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
Study day
Paris,France, 21 June 2023

Maria Chauveau, EFEO post-doctoral fellow, is organizing a study day on Les relations humains/non-humains à la mesure de l'expansion des pratiques agricoles productivistes en Inde et en Asie de Sud-Est [Human/non-human relations in the context of the expansion of productivist agricultural practices in India and Southeast Asia].

From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Grand Salon of the Maison de l'Asie.

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Kyoto Lectures
Kyoto, Japan, 20 June 2023

As part of the "Kyoto lectures", Antonio Manieri (University of Naples "L’Orientale") gives a lecture on "“Everyday Uncertainties”: Sharing and Learning Terminologies in Eighth-century Japan".

At 6pm (Japan time), online on the Zoom platform: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82464622137

 

Calames 2023 network day
Paris, France, 16 June 2023
Sovannara Mey (EFEO archivist) speaks at the Calames 2023 network day on the theme of "Le voyage des données".  He will present the procedure implemented by the Paris library team since 2020 to migrate AtoM data to Calames.

Friday, June 16 2023, at 3:45 p.m.

To follow the event online
Siem Reap Lectures
Siem Reap, Cambodia, 15 June 2023

As part of the Siem Reap LecturesSébastien Clouet (doctoral student at Sorbonne University) gives a lecture on the topic "Aux sources de l'or d'Angkor: orpaillage et orpailleurs dans le Cambodge ancien" [At the sources of Angkor gold: gold panning and gold panners in ancient Cambodia].

At 6 p.m., at the EFEO Centre in Siem Reap. The presentation will be in French with a Khmer translation. The lecture is free and open to all.

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.

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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.

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