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13 May 2010

Tha monthly seminar on Japanese architecture, directed by Nicolas Fiévé, takes place in the meeting room of the Kansai Franco-Japanese Institute.

16 April 2010

Conference by Nicolas Fiévé (Professor at the EPHE) on Friday 16 April (starting at 10,30 a.m.) at the Kansai Franco-Japanese Institute.

7 December 2009

The Franco-Japanese network of researchers on architecture (Japarchi ) have met in Kyoto for a research workshop on a lexicon of Japanese architectural terms, on 7 December at the Kyôto kôgeiseni daigaku.

20-23 November 2009

From November 20 to 23, the Franco-Japanese Japarchi network of researchers on architecture have met in Kyoto for a research workshop on a lexicon of Japanese architectural terms. The meetings has been held at the Kansai Franco- Japanese Institute on November 20, and then have moved to Kyoto Technological University (Kyoto kogeiseni daigaku) for November 21 to 23

EFEO News

East Asia Knowledge Infrastructures

Belgium, Brussels, 12 April 2012

Franciscus Verellen, director, opens and takes part in the workshop An East Asia Knowledge Infrastructure for Europe: Integrating State of the Art Electronic Resources for East Asian Studies, being organized as part of the FP7 project Integrating and Developing European Asian Studies (IDEAS), coordinated by the EFEO, in collaboration with the European Science Foundation (ESF). The aim of this workshop is to discuss ways to widen European access to new digital sources produced in China, Korea, and Japan in recent years.

12 April 2012

Lecture by Kuo Liying on "Indian dhāran.ī and Chinese gāthā in Medieval Chinese Buddhism." READ MORE

International forum on Buddhist art

Great Britain, London, 11 April 2012

Peter Skilling is giving a lecture on "Rhetoric of Reward, Ideologies of Inducement: Why produce Buddhist ‘Art'?" at the international forum on Buddhist art READ MORE

Cooperation between EFEO and Traces

France, Paris, 05 April 2012

On April 5 Pascal Royère is meeting with the management of the TRACES (Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés [Archaeological work and research on cultures, spaces, and societies]) laboratory, a mixed research group of the CNRS with contracts with the University of Toulouse 2 le Mirail, the EHESS, the Ministry of Culture and Communication (archaeology section), and the National Institute for Research in Preventive Archaeology. He is discussing new perspectives for cooperation between this laboratory and the EFEO.

Registration of the Pyu cities in Burma at the UNESCO

Myanmar, Rangoon, 03 April 2012

Pierre Pichard has been invited by UNESCO to take part in a seminar of experts, organized in Rangoon from April 3 to 7, to prepare for the registration of the Pyu cities in Burma on the World Heritage list.