Academic Council

President: Ms Cécile SAKAI

Statutory members

Representing the state:

  • Ms Claire GIRY, Director General for Research and Innovation at the MESR, represented by Ms Alexa PIQUEUX, Research and Innovation Strategy Department, SHS Project Manager - History and Digital Humanities
  • Mr Laurent TOULOUSE, Deputy Director of Higher Education and Research at the Directorate General for Globalisation at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, represented by Ms Francine D'ORGEVAL, Expert in the Human and Social Sciences, Archaeology and Heritage Department

 

Representing the directorate of the EFEO:

  • The director, Mr Nicolas FIÉVÉ
  • The director of studies, Ms Valérie GILLET

Representing the Institut de France:

  • Ms Marianne BASTID-BRUGUIERE, member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, representative of the Perpetual Secretary
  • Mr Henri-Paul FRANCFORT, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
  • Mr Jean-Noël ROBERT, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
  • Mr Alain THOTE, member of the Académie des inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, representative of the Perpetual Secretary

 

Representing the academic community:

  • Ms Claire BRISSET, ordinary professor at the University of Geneva
  • Mr Eric LEFEBVRE, Director of the Cernuschi Museum
  • Ms Cécile SAKAI, Professor Emeritus, Université Paris Cité
  • Mr Ingo STRAUCH, Professor at the University of Lausanne

 

Representing partner institutions:

  • Ms Sophie MAKARIOU, curator, President of the Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet
  • Ms Dana RAPPOPORT, research director at the CNRS, codirector of the Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE - UMR 8170)
  • Mr Olivier Venture, Director of Studies at the École pratique des Hautes Études

 

Qualified person (documentation, dissemination...)

  • Mr Jérôme PETIT, Head of Collections, Bibliothèque Nationale de France

 

Representing the EFEO faculty:

  • Ms Michela BUSSOTTI, professor/ substitute: Mr François LACHAUD, professor
  • Ms Elisabeth CHABANOL, lecturer / substitute: Ms Véronique DEGROOT, lecturer
  • Mr Guillaume DUTOURNIER, lecturer / substitute: Mr Vladyslav, contract researcher

 

Consultative membres

  • Ms Katia JUHEL, Curator of the Library
  • Ms Cécilia MENDES, Director general of administration
  • Mr Martin NOGUEIRA RAMOS, Head of Publications
  • Ms Isabelle POUJOL, Head of Communications and the EFEO Photo Library
EFEO News
Colloquium ''Legal Orders in Precolonial Southeast Asia''
Bangkok, Thailand, 14 June 2023

The EFEO Center in Bangkok is organizing, in partnership with the ERC DHARMA project, the Sirindhorn Anthropology Center (SAC), and Rutgers University (United States), a colloquium on Legal Orders in Precolonial Southeast Asia.

Hosted by Gregory Kourilsky and Christian Lammerts (Rutgers), the conference will be held at the SAC.

Programme.

Registration form.

EFEO Paris Seminar
Paris, France, 12 June 2023

Stéphen Huard (EHESS) speaks on "L’histoire à l’épreuve des cultes aux esprits. Le cas de Bodawgyi dans le centre du Myanmar".

This seminar is part of the sequence 6: "La question religieuse : sécularisation et réinvention" of the common core of the Master in Asian Studies.

From 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The conference will take place online on the Zoom platform, with prior registration required.

International Seminar
Paris, France, 25 May 2023
Attend the seminar "New Research on Old Javanese Texts and Manuscript Culture" organised by the DHARMA project !

Thursday 25 May, from 9.30 am to 5 pm in the Grand Salon of the Maison de l'Asie and online on the Zoom platform

Learn more
30th anniversary of the EFEO Centre in Taipei
Taipei, Taiwan, 18 May 2023
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the EFEO Centre in Taipei, the EFEO and the Institute of History and Philology (IHP) of the Academia Sinica are organizing the international colloquium New Directions in Historical and Cultural Studies in Asia - Celebrating the 30th anniversary of cooperation between EFEO and Academia Sinica, at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei.

Program and information
Call for applications for 5 doctoral contracts 2023-2026
Paris, France, 30 April 2023
The call for applications for 5 Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) doctoral contracts with a focus on French schools abroad (EFE) 2023-2023 is open. The application documents can be sent until 30 April 2023, 3 p.m. (Paris time), according to the procedures of each EFE: For more information.

Conditions and procedures for the EFEO