Research Units
The whole EFEO research program brings together its academic staff and visiting scholars to conduct interdisciplinary research. Through its diverse scholarly partnerships, the EFEO fosters transversal research [projects] both on a regional and international scale. This general research program is divided into two sectors:
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.In Memoriam READ MORE
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.
Inventories on Calames
Paris, France, 31 March 2021
EFEO Paris library is launching the publication online of its inventories of archives, objects and iconography, on Calames.New inventories are now available, including archives of Charles Archaimbault, George Cœdès, Georges Condominas, Madeleine Giteau, Victor Goloubew, and Christian Pelras : Papers of former members and scholars.
As well as inventories of Tibetan art collection, Propaganda posters of People’s Republic of Kampuchea, and Khmer Rouge’s Propaganda documents circulated by the Patriots Committee of Democratic Kampuchea in France : Objects, iconographic collections and various archives.
Legend: Collection of Tibetan objects, shelf reference : EFEO D72-1, Lama Dpal ‘byor lhun Grub.
XXXVth Seoul Colloquium in Korean Studies
Online, 25 March 2021
The XXXVth Seoul Colloquium in Korean Studies is organized by the EFEO Center in Seoul in collaboration with the Royal Asiatic Society. It is led by Jérémie Eyssette, assistant at Chosun University, Kwangju, on the theme: "Instrumentalizing Cartographic Voids and Visions in Neo-Confucian Chosŏn and Renaissance France (15th-16th centuries)".Thursday, March 25, at 6 pm. Register at the EFEO Center. The seminar will take place online.Learn more.
Legend: Recens et integra orbis descriptio (51 x 57 cm), Oronce Fine, 1536. Reproduced with the permission of the BNF, Cartes et Plans, Res. Ge DD 2987 (63).
EFEO Field Scholarships - 2nd Semester 2021
22 March 2021
The deadline for submitting an application to an EFEO Field Scholarships for Master and PhD students enabling a field study in Asia at one of the EFEO centers is set to the 22th of March 2021. READ MORE
