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GIS Asie 2024 thesis awards ceremony for theses defended in 2022 and 2023
Organized by the Groupement d'Intérêt Scientifique Études asiatiques (GIS Asie), these awards are a flagship action to support young researchers. They distinguish three outstanding theses, defended in 2022 and 2023, in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, focusing on Asia.
Awarded €3,000 each, these prizes are intended as a priority to support the publication of the winning theses, to enable their dissemination to the scientific community and beyond.
The jury is made up of members of the Scientific Council of GIS Asia, to whom external experts may be added. It is chaired by a member of GIS management.
Ceremony
The GIS Asie thesis award ceremony was held this Monday, May 19, at Inalco's Maison de la Recherche in a warm and convivial atmosphere.
At 4pm, participants were welcomed over coffee, a moment conducive to informal exchanges between researchers, GIS Asie members, and guests.
The ceremony opened with a few words from Philippe Advani, President of the Inalco Foundation, who praised the excellence of the work rewarded and emphasized the importance of research on Asia in an ever-changing world.
Nicolas Dejenne, director of the GIS Asie, then spoke, recalling the missions of the GIS Asie and highlighting the richness and diversity of the theses supported.
The floor was then given to Florence Padovani, president of the thesis prize and co-director of GIS Asie, who presented the prize and recalled the evaluation criteria for this year's selected theses.
Among 49 applications received, the jury shortlisted 12 theses for their exceptional quality. Three winners were chosen:
Hélène Bloch
"Nourishing life" (yangsheng) at Mount Qingcheng: holy places, Taoist communities and ascetic practices in the emergence of a longevity market around the physician god Yaowang Sun Simiao (Sichuan, People's China)
Supervised at the University of Paris Nanterre, under the direction of Adeline Herrou
Iva Capova
First-generation schoolchildren: transformations in social and family norms in rural India in the face of schooling
Supervised at ENS Paris by Loraine Kennedy and Serge Paugam
Simon Berger
"Une armée en guise de peuple": la structure militaire de l'organisation politique et sociale des nomades eurasiatiques à travers l'exemple mongol médiéval
Soutenue à l'EHESS, sous la direction d'Étienne de la Vaissière
Each of the prizewinners then took the floor to present the broad outlines of their research work, highlighting the richness and diversity of approaches in Asian studies.
The ceremony concluded over a convivial cocktail, allowing further discussion and joint celebration of the awarded work.
Thank you to those present at the solemn GIS Asie awards ceremony at the Maison de la Recherche, for supportingthe new PhDs!