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
Lecture on Hanoi in the light od archaeological excavations
France, Paris, 29 September 2011
Lecture by Professor Phan Huy Lê, President of the Vietnamese Historians' Association, on the topic "L'histoire millénaire de Thang Long-Hanoi à la lumière des fouilles archéologiques réalisées en 2002 [A thousand years of the history of Thang Long-Hanoi in the light of archaeological excavations carried out in 2002]." READ MORE
Understanding solidarity
Vietnam, Hanoï, 08 April 2011
Lecture by Olivier Tessier on "Solidarité codifiée et dépendance: l'échange comme espace de médiation dans un village du Nord du Vietnam." READ MORE
Research and policy forum
Hong Kong and Vietnam, 23 March 2011
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23 March 2011

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The Long Wall of Quang Ngãi – Bình Ðinh: Politics, Poverty and Ethnic Relations in the History of a Central Vietnamese Province
25-27 March 2011 READ MORE
Vietnam, Hanoi, 24 September 2010
24 September 2010
Lecture by Olivier Tessier on: "De la transformation au démantèlement de la citadelle d'Hanoi au XIXe siècle: enjeux politiques et aménagement de l'espace urbain [From the transformation to the dismantling of the Hanoi citadel in the nineteenth century: political maneuvers and the managing of urban space]"
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