Centres

Phnom Penh

The studio of sculpture conservation of the national museum of Cambodia / EFEO returns this month after carrying out restorations, inserting sculptures into plinths and socles, producing estampages, eight pieces (lapidary inscriptions and statuettes) at the provincial museum of  Takeo.

From 18 March, parallel to the section on pre-angkorian inscriptions augmented for the occasion by new presentations, the National Museum of Cambodia offers a "focus" on the inscribed jamb (K.127) on which is engaved the date 604 of the śaka era (that is, 682 A. D.), with the very first known graphic representation in the Khmer land. The programme Corpus des Inscriptions Khmères (CIK) of the EFEO contributed a great deal to the redaction of the notices.

Pondicherry

Sooraj RS, Geethu S. Nath, Saranya V. and Athira KS, doctoral students of the Sree Sankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady, Kerala, are at the Pondicherry EFEO Centre for three months to work on their doctoral theses with SAS Sarma and to participate in regular reading sessions organised at the Centre.

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma is invited to Tenali as examiner in Sanskrit grammar (vyākaraṇaśāstra) at "Kañcikāmakoṭi Pīṭha Śāstra Samvardhinī Sabhā" from 7 to 11 March 2019. He then goes to Kancipuram to participate in "Jayendrasajasvateesmarkasabha", traditional lecture during the course of which he will discuss Antaraṅgānapi vidhīn bahiraṅgō luk bādhatē iti paribhāṣā vicāraḥ. He then participates in "Manikyasastrismarkasabha", another traditional lecture, held at Vjayawada from 21 to 23 March, where he will give a lecture entitled Antaraṅgānapi vidhīn bahiraṅgō lyap bādhatē iti paribhāṣā vicāraḥ.

Taipei

Josiane Cauquelin (Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE), CNRS) is in Taiwan from 2 to 22 March at the invitation of the EFEO.

Researchers

Éric Bourdonneau

On 21 March Éric Bourdonneau is invited to participate in the 4th Plenary Session of the CIC-Preah Vihear. There, he will give a talk entitled The Dancing Shiva Restoration Program. A Historical Perspective before Starting.

Élisabeth Chabanol

On 19 March, Élisabeth Chabanol participtes, at the Maison de l’Asie, in the meeting of the Comité d’éthique of the ANR CITY-NKOR project Ville, architecture et urbanisme en Corée du Nord which she directs with Valérie Gelézeau (EHESS). In this framework, Élisabeth Chabanol participates in the day of studies Nouvelles géographies coréennes en perspective, 20 March at the EHESS.

Paola Calanca

From 12 to 14 March, Paola Calanca is in Lyon to participate in a symposium Capture, Bondage, and Force relocation in Asia (1400-1900) as moderator and member of the scientific council of the symposium. 12 March is planned for the examination of models of Asian boats presented in the stores of the Museum of Confluences.

Hugo David

Hugo David and Akane Saito are at the University of Mahidol (Thailand) from 11 to 18 March, at the invitation of Prof. Kengo Harimoto, to participate in the "Third Ratnākara Reading" dedicated this year to the Sākārasiddhiśāstra of Jñānaśrīmitra, a Buddhist text of the 11th century treating of the form (ākāra) of cognition.

Olivier De Bernon

Olivier De Bernon is in Cambodia and Thailand until 10 March to monitor the edition of volumes 3 and 4 of the diplomatic editions of the Codes Cambodgiens; to forward and present to the Khmer authorities volume 2 of the Inventaire des manuscrits du Cambodge printed in Thailand; to participate in the 4th campaign of archaeological excavations on the round structure of Chœung Ek, and to monitor the programme of participation for a general index of the review Kampuchea Suriya.

Véronique Degroot

From 21 March to 10 April, at the invitation of the National Centre of archaeological research of Indonesia (Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi Nasional), Véronique Degroot participates in an excavation mission in the district of Kendal, on the sites of Jumbleng and Tegalsari..

Luca Gabbiani

From 20 to 24 March, Luca Gabbiani is at Denver to participate in the annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies. He speaks at the session entitled Ethnic Sovereignty and the Legislative Turn in Qing Rule (Thursday 21 March).

From 24 to 27 March, Luca Gabbiani will be at the University of Tulsa at the invitation of Professor Thomas Buoye. On Tuesday 26 March, he gives a lecture at the history department there entitled Of Frauds and Men: What Can Criminal Records Tell us about Everyday Life in Eighteenth-century Beijing.

Dominic Goodall

Dominic Goodall gives an Endowment Lecture on Indian Culture in memory of Prof. K.V. Sarma at Chennai on 23 March 2019,on the subject of the collections of manuscripts at Pondicherry.

