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Ho Chi Minh ville

Tuesday, July 2, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., is the fourth act of the conference-debate series organized by the EFEO Centre in Ho Chi Minh City. Trần Hữu Quang, sociologist attached to the Institute of Social Sciences of the South Region (Academy of Social Sciences of Vietnam), spoke on the theme "La concentration des terres agricoles dans le Delta du Mékong".

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Pondicherry

S. A. S. Sarma will present a paper on “Architecture in Early Śaiva Scriptures” in the Pandit Subbarama Pattar Endowment National Conference on new Horizons of Indological Research organised by the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala, to be held from 10th to 12th July 2019. He is then invited to participate and present a paper in the “7th International Vedic Workshop”, organised by Zagreb University at the Inter University Centre, Dubrovnik, from 19 24 August 2019. There he will present a lecture entitled “Malayalam Manuals on Domestic Rituals with special reference to the Bādhūlakaccaṭaṅṅu (domestic rituals of Vādhūla School)”.

R. Sathyanaryanan will be travelling to Leiden to participate in the panel and round-table on the “Materiality of palm-leaf manuscripts from Asia” of the 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) organized by the International Institute of Asian Studies at the Leiden University in The Netherlands from 16th to 19th July 2019. He will then go to London from 20 to 24 July to work with Mr. Kalyanasundaram on a critical edition of Kāmikāgama Jñānapāda, to attend a book-release function on 21 July for his book entitled ‘Rudrākṣamāhātmyam of Paramaśivendrasaraswati, A critical edition with Tamil introduction and study” published by the Vedāgama Academy and to give a lecture on “The importance of the Jñānapāda of the Kāmikāgama, A Sanskrit Śaiva Scripture” at SOAS, University of London, on 22 July 2019.

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma will participate in a traditional conference (śātrasadas) conducted by the Vedabhavanam in Hyderabad from 4 to 8 July 2019, where he will address the topic “a-i-u-ṇ-sūtrabhāṣyavicāraḥ”. From 19 to 21 August 2019 he will travel to Kanchipuram to participate in Jayendrasarasvatīsvāminām Jayantīsabhā, a traditional conference organized by the Kanchi-kamakoti-peetham, during which he will give another presentation on vyākaraṇa (traditional Sanskrit grammar) entitled “Nājjhalau iti sūtrārtha-vicāraḥ”.

Alessandro Graheli (IKGA, Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Daniele Cuneo (Sorbonne Nouvelle — Paris 3) will arrive in Pondicherry on 18 July for a one-month stay at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO. They will focus on the critical edition, translation and study of Mukula’s Abhidhāvṛttamātṛkā, a Sanskrit text on poetics and philosophy of language written in 9th-century Kashmir. Its main theme is the capacity of words to express meanings that go beyond the common lexical sense, i.e., the metaphorical and the metonymical capacity of human language. Their work in Pondicherry will consist in the study of Mukula’s work, together with Hugo David from the EFEO, using previously collected manuscript materials and numerous parallels from Sanskrit literature.

Two important projects were launched at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO:

Dr. SVBKV Gupta, who had been working with us as a Researcher within the framework the ERC Project of the SOAS University of London - "The Hatha Yoga Project: Mapping Indian and Transnational Traditions of Physical Yoga through Philology and Ethnography – HYP Grant Number 647963)" resigned with effect from 1 June 2019 to join Amrita University in Kerala. His research consisted of transcribing unpublished yoga-related works, as well as helping with the collation of South Indian manuscripts that transmit Sanskrit texts on yoga. He will be replaced by Priyanka Avula from 1 July 2019.

Manasicha Akepiyapornchai (Cornell University) has received a grant from the Anandamahidol Foundation under the Royal Patronage to spend eight months (August 2019 to March 2020) at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO to work on her dissertation on “Multilingual Soteriology in Medieval South India”, which examines soteriological development in relation to linguistic changes in the context of medieval South India. In particular, it investigates how the doctrine of self-surrender to a Personal God, Nārāyaṇa, developed in the medieval Śrīvaiṣṇava tradition in Tamilnadu.

Florinda De Simini from the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and PI of the ERC Project SHIVADHARMA will arrive on 19 July to spend 3 weeks at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO to continue her research on the Śivadharma in the Tamil-speaking South. She will participate in the regular readings of Sanskrit and Tamil texts that attest to the spread of the Śivadharma corpus in Tamil Nadu with the EFEO’s team of researchers.

Emmanuel Francis from the CNRS and PI of the project ERC 809994 DHARMA will spend a month, from 3 August to 3 September 2019, to study Tamil inscriptions (6th to 13th century CE) as part of the project, which aims to throw light on the complex interplay of religion, state and society.

Marzenna Czerniak-Drożdżowicz (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland) will be arriving at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO on 30 August 2019 to spend a month working with R. Sathyanarayanan on the project “Cultural ecosystem of textual traditions from pre-modern South India” financed by the National Science Centre, Poland (UMO - 2018/29/B/HS2/01182).

Clovis Bernardi, a doctoral student at the University of Lyon III Jean Moulin, is staying at the EFEO Centre in Pondicherry from July 20 to September 10, 2019 to continue his research as part of his doctoral thesis on religious politics in French India under the former regime and during the revolution.

