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
In Memoriam Jacques Gernet (1921-2018)
L’invention des dynasties : les « rois anciens » du pays tamoul
Paris, France,
On Monday 5th February Charlotte Schmid (EFEO) is speaking on L'invention des dynasties : les « rois anciens » du pays tamoul.
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Free admission)
Maison de l'Asie, First floor salon, 22 avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris
This seminar is integrated with the Master seminar "Asies" (EFEO - EHESS - EPHE) whose subject is "les Elites".
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On Monday 5th February Charlotte Schmid (EFEO) is speaking on L'invention des dynasties : les « rois anciens » du pays tamoul.
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Free admission)
Maison de l'Asie, First floor salon, 22 avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris
This seminar is integrated with the Master seminar "Asies" (EFEO - EHESS - EPHE) whose subject is "les Elites".
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Season's Greetings 2018
The Ecole française d'Extrême Orient (French School of Asian Studies) wishes you a Happy New Year
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International Workshop on Chinese Local History and Local Society, 14th and 15th December
Paris, France,
Thursday, December 14 and Friday, December 15, Michela Bussotti (EFEO) and Joseph McDermott (University of Cambridge) organize an international workshop on the study of society and local history that finalize the project FOES (Families, Organizations and Economies: inside and beyond local history in China, XV-XX century - projet exploratoire PSL) thanks to the support of PSL, EFEO and CECMC (UMR CCJ).
Programme (PDF)
Maison de l'Asie, 1st floor Salon, 22 avenue du Président Wilson - 75116 Paris
Contact: Michela Bussotti
Thursday, December 14 and Friday, December 15, Michela Bussotti (EFEO) and Joseph McDermott (University of Cambridge) organize an international workshop on the study of society and local history that finalize the project FOES (Families, Organizations and Economies: inside and beyond local history in China, XV-XX century - projet exploratoire PSL) thanks to the support of PSL, EFEO and CECMC (UMR CCJ).
Programme (PDF)
Maison de l'Asie, 1st floor Salon, 22 avenue du Président Wilson - 75116 Paris
Contact: Michela Bussotti

Release of the photographic collection of Pierre Pichard
999 photographs by the architect Pierre Pichard, former member of the EFEO, are now on line on the photo library website. These pictures were taken between 1987 and 2004 during missions in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Laos, Burma, Bhutan, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand and South Korea.
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