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Franciscus Verellen Sydney (Australie), 1952 Member from 1991 to 2004, Director since 2004 After receiving a Master's degree in Asian languages and civilization at the University of Hamburg in 1977 and working as a research fellow at the Institute of Asian Studies (Hamburg, 1977-1979), Franciscus Verellen carried out his doctoral studies at Oxford University (Chinese literature, 1979-1982) and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Chinese religions, 1982-1985). He received the EPHE diploma in 1985, a doctorate from the University Paris 7 in 1986, and his habilitation in 2000. In 2002, he was appointed as professor (directeur d’études) to the chair "History of Taoism" at the Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO). F. Verellen's field of research comprises the history of Taoism in the wider context of Chinese religion and the history of regional cultures in China. These two interests come together in his work on the Taoist canon, the thought of Du Guangting (850-933), a major figure in Taoism at the end of the middle ages, and on the religious history of Sichuan up to the Five Dynasties (907-960), a period of deep transformations that heralds the modern period of Chinese history. Recently he has devoted a series of studies to the social organization and liturgical system of the Heavenly Master movement between the Later Han (25-220) and the Tang (6l8-907) periods. Verellen has organised and contributed to many international conferences and research projects and participated in or managed the editorial boards of several journals: Arts Asiatiques (Paris) ; Aséanie (Bangkok) ; Bulletin de l’École Française d’Extrême-Orient (Paris) ; Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie (Kyoto) ; Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (Madison, Wisconsin) ; Sanjiao wenxian / Matériaux pour l’étude de la religion chinoise (Paris) ; Faguo hanxue/Sinologie française (Peking); Daoism: Religion, History and Society (Hong Kong). He has published widely in the field of medieval Chinese history and Taoism, including The Taoist Canon: A historical companion to the Daozang (edited with Kristofer Schipper, 3 volumes, The University of Chicago Press, 2004). The latter received the Association of American Publishers Award for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing in 2005 and the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in 2007. Verellen is a member of the academic advisory board of the Dictionnaire universel des dieux, déesses et demons, Editions du Seuil, and coordinator of the contributions of the Institut de France to the World Expo Shanghai 2010. An alumnus fellow of the Columbia Society of Fellows (Mellon Teaching Fellow, Columbia University, New York, 1987-89), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (fellow in Munich and Oxford, 1986-87, and again in Heidelberg, 1991-92), and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Fellow-in-Residence, NIAS, Wassenaar, 1996-97), F. Verellen is currently a member of the Governing Board of the Société Asiatique and of the Academic Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Daoist Culture, Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as president of the Association Française des Amis de l’Orient (AFAO). Prior to his appointment at the Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient in 1991, F. Verellen taught the history of Chinese religions at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (1986-1987), at Columbia University, New York (1987-1990), and at Princeton University (1990-1991). In 1992 he was entrusted with the opening of the EFEO center in Taipei, which he directed until 1995. Between 1995 and 1997 he was assigned to Paris and again taught at the EPHE. He was appointed visiting associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997-1998. During 1998-1999 and 2001-2004 he directed the EFEO center in Hong Kong and taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 2000 to 2004 he served as head of the Chinese Studies division at the EFEO.. In 2004, Franciscus Verellen was named director of the Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient and honorary professor in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, in 2005 Stewart Fellow in the Humanities, Princeton University, and in 2006 honorary professor in the Department of Religious and Cultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He further serves as chair of the Steering Committee of the European Consortium for Asian Field Study (ECAF), which was founded at his initiative in 2007. In 2008 Verellen was elected academician in the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Institut de France). He was named ICS Fellow and member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, in 2009. The same year Verellen was appointed a member of the Princeton Institute for Advances Study. Franciscus Verellen is a knight of the order of the Legion of honour, a knight of the order of the Academic Palms, and an officer of the Royal Order of Cambodia. |
Publications 1989 Du Guangting (850-933) : taoïste de cour à la fin de la Chine médiévale, Paris, Collège de France, IHEC. 2000 2003 2004 2004 2005 2006 2007 |