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Welcome by the President of the ASSV during the visit of the Director of the EFEO

13 NOVEMBER 25

The meeting between the Director of the EFEO, Nicolas Fiévé, and the President of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Professor Le Van Loi, took place ...

Signing ceremony of the cooperation agreement between the EFEO and the USSH

12 NOVEMBER 25

The signing ceremony of the cooperation agreement between the EFEO and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Vietnam National University, Hanoi) took place on ...

Training for students of the Hanoi Architectural University

14 OCTOBER 25

As part of a collaboration initiated in 2024 with the Hanoi University of Architecture, the EFEO Center in Hanoi contributes to the teaching within the French-language Master's ...

Training for the Center for Cultural and Scientific Activities Văn Miếu – Quốc Tử Giám staff

03 OCTOBER 25

The training session given to staff (archivists, museum curators, etc.) on the theory and practice given by Philippe Le Failler (at the EFEO center or at the Temple) emphasizes ...

Awarding the Knight in the order of Academic Palms to Dr Trần Hữu Sơn

13 MAY 25

On May 13, the French Embassy in Vietnam and the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) organized in the library of the Hanoi center the ceremony of ...

Publication of a book of Philippe Le Failler on the Temple of Literature in Hanoi

01 MAY 25

Fieldwork in Sapa on language diversity

13 MARCH 25

Alice Vittrant, specialist in Austronesian languages, who is preparing a project on language diversity and migration in Southeast Asia, carried out a fildwork to the Hanoi ...

Speech by P. Le Failler in front of the fresco of the former Indochinese university

Conference: “One Hundred Years of Vietnamese Art – An Interdisciplinary and Liberal Perspective” on the occasion of the centenary of the Indochina School of Fine Arts

26 DECEMBER 24

This conference is organized by the School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts (National University of Hanoi) on December 26 in Hanoi. The conference aims not only to ...

Studies of sites previously studied by the EFEO in Bac Ninh province

22 NOVEMBER 24

Following the mission in last June, the second mission is being carried out in the province of Bac Ninh with the architect Emmanuel Cerise and Lou Vargas for a review of the sites ...

Studies of sites previously studied by the EFEO in Bac Ninh province

19 JUNE 24

Mission to Bac Ninh province with architect Emmanuel Cerise for a review of sites previously studied by the EFEO.

Traces of the patriotic mandarin Ngô Quang Bich in Phu Tho

02 MARCH 24

The delegation from the Institute of History, the EFEO, the Historical Sciences Association of Phu Tho Province, the Cam Khe District People's Committee and scientists ...

the Preservation of Woodblock Prints at the N°4 Center of National Archives

Mission to the No. 4 Center of National Archives in Dalat on the Preservation of Woodblock Prints

04 DECEMBER 23

Since February 2021, P. Le Failler has been collaborating with No. 4 Center of National Archives (located in Dalat). In addition to the woodblock prints used to print the dynastic ...

Fieldwork on petroglyphs in Sapa

02 NOVEMBER 23

The Hanoi Center, in collaboration with Professor Dominique Laffly (geographer, University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès) and several faculty members and staff from the ...

Director's visit in Vietnam

20 FEBRUARY 23

The Director’s visit included a series of important engagements during his stay from February 12 to 19. The program began with a visit to No. 1 Center of National Archives, ...

30th Anniversary of the reopening of Hanoi center

15 FEBRUARY 23

In February 2023, the EFEO celebrated the 30th anniversary of the reopening of its center in Hanoi. During a ceremony held in its library, surrounded by Vietnamese institutional ...

Exhibition: "Long Biên Bridge – Witness to History"

14 DECEMBER 22

The EFEO center in Hanoi, in its role as a scientific advisor, collaborated with No. 1 Center of National Archives to organize an exhibition on the history of the Long Biên ...

An original 10-meter-long plan of the Long Biên (Doumer) Bridge.

Collaboration between the EFEO center and the No. 1 center of the National Archives of Vietnam

31 MARCH 22

As part of the collaboration carried out for years between the EFEO center in Hanoi and the No. 1 center of the National Archives of Vietnam, Philippe Le Failler and the architect ...

Visit to Center No. 4 of the National Archives of Vietnam

11 MARCH 22

Philippe Le Failler and Ms. Nguyễn Hưong Giang, from the EFEO center in Hanoi, visited Center No. 4 of the National Archives of Vietnam in Dalat from March 7 to 11, 2022, to work on ...

