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May 2023

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- Video: 30th anniversary of the reopening of the EFEO Centre in Siem Reap
- Hosting a delegation at the EFEO

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Agenda

Little boy at Sinuiju railway station © Olivier Vaysset

Thursday, May 4 - Seoul

The L Seoul Colloquium in Korea Studies, organized by the EFEO Center in Seoul, in collaboration with the Royal Asiatic Society, is led by Olivier Vaysset, former French diplomat (1984-2017), posted mainly in Asia and first director of the French Cooperation Office in Pyongyang, DPRK, on the topic "2 years in North Korea (2011-2013): notes from the First Director of the French Office in Pyongyang."

At 6:00 p.m. (Seoul time), room 310, Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University: register with the EFEO Center.

Illustration: Little boy at Sinuiju railway station © Olivier Vaysset.

Tuesday, May 9 - Kyoto

As part of the "Kyoto lectures", Pier Carlo Tommasi (University of Hawai‘i) gives a lecture on "The Stolen Robe: Copyright and its Metaphors in Medieval Japanese Poetry".

At 6pm (Japan time), online on the Zoom platform. The password for logging in are posted on the Kyoto Center's blog.

Friday, May 12 - Taipei

Frédéric Constant gives a lecture as part of the EFEO-IHM Lecture Series "French Historical Research and the Modern Era, on the topic "Gambling and Local Administration of Justice in 19th Century China."

At 3:00 p.m., lecture hall 2, Archive Building, Institute of Modern History (IHM), Academia Sinica.

Tuesday, May 16 - Taipei

François Lachaud gives a lecture as part of the IHP EFEO Talk entitled "Wilderness, Mythology, and Ethno-folklorism: An overview of the cultural history of bears in Japan."

At 2:30 p.m., room 703, Research Building, IHP, Academia Sinica.

Thursday 18 and Friday 19 May - Taipei

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Taipei Center, the EFEO and the Institute of History and Philology (IHP) of the Academia Sinica are organizing the international colloquium New Directions in Historical and Cultural Studies in Asia - Celebrating the 30th anniversary of cooperation between EFEO and Academia Sinica, at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei.

Programme and information

Friday, May 25 - Paris

On the occasion of Aditia Gunawan's thesis defence, the DHARMA project is organising a colloquium entitled New Research on Old Javanese Texts and Manuscript Culture in the Grand Salon of the Maison de l'Asie and online.

Friday, May 26 - Taipei

Fabienne Jagou gives a lecture as part of the EFEO-IHM Lecture Series "French Historical Research and the Modern Era" on the topic "The 13th Dalai Lama (1876-1933) as a Tibetan Glorious Sovereign in Inner Asia."

At 3 p.m., Conference Room 2, Archive Building, IMH, Academia Sinica.

Wednesday, May 31 - Kyoto

As part of the "Kyoto lectures", Sophie Basch (Sorbonne Université) gives a lecture on "Japonisme, a French Art Form" based on her book Le Japonisme, un art français (Les presses du réel, 2023).

At 6pm (Japan time), in person at the EFEO Centre and online on the Zoom platform. The password for logging in are posted on the Kyoto Center's blog.

Centres

Bangkok

The EFEO has signed an MOU with the Faculty of Archaeology of Silpakorn University (Bangkok). This five-year agreement will strengthen the ties that have existed for several decades between the two institutions, notably through joint research projects, exchanges of data and scientific documents, and the organization of colloquia and conferences.

Phnom Penh

The forecourt and entrance hall of the National Museum of Cambodia (April 2023, EFEO-MNC)

Sculpture Conservation Workshop of the National Museum of Cambodia / EFEO

The imposing statue of Ganesa from Prasat Bac, restituted last March, is currently on display in front of the museum under a canopy (Ponlea).

An initial study has revealed the excessive restoration it has undergone: more than three quarters of the surfaces have been retouched in order to conceal the assembly of the fragmented elements as well as the numerous reworking. Up close, these brownish, slightly purplish surfaces have the dull appearance of "fake rock", far from the texture and the ochre patina of the sandstone still visible on the left arm and the ears.

The elements of its pedestal that were stored in the APSARA Authority compound in Siem Reap were transferred to the museum last month, and on-site searches for missing elements are being conducted.

If possible, a de-restoration and repositioning on its pedestal is being considered.

