Agenda

Centres

Beijing

The Beijing Center will be hosting a delegation from the EFEO Directorate between November 25 and 29 to negotiate new partnerships with Beijing Normal University and Fudan University in Shanghai.

Chiang Mai

Ho Chi Minh City

Pondicherry

Sarma S. A. S. will present a paper entitled "Manuscripts as Repositories of Knowledge and Art: Focusing on Illustrated Manuscripts of the Pratiṣṭhālakṣaṇasārasamuccaya" at the National Conference on the Art and Science of Manuscript Studies, organised by the Institute of Oriental Research and the Manuscript Library, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, from November 12 to 14. He will also participate in the International Seminar on Social, Cultural and Historical Significance of Vedāṅgakalpa Texts at the Sri Ramaswamy Temple, Kadavallur, Thrissur, Kerala, from 15 to 17 November, where he will present a paper entitled "The Gṛhyasūtras and Domestic Rituals in Kerala's Vedic Tradition".

Muralikrishnan M. V. will give a lecture entitled "Key Features and Significance of the Manuscripts in the Panthal Collection: An Important Collection within the DiPiKA Project" on 11 November at the CSMC, University of Hamburg. This presentation is part of the 2024 Equal Opportunity Lecture Series on Written Artefacts across World Regions: Incommensurabilities and Comparisons.

Anjaneya Sarma, S.L.P. will be attending two events in November to give presentations on traditional Sanskrit grammar. He will give a talk entitled "Vyākaraṇaśāstrē Aṅgasaṁjñāsūtrārthavicāraḥ" at the Brahmaśrīyutānāṁ Rāmacandrula Kōṭéśvaraśarmaṇāṁ Tr̥tīyavārṣikajayantyutsava- Sabhā in Vijayawada on November 9 and 10. At the end of the month, he will give a presentation entitled "yadāgamās tadguṇībhūtās tadgrahaṇēna gr̥hyante" at the Jñānānandanāthavākyārthavidvat-Sabhā organised by the Jñānānandanāthavidyānilayam in Chennai from 29 to 30 November.

Anoop V. P. has joined the DiPiKA- Digitisation and Preservation of Kerala Archives project, funded by the Arcadia Philanthropic Trust. His work involves field missions to inventory manuscripts in private collections in the northern districts of Kerala.

Siem Reap

On November 28, Khoeus Phanhareth and Eng Tola will each be giving a presentation on their work in progress at the Siem Reap Centre, devoted respectively to "Buddhist monasteries in Battambang province through topography, archaeology and architecture" and "Forging activities at Angkor: archaeometallurgical study of the furniture in the royal foundry of the Angkor Thom royal palace".

The Siem Reap Centre will be hosting:

- from 30 October to 10 November, the writer and photographer Alexandre Bergamini, as part of the artists' residency programme in partnership with the Institut français du Cambodge.

- from 19 to 30 November, the curator-restorer Amélie Méthivier. She will be continuing the training course on the restoration of statuary that will be given at the Angkor Conservation Centre as part of the programme to study and restore the Dancing Shiva of Koh Ker.

Taipei

From November 4 to 20 Joe Watkins and Carol J. Ellick (Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants, Tucson), Rasmi Shoocongdej (Silpakorn University, Bangkok), and Hermine Xhauflair (University of the Philippines, Diliman) will be visiting Taiwan at the invitation of the EFEO Center in Taipei for a series of lectures on indigenous archaeology.

From November 8 to 20 there will be the Indigenous and Community Archaeology - November 2024 Lecture Series, organized by the EFEO, the Institute of Archaeology of the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), the Department of Anthropology of the National Taiwan University (NTU), and the Institute of History and Philology (IHP) of the Academia Sinica.

From November 11 to 20 Chen Tung-ho (National Palace Museum, MNP) will be visiting Tokyo as part of the annual exchange of researchers between the EFEO and the MNP. His research focuses on the transmission of Prussian blue to Japan in the 18th and 19th centuries. On November 14 he will give a lecture at the Tōyo Bunko co-organized by the EFEO Center in Tokyo entitled "Prussian Blue in East Asian Paintings."

Researchers

Guillaume Dutournier

As part of the International Forums on Intellectual History to be held on 23 and 24 November at Fudan University's National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, this year devoted to the history of knowledge, Guillaume Dutournier will be speaking in Chinese on the theme "The works of Chavannes and Granet in the light of a reflexive sinology."

