Board of Administrators

President: Ms Blandine RIPERT

Statutory members

Representing the state:

  • Ms Anne-Sophie BARTHEZ, Director General of Higher Education and Professional Integration, represented by Mr Pascal GOSSELIN, office DGSIP A1-3 or Ms Marina GOVOROFF
  • Mr Michel MIRAILLET, Director General for Globalisation, Culture, Education and International Development, represented by Ms Francine D'ORGEVAL, Expertd within the Human and Social Sciences, Archaeology and Heritage Department (Higher Education and Research Sub-Directorate)

 

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 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS):

  • Mr Antoire PETIT, president of the CNRS, represented by Ms Sabine EFFOSSE, deputy scientific director "Europe and international" of the Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales, or Mr Fabrice BOUDJAABA, Deputy Scientific Director of InSHS or Ms Solène MARIE, Head of International Cooperation of InSHS

 

A former head of a public higher education and research institution:

  • Mr Alain SCHNAPP, former Director of the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art; archaeologist and historian

 

Professional members:

  • Mr Paolo CALVETTI, Professor of the University Ca' Foscari - Venise
  • Mr Jean-françois HUCHET, Professor and President of the Inalco
  • Ms Blandine RIPERT, CNRS Research Director
  • Ms Mercedes VOLAIT, CNRS Research Director

 

Representing the faculty of EFEO professors:

  • Mr François LACHAUD; sustitute: Ms Michela BUSSOTTI

 

Representing the faculty of EFEO lecturers:

  • Ms Fabienne JAGOU; substitute: Ms Catherine SCHEER
  • Mr Christophe POTTIER; substitute: Mr Dominique SOUTIF

 

Representing EFEO administrative staff:

  • Ms Lauriane LECAT-BACLE; substitute: Mr Dat-Wei LAU
  • Mr Didier MARIETTE; substitute: Ms Zohra SOLTANI

 

Consultative members (EFEO)

  • The director, Nicolas FIÉVÉ
  • The director of studies, Valérie GILLET
  • The director general of administration, Cécilia MENDES
  • The chief financial officer, Smail ZAGHMOURI
EFEO News
“Émile Sénart” prize - AIBL
Paris, France,

The “Émile Sénart” prize for Indological research of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres has been awarded this year to Hugo David for his book Une philosophie de la parole : l’Enquête sur la Connaissance Verbale (Śābdanirṇaya) de Prakāśātman, maître Advaitin du xe siècle, published in 2020 by the EFEO
Debate on the book by Alain Arrault,
Paris, France, 30 June 2022
As part of the "Cycle de débats du Centre d'études de la Chine moderne et contemporaine (EHESS)," Alain Arrault's book A History of Cultic Images In China. The Domestic Statuary of Hunan (EFEO-CUHK, 2020) will be discussed, under the moderation of Marie-Paule Hille (CECMC-UMR CCJ, Ehess), by Pierre-Antoine Fabre (Ehess), Florence Galmiche (Université Paris Cité - LCAO, UMR CCJ), and John Lagerwey (Ricci Institute of Paris) on Thursday, June 30, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at the Condorcet Campus (Forum of the Espace associatif et culturel, ground floor).
Exhibition ''TrancFiguration. Tattoos from Birth to Death''
Chiang Mai, Thailand, 28 June 2022

After being inaugurated and presented at the EFEO Chiang Mai Center and the Alliance française in Chiang Mai in May, and then at the Rai Mae Fah Luang - Art & cultural Park in Chiang Rai in June, the exhibition Trance/figuration, Tattooos From Birth to Death will be installed for two months (July and August) at the National Gallery in Bangkok.

Closure
Paris, France, 06 June 2022

The Maison de l'Asie, and therefore the library, will be closed on Monday 6 June 2022!

New Publication

Mémoires de Chine
Textes et légendes Alain Arrault

The collection of Mémoires de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient has been enriched by a new volume. Alain Arrault presents some sixty photographs on glass plates taken by Louis Finot in China at the beginning of the last century (before 1930).

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