The EFEO Centres in Asia

The mission of the EFEO Centres in Asia is to be valued physical hubs in important Asian locations that:

- possess and make accessible unique, rich, on-the-ground academic expertise and resources
- draw visiting European scholars into new and stimulating interactions with each other and with local academic partners within and across disciplinary boundaries (including, for example, hosting or co-organising international lectures, workshops and seminars)
- facilitate enriching exchanges and engagement with local languages / cultures / communities / environments
- support international collaborations and enable new world-class research
- provide practical / logistical support to early-career scholars and those new to the area
- develop dialogues with local and international networks, agencies and communities of interest outside the academic world (including, for example, local European diplomatic personnel, Non-Governmental Organisations, and community-based groups)

EFEO News
Study Days ''Paris Dialogue on Archaeological Lidar''
Paris, France, 10 December 2018
The Paris Dialogue on Archaeological Lidar brings together, for the first time, a broad cross-section of archaeologists who use landscape-scale airborne laser scanning, along with key scholars in archaeological method and theory and specialists from other disciplines such as information technology, remote sensing, ecology, remote sensing, and engineering. The aim is to cultivate an ongoing dialogue between the archaeological lidar community, including important input and perspectives from outside the discipline, with a view to identifying and addressing some of the challenges we face as lidar continues to transform landscape archaeology and eventually becomes a routine part of archaeological fieldwork.
Study Day ''Typographies orientales et Imprimerie nationale. Histoire et patrimoine''
Paris, France, 06 December 2018
Michela Bussotti and François Lachaud are organizing the Study Day Maîtriser les langues, apprivoiser le monde, dictionnaires et lexiques bilingues en Asie orientale.

From 9h30 to 17h, Maison de l'Asie, Grand salon 1st floor, 22 avenue su Président Wilson, 75016 Paris.
Visit of Christophe Marquet to Cambodge
Angkor, Cambodge, 05 December 2018
The director of the EFEO paying his respect to his majesty Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia, on the occasion of the gala dinner offered by the national authority Apsara in Angkor (Elephant Terrace), for the 25th Anniversary of the International Coordinating Committee for the safeguarding and development of the historic site of Angkor (UNESCO), December 5, 2018.
Study Day '' Connecting Megalithic Cultures in South Asia ''
Paris, France, 04 December 2018
Valérie Gillet and Laurianne Bruneau (EPHE) are organizing the Study Day Connecting Megalithic Cultures in South Asia.

From 9:30 to 18:30, Maison de l'Asie, Grand salon on the 1st floor, 22 avenue du Président Wilson, 75016 Paris
Visit of Christophe Marquet to Bangkok
Bangkok, Thailand, 03 December 2018
Christophe Marquet, director of the EFEO, and Pirapon Pisnupong, director of the Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Center in Bangkok, Thailand, signed on Monday, December 3, 2018 a MOU which formalizes the scientific relations with this institution that hosts the Center of the EFEO since its creation in 1997.