Brice Girbal (National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan) gives a lecture entitled "The Technological Context of Crucible Steel Manufacture: Recent Archaeological Research in Northern Telangana, South India", organized jointly by the EFEO Center in Taipei and the Archaeological Research Center of Taiwan and Southeast Asia, Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica.

At 3:00 p. m., Conference Room 703, Academia Sinica Research Building.

As part of the History, Archaeology and Society (HAS) cycle, whose 2018-2019 theme is Manuscript Cultures in China in the Print Age, CHEN Hao (People's University) is giving a lecture on "Book Editors between Manuscript and Print Culture: Books, Identities and the Medical Book Bureau in Northern Song Dynasty". This lecture is given in Chinese.

At 3:00 p. m. at the People's University.
This program is organized with the Max Weber Foundation as part of the European Research Centre for Chinese Studies.

Michela Bussotti is co-organizing with Catherine Jami and Frédéric Obringer (CNRS) the first study day of the "Knowledge and techniques: objects, practices and circulations" axis of the UMR Chine-Corée, Japon.

From 9:15 am to 5:30 pm, EHESS, 54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris, room AS1_24.

As part of the Kyoto Lectures, Pierre-Emmanuel Roux (University of Paris Diderot) gives a lecture entitled "Andreas Kim Taegŏn (1821-1846): The Clandestine Life and Heroic After life of the First Korean Catholic Priest".

At 6 p.m., at the EFEO Center in Kyoto (opened to all).

As part of the series of lectures on Hommes, territoires et sociétés organized by the EFEO Center in Jakarta and the Institut français d’Indonésie (IFI), Thomas Ingicco (MNHN) will speak on the theme "Man and Apes in Java 12,000 Years Ago".

At 5:30 p.m., at the IFI, large Jl Thamrin auditorium.

The lectures in the Hommes, territoires et sociétés series organized by the EFEO Center in Jakarta and the Institut français d’Indonésie are to be reviewed on the IFI's Youtube channel.

The XXVII Seoul Colloquium in Korean Studies, organized by the EFEO Center in Seoul, in collaboration with the Royal Asiatic Society and the Asiatic Research Institute of Korea University, is led by Jennifer Flinn (Assistant Professor at Kyunghee University in Seoul) on the theme "Serving up Masculinity: Instructional cooking media, demographic change, and new gendered realities in South Korea".

At the EFEO Center, from 6:00 p. m. to 7:30 p. m., Grand conference Room 310, Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University.

As part of the Kitashirakawa EFEO Salon, Didier Davin (National Institute of Japanese Literature) presents the sixth conference of the 2018-2019 cycle on religious preaching in the popular environment: "What Zen in Japanese society in the pre-modern era? Some thoughts on the doctrinal content of the kanahōgo" (in Japanese without translation).

At 6pm, at the Institute for Research in Humanities of Kyoto University (main building, seminar room 1).

As part of the centenary of the National Museum of Cambodia, a hanging of the portraits of the directors and founders, with group photographs, is being completed in the north wing of the museum at the end of the collection tour.

The Dassault Système Foundation has decided to support the work undertaken by the "Materials and Structure" Research Unit of the Cambodian Institute of Technology, the Laboratory of Process and Materials Sciences (LSPM - University of Paris 13), and the sculpture conservation-restoration workshop of the National Museum of Cambodia / EFEO, on the implementation of digital simulations that can be applied to works for both reconstruction and modelling of rupture phenomena. The statue of Krishna Govardhana of Phnom Da and the inscribed stele of Phimeanakas (K.485) are perfectly significant examples of the planned applications.

Michela Bussotti is invited to participate in the Hui Studies symposium which takes place on June 18 and 19 in Hefei (PR of China) where she gives a presentation on the theme Classic of female subsidiary piety and the local editions of the late Ming (1366-1644) which are now preserved in Japan.

She then gives to Wuhu to visit the normal university of Anhui province.

On June 19, Elisabeth Chabanol participates in the International conference on Urban North Korea: Changes and Exchanges, organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University, Seoul. It presents the communication City, urban planning, architecture and archaeology in DPRK. International Exchanges.

On Friday, June 14, Catherine Scheer will be speaking at the EHESS-INALCO seminar Langue, histoire et sources textuelles du Cambodge ancien et moderne organized by Éric Bourdonneau, Grégory Mikaelian and Joseph Thach, on the theme: "When there is not enough forest left to eat: The Bunongs face the challenge of regulating clearing on the high plateaus of Cambodia".

From 10am to 12pm, at INALCO, room 6.11, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris.

Legend: Preparations for an incest purification ritual, Bu Sra, Mondulkiri province, Cambodia.

