Agenda

Centres

Beijing

Jakarta

Andrew Ollet (University of Chicago) will be visiting the Jakarta Centre for the first three days of September, to work with Arlo Griffiths on the edition and translation of the Smaradahana kakawin, as part of the DHARMA project.

During the first week of the month, the Centre will welcome Véronique Degroot (EFEO Paris), who will be preparing the next projects in Bumiayu and Bototumpang, in collaboration with Agustijanto Indrajaya (BRIN), as part of the DHARMA project.

Pondicherry

As part of the DHARMA project, Yohan Chabot, affiliated to GéoArchÉon in Viéville-sous-les-Côtes, France, specialising in geoarchaeology and the palaeoenvironment, will be coming to the Pondicherry Centre in September. He will be travelling to Tamil Nadu, in southern India, as part of a collaborative mission with Valérie Gillet and Coline Lefrancq, to carry out a non-invasive preliminary study of the geomorphology and palaeoenvironment of sites in Tamil Nadu, exploring the processes by which sites were formed and their relationship with human settlements.

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma has been appointed by Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, as an examiner to conduct the PhD thesis defence for Smt. Arathi K., researcher in Sanskrit grammar, on September 6.

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma will give a presentation titled "Śāstrayonitvādhyāya des Brahmasūtras" at the Chatuśśāstrasabhā (Traditional Colloquium on the Four Fundamental Disciplines) organised by the Kanchi-Kamakoti Peetham in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, on September 8.

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma will deliver a lecture on a chapter of the Brahmasūtra entitled "Anyādhisthitādhyāya Vichāra" at the Mahāgaṇapati Vākyārtha Sadas (traditional colloquium) organised by the Sringeri Sharada Peetham in Sringeri, on September 12.

G. Vijayavenugopal, S.A.S. Sarma and R. Sathyanarayanan have been invited to take part in the workshop entitled "Gift Protection in South Asia and Southeast Asia", to be held at the EHESS (Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, France) from 24 to 26 September.

Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken of the University of Heidelberg and leader of the ‘Hindu Temple Legends in South India (HTL)’ project, a collaboration between the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften and the EFEO, funded by the Academies Programme of the Union of German Academies of Arts and Sciences (Vorhabennummer II.C.28), will be in South India from August 31. After a few days in Kanchipuram, she plans to arrive in Pondicherry on 5 September. While in Pondicherry, she will meet and work with the HTL team to review their progress.

Paras Mehta, who has joined the "Hindu Temple Legends in South India" project, will be at the Pondicherry Centre from 1 to 15 September. He will be working on digital editions and English translations of Sanskrit māhātmyas and sthalapurāṇas related to Kanchipuram, including an unpublished Sanskrit māhātmya preserved in some Grantha script manuscripts. During his visit, he will meet Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken and other members of the HTL team.

Lila Merlin, a Masters student at the EPHE, has just arrived in Pondicherry for a month to carry out research on rouletted ware, the most widespread of all Indian ceramics, found from Egypt to Vietnam from the 4th century BC onwards.

Siem Reap

Researchers

Alain Arrault

At the invitation of the University of Leicester, Alain Arrault is taking part in the Respectful Curation of Chinese Religious Objects in UK Museums workshop from 3 to 5 September. He will be presenting a paper entitled "Material, religious and sociological aspects of the Hunan domestic statuary".

Éric Bourdonneau

On September 18, Éric Bourdonneau will be taking part in the 9th technical session of the CIC-Preah Vihear in Siem Reap, where he will be presenting a paper entitled "Two faces or five? The study and restoration program for the statue of the dancing Shiva from the Prasat Thom (Koh Ker). Progress report."

Élisabeth Chabanol

Véronique Degroot

From 8 to 29 September, Véronique Degroot (EFEO) and Agustijanto Indrajaya (Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional) are leading the 3rd excavation campaign at Bumiayu, as part of the SriBumi project (Franco-Indonesian archaeological mission in South Sumatra) and the DHARMA ERC (ERC no. 809994).

Luca Gabbiani

From September 8 to 14 Luca Gabbiani will take part in the second edition of the summer school ‘From Qing Dynasty to Republican China: Continuities and Ruptures,’ organized jointly by the CNRS, the Center for Studies on Modern and Contemporary China, the University of Heidelberg, the Labex Tepsis, and the EFEO.

This summer school, which will bring together 18 participants from France, England, Germany, Sweden, China, the United States and Australia, will be held at the CNRS ‘La Vieille Perrotine’ activity centre on the island of Oléron. Luca Gabbiani will lead two sessions, one on the morning of Thursday 12 September devoted to autobiographical and biographical sources for late imperial China (in collaboration with Marie-Paule Hille, EHESS), and the other on the afternoon of Friday 13 September on recent historiography around the theme of the New Qing History (in collaboration with Catherine Jami, CNRS).

Frédéric Girard

Frédéric Girard is taking part in the 56th Annual Conference, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, "New Approaches to Interpreting Zen Discourse", Critical Interpretation of Mind-Only by Dōgen, from 16 to 18 September 2024, at Charles University, Prague.

