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March 2020

Contents

Agenda

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

Staff and service news
- Direction
- Library
- Photo Library

Of particular note
- Conference

Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger
- Blog

EURICS
- Conference

In Memoriam

Joseph Deth Thach (1976 - 2020)

We learned with great sadness of the death in Phnom Penh on February 28th, 2020, of our Khmer colleague Joseph Deth Thach, at the age of 43.

Lecturer in linguistics and Khmer at Inalco since 2009, he contributed greatly with his dynamism and erudition to animating and renewing Khmer studies, while investing himself in the development of teaching and training in the human sciences in Cambodia, notably through the Manusastra - Monsoon University project that he founded and then carried out.

His sudden death leaves his many friends, colleagues and students in deep distress. All our thoughts go out to his children, his family and his loved ones.

Agenda

March 12th - Paris

As part of the photographic exhibition set up at the EFEO, "Kalash, les derniers animistes de l'Hindu Kush," Jean-Yves Loude gives a lecture: "Solstice païen. Fêtes de l'hiver chez les Kalash du Nord-Pakistan" at 1:30 p.m. at the Maison de l'Asie.

Photo ©Hervé Nègre

March 13th - Kyoto (Rescheduled for April 24th)

As part of the Kitashirakawa EFEO Salon, the fourth lecture of the 2019-2020 cycle, whose theme is At the Frontier of Faith and Knowledge in Japan from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, is presented by Andrea Castiglioni (Nagoya Municipal University) on the topic: "Corps et objets dans le culte du mont Yudono (17e-19e c.)" (in Japanese without translation).

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

March 27th - Kyoto

As part of the Kyoto lectures, Alistair Swale (University of Canterbury, New-Zealand) presents: "Gesaku Literati and Early Meiji Print Culture: Remaking Popular Culture for the Masses".

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

Photo ©International Research Center for Japanese Studies Library

March 31st - Paris

Screening of the film Angkor, un temple sauvé des eaux, la restauration du Mebon occidental (Cambodge), a 50-minute film directed by Didier Fassio for the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) and the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO).

Focus of PSL Explore on the project to restore the Western Mebon.

At 1:00 p.m., Grand salon of the Maison de l'Asie.

Research

Centres

Pondicherry

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma travels to Vijayavada (Andhra Pradesh) to give a paper on Sanskrit grammar entitled "Gā-mā-dā-grahaṇēṣ vaviśēṣaḥ (Paribhāṣēnduśēkhare Paribhāṣāsaṁkhyā 115) iti paribhāṣāvicāraḥ" as part of the Sri-Manikyasasti-smaraka-śāstrārtha-sadas colloquium, March 9th-11th, 2020.

He will then conduct grammar analysis at Vyākaraṇaśāstrasadas in Tenali (Andhra Pradesh), from 19th to 23rd March 2020.

As part of a week-long workshop entitled The Concept of Shakti in the Indian Spiritual Tradition and its Relevance in Postmodern Era, co-organized in Pondicherry by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR) and the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research, 17th-23rd March 2020, S. A. S . Sarma will make five presentations on śakti in Vedic and Tantric texts. The themes are as follows:
- I. Women and Veda,
- II. Role of Women in Śaiva and Śākta Traditions,
- III. Popular Śakti Cults,
- IV. Yāmala texts on Goddesses with special reference to Brahmayāmala (North) and its Southern texts,
- V. Famous Śakti temples in Kerala, the important rituals performed in these temples and the role of women in these rituals.

Vientiane

Christine Hawixbrock (EFEO) and Jade Thau (doctoral student at Aix-Marseille University) will be visiting the Vientiane Center from March 1st to 7th as part of the preparations for their archaeological campaign in Champassak.

Elizabeth Elliot, a British doctoral student at University College London, is staying at the center for five weeks after a survey of traditional medical practices in southern Laos.

The CHAMPA-LAOS project for the preservation and enhancement of heritage in the provinces of Champassak and Savannahkhet was the subject of an agreement signed on 10th of February 2020 with the Agence française de développement. The archaeological component of this project, under the coordination of Christine Hawixbrock (EFEO), includes a series of operations in the ancient city of Vat Phu.

