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March 2023

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Agenda

Saturday March 4 and Sunday March 5 - Kyoto

The colloquium Approaching the High Plateau from the Archipelago: Tibetan Studies in Japan, co-organized by Marc-Henri Deroche (Kyoto University), Ikeda Takumi (Kyoto University, Institute for Research in Humanities), and Iwao Kazushi (Ryukoku University), with the collaboration of the Japanese Association for Tibetan Studies and the participation of a dozen speakers, including Fabienne Jagou (EFEO), is being held at the EFEO Center in Kyoto.

The conference proceedings will be published in the Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie in 2024.

Illustration: Buddha, Gyantse, n.d., EFEO Lochard collection.

Tuesday March 7 - Seoul

The EFEO Center in Seoul is organizing a lecture by Alexia Muller, master's degree in Korean Studies at Inalco, Camille Fourmeau, bachelor's degree in Korean Studies at Inalco, and Delphine Jaulmes, graduate of the École Polytechnique, on the topic "Impressions du Josŏn".

At 6:00 p.m. (Seoul time), online: register with the EFEO Center in Seoul, giving your full name and affiliation in order to receive the elements needed to connect.

Illustration: Wedding in Josŏn © D. Jaulmes, October 2016.

Tuesday March 14 - Taipei

Pei-Lin Yu (Boise State University) will give a lecture entitled "Can human behavorial ecology models contribute to understanding the Neolithization of Taiwan?" organized jointly by the EFEO and the Center for Research on the Archaeology of Taiwan and Southeast Asia of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica.

Wednesday March 15 - Kyoto

As part of the "Kyoto lectures", Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University) gives a lecture on "Reframing Japonisme: Women’s Engagement with Japanese Art in 19th-Century France" around her book: Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France (1853-1914) (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020).

At 6pm (Japan time), in person at the EFEO Centre and online 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.

Wednesday March 15 and Thursday March 16 - Taipei

The EFEO and the Institute of Archaeology of the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) are organizing the international colloquium Indigenous Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in Asia-Pacific at the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan.

Scene from the South-Korean TV series “Hellbound” (Source : Guardian)

Friday March 10 - Seoul

The XLVIII Seoul Colloquium in Korea Studies, organized by the EFEO Center in Seoul, in collaboration with the Royal Asiatic Society, is led by Antoine Coppola, Professor of Film Studies at Sungkyunkwan University, on the topic: "The New Korean International Series."

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

Illustration: Scene from the South-Korean TV series “Hellbound” (Source: Guardian).

Wednesday, March 29 - Paris

Michela Bussotti (EFEO/UMR CCJ) and Lia Wei (INALCO/IFRAE) are organizing a study day on "Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: matérialité, transmission, réception" [Stamping practice in China: materiality, transmission, reception] at the Pôle des langues et civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris, on the occasion of the exhibition Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: images et objets inscrits [Stamping practice in China: images and inscribed objects], which is being held from March 6 to 30 at the Inalco.

Illustration: Stamping of an inscribed bronze vase, BULAC Collection (BULAC EST618).

Centres

Chiang Mai

The Archival City

The EFEO Center in Chiang Mai hosted the luncheon and closing session of the seminar organized from February 19 to 25 in Chiang Mai and Bangkok by The Archival City team in partnership with several local and international institutions, including the Faculty of Architecture at Chiang Mai University (CMU), the Faculty of Architecture of Chulalongkorn University, the Université Gustave Eiffel - Paris-Est Sup Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB), the UMR AUSser/IPRAUS Centre in Chiang Mai, and the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO). This seminar is also a partner of the CNRS-INSHS International Research Network "Creating and mapping the heritage of the ordinary city" (CREMA). And the international research network "Southeast Asia Neighborhoods Network" (SEANNET).

Through presentations, round tables, visits to specific districts and archive repositories, the seminar focuses on sources, methods and digital tools for documenting an ordinary city and its heritage.

