Jun.Prof. Dr. Elsa Clavé
Juniorprofessur
Sprechstunde: On research leave for 2018-2019 at Harvard Asia Center
Accept students on topics related to Southeast Asian history, Islam, Gender, Conflicts, Nationalism, Social movements, Malay manuscripts, Indonesian/Malaysian/Philippine Literature
Homepage: elsaclave.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. History, EHESS (2013); Advanced Degree in Filipino Inalco (2007); M. Phil History, EHESS (2005), MA Indonesian, Inalco (2004), MA French Literature, Sorbonne (2003)
POSITION
Since 2015 Junior professor in Southeast Asian Studies, Goethe University, FRANKFURT
Since 2014 Research Associate centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CASE), CNRS/EHESS, Paris
RESEARCH
Interest
- Social and cultural history
- History of Islam
- Expression of dissidence
Regional focus
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- Malaysia
Focus on current research
- Authority in Muslim polities: representing authority of the Malay sultans (18th-20th)
- Contestation of territory and conflict in the Philippines
- The making of public history in Southeast Asia (with Kathy Wellen, KITLV and Maiitri Aung-Thwin, NUS)
- Social movements in Insular Southeast Asia
Collaborative programs
2016-2018 Program Autoritas: Authority and esthetic in Southeast Asia
Topic: Esthetic at the court of the Malay sultanates
Paris Sciences Literature (PSL), PARIS
2013-2018 Cluster Elites in Southeast Asia
Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CASE), PARIS
2005-2006 Natural hazard and social sciences
Tsunarisque program, http://www.tsunarisque.cnrs.fr/
Field research in Aceh on Acehnese conflict and society, ethnicity and natural disaster, religion, reconstruction.
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), PARIS
PUBLICATION
Authored book
2016 La malayisation du Sud philippin : l’islam dans le prisme culturel Paris:
EFEO. (forthcoming)
Edited book
2015 La parole libérée. Témoignages de victimes des massacres de 1965-1966
en Indonésie, Paris: Réseau Indonésie, 123 p.
Book chapters
2016 “On the Footsteps of Islam in the Philippines: Islamic Epigraphy, Chinese
Trade and Exchange and Networks in Southeast Asia”, in I. Donoso
(ed.), More Islamic than we Admit, Manila : Vibal Foundation, 17 p.
(forthcoming)
2016 “Heroines, Forgotten, and Silenced Fighters: Insights into Women
Combatants' History in Aceh”, in T. Rettig and V. Lanzona (ed.), Women
warriors in Southeast Asia, London: Routledge.
2016 « Jalons pour une histoire du théâtre indonésien moderne », in R.
Madinier (éd.), Indonésie contemporaine, Bangkok/Paris : IRASEC.
2011 Gaillard J.C., Clavé E. and al.
« Acihais, Minangkabaus et Simeulues : trois ethnies face à la catastrophe du
26 décembre 2004 », in F. Lavigne et F. Paris (éd.), Tsunarisque, Paris :
Publications de la Sorbonne, 177-199
2011 « Aceh et sa récente histoire politique et sociale : les déséquilibres et les
tensions de la province à la veille du tsunami » in F.Lavigne and R. Paris
(ed.), Tsunarisque, Paris : Publications de la Sorbonne, 199-212.
Peer-reviewed articles
2016 « Le livre et le fusil. Eduquer pour contrôler ou l’échec de la politique
éducative américaine à Sulu à travers l’exemple de la princesse Haja Tarhata
Kiram (1904-1979) », Clio. Femme, genre, histoire.15 p. (submitted)
2016 « Lignées et légitimité au sein du sultanat de Magindanao, Philippines, XVIe-
XVIIIe », Péninsule 71, 22 p.
2014 “Silenced Fighters: An insight into Women Combatants History in
Aceh”, Archipel 87, Special issue on Aceh, 273-306.
[extended version, with a deeper historical perspective, of the book chapter
“Heroines, Forgotten, and Silenced Fighters: Insights into Women Combatants'
History in Aceh”.]
