EFEO Newsletter

Newsletter

June 2025

Content

Research news
- Agenda
- Centres
- Researchers
- Projects
- Lectures
- Publications
- Researchers' publications
- Research Services

Staff and service news
- Direction
- Library
- Photo Library

Of particular note
- Symposium

News from the ResEFE

Research news

Agenda

Monday, June 2 - Paris

EFEO Paris seminar

Saarthak Singh speaks on "La ville en partage : bâtir des mosquées au milieu des temples en Inde centrale".

This seminar is part of Sequence 6, entitled "La question religieuse : sécularisation et réinvention", part of the common core curriculum of the Master in Asian Studies.

From 9am to 11am. On-site, in the EFEO's Grand Salon.

Tuesday, June 3 - Taipei

Phillip Endicott (University of Tartu, Estonia) gives a lecture entitled "Genetic Structure of Island Southeast Asia: Identifying Sources and Dates for Recent Admixture Events Using High-resolution Data from the Philippines and Timor Leste," organized jointly by the EFEO Center in Taipei and the Center for Research on the Archaeology of Taiwan and Southeast Asia at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica.

At 3 p.m., Room 703, Research Building, IHP, Academia Sinica.

Huay Sa Houa 2 excavation (photo by David Bazin)

Thursday, June 5 - Siem Reap

Nicolas Nauleau (doctoral student at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and archaeologist on the CHAMPA mission) gives a lecture at the EFEO Centre in Siem Reap entitled "L'étude archéologique du site de Huay Sa Houa 2: un aperçu de la genèse, du développement et de l'abandon de la ville préangkorienne de Vat Phu au Laos."

Illustration: Huay Sa Houa 2 excavation (photo by David Bazin).

Wednesday, June 11 - Paris

As part of the doctoral seminar he is organising at Inalco with Ji Zhe (professor at Inalco) on the pioneering age of sinology, Guillaume Dutournier welcome Professor Wang Mingming, anthropologist at Peking University, for a lecture in Chinese entitled "Peuples, légendes et imaginaires du monde entre mers et montagnes."

From 2.30pm to 4.30pm, at Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, Paris. Admission free, subject to availability.

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Wednesday, June 11 - Paris

The EFEO Center in Taipei and the Taipei branch of the CEFC (Center for French Studies on Contemporary China) are organizing the CEFC-EFEO 2025 Young Researchers' Day at the RCHSS, Academia Sinica.

Victor Besnier and Pierre Lucas (AgroParisTech), Apolline Dambrine (Cheng Kung National University, Tainan), Juliette Duléry (Université de Liège), Bérengère Durchon (EHESS), Joyce Liang Yu-Chiao (Central National University, Taoyuan), Hugo Plassais (Sciences Po Paris), Grégoire Ramé (Sciences Po Paris/CERI) and Soline Schweisguth (EHESS) will present the results of their research, accompanied by a teaching team led by Frank Muyard (EFEO) and Corrado Neri (CEFC).

Thursday 12 and Friday 13 June - Paris

Fabienne Jagou, in collaboration with Cameron Warner (University of Aarhus, Denmark) and Nicole Willock (Old Dominion University, USA), is organizing a colloquium entitled "Succession in Times of Change in the Tibetan World" at the Maison de l'Asie.

This colloquium is being financed jointly by the EFEO and the University of Aarhus as part of the ANR-Natinasia collaborative projects (2022-2026), coordinated by F. Jagou, and LEAD: A Research Network on Succession, Innovation, and Community (Independent Research Fund Denmark [Danmarks Fri Forskningsfond], 2023-2026), directed by C. Warner.

Programme

Friday, June 13 - Kyoto

As part of the "Kyoto lectures", Andrea Ortolani (University of Tsukuba) gives a lecture on "Comparative Law in Japan: Birth, Development and Current Trends."

The event is organised by the EFEO, ISEAS and the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University.

At 6pm (Japan) or 11 am (France), on site and online on the Zoom platform. Login details are posted on the Kyoto Center's blog.

