The Human Sciences Encounters in Phnom Penh

We inform you of the transfer of the activities and data of the network Human Sciences Encounters in Phnom Penh (HSEPP) to theCenter for Khmer Studies.
As you know, the HSEPP network was created informally in 2008 in order to deal with a feeling of isolation within the discipline and a need for scientific exchange and debate around social science research in Cambodia. Today it counts 1200 members.
As we pass on the baton to CKS, we think it interesting to bring together in a booklet a history of the different conferences we have hosted over the past ten years.The khmer version is in annex .

The booklet is in open access :
http://classiques.uqac.ca/contemporains/Hancart_Petitet_Pascale/Social_sciences_in_Cambodia/Social_sciences_in_Cambodia.html

The CKS will continue dissemination activities as part of our collaboration. You can contact them to this email address center@khmerstudies.org, and visit their web site http://www.khmerstudies.org/

Thanking you for your interest in social sciences in Cambodia
With Warm regards
Pascale Hancart Petitet, Um Vutha et Steven Prigent

HSEPP is an international network of Social and Human Sciences Research in Cambodia created in 2008 which  contributed during 10 years to:

- Disseminate scientific research production in SHS about Cambodia in the research community,

- To permit a better knowledge of scientific research development to key stakeholders, to media and to a general public

- Provide a scientific and professional socialization place for SHS in Cambodia.

The HSEPP network is a project led by the Royal University of Fine Arts ( RUFA) in Phnom Penh in collaboration with the Research Institute for Development ( IRD). It is based on several online platforms (trilingual website, audio interface and social networks).

This network called “Human Sciences Encounters in Phnom Penh” gathers researchers from different backgrounds working in Cambodia and/or on Cambodia, on a variety of scientific disciplines (mainly anthropologists and ethnologists, historians, archaeologists, geographers, linguists, criminologists, urbanists…).

In November 2008 the network had only a few participants; in 2017, it includes more than 700 researchers as well as 150 people working mainly for development programs in Cambodia.

The members of this network meet around the presentation of an invited researcher, or to informally exchange their current projects. More than 82 conferences were organized between October 2008 and December 2017.

The network organises monthly meetings, usually focusing on the presentation of an invited researcher.

Those meetings, open to the general public as well as to development professionals, are from now on, welcomed within the Royal University of Fine Arts, in Phnom Penh.

This network presents an important platform for social science research in Cambodia, forum for numerous interactions and collaborations. It also provides the means for its members to share information and publications in this field.