Agenda EFEO

Newsletter

April 2019

Contents

Agenda

Research
- Centres
- Researchers
- Teaching
- ASIES seminar of the EFEO Paris
- Editions
- Publications by researchers
- Research Services

In Memoriam
- Po Dharma Quang
- Pauline Koffler

News of personnels and services
- Direction
- Library
- Photo Library

Notice
- Exhibition National Museum of Cambodge
- Fifth International Intensive course in Old Javanese
- New video on Youtube

Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger
- Call for candidature contracts 2019-2022
- Social networks of the ResEFE

PSL News
- Master « Études Asiatiques » (EHESS-EPHE-EFEO)
- PSL social networks

Agenda

4 April - Paris

Fabienne Jagou gives a lecture on Le bouddhisme tibétain en exil et la survie de sa communauté in the framework of the cycle, Bouddhisme, politique et violence: le cas du Tibet organised by l’Institut European Institute for sciences of religions and the EPHE.

At 18h30, EPHE - Building Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 54 boulevard Raspail, Paris 6e, room AS1-01 (1er lower ground floor, room 1).

12 April - Kyoto

In the framework of the Kitashirakawa EFEO Salon, Niels Van Steenpaal (university of Kyoto) gives the fourth lecture of the 2018-2019 cycle on religious predication in the popular milieu: Circulation et signification des imprimés d'édification gratuits à Kyôto à la fin de l'époque d'Edo (in Japanese without translation).

At 18h, at the EFEO Centre of Kyoto (seminar room 1, 1st floor).

18 April - Seoul

The 25th Seoul Colloquium in Korean Studies is organised by the EFEO Centre of Seoul, in collaboration with the Royal Asiatic Society and the Asiatic Research Institute of the Korea University. It is facilitated by Robert D. Neff, researcher on the history of Korea in the 19th and 20th centuries, on: The Western Gold Mining Concessions in Korea (1883-1939).

From 18h to 19h30, EFEO Centre of Seoul, Grand Conference Room 310, Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University.

18 April - Kyoto

In the framework of the Kyoto Lectures, Erin Brightwell (university of Michigan) gives a lecture: In a State of Excess:"Reckless Gathering" and the Meiji Cultivation of Ago Bay.

At 18h, at the EFEO Centre of Kyoto (free entrance).

19 April - Tokyo

The symposium Écrire l'histoire au temps du global : rencontre franco-japonaise d’histoire is organised by the IFRJ-MFJ, Centre of research on Japan, the EFEO, Global History Collaborative, Historians’ Workshop and IRIS Études Globales.

From 9h30 to 17h30, Maison franco-japonaise, 3-9-25, Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0013 Japon.

23 April - Paris

Christophe Marquet, Director, speaks at the symposium L’imagerie populaire d’Ôtsu : un art oublié du Japon d'Edo co-organised by the Maison de la culture du Japon at Paris and the EFEO, on the occasion of the inauguration of the l’exhibition Ôtsu-e : peintures populaires du Japon (24 April - 15 June) of which he is the commissioner.

Research

Centres

Kyoto

On Saturday 13 April, from 11h to 16h, at the Kyoto Centre, the ISEAS organises a workshop, Giappone in prospettiva: incontro con i ricercatori italiani in Giappone, in which Italian researchers working on different aspects of modern Japanese society will participate.

Phnom Penh

To mark the centenary of the National Museum of Cambodge, a mural installation consisting of portraits of directors, and notable figures of th establishment as well as group photographs, which will be updateded and reinstalled.

Pondicherry

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma goes to Delhi on 3 and 4 April to receive the President’s prize from the Honourable Ram Nath Kovind, President of India. This prize was officially announced on 15 August 2015 in recognition of the valuable contributions of S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma in the domain of Sanskrit.

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma participates in a traditional conference (śāstrārthasadas) organised from 8 to 11 April at Khamma, Telangana by the Sringeri Sarada Pitham, during which he will make a presentation on a subject bearing on traditional grammar: vārṇāt āṅgaṁ balīyaḥ iti paribhāṣāvicāraḥ.

