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
Call for applications for 5 doctoral contracts 2023-2026
Paris, France, 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.
Exhibition ''Pratique de l'estampage en Chine : images et objets inscrits''
Paris, France, 06 March 2023

The exhibition "Pratique de l'estampage en Chine : images et objets inscrits" [Stamping in China: inscribed images and objects] revisits Chinese stamping, a technique for reproducing engraved texts and images, usually on stone, in ink on paper.

The exhibition, organized by Lia Wei (Inalco / IFRAE) and Michela Bussotti (EFEO / UMR CCJ), with the participation of Soline Suchet (BULAC) and Dat-Wei Lau (EFEO), brings together some forty prints from the EFEO archives and a dozen prints discovered at the BULAC - Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations as part of this project.

New publication
Kyoto,

Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 30 (2021)
Autour de Roberte Hamayon
Son apport aux études du religieux dans le monde chinois
The Influence of Roberte Hamayon on Religious Studies in the Chinese World


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New publication
Paris, France,

À l'ombre du palmier à sucre
Les campagnes cambodgiennes sous protectorat français à travers l'exemple de Kampong Thom

Mathieu Guérin


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New publication
Paris, France,

Arts Asiatiques 77 (2022), École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris, 2022, 180 pages.

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