Eventually, the statue should take the place of the large Garuda from Prasat Thom in Koh Ker, which has been installed in the museum's hall since 1952. The latter also requires a major de-restoration/restoration.

Illustration: The forecourt and entrance hall of the National Museum of Cambodia (April 2023, EFEO-MNC).

Pondicherry

The Pondicherry Centre is closed for the annual holiday in May.

Taipei

On May 18 and 19, the EFEO and the Institute of History and Philology (IHP) of the Academia Sinica are organizing the international colloquium New Directions in Historical and Cultural Studies in Asia - Celebrating the 30th anniversary of cooperation between EFEO and Academia Sinica, at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei.

Full program and information on the colloquium website.

The colloquium will bring together more than thirty participants, including several EFEO scholars:

- Paola Calanca presents a paper on "The Nautical Landscapes : the Sailors’ Geography"

- Frédéric Constant presents a paper entitled "The Economic and Social History of Late Imperial China in the Light of Chinese Archives: State of Research and Perspectives"

- Véronique Degroot presents a paper on "Archaeological Research at Adan-Adan (East Java, 10th -12th c.): Preliminary Notes"

- Nicolas Fiévé gives a paper entitled "The French School of Asian Studies - 120 Years of Research in Asia"

- Luca Gabbiani is organising the IHP Research on Ancient Wooden Slips panel and presents a paper entitled "Framing a Historical Object through Local Governmental Archives: The Case of Urban Real Estate in Eighteenth-Century China"

- Arlo Griffiths presents a paper on "The EFEO’s Research in Indonesia and the DHARMA Project"

- Fabienne Jagou is organising the Recent Trends in Asian Religious Studies panel and et presents a paper entitled "Exploring the Preservation of Holy Bodies: A New Research Perspective on Buddhist Death"

- François Lachaud presents a paper on "Field Stories of an Antiquary: The Quest for Japanese Vernacular Religion"

- Costantino Moretti presents a paper entitled "Buddhist Manuscript Cultures in Medieval China: Methodological Reflections and New Research Perspectives"

- Frank Muyard presents a paper entitled "The Emergence of Indigenous Archaeology in Taiwan"

- Charlotte Schmid presents a paper entitled "Voices from the South: the EFEO Centre in Pondicherry and the Beginning of Writing in South India"

Vientiane

EFEO - CHAMPASAK

A topographic survey mission will take place in May on the site of Wat Song O 3 and will allow training on the recently acquired total station.

Illustration: Training on the LEICA TS07 total station (©CHAMPA project).

Field surveys, before the rainy season makes access impossible, will continue at sites determined by LIDAR data analysis.

Illustration: Field survey with comparison of Lidar data.

As part of the finalisation of a complementary financing project for the CHAMPA project, Christophe Pottier and Michel Lorrillard join the AFD mission to Champassak and Savannakhet from 3 to 9 May.

Researchers

Paola Calanca

From May 14 to 23 Paola Calanca is in Taiwan, where she will give two face-to-face sessions (May 15 and 22) of the seminar on the maritime history of Taiwan as part of the CCK project "Navigation practices in Asia seas," and on May 18 and 19 she will take part in the colloquium commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of the EFEO Center in Taipei.

Élisabeth Chabanol

From May 15 to 20, as part of the Archaeological Mission to Kaesong and the ANR City-NKor (study of Koryo fortresses), Élisabeth Chabanol is conducting a field mission on the island of Okinawa on the sites of fortresses, including Urasoe-jô, at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and at the University of the Ryûkyûs.

Illustration: Urasoe fortress, 13th century.

Frédéric Constant

From May 6 to 24, Frédéric Constant (Université Côte d'Azur), who is on a delegation to the EFEO for the year 2022-2023, is visiting Taiwan at the invitation of the EFEO and the Academia Sinica.

On May 15 he will give a lecture at the Institute of Modern History (IHM) on the topic "Jean Escarra (1885-1955): How Did an Early Twentieth-century French Jurist Understand the Chinese Law?."

On May 18 and 19 he will take part in the colloquium commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of the EFEO Centre in Taipei.