2008 Gaillard, J.C., Clavé, E., Kelman, I., “Wave of Peace, Tsunami
Disaster Diplomacy in Aceh, Indonesia”, Geoforum 39 (1): 511-
526. [Contribution : Political history of Aceh in the 20th]
2006 « Artaud et le théâtre balinais », Revue d’histoire du théâtre, 2006-2, pp. 125-
148.
Dictionary entries
2013 “Women Historians in the Philippines”, “Women Journalists
in the Philippines”, Several other entries on Indonesian
writers and dancers [In French], in Dictionnaire universel des
femmes créatrices, Paris: Des femmes.
Other publications
2016 “The International People Tribunal on 1965”, with Andy Fuller, Inside
Indonesia.
2014 « Goûter les Philippines…à Sulu », Special issue on Food in Southeast
Asia, Lettre de l’Afrase, Spring 2014, 9-11.
2009 « Sainteté et Islam à Sulu », Lettre de l’Afrase, Spring 2009 : 15- 17.
2008 “Images of the Past, Realities of the Present, the Acehnese Inong Balee”,
IIAS Newsletter, 48:10-11.
2006 « Religion et reconstruction à Aceh », Lettre de l’Afrase, Spring 2006 : 13- 14.
2005 « La schizophrénie de l’islam indonésien », Interview of Rémy Madinier
(CNRS), Cahiers de l’Orient, 78 : 41-46.
Book reviews
2015 Philippines contemporaine, William Guéraiche (dir.), Bangkok,
Irasec [In French] (Lettre de l’Afrase, Autumn 2014)
[in English] (BKI, 2015)
2012 Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia,
Evelyn Blackwood, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press
[in French] (Genre, sexualité & société 8)
2009 The Future in the Balance, Essays on Globalization and
Resistance, Walden Bello, Quezon City, UP Press, 2001,
xx-312 p. [In French] (Péninsule 58, 2009, 50-53)
— The Many Ways of Being Muslim: Fiction by Muslim Filipino,
Coeli Barry (ed.), Cornell University/Anvil Press, 2008, 216 p.
[In French] (Archipel 78, 2009, 260-261)
General audience
2012 Dictionnaire insolite de l’Indonésie, Paris : Cosmopole, (1st edition in 2010,
6 000 ex.), 172 p.
Translations
2014 « En attendant maman », Jentayu 1, Journal on Southeast Asian Literature,
Autumn 2014.
2006 The frog-man, co-translator and co-editor with Azhari Ayub, Banda Aceh:
Comité du Livre/ Komunitas Tikar Pandan.
2005 « Le déluge » [Indonesian short-story in French], with Jacqueline Camus, Le
Banian 0, Journal on Indonesian Literature, 2005
TEACHING
Master
- Classical Malay II: war and diplomacy, Goethe University, FRANKFURT, Summer 2016
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Representation, conception and contestation of territory in the Philippines, Goethe University, FRANKFURT, Summer 2016
- Classical Malay I: scripture and culture Goethe University, FRANKFURT, Winter 2015
- Social History of the Philippines, Royal Fine Arts University, PHNOM PENH, Winter 2015
- Politics of Identity in Southeast Asia Goethe University, FRANKFURT, Summer 2015
- Methodology of Research, Royal Fine Arts University, PHNOM PENH, Summer 2015
- Translation of Indonesian Texts, Inalco, PARIS, Winter 2011
Bachelor
- Politics and Literature in Indonesia, Goethe University, FRANKFURT, Winter 2015
- State and ethnic minorities, Goethe University, FRANKFURT, Summer 2015
- Modern Southeast Asian History, University Paris Diderot, PARIS, Winter 2014
- History of Non-European Societies, University Paris Diderot, PARIS, Winter 2013
- Historiography, University Paris Diderot, PARIS, Winter 2013
- Epistemology in Social Sciences, Royal Fine Arts University, PHNOM PENH, Summer 2013
- History of Indonesian Press, Inalco, PARIS, Winter 2011
- Methodology of Research, Inalco, PARIS, Winter 2011
- Islam in the Philippines (15th-20th), Inalco, PARIS, since 2008