Around one hundred persons have attended Prof. Louis Gabaude’s presentation on “Theravāda Buddhism: Rules? Rites? Or Civilization?” at the French Institute of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, 22 May 2018. The presentation is part of the IRASEC conference series “Buddhism and Society” organized by IRASEC in partnership with IFC.
Watch the video of the lecture (in French)

« Science, Policy & Society »
2nd conference USPC-NUS
May 22 and 23, 2018 - 8:30 am to 6 pm
Claire Tran, Director of IRASEC, participates in the 2nd USPC-NUS conference "Science, Policy & Society" which is held on 22 and 23 May at Sciences Po and at the University Paris Descartes, in the presence of Prof François Houllier, President of Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC) and Prof Eng Chye Tan, President of the National University of Singapore (NUS).
This conference is organized (...)

2 candidats ont été sélectionnés pour la campagne de bourses IRASEC en 2018
Louise Perrodin, doctorante en science politique : De l’ancrage dans l’informalité des Rohingyas en Malaisie
Nicolas Lainé, post-doctorant en anthropologie : Rapport à la nature et rapport à autrui chez les Tai-Lue au Laos : le cas du buffle et de l’éléphant

Archipel asiatique : quand les Dragons se mordent la queue, entre autoritarisme et jihadisme ?
Delphine Allès was interviewed by Xavier Martinet for the radio programme Les enjeux internationaux on Monday 16 May 2018, on France Culture.
Podcast

The 4th Social Sciences and Humanities Dialogues:
Connecting through ritual and social media. Technologies of sociality in contemporary Cambodia
May 16th, 2018 at 2 - 5 pm.
Seminar Room of the PhD Program, Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, (the 4th floor of Social Administration Building), Thammasat University (Tha Phrachan), Bangkok
“Social memory of the Khmer Rouge regime: ritual and religious aspects” by Anne Yvonne Guillou (Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia) (...)

Claire TRAN, director of IRASEC, has participated in the third workshop of the collaborative project NUS-USPC Intersecting Mobilities: Southeast Asia from the Perspective of Religious Mobility, untitled Religious Networks in Asia was held on the 27th-28th April 201, hosted the first day by the Urakami Christian Museum and the second day by Nagasaki University.
Organized by Bernardo BROWN (International Christian University, Tokyo), Kaori HATSUMI (Nagasaki University) and Kenneth DEAN (...)

Relations internationales
Delphine Allès, Pierre Grosser, Frédéric Ramel
Armand Colin
288p, 190 x 240 mm
EAN : 9782200617370
À paraître le 23/05/2018
Les relations internationales représentent un élément essentiel de compréhension des sociétés contemporaines. L’action politique des Etats, les mobilisations sociales, les formes contemporaines de coopération et de conflit sont autant de phénomènes qui ne peuvent être réellement compris qu’avec un regard international. Cet ouvrage présente les grandes (...)

« 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 (...)

Religion and Ecology on the Interaction of Local Cosmologies and Globalized ReligionWorkshop of the Network:
Plural Ecologies in Conflict: Anthropological Perspectives on Southeast AsiaMay 4th - 6th, 2018Institute of Anthropology, Heidelberg University
Albert-Ueberle-Str. 3-5
69120 Heidelberg
Abigaël Pesses will participate to the workshop as discussant.