Agenda EFEO

Newsletter

September 2019

Contents

Agenda

Research
- Centres
- Researchers
- Seminar of the EFEO Paris
- Publications
- Researchers' publications
- Research Services

Departments and staff members news
- Direction
- Staff members
- Library
- Photo Library

Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger

PSL News

Agenda

10 to 13 Septembre - Berlin

Catherine Scheer, Yves Goudineau and Jacques Leider are attending the 10th EuroSEAS conference held at the University of Humboldt in Berlin.

11 September - Taipei

Luca Gabbiani gives a lecture at the National Palace Museum entitled: Real estate and law in the city – Some aspects of everyday life in eighteenth century Beijing as reflected in Qing-era judicial sources.

At 2pm, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 4th floor conference room.

16 to 21 September - Berlin

The members of the DHARMA project (The Domestication of "Hindu" Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia), funded by an ERC grant, participate in the Kickoff-Meeting cum EpiDoc Workshop of the project organized in Berlin by the Humboldt University team.

Several researchers (Véronique Degroot, Valérie Gillet, Dominic Goodall, Arlo Griffiths, SAS Sarma, R. Sathyanarayanan, Dominique Soutif and Vincent Tournier), three doctoral students (Chloé Chollet, Aditia Gunawan and Marine Schoettel) as well as the "Visual Data Manager" of the project (Adeline Levivier) and the head of the EFEO's IT department (Vincent Paillusson) will be participating.

See the program.

17 September - Ningbo

The International Study Day: Chinese Mobile Characters: from East to West, yesterday and today organized by the Fudan University (Shanghai - Chinese Classics Research Institute), the EFEO and hosted by the Tianyige Museum (historical library and museum) will open in Ningbo (Zhejiang).

This study day will bring together about twenty Chinese, Korean, French and Japanese specialists to review typographical knowledge and the history of Chinese typography. More information from Michela Bussotti.

18 September - Jakarta

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), Jean-Pascal Elbaz will lecture on the following theme: Sketches for a portrait of Louis-Charles Damais. A life in Java in the turmooil of history.

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

To view the lectures in the Hommes, territoires et sociétés series organized by the EFEO Center in Jakarta and the Institut français d’Indonésie please log onto the IFI's Youtube channel.

IFI Youtube Channel

19 September - Kyoto

As part of the Kyoto Lectures, Danny Orbach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) gives a lecture entitled: The multiple faces of japanese military disobedience, 1868-1937: roots and consequences.

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

20 to 21 September - Beijing

In partnership with the Institute of History of the University of Foreign Languages in Beijing (Beiwai), the EFEO Center in Beijing and the Max Weber Foundation are co-organizing a symposium entitled: The China Experience and the Making of Sinology: Western Scholars Sojourning in China (from the late 19th century to the first half of the 20th century).

In this context, an exceptional conference by Marianne Bastid-Bruguière is scheduled for the evening of 20 September at the European Union Delegation in China.

Information to come on the blog of the European Research Center for Chinese Studies.

Legend: Édouard Chavannes and Vasilij M. Alekseev at the foot of a stele in the mausoleum of Emperor Tang Gaozong. Source: Archaeological missions Édouard Chavannes 1907.

Research

Centres

Jakarta

From September 22 to 24, the EFEO Center in Jakarta will be visited by Christophe Marquet, Director of the EFEO. His visit is an opportunity to renew the MOU, first signed in 1976, between the EFEO and the Indonesian National Center for Archaeological Research (Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi Nasional).

Phnom Penh

The sculpture conservation workshop of the National Museum of Cambodia / EFEO is currently completing the restoration of the Rama statue of Koh Ker's Prasat Chen Prasat Chen with the delicate placement of its bow.

Legend: Test of positioning the Rama bow which has lost its grip on the body and pedestal.

Pondicherry

From 29 September to 2 October R. Sathyanarayan and Dominic Goodall travel to Naples to participate in the Kick-off workshop of the SIVADHARMA Project (Translocal Identities. The Śivadharma and the Making of Regional Religious Traditions in Premodern South Asia), funded by an ERC. Before going to Naples, R. Sathyanarayanan is invited to Heidelberg to read Vaishnava texts with Ute Huesken at the University of Heidelberg within the framework of the Kancimahatmyam Project.

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma is going to Sringeri to participate in the Mahaganapati-vakyarthasabha, a traditional conference, from 7 to 19 September where he will elaborate on a grammatical rule of Panini in a presentation entitled "Akathitaṁ ca 1.4.51 iti sūtravicāraḥ".

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma is going to Sringeri to participate in a traditional conference, the Mahaganapati-vakyarthasabha, from 7 to 19 September, where he will develop his thoughts on an aphorism of the Panini grammarian in a presentation entitled "Akathitaṁ ca 1.4.51 iti sūtravicāra".

