Agenda

Presentation of the EFEO: Élisabeth Chabanol, EFEO. Discussant: Bernard Senécal, Professor Emeritus, Department of Religion, Sogang University, and meditation master at the Imje school.

(The seminar will take place with simultaneous French-Korean interpretation)

From 2pm to 5pm, at the French Embassy in the Republic of Korea - Kim Chung-up Pavilion, 43-12 Seosomun-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul.

Registration required at the following address Hyung-hwan.Chun@kr.ambafrance-culture.org

Photo: 'Oshirasama', Aomori Prefecture © François Lachaud, EFEO.

Centres

Chiang Mai

The EFEO Center in Chiang Mai is hosting Pierre Relaño (mathematician, ENS graduate, IRCAM affiliate, engineer, and contemporary music composer) for a one-month residency beginning on January 13. His residency project involves creating a piece of contemporary Western music using local Thai instruments. The piece will be for percussion and may be adapted to other percussive instruments, outside the traditional Thai instrumentarium. The final piece will be performed at least twice in the concert hall of the Alliance Française Chiang Mai, which is coordinating this artistic residency with the support of the French Embassy in Thailand.

On December 15, Louis Gabaude gave a presentation on 'The currents of Buddhism in Thailand' at the EFEO Centre in Chiang Mai for the 'La Rose du Nord' association. As it was not possible to cover this vast topic in its entirety, Louis Gabaude will continue his talk at a new session on Friday, January 26, 2024.

The EFEO Centre in Chiang Mai is once again hosting one of the workshops of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville after several years of interruption due to Covid-19. Under the guidance of Pijika Pumketkao, a teacher at ENSAPB, eight French students from ENSAPB and around ten Thai students and their teachers from Chiang Mai University will be at the Centre from 10 to 22 January. The head of the workshop, Cyril Ros, MCF ENSAPB and associate researcher at IPRAUS, will join the group from 18 to 22 January for the final presentation with Christophe Pottier. The whole workshop will then travel to Siemreap from January 23 to 25 to join a second group of students led by Aline Hetreau-Pottier, who will be hosted at the EFEO Centre in Siemreap from January 10.

Until January 22, the EFEO Centre in Chiang Mai is presenting an exhibition entitled "Library Park", featuring a selection of work by students from the Faculty of Architecture at Chiang Mai University during the "Theory, philosophy, and landscape design studio in public project".

Pondicherry

Bérénice Bellina (CNRS - UMR 8068 - TEMPS, Paris/Nanterre), Aude Favereau (Institute of Archaeology, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan), Coline Lefrancq (CNRS - UMR 7041 - ARSCAN - Paris/Nanterre) and Yohan Chabot (GéoArchÉon (geoarchaeology and palaeoenvironment)) will be visiting the Pondicherry Centre during their study visit to India in January, funded by the Dharma project. Together with Valérie Gillet (EFEO, Paris), they will be visiting the Madurai and Pudukkottai regions from 15 to 22 January, to work on a joint project. The general theme of this project revolves around the question of trade and urban development over a period ranging from the first millennium BC to the thirteenth century AD, from a multidisciplinary perspective (history, epigraphy, archaeology, geoarchaeology, palaeoenvironment, geomatics, anthropology, etc.).

As part of the DiPiKA project - "Digitisation and Preservation of Kerala's Archives" - funded by the Arcadia Philanthropic Foundation ("Arcadia") (Grant 2203-4800), Dominic Goodall, S.A.S. Sarma and Prerana Patel will visit the Vadake Brahmaswam Madham in Trissur to help launch this new project, which aims to preserve Kerala's rich and endangered cultural heritage by surveying and digitising palm-leaf manuscripts held in private collections across the state. The programme aims to create an online archive of Kerala's manuscripts, fully open access, to facilitate its use by researchers and private owners, thus also promoting local initiatives for the safeguarding of written historical artefacts. Hugo David (EFEO, Paris), one of the principal investigators of the DiPiKA project, will also be visiting Trissur for this event, where he will be presenting research aimed at identifying important unpublished Sanskrit texts in private manuscript collections in central Kerala with the help of local researchers, particularly in the field of Vedic studies and traditional grammar and linguistics.

