Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Talk by David Gunn, Wed 19th 6:30pm

Belle & The Sounding Room, Fri 21st 6:30pm

Saturday, October 08, 2011

"Khmerographies" artwork by Thang Sothea

"KHMEROGRAPHIES" by Thang Sothea

Opening on Thursday 13 of October à 6. 30 pm

Top art gallery, 155 Quai Sisowath , Phnom Penh, Cambodge.

After the series entitled "Look at me !" and "Don't be shy !" where he began his experiments in khmer calligraphy, Thang Sothea wished to create, a whole series to deepen his close relationship between the painted object and its typographical representation and also to expand its range of play with the signifier and the signified.

In this tribute to the Khmer writing that he used to distort and animate from childhood through to school, he pushes the limits of this calligraphy on the path to the ideogram, the pictogram and even the hieroglyph.

His approach, therefore, is not only one form for all the paintings, but also a unique background, Cambodia.

The theme is explored through several variations: family, arts (dance, theater, music), religion, social life and tradition, urban bustle, nature ... within each treatment there is humor and irony that always breaks through ill-concealed tenderness for his country and its culture ..

--
John Weeks
http://www.jweeks.net

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

HSHH: Gina Wijers; Cambodian French returnees’ employment of social capital

HUMAN SCIENCES HAPPY HOURS IN PHNOM PENH

Next presentation: Wednesday 19th of October 2011, 6pm

Baitong Restaurant

7 Street 360/ Norodom Bd, Beung Keng Kang I

Cambodian French returnees' employment of social capital.

A multisited study on the evolution of transnational institutional entrepreneurship

by G.DMD Wijers, Msc. MA

Abstract

This study questions in what ways first generation Cambodian French returnees evaluate their activities aimed at the reform of Cambodian institutions. This subject is linked to the societal debate on the ways in which institutional entrepreneurial activities, for instance, the work of (inter)national aid organizations, may impact the development of an emerging nation. Arguments are developed from the history of Cambodian exile and return and three case studies collected during multisited fieldwork in France and Cambodia. Findings propose that theory places too much emphasis on the positive uses of social capital and on the positive effects of institutional entrepreneurs' multiple embeddedness.

Human Sciences Happy Hours in Phnom Penh

email: hshhpp@gmail.com
web: http://hshhpp.pbworks.com/

Coordinating team:
Pascale Hancart Petitet, Emiko Stock, Gabriel Fauveaud, Léo Mariani,