Project « Śivadharma »

The Centre of Pondichéry is one of the beneficiaries of a new research project awarded by the European Research Council – ERC to the principal researcher, Florinda De Simini (University “L’Orientale”, Naples). From March 2019, several researchers of the Centre will be participating in this project, notably S.A.S. Sarma, R. Sathyanarayanan, Dominic Goodall, K. Nachimuthu, and T. Rajarethinam, as well as two doctoral students of the University of Pondicherry who are attached to the Centre: H. Venkataraman and Sushmita Dash.

Illustration : Detail of a cover in painted wood of a Nepalalese manuscript of the 9th century which transmits the Śivadharmottara, National Archives, Kathmandu 5-892 (NGMPP A 12/3).

The project aims to shed light on a major corpus of sources of the first millennium, which have, up till now, been neglected by religious history. Śaiva traditions, which are extremely varied, constitute a large part of the vast nexus of pratices and ideas that we call Hinduism. The most studied of these Śaiva traditions, particularly over the last fifty years (and especially in the French research institutions of Pondicherry), is essentially the immense literary corpus of Mantramārga, that is, the “tantric” doctrines and liturgies notably produced by and for specialists and intellectuals. There exist, however, sources that allow us to better understand the history of the principal driving force behind these sacerdotal productions, that is, secular religiosity. The most important of these sources is perhaps the corpus of treatises, still mostly unpublished and little studied, which is known by the name of Śivadharma, the “religion of Śiva”, a corpus produced between the sixth and ninth centuries of our era. The project intends to open more access to this most important material and to document the wide extension of its influence throughout the ‘Sanskrit cosmopolis” (mainly through epigraphy, translations, citations, stampings and commentaries). In so doing the aim is also to to clarify the genesis of “Hinduism”.

Siem Reap

In the framework of the study programme and the restoration of the great dancing Śiva of Koh Ker (resp. Éric Bourdonneau and Kong Vireak, Director of the Musée National du Cambodge), conducted in collaboration with the Cambodian Ministry of Culture, l’Autorité Nationale Preah Vihear and the Autorité Nationale APSARA, the conservator-restorers of the heritgage Benoît Lafay, Violaine Pillard and Nathalie Bruhière are in Siem Reap on 22 April for an initial mission of two weeks to conduct, along with the Cambodian team, the first phase of the technical study

Seoul

On 15 April, invited by the Centre of Seoul, Dr. Vadim Akulenko, assistant at the department of Korean studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies, School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, makes a presentation: Evolution of Understanding Minjok in the DPRK.

Researchers

Michela Bussotti

Michela Bussotti continues her research on the dictionary manuscripts and the first to be printed in Europe in Chinese; for this, she goes to the office of the Imprimerie Nationale at Douai on 15 and 16 April, and is in Rome from 23 to 26 April, for research at the Apostolic Library of the Vatican and at ARSI (Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu).

Paola Calanca

Paola Calanca is on mission to Taiwan from 24 April to 11 May. On 26 April, she participates in a symposium Iquan's Sea power organised by the University Tamkang with a talk on Family survival strategy during the Zheng regime and Ming-Qing dynastic transition conflicts.

She participates in the identification of the southern isles of Penghu and conducts investigations of the fishermen at Makung (from 6 to 11 May). She also works Frank Muyard on the preparation of the volume Taiwan maritime landscapes.

Élisabeth Chabanol

From 11 to 14 April, Élisabeth Chabanol participates in the 29th conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) which is to be held at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies of the University Sapienza in Rome.

Illustration : copyright AKSE

From 25 April to 9 May, Élisabeth Chabanol, head of the archaeological Mission to Kaesong (MAK), accompanied by Nicolas Nauleau, archaeologist, is on mission on the site of Kaesong and at the Central Museum of the History of Korea Pyongyang to continue her work on the post-excavations of the Namdae gate (study of the ceramics) and of the architectural and archaeological elevations of the fortified town of Kaesong, and to begin the new project of studies of the royal tomb of Koryŏ.

Illustration : Royal Ch'ong tomb of Koryŏ at Kaesong (copyright MAK, september 2018)

Louis Gabaude

Thursday 11 April, Louis Gabaude, teacher-researcher at the EFEO from 1980 to 2007, presents in the framework of the Conférences du Comité de coopération avec le Laos (CCCL) Inalco, Cerlom: Les Courants du bouddhisme thaïlandais.

From 18h30 to 20h30, at Inalco, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris 75013 (amphi 1, 2nd floor).