Visit to Center No. 1 of the National Archives of Vietnam

13 JANUARY 22

Visit to Center No. 1 of the National Archives of Vietnam and development of a plan for the creation of a guide to technical records and an exhibition dedicated to the 120th ...

Visit to Center No. 3 of the National Archives of Vietnam

13 JANUARY 22

Visit to Center No. 3 of the National Archives of Vietnam and reception of periodical collections donated by the EFEO Center in Hanoi.

Conference about EFEO archives

25 NOVEMBER 21

Hanoi, Institute of Information in Social Sciences on November 25, 2021. A conference co-organized by the IISS and the EFEO about the theme "EFEO Photographic Archives in the ...

Conference in Hue on the 18th of December 2020, about the Franco-Vietnamese education, in late 19th up to the early 20th century.

18 DECEMBER 20

Conference in Hue on the 18th of December 2020, about the Franco-Vietnamese education, in late 19th up to the early 20th century.

Vietnam lockdown ends, the EFEO centre reopens

11 MAY 20

After closing for two months, the Hanoi centre reopened its doors to students and readers. As a precaution against the coronavirus epidemic, the library stopped admitting ...

Georges Maspero’s Le Royaume de Champa: publication of a Vietnamese edition

21 FEBRUARY 20

Maspero’s book was first published in 1910-1913. His narrative of Champa, reduced to its simplest expression, is the rise-and-fall story of a single kingdom inhabited by ...

Lecture: New Caledonia and Vietnamese Contract Labour Migration in Context

12 NOVEMBER 19

The migration of Vietnamese contract workers to New Caledonia is the subject of a lecture at the Department of History at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, ...

Keynote lecture : Researching the Region in Vietnamese History

05 NOVEMBER 19

‘Researching the Region in Vietnamese History: the Case of Central Vietnam’ is the subject of Andrew Hardy’s keynote lecture to the conference on ...

Communication of the translation of a Cham inscription: press conference at Dak Pơ district, Gia Lai province

04 OCTOBER 19

The Tư Lương inscription describes the actions of a 15th-century Cham king in the highland region of the Ba River (Gia Lai province). The inscription was reported in 2010 by the ...

Cartographical survey of the eastern slope of the An Khê plateau

03 OCTOBER 19

The fieldwork aimed to collect data on the mountain trails that, in the 19th century, linked the Bình Định plain with the An Khê plateau. Andrew Hardy, Federico ...

Exhibition « Perspective of an era: photographic archives of the École française d’Extrême-Orient »

14 SEPTEMBER 19

Inaugurated as part of the Europe Heritage Days in Hanoi by the French Ambassador, Nicolas Warnery, the exhibition is mounted at two sites : the French Embassy and the EFEO ...

Exhibition « Street vendors calls in Hanoi »

13 SEPTEMBER 19

The exhibition presents a collection of sketches, drawings and water colours made by fifteen Vietnamese students at the Indochina School of Fine-Arts and their teacher, ...

Public lecture: The Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi, Cartography and Territory

04 JUNE 19

Archaeologist Federico Barocco presents the results of his work mapping the Long Wall and its territory, following the traces of the cartographers who preceded him.
A ...

Public lecture: Who Built the Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi?

23 APRIL 19

To mark the bicentenary of the construction of the Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi, the research team from the EFEO and the Institute of Archaeology ask “who built ...

Archaeological excavations and interdisciplinary research at An Khê

25 MARCH 19

25 March – 6 April 2019
Test excavations at Cửu An communal house, Tân Lai temple and An Khê communal house were carried out by the Institute of Archaeology ...

Fieldwork on the plateau of An Khê, Gia Lai province

21 FEBRUARY 19

21-23 February 2019
The archaeological survey of the plateau of An Khê continues: Andrew Hardy and Nguyễn Tiến Đông visit the village of Cửu An with its ...

Fieldwork in Nghe An province

15 JANUARY 19

15-16 January 2019
As part of his research on the Can Vuong movement and its antecedents in Vietnam’s central region, Andrew Hardy visited Nghe An province, accompanied ...

History of the discovery of Thăng Long Imperial Citadel

12 DECEMBER 18

Hanoi, winter 2002: in the heart of the city, Vietnamese archaeologists reveal vestiges of the imperial citadel of Thăng Long. The history of this discovery is the subject of the ...

Survey of the ‘upstream market’ (nguồn) at An Khê, Gia Lai province

29 NOVEMBER 18

The location of An Khê plateau, birthplace of the Tây Sơn rebellion, gave it a key role in the central region’s highland-lowland trade. Understanding this ...

