Centre for European Studies (CES) at Chulalongkorn University and The Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) organize a public lecture and panel discussion on the topic “Did Europe Really Colonize Southeast Asia?” by Dr. Jean-Louis Margolin, Senior lecturer, Aix-Marseille University and research fellow at the Institute of Asian Studies (Marseilles), on Thursday September 18th, 2014, from 13.00 to 16.00 hrs. at Room 105, Mahachulalongkorn Building, Chulalongkorn University, (...)

L'ouvrage dirigé par Frédéric Fortunel et Christophe Gironde vient de paraitre et est disponible en téléchargement gratuit.
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Les hauts-plateaux méridionaux du Viêt Nam et du Cambodge connaissent depuis le milieu des années 2000 une forte augmentation des superficies plantées en hévéa. Les booms de l’hévéaculture diffèrent significativement de part et d’autre de la frontière, mais ils sont également étroitement liés dans le contexte d’une intégration régionale des (...)

François Robinne represented IRASEC at the International Burma Studies Conference held from 1 to 3 August 2014 in Singapore. Entitled "International Burma Studies conference 2014. Envisioning Myanmar : Issues, Images, Identities", this conference which gathered 40 panels was co-organised by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), the National University of Singapore (NUS) : Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Centre for Asian Legal Studies.
During this conference, he also met (...)

Vanina Bouté went to Singapore to participate in the yearly Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, "AAS-in-Asia ; Asia in Motion : Heritage and Transformation", which was held from the 17th to the 19th of July 2014 at the National University of Singapore.
She spoke in the Panel "Emerging Networks of Power in the Southeast Asian Uplands" and presented a paper titled "Emergence of Local Entrepreneurs in New Urban Centres of Northern Laos" on July (...)

A book by Danielle Tan and Caroline Grillot has just been published.
Full description of the book (French text)
Between fascination and fear, enthusiasm and hostility, the new Chinese migration raises questions. The work on "China in Africa" has obscured the importance of China’s emergence for its closest neighbours. This omission is particularly glaring in the case of Southeast Asia, which has always been the main arena for China’s trade engagements with the world. Considered as China’s (...)

A new book resulting from an IRASEC research programme has just been published : Atlas de l’Asie du Sud-Est, Les enjeux de la croissance, by Hugues Tertrais.
With 80 maps and infographics, this Atlas is a key to a better understanding of one of the regions where the stakes of growth and the balance of the planet are at stake today.
At the beginning of the 21st century, when the economic centre of the world has shifted to Asia, Southeast Asia has become a vital crossroads.
This Atlas, with (...)

Bruno Jetin has been invited by the GERPISA-International Network to join the 22nd international colloquium “Old and New Spaces of the Automobile Industry. Towards a New Balance” hosted by the Faculty of Economics of Kyoto University, Japan, 3-6 June 2014. He presented a contribution on “the Automobile Demand after the Great Recession”.

Bruno Jetin has been invited to join the Symposium dedicated to ASEAN in a Global Context, on June 2nd 2014. He has discussed four contributions presented by PhD students of the “Southeast Asian Studies Programme” in a panel dedicated to “Cross-border and Regional Cooperation”.
Complete programme (PDF)