Bangkok & Manila, 25 November - 7 December 2024
The Research Institute of Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) organises annually a doctoral winter school, in collaboration with a range of European and Southeast Asian universities and research centres.
In 2024, the IRASEC Winter school will be dedicated to Sustainable Development Studies in Southeast Asia, and will be co-organised and co-hosted by the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University and the Center for Integrative Development Studies, University of the Philippines in Diliman.

Opening of the Irasec Winter Doctoral School at the Faculty of Political Science, Chlalongkorn University, November 27, 2023.

Bangkok & Kuala Lumpur, 27 November - 9 December 2023

The Research Institute of Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) organises an annual winter school in the social sciences and humanities, in collaboration with a range of European and Southeast Asian universities and research centers. The purpose of these workshops is to stimulate discourse and exchange regarding research on Southeast Asia within the scope of social sciences and humanities. IRASEC’s winter schools are designed to endorse comparative and regional research methodologies, facilitate the interaction of students, and promote co-tutorship and co-supervision of dissertations for early-career researchers in Southeast Asia, particularly those who exhibit an interest in continuing their studies in France. In 2023, the IRASEC winter school will be dedicated to migration in Southeast Asia.

IRASEC is pleased to announce the Second Graduate Students Forum of the UP Department of Anthropology, co-organized with Elisabeth Luquin.
This is an online workshop of graduate students’ papers on the theme, “indigenous elements in independent Christian religions of the contemporary Philippines.” The participants/presenters come from a broad range of disciplines such anthropology, history and Philippine Studies with invited discussants who are professors and experienced researchers in those (...)

Anne Yvonne Guillou, chercheuse affiliée à l’IRASEC de 2015 à 2018, soutiendra son Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR) en anthropologie le vendredi 13 janvier 2023.

After a first week in Chiang Mai, The winter school Urban Theories Across Borders (UTAB) moved to Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia. It is hosted by the Fakultas Teknik, Universitas Gadjah Mada, one of the most prestigious institutions in Indonesia. Tomorrow, participants will discover the culture of this royal city whose square shape is reminiscent of Chiang Mai.

The IRASEC Doctoral Workshops in Social Sciences and Humanities, Winter school 2022 Urban Theories Across Borders (UTAB) just begun at the Faculty of Architecture of Chiang Mai University.
You can follow the news on the Facebook page dedicated to this event.

IRASEC Doctoral Workshops
in Social Sciences and Humanities
The winter school Urban Theories Across Borders (UTAB) targets early career researchers — master and PhD students — who aim to pursue knowledge production about cities and urbanization in Southeast Asia from a social sciences perspective. It helps the students to engage with the most recent debates in the urban studies field, provides methodological tools to write and improve research proposals, and initiate the students to urban (...)