Christine Hawixbrock

Christine Hawixbrock will be visiting Laos from 12 November to 12 December, as part of the CHAMPA project, to study the material unearthed during this year's excavations at Vat Sang'O, to help draw up the synopsis for the future museum collections at Vat Phu, to prepare, install and inaugurate the educational panels for the interpretation pavilion at Nong Hua Thong and to help design the scenography for the Savannakhet museum.

François Lachaud

Pierre-Yves Manguin

From November 1 to 30 Pierre-Yves Manguin will be hosting at the EFEO Angel Eduardo Juan de Jesús Acevedo Villalba, who is leading the ERC project Rutter: Making the Earth Global at the Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa). Her stay in Paris is supported by a mobility grant from the Institut français du Portugal. As part of their research into ancient nautical instructions for the seas of Asia, P.-Y. Manguin and Juan Acevedo will be working more specifically on a comparative study of navigation techniques for crossing the Bay of Bengal, as described in 15th and 16th century Arabic and Portuguese routes. This research forms part of a wider study of the circulation of maritime knowledge in Asia in the early modern period.

On 28 November, Pierre-Yves Manguin will give a presentation entitled "Texte(s) et terrain(s): excursions indonésiennes" at the Centre Asie du Sud-Est (EHESS, Campus Condorcet, room A327), as part of the seminar "Faire de la recherche sur le terrain: contraintes, contournements, engagements en Asie du Sud-Est."

Christophe Marquet

Costantino Moretti

Frank Muyard

On November 15 and 16 Frank Muyard will be co-organizing the NCKU-EFEO Pan-Pacific Indigenous Archaeology international colloquium and will give a lecture entitled "The State of Indigenous Archaeology in Taiwan: Achievements and Prospects".

Christophe Pottier

Christophe Pottier will be in Laos from 12 to 18 November to take part in the CHAMPA project steering committees with the AFD. He will also be taking part in an EAG (Experts Advisory Group) mission at the invitation of the Vat Phu WHSO for the Korean project at Hong Nong Sida.

Saarthak Singh

Projects

CHAMPA project

At the end of November, Bertrand Porte, with the support of Christine Hawixbrock, will be continuing to inventory the collections as part of the museography component of the CHAMPA project, in preparation for the extension of the storeroom and the redevelopment of the museum.

Dominique Soutif will be leading an archaeological excavation mission at the site of the building known as "the Nandin" at Vat Phou, from November 24th to December 15th, as part of one of his research projects, focusing on the āśrama of Yaśovarman I. He will be accompanied by Nicolas Nauleau (French archaeologist), Chea Socheat (Cambodian archaeologist), Aidan Armstrong (Canadian geophysicist) and Eric Bouillé (Canadian archaeologist).

This mission will allow Aidan Armstrong to continue training the LIDAR team at the Vat Phou office in the use of the Georadar and the interpretation of the data collected.

The LIDAR team is continuing to process and archive the data collected during the dry season surveys, as well as data from previous surveys (PRAL, MAFSL, Christine Hawixbrock, Michel Lorrillard, David Bazin).

A supervisory mission led by Antoine Mougenot (head of the Champa project for AFD) will take place between 12 and 15 November, in Savannakhet and Champassak. Christophe Pottier and David Bazin will accompany the mission. Mrs Siv-Leng CHHUOR, French Ambassador to Laos, will join the mission in Savannakhet.

ChEDiL project

As part of the ANR ChEDiL programme, Alice Crowther (EPHE) will give a presentation entitled "A Survey of Manuscript Dictionaries between Manchu, Chinese and a European Language or Languages (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries)" on Thursday 21 November from 2.30pm to 4pm, at the EHESS Condorcet, room A 302. It will also be possible to attend remotely, by requesting the connection link from Michela Bussotti.

Lectures

Alain Arrault et 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, since October 11

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, since October 22

Hugo David
- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies,  Implicite, ambiguïté, polysémie. Introduction à la philosophie linguistique de Bhartṛhari, since October 29

Andrew Hardy
- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire de la colonisation du Vietnam : approches micro-biographiques ?, since from October 16

Benoît Jacquet
- Master 2 seminar, Introduction au Projet de fin d’études (PFE), at the 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

Fabienne Jagou
- Séminaire EHESS dans le cadre du master Études Asiatiques, Nationalisme tibétain et mongol à partir du début du XXe siècle, starting November 19

Martin Nogueira Ramos
- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Sources et histoire du christianisme japonais (XVIe-XVIIe siècles), since October 15

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire religieuse et intellectuelle du Japon (1600-1900) : Atelier de lecture de textes, starting November 5

