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February 2023

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Monday, February 13 - Kyoto

As part of the "Kyoto lectures", Laurent Nespoulous (INALCO) gives a lecture on "Megaliths Everywhere: Prehistoric Japan as a Showcase of Human Societies’ Diversity" around the book he co-edited: Megaliths of the World (Archaeopress, 2022).

At 6pm (Japan time) on the Zoom platform. The password for logging in will be posted on the Kyoto Center's blog and the ISEAS website on the 14th.

Friday, February 17 - Siem Reap

Andrew Harris (post-doctoral fellow in Southeast Asian archaeology at the National University of Singapore) will give a lecture on the topic "'Buddhist Terraces': The Archaeology of Angkor's Early Theravada Buddhist Vihara.

At 6:00 p.m. (Cambodian time), at the EFEO Centre in Siem Reap. The presentation will be in English with a translation into Khmer. The lecture is free and open to all.

Tuesday, February 21 - Taipei

Yoann Goudin (Kaohsiung National University / Grenoble Alpes University) will give a lecture entitled "Eléments pour une histoire alternative du mandarin comme langue légitime : noter, écrire, transcrire, tracer, saisir." The lecture is being organized jointly by the Taipei EFEO Centre and the Taipei branch of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) at the Academia Sinica, RCHSS.

High-rise apartments in the Ryomyong Avenue neighborhood, Pyongyang © Manon Prud'homme, 2019

Thursday, February 23 - Seoul

The XLVII Seoul Colloquium in Korea Studies, organized by the EFEO Center in Seoul, in collaboration with the Royal Asiatic Society, is led by Manon Prud'homme, doctoral student at EHESS and member of the ANR City-NKor project (EHESS/EFEO) on the topic: "Is Pyongyang a post-socialist city? Urban development and social change since the 'Arduous March'".

At 6:00 p.m. (Seoul time), online: register with the EFEO Center to receive the information needed to connect.

Illustration: High-rise apartments in the Ryomyong Avenue neighborhood, Pyongyang © Manon Prud'homme, 2019.

Tuesday, February 28 - Beijing

The second session of the cycle "Translating French Sinology and Humanities and Social Sciences into Chinese: feedback" / "法国汉学与人文社会科学的学术翻译：经验成果汇总", organized in partnership with the French Embassy, on the theme "Translating French Sociology into China: Chinese versions of Émile Durkheim and Gustave Le Bon over time (1920 - 2018)", is moderated by Ye GUO, PhD student at Paris Cité University.

Information to follow on the Centre's Carnet.

Centres

Bangkok

On January 24 and 25 the EFEO Center in Bangkok and the Centre d'anthropologie Sirindhorn (SAC) organized a workshop to celebrate the renewal of the four-year cooperation program between the two institutions.

The event brought together researchers associated with the EFEO or with various Thai institutions to present their research projects for the next four-year period (2023-2026). The speakers for the EFEO has been Dominique Goodall, Gregory Kourilsky, François Lagirarde, Jacques Leider, Michel Lorrillard, Christophe Pottier, Catherine Scheer, and Dominique Soutif.

The event was the subject of an audio-video recording, available on the SAC YouTube channel.

The French ambassador to Thailand, Thierry Mathou, visited the Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC) and the EFEO Centre in Bangkok at the end of January. He was accompanied by the anthropologist Jacques Ivanoff, researcher at the CNRS and specialist in the Moken, a nomadic population living between Thailand and Burma. On this occasion the Ambassador was able to visit the various collections of the SAC and to talk with its director, Dr. Komatra Chuengsatiansup, about the various collaborative projects between the SAC and the EFEO.

The ambassador of France in Thailand, Thierry Mathou

Hanoi

In the presence of Nicolas Fiévé, Director of the EFEO, on February 14 the EFEO Centre in Hanoi will inaugurate the exhibition The Temple of Literature in the Recognition of Hanoi's Heritage 1898-1954, conceived and set up by Philippe Le Failler and the Văn Miếu team. Taking the example of an emblematic site in the capital, the aim is to retrace, through photography and texts, the role played by the EFEO in taking into account the original character of Vietnamese heritage and, in this case, that of northern Vietnam. This is an opportunity to review the Indochinese history of an institution that has been responsible for the study and preservation of heritage, from its classification to its restoration, for half a century.

