Coordonnées professionnelles

Professional contact information

nicolas.salemgervais[at]gmail.com

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Education

• 2015 - Began a Bachelor’s in Siamese, INALCO
• 2013- PhD obtained (10 December 2013, INALCO, highest honors).
• 2008 - 2012- PhD student and teaching assistant/lecturer at the INALCO. Dissertation: École et construction nationale dans l’Union de Myanmar. Directed by M. Franck and G. Delouche.
• 2006 - 2008 - Two years of intensive study of Burmese at the University of Foreign Languagesin Rangoun (YUFL), through theLavoisier program (passed the Advanced Proficiency level, with honors).
• Master’s in Burmese at the INALCO (suma cum laude). Thesis: Construction nationale de l’Union de Myanmar – Travail sur un corpus de manuels scolaires. Directed by M. Franck and M.-H. Cardinaud.
• Master’s in Geography (Paris1/Paris7). Thesis: Le Myanmar entre construction nationale et intégration régionale (suma cum laude). Directed by M. Franck, N. Fau, C. Taillard.
• 2004 - 2006:
  • Bachelor’s in Burmese, Teaching French as a Foreign Language emphasis at the INALCO (cum laude)
  • Bachelor’s in Lao at the INALCO (cum laude)
  • Master’s in GeographyThesis: Les associations laotiennes en France intervenant dans leur pays d’origine (suma cum laude). Directed by L. Faret, C. Choron-Baix

Professional experience

• 2014- Associate Professor, INALCO, Burmese section.
• 2008 - 2014 -Teaching assistant / lecturer, taught courses in Burmese and Geography of Thailand and Burma at the INALCO (see “Teaching” section) / Various translations from Burmese (OFPRA, notary documents, journalism…).
• 2006 - 2007- In charge of the class entitled “Conversations et débats” at the Rangoon Alliance Française (level B1, 4 months).

TEACHING, ADMINISTRATIVE AND RESEARCH-RELATED RESPONSIBILITIES

Teaching

• Since 2014- “Initiation à la langue écrite” 1^st year Bachelor’s level, “Grammaire du birman” 1^st and 2^nd year Bachelor’s level, “Textes littéraires en birman” 2^nd year Bachelor’s level, “Poésie et Jatakas” 3^rd year Bachelor’s level, “Chroniques, romans” 3^rd year Bachelor’s level, “Langue de la presse” 3^rd year Bachelor’s level, “Nouvelles birmanes” 3^rd year Bachelor’s level Burmese (INALCO)
• Since 2013- Class entitled “Géographie de la Thaïlande et de la Birmanie,” 2^nd year Bachelor’s level Burmese and Siamese (INALCO)
• 2012 - 2014- “Initiation à la langue écrite,” “Textes d’application” and “Birman oral / birman écrit,” 1^st year Bachelor’s level - “Version,” 2^nd year Bachelor’s level Burmese (INALCO)
• Since 2009 - “Thème” class, 2^nd year Bachelor’s level Burmese (INALCO)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

•  2020, Teaching ethnic languages in government schools and developing the local curriculum: Elements of decentralization in language-in-education policy, avec Mael Raynaud, Urbanize and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Myanmar, Yangon, 185 pages.
  
  2020, "The teaching of ethnic minorities’ history in Myanmar’s post-junta context: Curricular decentralization as an antidote to “Burmanization”?" présentation à la  Conference internationale "Negotiating Ethnic Diversity and National Identity in History Education: An East-West Comparison", Kuala Lumpur, avec Mael Raynaud. 
  
  2020 (sous presse), “Enseigner les langues minoritaires dans les écoles publiques de l’Union de Myanmar : promesses, enjeux et défis », dans Birmanie (Myanmar) 2010-2018: un pays en transition? Sous la direction d’Aurore Candier, Presses de l’INALCO.
  
  2019 “Promising developments and daunting challenges in using ethnic minority languages in formal education”, avec Mael Raynaud, publication en trois parties dans Oxford Tea Circle (septembre)
  Partie I : Significant policy shifts towards decentralization and administrative complexities
  Partie II: The minority language standardization conundrum
  Partie III: Two brief case studies and a conclusion
  
  2019 “Ethnic language teaching’s decentralization dividend”, dans Frontier Myanmar, avec Mael Raynaud, mars.
  
  2018 “Teaching Ethnic Languages, Cultures and Histories in Government Schools Today: Great Opportunities, Giant Pitfalls?” Publication en trois parties dans Oxford Tea Circle (octobre).
  Partie I: Teaching ethnic languages in government schools: Rationale, Past, Present and Prospects
  Partie II: Demands for Mother-Tongue Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) and the Multiple Challenges Ahead
  Partie III: Teaching Ethnic Histories?
   
  2013 « Schooling and the teaching of minority languages in the Union of Myanmar », presentation à Euroseas, Lisbonne.
   
  2012 « De grands changements et de grands défis », article consacré au Myanmar dans l’Encyclopédie de l’état du monde.
   
  2011 « A textbook case of nation-building: The discursive evolution of state and non-state history curricula under military rule in Myanmar », coécrit avec R. Metro dans The Journal of Burma Studies, Vol. 16 n°1.
   
  2010  « L’Union de Myanmar racontée aux enfants – Etude thématique du discours sur la nation à travers les manuels scolaires », dans Péninsule n°61.