Friday, June 13 - Bangkok

As part of the exhibition From Stone to Paper: Epigraphic Rubbing as a Source of Knowledge on Palaeography, History and Archaeology and in partnership with the ERC DHARMA project, a lecture on the same theme is held at the Faculty of Archaeology at Silpakorn University.

Speakers for the EFEO will be Arlo Griffiths, Gregory Kourilsky, Michel Lorrillard and Bertrand Porte.

Monday, June 16 - Taipei

Wanda Zinger (University of Tübingen) gives a lecture entitled "Oceania in Motion: Investigating Human Dispersals Through Bioarchaeological Evidence," organized jointly by the EFEO Center in Taipei and the Archaeology Department of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica.

At 3 p.m., Room 703, Research Building, IHP, Academia Sinica.

Namsan-dong, in the heart of Daegu, 2018 © Emilien Gohaud.

Wednesday, June 18 - Seoul

As part of the Seoul Colloquium in Korea Studies, in French, organized by the EFEO Center in Seoul and the Club de réflexion et de recherche sur la Corée, Seoul, Emilien Gohaud (architect and lecturer at the Yôngnam University School of Architecture) on the topic "Formes urbaines et régénération à Daegu."

At 6pm (South Korea) in person, at Hongik University (room C318), Seoul.

Illustration: Namsan-dong, in the heart of Daegu, 2018 © Emilien Gohaud.

Wednesday, June 18 - Paris

On the occasion of the exhibition Angkor Royal Bronzes: Art of the Divine presented at the Guimet - Musée national des arts asiatiques until September 8, of which he is co-curator, Brice Vincent presents "Bronzes royaux d'Angkor, un art du divin: nouveaux regards sur la métallurgie du cuivre dans le Cambodge angkorien". This lecture is co-organised by the Association des Amis d'Angkor and the EFEO.

At 5.30 p.m. in the Grand Salon of the Maison de l'Asie, subject to availability.

Thursday, June 19 - Kyōto

The Kyōto Centre is organising the workshop From Ōtsu-e Pictures to Folk Songs: Reconsidering Ōtsu-e Bushi Songs of the Edo Period. Papers (in Japanese) by Suzuki Kenkō, Yokoya Kenichirō and Christophe Marquet.

A collection of Ōtsu-e bushi songbooks from the mid-19th century will be on display at the workshop.

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Monday, June 23 - Taipei

Alexis Lycas (EPHE-PSL) gives a lecture (in Chinese) at the Institut d'histoire et de philologie (IHP), Academia Sinica, on the topic "Social and Cultural History of Geographical Knowledge during the Tang: Evidence from Dunhuang," organized by the EFEO Center in Taipei and the IHP.

At 3 p.m., Room 703, Research Building, IHP, Academia Sinica.

Monday, June 23 - Tokyo

Costantino Moretti is organising, in collaboration with the Tōyō Bunko, a lecture by Professor Funayama Toru (Kyoto University, Institute for Research in Humanities) entitled "The Fanwang jing (Bonmō kyō) 梵網經: A Fabulous and Perplexing Scripture which Founded East Asian Mahāyāna Precepts."

2-4pm, Tōyō Bunko 7F Lecture Room, 2-28-21, Honkomagome, Bunkyō-ku, Tōkyō 113-0021.

Centres

Bangkok

The EFEO Center in Bangkok is beginning the project "The Law Codes of the Ancient Kingdom of Lan Na (Northern Thailand): a preliminary survey," following financial support from the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme (EAP). This project, which aims to identify and study the legal codes of the ancient kingdom of Lan Na in seven of Thailand's northern provinces, will be led by Gregory Kourilsky, in collaboration with teams from the Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC).

From June 12 to July 14, the Bangkok Centre and the Faculty of Archaeology at Silpakorn University are organising an exhibition entitled "From Stone to Paper: Epigraphic Rubbing as a Source of Knowledge on Palaeography, History and Archaeology."

Set up in the library of Silpakorn University (Wang Tha Phra site), the exhibition will be opened by Mr Jean-Claude Poimboeuf, French Ambassador to Thailand, Khunying Khaisri Sri-Aroon, Secretary General of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Foundation, and Dr Tanasait Ngawhirunpat, President of Silpakorn University.