Taipei

Luca Gabbiani (EFEO) is in Taiwan from September 6 to 22. From September 9 to 18, he is invited at the National Palace Museum (MNP, Gugong) in Taipei as part of the annual exchange agreement with the EFEO.

On September 11, he will be giving a conference on the theme: Real estate and law in the city - Some aspects of everyday life in Beijing as reflected in Qing-era judicial sources, organized jointly by the EFEO and the MNP.

Chercheurs

Eric Bourdonneau

Eric Bourdonneau is in Cambodia from 16 to 28 September. In Siem Reap, he participates in the CIC-Preah Vihear and presents with Chhan Chamroeun (Angkor Conservation) a paper entitled: The Dancing Śiva Restoration Program. Phase 1: the Technical Study. He will then be going to Phnom Penh to supervise, as part of the University of Monsoons and its program on The social history of ancient Cambodia and its sources, as well as student seminars in the archaeology faculty of the URBA.

Michela Bussotti

Michela Bussotti is on a mission in China from September 9 to 21:

- She will first stay at Hefei, invited by the Huizhou Study Center to present her works to students and to participate in the third conference on the Huizhou Documents and Chinese History organized on September 15 and 16 by Fudan University, Anhui University and the Anhui Normal University.

- She will then be in Ningbo, to participate on September 17 in the international study day at Tianyige on Chinese mobile characters: from East to West, yesterday and today, of which she is co-organizer with Professor Chen Zhenghong (Fudan University in Shanghai) and Mrs. Zhuang Lizhen (Director of Tianyige).

- She finishes her stay in Shanghai (September 19-21), where she will give a lecture on Chinese typography at the Chinese Classics Research Institute, Fudan University; in the same institution she is helping to organize a conference on the French National Printing House, given by Nelly Gable (Master of Art, National Printing House) and Fabien Simon (Paris Diderot University).

Élisabeth Chabanol

Elisabeth Chabanol, Head of the Archaeological Mission in Kaesong (MAK), accompanied by Nicolas Nauleau, archaeologist, is on mission until 11 September at the Kaesong site to continue post-excavation work and architectural surveys of the Namdae Gate and the enclosures of the fortified city of Kaesong, and to prepare the new project to study the royal tombs at Koryŏ.

Damian Evans

From 7 to 15 September Damian Evans will be in Victoria (Canada) as part of the international exhibition project on Angkor planned for 2020-2021, in which CALI (Cambodian Archaeological Lidar Initiative) could be part of.

From 17 to 25 September, he will be in Siem Reap to work in the field and with CALI staff and participate in the seminar on Cambodian history organized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM).

Luca Gabbiani

At the invitation of the National Palace Museum, Luca Gabbiani is on a research trip to Taipei from 6 to 22 September to study the urban network of the Grand Canal banks in Shandong from the 15th to the 19th century. On September 12, he will be going to Chiayi for a working meeting with the teams of the Museum's Southern Branch.

On 17 and 18 September in Kyoto, he will participate in the doctoral workshop on the history of modern China organized by Professor Wu Jen-shu (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica) and his colleagues from the Department of History at Kyôto University.

Yves Goudineau

As part of EuroSEAS, Yves Goudineau is attending two roundtables: Identity: Forging regional belonging in Southeast Asia on Thursday 12 September and Current and future challenges of regional integration in Southeast Asia on Friday 13 September.

Jacques Leider

As part of EuroSEAS, Jacques Leider will be giving a presentation entitled: Ethno-religious entanglements in the Bengal-Burma borderlands (1920-1960): Muslim diversity in Arakan on the 12th of September at 3.30 pm and as scientific coordinator of the CRISEA project (Competing Regional Integrations in Southeast Asia) he is organising the Current and Future Challenges of Regional Integration in Southeast Asia roundtable on Friday 13 September from 11 am to 12.30 pm.

At the invitation of the International Red Cross (Bangkok Regional Office), he is participating in the conference Reducing Suffering During Armed Conflict: The Interface Between Buddhism and IHL, which is being held in Dambulla, Sri Lanka, from 4 to 6 September 2019 as moderator of Session IV "Other perspectives" on 6 September, from 16:30 to 17:30.

From 26 to 29 September 2019, as CRISEA's scientific coordinator, Jacques Leider will visit the University of Oslo to meet the Norwegian members of the project. On September 27, he made a presentation at the seminar of Professor Kenneth Bo Nielsen entitled: Another unstudied field of Myanmar diversity: the Muslim communities.

Pierre-Yves Manguin

Pierre-Yves Manguin travels to Indonesia in the second half of September to work on his book on Srivijaya.