Dr. Sumet Jumsai na Ayudhya, his wife Suthinee and Mom Luang Pimpa Jayangkura, Christophe Pottier and his wife

Visit

On February 23 Dr. Sumet Jumsai na Ayudhya, a famous Thai architect and national artist, his wife Suthinee, and Mom Luang Pimpa Jayangkura were received at the EFEO Center in Chiang Mai by Christophe Pottier, head of the Center, and his wife.

The library had put together and presented several of his works in his honor.

Phnom Penh

From left to right, the Ganesha in the centre of Prasat Bak (H. Parmentier, EFEO, 1934), the statue soon to be returned to Cambodia (Source: Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia), the fragments of the pedestal on site (C. Pottier, EFEO, 2004).

A monumental statue of Ganesha from Koh Ker's Prasat Bac (the image of the god alone is 1.60m high) ripped from its pedestal by looters in the late 1990s will be returned to Cambodia in early March as part of a set of works confiscated from private collectors by the US authorities.

This Ganesha, originally a monolith with its pedestal, had been fragmented, certainly to facilitate its transport, and then restored in such a way as to conceal its fragmentation and to modify the design of its pectoral finery, probably in order to pass it off as another work.

Thanks to the documentation compiled by Henri Parmentier and completed by Madeleine Giteau, it was recognised as soon as it was presented in the book "Adoration and Glory: The Golden Age of Angkor" (E. C. Bunker & D. Latchford, 2004).

In order to confirm these observations, a detailed study will have to be undertaken by the sculpture conservation workshop of the National Museum of Cambodia (MNC) / EFEO before the restoration of the god on its pedestal can be considered.

It should be noted that at the same time as this Ganesha, two other sculptures from Koh Ker will be restored. An exceptional sculpture of the god Skanda on his mount, a peacock, as well as a piece that should make it possible to complete the sculpted group depicting the fight of Bhima against Duryodhana (Prasat Chen of Koh Ker) progressively reconstituted and restored at the MNC in recent years.

Illustrations: From left to right, the Ganesha in the centre of Prasat Bak (H. Parmentier, EFEO, 1934), the statue soon to be returned to Cambodia (Source: Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia), the fragments of the pedestal on site (C. Pottier, EFEO, 2004).

Pondicherry

A workshop devoted to the study of a seventeenth-century Sanskrit compendium on Yoga that documents 118 postures, called the Yogacintāmaṇi, will be held at the EFEO Centre in Pondicherry from March 13 to 17.

Descent of the Ganges, Arjuna penance rock carving bas relief Mahabalipuram, Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu

S.A.S. Sarma will participate in a three-day National Seminar on Emerging trends in Sanskrit Studies organised by Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Regional Campus, Thuravoor where he will present, on March 1st, a paper on "The Intersection of Medicine and Religion: Insights from the Mañjuśriyamūlakalpa".

SLP Anjaneya Sarma will be in Kancipuram from March 2 to 3 to participate in the traditional conference, Śrījayēndrasarasvatīsvāminām Ārādhanāprayuktasabhā and present a paper entitled "hētumati ca iti pāṇini sūtrārtha vicā raḥ". He will then go to Vijayawada from March 6 to 8 to participate in the traditional conference Māṇikyaśāstriṇāṁ Smārakasabhā to discuss the topic “Bhūṣaṇasārē Dhātvarthavicāraḥ”.

S.A.S. Sarma will participate in a three-day International Conference on New Horizons of Indological Research organised by the Sree Shankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala, from March 8 to 10 and will present a paper entitled "A Glimpse into Ancient Indian Science: Technical Literature in Inscriptions".

Maria Chauveau, a post-doctoral fellow at the EFEO, arrived in Pondicherry on March 1 for a three-month stay in India to continue the work of her research project on "Bishnoi territories and identity issues: recomposition of spaces and evolution of human-animal relations." Affiliated with the EFEO's Pondicherry Centre, she will be in Rajasthan to carry out a study of the ecological and environmental impacts of the socio-cultural practices of the Bishnoi community.