Hugo David

From 24 May to 3 June, Hugo David is in Vienna (Academy of Sciences) to participate in two workshops organised at the Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens. The first, at the invitation of Akane Saito, is devoted to speculations on language in the Yoga tradition, including a project for a critical edition of the Pātañjalayogaśāstravivaraṇa (sometimes attributed to the Vedāntin philosopher Śaṅkara) on Yogasūtra 3.17. The second is a reading workshop on the Jātisamuddeśa, the section on the universal of the Vākyapadīya and its commentary by Helārāja, organised by Marco Ferrante. During his stay, Hugo David will also work on several editorial projects in conjunction with his colleagues in Vienna.

Véronique Degroot

From May 17 to 24, Véronique Degroot will be visiting Taiwan at the invitation of the EFEO and the Institute of Archaeology of the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU).

On May 18 and 19 she will take part in the colloquium commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of the EFEO Center in Taipei.

From May 22 to 24 she will give a series of three lectures at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan entitled:

- "'A Tale of Two Rivers': The Musi and the Batang Hari in (Late) Srivijayan Time", May 22 at the Institute of Archaeology, NCKU

- "Adan-Adan and the Art of Kediri (East Java, 10th -12th c.)", May 23 at the Center for Multicultural Studies, NCKU

- Prambanan and the Archaeology of Hinduism in 9th c. Java," May 24 at the Program in Southeast Asia Cultural Studies, NCKU.

Luca Gabbiani

From May 17 to 24 Luca Gabbiani is in Taipei. On May 18 and 19 he will take part in the colloquium commemorating the thirty years of the creation of the EEFEO Center. He will present a paper on the Renewal of Institutional Studies and Archival research panel, which he has organized with his colleague Chen Hsi-yuan (Institute of History and Philology).

From May 24 to June 5 he will be in Hanoi at the invitation of the Vietnamica program, directed by Philippe Papin (EPHE). On May 26, he will give a lecture entitled "The bureaucracy and its knowledge in China during the Qing dynasty" at the History Department of the University of Hanoi. He will take advantage of his stay to explore the collections of the Centre N° 1 of the Vietnamese archives (Ngyuen dynasty) and those of the Han-Nom Institute.

Dominic Goodall

Leaf from a manuscript conveying an unpublished commentary on the Ratnatrayaparīkṣā (10th c.), preserved in the śivait monastery of Tiruvavaduthurai

Dominic Goodall is in Vienna for a workshop with Akane Saito, Francesco Sferra and Judit Törzsök at the Austrian Academy of Sciences on 13-14 May on an unpublished commentary on the Ratnatrayaparīkṣā, a tenth century Sanskrit philosophical treatise by the Kashmiri theologian Śrīkaṇṭha. The main subject of the treatise is 'speech' as subtle sonic matter that sustains the universe.

Illustration: Leaf from a manuscript conveying an unpublished commentary on the Ratnatrayaparīkṣā (10th c.), preserved in the śivait monastery of Tiruvavaduthurai.

He will stay in Vienna from 15 to 17 May for a working meeting to prepare the fourth volume of the Tāntrikābhidhānakośa, the dictionary of Hindu Tantric terminology being prepared at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

He will be in Paris to participate in the defense of Aditia Gunawan's thesis ("Sundanese Religion in the 15th Century. A Philological Study based on the Śikṣā Guru, the Sasana Mahaguru, and the Siksa Kandaṅ Karǝsian") at the EPHE on 26 May.

He will travel to Naples at the end of May for his work in the Śivadharma project directed by Florinda De Simini (University "L'Orientale", Naples).

Arlo Griffiths

On May 18 and 19 Arlo Griffiths takes part in the colloquium to celebrate the 30th anniversary of cooperation between the EFEO and the Academia Sinica in Taipei.

On May 23 he will embark on a mission to France for the thesis defense of his doctoral student Aditia Gunawan (EFEO and National Library of Indonesia).

On 25 May, on the occasion of Aditia Gunawan's thesis defence, the DHARMA project is organising a colloquium entitled New Research on Old Javanese Texts and Manuscript Culture in the Grand Salon of the Maison de l'Asie.

Arlo Griffiths will give a talk on "Airlaṅga's Names in Inscriptions and Manuscripts".

Aditia Gunawan's thesis defence will take place on 26 May, in the Grand Salon of the Maison de l'Asie from 2pm. The thesis is entitled "Sundanese Religion in the 15th Century: A Philological Study based on the Śikṣā Guru, the Sasana Mahaguru, and the Siksa Kandaṅ Karəsian", and was co-directed by Arlo Griffiths and Andrea Acri.