Director’s visit, Signature of agreements with the Academy of Social Sciences

03 NOVEMBER 18

As part of the official visit of the French Prime Minister to Vietnam, the director of the EFEO, Christophe Marquet, signed three scientific cooperation conventions with the ...

The Rice, the Rice Goddess and the Sickle: Bru Country in the 1980s

17 OCTOBER 18

Hungarian anthropologist Gabor Vargyas, author of « A la recherche des Brou perdus », did extensive fieldwork among the Bru Vân Kiều (Quảng Trị ...

Fieldwork on trade routes in Quảng Ngãi province

13 APRIL 18

13-25 April 18
In the coastal district of Đức Phổ, the team investigated historical trade routes leading inland from the fishing port and salt fields of Sa Huỳnh. In the ...

Hương Khê fort (Phú Gia commune, Hà Tĩnh province)

Research on fortifications in the hill country

04 APRIL 18

4-12 April 18
The Sơn Phòng network of mountain fortifications developed in the 1870s to counter the threat of invasion over Vietnam’s western boundary was the ...

Round Table: 'Southeast Asia: Integration at the Grassroots'

29 MARCH 18

In Southeast Asia 'integration' is often a slogan for politicians and political scientists. But in this public lecture organised by the EFEO at the French Cultural Institute ...

First Research Workshop of the project CRISEA (Horizon 2020)

28 MARCH 18

28-30 March 18
Sixty European and Southeast Asian scholars met at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences in Hanoi from 28 to 30 March for the first of the three research workshops ...

Exhibition: ‘Drawings by Jean Delpech: Hanoi, 1930-1935’

01 MARCH 18

Thirty works by the artist Jean Delpech (1916-1988) depicting scenes from Hanoi’s streets, river and countryside in the 1930s were on show in an exhibition organised at ...

Public Lecture: 'The Temple of the Forgotten Deities'

23 NOVEMBER 17

The temple is renowned for its annual festival, but no one has heard of the Buddha worshipped here in the 19th century, or the mandarins of the court who were deified in this place. In ...

Public Lecture: 'Trump and the Demise of the Asian Pivot'

26 OCTOBER 17

Public Lecture held at the French Institute of Hanoi - l'Espace: President Obama's Asian pivot was the culmination of over a century of American geopolitical and geo-economic ...

Đào Thế Đức et Trần Đức Khiêng (Thanh Chi commune, Thanh Chương district) discuss the history of the region's scholar-gentry

Fieldwork in Nghệ An province

24 MAY 17

24-26 November 16, 26-28 March, 23-24 May 17
What becomes of the scholar who fails the mandarinal examinations? This question, applied to the late 19th century history of ...

Signature of a cooperation agreement with the National Museum of Vietnamese History

27 APRIL 17

Signature of a new agreement with the museum, with a view to promoting cooperation and exchange of documents and expertise between the two institutions and the publication of ...

Before the lake was created, a path led from Diên Trường village into the hills

Survey of old roads, Đức Phổ district, Quảng Ngãi province

02 APRIL 17

02-16 April 17
Fieldwork on the Mandarin Road and the east-west routes that linked the plain to the upland region in the 19th century. The team gathered local information ...

The 'Sơn Phong' fort of Dương Yên

Survey of a ‘Sơn Phòng’ fort, Quảng Nam province

01 APRIL 17

The Cần Vương anticolonial movement is the subject of fieldwork (29/3-1/4) in the province’s southern districts, conducted by Andrew Hardy and his colleagues. ...

Professors Zink and Phan Huy Lê visit the royal archive of the Nguyễn dynasty (National Archives, centre No. 1)

Visit of Professor Michel Zink, Perpetual Secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

22 MARCH 17

He made the visit (19-22 March) to present, during a ceremony at the French Embassy, the AIBL medal to Professor Phan Huy Lê, honorary president of the Vietnam ...

Public Lecture: ‘Hearing Independence’

16 FEBRUARY 17

In the 1950s, radio broadcasts influenced how the northern Vietnamese experienced their newfound independence from France. Radio professionals used particular voices, ...

Publication of a book of photographs and essays on Hanoi

13 OCTOBER 16

Hanoi, 1980-1982. The international embargo meant that the diplomat John Ramsden had little embassy work to do: instead, he took to walking around the city with a camera. His ...

Public Lecture: 'Brexit, Regional Integrations and ASEAN'

20 SEPTEMBER 16

The British electorate's decision in the June 23 referendum to leave the European Union presents major challenges to Britain and Europe. David Camroux assesses its ...

Signature of an agreement with the institute MICA

17 MAY 16

Signature of a cooperation agreement between the EFEO and the institute MICA - Multimedia, Information, Communication & Applications, affiliated with Hanoi University ...

The Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi at Rùm Đồn fort

Research into place names, Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi

07 APRIL 16

The toponyms and local history of the areas around Rùm Đồn fort (Nghia Hanh and Tu Nghia districts) and Tân Long Thượng fort (Mộ Đức, Ba Tơ) are the ...

Lecture on contemporary rural households

29 FEBRUARY 16

Public lecture by Emmanuel Pannier & Lâm Minh Châu on 'Market economy, interpersonal exchanges and the state in northern Vietnam: strategies of ...

Publication of a book on village society in northern Vietnam

01 FEBRUARY 16

The three studies in this collection were all made in direct contact with village reality in the early 20th century. On the basis of specific data gathered in his own village, the ...

Publication of a study of donation inscriptions in northern Vietnam

01 FEBRUARY 16

The monograph is based on a detailed study of 200 19th-century donation inscriptions in ten villages of northern Vietnam. It allows us to understand the motivations for giving ...

Publication of a book of photographs of the Jörai

14 JANUARY 16

With glue, scissors and a biro, Jacques Dournes pasted images of the Jörai habitat, landscape and customs he saw in the 1950s-1960s into an album. It is published here, ...

New head of centre in Hanoi

05 OCTOBER 15

Andrew Hardy succeeds Olivier Tessier as head of the EFEO centre in Hanoi. Olivier Tessier takes over from Pascal Bourdeaux to run the EFEO's branch office in Ho Chi Minh City.

Excavation of a temple at Đá Tượng, near the Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi

Excavation of Đá Tượng temple, Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi

07 APRIL 15

During the excavation of Đá Tượng site (Bình Man pagoda), the Institute of Archaeology team led byNguyễn Tiến Đông and Federico Barocco ...

Research into place names, Long Wall of Bình Định

14 FEBRUARY 15

Fieldwork (8-14 February) in Bình Định province aims to identify toponyms of villages, forts, mountains and localities that appear in the archives on the Long Wall in ...

Two workshops of the project SEATIDE held in Hanoi

02 FEBRUARY 15

The meeting are organised as part of SEATIDE (Integration in Southeast Asia, Trajectories of Inclusion, Dynamics of Exclusion), a European-funded research project on the ...

New post-doctoral fellow in anthropology in Hanoi

01 JANUARY 15

The Hanoi centre welcomes Emmanuel Pannier as a post-doctoral fellow in 2015. Dr Pannier's research is on state-ethnic group relations in the context of water management. To ...

International Conference: 'The EFEO and Social Sciences and Humanities in Vietnam'

05 DECEMBER 14

Thirty Vietnamese and foreign scholars attend an international conference at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, on the subject: The EFEO and Social ...

Exhibition of old photographs of Vietnam

03 DECEMBER 14

The exhibition Objectif Vietnam/ Góc nhìn Việt Nam đầu thế kỷ 20 is inaugurated in Hanoi at two sites (French Institute - L’Espace; National ...

Philippe Le Failler's publication on the engraved stones of Sapa

01 APRIL 14

The book, published in two versions (French, Vietnamese), contains the results of the conservation programme : introduction to the method adopted, working hypotheses, site ...

The Long Wall and the Vệ River, Ba Động commune

Excavation of Tân Long Thượng fort, Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi

22 MARCH 14

A hilltop fort in Ba Động commune (Ba Tơ district, Quảng Ngãi province) is excavated by the Institute of Archaeology, led by Nguyễn Tiến Đông. The dig ...

The vestiges of a temple annex (19th C, now a shrine to war dead

Survey of the Đá Tượng temple and area, Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi

17 FEBRUARY 14

The survey aims to locate the Bình Man pagoda, mentioned in an inscription by Nguyễn Tấn, commander of the Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi in the 1860s. With help from ...

Exhibition on the history and cartography of the city of Đà Lạt

09 DECEMBER 13

On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the city of Đà Lạt, the exhibition Đà Lạt - And the map created the city... was organised by the EFEO, in ...

Publication of Jacques Dournes' book Pötao, in Vietnamese

01 JUNE 13

The anthropologist Jacques Dournes' doctoral thesis, published by Flammarion in 1977, is a study of the kings of fire, water and wind (Pötao) and one of the masterpieces of ...

Publication of a book on anthropologist Jacques Dournes

02 JANUARY 13

A reading of the book Pötao - une théorie du pouvoir and a 1992 interview with its author are the subjects of this short study of Jacques Dournes ideas about the place of ...

