This international conference is organized by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development Studies (PSP3), IPB University, in strategic partnership with the Program on Alternative Development (AltDev), UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies, University of the Philippines and Institut de Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine (IRASEC), Bangkok as the international partners and Sajogyo Institute as the national partner.

Abstract Deadline : 28 February 2026
Full Paper : 30 April 2026

Relying on a transdisciplinary approach, it deploys a three-fold analysis of the material arrangements and spatial (re)rooting, the social and institutional reconfigurations of collectives and the (cosmo)political imaginaries and subjectivities that shape them.
The aim is to examine how collectives are influenced by national, regional, and global norms and structures—and, in turn, how their life projects can have an impact at different levels.
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This 5-year IRN, funded by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) will study how Indo-Pacific cities address urbanization, resource limits, climate change, and geopolitical tensions. More broadly, it will analyze how these urban regions respond to the challenges and issues.

Le 16 janvier 2026, Christine Cabasset a participé à l’émission dédiée à l’environnement C’est pas du vent, animée par Anne-Cécile Bras, Radio France Internationale (RFI), sur le Timor oriental. Intitulée « Au Timor, le Tara Bandu protège les ressources naturelles », l’émission était adossée au reportage éponyme réalisé par Juliette Chaignon sur l’île d’Atauro.
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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)

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.

Juliette SENDRA
IRASEC, Bangkok
december 2025, 29 p.
Text in French

This article is a reflection on tourism in Asia in light of the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, based on a case study of the Javanese village of Bejiharjo. The village is located in the Gunung Kidul region (“southern mountains”), which was classified as a geopark by UNESCO in 2012. It illustrates the new challenges posed by Indonesian tourism recovery systems in terms of environmental, social, and economic sustainability.

Founded in Bangkok twenty-five years ago, the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia has established itself as a major centre of scholarship. Since its creation, IRASEC has produced a substantial body of work comprising more than 150 publications, 38 per cent of which are in English, including 21 policy briefs, 44 research notebooks and 87 monographs. These publications are complemented by a wide range of round tables, conferences and symposia. Under successive leaderships, and (...)

As part of the feature on youth around the world published in the 89th issue of DIPLOMATIE magazine, entitled “Gen Z, la jeunesse se révolte ?”, Gabriel FACAL wrote the article “Indonésie : la Gen Z, catalyseur du plus grand mouvement social depuis la démocratisation de 1998.”

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On January 5, 2026, Christine Cabasset spoke to the Central News Agency (CNA) in Taiwan about how Southeast Asian countries viewed the U.S. intervention in Venezuela. Her response to Zachary Lee covered the reactions of various countries and the arguments put forward, as well as how those countries perceive the United States.

Début janvier 2026, Christine Cabasset a publié l’article « Timor oriental : un petit parmi les grands d’Asie », dans le CARTO magazine n°93 (Janvier-Février 2026).
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