Yangon
The Yangon Branch Office, Myanmar
Currently closed
Head: Gregory Kourilsky
EFEO
c/o Institut français de Birmanie
340 Pye Road, Sanchaung township
Yangon, Myanmar
Tél : + 95 (1) 536 900 / 537 122 / 535 428
Assistant: Ms Khin Khin Zaw
gregory.kourilsky@efeo.net
History
The EFEO has been active in Burma with the inventory of the Pagan monuments since the 1980's. Work on this site was undertaken by Pierre Pichard from 1980 - 1987 in the framework of a UNESCO project. In 2002, with the arrival of Jacques Leider, the School opened a Branch Office in Myanmar. Up until 2008 it was located in the Regional Centre for History and Tradition (CHAT), an institution founded under the international aegis of SEAMEO (Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization). Currently the EFEO branch office has been relocated to the French Cultural Centre.
Current projects:
Today the EFEO Burma Centre, enjoys limited access to cooperative activity, although, considerable opportunities exist for individual projects.
Since 2002, the Centre's projects have focused, above all, on transcribing the previously unpublished Arakan manuscripts that have provided new data in historiography and political history and offered better understanding the Arakan culture and religion during the Mrauk-U epoch. Since 2005 a project to collect the Arakan inscriptions has contributed to the first systematic collection of lithographs from the region of Burma.
Since 2007 research on the first period of the Konbaung dynasty has led to the reexamination of the royal chronicles by comparing them to the royal orders, more precisely the chronicles issued under the reign of Alaungmintaya.
Despite its limitations the EFEO Yangon Branch Office - a unique facility in a complex environment -- members continue advising doctoral students and welcoming French and international scholars.
EFEO
c/o Institut français de Birmanie
340 Pye Road, Sanchaung township
Yangon, Myanmar
Tél : +95 (1)536 900 / 537 122 / 535 428
Assistant: Ms Khin Khin Zaw
gregory.kourilsky@efeo.net
Visit the Yangon blogAs part of the "Kyoto lectures", Antonio Manieri (University of Naples "L’Orientale") gives a lecture on "“Everyday Uncertainties”: Sharing and Learning Terminologies in Eighth-century Japan".
At 6pm (Japan time), online on the Zoom platform: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82464622137
Friday, June 16 2023, at 3:45 p.m.
To follow the event online
As part of the Siem Reap Lectures, Sébastien Clouet (doctoral student at Sorbonne University) gives a lecture on the topic "Aux sources de l'or d'Angkor: orpaillage et orpailleurs dans le Cambodge ancien" [At the sources of Angkor gold: gold panning and gold panners in ancient Cambodia].
At 6 p.m., at the EFEO Centre in Siem Reap. The presentation will be in French with a Khmer translation. The lecture is free and open to all.
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.
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.