Marzenna Czerniak-Drożdżowicz of Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, will be visiting the EFEO's Pondicherry Center for a month to continue her project "Temples of South India: Nodal points in networks of connections" [SITes] - German-Polish grant "Beethoven Classic IV" (from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Polish National Centre for Scientific Research: DEC-2020/39/G/HS2/03593). The project focuses on the connections and flows of ideas and material objects between sacred Hindu sites, conceived here as nodes in a network mapped by stories sung, written, interpreted and even 'walked' by pilgrims. Czerniak-Drożdżowicz, in cooperation with R. Sathyanarayanan (EFEO), plans to examine the history of the peregrinations of the processional image of Śrīrangam, which would have been moved from temple to temple in Tirumalai before returning to Śrīraṅgam.

Vientiane

Until March 10 the EFEO Center in Taipei will be hosting Peng Chao-Hsuan, a doctoral student at the EHESS and winner of an EFEO field grant, for his research project entitled "Ideas on Democratization: An Intellectual History of the Taiwanese Student Movements of the 1980s."

Researchers

Michela Bussotti

The PRC ChEDil project will be launched on Tuesday the 23rd of January and will start with a general meeting at the conference center on the Condrocet campus (for more details please contact Michela Bussotti).

Guillaume Dutournier

Valérie Gillet

Valérie Gillet will be visiting India from 15 to 28 January as part of a Dharma project. She will be carrying out fieldwork in the Pudukkottai region, from 15th to 22nd, in order to set up a multidisciplinary project in collaboration with Bérénice Bellina (CNRS), Coline Lefrancq (CNRS) and V. Selvakumar (Tamil University). All three will be accompanying Yohan Chabot (geoarchaeologist) on a visit to several sites in the region, in order to gain an understanding of the ancient environment and define their potential in the context of this project. This first joint mission will be limited to a surface analysis and will therefore be non-invasive.

François Lachaud

Christophe Marquet

Christophe Marquet is a member of the jury for Akane Nishii's doctoral thesis, La diffusion et l'exportation des objets de l'artisanat d'art japonais de la fin de l'époque d'Edo à l'ère Meiji (1853-1890): Enjeux politiques, économiques et sociaux pour le Japon, prepared under the supervision of Guillaume Carré at the EHESS.

Costantino Moretti

Costantino Moretti presents a paper entitled 'Random Notes on Standards, Textual and Formal Variants in Dunhuang Buddhist Manuscripts (Second Part)', as part of the Histoire des Sciences, Histoire du Texte day organised by Karine Chemla (SPHere, CNRS-University Paris Cité), Salle Malevitch 483A, bâtiment Condorcet Université Paris-Cité, 4 rue Elsa Morante Paris 75013, Thursday 11 January from 9.30am to 5.30pm.

Frank Muyard

On January 16 Frank Muyard gives a lecture entitled "Les élections présidentielle et législatives taiwanaises de 2024: Analyse des résultats et perspectives", organized jointly by the EFEO and the Taipei branch of the Center for French Studies on Contemporary China (CEFC).

Catherine Scheer

Catherine Scheer is in Cambodia until 6 February 2024 to study the ritual transformations linked to the commodification of land and a new 'place of memory' in the Mondulkiri highlands that celebrates a Bunong rebel from the colonial era.

Charlotte Schmid

Lectures

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

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)

Véronique Degroot

- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Introduction à l'histoire de l'art et à l'archéologie de l'Indonésie occidentale: protohistoire et période hindo-bouddhique

Hugo David

- License 3 Seminar in Indian Studies, "Dramatic Texts 1 and 2" (O5IS413/06IS414), Université Paris-3 "Sorbonne Nouvelle"

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Philosophie et exégèse dans le monde indien: Śālikanātha et Bhartṛhari sur les universaux

Luca Gabbiani

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

Benoît Jacquet

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

- Master 2 seminar, Pratiques constructives du projet architectural, at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette

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

François Lachaud

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Bouddhisme  et civilisation japonaise : Les Masques du démon : bouddhisme, shamanisme et religion vernaculaire dans le département d'Akita

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Bouddhisme et civilisation japonaise : Le Chant du cœur de Yanagi Muneyoshi

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

Martin Nogueira Ramos

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire du christianisme japonais (XVIe-XIXe s.)

