Centers of civilization

Coordinators:

Andrew Hardy and Catherine Scheer

 

Unit programmes

The Unit programmes are divided into three projects:

  • Proto-urban Sites and Ancient Cities: surveys, archaeological excavations and monumental restoration
  • Urban history, centralization and space management
  • State and dynamics of the peripheries

A description (in french) is available here.

EFEO News
New Publication

The East Mebon Stele Inscription from Angkor (K. 528). A Sanskrit Eulogy of the tenth-century Khmer Sovereign Rājendravarman, Dominic Goodall, Collection Indologie 154,  Pondichéry : EFEO / IFP, 334 pages.

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Presentation of Mémoires de Chine
Paris, France,

Alain Arrault will give a presentation of "Mémoires de Chine - La collection Louis Finot". He will present archival photographs from the Louis Finot collection taken in the early 20th century during expeditions to the Chinese province of Yunnan, which borders Vietnam.

On September 24 at 6 pm, at the Phénix bookshop in Paris

On registration

New Publication

Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient 107 (2021), École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris, 2022, 429 pages


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New Publication

Mélanges à la mémoire de Pandit N.R. Bhatt.  Studies in Memory of Pandit N.R. Bhatt, under the direction of Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat, Dominic Goodall, Peter Pasedach, Collection Indologie 152,  Pondichéry : EFEO / IFP, 521 pages.

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“Émile Sénart” prize - AIBL
Paris, France,

The “Émile Sénart” prize for Indological research of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres has been awarded this year to Hugo David for his book Une philosophie de la parole : l’Enquête sur la Connaissance Verbale (Śābdanirṇaya) de Prakāśātman, maître Advaitin du xe siècle, published in 2020 by the EFEO