Chiang Mai

Renovation and safety work on the wooden building, built by François Bizot in 1976, started and is expected to last until July.

All the Centre's facilities, including the library, will remain fully accessible to the public at normal times.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused during this period.

Hô Chi Minh-City

The GIS Asie co-finances with the EFEO a series of lectures and debates organized by the Saigon Social Sciences Hub (SSSH) for early-career social scientists specializing in Vietnamese studies, hosted by the EFEO's office in Ho Chi Minh City.

Upcoming events:

- June 13: "Prostitution on Screen: Female Sex Workers in Contemporary Vietnamese Cinema (1986-Present)" by Nguyen Thi Lan Hanh

- June 27: "The Symbiosis Between Traditional and Modern Social Management Culture: The Case of Central Vietnam" by Nguyen Minh Giang

Contact : Olivier Tessier

Pondicherry

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma gives a talk entitled "Nger yah pa. Su. 7.1.13 iti sutrartha-vicarah" at a symposium (the Jayantyutsava-sabhā) organised in honour of Sri Chandrasekharendrasarasvati Mahasvamin, by the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham in Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh) from 10 to 12 June. His talk will be on the interpretation of sutra 7.1.13 of Panini's grammar.

S. Saravanan is presenting a paper entitled "Observations on certain Relative Clauses in Tamil" at the 52nd All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists, to be held from June 19 to 21 at Annamalai University.

S.A.S. Sarma is taking part in the 19th World Sanskrit Conference, to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 26 June to 30 June, and will be presenting two papers: "Exploring the Distinctive Ritual System of Avudaiyar Temple in Tamil Nadu: Differences, Sources, and Performers" and "Kerala Ritual Manuals in Sanskrit and Malayalam with special reference to the Bhūta-Gāruḍa" (as part of the panel "Vernacular Tantra: Texts and Archives" organised as part of the ERC-funded MANTRATANTRAM project).

Seoul

Until July 2025, the Seoul Centre will be welcoming Oriane Durand-Poussin, a student at the École nationale des chartes-PSL, as part of her end-of-studies internship, followed by an Erasmus stay. In particular, she will be helping to manage the Centre's collections of books, periodicals and documents.

Siem Reap

On June 27, on the occasion of the publication of his book ប្រវត្តិសាស្ត្រប្រទេសកម្ពុជាសម័យអង្គរ (History of Angkorian Cambodia), the Siem Reap Centre is hosting a lecture by Prof. Ang Choulean entitled "Dilapidations of the property of the gods at Angkor linked to irregular changes of reign" (kh. ទេវទ្រព្យហិនហោចនៅអង្គរក្នុងរាជ្យតគ្នាមិនប្រក្រតី).

Until July 5, the Centre is welcoming curator-restorers Benoît Lafay and Violaine Pillard to continue, with teams from Angkor Conservation and the National Authority for Preah Vihear, the programme to study and restore the Dancing Shiva of Kok Ker under the direction of Éric Bourdonneau. They will be joined from June 21 to July 6 by curator-restorer Amélie Méthivier, who will be supervising two further sessions of the training component of this programme at Angkor Conservation (with the support of the ALIPH foundation).

From May 17 to August 31, the EFEO Center in Siem Reap is welcoming Constance Labrunye, a geomatician, for an internship as part of the Archaeoscape program and the activities of the Archaeology and Development Foundation (ADF).

Taipei

On June 13 Phillip Endicott (University of Tartu, Estonia) gives a lecture at the Institute of Archaeology of the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, entitled "Archaeogenetics and the Luzon Strait: What Can DNA Contribute to an Understanding of the History of Contact between the Philippines and Taiwan?", organized by the Taipei EFEO Center and NCKU.

Researchers

Élisabeth Chabanol

During the "L'art du thé en Asie orientale" study days organised by the Société française d'étude de la céramique orientale (SFECO) and the Musée Cernuschi on June 6 and 7, Élisabeth Chabanol will present a paper entitled "Ch'ado 茶道 La tradition coréenne du thé au Koryŏ et au Chosŏn."

