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The French School of Asian Studies conducts research on the classical civilizations of Asia through the humanities and the social sciences, spanning from India to China, Japan and includes all of Southeast Asia, thus encompassing most of the societies that have fallen under Indian or Chinese influence in the course of history. The EFEO's centres and branch offices in Asia are base for a nexus of leading (local and international) scholars in Asian Studies. Its multidisciplinary and comparative research brings together specialists in disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, history, philology and the study of religions. Since members of its academic staff are regularly in Asia for their fieldwork, the EFEO's activity obviously covers contemporary world issues.

EFEO News
Lecture
Online, 25 February 2021
The European Institute for Chinese Studies (EURICS) is organising the lecture "In the Eyes of Its European Beholders: China's Longmen and Cultural Heritage" on Thursday 25/02/2021 from 6pm to 8pm (Paris time) online.

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CRISEA Final Conference
19 February 2021
The "CRISEA Final Conference" will be held online on Monday, February 22 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. (Jakarta time). 👉 Programme

To attend the event:
👉 Zoom: https://event.crisea.eu/final-conference
👉 YouTube: https://live.crisea.eu/final-conference READ MORE
Mini Classical Tamil Winter Seminar (CTWS)
Pondicherry, India, 19 January 2021
From 1-5 March 2021 the team of the Tamil Cankam project at the EFEO centre in Pondicherry will conduct a miniature Classical Tamil Winter Seminar in order to read the Kalittokai, one of the Cankam anthologies that have been critically re-edited recently. The text represents the apex of the earlier type of sophisticated poetry, and matters are further complicated by the highly influential medieval commentary by Naccinārkkiṉiyar.
The whole meeting will take place online, the number of places will be restricted to 25 participants. For participation and registration please contact Eva Wilden. READ MORE
Paris EFEO Seminar
Paris, France, 11 January 2021
Christophe Marquet (EFEO) speaks on: "Interroger les images populaires japonaises : Leroi-Gourhan versus Yanagi" [Questioning popular Japanese images: Leroi-Gourhan versus Yanagi]. This seminar is part of the sequence Images: objects and sources of the seminar ASIES of the master "Études Asiatiques".

From 10.30am to 12pm. The conference will take place online upon prior registration.
Once registered you will receive the elements to log in (seminar link and password). READ MORE
Online video
26 December 2020
Watch the video of Grégory Kourilsky's speech entitled "L’orientalisme a-t-il (ré-) inventé le bouddhisme ? Réflexion à partir des sociétés bouddhiques de l’Asie du Sud-Est continentale" [Did orientalism (re)invent Buddhism? Reflection from the Buddhist societies of continental Southeast Asia] recorded during the #seminar of the EFEO Paris, November 2, 2020 on the EFEO's YouTube channel.