On the following day, February 15, again in the presence of the Director of the EFEO, the joint website of the photo libraries of the EFEO and the Viện Thông tin khoa học xã hội - Institute of Social Sciences Information will be officially launched at the reception pavilion of the French Embassy. The culmination of a program launched in 2019 that will make it possible to consult, in addition to the images in the Paris photo library, the 57,000 photographs of the ISSI, a significant portion of which are from the former EFEO photographic collection left in Hanoi in 1957. A photographic exhibition entitled Un siècle de photographie scientifique, un patrimoine partagé : ISSI et EFEO will illustrate the complementary nature of the two photo libraries.

Phnom Penh

The statue of King Jayavarman VII on January 25, 2023 (EFEO-MNC)

In view of a delicate restoration, the Sculpture Conservation Workshop of the National Museum of Cambodia (MNC) / EFEO has just made a presentation of the portrait statue of King Jayavarman VII with his arms in prayer posture.

The right arm of the statue with the two joined hands were discovered in the early 1990s by Mr. Oun Vorn and Mr. Michel Tranet at Prasat Prei (northeast of Preah Khan of Angkor). Somewhat forgotten at the Angkor Conservation Office, they were recently spotted by Éric Bourdonneau.

The main fragments of the mutilated body were discovered by Henri Marchal to the northeast of Angkor Thom in 1924. Seven years later Henri Marchal found the head east of Angkor Thom, which allowed the identification of the king's portrait.

Illustration: The statue of King Jayavarman VII on January 25, 2023 (EFEO-MNC).

Bertrand Porte is currently working with the MNC to check the labels of the works on display in the southern, western and northern rooms.

Pondicherry

A workshop of the DHARMA Project (ERC Grant N°809994) is to take place from 30th January through 3rd February 2023 in the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO

The focus is on epigraphy, though other disciplines will be represented, and the rallying theme is “Education”. Participants will be pooling their discoveries regarding what our sources can tell us about this topic: provisions for teaching and texts that are taught (whether Sanskrit or not), provisions for looking after learned persons (whether brahmins or not), architectural spaces intended for preaching, for studying or for conserving books, provisions for writing, remarks about script-practices, involvement in the arts (letters, music, dancing…), the ways in which educational qualifications are presented, etc.

As well as papers, to be delivered in the mornings, there will be reading sessions in the afternoons, devoted to a range of epigraphical and non-epigraphical sources.

Entrance to the EFEO Centre in Pondicherry

From February 6th to 10th 2023, a Workshop of the Śivadharma Project (ERC Grant N° 803624) will take place at the EFEO-Pondicherry Centre. There will be three reading sessions per day, led by Judit Törzsök (Haracaritacintāmaṇi chapter 29), Florinda De Simini (Śivadharmottara 1.18-78, text and commentary) and Csaba Kiss, Nirajan Kafle & Peter Bisschop (Śivadharmaśāstra 10.93ff —Umāmaheśvaravrata, text and commentary.

21st Classical Tamil Winter Seminar 2023
EFEO Pondy, February 13th to 24th

Next winter finally we fervently hope to be back on schedule with the CTWS at the centre of the EFEO in Pondichery. This 21st seminar will last for two weeks (February 13th to 24th), with the main text in a double session in the mornings and with various sessions to choose from in the afternoons.

The first week will be dedicated to yet another chapter of the Cilappatikāram, namely canto XVII, the Āycciyar Kuravai, a series of devotional songs to Kṛṣṇa, early testimonies to his worship in South India.

The second week we will delve into the realm of didactic poetry for the first time in all those years, looking at the Paḻamoḻi, one of the more popular Kīḻkkaṇakku anthologies on wordly wisdom.

The whole is planned as a live event, and there will NOT be a hybrid option. Everybody with at least the basic knowledge of classical Tamil is welcome. For further questions, contact Eva Wilden. Please register with Prerana Patel at the EFEO and note that it will not be possible to participate with a tourist visa.

