Jérémy JAMMES

Deputy director from 2010 to 2014

Jérémy Jammes is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (2014-). He received his PhD (anthropology and religious studies focus) at Paris X Nanterre. He has conducted research on Vietnamese religions, spirit-mediumship and Western occultist networks in Southeast Asia (Spiritism, Theosophical Society). His studies are now focusing on conversion, missionary activity and translingual practices in East Asian and Southeast Asia. He has subsequently published articles in academic journals (Aséanie, Moussons, Péninsule, Social Compass, SOJOURN, TAJA-Australian Journal of Anthropology). He is author of Les Oracles du Cao Đài. Étude d’un mouvement religieux vietnamien et de ses réseaux (Les Indes savantes, 2014), co-editor with Pascal Bourdeaux of Chrétiens évangéliques d’Asie du Sud-Est, expériences locales d’une ferveur conquérante (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016). He also took part in various scientific projects at the museum of Quai Branly (Paris) around the ethnographic work of Georges Condominas. Jérémy Jammes was Deputy Director of IRASEC from September 2010 to July 2014.

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