MSH ULB

MSH ULB

Rechercher
Menu

EASt

Members

Virginie Arantes

EASt Co-coordinator

Virginie Arantes, a political scientist with a Ph.D. from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), currently serves as a postdoctoral researcher supported by the National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS). Her previous research centered on China's environmental governance, resulting in the publication of her book, "China's Green Consensus" (2022), which offers insights into authoritarian environmentalism and civil society dynamics. In addition to her book, Virginie has contributed to the academic community with several papers published in reputable journals like the Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Contemporary China, and Journal...

Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot

EASt Co-coordinator

Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot is FNRS research associate and senior lecturer at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC) at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She co-coordinates the Master Erasmus Mundus “Transnational migrations” (MITRA) at the ULB and co-presides as vice president the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences. She also takes part in the editorial board of Civilisations (an international peer-reviewed journal of Anthropology and Human Sciences) and Sextant (a multidisciplinary and international peer-reviewed journal specialised in women and gender studies). Her ongoing research focuses...

Kazuki Abiko

PhD student

Kazuki Abiko est doctorant en Langues, lettres et traductologie au centre de recherche Philixte (Études philologiques, littéraires et textuelles) de l’Université libre de Bruxelles. Sa thèse doctorale porte sur la socialité de la culture Hip-hop. Son thème de recherche questionne le lien entre la culture Hip-Hop, et plus précisément le rap, et la communauté française de Belgique, mais il questionne également sa particularité entre les scènes américaine, française et japonaise. Contact : kazuki.abiko@ulb.be

Kenny Agboton

Membre associé

Kenny Agboton is a student in Political Sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He was selected to the 2020 French national history competition, Concours général d’Histoire. After obtaining a baccalaureate in the British international section, he followed a preparatory training to the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Lyon and to the Ecole nationale des Chartes. Co-founder of the research and formation association on racism - Racism Search - he was responsible for the History of colonisation department. He has contributed to numerous projects led by the Forum des Jeunes...

Turin Airlangga

PhD student - visiting

My PhD research project focuses on diplomatic history between Indonesia and North Korea during the Cold War. I have a keen interest in International Relations, regionalism, security studies and specifically in Cold War History. Prior to my admittance to the PhD program, I worked at the Embassy of Mexico as a political affairs staff and at the Embassy of Brazil as a staff for the Naval Attaché; these experiences have enriched my political learning on practical level which I am sure will be beneficial for my career. In the future...

Aurélien Allard

ACA

Après une Licence et un Master de langue et civilisation japonaises à l’Inalco et une Licence d’ethnologie à l’Université de Strasbourg, j’ai séjourné cinq ans à l’Université d’Ôsaka en tant que boursier du gouvernement japonais. J’ai alors accompli de nombreuses enquêtes de terrain dans le Kansai et le nord de Shikoku ayant pour objet les communautés et lieux de culte locaux. Ma thèse soutenue en 2016 sous la direction de François Macé à l’Inalco porte sur La requalification et la réorganisation des sanctuaires shintô aux ères Meiji et Taishô (1868-1926)....

Pierre Bonneels

Associate member

Associé au sein du Nagasaki Junior Collège et Licencié de l’Université Bukkyo (Kyoto) en Bouddhologie, Pierre Bonneels est lauréat d’une bourse de recherche du ministère japonais de l’Éducation à l’Université de Tokyo où il a effectué des recherches en philosophie dans le département de Littérature et Culture Comparée. Membre du Groupe Belge Francophone d’Études Cartésiennes et du Groupe de Recherches en Ontologie Formelle et Développementale, il est rattaché au Centre de Recherches en Philosophie et à l’École Doctorale en Philosophie de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles où il rédige actuellement une...

Maxime Boyer-Degoul

PhD student

Diplômé de Lettres Classiques et d’Etudes cinématographiques, il enseigne le français pendant deux ans en Chine avant de débuter un doctorat porté sur le cinéma japonais. Ses recherches se focalisent particulièrement sur les notions identitaires à travers la question de la représentation et du regard que permettent aussi bien le cinéma que les arts visuels. Son travail consiste en une étude interdisciplinaire dont les autres formes d’art tels que la littérature, la photographie ou l’animation donnent des clés supplémentaires pour mieux discerner les spécificités des représentations à la fois communes...