Valérie Gillet

Valérie Gillet will be visiting the Pondicherry Centre in September to continue her research into the history and epigraphy of the first millennium in the Tamil country. As part of the implementation of a multi-disciplinary project on trade networks (a sub-project of the DHARMA project) in collaboration with V. Selvakumar, Coline Lefrancq, Bérénice Bellina and Yohan Chabot, Valérie Gillet will be going into the field with part of the team to study a number of sites in Tamil Nadu.

Fabienne Jagou

Fabienne Jagou will be at the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA, from 11 to 15 September. At the invitation of the LEAD project run by Aarhus University, Denmark, she will be presenting a paper entitled ‘How to conceptualise devotion in the context of the master-disciple relationship when politics gets involved’.

Gregory Kourilsky

On 17 September, Gregory Kourilsky will be travelling to Nakhon Pathom (central Thailand) to examine and document an inscription from the Sukhothai period, held at the Phra Pathom Chedi National Museum. He will be accompanied by Trongjai Hutangkura (Sirindhorn Antropology Centre, Bangkok).

François Lachaud

On September 9 François Lachaud will take part in the thesis monitoring committee of Laura Agnel, whose thesis he is co-directing with Alain Arrault (EFEO), Matthias Hayek (EPHE), and Vincent Goossaert (EPHE).

On September 10 François Lachaud will take part in the thesis monitoring committee of Benedetta Paccini, whose thesis he is co-directing with Alain Arrault (EFEO), Matthias Hayek (EPHE), Vincent Goossaert (EPHE) and Brian Ruppert (Kanagawa University).

Christophe Marquet

Christophe Marquet will be in Reims on 28 and 29 August, at the Musée Saint-Remi to study the collection of Japanese prints assembled by the industrialist Alfred Gérard (1837-1915) in Yokohama between 1863 and 1878, and at the Musée-hôtel Le Vergeur-Maison Hugues Krafft for the exhibition Le Japon dans la peau. Langage du corps tatoué, an exhibition he collaborated on.

From 3 to 5 September, he will be visiting the Musée d'Ethnographie in Neuchâtel to study Japanese paintings of automaton theatres from the mid-nineteenth century, held in the Aimé Humbert collection (1819-1900), who lived in Japan from 1862 to 1863 as minister plenipotentiary for the Swiss Confederation.

On 10 and 11 September he will be taking part in the symposium "Creative Collaborations in Kyoto, Osaka and Beyond, 1770-1900" organised by the British Museum at the SOAS.

Hélène Njoto

Hélène Njoto will be travelling to Ambon in early September to coordinate and document the restoration of the roof of the Wapauwe mosque in the village of Kaitetu as part of the ALIPH-EFEO project in the Moluccas. This restoration, which will be preceded by several days of propitiatory ceremonies by the master carpenters of the village of Kaitetu, will bring the ALIPH-EFEO project to a close.

Martin Nogueira Ramos

Martin Nogueira Ramos is on assignment in Japan until October 4. He is attached to the Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives (Kyōto furitsu Kyōto-gaku Rekisaikan) as a visiting researcher to carry out a research project on the Japanese regional press as a source of information on the work of the Paris Foreign Missions in the 1880s. His project focuses in particular on Aimé Villion, stationed in Kyoto between 1879 and 1889, and Marin Plessis, stationed in Kōchi (Shikoku) between 1882 and 1890.

Christophe Pottier

Catherine Scheer

On Friday 20 September, Catherine Scheer will be taking part in the presentation of the book edited by Gabriel Facal, Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux and Astrid Norén-Nilsson, The Palgrave Handbook of Political Norms in Southeast Asia: Overlapping Registers and Shifting Practices, to be held at the Inalco.

Projects

ALIPH-EFEO project

Archaeoscape.ai project

CHAMPA project

As part of the EFEO's contribution to the museography of the Savannakhet museum, Sophie Biard (EFEO associate researcher) is in Laos from August 18 to September 15, accompanied by Bertrand Porte until the first week of September. They will be working with the project management team and the Savannakhet DICT to develop the museum renovation project.

Bertrand Porte is continuing to supervise the various activities of the Vat Phou museum unit: inventories of the collections, condition reports, packaging of the ceramics stored in the Champasak depot, and restoration of certain items as part of the museography component of the CHAMPA project, in preparation for the extension of the storeroom and the redevelopment of the museum.

Sybounheuang Phimmasenh, Vilasak Pongsawath and David Bazin, members of the LiDAR team, will be taking part as trainers in the LiDAR training session organised by the Archaeoscape.ai project and the Chiang Mai EFEO Centre from 2 to 6 September at Sukhothai National Park. In collaboration with Adam Wijker, they will be presenting the various stages in the use of LiDAR data, via learning modules and practical exercises with the Quantum GIS software, in the laboratory and in the field.

ChEDiL project

As part of the ANR ChEDiL programme, in collaboration with the HTL laboratory, Otto Zwartjes will give a presentation on his latest work on missionary dictionaries and grammars in China (Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese. The contribution of seventeenth century Spanish Dominicans) will take place on 20 September, from 9.30am to 11.30am, at the Université Paris-Cité, Laboratoire HTL. Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, room 533. It is possible to follow the course remotely by registering here.

