Agenda EFEO June 2014
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Colloquia, visits, and meetings
From May 29 to June 15, Yves Goudineau, Director, is away from Paris. In Phnom Penh he is meeting with the directorate of the National Museum, a partner of the EFEO Centre, and representing the EFEO at the ceremony accompanying the return of the Koh Ker statues to the Council's presidency.
From June 3 to 6, in Siem Reap, he will take part in the 23rd technical meeting of the International Coordinating Committee for the Protection and Development of the Angkor Historical Site (CIC-Angkor).
He will then join Pierre Pichard in Burma to take part in the meeting of experts organized by UNESCO on June 9 and 10 in Pagan. Finally, from June 11 to 14, he will visit the EFEO Centre in Chiang Mai.
directeur@efeo.net

The Scholarly Council of the EFEO is meeting on the afternoon of Monday, June 23. The Administrative Council is meeting the morning of Friday, June 27.
direction@efeo.net

On June 23 and 24, Emmanuelle Marcoul, accountant, and Zohra Soltani from the accounting section, will be in Rome to take part in a working seminar on the AGE accounting along with their opposite numbers from the other French Schools Abroad, French Institutes, and groups involved in French education abroad...
emmanuelle.marcoul@efeo.net

As part of the research on Dunhuang being carried on in the UMR 8155 (CRCAO: Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l'Asie orientale [Center for Research on the Civilizations of East Asia]) and the EFEO. Sha Wutian and Zhang Yuanlin, researchers at the Dunhuang Instiute, are each giving, on Wednesday June 4, a lecture at the Far Eastern Institutes of the Collège de France (52, rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75005 Paris, Lévi-Strauss Room, on the ground floor).
- 2 p.m.: Sha Wutian, "Éléments iconographiques du style des Hu dans la grotte 322 de Mogao, Dunhuang et ses donateurs sogdiens [Hu style iconographic features in Mogao cave 322]."
- 3:30 p.m.: Zhang Yuanlin, "Représentations de Maheśvara à Dunhuang et Khotan [Images of Maheśvara at Dunhuang and Khotan]."
Kuo Liying is taking part in the colloquium Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat et ses successeurs. Deux cents ans de sinologie française en France et en Chine [Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat and his successors. Two hundred years of French Sinology in France and in China], organized by the Institute for Advanced Chinese Studies at the Collège de France and the Centre de recherches sur les sinologies étrangères [Centre for Sinological Research Abroad] at the University of Foreign Languages in Peking to mark the bicentenary of the creation of the chair of Chinese Studies at the Collège de France. The colloquium is taking place in the Maurice Halbwachs Amphitheatre at the Collège de France on the mornings of June 11, 12, and 13, and at the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres on the afternoon of June 13. Kuo Liying's presentation is on "Pelliot, le Collège de France et les apocryphes du bouddhisme chinois [Pelliot, the Collège de France, and Chinese Buddhist apocrypha]."
liying.kuo@efeo.net

From June 2 to 12 Éric Bourdonneau is to be in Cambodia. He is taking part in the 23rd technical session of the CIC-Angkor where he is presenting, at the request of UNESCO, a talk entitled "Mission archéologique à Koh Ker: les groupes sculptés du Prasat Chen et du Prasat Thom, de la recherche archéologique aux procédures de restitution [Archaeological project at Koh Ker: the sculpture groups at the Prasat Chen and the Prasat Thom - from archaeological research to restoration techniques]." On this occasion he is meeting with the partners in this project (the National Apsara Authority, the Cambodian National Museum and the team working in their restoration workshop, UNESCO, and the architect Olivier Cunin) to complete the various projects now under way. These include the reassembling of the fragments of the Prasat Thom dance of shiva, the preparation of a temporary exhibition (June 15 to December 31) at the National Museum on the occasion of the return of the Prasat Chen statues that have recently been handed over to the Cambodian Royal Government.
On June 13 Éric Bourdonneau is taking part (at the Maison de l'Asie) in the jury for the thesis defense for a Master's 2 degree of Clémence Le Meur who is presenting her work on "Les modes d'organisation de la société de la culture de Sa Huỳnh d'après les vestiges archéologiques, 5e siècle av. EC - 5e siècle EC [Patterns of organization of society under the Sa Huynh culture according to archaeological remains. 5th century BCE to 5th century CE]" (directed by Pierre-Yves Manguin, EHESS).
eric.bourdonneau@efeo.net

