Create Tower, Singapore
30 - 31 January 2024

Climate change, escalating pollution, and the loss of wildlife pose major health challenges for individuals in Southeast Asia. Additionally, while historical pathogens like dengue, malaria, and scrub typhus persist, there is an alarming increase in epidemics due to emerging viruses, especially zoonoses, which are rapidly emerging in the region.

In response to these challenges, the ’One Health’ approach, which highlights the interdependence between human, animal, and environmental health, is gaining recognition.

Bangkok, 4th-14th June 2024

During the next edition of UTAB (4th-14th June 2024), we will produce knowledge and research on the theme of the ordinary city, drawing on the case of Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand. We will study the ordinary city in Rattanakosin, the historical core of the royal capital founded in 1782. The monumental heritage of Rattanakosin has been extensively documented and conserved with the support of Thai authorities. Yet the « ordinary urban » of the daily life of residents, urban dwellers, and tourists remains, with few remarkable exceptions, understudied.

The young researchers who will attend UTAB 2024 will be involved in the ongoing research conducted by the Faculty of Architecture of Chulalongkorn University in cooperation with the CREMA network, which is aimed at bringing ordinary Rattanakosin into the landscape of urban knowledge.

Jérémy Ianni participera au séminaire Regards croisés sur la sécurité, organisé par le LARJ (Laboratoire de recherche juridique-EA 3603), Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, le 2 février 2024 à Boulogne-sur-Mer (hybride en ligne).

IRASEC wishes you a happy new year.

Éric Daudé attended the Asia Pacific Conference on Mosquito and Vector Control held in Chiang Mai from November 27 to 30, 2023. Organized by Kasetsart University, the conference brought together over 300 mosquito and vector control specialists from all over Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States. Éric Daudé presented part of his work on the ANR MO3 project, which focused on the characterization of environmental risk in relation to the population dynamics of dengue mosquito vectors in Bangkok.

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

Seminar & Collaborative Workshop
6-8 Novembre 2023, Campus Condorcet

The seminar and collaborative workshop aim to share knowledge and experiences about participative heritage practices and politics in Thailand. With a special focus on the architectural and urban heritage of the ordinary city, it will examine the processes that involve communities in heritage-making and conservation practices, with insights about the role of local academics, activists, and associations as facilitators in those processes.

Religion in movement. New perspectives in the study of religious History

Institución Fernando el Católico, Zaragoza (Spain)
13-15 November 2023

Jeremy Ianni will participate at the Conference of the Asociación Española de Historia Religiosa Contemporánea co-organised with the University of Zaragoza, the University of Castilla–La Mancha (UCLM) and the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), with a paper entitled “The educational and transformative dimensions of evangelical conversion in the Philippines : the case of a Born Again local church”

Sylvie Retailleau, French Minister for Higher Education and Research, made an official visit to Thailand on October 20 and 21. Her visit included a one-hour meeting with IRASEC’s researchers, who were all present for the occasion. On the agenda were IRASEC’s research, publication and training activities, with particular emphasis on the doctoral programs that IRASEC runs and is associated with, as well as associated mobility within South-East Asia and to and from (...)

Jeremy Ianni will take part to The Central European Symposium for the Academic Study of Religion, with a talk on the Philippines. The upcoming conference hosted by the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Szeged (Hungary) between the 20th and 22nd of October 2023, aims to open a symposium where topics concerning the intersections of religiosity and identity-should it be private or public-can be discussed in a broader sense.