Dharma project

The Dharma project is organising the Gift Protection in South Asia and Southeast Asia workshop, from 24 to 26 September, at the EHESS (Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, France).

This workshop is part of the ERC Synergy project DHARMA - The Domestication of Hindu Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia, directed for the EFEO by Arlo Griffiths and funded by the European Research Council (ERC) as part of the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme for research and innovation (grant agreement no. 809994). The speakers for the EFEO will be:

- Arlo Griffiths, "Gift Terminology and Protection Formulas in Javanese Royal Epigraphy"

- S.A.S. Sarma, "Protecting Sacred Gifts: Perpetuance in Śaiva Texts and Kerala Inscriptions"

- R. Sathyanarayanan, "What are the consequences outlined in Dharma Nibandhas for individuals who violate the principles of gift protection or misuse of gifted assets?"

- G. Vijayavenugopal, "Expressions on the concept of Gift-Protection in Tamil inscriptions of Pondicherry"

Publications

All EFEO publications are available on the publications website.

Summary :

In Memoriam

- François Gros (1933-2021), par Jean-Luc Chevillard
- Jean Deloche (1929-2019), par Raphaël Malangin, Pierre-Yves Manguin & Nicolas Simon
- Gérard Diffloth (1939-2023), par Olivier de Bernon

Articles

- Nicolas Simon, "Dispositifs inédits d’artillerie mécanique défensive dans le Deccan du XVIe siècle"
- Peera Panarut & Volker Grabowsky, "Royal Appointments on Golden Leaves: Suphannabat as an Epigraphic Tradition of the Siamese Royal Court"
- Jiří Jákl, "Beds and Bed Pavilions in Java before 1500 CE"
- Muhlis Hadrawi, Campbell Macknight & Kathryn Wellen, "The Case against La Maddukelleng: Bugis Diplomacy in the 18th Century"

Chronicles

- "Une image du Buddha marchant et son inscription de 1375 apr. J.-C.  conservées au musée national à Ayutthaya (Thaïlande)", François Lagirarde, Santi Pakdeekham & Thissana Weerakietsoontorn
- "Le "Rapport sur le transfert en septembre 1944 de statues du Buddha  et d’un piédestal de la commune d’Angkor Borei, district de Prey Kabbas,  province de Takéo", de Kam Doum (Kâ̆m Dŭm)", traduit du khmer par  Michel Antelme & Hiep Chan Vicheth, présenté par Bertrand Porte
- "Une mise au point sur la constitution du corpus des estampages du Vietnam (EFEO, 1910-1944)", Philippe Papin

Reviews

- "Les entrelacs de la transmission du Skandapurāṇa, le défi méthodologique du volume V de l’édition critique", Amandine Wattelier-Bricout

Researchers' publications

An interview entitled "世界をめぐる好奇心の冒険" with François Lachaud appeared in Tōhō kenbunroku Toyo Bunko magazine, pages 8-11, the title of which can be translated as "Around the world: extraordinary journeys of curiosity."

Research Services

Recipients of allocation on mission

- Francesca Berdin is in Hong Kong for a study on the "pratiques d’écriture dans la Chine médiévale et leur réception contemporaine"

- Ming-Zhong Chen is in Beijing for a study on "les normes forestières : les gestions sylvicoles et les pratiques contractuelles en aval de la rivière Qingshui au Guizhou du 18e siècle à la première moitié du 20e"

- Ariff Hafizzi Bin Mohd is based at the Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur centres for a study on "Southeast Asia and Beyond: Mapping Muslim Solidarities and Transregional Connections during the Long Global Sixties (1960s-1990s)"

- Agnès Mengotti is based at the Pondicherry centre for a study on the "pratiques institutionnelles liées aux suicides féminins par immolation à Chennai, Inde : institutions médicales, judicaires et associatives"

- Many Norng is in Siem Reap for a study on "le Dictionnaire khmer unilingue de l'Institut bouddhique comme instrument de réflexion sur la normalisation linguistique au Cambodge (1900-2018)"

- Carla Petit is based at the Tokyo centre for a study on "Enquête de terrain ethnographique: une approche ethnoarchéologique des évolutions funéraires dans les îles Yaeyama, Okinawa

- Théophile Rabu is based at the Beijing centre for a study on "La linguistique dans un monde chinois : une histoire des discours épilinguistiques et pratiques de communication dans le Guizhou méridional, 1890-1960"

Pierre Pichard (1936-2024)

Director

The Director of the EFEO, Nicolas Fiévé, will take part in the round table "Le dispositif français de recherche en Asie", chaired by Blandine Ripert (CNRS - CESAH) and Rémy Madinier (CNRS - IAO), at the Assises de la recherche française sur l'Asie on Tuesday, September 17, from 1:45 to 3:30 p.m. (Room 100). The Assises de la recherche française sur l'Asie (Assises du GIS ASIE) will be held at the Centre de colloques du Campus Condorcet, place du Front populaire, 93300 Aubervilliers, from 17 to 19 September 2024.

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