On Jun 4, François Lachaud is taking part in the jury for the dissertation defense of Arne Abilgaard who has produced a doctorate in the field of History and Semiology of Text and Image. The dissertation, directed by Professor Francis Marmand, is entitled "L'Écriture de la voix. À l'écoute d'Agharta, Miles Davis [The Writing of the voice. On listening to Agharta, Miles Davis]." The defense is taking place at the University of Paris-Diderot.
francois.lachaud@efeo.net

Andrew Hardy is giving a lecture entitled "Technologies croisées des ethnies Hrê et Viêt dans l'histoire de la province de Quang Ngai, XVIIIe - XIXe siècles [Interlocking technologies of the Hrê and Viêt ethnic grouping in the history of Quang Ngai province in the 18th and 19th centuries]" as part of the colloquium Transferts culturels: France-Vietnam-Europe-Asie [Cultural transfers: France-Vietnam-Europe-Asia] being held on June 4 and 5 at the École normale supérieure (ENS-ULM).
On June 5 Andrew Hardy, scholarly coordinator of the SEATIDE project, is taking part in the colloquium Research Meets Diplomacy: Europe as a Global Actor, at the European Commission in Brussels; he is talking on the topic "Ethnic Relations, Politics and Poverty in a Vietnamese Province" as part of the panel The EU's relations with the wider world - the EU's role in the Asia-Pacific region, chaired by Marie Ramot.
Andrew.hardy@efeo.net

Pierre-Yves Manguin is taking part in the colloquium Transferts culturels: France-Vietnam-Europe-Asie [Cultural transfers: France-Vietnam-Europe-Asia] being held on June 4 and 5 at the École normale supérieure (ENS-ULM). He is talking on "Orientalistes en Orient: l'EFEO au Vietnam [Orientalists in the Orient: the EFEO in Vietnam]."
pierre-yves.manguin@efeo.net

On June 10 Fabienne Jagou will speak on the topic of Taiwanese Buddhist mummies today as part of the day-long workshop on mummies being organized at the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France [Centre for research and restoration in French Museums], at the Palais du Louvre.
From June 15 to 19, Fabienne Jagou will speak part in the conference of the research group Chinese and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, organized at the Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is giving a talk there on "Today's Taiwanese hagiographies of Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Masters: A Search for Legitimacy."
fabienne.jagou@efeo.net

From June 14 to 28, Michel Lorrillard is returning to Vientiane and the Thai frontier province of Sakorn Nakhon, in order to continue there his collecting of historical material on ancient Lao villages.
michel.lorrillard@efeo.net

On June 18, during the Semaine internationale d'études palies [International Pali studies week] being organized at the Sorbonne, École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), François Lagirarde is talking on "Pali and the Tamnan literature of northern Thailand."
françois.lagirarde@efeo.net

Dominic Goodall will be at Hamburg University from 20th to 24th June, where he will give a lecture on Tuesday 24th June entitled: "Newly discovered evidence about tenth-century Vat Phu (Laos): the Sanskrit text of the buried four-faced stela K. 1320".
dominic.goodall@efeo.net

Personnel
Brice Vincent, specialist in South-east Asian archaeo-metallurgy, is joining the EFEO as a lecturer beginning on June 1. He is to be based in Paris.
valerie.liger-belair@efeo.net

Editions
Charlotte Schmid, Sur le chemin de Krsna. La flûte et ses voies [On the path of Krishna. The flute and his travels], Sequens, EFEO, 170 pp.
This is the second work published in the Sequens series.

