CASE
The Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE/UMR 8170) is the leading center for Southeast Asian studies in France. This joint research unit of EHESS, CNRS and Inalco, founded in 2006, federates interdisciplinary research on the eleven countries of Southeast Asia (Burma, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam), but also neighboring regions or states, such as Papua New Guinea, Taiwan and southern China.
The Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE/UMR 8170) is the leading center for Southeast Asian studies in France. This joint research unit of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Inalco, founded in 2006, federates interdisciplinary research on the eleven countries of Southeast Asia (Burma, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam), but also neighboring regions or states, such as Papua New Guinea, Taiwan and southern China.
Through its various fields of study, CASE explores "Southeast Asia" as a cultural area, seeking its points of convergence and rupture. Far from essentializing this object, the Center is interested in the societies of the region both in their singularity and in their mutual relations. It produces knowledge about these societies, whose role and weight continue to grow in the contemporary world.
It brings together some twenty researchers (CNRS, EFEO, Inalco) from different disciplines: history, archaeology, philology, economics, epigraphy, geography, linguistics, anthropology, ethnomusicology.
The CASE has a documentation center with a large collection of works on Indonesia and insular Southeast Asia.
Very active in the editorial field, the CASE publishes in particular the journals Archipel and Péninsule, of international standing, thus covering the insular and peninsular parts of Southeast Asia.