Olivia Gabriel, from the Institut national des langues orientales (Inalco), arrives on March 4 for a month's stay at the Pondicherry Center to continue her research project entitled "Julien Vinson et le Kamparāmāyaṇam: traduire en français une épopée médiévale tamoule aux XIXe et XXe siècles." She plans to study extracts from the Kamparāmāyaṇam with a Tamil scholar as part of her MA thesis work and also aims to improve her skills in classical Tamil.

Taipei

From March 13 to 18, Joe Watkins (Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants, Tucson / Hokkaido University), Pei-Lin Yu (Boise State University), and Nobayashi Atsushi (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka) are visiting Taiwan at the invitation of the EFEO Center in Taipei for a series of lectures on indigenous archaeology.

On March 17, the EFEO and the Department of Anthropology of the National Taiwan University will host lectures by Joe Watkins (Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants, Tucson / Hokkaido University): "'There is a point to this discussion...': the use and misuse of projectile point morphology and technology in North American Early Peopling studies", and Nobayashi Atsushi (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka) "Museum collection: Nodes of past and future peoples through the indigenous culture", at National Taiwan University, Taipei.

Vientiane

EFEO CHAMPASAK

The archaeological excavation mission in Nong Hua Thong (Savannakhet province), led by Nicolas Nauleau, will come to an end on March 3, after 5 weeks of activities.

The EFEO Champasak Lidar team will finalise the topographic surveys and drone photography of the various boreholes before the site closes.

Christine Hawixbrock is continuing the excavation mission at Vat Sang O 5 in Champasak, which will end around April 10. A French architect, Gwendoline Stroobandt, and three employees of the Vat Phou Office are joining the excavation team.

The LIDAR data from the two overflight campaigns in 2021 and 2022, collected and processed by Damian Evans, will enable the precise targeting of the archaeological sites to be studied in situ.

The first analyses of the results show a very important ancient occupation on all the areas flown over. Field surveys will continue until the rainy season by the Lidar team based at Wat Phou.

Bertrand Porte, accompanied by Michel Lorrillard, will go to Vat Phou and Savannakhet to prepare and monitor the next movements of museum collections and the organisation of teams.

Researchers

Alain Arrault

Alain Arrault, rapporteur and member of the jury for the defense of the thesis of Ms. TANG Mi (Aix-Marseille University), "Study on alcohol and its manufacture from a treaty of the Song dynasty. The Beishan jiujing (Classic of Alcohol from the Northern Mountain) by Zhu Gong (beginning of the 12th century)", will come to Aix on March 31 to take part in this defence.

Élisabeth Chabanol

On March 15, at the Maison de l'Asie, Élisabeth Chabanol is organising the last meeting of the Ethics Committee overseeing the ANR City-NKor (EHESS/EFEO) project "Ville, architecture et urbanisme en Cotée du Nord", which ends in July 2023.

Illustration: Kaesong department stores'. 25 April 2015 @ É. Chabanol.

On March 17, Élisabeth Chabanol presents a lecture entitled "Archaeological and museum institutions, historical sites in North Korea" at the Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies of the University of Naples L'Orientale.

Illustration: Tomb of King Kongmin. 8 September 2005 @ É. Chabanol.

Luca Gabbiani

From March 16 to 25, Luca Gabbiani will be on mission in the United States. He will participate in the annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Boston, from March 16 to 19. On March 19, as part of the panel entitled "Legal knowledge in practice in Qing dynasty China: conception, production and dissemination", which he has organized with Frédéric Constant (Université Nice Côte d'Azur), he will present a paper entitled "'The Meaning of Law': The Qing code and legislative know-how in eighteenth and nineteenth century China".

He will then stay at Stanford University to collect material from the Baodi archives held at the East Asia Library.