Jacques Gaucher

The archaeological excavations campaign directed by Jacques Gaucher at the Royal Palace of Angkor Thom has been completed. The objectives of this campaign, carried out from January to March, were the construction of a chronology of the palatial site, of its original state and its abandonment; the constitution of documentation of the extensive transformations of the site and the elevation by drone of the palace and its urban environement towards their modelisation 3D. These excavations have been carried out in the framework of the ANRCes programme "ModAThom", in partnership with the EFEO, the Université de Tours (UMR Citères - CNRS, France), l’Autorité Nationale APSARA and the Institut français of Pondicherry (India).

Illustration : copyright APSARA

Fabienne Jagou

At the invitation of the Institut d’Asie Orientale, CNRS, Lyon, Fabienne Jagou will give a talk titled Taiwanese entrepreneurs in search for the Good Life and the Good death through Tibetan Buddhist teachings during the workshop Asian Dynamics Initiative organised by the European Research School Network of Contemporary East Asian Studies, at the University of Copenhagen, on 25-27 April 2019.

Jacques Leider

On 9 april, Jacques Leider speaks on Aux marges du monde bouddhique sud-est asiatique : l’usage épigraphique en pays rakhine (discutant : Javier Schnake) in the framework of the seminar of François Lagirarde L’écriture à la lettre : usages épigraphiques et réflexion littéraire en Asie du Sud-Est.

Then, on the same day, he participates, at the Collège de France, in the conference Questions de religion à l’époque moderne, on the subject: Foi bouddhiste et exercice du pouvoir : Pour une histoire du bouddhisme dans l’histoire politique et diplomatique de la Birmanie.

At 16h30, 11 place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, room 2.

Costantino Moretti

Costantino Moretti participates at the International Conference on Dunhuang Studies, at the University of Cambridge, on 17 and 18 April. He gives a talk Picturing the Buddhist Hells in Dunhuang Murals: Iconic and Descriptive Scenes of the Netherworld in Sūtra Representations.

Pierre-Yves Manguin

On 23 and 24 April 2019, Pierre-Yves Manguin gives two courses at London in the framework of the Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art de la School of Oriental and African Studies on the subjects Southeast Asia Cultural Landscape and Funan and Oc Eo.

Daniel Perret

Daniel Perret participates in the conference Singapura before Raffles: Archaeology and the Seas, 400 BCE-1600 CE organised at Singapore by the National University of Singapore, on 23 and 24 April.

Martin Ramos

On 19 april, Martin Nogueira Ramos participates, as speaker, in the symposium Écrire l'histoire au temps du global : rencontre franco-japonaise d’histoire.

On 27 april, Martin Nogueira Ramos goes to the University Meiji (Tokyo) to participate in a study day organised in the framework of a quadrenniel research programme financed by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: Kinsei Nihon no kirishitan to ibunka kōryū [Japanese catholics in the premodern epoch and their interaction with foreigners]. There, he gives an overview titled: Nouvelles perspectives sur les écrits antichrétiens après la révolte de Shimabara (en japonais).

Dominique Soutif

On 2 April, in the framework of the seminar of François Lagirarde L'écriture à la lettre : usages épigraphiques et réflexion littéraire en Asie du sud-est, Dominique Soutif presents Écrire à Angkor : supports, alphabets et contenu des inscriptions du Cambodge ancien.

Vincent Tournier

On 16 April, in the framework of the seminar of François Lagirarde L'écriture à la lettre : usages épigraphiques et réflexion littéraire en Asie du sud-est, Vincent Tournier presents Formes et fonctions symboliques de l’écriture sur piliers dans les milieux bouddhiques indiens.

Enseignements

The list of teachings by EFEO teacher-researchers 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)

- EHESS seminar in collaboration with Stéphane Feuillas (formerly EHESS) and Christian Lamouroux (CCJ, CCJ-CECMC): Identités et conduites lettrées dans la Chine des Song (960-1279) : les formes de l'écriture

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

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

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

Jeudi 18 april, Emilie Rigaud (ANRT) speaks on Les caractères chinois du Japon étaient européens. Essor de la typographie japonaise à la fin du XIXe siècle

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

Tursday 4 April, Mathieu Torck, of the university of Ghent, gives a lecture on La nourriture, la santé et l'hygiène des marins chinois et asiatiques dans l'âge de la voile