From February 27th through March 3rd, an inaugural workshop will be held for the collaborative project “Hindu Temple Legends in South India” funded by the Academies Programme of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Vorhabennummer II.C.28 and involving the Heidelberg Academy and the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO.

The particular focus of this workshop will be an examination of the various passages in Sanskrit and Tamil Māhātmyas recounting mythology about the Viṣṇu temple known as Yathoktakārī in Kancheepuram. The workshop will be concluded with a temple-trip to Kancheepuram.

On the occasion of the annual Pondicherry Heritage Festival, a photographic exhibition "Sadhus, yogins and ascetics, from the photo archives of the EFEO" will be on display from February 1 to March 17 on the first floor of the EFEO building at 19, rue Dumas. The exhibition contains photographs selected from the photo archives of the EFEO in Paris by Isabelle Poujol and was presented at the Maison de l'Asie in March 2022.

Sadhu, rsi, yogi are found throughout India. The figure of the ascetic is omnipresent on temples and pagodas in India and Southeast Asia, whether as part of the architectural décor or as an integral part of the golden legend of the gods and the great epics that have traveled throughout Asia.

Siem Reap

From February 23 and 26 to March 31, Benoît Lafay, Violaine Pillard, Emmanuel Bougenaux, and Laurent Laly will be in Siem Reap to continue the restoration of the Dancing Shiva statue of Koh Ker (resp. Éric Bourdonneau, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts/National Authority for Preah Vihear/Angkor Conservation).

Vientiane

The team of the study, restoration and conservation phase of the treasure of Nong Hua Thong, in Savannakhet (South Laos)

Following a preliminary preparatory mission last October, the first phase of the study, restoration, and conservation of the Nong Hua Thong treasure at Savannakhet (southern Laos) is being conducted from January 23 to February 3, 2023. Organized by Brice Vincent (EFEO), this mission brings together Donna Strahan (curator, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution), Von Noeun (curator, National Museum of Cambodia), Jean de Calan (photographer), Christine Hawixbrock (EFEO), Viengkeo Souksavatdy (consulting archaeologist), Christophe Pottier (EFEO), David Bazin (EFEO), and representatives of the Vientiane Heritage Department and the Savannakhet DICT.

At Nong Hua Thong, on the site where the treasure was discovered, an archaeological excavation campaign directed by Nicolas Nauleau will take place from February 1 to March 3, 2023, in collaboration with two Cambodian archaeologists, two French archaeologists, members of the DICT of Savannakhet and of the Office of Vat Phou, a Lao archaeology intern and an archaeologist from the Department of Heritage in Vientiane. In connection with the study of the treasure, this mission will continue and complete the two previous missions led by Marielle Santoni and Christine Hawixbrock between 2009 and 2012.

Christine Hawixbrock will continue archaeological research from February 8 to April 10, 2023 on the site of Wat Song O 5, in Champassak district, near the ancient city of Wat Luang Kao, with the participation of archaeologists from the Vat Phou Office, two Lao archaeology interns and a French architect intern.

The data of the Lidar acquisition of the two campaigns of 2021 and 2022 on the provinces of Champassak and Savannakhet having been delivered last January, prospections will take place from February 2023 on identified sites and chosen according to their archaeological potential.

The EFEO Lidar team in Champassak will be carrying out topographical surveys at the Nong Hua Thong site, while receiving specific training in the handling of a total station. They will also continue their contribution to the acquisition of orthophotographic and photogrammetric data on the monumental complex of Wat Phou, under the direction of Vissa Chanthaphasouk (architect and EFEO doctoral student).

Researchers

Paola Calanca

Paola Calanca will be in Taipei from February 12 to 20 to teach the first two courses of a second-semester seminar on maritime history organized with Lee Chi-ling at the History Department of Tamkang University as part of the CCK Navigation Practices in Asian Seas (16-19th Centuries) project.