Solange Chatelard

Associate member

Solange Guo Chatelard is a Research Associate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Her research focuses on Chinese globalisation and Chinese migration, specifically Chinese engagements in Africa based on long term ethnographic research in Zambia and China. In addition to research, Solange has produced two film documentaries about China's growing presence in Africa, “When China Met Africa” (BBC/ARTE) and “King Cobra and the Dragon” (AL JAZEERA). Link : https://www.aljazeera.com/program/people-power/2012/1/5/king-cobra-and-the-dragon Contact Solange Chatelard

Herbary Cheung

Associate member

"Dr Herbary Cheung is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Gender Studies at the Malaysia School of Arts and Social Sciences (SASS), Monash University. Born, raised and educated in the States, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong, he received his PhD from The Education University of Hong Kong under the prestigious Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS). He is an awardee of the Ernst Mach Grant - worldwide from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF). Trained as a feminist sociologist and Southeast Asianist, he believes “knowledge is co-produced...

Edouard Degay Delpeuch

PhD student

Edouard Degay Delpeuch est docteur en Sciences politiques et sociales de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) et docteur en ethnologie et en anthropologie sociale de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociale (EHESS) et de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Dans sa thèse, il fait un cas ethnographique d’un groupe musical de procession du nom de Khun Narin Sin Phin Prayuk, internationalement connu comme le Khun Narin Electric Phin Band. De la Thaïlande au monde, son étude s’intéresse aux processus qui créent la musique à travers la circulation et renégocient...

Eline Delmarcelle

PhD student - visiting

Eline Delmarcelle is a PhD Candidate at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University (Tokyo) and visiting researcher at EASt. After obtaining B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology, she pursued her MA in Political Sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and was awarded a magna cum laude for her MA thesis on the cultural diplomacy of Japan and its portrayal of Japan as a homogeneous society. Her PhD research project focuses on citizenship aquisition in Japan and Belgium and specifically on how new citizens identify in their country...

Juliette Duléry

Associated member

Juliette Duléry is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Liège, funded by the F.R.S-FNRS (Pragmapolis research center). She holds a master’s degree in political science from Sciences Po and in 2023, she defended her PhD thesis on evangelical Protestantism and conservative mobilizations in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China (University of Paris Cité). She studies the renewal of evangelicalism from the standpoint of the sociology of religions and social movement studies, analyzing this movement from an international and comparative perspective. In her current research project, she focuses on anti-gender evangelical...

Catherine Lourdes Dy

Associate member

Catherine Lourdes (Kate) Dy is a programme manager and researcher with the Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) where she coordinates the CHAMPIONs project, which seeks to address polarization, radicalization, and violent extremism in Romania, Hungary, Poland, and Germany. In addition, Kate manages the Migration and Refugee Support and Integration (MRIS) department, which carries out projects supporting the protection and integration of third country nationals, including refugees, asylum seekers, economic- and family reunification- migrants, and victims of trafficking. Within the MRIS, she is directly involved as Scientific...

François Foret

Scientific collaborator

François Foret is Professor of political science and researcher at the Cevipol and the Institute for European Studies (IEE), Université Libre de Bruxelles; and President of the IEE-ULB (from september 2023). He is also fellow at the European Governance and Politics Programme, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute Florence. His specialization is in political sociology; European studies and comparative politics. His researches focus on the legitimization of political orders; symbolic politics; the interaction between politics, culture, religion and values; the comparison between Europe, Japan and the US. His current research...

Vanessa Frangville

ACA

Vanessa Frangville is the main founder of EASt and was EASt director until 2023. She is professor in China Studies at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Her previous research dealt with discourses on ethnicity and nation building in modern and contemporary China, with a special focus on cinema and “ethnic minority” film. She has published several articles and book chapters on cinema about China’s “minority” or “non-Han” ethnic groups and on China’s Tibetan cinema. As the main coordinator of the GENEsYs funded collective research project (2016-2022), she also published...