From June 10 to 13, as part of the "Souvenirs from Seoul III" programme at the Seoul Centre, Élisabeth Chabanol and Francis Macouin, chief curator emeritus at Guimet - musée national des arts asiatiques, are continuing their study of the Korean collections held in reserve and on display in the halls of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, with Salima Hellal, chief curator in charge of the museum's objets d'arts.

Illustration: Conical bowl on a circular base, porcelain stoneware (E 554-451), 1 April 2025 (© Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon).

Hugo David

On June 3, Hugo David is taking part in the 17th Journée du Monde Indien, organised by Iran Farkondeh and Fabienne Bagnis at the Maison de la Recherche de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. He will be presenting a paper entitled "“Vyāsa”, Bhartṛhari and “Śaṅkara”: on some little-known connections between ascetic and grammatical traditions in ancient India’.

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Guillaume Dutournier

As a follow-up to the doctoral seminar he is organising at Inalco with Ji Zhe (professor at Inalco) on the pioneering age of sinology, Guillaume Dutournier is giving a lecture at the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Fudan University on June 28 on the theme: "Reflexivities in the mirror: Yang Kun and sinologists".

Dominic Goodall

Detail from the ceiling of the Śivakāmasundarī Maṇḍapa, in the great śivait temple of Chidambaram. The painting shows Śiva in search of alms when he arrives in the pine forest and seduces, by his appearance alone, the wives of the sages, who then become, according to the Kāmikāgama, temple dancers (photo by N. Ramaswamy).

Dominic Goodall gives a public lecture entitled "The Rudragaṇikā and the Devadāsī: what do Sanskrit sources tell us about courtesans in Śiva temples?" in the series Les Causeries in Pondicherry on 13 June.

Illustration: Detail from the ceiling of the Śivakāmasundarī Maṇḍapa, in the great śivait temple of Chidambaram. The painting shows Śiva in search of alms when he arrives in the pine forest and seduces, by his appearance alone, the wives of the sages, who then become, according to the Kāmikāgama, temple dancers (photo by N. Ramaswamy).

Benoît Jacquet

On June 24, Benoît Jacquet and Manuel Tardits (Mikan, Yokohama) are giving a lecture entitled "Les hommes du bois: le charpentier, le maître de thé et l'architecte" in the Grand Salon of the EFEO, at the Maison de l'Asie.

Illustration: At the start of the traditional cutting (honjikomi) of Kitayama cryptomers (Kitayama sugi), a woodcutter cuts the tree at its base while another pulls it to tip it onto the gallows where it can dry. Kyoto, August 2016 (@ photo by François Azambourg).

At the start of the traditional cutting (honjikomi) of Kitayama cryptomers (Kitayama sugi), a woodcutter cuts the tree at its base while another pulls it to tip it onto the gallows where it can dry. Kyoto, August 2016 @ photo by François Azambourg.

Fabienne Jagou

Fabienne Jagou, rapporteur, is a member of the jury for the defence of the doctoral thesis entitled Le sens de l'enquête. Une histoire politique et visuelle des pratiques ethnographiques chinoises aux frontières du Nord-Ouest (années 1920-1940), presented by Raphaël Louvet and directed by Philippe Rygiel (ENS de Lyon/LARHRA), in collaboration with Marie-Paule Hille (EHESS-CCJ/CECMC), at the ENS de Lyon, on 3 June from 2pm.

Michel Lorrillard

On June 13 Michel Lorrillard takes part in the lecture From Stone to Paper: Epigraphical Rubbing as a Source of Knowledge on Palaeography, History and Archaeology, organized jointly by the EFEO Center in Bangkok and the Faculty of Archaeology at Silapakorn University. He will present a paper entitled "Epigraphic rubbing in Laos (1877-2025): from a pioneering activity to a marginal but still effective method."