Hugo David

Hugo David, assigned to Pondicherry since January 2016, joined his new assignment in Paris on January 1. From Paris, he continues his duties as head of the Indology Department of the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP), member of the editorial board of the "Indology" collection, and head (PI) of the two international projects "PLMPI: Palm-Leaf Manuscript Profiling Initiative", and "DIPiKA: Digital Preservation of Kerala Archives", both carried out in collaboration with the University of Hamburg.

On February 4 and 5, Hugo David will speak (online) at the first international conference of the Global Past Research Initiative, organized by the University of Toronto. He will present a paper entitled: "An Open Archive for Palm-Leaf Manuscripts? A Few Reflections from Two South Indian Collections".

Luca Gabbiani

On February 16 at 2:00 pm, at the invitation of the Université Libre de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Luca Gabbiani will speak on the theme "Les villes chinoises ont-elles une histoire?" as part of the series of lectures on La ville en Asie orientale, hier et aujourd’hui (Chine, Corée, Japon, Vietnam). The conference will be held in the Jacques Tati room (12bis rue Danès-de-Montardat).

Valérie Gillet and Charlotte Schmid

Valérie Gillet and Charlotte Schmid will deliver a lecture in the Seminar "Mondes Indiens", on February 8th. Each of them will present an aspect of literary, epigraphical and material production in the Pandya country (south of Tamil Nadu) between the 6th and the 10th centuries.

Frédéric Girard

As part of the "Dizaine de la Création" festival held from February 6 to 16 in Paris - Vallée de la Marne, Frédéric Girard participates in the event "Les saveurs du Haïku. Rencontre poétique et musicale autour
de la musique et de la poésie japonaise", Saturday February 11 at 4 pm.

On February 22, Frédéric Girard will give a presentation entitled "Les stances du Zen dans les kakejiku des pavillons de thé" at the international colloquium on the tea ceremony, organized in Paris by Takagi Yumiko (CRCAO) and Kuranaka Shinobu (Daitœ bunka university, Tokyo).

Gregory Kourilsky

Gregory Kourilsky is participating in a series of lectures organized by Ramkhamhaeng University (Bangkok), on "Language, epigraphy and Thai history from a Western perspective" (ภาษา จารึก และ ประวัติศาสตร์ไทย จากมุมมองชาวต่างประเทศ).

His talk (in Thai) focuses on different approaches to descriptive grammar in T(h)ai languages.

François Lachaud

Kobayashi Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親 (1847-1915): "The Wife of Hosokawa Tadaoki," in Realist Images of Then and Now. Models of filial piety ordered and classified (Kokon seiga ukiyoe 古今誠画浮世絵類孝之内), c. 1885, private collection

On February 7, François Lachaud will give a videoconference presentation entitled "Suicide, Sainthood, and Transculturality: The Many-Gendered Lives of Hosokawa Garasha" at the Gender and Emotion in Japanese Christianity study day at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne.

Illustration: Kobayashi Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親 (1847-1915): "The Wife of Hosokawa Tadaoki," in Realist Images of Then and Now. Models of filial piety ordered and classified (Kokon seiga ukiyoe 古今誠画浮世絵類孝之内), c. 1885, private collection.

Christophe Marquet

Christophe Marquet is curator of the exhibition Hiroshige et l’éventail. Voyage dans le Japon du 19e siècle, which presents a group of fan prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) from the collection of Georges Leskowicz, at the Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet, from February 15 to May 29, 2023.

A catalog written by Christophe Marquet accompanies this exhibition: Hiroshige et l'éventail. Voyage dans le Japon du XIX e siècle, Paris, Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet/Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, 96 p., 70 illustrations, ISBN 978-2-7118-7954-0.

Catherine Scheer

Catherine Scheer is on assignment in Cambodia until February 3.

On February 9, she gives a presentation entitled "Contested spirit relations: Cambodian highland Protestants at the crossroads of indigenous activism and Christian reform" in Rosalie Stolz's New Animism seminar at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Dominique Soutif

Dominique Soutif will be in Pondicherry from January 27 to February 3. He will take part in the Dharma Project workshop and present the excavations at the Prasat Khnar sanctuary (Preah Vihear province).

From February 15 to March 7, he will lead an excavation campaign at the Prei Prasat site in Angkor, in collaboration with Julia Estève (Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep), Chea Socheat (APSARA), and Edward Swenson (University of Toronto), as part of the Yaśodharāśrama research program.