Gwennaël Gaffric

Associate member

Gwennaël Gaffric is Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France). His PhD thesis was about ecological issues in Taiwan literature. He is vice-president of the Association Francophone d’Etudes Taïwanaises (AFET). He is also translator and currently works on Chinese, Hongkongese and Taiwanese contemporary literatures, especially in the field of science fiction. His research interests include literary studies (especially science fiction), ecocriticism, postcolonialism, and translation studies. Contact Gwennaël Gaffric

Morgane Ghys

PhD student

Morgane Ghys holds a Master’s degree in Political Science obtained at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 2018. She is currently a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Department of Political Science of the Université Libre de Bruxelles since 2019. Morgane Ghys' PhD research focusses on the knowledge production by American think tanks. She studies how knowledge concerning security threats is produced and circulated inside and outside think tanks. Research interests: Sociological approaches in IR, Critical Security Studies, Sociology of knowledge, U.S.-China relations Contact Morgane Ghys Profil ULB-REPI

Hacer Z. Gonul

Associate member

Hacer Z. Gonul is a postdoctoral researcher in the Remote Ethnography project (REMOTE XUAR) at Palacký University Olomouc and an associate member at the Research Center for the East Asian Studies (EASt) with more than a decade of research experience across China, including in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuhan and Beijing. She received her PhD from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) with the scholarship from the FRESH (F.R.S- FNRS) and was a visiting fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge. She is one of the editors of...

Coraline Goron

Associate member

Coraline Goron obtained a double Ph.D. degree in Political Science from the University of Warwick and the Université Libre de Bruxelles with an Erasmus Mundus program scholarship. In March 2018, her PhD dissertation entitled "Climate Revolution or Long March, The Politics of Low-Carbon Transformation in China, The Case of the Power Sector" was awarded the Marthe Engelborghs-Bertels for Sinology. She also holds an MA in European politics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and an LLM in international and European Law as well as a Degree in Chinese law from...

Miyako Hayakawa

Postdoctoral researcher

Miyako Hayakawa is a social anthropologist, Postdoctoral research fellow for the project AspirE, at the ULB. She received her PhD from EHESS (Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in France. In her PhD dissertation, entitled “Patriarchal constraints in migration: gendered experiences of Japanese migrants/expatriates in France,” she examined how patriarchal gender relations continue to be maintained in a receiving country where more “modern” family values are constructed, and how women challenge patriarchy by everyday social practices, particularly by their language behaviour. Her research focuses on anthropology of family and...

Wen He

ACA

He Wen est Docteure en langue et littérature chinoises à l’Université d’Aix-Marseille. Sa thèse, soutenue en 2022, porte sur la traduction de l’hétérolinguisme littéraire du chinois vers le français, en s’appuyant sur le cas de la langue Wu dans le roman de la fin des Qing Haishanghua liezhuan 海上花列傳 (Biographies des fleurs de Shanghai) de Han Bangqing 韓邦慶. Ses recherches touchent des domaines allant de la traductologie à la dialectologie, en passant par la littérature et la traduction littéraire. Elle est par ailleurs traductrice du chinois vers le français. Elle...

Kevin Henry

Chercheur associé

Détenteur d'un doctorat en Langues, Lettres et Traductologie de l'Université libre de Bruxelles et d'un doctorat en Langue et Littérature françaises orientation traduction de l'Université des études internationales de Shanghai, Kevin HENRY est traducteur professionnel en sciences humaines et occupe depuis 2017 le poste de chargé de cours (équivalent belge du maître de conférences avec habilitation à diriger des recherches) à la Faculté de Traduction et d'Interprétation–École d'Interprètes internationaux de l'Université de Mons, où il dirige le laboratoire ChinEAsT depuis sa création en 2022. Spécialiste de la critique de la...

