EFEO - Blogs - Chiang Mai

Tani SEBRO a scholarship holder at EFEO

10 FEBRUARY 15

Tani Sebro is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Hawai์i at Manoa. Currently based in Chiang Mai, Ms. Sebro is conducting ethnographic and ...

Visit by Mr. Pierre COLLIOT and Mr. Stéphane ROY.

07 FEBRUARY 15

François Lagirarde, the new Head of EFEO in Chiang Mai, met with Mr. Pierre Colliot, the cultural Counselor, and Mr. Stéphane Roy, Attaché for scientific ...

Party in Honor of Mr. Chai Inchanta.

06 FEBRUARY 15

During his visit to EFEO Chiang Mai, Yves Goudineau, director of the French School of Asian Studies, Paris, presented the Centenial Medal EFEO to Mr. Chai Inchanta, who will ...

Meeting of the Theravada Buddhist Civilization Project (December 18th, 2014)

05 FEBRUARY 15

The members of the "Theravada Civilization Project" (http://theravadaciv.org) - an international research group led by Prof. J. Schober (Arizona State University) and S. ...

Theravada conference on December 19th, 2014. A presentation by Dr. Patrick McCormick, (EFEO Yangon).

05 FEBRUARY 15

The subject of the one day seminar was organized with six participants: Suwanna Satha-Anand, Chulalongkorn University: "The Question of Violence in Thai Buddhism"; ...

The professors K. Crosby, S. Collins and J. Schober.

05 FEBRUARY 15

At the time of "Theravada Civilizations" group's conference on 17th of December 2014.

Closure of the Centre on 24th of May

22 MAY 13

The EFEO Research Centre will be closed on Friday 24th of May (Visacha Bucha Day).

Meeting with the cultural counsellor, French Embassy

27 MARCH 12

Mr Jeremy Opritesco, French cultural counsellor and Ms Anne-Emmanuelle Grossi, attachée de coopération pour le français, met the head of the ...

Ajarn Suwanna met the head of the EFEO Centre

01 MARCH 12

Ajarn Suwanna,
director of the Mahachakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre Bangkok, met Jacques
Leider on 1 March at the EFEO Centre. They held discussions on the ...

Visit of Shan Princess Ying Sita at the EFEO Centre

16 JANUARY 12

Princess Ying Sita, daughter of the first president of the Union of Burma in 1948, Sawbwa Shwe Sao Htaike, paid a visit to the EFEO Centre.

EFEO Réunion générale

20 NOVEMBER 11

The bi-annual réunion générale (general meeting) of EFEO's Asian centers including administrative staff from Paris took place at the EFEO ...

Opening of the Library

01 AUGUST 11

The research library of the EFEO opens to the public starting August 1. The library will be open from 9am to 5pm. It closes during official holidays and during the weeks of Songkran ...

HRH reveals the commemorative plate

Formal opening

28 JULY 11

The EFEO library was formally opened in attendance of HRH Princess Sirindhorn and numerous guests.

The new library

Opening Ceremony of the new EFEO Library

27 JULY 11

The official opening ceremony of the new library will take place on July 28 in attendance of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn and Gildas Le Lidec, the Ambassador of France.

The golden letter of Myanmar King Alaungmintaya

18 JANUARY 11

On 18 January Jacques Leider held a lecture on the golden letter, Myanmar King Alaungmintaya's letter to George II, at the official presentation of the unique document at the ...

New Library

Presentation of the EFEO Centre in Rome

13 JANUARY 11

Jacques Leider will present the EFEO Centre in Chiang Mai at the Fourth General Meeting of ECAF organised in Rome by the IsISAO on 11-13th January 2011. The presentation will focus ...

Fire at the new library

23 NOVEMBER 10

A fire caused by a Loy Krathong lantern on the morning of 23 November caused damage on the roof of the new library. A speedy intervention of Chiang Mai firemen luckily ...

Entry to the new library

Landscaping

22 NOVEMBER 10

After the end of the construction works at the library extension, Dokmai Garden took charge of integrating the new building into its well known tropical ...