Illustration: the Palm Scrolls, containing the Siksa Kandaṅ Karəsian, written in Old Soundanese (National Library of Indonesia collection) (© National Library of Indonesia).

The day after the defense, Arlo Griffiths will travel to Burgundy with Timothy Lubin (Washington & Lee University) to work for a week on their edition of the Old Javanese text Svayambhu.

Benoît Jacquet

Sanyū, a building built around 1910, formerly the largest "tea house" (chaya) in Japan, two-thirds destroyed in 2022. Shot of the eastern façade, Kyōto, Shimogyō-ku.

On Saturday May, 27, from 1 to 5 p.m., the first seminar of the Nichibunken Collaborative Research Project on "The City and the Monument: Urbanism and Memory from the History of Visual Culture", directed by Timon Screech, will be held at the Nichibunken International Research Centre for Japanese Studies in Kyōto. As a visiting scholar (in 2023-2024) in this research group, Benoît Jacquet will present his research on "The undocumented heritage of Japanese architecture".

Illustration: Sanyū, a building built around 1910, formerly the largest "tea house" (chaya) in Japan, two-thirds destroyed in 2022. Shot of the eastern façade, Kyōto, Shimogyō-ku.

Fabienne Jagou

From May 17 to July 9, Fabienne Jagou (EFEO) is on mission in Taiwan.

François Lachaud

From May 12 to 21, François Lachaud will be visiting Taiwan at the invitation of the EFEO and the Institute of History and Philology (IHP) of the Academia Sinica.

On 16 May he will give a lecture on "Wilderness, Mythology, and Ethno-folklorism: A Glimpse at the Cultural History of Bears in Japan" at 2.30 p.m. at the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica in Taipei.

Illustration: Stuffed Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanicus japonicus), Uttō hot springs, Matagi-yu, Akiya prefecture (Photo François Lachaud).

On May 18 he will take part in the colloquium marking the thirtieth anniversary of the EFEO's relations with the Academia Sinica. He will present the paper "Field Stories of an Antiquary: The Quest for Japanese Vernacular Religion" at 11:15 a.m. at the Academia Sinica, Taipei.

Illustration: Demon's Oratory, Akakurayama Shrine, Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture (Photo François Lachaud).

Michel Lorrillard

Michel Lorrillard will carry out documentary research at Maha Sarakham University (Thailand) from May 22 to 26.

Christophe Marquet

Christophe Marquet gives a lecture entitled "A Consideration of Ōtsu-e as Folk Religious Paintings (庶民の神仏画としての大津絵についての一考察)" at the 67th International Conference of Eastern Studies, held in Kyōto.

The lecture will be followed by a visit to the special exhibition on Ōtsu paintings from the collections of the Ōtsu City Museum of History, and a guided tour by Superior Fuke Shungen, of the Kōjō-in Pavilion (early 17th c.) of the Miidera Monastery (Onjō-ji), which is classified as a National Treasure. Participation upon registration before May 8.

Illustration: Ōtsu painting of the "Green-faced Vajra", mid-18th c., used until 2002 for the celebration of the Monkey and Metal Elder Day Vigil rite, in Ogoto (Ōtsu City), on deposit at the Ōtsu City Museum of History.

Ōtsu painting of the "Green-faced Vajra", mid-18th c., used until 2002 for the celebration of the Monkey and Metal Elder Day Vigil rite, in Ogoto (Ōtsu City), on deposit at the Ōtsu City Museum of History

Costantino Moretti

Costantino Moretti will be in Taipei from may 16 to 21, taking part in the colloquium marking the thirtieth anniversary of the EFEO's relations with the Academia Sinica.

Frank Muyard

On May 18 and 19, Frank Muyard, in collaboration with Tai Li-chuan (IHP), Chen Hsi-yuan (IHP), Paola Calanca (EFEO), Luca Gabbiani (EFEO), and Fabienne Jagou (EFEO), is organizing the international colloquium New Directions in Historical and Cultural Studies in Asia - Celebrating the 30th anniversary of cooperation between EFEO and Academia Sinica, to be held at the Institute of History and Philology (IHP), Academia Sinica, Taipei.

Program and information on the colloquium website.

