On April 26, 2017, the Conference "Coastal areas governance in the context of rapid urbanization and climate change in Southeast Asia" was held in Bali, at the Bali Tourism Board (BTB), with four presentations given by Dr. Christine Cabasset And Dr. Agung Suryawan Wiranatha (Udayana University - UNDP Bali Indonesia), Dr. Vilas Nitivattananon (Asian Institute of Technology - AIT Thailand). The objective of the conference was to disseminate the first results of the research program (...)

Wednesday, 29 April 2017 – 9.00/16.00
PhD Programme Meeting Room
4th Floor, Faculty of Social Administration Building
Thammasat University, Tha Prachan
Stéphane Rennesson will participate to a workshop that will discuss the concept of Cultural Intimacy coined by Professor Michael Herzfeld's (Department of Anthropology, Harvard University) in his presence. The workshop organised by the Faculty of Sociology and Anthroplogy of Thammasat University and the Center for Contemporary Social (...)

Wednesday, 26 April 2017 - 14.00 / 17.00
Bali Tourism Board, Meeting Room, 2nd Floor
Jalan Raya Puputan No. 41, Renon - Denpasar 80235
Dr. Christine Cabasset will participate to the half day Seminar on coastal areas governance in the context of rapid tourism urbanization and climate change in Southeast Asia, Dr. Vilas Nitivattananon (AIT), and Dr. Agung Suryawan Wiranatha (UNUD).
This event is organised by University of Udayana (UNUD) in collaboration with Asian Institute of Technology (...)

Web of relations:
the way of giving, taking and reciprocating in the Moken’s world
Friday, April 28th, 2017 – 14h30 / 16h30
Alumni Meeting Room, 12th Floor,
Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University
Narumon Arunotai (Research Unit on Cultural Dynamics and Ethnicity, Social Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University) will go on with the lecture series of the academic seminar with a session about the web of relations in the Moken’s world.
This talk reflects diverse (...)

Time, Space, Memory
Conference cycle in partnership with the Institut français in Cambodia
Organized by Anne Yvonne Guillou, anthropologist CNRS/IRASEC
What is left from the past, the past that is far or close from us? What does a society forget and what does it remember? How does collective memory evolve and how does it transform over time? What is the relation between memory and history?
IRASEC’s cycle of conference “Time, space and memory” explores the construction process of collective (...)

Health consequences of the deficits suffered
under the Khmer Rouge regime
by Patrick Heuveline,
Professor in Sociology (University of California at Los Angeles)
Tuesday 4th April at 6:30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, Khmer and English
Free entrance
Feed rations given during the Khmer Rouge regime to groups of deported population were highly inadequate given the physical effort that was required because of forced labor, and led to generalized malnutrition. The (...)

New Religiosities, Modern Capitalism, and Moral Complexities in Southeast Asia
Juliette Koning and Gwenaël NJOTO-FEILLARD (Eds.)
IRASEC et Palgrave Macmillan
2017, 293 p. (ISBN 978-981-10-2969-1)
Pioneers the study of moral economies in Southeast Asia through an interdisciplinary approach to a multi-faceted field of study. Provides case studies and empirical research about the fraught interactions between religious groupings and economic logics. Considers among other issues the (...)

REVOLUSI TAK KUNJUNG SELESAI
Potret Indonesia Masa Kini,
sous la direction de Rémy Madinier
IRASEC et KPG
2017, 750 p. (ISBN 9786024243050)
IRASEC is pleased to announce the release of the Indonesian version of the national monograph directed by Rémy Madinier.
Resulting of the collaboration of twenty-seven recognized specialists (eighteen French and nine Indonesian), this book is a synthesis of the latest research in the social sciences on Indonesia.
Indonesian edition - French (...)

L’Asie du Sud-Est 2017 - Bilan, enjeux et perspectives,
sous la direction d’Abigaël Pesses et de Claire Thi-Liên Tran
IRASEC et Les Indes savantes
2017, 456 p. (ISBN 978-2-84654-468-9)
Chaque année l’Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine (IRASEC), basé à Bangkok, mobilise une vingtaine de chercheurs et d’experts pour décrypter l’actualité régionale. L’Asie du Sud-Est – véritable carrefour économique, culturel et religieux – constitue un espace unique d’articulation des diversités sur (...)

Neak ta (land guardian spirits) in Cambodia.
Reflections on the ideas of humanity and nature from the Khmer perspective
Cancelled
Alumni Meeting Room, 12th Floor,
Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University
Anne Yvonne Guillou (Cnrs, IRASEC) will go on with the lecture series of the academic seminar with a session about the ideas of humanity and nature from the Khmer perspective.
As a key element of the Khmer popular religious system, cults to neak ta (`anak tā) have deeply (...)