Christophe Pottier

- Master's seminar at Sorbonne University, Archaeology in the Far East

Catherine Scheer

- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Faire de la recherche sur le terrain : contraintes, contournements, engagements en Asie du Sud-Est

Charlotte Schmid

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Épigraphie et iconographie du monde indien

Publications

All EFEO publications are available on the publications website.

Researchers' publications

Larios Borayin, Rejecting Reform and Defending one’s Dharma: The Dharmatattvanirṇaya of Vāsudevaśāstrī Abhyaṅkar (1863-1942), in Études réunies par Silvia D'Intino et Christèle Barois. Visages du dharma, Éditions EHESS, 2023, Purusartha 39.

Research Services

Recipients of allocation on mission on January

- Romina Bartocci is in Kyoto for a study on "Les phases des développement de la politique régionale dans la province de Kamitsukeno entre le Vie et le VIIe siècle"

- Spoorthi Gangadikar is in India for a study on "La privatisation de l’enseignement indien et les inégalités sociales - Études comparative des pratiques et représentations des enseignants des écoles publiques et privées au Rajasthan et au Karnataka"

- Fansuri Hamzah is in Indonesia for a study on the "Identity and Piety: Hijrah Movement among Urban Muslims in Contemporary Indonesia"

- Léna Lefebvre is in Pondicherry for a study on "La vulnérabilité sociale des Dalits en Inde rurale par une approche multi-risques. Cas des aléas cyclone, inondation, et sécheresse dans les plaines du nord-est du Tamil Nadu"

- Alice Lesté-Lasserre is in Kyoto for a study on the "Ethnographie des femmes fugeki 巫覡 spécialistes des oracles du Mont Ikoma (Japon)"

- Léa Maronet is in Pondicherry for a study on the "Étude iconographique, stylistique et computationnelle des motifs aśokéens à la période formative de l’art indien (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. - IIIe siècle ap.)"

- Chao-Hsuan Peng is in Taiwan for a study on the  "Idées en démocratisation : Militantisme intellectuel des étudiants taïwanais des années 1980"

- Saputra Rangga Eka is in Jakarta for a study on "The Hadhrami-Sayyids after the Independence of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore: Dynamics of socio-economical adaptation and the question of identity"

- Bruno Vilela da Silva is in Pondicherry for a critical edition and study of the Kālottaratantra (reviews Trayodaśaśatikakālottara and Saptaśatikakālottara).

- Zhang Zheming is in Beijing for a study on "Les œuvres françaises dans les livres illustrés pour enfants en Chine : les publications de la Zhongguo shaonian ertong chubanshe 中国少年儿童出版社 (1956-2000)"

Direction

The Director of the EFEO, Nicolas Fiévé, will be visiting the Pondicherry Centre in India from January 18 to 26. Accompanied by Dominic Goodall, head of the Centre, he will be meeting the administrative and scientific staff. Joined on site by Katia Juhel, Curator of Libraries (EFEO, Paris), and Valérie Gillet, Director of Studies (EFEO, Paris), he will visit the library and manuscript collections as part of a project to set up a room dedicated to the conservation of palm-leaf manuscripts. The team will also visit the premises of the Institut français de Pondichéry (IFP), where it will meet Blandine Ripert, Director of the IFP, talk to members of the Indology Department, headed by Borayin Larios (EFEO, Pondicherry), and learn about recent work to conserve the precious collection.

During his mission, Nicolas Fiévé will be visiting the Pudukkottai region, on the site of the project on trade and urban development from the first millennium BC to the thirteenth century AD, led by Valérie Gillet (EFEO), Bérénice Bellina (CNRS) and Coline Lefrancq (CNRS).

Staff

The library team is delighted to announce the arrival of two new colleagues:

- Raquel Selosse, who previously worked in the university libraries of Bordeaux and Lille, will be the new head of the Chiang Mai library from 1 January 2024.

- On 5 January 2024, the Paris library will welcome Bernadeta Sardjono, previously head of the Indonesian and Malay collections at BULAC, as the new head of the South-East Asia collection.

Library

The library is closed following major water damage.

Follow-up operations following the water damage:

Photo Library

The water damage on 16 November did not affect the photo library premises, so the photographs were not damaged in any way.

Of particular note

Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger

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