Paola Calanca and 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 et 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
M2 seminar in the framework of the Asie Orientale et Contemporaine (ASIOC) du Master Études Européennes et Internationales 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 2 april, Dominique Soutif presents Écrire à Angkor : supports, alphabets et contenu des inscriptions du Cambodge ancien
- On 9 april, Jacques Leider speaks on Aux marges du monde bouddhique sud-est asiatique : l’usage épigraphique en pays rakhine
- On16 april, Vincent Tournier presents Formes et fonctions symboliques de l’écriture sur piliers dans les milieux bouddhiques indiens

Philippe Le Failler

Aix-Marseille University seminars, Pôle languages, language and cultures, Campus d'Aix-en-Provence in the framework of the course for licence and Master 1 (VNMZ22 S2 and 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 the 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 Seminar Paris

Monday 1st April

Vincent Tournier (EFEO) speaks on Pour une nouvelle histoire des ordres monastiques (nikāya) du bouddhisme indien. This seminar come sunder the thematic “Bouddhisme” du séminaire ASIES (master AMO - Asie méridionale et orientale : terrains, textes et sciences sociales).

From 10h30 to 12h, Maison de l'Asie, 22, avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris, Grand salon, 1st floor (free entrance).

Les sectes bouddhiques du Petit Véhicule, published by the EFEO in 1955 and recently reissued (in 2015) in English translation. The evolution of the historical reflection over six decades, as well as the bringing to light of numerous documents, elicits a fresh approach to the institutional landscape of Indian Buddhism. At issue is the size, of a very precise survey of the diversity of lineages and canonical transmissions, as well as that an accumulated sensitivity to the historicity of the categories of schools that structured the modern discourse on ancient Buddhism may be the basis of a more nuanced reconstruction of the developments of that religion. These general considerations will be illustrated by a presentation of new information concerning several nikāya present, in he first millennium, dans le north-west of the sub-continent and in the Deccan.

EFEO Seminar Paris

Monday 15 April

Vadim Akulenko (Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russie) speaks on Evolution of Understanding Minjok in the DPRK.

At 14h, Maison de l'Asie, 22, avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris, Grand salon, 1st floor (free entrance).

North Korean historians have imbued with different connotations the term minjok. This concept of minjok could be, albeit malleable in meaning, translated into ethnic group, nation, or people. The constant transformation of the term’s meaning has closely connected to the changes of the official theory of Korean People’s Ethnogenesis, which, in turn, was always adjusted to the transition of the North Korean ideology. In this regard, an analysis of this historical transformation helps understand better the changes in the consciousness of North Korean people, which outweighs the presence of nuclear capability or lag in economic development in terms of an obstacle to the future unification of Korea.

Editions

Ōtsu-e : peintures populaires du Japon. Des imagiers du XVIIe siècle à Miró. Catalogue of the exhibition under the direction of Christophe Marquet. Contributions from Ricard Bru, Christophe Marquet, Shirato Shintarô, Yokoya Ken.ichirô. Translations by François Lachaud and Damien Kunik. Paris : Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris & École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2019, 184 pages.

Ramakrishnamacharyulu (K. V.) (ed.),
The Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntabhūṣaṇa of Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa, Part II, Collection Indologie n˚139, Institut Français de Pondichéry / École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2019, 626 pages.

Site des publications

Researchers Publications

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma, “ṭeḥ (4.4.155) iti sūtrasthasya ṇaviṣṭhavat-prātipadikasya iti vārtikasya viṣaye kaścit vicāraḥ”, p. 94–105, dans Māṇikyaprabhā (bhagavallīnānāṃ mahāmahopādhyāyānāṃ brahmaśrīyutānāṃ maddupalli māṇikyaśāstriṇāṃ padapaṅkajārjitā jayantīmahotsavasmārikā), under the direction of V.S. Viṣṇupotti and G.S.V. Dattātreyamūrti. Kancheepuram : Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya, 2019.

Olivier de Bernon, Kun Sopheap, Leng Kok An, Inventaire provisoire des manuscrits du Cambodge, Deuxième partie. Les bibliothèques institutionnelles de Phnom Penh, preface by Sa Sainteté Samdech Thep Vong, Supreme patriarch of the mahānikāy fraternity, collection Material for the Study of the Tripiṭaka n°15, Paris, École française d'Extrême-Orient, Bangkok, Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation, cxv + 670 pages.

