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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Publication of the catalogue of 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...