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
EFEO Field Scholarships - 1st Semester 2018
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 31st of March 2018.
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Paris EFEO Seminar
Monday 26th March François Lagirarde (EFEO) speaks on "Épigraphie et religion: le bouddhisme du Nord de la Thaïlande dans les inscriptions anciennes (XIIIe-XVIIe siècle)”
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Free admission)
Maison de l'Asie, First floor salon, 22 avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris
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In Memoriam Jacques May (1927-2018)
20th anniversary of the Centre of Peking
China, Peking,
On 19th March, the EFEO Centre of Peking has celebrated the 20th anniversary of its creation. The event has taken place at first at the Institute of History of Natural Sciences, a partner of the Centre since its opening, with a two-person lecture by Marianne Bujard (EPHE), former head of the Centre, and Ju Xi, anthropologist at Beijing Normal University, after a talk by the head of the Centre, Guillaume Dutournier. The listeners have been then bidden to a reception in the Centre, in the presence of the Director of the EFEO, of Chinese colleagues, of representatives of the Max Weber Foundation and of the French Ambassador.
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On 19th March, the EFEO Centre of Peking has celebrated the 20th anniversary of its creation. The event has taken place at first at the Institute of History of Natural Sciences, a partner of the Centre since its opening, with a two-person lecture by Marianne Bujard (EPHE), former head of the Centre, and Ju Xi, anthropologist at Beijing Normal University, after a talk by the head of the Centre, Guillaume Dutournier. The listeners have been then bidden to a reception in the Centre, in the presence of the Director of the EFEO, of Chinese colleagues, of representatives of the Max Weber Foundation and of the French Ambassador.
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Release of the photographic collection of Luc Mogenet
999 photographs taken by Luc Mogenet at Laos especially at Luang Prabang between 1968 and 1973 are now on line on the photo library website.
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