The Casa de Velázquez

Casa de Velázquez

The Casa de Velázquez is a French public institution devoted to creative activities and research on the arts, languages and literature of the Iberian countries, Latin America and North Africa. This institution also welcomes artists, researchers, teachers and participates in artistic and academic exchanges between France and the aforementioned regions. Being at the same time a centre for research and artistic projects gives to the Casa de Velázquez a unique status among the five Écoles françaises à l'étranger. Since it was founded in 1928 by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, this School has welcomed both artists -in a manner similar to La Villa Médicis in Rome - and researchers from the School for Higher Hispanic and Iberian Studies (EHEHI).

EFEO News
In Memoriam
27 April 2021
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing, in his 88th year, on Saturday, April 24, of Professor François Gros, an outstanding Tamil scholar and director of the EFEO from 1977 to 1989.

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Kyoto lectures
Online, 23 April 2021

Bettina Gramlich-Oka (Sophia-Tokyo University) presents: "Studying Women and Networks in the Late Tokugawa Period: The Case of the Rai Family" as part of the Kyoto lectures.

📅 on April 23 at 6 p.m. (Kyoto time) on Zoom
36th Seoul Colloquium in Korea Studies
Online, 22 April 2021
Maël Bellec, curator of Chinese and Korean art at the Cernuschi Museum in Paris, will talk on "Korean artists in France: Why they went there and what they did there" at the XXXVIth Seoul Colloquium in Korea Studies, organized by the EFEO Center in Seoul and the Royal Asiatic Society Korea
📅 on April 22 at 6 p.m. (Seoul time) on zoom
➡️ http://raskb.com/event/6487/
Paris EFEO Seminar
Online, 12 April 2021
Guillaume Dutournier (EFEO) speaks on: "Logiques d'inventaire. Réflexions sur la trajectoire patrimoniale chinoise de l'antiquarianisme lettré à l'effervescence folkloriste actuelle" [Logics of Inventory. Reflections on the Chinese heritage trajectory from literate antiquarianism to the current folklorist effervescence].

From 10.30am to 12pm. The conference will take place online upon prior registration.

Once registered you will receive the elements to log in (seminar link and password). READ MORE
Video
Online, 09 April 2021
Watch the new video of the "EFEO's Asian Treasures" entitled "Un ethnologue au Japon: 1937-1939. La bibliothèque japonaise de Leroi-Gourhan" [An ethnologist in Japan: 1937-1939. Leroi-Gourhan's Japanese books collection].
Christophe Marquet (EFEO) and Alice Berthon(Grenoble Alpes University) present the  documentation acquired by André Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986) during his very first ethnological fieldwork in Japan from 1937 to 1939.