Pierre-Yves Manguin

On June 8 and 9, Pierre-Yves Manguin is taking part in a videoconference at a symposium organised by the Yayasan Lasem Heritage Association to mark the creation of the "Résidence Claudine Salmon" in this town on the north coast of Java. The theme of the symposium is "The contribution of French researchers and the regeneration of heritage towns". He will be presenting a paper entitled "Le bateau de Punjulharjo: un modèle de construction navale de l'ancienne Asie du Sud-Est".

Christophe Marquet

Christophe Marquet contributed to the exhibition L’art du tatouage au Japon, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Carcassonne (21 June-28 September 2025), and published an essay in the catalogue, edited by Xavier Durand, entitled "Tattooing in the second half of the 19th century: another face of Japonism", pages 94-119.

Christophe Marquet contributed to the exhibition Hokusai (1760-1849), chefs-d’œuvre du musée Hokusai-kan d’Obuse, at the Musée d'histoire de Nantes, Château des Ducs de Bretagne (28 June-7 September 2025), and published in the book La Vague Hokusai (1760-1849), chefs-d'œuvre du Hokusai-kan Museum d'Obuse, edited by Bertrand Guillet, two essays entitled "La Manga et les livres de modèles de Hokusai" and "Hokusai et Takai Kōzan au village d'Obuse: une fructueuse collaboration", pages 414-427 and pages 428-461 (bilingual French and Japanese texts).

Christophe Marquet acted as historical adviser to Lise Baron's documentary Hokusai, impressions du soleil levant, produced by Les Nouveaux Jours Productions and broadcast on France Télévision on 27 June and as part of the exhibition Hokusai (1760-1849), chefs-d'œuvre du musée Hokusai-kan d'Obuse, at the Musée d'Histoire de Nantes, on 28 June.

Martin Nogueira Ramos

Christophe Pottier and Hedwige Multzer O'Naghten are taking part in a public lecture entitled "The history of Angkor and archaeology today" on June 20 at 6.30pm at the Moulin des Cordeliers in Loches. This lecture is part of the programme of activities organised around the exhibition De Loches à Angkor: Louis Delaporte, l'aventure d'une vie from 22 May to 21 September 2025, at the Logis Royal and the Musée Lansyer in Loches.

Catherine Scheer

On June 12, Catherine Scheer will be presenting a paper entitled "Conserving Indigenous Lands through Heritage-Making -Reflections from an ongoing experiment" at the Hybrid Symposium & Workshop Conservation and Indigenous Land Titling in Conversation organised by Esther Leemann and Cari Tusing, at the University of Zurich.

Programme

Saarthak Singh

On June 12, Charlotte Schmid is giving a talk entitled "Aux portes du passé, le gardien de la Ville de Celui qui prisit le Gange (Inde, Xe-XXIe siècles)" at the University of Caen during the study days on June 12 and 13 organised as part of the ERC Agrelita programme, which focuses on the different modes of reception from Greek Antiquity to the pre-modern era.

llustration: Shiva, stone stele, Thanjavur Palace Museum.

Saarthak Singh

On June 4, Saarthak Singh is giving a paper entitled "Persianate and pluralist in the urban fabric of Sultanate India : Building identity and community in Chanderi, c.1300-1550" at the Forms of Urbanity in the Persianate World workshop, organised by Naveen Kanalu at the EHESS-CRH as part of his ANR project MugUrba, The Bureaucratic Rhythms of Imperial Urbanity: Law, Property and Public Life in Mughal South Asia, c. 1650-1750.

Projects

CHAMPA Project

After working on the museography of the Savannakhet museum with one of the partners in the consortium in charge of project management for the CHAMPA project in Cambodia, Sophie Biard is travelling to Laos on June 1 to continue her work on site and take part in the project's Steering Committees in Savannakhet and Champassak.

Bertrand Porte is at Vat Phu until June 11 to monitor the inventory, recollection and repackaging work carried out by the museum team, enabling the contents of the future renovated museum to be prepared and defined.

Illustration: Removal of the base of the Devanika stele set in gravel and breeze blocks (Inscription K. 365 - 5th century / inv. VP I 736) (© Projet CHAMPA).

The LIDAR team is processing the GPR surveys carried out in May on the Phon That site in the ancient town, in order to establish reference models for identifying brick and laterite structures.