Charlotte Schmid, La Bhakti d'une reine, Śiva à Tirucceṉṉampūṇṭi [The Bhakti of a queen, Shiva at Tirucceṉṉampūṇṭi], Institut français de Pondichéry and École française d'Extrême-Orient, Pondicherry (Coll. indologie n° 123), 405 pp.

Francis, Emmanuel & Schmid, Charlotte (eds.), The Archaeology of Bhakti I: Mathurā and Maturai, Back and Forth. Institut français de Pondichéry and École française d'Extrême-Orient, Pondicherry (Collection indologie n° 125), 366 pp. (Contributors: T. Coleman, C. Ferrier, C. Schmid, P. Kaimal, E. Francis, A. Dubiyanskiy, S. Anandakichenin, V. Gillet, S.A.S. Sarma.)

Gillet, Valérie (ed.), Mapping the Chronology of Bhakti: Milestones, Stepping Stones, and Stumbling Stones. Proceedings of a workshop held in honour of Paṇḍit R. Varadadesikan, Institut français de Pondichéry / École française d'Extrême-Orient, Pondichéry (Collection indologie n° 124), 381 pp. (Contributors: J.-L. Chevillard, E. Francis, T. Gangadharan, V. Gillet, L. Orr, K. Rajan, S.A.S. Sarma, C. Schmid, M. Schmücker, R. Varadadesikan, G. Vijayavenugopal, E. Wilden, K. Young.)

Philippe Le Failler, La rivière Noire, l'intégration d'une marche frontière au Vietnam [The Black River: integration of a frontier area into Vietnam]. Paris, CNRS Alpha, "Études Imasie - Pacifique" series, published with EFEO support, 570 pp.
editions@efeo.net ; efeo-diffusion@efeo.net

Publications
Cruijsen, Thomas, Arlo Griffiths, and Marijke J. Klokke "The Cult of the Buddhist Dhāraṇī Deity Mahāpratisarā along the Maritime Silk Route: New Epigraphic and Iconographic Evidence from the Indonesian Archipelago." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 35 (1-2), 2012 (2014), pp. 71-157.

Griffiths, Arlo, "Early Indic Inscriptions of Southeast Asia" in John Guy (ed.), Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Yale University Press), 2014, pp. 53-57.

Griffiths, Arlo, "Written Traces of the Buddhist Past: Mantras and Dhāraṇīs in Indonesian Inscriptions. » Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 77 (1), 2014, pp.137-194.
Of Special Note
From Monday, June 16, to Friday, June 20, Peter Skilling and Nalini Balbir (EPHE) are organizing La semaine internationale d'études palies [International Pali Studies Week] at the Sorbonne (place de la Sorbonne, Paris 75005, staircase U, 5th floor, room H 637).

EFEO contributions:
Monday, June 16:
- Peter Skilling and Nalini Balbir: "Introduction to the International Pali Studies Week"
- Santi Pakdeekham and Peter Skilling: "Introduction to the Jambupatisūtra"
Wednesday, June 18:
- François Lagirarde: "Pali and the Tamnan literature of northern Thailand"
- Nalini Balbir et Peter Skilling: "Uppātasanti: Evoking a Buddhist pantheon in Pali"
Thursday, June 19:
- Santi Pakdeekham and Peter Skilling: "Manuscript collections in Chaiya District, Surat Thani."
Admission is free.
Library
Maïté Hurel is presenting the holdings of the EFEO Library at the colloquium Les universités à l'ère du numérique [Universities in the digital age] organized by HeSam-University and the University of Montréal, on June 11, from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (151-155 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris).
maite.hurel@efeo.net

From June 25 to 27 Maïté Hurel and Dat-Wei Lau are in Nice for the meetings of the Doc'Asie network. This year the topic is Les collections photographiques de ou sur l'Asie [Photographic collections from or about Asia].
maite.hurel@efeo.net ; dat-wei.lau@efeo.net

