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
Colloquium ''Legal Orders in Precolonial Southeast Asia''
Bangkok, Thailand, 14 June 2023

The EFEO Center in Bangkok is organizing, in partnership with the ERC DHARMA project, the Sirindhorn Anthropology Center (SAC), and Rutgers University (United States), a colloquium on Legal Orders in Precolonial Southeast Asia.

Hosted by Gregory Kourilsky and Christian Lammerts (Rutgers), the conference will be held at the SAC.

Programme.

Registration form.

EFEO Paris Seminar
Paris, France, 12 June 2023

Stéphen Huard (EHESS) speaks on "L’histoire à l’épreuve des cultes aux esprits. Le cas de Bodawgyi dans le centre du Myanmar".

This seminar is part of the sequence 6: "La question religieuse : sécularisation et réinvention" of the common core of the Master in Asian Studies.

From 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The conference will take place online on the Zoom platform, with prior registration required.

International Seminar
Paris, France, 25 May 2023
Attend the seminar "New Research on Old Javanese Texts and Manuscript Culture" organised by the DHARMA project !

Thursday 25 May, from 9.30 am to 5 pm in the Grand Salon of the Maison de l'Asie and online on the Zoom platform

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30th anniversary of the EFEO Centre in Taipei
Taipei, Taiwan, 18 May 2023
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the EFEO Centre in Taipei, the EFEO and the Institute of History and Philology (IHP) of the Academia Sinica are organizing the international colloquium New Directions in Historical and Cultural Studies in Asia - Celebrating the 30th anniversary of cooperation between EFEO and Academia Sinica, at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei.

Program and information
Call for applications for 5 doctoral contracts 2023-2026
30 April 2023
The call for applications for 5 Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) doctoral contracts with a focus on French schools abroad (EFE) 2023-2023 is open. The application documents can be sent until 30 April 2023, 3 p.m. (Paris time), according to the procedures of each EFE: For more information.

Conditions and procedures for the EFEO
Application campaign - Year 2022-2023
Paris, France, 18 April 2023
The one and only application campaign for the Master’s degree Asian Studies or the year 2022-2023, is open until April 18. The Master Asian Studies is a multi-disciplinary, research-oriented programme at M1-M2 level, organised around two training courses of your choice:
- Track 1: "History and social sciences: fields, texts and images" (EHESS-EFEO)
- Track 2: "History, philology and religions" (EPHE/PSL-EFEO)

Admission procedure
Study day ''Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: matérialité, transmission, réception''
Paris, France, 29 March 2023

Wednesday, March 29, Michela Bussotti (EFEO/UMR CCJ) and Lia Wei (INALCO/IFRAE) are organizing a study day on "Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: matérialité, transmission, réception" [Stamping practice in China: materiality, transmission, reception] at the Pôle des langues et civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris, on the occasion of the exhibition Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: images et objets inscrits [Stamping practice in China: images and inscribed objects], which is being held from March 6 to 30 at the Inalco.

Programme

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EFEO Field Scholarships - 2nd Semester 2023
Paris, France, 15 March 2023
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 15th of March 2023.