Illustration: Georadar surveys (green) and test pits (red) - Phon That site (© CHAMPA project).

In June, the LIDAR team led by David Bazin will complete the surveys and integration of field data relating to the areas of urban concentration recently mapped by Adam Wijker (EFEO doctoral student -Archaeoscape.ai).

Illustration: Archaeological survey to the south-east of Vat Phou - Using LIDAR data (© CHAMPA project).

Bounsouang Senphase, a Laotian engineer from the Vat Phou division, and two Laotian technicians, Vansouk Keophan and Kommalien Sivilay, begin preparing materials for the restoration of the Pinnacle of Vat Meuang Kang, using techniques learned during their training at the World Monuments Fund's Wat Chaiwatthanaram Conservation Project in Ayutthaya, Thailand.

Illustration: Wat Meuang Kang, Pinnacle of the library building (© CHAMPA Project).

Vissa Chanthaphasouk is continuing her photogrammetric survey work, focusing on the rock shelters that have not yet been documented at Vat Phu, with the help of five Laotian students as part of their training in photogrammetric survey and mapping techniques.

Illustration: Clearing and cleaning one of the rock shelters - Vat Phou (© CHAMPA Project).

Illustration: Vissa Chanthaphasouk and Vixiant Savangsy (Laotian student) - marking control points (GCP) (© CHAMPA project).

The annual steering committees for the CHAMPA project, in Savannakhet and Champassak, will take place from 16 June to 20 June.

ChEDiL Project

As part of the ChEDiL project, Françoise Bottéro (CRLAO/CNRS) will be giving a lecture on 30 June at 10.30am. Details, including the Zoom link for remote access, will soon be available on the project website.

Lectures

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

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

Valérie Gillet & Saarthak Singh
EPHE/EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire de l'Inde précoloniale : enjeux et sources (with Coline Lefrancq et Margherita Trento)

Benoît Jacquet
Master 2 seminar, Suivi du projet de fin d’études PFE "Paysages : architectures, villes et territoires en transition", École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette

François Lachaud
EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Vies de Ryōkan : bouddhisme, poésie et érémitisme dans le Japon d'Edo

Catherine Scheer
EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Anthropologie comparée de l'Asie du Sud-Est. Marges et pouvoirs locaux : ethnographies et histoire régionale

On June 5 Vanina Bouté (EHESS, CASE) and Grégoire Schlemmer (IRD, Urmis) present "Sur le devenir d'anciens cultes territoriaux en contexte migratoire (Nord-Laos)"

On June 12 Yves Goudineau (EFEO, CASE) presents the concluding session, followed by the workshop during which Amélie Férot-Kessler (M2, EHESS) will present "Recompositions culturelles et rituelles chez les enfants nés en France d'immigrés laotiens"

Publications

On June 30, Hélène Njoto will be presenting her book Sultans-bâtisseurs et innovations architecturales à Java au début de la période coloniale (XVIe - début XIXe siècle) at the University of Hamburg (Asien-Afrika-Institut).

All EFEO publications are available on the publications website.

Publications website

Researchers' publications

Kunthea Chhom, Dominic Goodall and Arlo Griffiths, "A Buddhist Procession Inaugurated in a Seventh-century Inscription from Óc Eo (K. 1426) and the Ancient Toponym Tamandarapura", Journal of the Siam Society 113, Part 1 (June 2025), pages 141–164.

Gregory Kourilsky, report from Barend Jan Terwiel, The 'Soul’ of the Tai Re-Examined: The Khwan Concept and the Tham Khwan Ceremony of the Tai-Speaking Peoples, in Journal of the Siam Society 113, Part 1 (June 2025), pages 250-254.

Zakariya Pamuji Aminullah, Hélène Njoto, Arlo Griffiths, Dimas Seno Bismoko and Ashar Murdihastomo, "The Wooden Beam (Dhadha Peksi) of the Lasem Jami Mosque: Traces of European Influence in an Early Modern Islamic Context", Archipel 109, pages 101-126.

Illustration: The Dhadha Peksi lintel in its current position in the Masjid Jami Lasem museum (photo by Hélène Njoto, 2024).

