Hanoi

The Hanoi Centre, Vietnam

Hanoi Centre

Head : Philippe Le Failler
Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
5a Xóm Hạ Hồi, Hoàn Kiếm
Hanoi, Vietnam
Tel : +84 24 38 22 06 23
philippe.le-failler@efeo.net

Secretary : efeo.vietnam@gmail.com

Since 1995 the Centre, located in a building in the heart of Hanoi, has given new impetus to French research in Vietnamese studies, allowing the EFEO's researchers to pursue research projects in Vietnam and linking French (EHESS, EPHE, CNR, INALCO, Universities...), European and international scholars with their Vietnamese counterparts working in the humanities and social sciences.

The Centre's research interests focus on pre-modern and contemporary history, epigraphy, anthropology, and archaeology.

Current research program:

  • The Marches of the Dai Viêt Kingdom: migration, contacts, and social/territorial transformations (including the multidisciplinary study of the Long Wall of Quang Ngai; Champa studies project)
  • Anthropology of relations between the state and the peasantry in water management (multidisciplinary study of the Phuoc Hoa irrigation system (Tay Ninh and Long An provinces)
  • Expertise and research on the Thang-Long imperial city site in Hanoi
  • Cooperation and research for the valorisation of Vietnamese archival heritage

In addition to these cooperation projects, training in methodology and on-site research is provided for young scholars at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and students in partner universities. Each year the Centre also welcomes doctoral students and EFEO scholarship holders working on related research.

In addition to the Corpus of Vietnamese Inscriptions (30 volumes), the publishing service of the Centre publishes books in two series : Bibliothèque vietnamienne (Vietnamese Library) and Pistes d'Histoire (Trails of History).

The Center's library has grown rapidly with the recent acquisition of the personal collections of Professors David G. Marr and Dang Phong. It now holds 10,000 volumes on the history and anthropology of Vietnam and neighbouring countries.

The Hanoi centre
Head: Philippe Le Failler

5a Xóm Hạ Hồi, Hoàn Kiếm
Hanoi
Vietnam
Tel: +84 24 38 22 06 23
philippe.le-failler@efeo.net
efeo.vietnam@gmail.com

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Vietnam lockdown ends, the EFEO centre reopens
11 MAY 20 After closing for two months, the Hanoi centre reopened its doors to students and readers. As a precaution against the coronavirus epidemic, the library stopped admitting  ... Read more
Georges Maspero’s Le Royaume de Champa: publication of a Vietnamese edition
21 FEBRUARY 20 Maspero’s book was first published in 1910-1913. His narrative of Champa, reduced to its simplest expression, is the rise-and-fall story of a single kingdom inhabited by  ... Read more
Lecture: New Caledonia and Vietnamese Contract Labour Migration in Context
12 NOVEMBER 19 The migration of Vietnamese contract workers to New Caledonia is the subject of a lecture at the Department of History at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi,  ... Read more
EFEO News
Conference
Hanoi, Vietnam, 25 November 2021

On November, 25 the international conference "EFEO Photographic Archives in the Social Science Library of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences" is being held in Hanoi, with presentations for the EFEO by Christophe Marquet, Isabelle Poujol and Philippe Le Failler!
Colloquium ''Ancient Japanese Book Collection of the Social Sciences Library - Issues and Potential''
Hanoi, Vietnam, 14 October 2020
On October 14 the Institute of Social Sciences Information in Hanoi, which holds part of the collections of the former EFEO library, organized a colloquium on the Japanese collection, entitled: Ancient Japanese Book Collection of the Social Sciences Library - Issues and Potential.
The director of the EFEO, Christophe Marquet, gave a talk on the history of this collection, which was created at the beginning of the 20th century by the first EFEO Japanese scholars, and on works concerning the artistic heritage.
EFEO publications

In order to highlight the EFEO publications, a new website dedicated to them is online.
You can now consult the catalog of all the books published since the creation of the EFEO and buy directly those that interest you HERE.
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Follow the virtual photo library of the EFEO on Instagram account: ecolefrancaisedextremeorient
Exhibition "Imagerie populaire du Vietnam-triptyque"
Vietnam, Hô Chi Minh City, 26 February 2013
The exhibition presents selected extracts from two great collections put together during the first half of the 20th century in the northern part of the country (the Henri Oger collection and the Maurice Durand collection), and an original illustrated manuscript of the Luc Vân Tiên, the epic poem of the South. READ MORE