Sonya Imin

PhD Student - MIS

Sonya Imin is a Uyghur American PhD researcher and multi-disciplinary creative. Her research project at ULB explores how transformations in Uyghur exile are being negotiated through visual art and contemporary creative culture. Specifically, this project focuses on how diasporic identities are being articulated, how cultural shifts are being heightened by the realities of exile and genocide, and what narratives are being addressed through Uyghur creative arts. By looking at the dialogues around Uyghur art practices in diaspora, this project hopes to delineate specific shifts of perception and experience, areas of...

Coraline Jortay

Associate member

Dr. Coraline Jortay is CNRS Research Fellow (THALIM UMR 7172). Her research explores Sinophone literary practices of the first half of the 20th century, drawing on a multidisciplinary approach situated at the intersection of translation studies, gender history, and linguistic history. In particular, she seeks to shed light on the cultural and political history of Sinophone Asia through the lens of linguistic practices, understood as a key site where forms of othering and solidarities where (un)made in the broader context of accelerating linguistic nationalisms and imperialisms in East and South-East...

Mari Kawase

PhD student - Waseda Brussels office

Mari Kawase est doctorante au Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (LAMC) à l’ULB. Son projet de thèse transdisciplinaire (anthropologie, sociologie et psychologie) est centré sur la vie intime des couples belgo-japonais d’aujourd’hui, et son influence sur la dynamique du couple, en co-promotion avec Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot(l’ULB) et Gracia Liu-Farrer (Université Waseda). C’est la suite de son Master à l’UCL sur le thème du mariage belgo-japonais. Contacter Mari Kawase

Thierry Kellner

Chargé de cours

Thierry Kellner holds a doctorate in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (IUHEI) in Geneva, and is a lecturer in the Political Science Department of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he holds the "China Mini-Chair" and teaches Chinese foreign policy. He is associated with several ULB research centers (REPI, OMAM, IEE) and with the Groupe de recherche et d'information sur la paix et la sécurité (GRIP, Brussels). His main research interests are related to Chinese and Iranian foreign policy. He has published numerous studies (books,...

Mimy Keomanichanh

ARC - PhD student

Mimy Keomanichanh est doctorante attachée au Laboratoire d’anthropologie des mondes contemporains (LAMC) de l’Université libre de Bruxelles. Sa thèse doctorale s’inscrit dans le projet de recherche sur la mobilité contextuelle des couples belgo-asiatiques en Belgique et en Asie sous la direction d’Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot, chercheure qualifiée de FNRS. Sa recherche questionne la (re) négociation de la valeur d’individualisme et holisme dans le couple mixte belgo-laotien sur le plan émotionnel. Elle s’intéresse à examiner la manière dont la politique culturelle des émotions des pays d’origine des partenaires de ces couples façonne leur...

Kyosuke Kurita

Professor

KURITA Kyosuke is Professor of School of Economics at Kwansei Gakuin University. He received his Ph.D. from Hitotsubashi University, in Tokyo. He has held a previous visiting position at UNU-WIDER (United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland). He is also visiting research fellow at DG-REGIO (Directorate General Regional Policy), European Commission; and at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London. His main research theme is on effective technology dissemination policies among farmers in the modernization of agriculture in Africa. Another main research theme focuses on improving the productivity of...

Tommy Chung Yin Kwan

Postdoctoral researcher on AspirE

Tommy Chung-yin Kwan is Postdoctoral researcher on AspirE at the ULB. He received his PhD from the Department of Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, focusing on the relationship between political parties and social movements in Taiwan. He previously taught in the Education University of Hong Kong. He also used to be a Resident Fellow at the University of Tübingen in Germany and a visiting associate at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Dr. Kwan is also a writer in Hong...

John Francis Lagman

Visiting researcher

John Francis Lagman is an educator and social development worker from the Philippines. He's been a visiting researcher of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), pursuing a Master in Anthropology through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) Labour project with the European Commission. He started documenting the lives of Manila's urban poor in 2006 while working as a media advocacy officer of the Urban Poor Associates (UPA), a non-government organization that advocates housing rights. That year he also started working as a correspondent for the...

