Ecole française de Rome

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The Ecole française de Rome is a public institution under the Ministry for Higher Education and Research. Originally the Roman branch of the École française d'Athènes (1873), and then briefly operated as a School of Archaeology (1874), it was founded under its present name in 1875 and installed in the Palais Farnèse, which it now shares with the French Embassy in Italy. A centre for French scholarship in Italy and the Central Mediterranean in the fields of history, archaeology and the social sciences, the School operates within the framework of research programmes and initiatives conducted in collaboration with French and Italian partners as well as institutions in North Africa and countries bordering the Adriatic (Albania, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia). These initiatives give rise to academic exchanges within the framework of workshops, seminars, and conferences, PhD programmes, and the organisation of exhibitions. The school welcomes members, post-doctoral and visiting scholars, and scholarship students.

EFEO News
Happy New Year 2022
03 January 2022

The French School of Asian Studies wishes you a Happy New Year.

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Annual closure of the Maison de l'Asie
Paris, France, 24 December 2021

The Maison de l'Asie closes from Friday December 24, 2021 at 4 pm to Monday January 3, 2021 at 8 am.

The Paris library closes from Thursday 23 December in the evening!

The EFEO and its staff wish you a happy holiday season!
Ceremony
Jillellamudi, Inde, 09 December 2021
On the occasion of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Matrushree Oriental College in Jillellamudi (Andhra Pradesh) on December 9, 2021, S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma, who worked there for 16 years from the inception of the college until he joined the EFEO in 1987, gave a keynote address and was then honoured by the management and his former students.
120th anniversary of the EFEO at the AIBL
Paris, France, 03 December 2021

The EFEO is celebrating its 120th anniversary this year, which was celebrated at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres on December the 3rd in the form of a symposium.
This meeting was an opportunity to review the history of the School, but also the current status of its projects.
Webdocumentary
Online, 01 December 2021

To mark its 120th anniversary, the EFEO has put online a webdocumentary entitled "L'École française d'Extrême-Orient: 120 ans de recherches en Asie" [The French School of the Far East: 120 years of research in Asia], which aims to raise awareness of its history, its Centers, its researchers, and the richness of the holdings of its library and archives: prints, printed works, manuscripts, maps, blueprints, photographs, images, etc.