Martin Nogueira Ramos

Martin Nogueira Ramos participates in the Nagasaki historical tour organized by the Ricci Institute of the University of San Francisco and the Museum of the 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki. In this context, on 28 September at 9 a.m., he gave a lecture for postdoctoral researchers in the Historical legacies of christianity in East Asia: Bridging a new generation of scholars and scholarship programme entitled: The faith of the ancestors: Kyushu's "hidden Christians" and Catholics in late Edo & early Meiji Japan.

Legend: Engraving representing the discovery of Christians hidden by French missionaries (March 1865).

Catherine Scheer

As part of EuroSEAS, Catherine Scheer is co-organizing with Sina Emde (Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Heidelberg) a double panel on Thursday 12 September from 13h30 to 17h (sessions 7 and 8) entitled Engaging universals - traveling concepts and practices in contemporary Southeast Asia, of which Alexandra Kent will be the discussion moderator.

Charlotte Schimd

Charlotte Schimd is in Hamburg from September 1 to 10 to participate in the classical Tamil seminar on song 12 of the Cilappatikāram organized by Eva Wilden. On September 5 she gave a presentation entitled: Towards an iconography of the goddess of "Cilappatikāram" 12, at 4:30 pm at the Centre for Manuscript culture in Hamburg, on the second floor.

EFEO Paris Seminar

Monday 30 September

Arnaud Bertrand speaks on: Après la conquête : Stratégies de fondation des « villes-frontières » aux marches occidentales de l’empire des Han.

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

Au Ier siècle avant notre ère et au-delà du fleuve Jaune (dans l’actuelle province du Gansu, Chine du Nord-Ouest), la dynastie des Han Occidentaux (206 av. J.-C. – 9 apr. J.-C.), fonde quatre nouvelles commanderies impériales, qui ont pour principales fonctions le contrôle des échanges avec les contrées occidentales. Ce ne sont pas moins de 500 sites fortifiés qui voient le jour en environ un siècle. Parmi ces marques du passé, nous nous intéressons plus particulièrement à ce que nous pouvons appeler la « ville-frontière ». De nouvelles zones fortifiées deviennent les chefs-lieux des préfectures locales destinées à contrôler la région, le commerce et la supervision des vagues successives de migrants chinois occupant les territoires conquis. Bien différente des grandes métropoles de la Chine centrale, ces installations hautement défendues sont à ce jour peu étudiées.

Au cours de cette communication, en s’appuyant sur diverses sources à disposition, nous nous pencherons sur les raisons et les étapes qui ont conduit les stratèges à fonder, à un endroit bien spécifique, ces nouvelles implantations urbaines.

Legend: Citadel of the Xiaojiadi site 蕭家地, Guazhou district, Western Gansu. (Photo A. Bertrand 2018).

Publications

The latest EFEO publications are presented at the publishers' book fair by Pierre Harry during the 10th EuroSEAS conference.

Champa: Territories and Networks of a Southeast Asian Kingdom, Arlo Griffiths, Andrew Hardy & Geoff Wade, Études thématiques 31 (2019), École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris, 2019, 437 pages.

Verellen, Franciscus and Lai Chi-Tim dir. (2019), Daoism : Religion, History and Society vol. 10-2018. Chinese University Press / École française d’Extrême-Orient, Hongkong, 275 pages.

Publications website

Researchers' publications

Franciscus Verellen, "Gender, Power, and Talent : The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China par Jinhua Jia", in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 82, no. 2, 2019, p. 381-382

Pierre-Yves Manguin, 2019, "Sewn Boats of Southeast Asia: the stitched-plank and lashed-lug tradition", in International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 48(2), p. 400-415.

Éric Bourdonneau, "Merveilles d’Angkor : l’apogée de l’art khmer" on the National Geographic website.

Research Services

Call for candidatures

EFEO field scholarships

The call for applications for the EFEO field scholarships for the first semester 2020 is opened till 15 October 2019 included.

For more information, click here.

Postdoctoral contracts of the EFEO

The recruitment campaign for short-term post-doctoral contracts (3 to 6 months) has just been launched. It will close on 15 October.

For more information, click here.

Ongoing recipients of allocations

- 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.
- Marie-Agathe Simonetti is at Hanoi, to conduct a research entitled Representing Indochina: Photography and Painting in Hanoi, Saigon, and Paris, 1887-1940.
- Murielle Hoareau is at Pondicherry, to carry out a philological study of Sanskrit texts mâdhva.
- Zacky Khairul Umam is at 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 is at Jakarta, to conduct a research entitled Karma and its discontents. Becoming community in a Javanese Buddhist revival.
- Melody Shum is at Hanoi, to conduct a research entitled The Vietnamese Revolutionary Underground: Vietnamese Revolutionary Networks in South China c. 1900 – 1940.
- Dawid Gajewski is at Kuala Lumpur, to conduct a research entitled Towards the description of Classical Malay syntax.
- Sawyer French is at Jakarta, to conduct a research entitled Islamic Education in Indonesian Public Schools: from Independence to Present.

