EFEO Paris seminar

Martin Nogueira Ramos speaks on "Des îlots catholiques dans un océan bouddhique ? L’étude de la coexistence religieuse dans la société villageoise du nord-ouest de Kyūshū (dernier tiers du XIXe siècle)".

This seminar is part of Sequence 4, entitled "Minorités ethniques et religieuses", part of the common core curriculum of the Master in Asian Studies.

From 9am to 11am. On-site, in the EFEO's Grand Salon.

Legend: Northern tip of the Goto archipelago (Nagasaki prefecture), part of Kyūshū home to several Catholic communities.

The LV Seoul Colloquium in Korea Studies, organized by the EFEO Center in Seoul, in collaboration with the Royal Asiatic Society, is led by Alexandre Haym, doctoral student in political science, Yonsei University, on the topic "Thwarted Ambitions: Political and Bureaucratic Leadership Best Practices during Late Chosŏn"

At 6:00 p.m. (Seoul time), Grand Conference Room (#310), Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University: register with the EFEO Center.

Legend: 군국기무소조석진 "The Deliberative Council (Cho Seokjin,1894) © Ewha Womans University Museum".

As part of the "Kyoto lectures", Mario Talamo (visiting research scholar, International Research Center for Japanese Studies) gives a lecture on "Edo Popular Literature and Female Readership".

At 6pm (Japan) or 10am (France), on site and online on the Zoom platform. Login details are posted on the Kyoto Center's blog.

From March 4 to 9 the EFEO Center in Chiang Mai will be hosting the Winter School in Buddhist Textual Scholarship. Led by teacher-researchers from the EPHE-PSL, the EFEO, and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and with the support of the GIS Asie, this new intensive teaching programme aims to provide the methodological foundations needed to carry out research in philology, codicology, and epigraphy in the field of Buddhist studies.

The school has a cross-area dimension, with teacher-researchers specialising in South Asia, South-East Asia, China and Tibet. 16 students from Europe and Asia have been selected to take part in this school.

The last day will be devoted to visiting sites in Lamphun, with the participation of Poeun Buakhampan, research assistant at the EFEO.

The school is being organized by Gregory Kourilsky (EFEO), Costantino Moretti (EFEO), Marta Sernesi (EPHE), and Vincent Tournier (LMU).

The GIS Asie co-finances with the EFEO a series of lectures and debates organized by the Saigon Social Sciences Hub (SSSH) for early-career social scientists specializing in Vietnamese studies, hosted by the EFEO's office in Ho Chi Minh City.

Upcoming events:

- March 15: "On Ethnic Relations and Integration: Vietnamese Perspectives on the Chinese in Colonial Sài Gòn (1900-1940)" by Yin LI (University of Sydney)

Contact : Olivier Tessier

Most of the move has now been completed and the library collections are once again accessible. These collections have just been enriched by the shipment of several hundred works from the Jan Wisseman Christie collection, received by the EFEO as a gift from Mr. Clive Christie.

On March 15 the Center will welcome Silvia Vignato, from the University of Milan, to discuss the forthcoming publication of an Indonesian translation of her work Au nom de l'hindouisme: Reconfigurations ethniques chez les Tamouls et les Karo en Indonésie (Paris, 2000).

From 16 to 28 March, the Centre will be welcoming two colleagues from the head office, Cécilia Mendes (Director General of Services) and Katia Juhel (Director of Libraries), for a working visit focusing on the library's human resources and collections.

The EFEO Center in Kuala Lumpur has moved into its new office in the History Department of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Malaya University.

Archaeological excavations at the Nong Vienne site, in the ancient pre-Angkorian town of Champassak, came to an end on 2 March 2024. This first campaign of the CHAMPA project on this particular site was led by Nicolas Nauleau and will continue next year to finalise one of the stages in the enhancement of the remarkable archaeological remains of the ancient city and its immediate surroundings.

Legend: Nong Vienne archaeological excavation mission - Ms Toy Kasermsim (archaeological trainee) and Mr Khammanxong Tongnamavong (excavation technician) - February 2024 (© CHAMPA project).

Christine Hawixbrock is leading a new excavation campaign on the Vat Song O site as part of the CHAMPA project. It began in mid-February and will continue until early April 2024. One of the aims of this campaign is to consider ways of enhancing the site with a view to opening it up to visitors.

Legend: Archaeological excavations at Wat Song O - Christine Hawixbrock (archaeologist) and Mr Chanphenh Phommavandy (excavation technician) - February 2024 (© CHAMPA project).

Vladyslav Sydorov (co-director of the Archaeoscape.ai project), Adam Wijker and Yohann Perron (EFEO doctoral students) are in Vat Phou from February 29 to March 7, 2024, to work with the CHAMPA project's Lidar team (David Bazin, Vilasak Phongsawat, Sybounheuang Phimmasen). They will be studying the Lidar data corpus, the state of progress of the archaeological mapping and field surveys currently underway, the field survey strategy and the parameters for setting up a platform for using and storing the data. They will also be taking part in several surveys with the Lidar team. These will continue throughout March.

Vladyslav Sydorov and Yohann Perron will continue these discussions and studies in Chiang Mai the following week, from 7 to 14 March, with Christophe Pottier, coordinator of the CHAMPA project and now supervisor of the Archaeoscape.ai project following the death of Damian Evans.