Christine Hawixbrock

From 28 February to 2 April Christine Hawixbrock is in Vientiane and Champassak where she is directing a campaign for the Mission archéologique française au Sud-Laos (MAFSL) dedicated to post excavation works on the site of Vat Sang’O.

On 21 March Fabienne Jagou gives a talk entitled Le mode de désignation des Dalaï-Lamas in the framework of the cycle of lectures Bouddhisme, politique et violence organised by the Institut européen en sciences des religions and the École Pratique des Hautes Études.

From 18h30 to 20h, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Site, 54 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris.

François Lachaud

François Lachaud participes in the symposium Altérité et déviance religieuse. Pour une approche comparatiste de l'hérésie en histoire des religions co-organised at the EFEO Centre of Tokyo on 9 March at Tokyo Bunko. His talk will be on Je suis une Légion : un regard sur les démonologie de l'époque d'Edo (1603-1867).

Pierre-Yves Manguin

On 12 March, Pierre-Yves Manguin examines with Paola Calanca the important collection of models of boats of Asia at the Musée des Confluences de Lyon. On 13 and 14 March, he is session president and speaker at the international conference Capture, bondage, and forced relocation in Asia (1400-1900), organised by Claude Chevaleyre and Elizabeth Gaynor at the ENS Lyon.

Teaching

The list of teachings by teaching-researchers of the EFEO is available on the École website:

Alain Arrault
EHESS seminar in collaboration with Valérie Lavoix (Inalco) : Curiosité savante, culture politique et sociabilité lettrée dans le Mengxi bitan de Shen Gua (1031-1095)

Éric Bourdonneau
Joint seminar EHESS-Inalco in collaboration with Grégory Mikaelian (CNRS/CASE) et Joseph Thach (Inalco/Sedyl) : Langue, histoire et sources textuelles du Cambodge ancien et moderne.

It resumes on 15 March and this year there are talks by: Gérard Diffloth (EFEO), Vanina Bouté (Université de Picardie/CASE), Marie Aberdam (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne/SIRICE), Mathieu Guérin (Inalco/CASE), Dominic Goodall (EFEO) and Catherine Sheer (EFEO/CASE).

Michela Bussotti
- EHESS seminar in collaboration with Anne Kerlan : Histoire de la culture visuelle en Asie orientale.

On Tuesday 19 March there are two talks: Michela Bussotti (EFEO-UMR CCJ) on Cachée des regards, sous les yeux du lecteur : la représentation du corps dans les imprimés chinois, vers 1600 and Alice Bianchi (université Paris Diderot) on De la nourriture de substitution au corps comme nourriture : histoires de famine illustrées en Chine impériale tardive.

- EHESS seminar:  Histoire culturelle de la Chine (XVe siècle-XIXe siècle) : savoirs et techniques typographiques

Programme

Paola Calanca
EHESS seminar in collaboration with Guillaume Carré (EHESS) and Pierre-Yves Manguin (EFEO): L'Asie maritime : pouvoirs et gens de mers

Paola Calanca et Luca Gabbiani
EHESS seminar: Histoire urbaine de la Chine moderne (XVe-XXe siècles)

Luca Gabbiani
EHESS seminar in collaboration with Claude Chevaleyre (EHESS): Histoire sociale, économique et institutionnelle de la Chine moderne (XVe-XXe siècles)

Seminar with Jérôme Bourgon (CNRS, Institut d’Asie orientale): Le “Confucianisme” comme droit “commun” de l’Asie orientale: comment le droit chinois a “confucianisé” la société et la famille en Corée et au Japon

Valérie Gillet
EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master Études européennes, méditerranéennes et asiatiques (EEMA): Histoire et archéologie du monde indien

Notice and programme

Arlo Griffiths
EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master Études européennes, méditerranéennes et asiatiques (EEMA): Épigraphie et littérature de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud-Est
- Le tantrisme bouddhique par le prisme javanais
- Épigraphie bouddhique de l'Asie du sud-est au 1er millénaire

Fabienne Jagou
Seminar of M2 in the framework of the path Asie Orientale et Contemporain (ASIOC) of the Master Études Européennes et Internationale organised by the Institut d'Asie orientale of Lyon in partnership with the École normale supérieure (ENS) of Lyon and the Institut d'études politiques of Lyon: Religion et politique au Tibet

François Lagirarde
EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master Études européennes, méditerranéennes et asiatiques (EEMA): Initiation à la recherche sur les cultures et langues bouddhiques du Nord de la Thaïlande et du Laos: L'écriture à la lettre : usages épigraphiques et réflexion littéraire en Asie du sud-est

On 12 March Arlo Griffiths speaks on Les inscriptions les plus anciennes de l’Asie du Sud-Est : lieux, langues, écritures, supports, types.
On 26 March Christian Bauer presents L’épigraphie de Rāmādhipati Śrī Paramamahādhammarājādhirāt : textes bouddhiques d’expression mône du XVe siècle et espaces sacrés en Basse-Birmanie.

