Paul Fuchs (1936-19 Dec 2023, Pezenas, France) was a French agricultural engineer and a journalist who served as HM King Norodom Sihanouk's press attaché in the 1960s, and contributed to Agence Khmere de Presse (AKP).He researchedd and covered numerous royal ceremonies and popular festivals in… Read more

Robert Philpotts (b. 1947) is a British author and illustrator who visited Cambodia in the early 1990s.Publications: Building the Lancaster Canal, London, Blackwater Press, 1979, repub. 1998: ISBN 13: 9780946623006 The Tower of London to Tobacco Dock: Through St Katharine's Dock and Old Wapping,… Read more

David Porter Chandler (1933) is an American historian and academic regarded as one of the foremost western scholars of Cambodia's modern history. He has been residing for many years in Australia, where he is an emeritus professor at Monash University as well as an adjunct professor of Asian Studies… Read more

Maurice Comte is a French sociologist and economist who has extensively studied pre-colonial Cambodia.In 1980, he presented his doctoral thesis before a jury including Southeast Asian ethnography specialists Jean Chesnaux and Georges Condominas. Read more

A platform for performing arts, a meeting point for local artists and curious travelers, Bambu Stage thrives to change perceptions about the history, culture, and issues that impact Cambodia. Bambu Street, Siem Reap, Cambodia Read more

Affiliate to the Department of Archeology at University of Sydney, Australia, Eileen Lustig has extensively studied the Angkorian economy and commerce through epigraphic research. Read more

Michael A. Schultze (1956) is a German journalist and ethno-reporter who has been covering Southeast Asia, and particularly Laos, since 1982.He is the author of one novel set in Laos and, in collaboration with Vanessa Leepert, of a guidebook about that country. Read more

Pia Conti is an independent researcher in Indic Ancient History, associated to SOAS University of London. She specializes in Tantric Buddhism, from the Indian peninsula to its variations across South East Asia.After graduating at University of Zurich and joining the English Department as a… Read more

Historian, archaeologist and orientalist, expert in poliorcetics (the art of leading and resisting military sieges) and polemology, Victor Lluís Pérez Garcia teaches at Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain).He has studied fortifications and walled cities from the Roman Empire, in Tibet and… Read more

Theam Bun Srun is a Cambodian historian whose major publication, Cambodia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: A Quest for Survival, 1840-1863 (M.A. Thesis, The Australian National University, 1981) has been a reference for researchers on Cambodian modern history. He was the Cambodian charge d'affaires… Read more

Charles Robequain (23 June 1897, Auberives, Isère, France -  28 Sept. 1963, Rennes, France) was a French geographer, historian, economist and writer, amateur photographer, a pioneer in colonial and tropical geography who produced the first field-based doctoral monograph in geography on a region in… Read more

Cambodian archaelogist and historian Lan Sunnary (22 Feb 1945, Kampot - 15 Jul 2014, Paris) co-founded the cultural association Pierres d'Angkor in the 1980s. After working with the Angkor Conservation Office until 1972, he took part in many archeological discoveries, including a statue of Vishnu… Read more

Jan Fontein (22 May 1927, Naarden, Netherlands – 19 May 2017, Newton Upper Falls, MD, USA) was a Dutch art historian, museum curator and the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1975 to 1987. Specialized in Indonesian archaeology and Easterrn Arts, Fontein started his career at the… Read more

Hippolyte Vattemare (?- 1882) was a French literary translator who translated a great number of books and essays from the English language, mostly related to discovery travels and geography.He translated -- or "adapted", since translation was then often considered as an exercise in condensing the… Read more

Mystery novelist, libertarian pamphleteer, co-founder of the famous French periodical "La Revue Universelle", Jules Lermina (27 Mar 1839, Paris - 23 June 1915, Paris) wrote many Edgar Allan Poe-inspired novels, including Les Loups de Paris (Parisian Wolves, 1876, under the pseudonym of William… Read more

João de Loureiro (1710, Lisbon - 18 Oct. 1791, Lisbon) was a Portuguese precursor in botanic, plant taxonomy and natural sciences. After joining the Jesuit order (Society of Jesus), he became a missionary in Goa and Macau before reaching Cochinchina (Annam) where he stayed (officially as a… Read more

Gabriel Ferrand (22 Jan.1864, Marseille - 31 Jan. 1935, Paris) was a French orientalist, linguist and translator who traveled extensively as a diplomat, serving as Consul of France in Madagascar and in Somalia. Editor-in-chief of the Journal Asiatique from 1920 until his death, Ferrand sought in… Read more

Emeritus professor of Architecture (School of Creative Science and Engineering) at Waseda University (Tokyo), Takeshi Nakagawa 中川 武 (b. 1944, Toyama Prefecture, Japan) is a researcher in comparative archaeological history and the Director of the Japanese Government Team for Safeguarding Angkor… Read more

Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam (4 Feb. 1943, Madras (Chennai)) is a respected dancer, research scholar, choreographer, singer, composer, teacher and author who has notorious contributed to the knowledge and practice of Indian classical dance. Born into a family of Tamil renowned artists -- her father, K.… Read more

Keo Narom កែវ ណារុំ (6 Feb. 1946, Phnom Penh) is a Cambodian writer, editor, musicologist and the vice-director of the Committee on Culture and Arts at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia. She is the author of several books on Cambodian musical instruments and musical forms, including… Read more