Françoise Lauwaert

Professor Emeritus

J’ai enseigné l’histoire et l’anthropologie de la Chine et la traduction de textes de sciences humaines à l’ULB dans les départements de sociologie et anthropologie et de traduction et interprétation. Mes intérêts se portent sur la parenté, le genre et les rapports qu’entretiennent art, littérature et mémoire en Chine. Mes dernières publications portent sur l’histoire des femmes dans la Chine impériale vue par le biais de la littérature, avec deux ouvrages publiés par L’Académie royale de Belgique (« Quel malheur que tu ne sois pas un garçon ! » et...

Mikaëla Le Meur

Postdoctorante

Anthropologue et docteure de l’Université libre de Bruxelles, je travaille à l’articulation entre les enjeux sociaux et environnementaux liés à la ville. Entre 2011 et 2018, j’ai enquêté sur les déchets, les matières plastiques et leur filières de recyclage au Viêt Nam. Je restitue ce travail dans ma thèse sur les transformations écologiques de villes vietnamiennes de différentes envergures (2019) et dans un livre intitulé Le mythe du recyclage (2021 : éditions Premier Parallèle). Mon attention se porte sur la matérialité et sur la relation que les citadin·es, mais aussi...

Flora Lichaa

Associate member

Flora Lichaa is Maître de Conférences (Senior Lecturer) in Chinese Studies at the University of Rennes 2 (FR). Her PhD dissertation entitled “Documentary in China (1905-2017): Between Artistic Autonomy and Political Concerns” received a thesis prize from the French Association of Chinese Studies. After her PhD, she started a new research project on Contemporary Chinese Art Cinema during her Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship at the ULB Centre for East Asian Studies in Brussels. She was the Director of the Shadows Chinese Independent Film Festival in Paris from 2009 to 2015,...

Marie-Pierre Lissoir

Associate member

After a master's degree in musicology and a second in anthropology, Marie-Pierre Lissoir completed her doctoral thesis entitled "Le khap tai dam, catégorisation et modèles musicaux. Etude ethnomusicologique chez les Tai des hauts plateaux du Laos" at the ULB (lamc), in cotutelle with the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (LPP). Since 2016 she has been working as a researcher and curator at the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre of Luang Prabang in Laos. She regularly travels to ethnic minority villages for research and exhibition projects, focusing in particular on handicrafts (basketry...

Nadine Loutfi

PhD student

Title of the PhD thesis “The Triangular Relation Between China, The United States and Saudi Arabia: The Strategic Issues of the Sino-Saudi Cooperation vis-a-vis the U.S. Strategy in the Middle East”. Nadine is a doctorate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. The purpose of her doctoral thesis is to study the trilateral relationship between China, The United States and Saudi Arabia. It analyses the behavioural effet of a third state caused by the interaction of two states in bilateral relationship. Prior to her admittance to the PhD program, she obtained...

Paul-David Lutz

Postdoctoral researcher

Paul-David Lutz is an anthropologist and (former) rural development advisor with a longstanding focus on northern Laos. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Sydney, Australia and an MA in Intercultural Education from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He has published on the intergenerational aspects of agrarian change, socio-cosmological aspects of resource-riven development, intra-upland interethnic dynamics, oral history and Chinese power in northern Laos, as well as on social(ist) media in Laos . Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (LAMC)...

Mukaddas Mijit

Chercheuse - Postdoctorante

Mukaddas Mijit est ethnomusicologue, cinéaste et artiste ouïghoure. Elle est née à Urumchi dans la Région Ouïghoure. En 2003, elle est venue s'installer en France pour poursuivre ses études et sa carrière artistique. Elle a obtenu son Master en ethnomusicologie à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne en travaillant sur les pratiques vocales d’une cérémonie soufie au nord de la région ouïghoure. En 2015, elle a soutenu son doctorat à l'Université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre à la suite de travaux sur la « Mise en scène des patrimoines artistiques ouïghours ». Elle a publié plusieurs...