Christophe Pottier
- Master's seminar at Sorbonne University, Actualités et pratiques de l'archéologie en Extrême-Orient, since September 24

On 12 November, Christophe Pottier will present "Extension du domaine du lidar: opérations récentes en Asie du Sud-Est"

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, since October 10

On November 14, Antoine Lê (Lecturer at INALCO, CASE ass.) will present "L'histoire du temps présent: une boîte à outils pour contourner les limites des sources et de l'historiographie au Viêt Nam"

On November 28, Pierre-Yves Manguin (EFEO, CASE) will present "Entre texte(s) et terrain(s): excursions indonésiennes"

Saathak Singh
- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Architecture de l'Inde médiévale, c. 400-1400 : problématiques et perspectives d'étude, since October 17

Publications

All EFEO publications are available on the publications website.

Researchers' publications

Frédéric Girard, Métaphores bouddhiques, Éditions You Feng, Librairie & Editeur, 4e trimestre 2024, 440 pages.

Frédéric Girard, "Problèmes de traduction dans les Dialogues de Dōgen en Chine / Translation Problems in Dōgen’s Dialogues in China", Que lire en traductologie francophone aujourd’hui ?, Des mots aux actes 2024, n°13, pages 195-218.

Pierre-Yves Manguin, "Ship Timbers at Paya Pasir : The 1988-89 Rescue Excavation", in Daniel Perret et Heddy Surachman, Kota Cina: A Settlement in the Strait of Malacca (Late Eleventh-Early Fourteenth Centuries CE), Jakarta, KPG (Gramedia), Association Archipel, EFEO, BRIN, 2024, vol. 1 pages 351-358 et vol. 2 pages 238-242.

Research Services

Recipients of allocation on mission

- Otavio Amaral is based at the Pondicherry centre for a study on "Les Hijras du sud de l’Inde : une approche heuristique entre des rapports entre le corps et le sacré. Subversion, genre et dévotion"

- Abdelhakim Belhacel est à Pondichéry pour travailler sur "La domination omanaise en Afrique de l’Est : réseaux, pouvoirs, hybridations, 1804 – 1884"

- Aline Bontemps is based at the Beijing centre for a study on "Connexions steppiques dans le sud-ouest de la Chine : étude des tombes à ciste 'shiguanmu 石棺墓' découvertes sur le cours de la Yalong et de ses affluents entre le VIIIe et le Ier s. avant notre ère"

- 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)"

- 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"

- Akarsh Raghunath is based at the Jakarta and Bangkok centes  for a study on  the "Mapping Synchronism in the Visual Arts of Tamiḻakam and Śrīvijaya (7th—12th century CE) - with special reference to Buddhism"

Director

The Director, Nicolas Fiévé, will chair the General Meeting of the EFEO from November 4 to 6.

He will go to Tokyo to attend the Tōyo Bunko Centenary Ceremonies and the Maison Franco-Japonaise Centenary Ceremonies.

He will then travel to China to negotiate new partnerships with Beijing Normal University and Fudan University in Shanghai.

Staff

New arrivals at the EFEO: welcome to Loane Dimet, Chandra Ehm and Michiel Streijger.

We are delighted to welcome three new members to the EFEO team:

Loane Dimet joined our team as Executive Assistant on 28 October. Her skills will enhance the day-to-day management of the Executive Board's agenda, files and projects.

Michiel Streijger, a contract researcher in Latin lexicography, recently joined the ANR ChEDiL collaborative research project (ANR-23-CE27-0008), coordinated by Michela Bussotti. Her work focuses on the study of Sino-Latin manuscript dictionaries and on ensuring the quality and validity of the data produced within this framework.

Chandra Ehm, a research engineer in data processing and analysis, will be joining the ANR Natinasia project headed by Fabienne Jagou at the beginning of November. She will be responsible for developing and implementing innovative methods for exploiting databases and corpora. She will also provide essential scientific, technical and editorial support for the project.

We wish all three of them a warm welcome and every success in their respective missions within the EFEO!

Library

Photo Library

Of particular note

It will be held from February 24 to March 1st, 2025 at the EFEO centre in Chiang Mai (Thailand). Tuition, lodging and lunch are free of charge.

The Winter School is addressed to students in their second year of a Master’s degree or at the start of their doctorate, training in the field of Buddhist studies. Participants will be selected on the basis of applications, within the limit of 16 places available.

Students interested in participating in the winter school are invited to complete the online application form.

The deadline for applications is 25 November 2024. Admissions will be announced on 5 December 2024.

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