Geographical Areas

South Asia

Hugo DAVID, Lecturer (Pondicherry)
Philosophy and philology (sankrit)

Valérie GILLET, Lecturer (Paris)
Art History - India

Dominic GOODALL, Professor (Pondicherry)
Sanskrit Philology

Jacques LEIDER, Lecturer (Bankok/Yangon)
Burmese History and Historiography

Charlotte SCHMID, Professor (Paris)
Art History - India

Vincent TOURNIER, Lecturer (Paris)
Indian Buddhism

Southeast Asia

Éric BOURDONNEAU, Lecturer (Paris) 
Cambodian Archaeology

Bruno BRUGUIER, Lecturer (Paris)
Cambodian Archaeology

Olivier DE BERNON, Professor (Paris)
Literature

Véronique DEGROOT, Lecturer (Indonésie, Jakarta)
History and archaeology of Indonesia

Yves GOUDINEAU, Professor (Chiang Mai) 
Comparative Southeast Asian Ethnology

Arlo GRIFFITHS, Professor (Paris)
History of Southeast Asia

Andrew HARDY, Professor (Hanoi)
Modern and Contemporary History of Vietnam

Christine HAWIXBROCK, Visiting Scholars (Paris)
Archaeology of Laos

François LAGIRARDE, Lecturer (Paris) 
Theravada Buddhism

Philippe LE FAILLER, Lecturer (Paris)
History of Contemporary Vietnam

Michel LORRILLARD, Lecturer (Vientiane)
History and Epigraphy of Laos

Daniel PERRET, Professor (Kuaka Kumpur/Jakarta)
Archaeology of the Malay World

Bertrand PORTE, Head of the Restoration Workshop, National Museum (Phnom Penh)

Christophe POTTIER, Lecturer (Paris)
Cambodian Architecture

Catherine SCHEER, Lecturer (Paris)
Southeast Asian Anthropology

Dominique SOUTIF, Lecturer (Paris)
Southeast Asian Archaeology

Olivier TESSIER, Lecturer (Hanoi)
Vietnamese Anthropology

Brice VINCENT, Lecturer (Paris)
Archaeo-metallurgy, Southesat Asian Archaeology

East Asia

Alain ARRAULT, Professor (Paris)
Intellectual History of China

Michela BUSSOTTI, Professor (Paris)
Cultural History of China, History of Books in China

Paola CALANCA, Lecturer (Paris)
Chinese Maritime History

Elisabeth CHABANOL, Lecturer (Seoul)
Korean Art History

Guillaume DUTOURNIER, Lecturer (Beijing)
Anthropology and history of China

Luca GABBIANI, Lecturer (Paris)
Modern History of China

Benoît JACQUET, Lecturer (Kyoto)
Japanese Studies

Fabienne JAGOU, Lecturer (Paris)
Political History of Sino-Tibetan Relations

François LACHAUD, Professor (Tokyo)
Buddhism and Japanese Civilization

Christophe MARQUET, Professor (Paris)
Japanese Art History

Frank MUYARD, Visiting Scholars (Taipei)
Chinese History

Martin NOGUEIRA RAMOS, Lecturer (Kyoto)
Japanese Studies

Franciscus VERELLEN, Professor (Hong Kong)
History of Taoism

EFEO News
Visit of the Japanese ambassador
Paris, France, 17 February 2021
H.E. Mr. IHARA Junichi, Ambassador of Japan, and his wife, accompanied by Mrs. TAKARADA Izumi and Mr. HATANAKA Yuki, First Secretaries for Cultural Affairs, were welcomed by the Director, Christophe MARQUET, and his wife, at the EFEO headquarters on February 16. On this occasion photographs of Japanese inscriptions and objects discovered by the EFEO at Angkor Wat at the beginning of the 20th century, photographs of Japanese works of art from the former Finot Museum in Hanoi, xylographic books from the Edo period, and 16th and 17th century works on Christian missions in Japan were exhibited in the library. The director then presented the EFEO's recent research and publications on Japan during a convivial exchange in the Salons.
New publication

Arts Asiatiques 75 (2020)

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The Peruṅkuṟiñci (Kuṟiñcippāṭṭu)

A critical edition of the text, with the commentary of Nacciṉārkkiṉiyar

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Inventory of Siamese manuscripts
Paris, France, 11 February 2021
The inventory of Siamese manuscripts held in the EFEO library in Paris has been published in the Calames catalogue.

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New publication
Kyoto,


Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 29 (2020)
Mythologie japonaises, Japanese Mythologies
François Macé et Alain Rocher (ed.)
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