From May 17 to 24, Frank Muyard will welcome and accompany Nicolas Fiévé, Director of the EFEO, on his mission to Taiwan and his meetings with the heads of the EFEO's partner institutions, including the Institute of History and Philology (IHP) of the Academia Sinica, the National Palace Museum (MNP), and the Institute of Archaeology of the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU). On 20 and 21 May, he is organising a field mission to the indigenous villages of Payuan and Sandimen in Pingtung County.

Daniel Perret

Daniel Perret is on a post-excavation mission, from May 8 to 12, in Kuching (Sarawak).

Illustration: Sugai Jaong, furniture drying, October 2022 (©Daniel Perret).

Christophe Pottier

From May 2 to 12, Christophe Pottier is in Laos to participate in the AFD mission for the finalisation of a complementary financing project for the CHAMPA project, and in the two steering committees of the CHAMPA project in Champasak and Savannakhet.

Catherine Scheer

On May 25, Catherine Scheer gives the presentation "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 (this presentation was planned in February but had to be postponed).

Brice Vincent

From April 24 to May 12, an archaeological excavation campaign will be conducted on the Trapeang Choan Sanlong site (Chhaep district, Preah Vihear province), under the co-direction of Brice Vincent (EFEO) and Sébastien Clouet (Sorbonne University), in collaboration with the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts.

Illustration: Preparation of an offering ceremony, Trapeang Choan Sanlong (Chhaep, Preah Vihear province, Cambodia).

This fieldwork will make it possible to continue the study of a primary copper production site, unique in Cambodia and active at least during the Angkorian period (late 9th to 14th centuries), and to characterize more particularly the remains of metallurgical operations for the reduction of copper ore.

This is the fourth fieldwork undertaken on this site, which is now at the heart of the LANGAU - Aux sources du cuivre d'Angkor research project, dedicated to the study of the provenance, production and circulation of copper within the Angkorian kingdom.

Illustration: Remains of copper metallurgy being excavated (Trapeang Choan Sanlong, sector 1).

Lectures

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

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

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

- Master 1 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

May 4, Satoshi Ogura (Tokyo University of Foreign Sciences - visiting professor at EHESS), for an intervention entitled "Locating Farmulī’s Persian translation of the Laghuyogavāśiṣtha" and Volker Gottowik (Goethe University Frankfurt), for an intervention entitled "Transgressive ritual practices: ‘Tantric fragments’ in the context of the Islamic veneration of saints in Central Java"

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

May 11, Oliver Tappe (University of Heidelberg), for an intervention entitled "Tin mining in Laos: past legacies and present challenges

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

May 11, Oliver Tappe (University of Heidelberg), for a paper entitled "The Phong of Houaphan, Northeast Laos: Ethnohistorical explorations"

Publications

All EFEO publications are available on the publications website.

Publications website

Researchers' publications

The Angkorian World, edited by Mitch Hendrickson, Miriam T. Stark, and Damian Evans, Routledge, 2023.

Many EFEO scholars have contributed to various chapters of this book:

- Dominique Soutif, Julia Estève: "Texts and Objects. Exploiting the Literary Sources of Medieval Cambodia"

- Miriam T. Stark, Pierre-Yves Manguin: "The Mekong Delta Before the Angkorian World"

- Jean-Baptiste Chevance, Christophe Pottier: "The Early Capitals of Angkor"

- Damian Evans, Roland Fletcher, Sarah Klassen, Christophe Pottier, Pelle Wijker: "Trajectories of Urbanism in the Angkorian World"

- Chea Socheat, Julia Estève, Dominique Soutif, Edward Swenson: "Āśramas, Shrines, and Royal Power"

- Chhem Rethy, Damian Evans, Chhom Kunthea, Phlong Pisith, Peter D. Sharrock: "Education and Medicine at Angkor"

- Damian Evans, Martin Polkinghorne, Roland Fletcher, David Brotherson, Tegan Hall, Sarah Klassen, Pelle Wijker: "Perspectives on the ‘Collapse’ of Angkor and the Khmer Empire"

Annette Schmiedchen, Arlo Griffiths & Ryosuke Furui (dir.), Buddhism, Law & Society 7: Special volume on Epigraphic Evidence on Patronage and Social Contexts of Buddhist Monasteries in Medieval South and Southeast Asia, Hein & Co., Getzville NY, 2021-2022

This volume includes three contributions authored or co-authored by Arlo Griffiths:

- "Introduction", by the Guest Editors Annette Schmiedchen, Arlo Griffiths and Ryosuke Furui, pages XI–XXIII

