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The French School of Asian Studies (EFEO) is a public institution under the aegis of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.

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Updated on February 12, 2025

EFEO News

Asian Treasures of the EFEO

Paris, France, 12 January 2021

Discover "Les paysans de la forêt à travers le regard d'un ethnographe: le fonds photographique de Jean Boulbet au Sud Vietnam, 1947-1963" presented by Catherine Scheer and Isabelle Poujol, 1st video of the series "Asian Treasures of the EFEO" created to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the EFEO!

New publication

Paris, France,

Les scolastiques indiennes : Genèses, développements, interactions, Émilie Aussant et Gérard Colas (éd.), Études thématiques 32, Paris, EFEO, 2020, 326 pages.

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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.
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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.

Annual closure of the Maison de l'Asie

Paris, France, 24 December 2020

The Maison de l'Asie will be closed from Thursday December 24, 2020 at 4 pm to Monday January 4, 2021 at 8 am.

The EFEO and its staff wish you a happy holiday season!