Valérie Gillet

Valérie Gillet will present a paper (by Zoom) entitled "Temple organisation and patronising communities of the Śaiva temples of the ancient Paḻuvūr (9th to 11th centuries)", during the conference Recent Advances in Archaeological Investigations of South India organized in commemoration of Padma Sri Iravatham Mahadevan’s contribution to the Tamil Language and Tamil Society. This conference will take place on March 10 to 12 at Anna Centenary Library, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Arlo Griffiths

Arlo Griffiths gives a lecture on March 7 at Padjajaran University in Bandung on the theme "How to Celebrate a sīma Foundation: Epigraphy meets Food History in 10th-century Java".

On March 8, he joins a mission until March 15, to the provinces of Central Java and Yogyakarya, to document inscriptions from the Balitung reign as part of the DHARMA project. The team will be composed of members of BRIN (Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional), the Indonesian partner: Titi Surti Nastiti, Hedwi Prihatmoko, Churmatin Nasoichah and Andri Restyadi. Participating for the EFEO: Adeline Levivier, Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan and Tyassanti Kusumo Dewanti.

On March 15, back in Jakarta, Arlo Griffiths will speak at the Institut français d'Indonésie at a meeting on the topic Speaking French: a gateway to higher education and research organized as part of the Semaine de la francophonie.

On March 30, Arlo Griffiths returns to Yogyakarta to speak at Gadjah Mada University on digital publishing in Indonesian philology.

Fabienne Jagou

Fabienne Jagou takes part in the colloquium Approaching The High Plateau from the Archipelago: Tibetan Studies in Japan organized by Marc-Henri Deroche, Takumi Ikeda, and Kazushi Iwao at the EFEO Centre in Kyoto on March 4 and 5. She will present the ANR Natinasia project. She will also take part in a round table discussion with students in Tibetology at Kyoto University.

François Lachaud

François Lachaud is a member of the scientific committee of the international symposium Northern Lights: Japan's Septentrional Regions in Ancient and Mediaeval Times which will be held in Strasbourg from March 16 to 18.

He gives a talk on Saturday 18 March entitled: "Bear Variations: The Japanese Idea of North and the Shaping of Vernacular Religion".

By reservation: contact and registration to participate online.

Illustration: Print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839-1892) Abe no Hirafu 阿部比羅夫 [Occits a gigantic bear], 1880, Private collection.

Michel Lorrillard

Michel Lorrillard will join Bertrand Porte in mid-March to prepare the movement of collections from the Savannakhet Museum in Laos (Champa project).

Costantino Moretti

Costantino Moretti presents a paper entitled "'Evil Destinies' in Dunhuang Murals", as part of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts lectures on Thursday 23 March.

Christophe Pottier

Christophe Pottier will be conducting a new excavation campaign from March 5 to April 12 as part of the Franco-Khmer Archaeological Mission on Angkorian Land Development (MAFKATA). This year, it is essentially a matter of continuing and completing the test pits begun last year on the Trapeang Phong site in Roluos, but which had to be interrupted when the water level rose and then filled in again. The team will include Nicolas Nauleau, who is in charge of the operation, four Cambodian archaeologists from APSARA and the Ministry of Culture, three Laotian trainee archaeologists (CHAMPA program) and three French masters.

Dominique Soutif

From March 1 to 22, Dominique Soutif will lead an excavation campaign at Prasat Khna (Cambodia) as part of the Yaśodharāśrama archaeological mission (MAEE, ERC Dharma; coll. Chea Socheat, APSARA, Julia Estève, ITK/ISIC, Bangkok and Edward Swenson, University of Toronto).

Illustration: Prasat Khna, building uncovered north of the temple in 2022 seen from the north.

Lectures

Online registration opens - Year 2023/2024

Applications for the Master’s degree in Human and Social Sciences, Asian Studies are open for the year 2022-2023 according to a multy-phase registration schedule. The Asian Studies Master's degree is a multi-disciplinary, research-oriented programme at M1-M2 level, organised around two training courses of your choice:
- Track 1: "History and social sciences: fields, texts and images" (EHESS-EFEO)
- Track 2: "History, philology and religions" (EPHE/PSL-EFEO)

Admission procedure

Alain Arrault & Michela Bussotti
- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Archives et société locale en Chine, beginning March 10