Photo Library
Isabelle Poujol is talking on the topic "Vers une photothèque virtuelle consacrée à l'Asie [Towards a virtual photo library dedicated to Asia]" at the colloquium Les universités à l'ère du numérique [Universities in the digital age] organized by HeSam-University and the University of Montréal, on June 11, from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (151-155 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris).
isabelle.poujol@efeo.net

EFEO Paris Seminar
The EFEO Paris Seminar is taking place on Monday, June 23 (11a.m.-12:30 p.m.): a talk by Christophe Pottier (EFEO) on the topic "Cartographie, télédétection et Lidar: impacts des technologies sur la perception archéologique d'Angkor [Cartography, teledetection, and Lidar: the impact of technologies on archaeological views on Angkor]," Maison de l'Asie (22, avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris, " Grand Salon " 1st floor).
vincent.paillusson@efeo.net

If there was any area of the ancient Khmer empire that could be considered relatively well studied at the time of the reopening of the country to outsiders some twenty years ago, it would be without a doubt the Angkor region. But even in this area, sometimes only a few hundred metres from world-renowned temples, there were many sites that remained unstudied, or at least never brought to the attention of archaeologists. It is true that these were not monumental royal establishments like the great temples the visitor seeks out. In the majority of cases, they were little unrecognized sites consisting of burial mounds, ponds, as well as traces of pathways, canals, or agricultural activities. They testify to an unsuspected mass of ancient, non-monumental remnants that constitute a largely unexamined part of Angkor's makeup.
The presentation will be dedicated to recalling how the archaeological cartography of Angkor evolved over time and will stress how methodological and technical advances have implicitly - and sometimes explicitly - modified our understanding of Angkor. From the first explorations to the recent Lidar coverage, moving through the introduction of teledetection, one sees the widening of the envisioning of Ankor's urban extension and the definition of our knowledge of the archaeological reality of the site.

Life in the Centres
Jakarta
From June 13 to 28 the EFEO Centre in Jakarta is organizing, with the Indonesian National Library and the KITLV (Leiden), a summer school for the study of Old Javanese at Trawas (East Java). These workshops, in which fifteen young Indonesian and seven foreign researchers will participate, are being led by Willem van der Molen (KITLV), Dwi Puspitorini (University of Indonesia), and Arlo Griffiths.
arlo.griffiths@efeo.net
Bangkok
On June 4 and 5, at Siem Reap, Cambodia, Christophe Pottier is taking part in the 23rd technical session of the CIC-Angkor (International Coordinating Committee for the Protection and Development of the Angkor Historical Site).
On June 12, Christophe Pottier is giving a lecture on "Nouvelles découvertes archéologiques à Angkor [New archaeological discoveries at Angkor]" at the Bangkok Alliance française.
christophe.Pottier@efeo.net

Peter Skilling is organizing, with Nalini Balbir (EPHE) La semaine internationale d'études palies [International Pali Studies week] at the Sorbonne from Monday, June 16, to Friday, June 20. (See above, under Of Special Note).
peter.skilling@efeo.net

Phnom Penh
Bertrand Porte and Christian Fischer (Getty/UCLA, Conservation Program) are giving a presentation on the topic "La statuaire du delta du Mékong (Vietnam et Cambodge): éléments sur la conservation et les grès constitutifs [Statuary of the Mekong Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia): aspects of conservation and the sandstone that they are made of]" at the Archaeology Department of the Institute for Social Sciences at Hô Chi Minh City on June 12, with the cooperation of Pascal Bourdeaux, representative of the EFEO at Hô Chi Minh City.

