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
History of Religions Prize of the Foundation ''Les amis de Pierre-Antoine Bernheim''
On June 19, "Les amis de Pierre-Antoine Bernheim" [Friends of Pierre-Antoine Bernheim] Foundation of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres awarded the History of Religions Prize to Martin Nogueira Ramos, EFEO lecturer and head of the EFEO Center in Kyoto, for his work La foi des ancêtres: Chrétiens cachés et catholiques dans la société villageoise japonaise XVIIe-XIXe siècles [Ancestors' faith: Hidden Christians and Catholics in Japanese village society in the 17thto 19th centuries] (Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2019). His work traces the history of Japanese Christian communities from the time of proscription (1614) to the return of missionaries to the archipelago in the second half of the 19th century.
New publication
New publication
Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient 105 (2019)
Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 28 (2019) : Pokchang, Image Consecration in Korean Buddhism
Second volume of the 2018/2019 activity report
The second volume of the 2018/2019 activities report was presented to the School's Academic Council on 23 June. It is now available HERE.
Article - L'Histoire
L'Histoire dedicates the dossier of its April issue to : "Angkor, how an empire dies." It contains contributions from Gabrielle Abbe, Roland Fletcher, Christophe Pottier, Yves Saint-Geours and Dominique Soutif.
