Board of Administrators

President: Ms Manuelle FRANCK

Statutory members

Representing the state:

  • Ms Anne-Sophie BARTHEZ, Director General of Higher Education and Professional Integration, represented by Mr Pascal GOSSELIN, office DGSIP A1-3 or Ms Marina GOVOROFF
  • Mr Laurent BILI, Director General for Globalisation, Culture, Education and International Development, represented by Ms Dominique WAAG, Deputy Director of ESR

 

Representing the Institut de France:

  • Ms Marianne BASTID-BRUGUIERE, member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, representative of the Perpetual Secretary
  • Mr Pierre-Sylvain FILLIOZAT, member of the Académie des inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
  • Mr Jean-Noël ROBERT, member of the Académie des inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
  • Mr Alain THOTE, member of the Académie des inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, representative of the Perpetual Secretary

 

Representing the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS):

  • Mr Antoire PETIT, president of the CNRS, represented by Ms Sylvie DEMURGER, deputy scientific director "Europe and international" of the Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales, represented by Mr Fabrice BOUDJAABA, Deputy Scientific Director of InSHS or Ms Solène MARIE, Head of International Cooperation of InSHS

 

A former head of a public higher education and research institution:

  • Ms Manuelle FRANCK, former president of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)

 

Professional members:

  • Ms Michelle BUBENICEK, director of the École nationale des Chartes
  • Mr Jean-Paul DEMOULE, Emeritus Professor of European Protohistory, University of Paris I
  • Ms Cristina SCHERER-SCHAUB, professor à l'unviersité de Lausanne

 

Representing the faculty of EFEO professors:

  • Mr François LACHAUD; sustitute: Ms Michela BUSSOTTI

 

Representing the faculty of EFEO lecturers:

  • Ms Paola CALANCA; substitute: Mr Luca GABBIANI
  • Ms Catherine SCHEER; substitute: Ms Valérie GILLET

 

Representing EFEO administrative staff:

  • Ms Evelise BRUNEAU; substitute: Mr Vincent PAILLUSSON
  • Ms Zohra SOLTANI; substitute: Mr Didier MARIETTE

Consultative members (EFEO)

  • The director, Nicolas FIÉVÉ
  • The director of administrative services, Cécilia MENDES
  • The chief financial officer, Smail ZAGHMOURI
  • The director of studies, Valérie GILLET
  • The curator of the Library, Katia JUHEL
EFEO News
Death of GĂ©rard Diffloth (1939 - 2023)
Surin, Thailand, 21 August 2023
It was with great sadness that we learned of the death on August 14 of our former colleague Gérard Diffloth, who was a member of the École française d'Extrême-Orient from 2000 to 2004, and then an associate researcher at the EFEO from 2004 to 2020.

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New publication
Kyoto,

Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 31 (2022)
New Perspectives for Chinese History?
Local Society and Archives


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EFEO Java-Bali Palmleaf Manuscripts Digitisation Project
London, United_Kingdom, 10 July 2023
Read the article "EFEO Java-Bali Palmleaf Manuscripts Digitisation Project" about the collaboration between the EFEO and the British Library on the digitisation of the complete collection of 70 palm-leaf manuscripts from Java and Bali, written in Old Javanese, Javanese and Balinese.
Study day
Paris, France, 30 June 2023

The CRCAO and the EFEO organize a study day on Échanges artistiques entre l'Asie de l'Est et l'Occident, d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (fin du XIXe s.- début du XXIe s.) [Artistic exchanges between East Asia and the West, past and present (late 19th c. - early 21st c.)] with the support of the IRHiS-Université de Lille and Sciencescope Japon.

From 9:45 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., in the Grand Salon of the Maison de l'Asie.

Programme

Annual EFEO-Faculty of Archaeology Seminar
Bangkok, Thailand, 29 June 2023

On June 29, as part of the Annual EFEO-Faculty of Archaeology Seminar on "Inscriptions, manuscrits et archéologie en Asie du Sud-Est [Inscriptions, manuscripts, and archaeology in Southeast Asia]," at Silpakorn University in Bangkok, the following spoke for the EFEO:

Gregory Kourilsky gives a talk entitled "Relative Dating of a Code of Law from Luang Prabang (Laos)"

Christophe Pottier gives a talk entitled "Archaeology beyond monumentality: some recent works in Cambodia"

Dominique Soutif gives a talk entitled "Continuing the K. Number inventory"