Lucas Monteil

Postdoctoral researcher

Lucas Monteil is a sociologist and political scientist, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (LAMC). His research focuses on sexuality, conjugality, gender, and the articulation of social relations in various contexts, notably in China and among Asian migrants in Belgium. Following a quantitative and mixed-methods investigation on Belgian-Asian couples within the BelMix research group, he is currently engaged in the international research program AspirE, exploring Asian (re)migration to Belgium and within the EU. Contact Lucas Monteil More info

Marie Montenair

Associate member

Diplômée du Master en Anthropologie à l'Université de Liège, j'ai réalisé mon mémoire sur le parcours de vie de jeunes belgo-japonais, il s'intitule : "Sentiments d’appartenance en contexte biculturel et binational. Une approche anthropologique du cas de jeunes belgo-japonais (Belgique francophone)". Après avoir vécu six mois à Tokyo pour y débuter l’apprentissage du japonais, je postule actuellement à des bourses doctorales, afin de réaliser un projet de thèse sur l'"éducation dans et par la nature" au Japon. Contact Marie Montenair

Chikako Mori

Associate member

Chikako Mori holds a Doctorate in Sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. For the 2024-2025 academic year, she is a visiting professor at GERME (Groupe de Recherche sur les Migrations et Ethnicité) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She is a professor of sociology at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, where she also serves as the director of the Research Center for Multiculturalism and Intersectionality in Complex Cities (MICCS). Additionally, she is the president of the International Relations Committee of the Japanese Sociological...

Takeshi Morisato

Associate member

Takeshi is a specialist of Comparative and Japanese Philosophy. He is currently serving as the editor of the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy (EJJP), an associate editor of the Journal of East Asian Philosophy (Springer), the general editor of the book series,"Studies in Japanese Philosophy" (Chisokudō Publications), and "Asian Philosophical Texts" (Mimesis International), and the regional editor of the "Bloomsbury Introduction to World Philosophies" (IWP). Contact Takeshi Morisato

Élisa Narminio

Associate member

Élisa Narminio is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium) and at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan), currently finalizing her PhD at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics of Sciences Po (Paris, France). Her research engages with child trafficking in the EU and ASEAN regions. Élisa Narminio works since 2009 as an advisor in politics and public policies for the private, public and non-profit sectors, specialising in the examination of gender, human rights, international development, migration and child protection, at the intersection between...

Camille Nessel

Substitute Lecturer

Camille Nessel holds a Ph.D. in political science and is currently a lecturer at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), teaching within the Centre d’étude de la vie politique (Cevipol). Her research focuses on EU perceptions in trade, particularly regarding the EU’s relations with Indonesia and Vietnam, as well as on the ""China threat"" construction in EU economic security strategy. Camille was awarded a doctoral fellowship from FNRS and is now preparing a postdoctoral project on the construction of the ""China threat"" in EU economic policies. Having gained research experience...

Van Minh Nguyen

PhD Student ASP F.R.S. - FNRS

Van Minh Nguyen is a PhD candidate and Aspirant F.R.S.-FNRS at the Université libre de Bruxelles (LAMC; EASt). His research focusses on how processes of urbanisation and transition to a market economy are shaping practices of mobility and intimacy amongst youths in Ho Chi Minh City. In particular, it investigates how the motorbike allows urbanites to negotiate their presence in, and right to, the city by providing a mobile platform for the performance of urban identities, gender negotiations and social distinction. Contact Van Minh Nguyen

Anne Dang Xuan Nguyen

PhD Student ASP F.R.S. - FNRS

Anne Nguyen est aspirante F.R.S-FNRS à l'Université libre de Bruxelles et effectue sa thèse de doctorat au REPI. Elle a obtenu son Bachelor en Science politique, science sociales et historiques à l'Université à Lausanne et son Master en relations internationales (Sécurité, paix et conflits) à l'Université libre de Bruxelles. Elle travaille actuellement sur une thèse intitulée "Le Poison de la guerre. Analyse de la production de savoir transnationale sur le sujet de l'Agent Orange et ses conséquences au Vietnam et aux Etats-Unis". Ses thématiques de recherche sont les politiques de...

