EFEO ISEAS

For the Japanese academic year 2010-2011, the seminar given by visiting researchers from the EFEO and the ISEAS at the Institute for Research in the Humanities of Kyoto University will be on the topic

La rencontre du Japon moderne avec les cultures étrangères: les récits des témoins de la ‘synchronisation' historique

[The encounter of modern Japan with foreign cultures: accounts from witnesses to historic ‘synchronization'; Ibunka sesshoku to kindai Nihon: "dôjidaika" wo ikita hitobito no kiroku]. This seminar will be on Mondays, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. or from 3:00 to 5 p.m.

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2009 - 2010 - 2011

EFEO News
Photo library: Jacques Bacot collection
Online, 16 August 2021
The Jacques Bacot collection is now online. Discover pictures taken between 1903 and 1914 by one of the pioneers of Tibetan studies in France during his travels in India, Myanmar, Tibet or China.
Kyoto lectures
Kyoto, Japan - Online, 19 July 2021

As part of the Kyoto lectures, DAIMARU Ken (Paris University) presents: "Health and Modern Warfare. Locating Medical History in Japan's Long Nineteenth Century".

19 July, 6pm (Japan time) in hybrid format or only on the Zoom platform. The password for logging in will be posted on the Kyoto Center's blog and the ISEAS website on the 27th.

Légende : Portrait of an injured Japanese soldier at the Liaoyang Stage Hospital (March 1905), archives of the Academy of Medical Corps of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force

In Memoriam: V. Venkataraja Sarma
Pondicherry, India, 16 July 2021
It is with deep regret that we learned today of the demise of Professor V. Venkataraja Sarma, quondam principal of Tiruvananthapuram Sanskrit College, who after his retirement worked for 29 years as a senior Sanskrit scholar at the Pondicherry Centre of the École française d’Extrême-Orient, finally leaving the institution in December 2016 at the age of 86.  On Wednesday, 14 July 2021, at the age of 91, he passed away in Trivandrum, where his son lives.
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Paris,

Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient 106 (2020)


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Library inventories
Paris, France, 30 June 2021
EFEO Paris library just published new inventories on its website dedicated to description and gestion of archives and digital objects. Discover the collection of 66 manuscripts and printed documents in Hán-Nôm. As well as copies of registers of births, marriages and deaths of Notre-Dame-des-Anges Parish in Pondicherry.

You can also find inventories of caṃ, pāli, Siamese, Thai, thai yuan and thai lü manuscripts, and Cambodian paper manuscripts, which you can browse on the EFEO archive website and on Calames.