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2021-04-12 Online

Paris EFEO Seminar

Guillaume Dutournier (EFEO) speaks on: "Logiques d'inventaire. Réflexions sur la trajectoire patrimoniale chinoise de l'antiquarianisme lettré à l'effervescence folkloriste actuelle" [Logics of Inventory. Reflections on the Chinese heritage trajectory from literate antiquarianism to the current folklorist effervescence].

From 10.30am to 12pm. The conference will take place online upon prior registration.

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2021-04-09 Online

Video

Watch the new video of the "EFEO's Asian Treasures" entitled "Un ethnologue au Japon: 1937-1939. La bibliothèque japonaise de Leroi-Gourhan" [An ethnologist in Japan: 1937-1939. Leroi-Gourhan's Japanese books collection].
Christophe Marquet (EFEO) and Alice Berthon(Grenoble Alpes University) present the  documentation acquired by André Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986) during his very first ethnological fieldwork in Japan from 1937 to 1939.

2021-03-31 Paris, France

Inventories on Calames

EFEO Paris library is launching the publication online of its inventories of archives, objects and iconography, on Calames.
New inventories are now available, including archives of Charles Archaimbault, George Cœdès, Georges Condominas, Madeleine Giteau, Victor Goloubew, and Christian Pelras : Papers of former members and scholars.
As well as inventories of Tibetan art collection, Propaganda posters of People’s Republic of Kampuchea, and Khmer Rouge’s Propaganda documents circulated by the Patriots Committee of Democratic Kampuchea in France : Objects, iconographic collections and various archives.

Legend: Collection of Tibetan objects, shelf reference : EFEO D72-1, Lama Dpal ‘byor lhun Grub.

2021-03-25 Online

XXXVth Seoul Colloquium in Korean Studies

The XXXVth Seoul Colloquium in Korean Studies is organized by the EFEO Center in Seoul in collaboration with the Royal Asiatic Society. It is led by Jérémie Eyssette, assistant at Chosun University, Kwangju, on the theme: "Instrumentalizing Cartographic Voids and Visions in Neo-Confucian Chosŏn and Renaissance France (15th-16th centuries)".

Thursday, March 25, at 6 pm. Register at the EFEO Center. The seminar will take place online.Learn more.

Legend: Recens et integra orbis descriptio (51 x 57 cm), Oronce Fine, 1536. Reproduced with the permission of the BNF, Cartes et Plans, Res. Ge DD 2987 (63).

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