François Robinne, directeur de l’IRASEC de 2012 à 2016, a été l’invité de Jean-Noël Jeanneney dans l’émission Concordance des temps du 16 décembre 2017, Birmanie, les racines de la violence, sur France Culture.
« Le drame des Rohingyas nous sort de la tentation de l’indifférence. Événement dramatique d’où naît chez nous un étonnement. C’est cette religion bouddhiste dont on nous a dit si souvent qu’elle était pacifiste qui tolérerait une telle barbarie ? L’Histoire permet-elle de mieux comprendre cela ? » (...)

Conference « Unity in Diversity: Transgressive Southeast Asia »
organised by SEASIA (Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia)
at Chulalongkorn University on december 16th and 17th, 2017.
Claire Tran, director of IRASEC, participated to the panel Catholicism in Southeast Asia : Building Religious Elites beyond the Colonial Encounter with Bernardo Brown (International Christian University), Shanthini Pilai (National University of Malaysia), Suppya Nut (Köln university) and Julius (...)

The organisers of Site and Space in Southeast Asia seek applications for participation in a two-year funded research opportunity exploring the art, architecture, and landscape of Southeast Asia.
Site and Space in Southeast Asia explores the intersections of urban space, art and culture in three cities—Yangon, Penang, and Huế—through collaborative, site-based research. With major funding from the Getty Foundation and partners from within and beyond the region, Site and Space in Southeast (...)

Claire TRAN has participated in the second edition Aur@sia International Symposium, organized by CNRS, together with the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies of CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences), on 28 – 29 November 2017. With the participation of Patrick Nedellec (CNRS Director, European Research and International Cooperation Office) and Sylvie Démurger (Deputy Director, CNRS institute of Social Sciences and Humanities) . The Director of IRASEC has presented the activities of her Center (...)

La revue Moussons vient de faire paraître, dans son dernier numéro, un compte rendu de l’ouvrage Transitions urbaines en Asie du Sud-Est. De la métropolisation émergente et de ses formes dérivées, sous la direction de Karine Peyronnie, Charles Goldblum & Bounleuam Sisoulath.

On November 29, 2017, Anne Guillou has presented to the students of the Department of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA), Phnom Penh, the Master of Devopment Studies of the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RSCD) at Chiang Mai University. The RSCD offers scholarships to foreign students and the Cambodian students have showed great interest in the Master curriculum. This presentation takes place in the context of the cooperation between IRASEC and (...)

On 24 November 2017, Anne Guillou was invited by the director of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (Phnom Penh) to give a lecture (in Khmer) on "Care and Nursing under the Khmer Rouge regime". The public was made up of high school students and staff from the Genocide Museum.

Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting 2017
Tropical Medicine 4.0 : Effective Collaboration for
an Impact on Global Health
Date : December 6-8, 2017
Venue : Amari Watergate, Bangkok, Thaïlande
Abigaël PESSES and Stéphane RENNESSON, researchers at IRASEC, will present their work in the S8 panel : Investigating Neglected Infectious Diseases at the Interface between Ecology and Anthropology chaired by Serge Morand (CIRAD, Kasetsart University) and Paron Dekumyoy (Mahidol University) (...)

On Tuesday, 21, November 2017 Ashley Thompson (Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, SOAS, University London) gave a lecture on "Ghosts of the past: About the four Buddhas after Angkor" at the French Institute of Cambodia. 140 persons attended it.
This is the last presentation of the 2017 IRASEC conference series "Time, Space, Memory" organized by Anne Yvonne Guillou, Anthropologist at CNRS / IRASEC in Cambodia.
A new IRASEC conference series will be organized in 2018 on (...)

IRASEC participates in AUR@SIA 2 organized by the CNRS and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shaghai Institute for Advanced Studies) in Shanghai from 27 to 29 November 2017.
The director of IRASEC, Claire TRAN, will take part in the summit meeting of CNRS Asian entities from 27 to 29 November in Shanghai. During these three days of the Symposium, the different actors will highlight their research work. Such a gathering represents an ideal opportunity for our partners in Asia, such as (...)