Pierre Petit

ACA

Pierre Petit is Senior Research Associate at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) and professor of anthropology at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB, LAMC). After his PhD on the rituals of the Luba of Katanga, he investigated material culture, ethnicity, urban anthropology, and research methodology in Congo. Since 2003, he works in Laos and more especially on the mobilities of highlanders involved in rural exodus, investigating by the same token the relations between the state and the ethnic minorities. His interest in historical anthropology appears in a...

Aaron Raphael Ponce

PhD student & Teaching Assistant

PhD project title: The Life Trajectories of Gay Belgian-Chinese Couples - Sexuality, Ethnicity, and Class Aaron’s doctoral project focuses on the life trajectories of mixed gay Belgian-Chinese couples as influenced by social, communal and political trends within the context of transnational mobility. Graduating with magna cum laude honors from KU Leuven’s Migration, Mobilities and Intecultural Mediation program (Erasmus MITRA, 2017), his previous research experience includes work on the involvement of Chinese migrants in cultural and economic diplomacy between Belgium and China, Chinese soft power, and the role of gender in...

Floramante SJ Ponce

Boursier postdoctoral

Dr. Floramante SJ Ponce merges various theories and methods of social anthropology and sociology in understanding the economic, political, and sociocultural dynamics of Southeast Asia, particularly Laos and the Philippines. Dr. Ponce holds an MA in Sociology (Ateneo de Manila University, the Philippines), an MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology (Central European University, Hungary), and a PhD in Social Anthropology (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany). Most of his peer-reviewed papers scrutinize how a Chinese hydropower, which is part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, facilitates electric-induced modernity, market...

Frederik Ponjaert

Associate member

Researcher at the Institute for European Studies at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Assistant Lecturer in Comparative Regionalism at SciencesPo (IEP-Paris). His research is on comparative regionalism, with an emphasis on European and Asian realities. He equally works on EU external action and inter-regional partnerships, again with a specific focus on Euro-Asian dynamics. More recently, both of these research strands have focussed on the developing EU-japan Relationship in light of the recently signed Economic Partnership and Strategic Partnership Agreements. His teaching covers topics such as “comparative regionalism”, “EU external...

Lisa Richaud

Professeure suppléante

Lisa Richaud is FNRS post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (ULB). Her research falls at the intersection of China scholarship, anthropology, and urban studies. She is currently preparing a monograph tentatively entitled Casual Asssemblies: Re-Staging Socialist Amateur Performances in Beijing Public Parks, based on her PhD thesis (ULB, 2016). Peer-reviewed journal articles based on her doctoral fieldwork are available in journals such as Urban Studies, L'Espace Politique, and Civilisations, or L'Homme. Previously, Lisa worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the collaborative, ESRC-funded project “Migration, Mental Health and...

Nolwenn Salmon

Associate member

Nolwenn Salmon is currently an EAST/GENEsYs postdoctoral fellow at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Her research interest lies in the role of citizens in China’s ecological transition and the evolution of social norms generated by the environmental crisis, in particular the emergence and diffusion of new values and models of society. In 2016, at INALCO (Paris), Nolwenn submitted her PhD entitled « Engaged Journalists in China: Environmental Critics Balancing Acceptance and Refusal of Politics », for which she won two prizes: one in literature and human sciences, the Piedallu Philoche...

Laure Sizaire

Marie Curie European postdoctoral Fellow

Anthropologist working on gender, migration and intimacy, I conducted investigations in post-Soviet spaces (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine), France and Belgium. Currently, my work is expanding to West Africa (Mauritania) and Southeast Asia (Malaysia), where I focus on North-South mobility through the lens of transnational conjugality. My research sheds light on the global transformation of intimacy and the reconfiguration of power relations, from an intimate, intersectional, and gender perspective. Contact: laure.sizaire@ulb.be

Eugénie Stoclet

PhD Student

Diplômée d’une double licence en Droit et Géographie puis d’un master en Géopolitique à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS Ulm), Eugénie Stoclet est doctorante au sein de l’Institut de Gestion de l’Environnement et Aménagement du Territoire (IGEAT) à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles. Sa thèse porte sur la relation entre changements climatiques, gestion de l’eau et le potentiel de conflits / coopération entre le Kirghizistan et l’Ouzbékistan autour du fleuve Syr Daria. Plus précisément, ses recherches portent sur les possibilités d’adaptation au changement climatique dans un contexte...