Lectures

Alain Arrault & Michela Bussotti
- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire culturelle de la Chine impériale tardive : textes techniques et prescriptions du quotidien

Éric Bourdonneau
- Joint EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies - INaLCO, Lecture des inscriptions angkoriennes

Michela Bussotti
- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire de la culture visuelle en Asie Orientale

Paola Calanca
- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Le monde maritime chinois à travers l'Étude des Mers orientale et occidentale de Zhang Xie (1617) (histoire et traduction)

Luca Gabbiani
- Research Training Seminar of the Centre d’études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, La Chine au prisme des sciences sociales

- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire sociale, économique et institutionnelle de la Chine moderne (XVe-XXe siècles)

Benoît Jacquet
- Post-master seminar, Les saisons : l’adaptation de l’architecture au milieu japonais, Post-master "Recherches en architecture" (HESAM-ENSAPLV), at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette

- Master 2 seminar, Introduction au Projet de fin d’études, at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette

Fabienne Jagou
- Seminar of Master 2, Religion et Politique au Tibet (asio4107), Master Études européennes et internationales, Asie Orientale contemporaine course, organised by the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

François Lachaud
- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Bouddhisme japonais : Démons à la fenêtre nocturne (suite) : littérature bouddhique et récits étranges dans le Japon moderne

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Bouddhisme japonais : Yinyuan Longqi (1592-1673) : un moine chinois dans le Japon d'Edo

Costantino Moretti
- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Introduction à la lecture des manuscrits chinois médiévaux

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire et philologie du bouddhisme chinois médiéval

Hélène Njoto
- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Interactions between islamicate and indic societies in South and South-East Asia : comparative perspectives

February 2, Farouk Yahya (Oxford University), "Islamic Talismanic Shirts from South East Asia" and Alexandra de Mersan (CASE-Inalco) & Delphine Ortis (CESAH-Inalco), "Ethnographing Burmese Islam".

Martin Nogueira Ramo
- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire du premier christianisme japonais (XVIe-XVIIe s.)

Catherine Scheer
- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Dialogues entre recherches classiques et actuelles sur l’Asie du Sud-Est

February 2, Delphine Allès (CASE, Inalco), "L'Indonésie et le Monde : nouvelles recherches sur la "grande stratégie" indonésienne" (Indonesia and the World: new research on Indonesian "grand strategy")

February 16, Jacob Nerenberg (Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient - ZMO), "Segmented citizenship and unrecognized work in the highlands of Papua (Indonesia)"

Publications

All EFEO publications are available on the publications website.

Monographies 200

Mathieu Guérin, À l’ombre du palmier à sucre. Les campagnes cambodgiennes sous protectorat français à travers l’exemple de Kampong Thom, Monographie 200, Paris, EFEO, 2023, 464 p., ill.

Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 30

Fiorella Allio & Béatrice David (ed.), Autour de Roberte Hamayon. Son apport aux études du religieux dans le monde chinois , CEA 30, Paris, EFEO, 2023, 446 p., ill.

Contributions :

- Gilles Boileau, Nature dangereuse et logiques d’alliance dans la Chine archaïque

- Roberte Hamayon, Un certain rapport à la nature ? Réflexions sur le texte de Gilles Boileau

- Fiorella Allio, "Quatre jours d’épuisement, trois ans sans accident !" Relations d’échanges avec les esprits et fonction chamanique dans un "rituel donneur de vie" à Tainan (Taiwan)

- Roberte Hamayon, Un exemple de "chamanisme agraire". Réflexions sur le texte de Fiorella Allio

- Aurélie Névot, Danser par la voix de l’écriture. À propos des chamanes scripteurs des Yi-Sani (Chine)

- Roberte Hamayon, Que révèle d’une religion la conduite de ses spécialistes rituels ? Réflexions sur le texte d’Aurélie Névot

- Stéphanie Homola, Jeu, divination et cognition. La portée de Jouer de Roberte Hamayon