Ongoing post-doctoral contracts

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

Departments and staff members news

Direction

Christophe Marquet, Director, will participate on September 12 in the day devoted to the Écoles françaises à l’étranger organized by the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation (MESRI).

He will be visiting Indonesia and Malaysia from 21 to 27 September. He will visit the EFEO Center in Jakarta and the Kuala Lumpur branch at the University of Malaya. He will meet with the French ambassadors and local partners of the EFEO and will sign the renewal of the MOU with the Indonesian National Center for Archaeological Research and a MOU for joint archaeological research with the Sarawak Museum Department in the presence of the Malaysian authorities.

From 29 September to 2 October at the European Centre for Japanese Studies in Alsace in Colmar, he will host the seminar "Representations of Japanese culture and arts in Europe: from "Japonism" to "Cool Japan"", organised by the Japan Foundation as part of the Europe-Japan Intellectual Exchange Session 2019.

Christophe Pottier, Director of Studies, joins Elisabeth Chabanol's archaeological mission to Pyongyang in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) from September 1 to 11.

He will be in Cambodia from 17 to 22 September to monitor the progress of various projects with which he is associated.

As part of the ResEFE, he participates in the meeting of Directors of Studies which is hosted by the École française d’Athènes from 23 to 25 September.

Staff members

From September 1, Brice Vincent, EFEO Lecturer, will be in charge of the EFEO Center in Siem Reap (Cambodia), replacing Éric Bourdonneau who has been reassigned to France.

From September 1, François-Xavier André is the new curator of the EFEO library, replacing Clément Frœhlicher-Chaix, who joins the Rouen University Library. François-Xavier André was curator of the École Française d’Athènes.

Since May 1, Adeline Levivier has joined the EFEO as Visual Data Manager of the DHARMA project.

Since July 1, Aditia Gunawan has joined the EFEO as a doctoral student in the DHARMA project. His project "Saṅ Hyaṅ Śāsana Mahāguru Mahāguru : religious doctrine in soundanese countries prior to 1500 AD" will be co-directed by Arlo Griffiths (EFEO) and Andrea Acri (EPHE).

From September 1, Chloé Chollet joins the EFEO as a doctoral student in the DHARMA project. Her project "The eremitical tradition of ancient Cambodia through inscriptions and archaeological data (6th - 15th century AD)" will be co-directed by Arlo Griffiths and Dominique Soutif (EFEO).

Library

Antony Boussemart is in Hanoi from September 8 to 14 to participate in the weeding and rearrangement of the collections of the EFEO Center library. From 17 to 21 September, he is attending the annual meeting of the European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (EAJRS), which is held in Sofia (Bulgaria).

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Photo Library

A photographic exhibition is being held at the EFEO (1st floor) "Les voyages de Jacques Bacot et la naissance des études tibétaines modernes en France [Jacques Bacot's travels and the birth of modern Tibetan studies in France]" until September 30, 2019.

Pioneer of Tibetan studies in France, Jacques Bacot (1877 - 1965) travelled to eastern Tibet from 1906 to 1907 and from 1909 to 1910. He made extended stays in Darjeeling and Kalimpong from 1913 to 1914 and again from 1931 to 1932. He was the first holder of the chair of Tibetan Studies in the History and Philology section of the École Pratique des Hautes Études. In his publications and teachings, Jacques Bacot showed great expertise in Tibetan language, culture and history. The exhibition presents a selection of his unpublished photographs held at the EFEO, archives and documents deposited at the Asian Society and personal objects from the collection of Olivier de Bernon, one of his grandsons.

Legend: The "Tchraker lama" (Vajradara Drakkkar, brag dkar rdo rdo rje'chang), Jacques Bacot and monks. "Tchangou" (Brag' go བྲག་འགོ་རང་།), Khams ཁམས།, current Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Kardzé (Dkar mdzes) དཀར་མཛེས་བོང་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་།, North-West Sichuan, September 1909. Unpublished photo, probably taken by Adrup Gönbo] (EFEO_BACJ00238).

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

Isabelle Poujol is on mission in Hanoi from 9 to 16 September to continue the ongoing projects: the installation of the photographic exhibition Les marchands ambulants et les cris de la rue à Hanoi at the Institut français-l'Espace (inauguration on 13 September), the preparation of the photographic exhibition at the French Embassy as part of the Journées du Patrimoine, and work on our collaborations with the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Vietnam, and the museums of the Temple of Literature, History of Viet Nam and the City of Hanoi.