Élisabeth Chabanol (dir.), Souvenirs de Séoul. Destins croisés France-Corée de 1886 aux années 1950, Paris, Atelier des Cahiers, 2019.

Pierre-Yves Manguin, “Protohistoric and early historic exchange in the Eastern Indian Ocean: A re-evaluation of current paradigms”, in Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, vol. I: Commercial Structures and Exchanges, Basingstoke, Palgrave McMillan, 2019, p. 99-120.

Pierre-Yves Manguin, “The transmission of Vaiṣṇavism across the Bay of Bengal: Trade networks and state formation in early historic Southeast Asia”, in Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, vol. II: Exchange of Ideas, Religions, and Technologies, Basingstoke, Palgrave McMillan, 2019, p. 51-83.

Martin Nogueira Ramos, La foi des ancêtres. Chrétiens cachés et catholiques dans la société villageoise japonaise (XVIIe-XIXe s.), Paris, CNRS éditions (coll. Réseau Asie), 2019, 417 pages.

Franciscus Verellen, “Jeux d'encre : poésie et peinture en Chine”, Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres 2017/fasc. IV, p. 1505-23 (paru marsappearing March 2019).

Franciscus Verellen, “Moxi: Zhonggguo de shi yu hua” 墨戏：中国的诗与画 [Jeux d'encre : poésie et peinture en Chine], Kua wenhua duihua 跨文化对话 39, 2018, p. 8-18 et pl. 1-10 (appearing March 2019).

Franciscus Verellen, Imperiled Destinies: The Daoist Quest for Deliverance in Medieval China, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 118, Harvard University Press, 2019, 388 pages.

Research Services

New recipient of allocation for April

Anaïs Delmotte has received an EFEO field scholarship of 1 month, on attachment to the Kyoto Centre, to carry out research the protohistoric exchanges on the Island of Iki, Japan.

Recipients of allocations currently on mission

- Stéphen Huard is at Rangoon to carry out research on an historical 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 Hanoï to carry out research on a grammar of Hmong Noir language of the Hmong-mien of North Vietnam.
- Johan Krieg is at Pondicherry for research on the renunciation of the world to environmentalism in sectarian Hinduism at Rishikesh, Uttarakhand (India).
- Roland Ferenczi is at Pondicherry 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 on the Batanes Islands, Philippines.
- Nausica Riviere is at Taipei for research on popular religion and claims: defence of the LGBT cause during the Dajia Mazu pilgrimage at Taiwan.

In Memoriam

Po Dharma Quang

We have learned with sorrow of the death of our colleague Po Dharma Quang on 22 February 2019 at Toulouse. Member of the EFEO since 1982, Po Dharma Quang retired in September 2016.

In Memoriam

News of personnel and services

Direction

Christophe Marquet, Director, assumes in April - May the vice-presidency of the jury for the competitive agrégation examination in Japanese language and culture, session 2019.

On 23 April, he inaugurates the exhibition Ôtsu-e : peintures populaires du Japon of which he is commissioner, at the Maison de la culture du Japon at Paris.

Library

In Memoriam
Pauline Koffler (1921-2019)

The EFEO library pays homage to the memory of Madame Pauline Koffler, née Van Den Broele Bentley, deceased 21 March 2019 at Paris, donor of Sandy Koffler collections.

Pauline Bentley was born at Manchester, United Kingdom. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1937-39, she dedicated the years before and after the Second World War to a career as an actress, playing in leading London theatres a large repetoire of roles, especially from the plays of William Shakespeare. Between 1941 and 1946 she joined the Royal Navy which assigned her to the Government Code and Cypher School, (Bletchley Park), well known unit of British military intelligence responsible for deciphering German communications encoded by the “Enigma” machne.

In 1951-58 Pauline Bentley turned to cinematography, as a scriptwriter for the Paramount Film Corporation, and then to audiovisual journalism, working for the BBC at Paris and for Radio UNESCO from 1958 to 1964. This was how she met, in Paris, Sandy KOFFLER (1916-2002), founder and director of the UNESCO Courrier review, whom she married. From the 1970s, Pauline and Sandy Koffler plunged into Chinese and Taoist studies. Pauline Koffler was part of a European Daozang project and made several contributions to the work, The Taoist Canon: A historical companion to the Daozang (K. Schipper and F. Verellen ed., 2004), after translating and annotating the Gujingji of Wang Du (article published in Hommage à Kwong Hing Foon, Études d’histoire culturelle de la Chine, (J.P. Diény ed, 1993). Pauline and Sandy Koffler were an important source of Chinese and Japanese books, bequeathed to the l’EFEO in 2005.