The Lidar team will also continue to support the archaeological excavations by carrying out topographical surveys at the Nong Vienne and Vat Song O excavation sites, in association with employees from the Vat Phou office, as a continuation of the training begun in 2023.

Legend: Lidar survey - Discovery of the remains of an Angkorian sanctuary - January 2024 (© CHAMPA Project).

Bertrand Porte will be travelling to Savannakhet at the end of March to finalise the organisation of the packaging of the museum's collections in preparation for the work to come, to check that the inventories taken in 2023 have been entered and to help draw up the future museum programme for the Nong Hua Thong treasure and other collections.

On Tuesday, March 26, Élisabeth Chabanol will talk on the topic "Fortresses and palaces of the Koryŏ, recent archaeological discoveries on the Korean Peninsula" at the joint seminar of the EFEO and the UFR d'art et d'archéologie [Art and Archaeology Department] of the Faculty of Letters at Sorbonne-Université.

Legend: Excavation site of a temporary palace, Sinyông-dong, Chong-no, Seoul, 10 May 2023 © É. Chabanol.

From March 1 to 4, Christophe Marquet conducts a study of the Ise Temple Pilgrimage Screen (Ise sangū dōchû zu byōbu) at the Nezu Museum in Tokyo and travels to Hanamaki (Iwate Prefecture) to conduct interviews with the local Kōshin brotherhood and study Ōtsu paintings held at the Oni Museum in Kitakami.

From March 18 to 24, Christophe Marquet will be presenting a series of popular Ōtsu paintings as part of the exhibition Shunjū yū-e: uketsugu koto tsutaeru koto 春秋遊会 受け継ぐこと 伝えること / Spring and autumn meetings: heritage and transmission, at the Hashimoto Kansetsu Museum in Kyoto.

On March 15, Martin Nogueira Ramos will be taking part in the international study day entitled Rire et littérature japonaise de l'époque de Heian à l'ère Meiji, organised by Daniel Struve and Marianne Simon-Oikawa (CRCAO). He will be presenting a paper entitled "A Farce or a Warning? The Kirishitan kanagaki (c. 1610), an Alternative History of the Christian Religion".

Legend: The entrance to the Tafukuji (town of Usuki, Ōita Prefecture), a Rinzai temple where the Kirishitan kanagaki is kept.

On March 20, Charlotte Schmid will be giving a lecture, "Kṛṣṇa, un enseignement de la bhakti du nord au sud", on the panel "La circulation des traditions hindoues en Inde dans la seconde moitié du premier millénaire", at the international conference "Transmettre la connaissance de l'hindouisme en Inde et au-delà, Autour de la traduction et de la représentation de la Courtisane chauve", organised by Basile Leclère (Université Lyon 3) to be held in Lyon from 20 to 21 March.

Legend: Jaydeva (the author of the Gīta-Govinda, xi century), bowing to Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa, Pahari miniature, circa 1750, The Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain.

You can find EFEO publications on stand 207 at the annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies to be held in Seattle from March 14 to 17.

The call for applications for the EFEO field scholarship for the second semester of 2024 is underway.

The deadline for submitting applications for the field grant that will allow Master II and doctoral students to study in Asia in one of the EFEO centres is March 15th, 2024, inclusive, for a stay scheduled to begin between June 1st and December 31st, 2024.

Despite the consequences of the water damage, work on the collections was able to resume. Thanks to the team at our Pondicherry library, the Paris library's collections have once again been enriched by around a hundred works published in India, mainly in Tamil, covering history, epigraphy, religion and religious literature.

The library is opened Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Consult the catalogues and digital tools :
- Catalogue of books and periodicals
- Catalogue of Archives and Manuscripts
- Digital heritage library

Check the EFEO's Facebook page and Twitter account regularly for any updates on the terms and conditions of the public reception service.

The exhibition Shiva, the god who knows how to dance is on until March 14 at the EFEO Centre in Pondicherry.

The Master 1 (M1) and Master 2 (M2) admission campaign is open until 24 March 2024.

Watch Alexandre Longelin's talk on "La céramique khmère du palais royal d'Angkor Thom du Xe au XVe siècle : étude chrono-typologique et fonctionnelle" [in French and Khmer], which he gave at the Le centre EFEO de Siem Reap: recherche et formation day held to mark the 30th anniversary of the reopening of the Siem Reap EFEO Center (1992-2022) on December 12, 2022.

Watch "Les textes introductifs de Louis Malleret dans son ouvrage La civilisation matérielle d'Oc Èo" [in French and Vietnamese] by Đặng Văn Thắng, senior lecturer in the history department of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities of Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville, at the 18th lecture-debate organized at the EFEO Centre in Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville on June 16, 2022.

As part of the support provided to international cooperation actions, the Ministry of Higher Education, Research (MESR) and the Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'étranger (EFE) are pleased to announce the opening of the call for applications for doctoral contracts of the EFE Réseau.

This year, four doctoral contracts are open, supported by the École française d'Athènes, the École française de Rome, the Institut français d'Archéologie orientale du Caire and the Casa de Velázquez (École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques).

Applications should be sent directly to the EFE concerned, in the form of a pdf document including
- A thesis proposal of no more than five pages;
- the CV of the candidate proposed to undertake the research;
- a letter of introduction from the prospective thesis director(s);
- the opinion of the Director of the Doctoral School.

The application documents can be sent until May 5 2024, according to the procedures of each EFE.