Philippe Le Failler

Aix-Marseille University seminar, Pôle Langues, Langage et Cultures, Campus of Aix-en-Provence in the framework of the Licence and Master’s 1 course (VNMZ22 S2 et VNMZ26 S2): Évolution historique, diplomatique, économique et sociale du Vietnam lors des quarante dernières années

Costantino Moretti
EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master Études européennes, méditerranéennes et asiatiques (EEMA): Introduction à la lecture des manuscrits chinois médiévaux

Seminar in the framework of EPHE Lectures: Histoire et philologie du bouddhisme chinois médiéval
1. Lecture de textes sur l'histoire du bouddhisme chinois : le "Shi Lao zhi" (chapitre 114 du Wei shu, Livre des Wei).
2. Recherches sur les apocryphes bouddhiques de Dunhuang : sources primaires manuscrites et iconographiques

Charlotte Schmid
EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master Études européennes, méditerranéennes et asiatiques (EEMA): Épigraphie et iconographie du monde indien : L'invention des dynasties

Vincent Tournier
EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master Études européennes, méditerranéennes et asiatiques (EEMA): Origines bouddhiques : I Cosmogonie et lignages royaux dans le bouddhisme indien

EFEO ASIAS Paris Seminar

Editions

The latest EFEO publications are presented at stand 506 of the exhibition hall of the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel by Pierre Harry on the occasion of the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS).

Publications of researchers

Michela Bussotti with Isabelle Landry-Deron, "Faguo zhongwen yinshua yu hanyu huozi, shiba-shijiu shiji" 法国中文印刷与汉语活字 (18-19世纪) (Les caractères mobiles chinois et l'impression du chinois en France, aux XVIII-XIX s.), in Sinologie Française 18 (Faguo Hanxue : Jiuxue xinzhi Zhongguo zhishi yu jishu zhi yanbian / Ars, Cognitio et Scientia – L’évolution des savoirs et des techniques en Europe et en Chine à l’époque moderne et contemporaine), Luca Gabbiani et Zhang Baichun (éd.), Pékin, Zhonghua shuju, 2018, pp. 119-136 ; plates unnumbered.

Benoît Jacquet, "Les problématiques de la recherche en architecture au Japon", dans Jean-Louis Cohen (dir.), L'architecture : entre pratique et connaissance scientifique, Paris, Éditions du patrimoine, Centre des monuments nationaux, 2018, p. 100-115.

Research Services

Call for candidatures

EFEO field scholarships

The call for candidatures for the EFEO field scholarships for the second semester 2019 is open till 14 March 2019 inclus.

It is possible to apply here.

New recipient of allocation for March

Nausica Riviere has received an EFEO field scholarship of 2 months, in attachment to the Taipei Centre, to carry out research on popular religion and claims: defence of the LGBT cause during the Dajia Mazu pilgrimage to Taiwan.

Recipients of allocations currently on mission

- Stéphen Huard is at Rangoon to carry out research on the historic anthropology of village chieftaincies in central Myanmar.
- Yuet Heng Wong is at Hong Kong to carry out research on "The global constructions of the "Lingnan" Cultural identity…".
- Léa Mouton is at Hanoi to carry out research on a grammar of Hmong Noir, a Hmong-mien language of North Vietnam.
- Nora Bourquin is Siem Reap to carry out research on the sancturaries of holy places dedicated to the goddesses of ancient Cambodia between the 9th and 11th century of our era.
- Johan Krieg is Pondicherry for research on the renunciation of the world to environmentalism in sectarian Hinduism at Rishikesh, Uttarakhand (India).
- Roland Ferenczi is at Pondicherry Centre for research on "The Old Tamil Patirruppattu and the reconstruction of early Cera political geography".
- Céline Kerfant is at Taipei for research on ropes and wickerwork: manufacturing techniques, utilisation and materials in the Batanes Isles, Philippines.
- Isabelle Wilhelm is at Vientiane for research on migrants between here and there: "Study of relations between the Laotians of France and the Laotians of Laos in their transnational development projects”.

Direction

Christophe Marquet, Director, sits on the Administrative Council of the EFEO on 12th March, and on the Administrative Council of the Association française des amis de l’Orient on 25 March, as well as on the Council of members of the PSL, on 26 March.

Library

Antony Boussemart participates in the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and in the affiliated committees: Council of East Asian Libraries, Council of Research Materials on Southeast Asia at Denver (USA) from 18 to 24 March.

Personnel

The Administrative Council of the EFEO is held on Tuesday 12 March at 14h at the office of the EFEO, Maison de l’Asie (22, av. du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris).

Starting on 1st March, Catherine Scheer, specialist in the historical ethnology of South-east Asia, is appointed as lecturer by the EFEO.

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