- "The Terms kuṭi and vihāra in Old Javanese Epigraphy and the Modes of Buddhist Monasticism in Early Java" by Arlo Griffiths, pages 143–229

- Études du Corpus des inscriptions du Campā, XII : Buddhist vihāras in Campā, from the 7th to the 14th centuries" by Arlo Griffiths, Salomé Pichon and William A. Southworth, pages 275–326

Gregory Kourilsky, "Legal Concerns in 16th Century Laos: a preliminary study of the Gurupadesa", in Claudio Cicuzza (ed.), Proceedings of the Third International Pali Studies Week, Paris 2018, Material for the Study of the Tripitaka, vol. 18, Fragile Palm Leaves and Lumbini International Research Institute, Bangkok and Lumbini 2023, pages 263–354.

Proceedings of the Third International Pali Studies Week

Christophe Marquet contributed to the book edited by Hara Kiyoshi, Minshūga no sekai. Ōshū to Higashi-Ajia wo hikaku suru 民衆画の世界欧州と東アジアを比較する / The world of the popular image: comparisons between Europe and East Asia (Tōkyō, Sangensha, 2023, 239+11 pp. ), which includes the papers of the research group "Atarashii bunka-shi to shite no minga. Tōzai hikaku kenkyū" (2019-2021) and the catalogue of the exhibition The World of the Popular Image / Minshūga no sekai, held in February 2022 at the Maison franco-japonaise in Tōkyō.

Minshūga no sekai. Ōshū to Higashi-Ajia wo hikaku suru 民衆画の世界　欧州と東アジアを比較する　/ Le monde de l’image populaire : comparaisons entre l’Europe et l’Asie de l’Est

Pierre-Yves Manguin, "Le carrefour insulindien au tournant du deuxième millénaire", in Dominique Barthélemy, Frantz Grenet & Cécile Morrisson (ed.), L'Eurasie autour de l'an 1000: Cultures, religions et sociétés d'un monde en développement, Leuven: Peeters Publishers (Monographies du Centre de Recherche d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance - Collège de France, 57), pages 83-112.

Pierre-Yves Manguin, "New Paradigms for the Early Relationship between South and Southeast Asia: The Contribution of Southeast Asian Archaeology", in David Henley & Mira Wickramasinghe (ed.), Monsoon Asia: A reader on South and Southeast Asia, Leiden: Leiden University Press, pages 119-136.

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma, "‘NeraNau yatkarma Nau chetsa kartA.anAdhyAne' (pA. sU. 1.3.67) iti sUtravArtikabhAShyavivaraNam, Part 2", in Divakaraprasada (online tri-monthly journal), Tripunilara, Kerala, pages 9-12.

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma, "NeraNau yatkarma Nau chetsa kartA.anAdhyAne' (pA. sU. 1.3.67) iti sUtravArtikabhAShyavivaraNam, Part 3", in Divakaraprasada (online tri-monthly journal), Tripunilara, Kerala, pages 11-15.

Research Services

Recipients of allocation currently on mission

- Jérôme Collet is in Japan, for a field approach to the transmission of traditional Japanese arts: identity in transformation

- 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"

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

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)

Armelle Ninnin, recipient of a doctoral contract from the Ecoles Françaises à l'Étranger (EFEO), will take part in a seminar organized by the GIS Asie, entitled Patrimoine architectural et urbain dans les villes en Asie. She will present the progress of her doctoral research: "Patrimonialising the city in Southeast Asia: urban fabric and heritage actions in the face of UNESCO labelling. The seminar will take place on May, 22, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Condorcet Campus.

Link to the event.

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From May 17 to 24, the Director of the EFEO, Nicolas Fiévé, will be visiting Taiwan on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the EFEO Center in Taipei at the Academia Sinica.

On May 17 he will meet Mr. Huang Chin-hsing, vice-president of the Academia Sinica, and Mrs. Lee Jen-der, director of the Institute of History and Philology (IHP) at the Academia Sinica.

On May 18 and 19 he will take part in the international colloquium New Directions in Historical and Cultural Studies in Asia - Celebrating the 30th anniversary of cooperation between EFEO and Academia Sinica, organized by the Taipei Center of the EFEO and the Institute of History and Philology (IHP) of the Academia Sinica at the IHP, where he will give a talk entitled "The French School of Asian Studies - 120 Years of Research in Asia.