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, Transition énergétique, patrimoine et environnement, Post-master "Recherches en architecture" (HESAM-ENSAPLV), at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette

- Master 2 seminar, Paysage/s : architectures, villes & territoires en transition, à l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette

- Master 2 seminar, Par-delà la modernité : retour d’Asie, at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette

- Master 1 seminar, Histoire de la construction en bois au Japon, 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, 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

March 16, Jean Arzoumanov (Gerda Henkel Postdoctoral Fellow) et Anuj Misra (Gerda Henkel Research Fellow, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen), "Persian and Sanskrit astronomical and astrological encounters in seventeenth-century Mughal India"

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

March 16, Véronique de Lavenère (Iremus, CASE), "Dynamiques des pratiques musicales dans la société lao contemporaine : nouveaux enjeux"

March 30, Louise Roche (CASE, EPHE), "Des Ādibuddha pour le royaume d'Angkor (Xe-XIIe siècles). Réflexions historiographiques autour des images khmères du Buddha sur le nāga"

- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studie, Anthropologie de l'Asie du Sud-Est: Ethnicité et dynamiques historiques d'intégration politique et culturelle

March 2, Yves Goudineau (EFEO/CASE), "Introduction du séminaire intitulée "Ethnicisation et nationalismes en Asie du Sud-Est""

March 16, Amalia Rossi (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti - Milan), "The fluctuant art of (self) integration. Bridging historical chasms and envisioning alternative horizons among the Lua minorities of Northern Thailand"

March 30, Vanina Bouté (EHESS/CASE), "Histoires et mémoires dans les hautes terres d’Asie du Sud-Est continentale : questions de méthodes"

Publications

All EFEO publications are available on the publications website.

You can find EFEO publications at booth 218 at the annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies to be held in Boston from March 16 to 19.

Publications website

Researchers' publications

Dominic Goodall, "Śaiva Tantra: Toward a History", in Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies, under the direction of Glen Hayes and Richard K. Payne.

Michel Lorrillard, "À propos de quelques sculptures khmères découvertes à Luang Prabang : données nouvelles sur l’expansion des espaces khmer et môn anciens au Laos (III)", Péninsule 84 (2022-1), pages 47-71.

Pierre-Yves Manguin, "Borneo and Southeast Asia in early historic times", dans Sander Adelaar, Pierre Le Roux and Bernard Moizo (Éds), Bornéo à cœur. Hommage à Bernard Sellato, argonaute de la forêt tropicale / Borneo at Heart. A Tribute to Bernard Sellato, Argonaut of the Tropical Rainforest, Auxonne, Le Murmure, 2022, pages 771-813.

Illustration: The site of Batu Pahat (West Kalimantan) at the end of the 19th century (photo Oudheidkundige Dienst 3895).

T. Rajeswari, Pārata māvintam. Mūlamum uraiyum. Tokuti — 1 (āyvu muṉṉuraiyuṭan mutal aintu carukkaṅkaḷ). Tokuti — 2 (āṟām, ēḻām carukkaṅkaḷ),[Édition critique d’une traduction tamoule ancienne du Mahābhārata en 2 volumes], Erode : Aram Patippakam, 382 + 310 pages.

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"

- Bin Sophie Ha is in Beijing, for an analysis of Pe kinship and marriage relationships - from endogamy to inter-ethnic marriage

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

- Anna Salakova is in Vietnam, for a study entitled "From ideal to reality: Vietnamese women and Đổi Mới"

- 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

- 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

Staff

Katia Juhel, Curator of Libraries, will take up her functions as director of the EFEO libraries on March 13, 2023. She has a doctorate in Buddhist studies and is a specialist in India. She was previously assistant librarian of the University of Burgundy's Law-Literature Library and the B2UFR.

The EFEO's Academic Council, which met on February 7, has confirmed the nomination of Martin Nogueira Ramos, senior lecturer, head of the EFEO Centre in Kyoto from 2017 to 2022, and a specialist in Japanese Christianity (16th-19th centuries), as Director of Publications of the EFEO.

