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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EFEO Paris Seminar
Paris, 30 September 2013
Pierre Lachaier (EFEO) is talking on the topic "Socio-morphologie de la vieille ville d'Ahmadabad (Inde) [Socio-morphology of the ancient city of Ahmadabad (India)] READ MORE
Induction ceremony for Professor Jao Tsung-I
China, Hong Kong, 19 September 2013
Franciscus Verellen, EFEO director and member of the Institut de France, officiates with the president and vice-chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the permanent sectretary of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Institut de France, at the induction ceremony for Professor Jao Tsung-I (CUHK), jointly organized by CUHK and the Academy. Professor Jao was elected an Associate Foreign Member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres on 7 December 2012. He was a member of the EFEO from 1974 to 1976.
Steering Committee of SEATIDE
Portugal, Lisbon, 02 July 2013
On July 2, Franciscus Verellen is chairing the steering Committee of the European program SEATIDE (Integration in Southeast Asia: Trajectories of Inclusion, Dynamics of Exclusion), with Yves Goudineau, scientifique coordinator, and Elisabeth Lacroix, administrator of the project. This program, financed by the European Commission (PCRD7), studies integration issues in Southeast Asia at both the national and the regional level. The meeting is being held in Lisbon on the occasion of the EuroSEAS congress (July 2 to 5).
Jinchinsai ceremony in Kyoto
Japan, Kyoto, 01 July 2013
On Monday, July 1, work is beginning on the construction of the new
building for the EFEO Center in Kyoto. The start of work was preceded by
the Jinchinsai ceremony, a Shinto rite purifying and protecting the
site. This took place on June 28 in the presence of the French Consul
General, the Director of the EFEO, the building's architects, and the
construction company, along with many friends of the EFEO. The event was
coordinated by the head of the Kyoto EFEO Center. READ MORE
Workshop on the History of Copyright and Intellectual Property
United Kingdom, Cambridge, 01 July 2013
On July 1, Franciscus Verellen, Director, is taking part in the Workshop on the History of Copyright and Intellectual Property & Forum on Open Access organized by the Centre for History and Economics, Magdalen College, Cambridge. He is serving as respondent on the topic "The History of Copyright in China."