On May 21 and 22 he will make a field trip with Frank Muyard (head of the EFEO's Taipei Center) to the indigenous villages of Payuan and Sandimen, in Pingtung County.

On May 22 he will meet the director, Mr. Chao Chin-yung, and colleagues from the Institute of Archaeology of the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan, a scientific partner of the EFEO.

On May 23 he will visit the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum (NPM) in Chiayi and meet its staff, and on May 24 he will meet in Taipei with Mr. Hsiao Tsung-Huang, Director of the National Palace Museum (NPM), a scientific partner of the EFEO, and will visit the museum's exhibitions.

Library

Katia Juhel, Director of Libraries at the EFEO, will be in Athens from May 9 to 12 as part of the meeting of the heads of the libraries of the French Schools Abroad.

She will also attend the Journées ABES (Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur) in Montpellier from 22 to 24 May.

After six months of restoration at the INP (Institut national du patrimoine), the bronze statuette of the god Kālacakra in union with his Śakti (D-71-79) belonging to the EFEO's Tibetan art collection has returned to the library.

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Illustration: Polycephalous god Kālacakra standing in union with his śakti, Cote: EFEO TIB D71-79 (© Caroline Riberaigua/EFEO).

Sovannara Mey, archivist at the EFEO, took part in the "Produire, publier ou échanger en EAD, avec ou sans AtoM" conference organized by the Distam consortium at the INHA on April 21. He reported on the procedures put in place by the Paris library team since 2020 to facilitate the encoding of archival inventory data: first integrated into the AtoM software, the data are then migrated and enriched for publication in the Calames catalogue.

EFEO inventories published with AtoM.

EFEO inventories published in Calames.

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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

Otome Klein at the EFEO Centre in Chiang Mai, with her daughter Mimi Saeju and Yves Goudineau (December 2019).

Otome Louisa Klein Hutheesing

(August 19, 1930, Appledorn, Netherlands - April 9, 2023, Chiang Mai, Thailand)

It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Otome Klein Hutheesing in Chiang Mai, Thailand, April 9 of this year, at the age of 93.
Otome Klein Hutheesing was an anthropologist who spent over 40 years living among Tibeto-Burman minority populations in northern Thailand. She compiled an exceptional photographic documentation of these communities, much of which has been digitized and is preserved in the EFEO photographic library.

The photographic collection, made between 1982 and 1987, includes 790 slides primarily taken in the Lisu village of Doi Laan in the province of Chiang Rai.

Illustration: Otome Klein at the EFEO Centre in Chiang Mai, with her daughter Mimi Saeju and Yves Goudineau (December 2019).

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Of particular note

30th anniversary of the reopening of the EFEO Centre in Siem Reap

A look back at the events organized between December 10 and 13, 2022, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the reopening of the EFEO Center in Siem Reap: Open House Day, study days, archaeological experiments, film screenings, artistic performances, exhibition...

A large public, especially schoolchildren, students, and researchers, was invited to come and discover the various projects and research teams hosted at our centre.

A photographic exhibition entitled "Angkor alive. Village scenes (Siem Reap, 1959-1970)" was also inaugurated on this occasion.

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Hosting a delegation at the EFEO

As part of the support given to the international influence of the SHS by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR), a new long-term mobility scheme (one semester or one year) has been opened in 2021 in each of the five Écoles françaises à l’Étranger to encourage the preparation and submission of research projects in response to national or European calls for proposals.

At the EFEO, this scheme involves the hosting of a teacher-researcher from a French university or public institution of higher education and research, in order to prepare and submit a project in response to an ERC, ANR, or other call for proposals, in partnership with the EFEO, and whose theme will be in keeping with one of the institution's scientific research areas.

The call for applications for the 2023-2024 campaign is open until May 2.

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Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger

Call for applications for 5 doctoral contracts 2023-2026

On Thursday 11 May, from 4 to 6.30 pm, the Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'étranger invites students and researchers to a meeting to present the different hosting arrangements within the five French schools abroad, in the presence of the directors of each school, at the École normale supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, Paris 5.

French and international students and colleagues in the humanities and social sciences are welcomed for research stays of various lengths and types. These mobilities are intended to develop individual or collective projects, fully integrated into the academic networks of the host countries.

The presentation will be followed by a short lecture by Alexandre Farnoux entitled: "Pour une histoire commune des Écoles".

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