- Roberte Hamayon, Rien à deviner, mais de la chance à fabriquer. Réflexions sur le texte de Stéphanie Homola

- Benoît Vermander, Jouer (et donner) à penser. Une lecture de Roberte Hamayon en contexte(s) chinois

- Roberte Hamayon, Ni fini de jouer, ni fini de penser. Réflexions sur le texte de Benoît Vermander

- Béatrice David, Des offrandes aux ancêtres et des jeux. Agir pour le bon déroulement du nouveau cycle annuel lors des rassemblements saisonniers sur les collines rituelles du twa en pays sui (Chine du sud-ouest)

- Roberte Hamayon, De la récupération comme voie d’adaptation. Réflexions sur le texte de Béatrice David

VARIA :

- Hsun Chang, The Body-Mind Practices and New Media Technologies: Two Taiwanese Walking Pilgrimages

- Pan Junliang, Le médiumnisme wenzhou en contexte diasporique : continuité et adaptation

- Michela Bussotti, The Images of the Merits of Shi and Hu Families: Between Popular Prints and Genealogies. Narratives of Loyalty to the Song Empire and the Edifying Practices of Huizhou Lineages in the Ming–Qing Dynasties

- Marie Parmentier, Du Noir cosmologique au bleu aérien : une brève histoire de la couleur du ciel dans le Japon d’Edo (1603-1868)

Publications website

Researchers' publications

Gregory Kourilsky, "'Sortir du monde' dans la tradition bouddhique : s’élever ou faire un pas de côté ?", Inflexions 2023/1 (n°52), pages 145-153.

Daniel Perret & Heddy Surachman (éds), Si Pamutung, sebuah Permukiman Kuno di Pedalaman Sumatra Utara (abad ke-9 – abad ke-13), Jakarta, EFEO, KPG Gramedia (trad. de History of Padang Lawas I, Paris, 2014).

The publication of Temples, Texts, and Networks: South Indian Perspectives edited by Malini Ambach, Jonas Buchholz, and Ute Hüsken, Heidelberg, Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, is the result of the workshop "Networks of Temples and Networks of Texts in South India" organized by Ute Hüsken at the EFEO's Centre de Pondichéry from January 20 to 26, 2020, with funding from the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).

K. Nachimuthu, "A Survey of the Sthalapurāṇa Literature in Tamil", dans Temples, Texts, and Networks: South Indian Perspectives, pages 41–76.

S.A.S. Sarma, "Glory of the Tiruvanantapuram Padmanābhasvāmi Temple as Described in the Māhātmyas", pages 95–129.

R. Sathyanarayanan, Marzenna Czerniak-Drożdżowicz, "Importance of Water Bodies in the Māhātmyas in the Kāverī Region", pages 121–157.

Research Services

The call for applications for the EFEO field grants for the second semester of 2023 is underway.

The deadline for submitting applications for the field grant that will allow Master II and doctoral students to study in Asia in one of the EFEO centres is March 15th, 2023, inclusive, for a stay scheduled to begin between June 1st and December 31st, 2023.

Conditions and procedures

Recipients of allocation currently on mission

- Zakariya Pamuji Aminullah is in Jakarta, for a study entitled "Tracing the Life of an Old Javanese Poetological Treatise: A Study of the Candrakiraṇa and its Manuscript Transmission on Bali"

- Fansuri Hamzah is in Jakarta, for a study entitled "Identity and piety in contemporary Indonesian Islam: hijrah phenomenon among urban Muslims"

- Camille Lenoble is in Japan, for a work of archiving and referencing of primary sources on male transvestism in Japan

- Johan Levillain is in India, for a study entitled "Essai de définition d'une culture régionale au Madhya Pradesh : étude stylistique, iconographique et contextuelle des vestiges d'Āśāpurī (IXe-XIe siècles)"

- Kalyani Madhura Ramachandran is in Pondicherry, for a study entitled "Phanigiri: Investigating an Ikṣvāku Monastic Complex in Ancient Āndhradēśa"

- Bryan Sauvadet is in Japan, for a "Étude des évolutions formelles et iconographiques de la peinture bouddhique induites par les femmes à la cour de Corée du XIVe au XVIe siècle"