Between 2017 and 2021 he was coordinator of the editorial board of the Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie. With François Lachaud he has co-edited a volume on the history of Franco-Japanese relations (D'un empire, l'autre. Premières rencontres entre la France et le Japon au XIXe siècle, EFEO, "Études thématiques" series, 2021).

Smaïl Zaghmouri, until now the accounting officer of PSL University and the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, will join us on March 1, 2023, as accounting officer and financial director of the EFEO.

Library

Exhibition "Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: images et objets inscrits"

The exhibition "Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: images et objets inscrits" is being held from March 6 to 30 at the Inalco - Pôle des langues et civilisations [Pole of languages and civilizations] (65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris), in the auditorium gallery and garden level of the Bibliothèque Universitaire de Langues et Civilisations (BULAC).

The exhibition, organized by Lia Wei (Inalco / IFRAE) and Michela Bussotti (EFEO / UMR CCJ), with the participation of Soline Suchet (BULAC) and Dat-Wei Lau (EFEO), brings together prints from the EFEO and BULAC archives.

FranceArchives

The inventories of the EFEO archives are now online on the national portal FranceArchives.

Explore more than 20,500 documents, which you can consult in the reading room of the Paris library.

Some resources have already been digitized and are available online, such as the archives of the Angkor Conservation, which you can find in our Banyan digital library.

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

Check the EFEO's Facebook page and Twitter account regularly for any updates on the terms and conditions of the public reception service.

Contact

Find the library catalogue

Photo Library

The photographic exhibition "Un siècle de photographie scientifique, un patrimoine partagé : ISSI et EFEO" is installed at the Vietnam Institute of Social Sciences in Hanoi.

This photographic exhibition, which illustrates the complementarity of the two photo libraries, has been organized to celebrate the launching of the joint photo library of the Institute for Social Science Information (ISSI) and the EFEO.

It provides access to 47,000 photographs from the EFEO's historical collection, now held at the ISSI, as well as to 9,300 photographs taken between 1956 and 1981 by various Vietnamese institutions.

The photographic exhibition "Hanoi after the war" is installed at the Maison de l'Asie until 31 March.

The exhibition features photographs taken by John Ramsden between 1980 and 1983, which were published in the book Hanoï après la guerre.

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Of particular note

Estampages chinois des Archives de l’EFEO, nouvelles approches de recherche

Section Title

On the occasion of the exhibition Pratique de l'estampage en Chine: Images et objets inscrits organized in March 2023 by the BULAC, the EFEO, the IFRAE, and the Inalco, Michela Bussotti (director of studies at the EFEO), Claude Laroque (graphic art restorer, lecturer at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), and Lia Wei (lecturer at Inalco, researcher at IFRAE) discuss in Estampages chinois des Archives de l’EFEO, nouvelles approches de recherche of the technique of stamping and the contents of the exhibition. They explain how the approach to the different aspects of stamping opens up new fields of research, not only in history and calligraphy, but also in material and visual culture.

These different aspects are highlighted in the exhibition and by a study day organized on this occasion, while the work carried out on the paper used to produce the prints is to contribute to a new version of the EFEO's catalogue of prints, produced with the collaboration of Dat-Wei Lau, who is responsible for the China and Korea collections at the EFEO library.

Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger

Call for applications for 5 doctoral contracts 2023-2026

As part of the support provided to international cooperation actions, the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) offers each year five doctoral contracts in partnership between a doctoral school and one of the five French schools abroad (EFE): École française d'Athènes, École française de Rome, Institut français d'Archéologie orientale du Caire, École française d'Extrême-Orient and Casa de Velázquez (École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques).

Applications should be sent directly to the EFE concerned, in the form of a pdf document including
- A thesis proposal of no more than five pages;
- the CV of the candidate proposed to undertake the research;
- a letter of introduction from the prospective thesis director(s);
- the opinion of the Director of the Doctoral School.

The application documents can be sent until April 30, 3 pm (Paris time), according to the procedures of each EFE.

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