Découvertes de l'Asie
An exploration of Asia based on the itineraries of Asians and Europeans who began traveling throughout the continent in the earliest centuries of our era.
The spread of Buddhism in Asia:
- Between the fourth and the seventh centuries, three Chinese pilgrims in search of manuscripts (Faxian, Xuanzang et Yijing) traveled to India along the Silk road and the maritime routes that linked the Far East and the subcontinent.
The first Westerners to discover Asia:
- Commercial and other motives prompted the voyages of 14th century Italian traveler Odoric of Pordenone, who sailed from Europe to Japan, stopping in, among other places, southern Indian and the islands of South Asia.
- Lastly, French colonial civil servant Auguste Pavie traveled throughout continental Southeast Asia. One section will be devoted to the restoration of the temples of Angkor.
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.
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
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Wednesday, March 29, Michela Bussotti (EFEO/UMR CCJ) and Lia Wei (INALCO/IFRAE) are organizing a study day on "Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: matérialité, transmission, réception" [Stamping practice in China: materiality, transmission, reception] at the Pôle des langues et civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris, on the occasion of the exhibition Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: images et objets inscrits [Stamping practice in China: images and inscribed objects], which is being held from March 6 to 30 at the Inalco.
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