- Meas Sreyneath is in Cambodia, for a "Étude archéologique et technologique du martelage du cuivre et de ses alliages à Angkor : (IXe -XVe siècle)"

- Sandeep Subramanian is in India, to conduct research on automatic character recognition of South Indian manuscripts and the use of independent algorithms

- Qiu Yuqing is in Hongkong, for a transnational historical study entitled "Refugees and Policy Evolutions from 1958 to 1962"

Post-doctoral contracts for the year 2023

The candidates selected by the EFEO's post-doctoral contract allocation committee for the year 2023 are:

- Maria Chauveau, Territorialité Bishnoï et enjeu identitaire. La transformation des terres agricoles dans les zones arides du Rajasthan : recomposition des espaces et mutations des relations entre humains, animaux et végétaux (6 months)

- Ashwini Lakhsminaryanan, Music and Dance in Gandhāran art (10 months)

Staff and service news

Director

Nicolas Fiévé, Director of the EFEO, is in Vietnam from February 12 to 20.

Together with Philippe Le Failler he will visit Centre No. 1 in the Vietnamese archives, where the exhibition produced with the EFEO on the Long Biên Bridge as a witness to history is being presented.

On February 14 he will open the exhibition The Temple of Literature in the Recognition of Hanoi's Heritage 1898-1954 at the Văn Miếu Temple of Literature in Hanoi, and on February 15 he will open the exhibition Un siècle de photographie scientifique, un patrimoine partagé : ISSI et EFEO at the reception pavilion of the French Embassy in Vietnam.

On this occasion there will be a press conference preceding the official opening of the website of the joint EFEO and ISSI photo libraries (Viện Thông tin khoa học xã hội - Institute of Social Sciences Information).

He will then go to Hué to sign a partnership agreement with the Hué Heritage Conservation Office, and then to Đà Nẵng to visit the Cham Sculpture Museum before going on to Ho Chi Minh City, where he will visit the EFEO branch with Olivier Tessier and give a talk on the "landscape composition of a seigniorial park in eighteenth-century Japan" as part of the cycle of lectures and debates organized by this branch.

Staff

Since January 1, 2023, Frank Muyard has taken up his position as a lecturer in "Archaeology and History of Insular Asia". He is attached to the team "Construction of the centers of civilization: frontiers, urbanization, local resistance".

He will be assigned to the Taipei Centre as of April 1, 2023, and will be in charge of the center.

Library

The Paris library of the EFEO has published several inventories:

Inventory of the Jean-Baptiste Faivre collection

The Jean-Baptiste Faivre Collection, gathered in the early 1980s in various states of the Indian Union. Consisting of a set of 60 painted scrolls from Bengal and Bihar, it also includes everyday objects (utensils, toys, etc.) or from popular and religious art (notably statuettes of deities).

Inventory of the Explorations françaises en Indochine et Asie centrale

The Fonds d'Explorations françaises en Indochine et Asie centrale includes a collection of 39 engravings or lithographs in color from the second half of the 19th century, representing picturesque scenes from expeditions to China and Indochina.

These inventories are progressively published in Calames.

Conditions of access of the library

The library is opened Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Consult the catalogues and digital tools :
- Catalogue of books and periodicals
- Catalogue of Archives and Manuscripts
- Digital heritage library

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Photo Library

Isabelle Poujol is in Hanoi from February 6 to 17 to present the website of the joint EFEO and the Viện Thông tin khoa học xã hội - Institut d'information en sciences sociales photo libraries and to prepare the photographic exhibition Un siècle de photographie scientifique, un patrimoine partagé : ISSI et EFEO at the reception pavilion of the French Embassy in Vietnam.

On February 15 the virtual photo library shared by the Institute of Social Sciences of Vietnam (ISSI) and the EFEO will be put on line.

There will be access to 47,000 photographs from the EFEO's historical collection, now kept at the ISSI, as well as 9,300 photographs taken between 1956 and 1981 by various Vietnamese institutions. A link will give access to the 99,507 photographs put on line by the EFEO (a collection that is being enriched regularly).