Dominic Goodall, "Administrative zones for pious foundations under Īśānavarman I ? Edition and translation of the seventh-century Sanskrit inscription K. 1418", Udaya: Journal of Khmer Studies 16 (2025), pages 1–28.

Dominic Goodall, "The Shore compared to a Rusty Wheel or Sword? A Note on Raghuvaṃśa 13.15", Viśvabhāratī 7 [Felicitation Volume of Prof. K.E. Dharaneedharan], pages 34–38.

R. Sathyanarayanan, "Types of Dīkṣā as stated in the Dīkṣādarśa of Vedajñāna", Viśvabhāratī 7 [Felicitation Volume of Prof. K.E. Dharaneedharan], pages 120–127.

Catherine Scheer, "Cambodia, a model of multilingual education? Past and present perspectives on teaching indigenous minority languages in a Khmer nation", Moussons 45, 2025.

Research Services

Recipients of allocation on mission

- Clémence Aïtout is based at the Beijing centre for a study on "Un imaginaire géographique : étude du mouvement littéraire de l'ouest chinois de 1980 à 2000"

- Garance Cachard is based at the Seoul centre for a study on "Les Hominines anciens en Asie de l’Est - Caractérisation morphométrique et comparaison avec fossiles actuels"

- Vissa Chanthaphasouk is based at the Ventiane centre for a study on "Le Vat Phou au Laos : de l'archéologie d'un temple à l'architecture d'un site"

- Emilie Lu is based at the Taipei centre for a study on "Vers une utopie d'Asie de l'Est : Ambition et illusion dans la musique militaire japonaise 1868-1945"

- Phan Thi Kim Tam is based at the Hanoi centre for a study on "Collective action in common-pool resources management in Vietnam’s northern mountainous areas"

Staff and service news

Direction

Nicolas Fiévé and Valérie Gillet are in Athens from 25 to 28 June to take part in the annual meeting of the EFE network, organised this year at the École Française d'Athènes.

Library

The library will be closed until 2pm on Tuesday 17 June and on the afternoon of Thursday 19 June.

Katia Juhel, Director of Libraries at the EFEO, presents the CollEx-Persée IndexAngkor project at the CollEx-Persée Sessions on June 2 and 3 at the Centre des Colloques on the Campus Condorcet in Aubervilliers.

Antony Boussemart, assistant to the director, is presenting the CEDDREJ consortium (Consortium Européen pour le Développement Durable des Ressources Electroniques sur le Japon) at the 18th Journées DocAsie, to be held from June 18 to 20 at the Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers.

The library's director and collection managers will be attending some of these events.

On June 27, Katia Juhel is taking part in a round-table discussion entitled "Les collections de cartes d'Asie de l'Est à Paris" as part of a day devoted to East Asian cartography (17th-20th centuries) at the BnF, site Richelieu, salle des conférences.

The EFEO Paris library

The EFEO library in Paris is open at its usual times from Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm.

Please make your book reservation requests via the catalogue and your archive consultation requests via the request form on the website page, bottom left.

Consult the catalogues and digital tools :
- Catalogue of books and periodicals
- Catalogue of Archives and Manuscripts
- Digital heritage library

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Contact

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Photo Library

Photographic exhibition

On the 1st floor of the EFEO, the photo library is putting on a photographic exhibition on the god Vishnu from 10 June to 30 September 2025.

Discover the EFEO's photographic collections

Of particular note

Exhibition

Guimet - musée national des arts asiatiques is organising a themed day devoted to the royal bronzes of Angkor, to coincide with the exhibition Angkor Royal Bronzes: Art of the Divine.

International specialists, authors of the catalogue and co-curators of the exhibition, will be on hand throughout the day to share their latest knowledge of this unique heritage, a blend of artistic tradition and technical innovation.

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The fourth newsletter dedicated to digital humanities and open science in the EFE network is now online. This newsletter brings together information about initiatives specific to the French Schools Abroad in this field, as well as scientific events, online resources, calls for projects, publications and training courses likely to be of interest to our community.

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