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
In Memoriam H.N. Bhat
27 October 2020
It is with deep regret that we announce the demise of H.N. Bhat, a scholar at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO for 24 years (1989 to 2013). He passed away in Shimoga, where his daughter lives, on Thursday, 22nd Oct 2020.

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XXXIIIrd Seoul Colloquium in Korea Studies
Seoul, Republic of Korea, 20 October 2020
The XXXIIIrd Seoul Colloquium in Korea Studies, organized by the EFEO Center in Seoul, in collaboration with the Royal Asiatic Society, is led by Bernard Sénécal (Professor Emeritus at Sogang University) on the theme: "Life and Works of Seon 禪 Master Seongcheol 性徹 (1912-1993) - the most famous Korean Buddhist monk in the 20th century".
At 6 p.m. at the EFEO Center in Seoul.

Legend: The great monk Seongcheol. Copyrights: 백련암문화제단 & 성철 선사상 연구소 (Baek Ryeon Am Cultural Foundation and Research Institute for Sung Chol Zen Thought).
Communiqué du Réseau des Écoles françaises à l’étranger en hommage à Samuel Paty
Paris, France, 20 October 2020
Le Réseau des Écoles françaises à l’étranger (École française d’Athènes, École française de Rome, Institut français d’archéologie orientale, École française d’Extrême-Orient, et Casa de Velázquez) condamne avec force l’insoutenable acte de barbarie perpétré contre le professeur d’histoire-géographie du collège du Bois-d’Aulne, à Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), survenu vendredi 16 octobre.

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Delegation of the Embassy of Japan
Paris, France, 19 October 2020
On October 19 a delegation from the Japanese Embassy, consisting of the Minister, M. Matsuda, the Counsellor, M. Kido, and the First Secretary, Mme Takarada, was received at EFEO headquarters by the Director, C. Marquet, the Director of Studies, C. Pottier, and the Curator, F.-X. André.
After a visit to the library and a collection of ancient Japanese works, discussions took place on the Franco-Japanese research carried out by the EFEO in Japan and Cambodia.
''Kitashirakawa EFEO Salon''
Kyoto, Japan, 16 October 2020
As part of the Kitashirakawa EFEO Salon, the fifth lecture of the 2019-2020 cycle is presented by Markus Ruesch (Ryukoku University) on the topic: "Secret spaces for Amida: the function of hidden spaces in the rites of Pure Land Buddhism and their doctrinal foundations (Edo period)" (in Japanese without translation).
The conference will be broadcasted online via Zoom and on site at the EFEO Center in Kyoto (limited to 10 auditors, upon registration). More information