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Updated on February 12, 2025
EFEO News
Paris EFEO Seminar
Paris, France, 12 October 2020
On Monday 12 October, Christine Hawixbrock speaks on: "Nong Hua Thong (Laos), from treasure to the city".From 10.30am to 12pm, Maison de l'Asie, 22, avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris, Grand salon, 1st floor. The conference will take place online and on site (reception limited to 24 listeners upon prior registration).
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Réseau des EFE [Network of the EFE]
Athens, Greece, 02 October 2020
The directors of the 'réseau des Écoles françaises à l’étranger' [network of the French Schools Abroad] met with the directors of studies at the École française d’Athènes [French School of Athens] from 29 September to 2 October 2020, to work on the theme "Schools, their host countries and Europe: insertions, interactions, networks".This was an opportunity to exchange on the network's strategies, actions and joint projects, in connection with the IT, archives and publications departments.
Sculpture conservation workshop of the National Museum of Cambodia (EFEO)
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 29 September 2020
The legs, as well as the base with the feet, of a Krishna Govardhana statue of Phnom Da (Ka 1641) were returned from the Cleveland Museum of Art last August. At the sculpture conservation workshop of the National Museum of Cambodia (EFEO), the first checks and "arm's length" positioning tests are being carried out on each of the legs in turn.The statue will soon resume its original posture.
Kyoto lectures
Kyoto, Japan, 28 September 2020
As part of the Kyoto lectures, Kameyama Takahiko (University of Kyoto / Ryukoku University) presents: "Articulating Inner Dharma: Development of the Five Viscera Mandala in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism".At 6 p.m. (Japan time). The conference will be broadcasted online via Zoom and on site at the EFEO Center in Kyoto (limited to 10 auditors upon registration at: efeo.kyoto@gmail.com).
The password for logging in will be posted on the Kyoto Center's blog and ISEAS websites the day before.
Research Seminar
Paris, France, 25 September 2020
As part of the research program "Essais 'au fil du pinceau' (zuihitsu) à l’époque d’Edo (XVIIe-XIXe s.) : recueils de réflexions et d’observations sur le passé et le présent des savants japonais (pré-) modernes" [Miscellaneous ‘running brush’ Essays (zuihitsu) in the Edo period (17th-19th c.). ): collections of reflections and observations on the past and present of (pre-)modern Japanese scholars], Christophe Marquet gives a communication on "The notion of "essay of critical reflection through evidence" (kōshō zuihitsu 考証随筆) through the case of the painter-writer Santo Kyoden, alias Kitao Masanobu (1761-1816)".See the poster