Raphaël Van Daele

F.R.S.-FNRS Postdoc Research Fellow

Raphaël Van Daele graduated in philosophy and Chinese studies from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 2015. In 2020, he obtained a PhD in comparative philosophy from the ULB and from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS in Paris with a dissertation entitled "Fathoming the Origin and Expression the Many in Neoplatonism and Dark Learning (Xuanxue 玄學): A Comparative Approach of the Question of the First Principles in Damascius and Guo Xiang 郭象." Focusing on metaphysics and on philosophy in Late Greek Antiquity and in Early...

Karel Vanhaesebrouck

Professor

Karel Vanhaesebrouck is a professor of theatre and performance studies at ULB. He teaches courses within the field of theatre history, performance theory and dramaturgy. Vanhaesebrouck has widely published on early modern (baroque) theatre, on the history of cultural representations, (circus) dramaturgy and Flemish performing arts. He recently co-authored « Marketing violence. The affective economy of violent imagneries in the Dutch Republic » with Cambridge University Press. Together with Shintaro Fujii from Waseda University, he currently supervises a collaborative research projet on transnational dramaturgies. Vanhaesebrouck is also the initiator of...

Amphone Vongsouphanh

PhD student

Amphone is deputy head of Gender Studies Center, Researcher, and Lecturer of NUOL. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at ULB. He is an expert in community dialogue & movement, community organizing, and social protection analysis. His research focuses on Child Early and Forced Marriage and Cooperative systems in Laos (Self-Help Groups, Production Group, and Cooperative). He has about 12-year of experience in research and lecture at the National University of Laos (NUOL) and research collaboration with national and international development agencies. With his expertise, he has also been a...

Lia Wei

Maître de conférences

Lia Wei is maître de conférences in Chinese art history at the Department of Chinese Studies, Inalco, Paris. She was previously based at the Department of Archaeology and Museum Studies in Renmin University of China (2018-2021), where she conducted research and teaching on the archaeology of culture contact and the intersection between intangible and material cultural heritage, as well as contributing to several research-oriented, educational or curatorial collaborations between Renmin University and European partners (Université de Genève, Ghent University). Dr. Wei has been conducting research in China since 2009, with...

Isabelle Wilhelm

Collaboratrice scientifique

Docteure en sciences sociales – orientation anthropologie; Collaboratrice scientifique au Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (LAMC, Université libre de Bruxelles) et au laboratoire Dynamiques Européennes (DynamE, Université de Strasbourg); Membre du Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires East Asian Studies (EASt) – ULB depuis 2016; Fellow à l’Institut Convergences Migrations (2020-2023), Paris. Titre de la thèse: Retours au pays. Une anthropologie du don appliquée aux activités de développement des Lao de France. Résumé de la thèse : Depuis le milieu des années 1990, des Lao de France (exilés à la suite des...

Jing-Syuan Wong

PhD Student - Marie Skłodowska-Curie

Jing-Syuan is a PhD candidate in political and social science at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), affiliated with Centre d'Étude de la Vie Politique (Cevipol). She is also a Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral fellow of Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism (GEM)- Democratic Institutions, the rise of Alternative MOdels and mounting Normative Dissensus (DIAMOND) research project. Under the GEM-DIAMOND framework, she is writing a dissertation entitled Responding to competing authoritarian models: Japan and EU’s respective neighbourhoods compared’ (ESR 14) under the joint supervision of Prof. Luca Tomini from ULB, Brussels, and Prof. Ken...

Chenchen Zhang

Associate member

Chenchen Zhang was a postdoc researcher at EASt from 2018 to 2019. She is an Assistant Professor in International Relations at Durham University, where she is director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies. Among other things, her current research is focused on postcolonial nationalism, digital narratives in China, and the global right. She is a co-editor of Geopolitics and an editorial team member of Made in China Journal. She is a co-host of the Shicha podcast. Complet profil