From June 23 to 27, Bertrand Porte and Christian Fischer are joining Christine Hawixbrock at Wat Phu as part of the FSP Vat Phu project. This visit is to be dedicated to the study of sandstone sculptures at the site, and their conservation.
bertrand.porte@efeo.net
Siem Reap
The 23rd technical session of the CIC-Angkor (International Coordinating Committee for the Protection and Development of the Angkor Historical Site) will be held at Siem Reap on June 4 and 5 at the Sokha Angkor Hotel. EFEO research results are being presented by Christophe Pottier, Jacques Gaucher, Dominique Soutif, and Éric Bourdonneau.
Christian Fischer (Materials Science and Engineering Department & UCLA/Getty Conservation IDP, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology) is visiting the Siem Reap Centre from June 13 to 30, and Armand Desbat (ceramicist, CNRS) from June 15 to July 15.
dominique.soutif@efeo.net
Vientiane
From June 23 to 27, Christine Hawixbrock, Bertrand Porte (EFEO Phnom Penh) and Christian Fischer (Costen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Los Angeles) are visiting Wat Phu in order to better understand the nature and provenance of the stone statuary at the site and in its surroundings using only non-invasive measures on pieces in the museum and other holdings belonging to various periods (pre-Angkorian, Angkorian, and Lao art). This visit is taking place as part of the partnership bringing together the Wat Phu SAGV and the EFEO.
christine.hawixbrock@efeo.net
Hô Chi Minh City
The Library of General Sciences is presenting, in collaboration with the EFEO, the French Institute at Hô Chi Minh City, and Centre #2 of the Vietnamese National Archives, the exhibition Dalat. Et la carte créa la ville [Dalat. And the map created the town]. The opening, on June 10, is to be preceded by a lecture by Pascal Bourdeaux: "Comment la carte créa la ville. Une histoire cartographique de Đà Lạt au service de la préservation patrimoniale (1883-2050) [How the map created the city. A cartographic history of Đà Lạt at the service of the preservation of the national heritage (1883-2050)]."
pascal.bourdeaux@efeo.net
Peking
On June 6, at 10 a.m., as part of the lecture series Histoire, Archéologie et Société 2013-2014, at the Palace Museum of the Forbidden City, Professor Wu Shizhou (Centre for Material Culture Studies and Museography of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), is giving a lecture on "Un jour dans la vie de l'empereur Qianlong (r. 1736-1796) à la Cour de Pékin [A day in the life of Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1796) at the court in Peking]."
From June 11 to 13, Luca Gabbiani is taking part in the international colloquium Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat et ses successeurs. Deux cents ans de sinologie française en France et en Chine [Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat and his successors: Two hundred years of French Sinology in France and in China], at the Collège de France, and is giving a talk on "Les formes de la ville - histoire urbaine chinoise et sinologie française au XXe siècle [The shapes of towns: Chinese urban history and French Sinology in the 20th Century]."
luca.gabbiani@efeo.net
Seoul
Élisabeth Chabanol wil be in the Korean People's Democratic Republic from June 23 to 11 in order to prepare the exhibition Kaesong et sa forteresse [Kaesong and its fortress], of which she is the organizer. This exhibition, which will begin on September 15 at the National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions in Pyongyang, presents the first results of the work of the Archaeological Mission to Kaesông (EFEO/MAEE).
elisabeth.chabanol@efeo.net

Tokyo
Iyanaga Nobumi's seminar "Introduction to the Buddhist kanbun" will take place on Mondays, June 9 and 23 (from 6 to 8 p.m., in the lecture hall at the Tôyô bunko): reading of story 53 ("Tribulations of the Brahman Piṇḍola") from the Xianyu-jing/Gengu-kyō (Sūtra of the Sages and the Fools), sections 2 and 3.
nobumi.iyanaga@efeo.net
Kyoto
In the series Kyoto Lectures, on Wednesday, June 10 (at 6 p.m.), Wiebke Denecke (Boston University) is giving a lecture on the topic "Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons. A Book Talk". On Tuesday, June 14 (at 6 p.m.), Francesco Campagnola (Ghent University) will give a talk on the history of ideas in modern Japan. These lectures, co-organized by the EFEO and ISEAS Centres, will take place in the Institute for Research in the Humane Sciences of Kyoto University.
benoit.jacquet@efeo.net
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