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27 DECEMBER 24

The Library of EFEO Kyoto will be closed from December 28, 2024 to January 5, 2025 for the year-end and new year holidays.

Inauguration of Saint Francis Church (Kyoto, Kawaramachi) in 1890 © Institut de recherche France-Asie

Kyoto Lectures 2024-12

12 DECEMBER 24

Right in the Middle of “Shaka’s Mecca”The Reemergence of Catholicism in Early Meiji Kyoto

Speaker: Martin Nogueira RamosThursday, December 12th, ...

International workshop @ Toyo Bunko

07 DECEMBER 24

This workshop will be held at Toyo Bunko (Tokyo) Language is Japanese.François LACHAUD and Martin NOGUEIRA RAMOS give lectures (in Japanese) at Toyo Bunko on December ...

Publication : Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 33 (2024)

06 DECEMBER 24

We are delighted to announce the publication of Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie vol. 33.In Japan, you can purchase this issue (6000 yen) at the Center of EFEO Kyoto or by email: ...

LECTURES ON CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY

03 DECEMBER 24

* This event will be held at the Tōyō Bunko.
LECTURES ON CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY
Co-organized by the École française d’Extrême-Orient, the ...

Kyoto Lectures 2024-11

18 NOVEMBER 24

Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions in Tokyo
Speaker: Marta Fanasca (University of Bologna)
Monday, November 18th, 2024, 18:00~
In this lecture, ...

PRUSSIAN BLUE IN EAST ASIAN PAINTINGS @Toyo bunko

14 NOVEMBER 24

Co-organized by the École française d’Extrême-Orient & the Tōyō Bunko
PRUSSIAN BLUE IN EAST ASIAN PAINTINGS

Speaker: Dr. CHEN ...

Book launch

07 NOVEMBER 24

Christophe Marquet will present his book Cent vues de Naniwa. О̄saka au XIXe siècle (One Hundred Views of Naniwa. Ôsaka in the 19th Century, éditions ...

Kyoto Lectures 2024-10

21 OCTOBER 24

Reading the Air and Creating Trouble: Food Allergy Disclosures in Japan

Monday, October 21st, 18:00 JST
Speaker: Emma Cook
'Reading the air' (kūki wo yomu) is a ...

Ōtsu-e-bushi, Ukiyo Matahei, cover of a songbook, Osaka, Ansei era (1854-1860) © Christophe Marquet

Symposium about folk paintings

12 OCTOBER 24

As part of the “East-West Comparative Cultural History on the Transition of Literal Phrases in Popular Images” project (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research), ...

聖フランシスコ教会・献堂式（1890年）©Institut de recherche France-Asie

Lecture at Rekisaikan

20 SEPTEMBER 24

Martin NOGUEIRA RAMOS gives a lecture (in Japanese) on "Studying the Catholic mission through the Japanese publications from the 1880s: the cases of Kyoto and Kochi" ...

Temporary closing

05 SEPTEMBER 24

Please note that the center of EFEO Kyoto and the library will be closed on Thursday, 5 September 2024.Thank you for your understanding,EFEO Kyoto

Kyoto Lectures 2024-07

24 JULY 24

Holocaust Ashes on the MoveIncinerated Human Remains as Objects of Global institutional Exchange

Wednesday, July 24th, 18:00Speaker: Ran Zwigenberg
From 1963 onward, ...

MANABU Lecture

04 JULY 24

Parallel Histories, Plural InterpretationsLanguage, Translation and Interpretation at Asia-Pacific War Heritage Sites

Speaker: Oliver Moxham

Thursday, July ...

Farsari Studio, 1890’s © Xavier Durand

Kyoto Lectures 2024-06

25 JUNE 24

Tattoos and Photography in Meiji Japan

Tuesday, June 25th, 18:00-
Speaker: Claude Estèbe
Horimono, or Japanese tattooing, has been documented in photography ...

Kyoto Lectures 2024-05

22 MAY 24

Afro-Brazilian Religions in Japan: The Flux and Re-territorialization of People, Spirits, and Materialities
Wednesday, May 22nd, 18:00
Speaker: Daniela Calvo
The ...

Hiroshige, Ukiyo Matahei, c. 1844-1846 © Fundacja Jerzego Leskowicza

131st International Art Research Center Seminar (Webinar)

24 APRIL 24

131st International Art Research Center Seminar (Webinar)
Speaker: Christophe Marquet (EFEO, Kyoto)Topic: Hiroshige’s fan prints: new discoveries in ...

Kyoto Lectures 2024-04

17 APRIL 24

Greek Japan: Or, How do we Possess a Culture?

Wednesday, April 17th, 18:00 JST

Speaker: Michael Lucken
Western classical culture, and Greek culture in particular, ...

Kyoto Lectures 2024-03-29

29 MARCH 24

Edo Popular Literature and Female Readership

Friday, March 29th, 18:00

Speaker: Mario Talamo
The publishing world of the late Edo period was marked by the attempts to ...

Award announcement

25 MARCH 24

La Pérégrination vers l'Ouest. Intégrale des illustrations de l'édition japonaise de 1806-1837, edited by Christophe Marquet in 2023, was ...

Shunjū yūe 2024

18 MARCH 24

From March 18 to 24, 2024 the Hashimoto Kansetsu Museum in Kyōto is hosting the exhibition "Shunjū yūe 2024: Heritage and Transmission". Christophe Marquet (EFEO) exhibits a ...

Kyoto Lectures 2024-02-21

21 FEBRUARY 24

Izumi Kyōka’s Animistic Prose: When the Semantic Becomes Mantic Wednesday, February 21st, 18:00h Speaker: Cody PoultonPraised by younger writers like ...

Hokkaido Dairy Farm Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan (SUNY Press, 2024)

Book Launch: Hokkaido Dairy Farm by Paul Hansen

19 FEBRUARY 24

Book Launch and Discussion with the AuthorHokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of JapanBy Paul HansenFebruary 19th 2024, 18:00 ...

Publication CEA 32

14 FEBRUARY 24

We are delighted to announce the publication of Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 32 (2023).
Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 32 (2023)Aspect of Lived Religion in Late Medieval ...

KYOTO LECTURES 2024-01

22 JANUARY 24

Japanese Traditional Kites: From Regional Studies to the World of Arts Speaker: Cecile Laly Monday, January 22nd, 18:00 JSTThe vanishing energy of Japanese traditional ...

A Happy New Year 2024

01 JANUARY 24

The EFEO wish you a Happy New Year 2024

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