Publication of the Champa inscriptions at the Đà Nẵng museum

01 NOVEMBER 12

Two years of research on the inscriptions kept at the Museum of Cham Sculpture in Đà Nẵng have come to fruition with the publication of this volume. The team working on ...

Philippe Le Failler's catalog publication on the engraved stones in Sapa

06 AUGUST 12

The catalog includes black and white photos and embossed copies of the engraved stones. EFEO-NXB Thế giới, 2012, 368 pages.

Stones of the Long Wall

Excavation of the Long Wall of Kỳ Anh, Hà Tĩnh province

16 JULY 12

The first excavation of the main rampart (Đèo Bụt site) started on 16 July. Led by Nguyễn Tiến Đông of the Institute of Archaeology in cooperation with the ...

Bastion of the Long Wall of Kỳ Anh

Survey of a new Long Wall site, Hà Tĩnh province

09 APRIL 12

The archaeological survey of the Long Wall of Kỳ Anh, uncovered in 2010, was organised during the week of 9 April by the Institute of Archaeology and the local authorities (Kỳ ...

Petroglyphs, a new site

26 SEPTEMBER 11

A field visit, for the survey, location and rubbing of engraved rocks, was organised in Dền Sáng and Đền Thàng valleys (Bát Xát district, ...

Publication – Exhibition – Round Table

01 SEPTEMBER 11

An exhibition was held at the French Cultural Centre – L’Espace to launch the book Les Bahnar de Kontum. In 1933 Nguyễn Kinh Chi et Nguyễn Đổng Chi did ...

Visit to Quảng Ngãi of Experts on Hadrian’s Wall

27 APRIL 11

An expert consultancy on the conservation and tourist development of the Long Wall site got underway on 27 April in Quảng Ngãi province. Christopher Young (English ...

Petroglyphs: spring fieldwork

25 APRIL 11

From 25-30 April, Philippe Le Failler did fieldwork in Muong Hoa valley (Sapa, Lào Cai province) on an engraved rock site investigated since 2005 by a joint programme of ...

Excavation of fortifications at the Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi

15 APRIL 11

An excavation was organised in April 2011 to unearth fortifications and temples at the town of Trà Xuân, Trà Bồng district (at the northern end of the ...

Seven European Ambassadors visit the Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi

25 MARCH 11

Entitled The Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi: Politics, Poverty and Ethnic Relations in the History of a Central Vietnamese Province, a seminar was held in Quảng Ngãi ...

The Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi designated national heritage

09 MARCH 11

The Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism designated the Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi as national heritage. The monument follows the foothills of the province of Quảng ...

Publication – Exhibition – Round Table

01 DECEMBER 10

Inauguration of the exhibition “One Street – A Thousand Years” and organisation of a round table on the book Đặng Phong, Thăng Long Hanoi: The Story in a ...

Doctoral researcher in Hanoi

01 NOVEMBER 10

In November the Hanoi centre hosted Fabien Chébaut, who is doing his PhD at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and currently holds an EFEO scholarship. ...

Public Lecture on the History of Hanoi

04 OCTOBER 10

During his stay in Hanoi for the city’s millennial celebrations (21 September – 8 October), Philippe Papin gave a talk at l’Espace – French Cultural ...

Inauguration of the Museum of the Imperial Citadel & Exhibition at the Cultural Centre

02 OCTOBER 10

As part of the Hanoi millennial celebrations, the EFEO and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences worked on a joint project for the creation of an archaeological museum, ...

New post-doctoral researcher in Hanoi

09 SEPTEMBER 10

The Hanoi centre hosted Amandine Lepoutre, working on the projet Corpus of Inscriptions of Champa. Amandine Lepoutre was awarded her PhD at the EPHE in March 2010 on the history of ...

The Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi, candidate for national heritage status

16 APRIL 10

An expert consultancy on sites associated with the Long Wall concluded with a ‘Meeting for Evaluation of the Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi-Bình Định: ...

Excavation of two forts on the Long Wall of Quảng Ngai

13 MARCH 10

The excavation of two forts – Đèo Chim Hút et de Rùm Đồn (Nghĩa Hành district, Quảng Ngãi province) – took place until ...

EFEO General Meeting in Hanoi

07 SEPTEMBER 09

The scholars and staff of the EFEO met for two days of discussion at the Army Hotel. The meeting was followed by the inauguration at the Museum of Ethnography of an exhibition of ...

Awarding the Knight in the order of Academic Palms to Dr Trần Hữu Sơn

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On May 13, the French Embassy in Vietnam and the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) organized in the library of the Hanoi center the ceremony of ...