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Éric Bourdonneau

Éric Bourdonneau is in Phnom Penh from July 10 to 23 to give a course on "The Social History of Ancient Cambodia and its Sources" to students of the Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA) in Phnom Penh, as part of the "Université des Moussons".

His assignment to the responsibility of the Siem Reap Centre ends on 31 July. He will be posted to the Paris headquarters from september 1st on.

Élisabeth Chabanol

Hugo David

Valérie Gillet

Valérie Gillet, in collaboration with Coline Lefrancq, is organizing a field workshop from July 23 to August 4 entitled "Histoire, archéologie, bhakti : le sud de l’Andhra Pradesh" (workshop funded by the SPIF-ATLAS project of PSL). Eight Master's and PhD students will follow this training in the field.

Fabienne Jagou

Fabienne Jagou, in collaboration with Maria M. Turek (University of Toronto) and Antonio Terrone (University of Chicago) is organizing a panel entitled "Tibetan Buddhism in Chinese Societies", as part of the Tibetan Congress, IATS2019-Paris, at INALCO, on Thursday, July 11, from 8:40 am to 12:40 pm. She presented a paper entitled "Between History and Memory: Contemporary Construction of Gara Lama Sönam Rabten (1865/76-1936)'s Legend by Han Devotees".

François Lagirarde

On July 17, François Lagirarde presented a paper entitled "Literacy in the Thai Domains: Ancient Archaeological Facts and Epigraphical Evidence (14th-17th Centuries)" at the 11th International Conference ICAS 2019 (International Convention of Asia Scholars) held in Leiden, the Netherlands, from July 14 to 18. This presentation is part of the discussion group "Materiality of palm leaf manuscripts - a systematic approach".

Michel Lorrillard

Michel Lorrillard presented a paper on July 16 entitled "Religious rivalries and royal power in Lan Na and Lan Xang" at the same ICAS 2019 conference in Leiden.

Olivier Tessier

As part of the Asean Water Plaftorm 2019 of the WANASEA project, Olivier Tessier is coordinating and leading the Field Research - Qualitative Methodologies in Social Science workshop in Cambodia from July 7 to 13 with Huynh Thi Phuong Linh (EFEO), Dewan Ashan (University of Southern Denmark) and Pierre-Yves Le Meur (IRD). The research site is located in the commune of Barku (Kandal Stueng district, Kandal province) and the workshop is entitled "Irrigation and agriculture management in Kandal Stueng model irrigation system".

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 New recipients of field research scholarships

- Marie-Agathe Simonetti obtained a five-month field research scholarship from the EFEO, based in the Centre of Hanoi, to conduct a research entitled Representing Indochina: Photography and Painting in Hanoi, Saigon, and Paris, 1887-1940.
- Murielle Hoareau obtained a six-month field research scholarship from the EFEO, based in the Centre of Pondicherry, to carry out a philological study of Sanskrit texts mâdhva.
- Zacky Khairul Umam obtained a six-month field research scholarship from the EFEO, based in the Centre of Jakarta, to conduct a research entitled The Jawis and the Islamic Republic of Letters: The Problem of Sufi Heretics and the Intellectual Exchanges in Early Modern Time.
- Roberto Rizzo obtained a five-month field research scholarship from the EFEO, based in the Centre of Jakarta, to conduct a research entitled Karma and its discontents. Becoming community in a Javanese Buddhist revival.
- Melody Shum obtained a six-month field research scholarship from the EFEO, based in the Centre of Hanoi, to conduct a research entitled The Vietnamese Revolutionary Underground: Vietnamese Revolutionary Networks in South China c. 1900 – 1940.
- Dawid Gajewski obtained a three-month field research scholarship from the EFEO, based in the Centre of Kuala Lumpur, to conduct a research entitled Towards the description of Classical Malay syntax.
- Clara Gilbert obtained a six-month field research scholarship from the EFEO, based in the Centre of Jakarta, to conduct research on religious pluralism and the performing arts: the case of Javanese Islam in the masked theatre wayang topèng in Central Java.
- Sawyer French obtained a six-month field research scholarship from the EFEO, based in the Centre of Jakarta, to conduct a research entitled Islamic Education in Indonesian Public Schools: from Independence to Present.

Recipients of field research scholarships still on mission

- Eduardo Drestanta is at Jakarta, to carry out research on regional autonomy and community conflicts on the island of Ceram, in the Moluccas, Eastern Indonesia.
- Stéphen Huard is at Rangoon to carry out research on the historic anthropology of village chieftaincies in central Myanmar.

New Post-doctoral of the month

Aude Lucas is studying under a post-doctoral contract the Chinese literature from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Post-doctoral still on contract

- Arnaud Bertrand is studying under a post-doctoral contract Le Hexi, as a strategic territory of the Silk Roads.
- Anne Davrinche is starting a post-doctoral research project in Tiruvalanjuli.
- Aurore Candier studies Burmese astrological and divinatory knowledge in the context of a post-doctoral contract in the encounter with modernity (18th-19th centuries).

Fondation Pierre Ledoux – Jeunesse Internationale

Suzanne Peyrard was awarded the Fondation Pierre Ledoux – Jeunesse Internationale Prize for her project to study urban construction and modelling in the digital paradigm: the manufacture of an intelligent city in Songdo (South Korea).

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