In 2009, Pauline Koffler was decorated by Queen Elisabeth II for “vital services rendered at the Government Code and Cypher School” at Bletchley Park between 1941-45.

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Photo Library

The Sheppard Fergusson collection, comprising 1 200 images, presents the complete restoration, between 2007 and 2010, of the communcal house (đình) of the village of Chu Quyến 60 km from Hanoï (Vietnam) and puts it on line on the photo library website.

Illustration: Close up of an entire dragon sculpted in bas-relief on a base belonging to the structure of đình (EFEO_FERS00152).

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Notice

The exhibition of the National Museum of Cambodge on pre-angkorian inscriptions realised with the cooperation of the programme Corpus des Inscriptions Khmères (CIK) of the EFEO is on show until 28 April. It intermixes engraved stones and stampings and brings to the fore three epigraphs:
- The inscription K.600 (Angkor Borei), the earliest known in the Khmer language mentioning the beautiful names of courtesans.
- K.1419 (Kompong Speu), recently transferred to the museum. A piedroit in schist recut as a stele making reference in Sanskrit to a “land of gold.
- K.127 (Kratié) consisting of the first known graphic representation of zero in the Khmer land. The opportunity to show the development of the numbering from 6th to 12th c.

From left to right: rubbing of inscription K.600 shown beide a photograph of an inscribed pedestal previously exhibited at MNC, the inscribed piedroit K.127 and the piedroit / stele K. 1419.

Estampage of inscription K.600 shown next to a photograph of the inscribed pedestal previously exhibited at the Musée National.

Fifth International Intensive course in Old Javanese

With the aim of assisting the development of a new generation of philologists in old Javanese and to stimulate international cooperation for this discipline, l'École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) and the National Library of the Republic of Indonesia (Perpusnas), with the support of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris), PSL Research University (Paris), will again this year jointly eco-organise, for the 5th time, an intensive seminar on old Javanese.

It takes place from 21 July to 3 August at Yogyakarta in Indonesia.

The last date for submission of candidature files is 15 April 2019.

The interview with Brice Vincent (lecturer at the EFEO) on the research project LANGAU - Fondre pour le roi : étude archéométallurgique de l'atelier de bronziers du palais royal d'Angkor Thom (Autorité nationale APSARA / École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2016-2019), realised at the EFEO Centre of Siem Reap on Decembre 2018, is available on the EFEO Youtube videos.

Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger (ResEFE)

EFEO Doctoral contract

In the framework of support given to international cooperative activities, the ministry of advanced teaching, of research and innovation (MESRI) each year grants five doctoral contracts in a partnership between a Doctoral École and one of the five Écoles françaises overseas (EFE) (École française of Athens, École française of Rome, Institut français of oriental Archaeology of Cairo, École française d’Extrême-Orient, Casa de Velázquez).

The details and the procedure for candidature application for the École française d’Extrême-Orient may be consulted here.

The documents for candidature may be sent up until 30 April 2019, 15h (Paris time), according to the appropriate modalities for each EFE. The results will be given out before the end of June.

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News of the PSL University

Master « Études Asiatiques » (EHESS-EPHE-EFEO) – Inscriptions 2019-2020.

PSL University opens at the start of 2019-20 a new master “Études Asiatiques”. This collaboration between the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales with a view to training researchers or experts capable of developing critical thinking on the Asian societies approached in their specialisations and in the long term.

The Master "Études Asiatiques" is a pluridisciplinaire training at level M1-M2, organised around two distinct but complementary paths, reflecting the differences between scholarly traditions in their approach to Asian societies: "Histoire et sciences sociales : terrains, textes et images" (EHESS-EFEO) and "Histoire, philologie et religions" (EPHE-EFEO).

Admissions for the Master "Etudes Asiatiques" are open: see the detailed information and the contacts for the teaching staff on the Master website and in its brochure.

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