, 2026–2030), was held in Bangkok.

On June 11 and 12, 2026, the French Embassy in Thailand organized a Franco-Thai seminar on combating child sexual abuse, as part of the third annual Franco-Thai Law and Justice Week and the 170th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. While tragic incidents in France have recently reignited public outrage and underscored the urgent need for action to protect children, this meeting—organized by the Liaison Magistrate’s Office and the Internal Security Service—brought (...)

26 June 2026, 5:30pm–7pm (Vietnam Time, UTC +7)
Hosted by EFEO at Ho Chi Minh City
113 Hai Bà Trưng, Bến Nghé, D. 1

This presentation introduces Vịt Đực — a Vietnamese language satirical newspaper published from July 1938 to July 1939.

8-9 June 2026, Law Faculty, Thammasat University, Bangkok

Marking the 170th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Thailand, Thammasat University, in collaboration with the liaison magistrate service at the French Embassy, hosted a Legal Symposium on "Legal Perspectives and Influences" in Bangkok on June 9–10, 2026, bringing together academics, judges, institutions, and experts from both countries.

15-16 June 2026, 10 am – 5:30 pm
Departement of Sociology, National Taiwan University

This workshop was organized under the FORSEA/ORCHID Project, Global Mobilities in the Digital Age (NSTC/Campus France), in collaboration with CNRS/CEFC, IRASEC, and the Department of Geography at National Taiwan University, under the leadership of Prof. Hong Po-Yi and Dr. Beatrice Zani.

On May 30, Gabriel FACAL delivered a presentation in Indonesian titled “Returning to the Field with the Kanekes Indigenous Society : A Multidisciplinary and Multi-Sectoral Team Effort,” as part of a seminar at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Serang Raya University – UNSERA (Indonesia).

On May 21, 22, and 23, IRASEC co-organized an international conference titled “Autonomous Social Sciences and Alternative Development in Times of Multiple Crises,” in partnership with the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development Studies (PSP3) at IPB University (Bogor) and the Alternative Development Program (AltDev) at the Center for Integrative and Development Studies at the University of the Philippines (UP).