10th year anniversary French-Upper Mekong Sub-region
Academic Cooperation Center
On the occasion of 10th anniversary of French-Upper Mekong Sub-region Academic Cooperation Centre of Mae Fah Luang University in Chiang Rai, the seminar was organized at Mae Fah Luang University on 17 September 2015 on the theme of « France in Thailand: Past, Present, Future ».
IRASEC represented by François Robinne and Jean Baffie who is a researcher of CNRS, recently appointed at IRASEC Bangkok with the speech (...)

Conférence de F. Pommaret
IRASEC / Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC)
The religious categories in Bhutan are often puzzling for the outsiders even if they are Buddhist themselves. The term lama used freely to label any male religious person does not help to understand the complexity of this religious culture.
The tradition of Bhutanese Buddhism is similar to Tibetan Buddhism and belongs to Vajrayana which has different set of rules from Theravada.
This lecture presents an overview of (...)

The new IRASEC Occasional Papers, “Vietnam : One-Party State and the Mimicry of Civil Society”, written by John Kleinen, has been just published.
Full details of the book.

Jean-Marc de Grave has animated the panel on "School Education and Socialisation. Ethnographic and Analytic Perspectives." during the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) organized during 15-17 July 2015 at Thammasat University.
The socialisation aspect of school practice is not much considered outside the utilitarian conception of the goal assigned to introduce students into active working life. In this perspective, I propose here to develop a (...)

François Robinne, director of IRASEC, presents his paper on "Religion from the Margin : Religious Movements across Thailand-China-Myanmar Borders" and Benedicte Brac de la Perrière also presents her paper on "Dharmma Predication and Political Transition" during the international conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies (ICBMS) which will be organised from 24 to 26 July 2015 at Chiang Mai (...)

Le nouveau carnet de l'IRASEC, The Kachin Conflict: Testing the Limits of the Political Transition in Myanmar, vient de paraître en ligne.
Fiche complète de l'ouvrage.

Debate on stage N°5 : « Power issues and social challenges in Southeast Asia »
Date : Tuesday 16 June 2015, from 7.30 to 9.30 pm
Venue : Auditorium, Alliance Française de Bangkok
While nearly 52 percent of the Burmese population remains without electricity compared to 69 percent in Cambodia and 45 percent in Laos, the demand for power has skyrocketed in megacities such as Jakarta, Singapore and Bangkok.
To help us comprehend the gap between the ever-growing demand for electricity and the (...)

In the framework of the organisation of the IUAES Inter-Congress 2015 "Re-imagining Anthropological and Sociological Boundaries" organised by Thammasat University between 15-17 July 2015, Jean-Marc de Grave participates to the panel on the theme "School education, socialisation and the configutation of social models".
The panel is inviting to develop a reflection on school education as a means of socialization and learning socialization, with the idea that school (...)

2 candidats ont été sélectionnés pour la campagne de bourses IRASEC en 2015
1) Bethsabée Souris – (doctorante –Science politique - University College of London) : Impact des communautés transnationales karen sur le conflit ethnique en Birmanie (terrains: diaspora karen londonienne, camps de réfugiés à la frontière birmano-thaïlandaise).
2) Adeline Martinez (Doctorante – anthropologie – Université d’Aix-Marseille ) : Déplacement forcé de populations en Indonésie suite à la catastrophe naturelle (terrain : (...)