2015-10-23 France, Paris
On Monday, October 26 Pierre-Yves Manguin (EFEO) is talking on the topic Le royaume de Śrīvijaya, après un siècle de travaux. Acquis, données nouvelles, interrogations [The Śrīvijaya kingdom, after a century of work. Acquisitions, new data, investigations]
Monday, October 26 2015 (11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.) (free admission)
Maison de l'Asie, first-floor salon, 22 avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris
A century after its "invention" by George Cœdès (BEFEO 1918), where are
we today in our knowledge of this powerful Malay State with it maritime
strength? Why are the details of this kingdom that was so prestigious among its
contemporaries - from Baghdad to the Middle Kingdom, among sea traders as well
as in the Buddhist diaspora -today so difficult for archaeologists to
distinguish? Its origins, the location of its political center in Sumatra, its
territorial extent, the nature of its political power have all, since 1918,
been the object of heated discussions. Research over the past three decades has
provided the answers to some of these questions, but there are still many
questions that await elucidation. READ MORE
2015-09-21 France, Paris
On Monday, September 28 Michela Bussotti (EFEO) and Isabelle Landry-Deron (EHESS-CECMC) are talking on the topic Impression du chinois et caractères mobiles (XVIIIe s.-XIXe s.) : les Buis du Régent de l'Imprimerie nationale [Printing Chinese and movable type (18th to 19th centuries): the Regent's Blocks from the National Printing Plant] READ MORE
2015-09-11 France, Aussois
From September 10 to 11 Franciscus Verellen is chairing, with Vincent Goossaert (EPHE), the international colloquium Vies taoïstes - Daoist Lives, an international colloquium on Daoist studies and the Paul Langevin in Aussois (Savoy). This event is co-organized by the EFEO and the EPHE, with the financial support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, the Aishan and Qingyang foundations, the Programme Dynamiques Asiatiques [Asian Dynamics Program] (héSam University) and the Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités [Secularized Religion Societies Group] (EPHE-CNRS).