Olivier De Bernon (EFEO) speaks on "Les élites sociales et religieuses dans les Codes anciens du Siam et du Cambodge". This seminar is part of the « Exils et Migrations » theme of the ASIAS seminar (master AMO - Asie méridionale et orientale : terrains, textes et sciences sociales).

From 10:30 to 12:00, Maison de l'Asie, 22, avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris, Grand salon, 1st floor (opened to all).

Les textes de loi traditionnels du Siam et du Cambodge – qui furent en vigueur du XVe au XIXe siècle environ, stipulent que la gravité d’un crime est considérée en fonction statut social de la personne qui a subi le vol ou le dol, et que la punition du coupable est considérablement aggravée si la victime est un membre de la « communauté monastique »  (saṅgha), ou bien s’il s’agit d’un dignitaire au service du roi.

Les mêmes textes disposent, en revanche, que pour un même délit et plus encore pour un même crime, dès lors qu’il est commis par un dignitaire ou par un « religieux ordonné » (bhikkhu), la punition doit être plus sévère et plus ignominieuse que pour toute autre personne, à proportion du rang ou de l’élévation du coupable.

On examinera quelques exemples de cette sorte de « miroir juridique » dans lequel se reflète le statut des élites au Siam et au Cambodge.

Legend: 1804 manuscript of the Code of the Three Seals (Siam)

Christophe Marquet, Director, gives a lecture on "L’invention de la "peinture populaire" dans le Japon du XXe siècle" as part of the participation of the réseau des Écoles française à l’étranger in the Festival de l'histoire de l'art of Fontainebleau, on June 9 (Château de Fontainebleau, 11am).

Legend: The residence of the Kii fiefdom in Edo, 1st half of the 19th century, anonymous gouache painting, Mingeikan series (Kôgei magazine, Jan. 1937, A. Leroi-Gourhan fonds, EFEO).

He presided over the general assembly of the Association française des amis de l'Orient on June 3 at the Maison de l'Asie.

He sits as vice-president on the jury of the agrégation de langue et culture japonaises, at INALCO, from 11 to 13 June.

He is on a mission in London between June 23 and 25, as part of research on the British Museum's collection of popular Japanese paintings.

Find the EFEO's photographic collections on the photo library's website on May 20.

Legend: View of the Buddhist monastery of Punakha Dzong (Bhutan) in 1991 (EFEO_PIC00096).

Call for papers

The Japarchi Thematic Scientific Network, which aims to define a set of fundamental concepts and features of Japanese space culture, is launching a call for papers for the 2019-2020 annual seminar.

On November 1, 2019, the EFEO Center in Kyoto will host a study day on architecture, urban planning and landscape in Japan.

Students, researchers and other practitioners in these fields related to space culture are invited to present their work and contribute to the scientific exchanges that will be held during the various meetings organized by the Japarchi network in France and Japan.

Proposals for communication must be sent by email before 30 June 2019.

Call for papers

Socitété Asiatique Symposium:
L'idéologie royale dans les civilisations de l'Asie

The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, the Société asiatique and the 'Institut national des langues et des civilisations orientales are offering two days of reflection on the royal ideology in Asian civilizations on December 5 and 6, 2019 at INALCO and the AIBL main hall of sessions.

Submissions for papers, accompanied by an abstract, mention of the author's function and e-mail, should be sent to Jean-Michel Mouton.

It is strongly recommended that proposals be received by 30 September 2019.

The réseau des EFE will participate in the 2019 Festival de l’histoire de l’art, through four conferences on the theme of the "Peuple":
- Christophe Marquet - EFEO: L’invention de la « peinture populaire » dans le Japon du XXe siècle.
- Alain Arrault - EFEO: La statuaire domestique en Chine (XVIe-XXe siècle). D’une pratique savante et bouddhique à une réappropriation populaire.
- Jean-Baptiste Delzant - former member of the EFR: L’église franque d’Abu Gosh et ses peintures du XIIe siècle : un seul ensemble conçu pour différents publics.
- Olivier Christin - in collaboration with the Casa de Velázquez: « Des mots abstraits [qui] agrandissent la pensée » (Tocqueville). Révolution, démocratie et architectures morales.

Festival program

The EFEs will also have a joint publications presentation stand at the book and art magazine fair on June 7, 8 and 9.

PSL University will be opening for the academic year of 2019-2020 a new master’s degree program, “Études Asiatiques”. This program is the result of a collaboration involving the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). The aim of the "Études Asiatiques" program is to offer a multidisciplinary training in the fields of social sciences and humanities, thus enabling researchers as well as experts to develop critical thinking towards Asian societies on the long term, all the while taking into account its singularities.

The Master "Études Asiatiques" is a multidisciplinary training at level M1-M2, organised around two distinct but complementary paths, reflecting among 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 "Études Asiatiques" are opened: see the detailed information and the contacts for the teaching staff on the Master website and in its brochure.