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The Library of the Maison de l'Asie has developed its own page on the Netvibes platform. It allows access to the main catalogs and search engines in Asian research, links to free-access electronic resources and also those available inside the library's reading room, it also provides handpicked webpages chosen by the librarians and a selection of websites of the main East Asian libraries in France.
EFEO News
Conference
Hanoi, Vietnam, 25 November 2021
On November, 25 the international conference "EFEO Photographic Archives in the Social Science Library of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences" is being held in Hanoi, with presentations for the EFEO by Christophe Marquet, Isabelle Poujol and Philippe Le Failler!
New publication
D'un empire, l'autre
Premières rencontres entre la France et le Japon au XIXe siècle, François Lachaud & Martin Nogueira Ramos (éd.), Études thématiques 33, Paris, EFEO, 2021, 402 pages.
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Pilot project ''Safeguarding for Posterity Two Private Collections of Palm-Leaf Manuscripts from the Tamil Country (EAP1294)''
Pondicherry, India, 13 September 2021
The pilot project "Safeguarding for Posterity Two Private Collections of Palm-Leaf Manuscripts from the Tamil Country (EAP1294)" has been awarded a grant under the British Library's Endangered Archives Program, supported by the Arcadia Fund!Suganya Anandakichenin (PI), Giovanni Ciotti (University of Hamburg) and S. A. S. Sarma (EFEO, Pondicherry) lead this ten-month project (August 2021-May 2022) aims to clean, digitize, and catalogue a portion of about 180 manuscripts belonging to two collections (called "Kalliṭaikuṟicci" and Villiampākkam).
These manuscripts, many of which date from the mid-19th century, contain texts of various genres, in Tamil, Sanskrit and Manipravalam, written in Tamil and Grantha. Previously neglected, these relics of the past will give us a clear idea of the reading and study choices of a Tamil and Vishnu Brahmin scholarly family from the 19th century onwards. Work on the project is currently underway at the EFEO Center in Pondicherry.