An initial campaign will begin on March 9 and will continue until mid-April. It involves the continuation of Christine Hawixbrock's archaeological investigations on the site of Vat Sang'O 5, and an archaeological diagnostic campaign on the nearby site of Houay Sa Hua 2 for which Nicolas Nauleau will be in charge of operations.

The two operations of this joint campaign will involve the participation of two doctoral students, Jade Thau (Aix-Marseille University) and Chloe Chollet (EPHE), and three Master's trainees (Vissa Chanthaphasouk, ENSAPB, Flora Villemur, University of Toulouse and Paul Fructus, Paris 8 University) thanks to a collaboration with the Faculty of Arts, UFR of Art History and Archaeology, of Sorbonne University. In addition to the participation of four collaborators from the Laotian institutions in charge of the site (WHSO and MICT), the excavations will also welcome four trainees from Laotian universities.

Legend: Excavations at Houay Sa Hua 2 in 1993 under the direction of Marielle Santoni.

Researchers

Guillaume Dutournier

Invited by the European University Institute in Florence, Guillaume Dutournier presents on March 31st, in a doctoral seminar, the first results of an ongoing collective research project: "Authenticated China. A Comparative Perspective on the Chinese Cultural Heritage Practice". The theme of heritage (tangible and intangible) is to be the subject of a workshop to be held next June, co-organized with the Tsinghua CFC and supported by the French Embassy and the European Delegation in China.

Damian Evans

Damian Evans is responsible for the initial management of the geospatial component of the CHAMPA-LAOS project, a project for the preservation and enhancement of heritage in the provinces of Champassak and Savannahkhet, for which an agreement was signed on 10th of February 2020 with the French Development Agency. The geospatial component includes the launch of a LIDAR campaign in Vat Phou and Savannahkhet as well as the setting up of a new geoinformatics laboratory within the office in charge of the Vat Phou site, in cooperation with Lao government partners.

Frédéric Girard

As part of the conferences of the Société des Études Euro-Asiatiques Frédéric Girard speaks on : "The amiable hermits of Japan" on Friday 20th March 2020 at 5 pm at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac.

Dominic Goodall

Dominic Goodall travels to Hamburg to participate in the conference Śāradā: Goddess, Learning, Script. On the Sanskrit manuscript culture of Kashmir, organized by Iris Iran Farkhondeh at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) of the University of Hamburg on 6th-7th March 2020. He will give a paper entitled: "Some observations on Kashmirian scribal practices derived mostly from study of manuscripts transmitting the Raghuvaṃśa".

He will then participate in the workshop on reading Buddhist texts organized at the same Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures by Messrs Horiuchi, Kikuya and Isaacson on 8th and 9th March 2020.

Valérie Gillet

Valérie Gillet takes part in the epigraphic encoding workshop in the framework of the DHARMA project which will take place on 16th and 17th of March at CEIAS.

Arlo Griffiths

Arlo Griffiths travels to the Netherlands from March 3rd to 6th to continue cataloguing and documenting the collection of Indonesian inscription stamps in the Leiden University Library as part of the DHARMA project.

Yves Goudineau

Yves Goudineau is in Paris from 5th to 15th of March to take part in the EHESS seminar Comparative Anthropology of Southeast Asia.

François Lagirarde

François Lagirarde will speak on the theme: "Thémis et Nomos: héritage theravādin and invention of Thai Buddhism" during the EHESS seminar Langue, histoire et sources textuelles du Cambodge ancien et moderne, on 27th of March from 10am to 12pm, at Inalco.

Legend: Sign indicating the direction of the site where the footprints of the four Buddhas of the past are located.

Pierre-Yves Manguin

Pierre-Yves Manguin is giving a series of four lectures at the AFAO, entitled "L'Asie du Sud-Est, de la préhistoire a l'histoire : trois cas d'étude" (at the Maison de l'Asie):
- Monday, March 9th, 17h-18h45, "The indianization of Southeast Asia: State formation, urbanization, new paradigms" (at the Maison de l'Asie)
- Wednesday, March 11th, 5:00-6:45 p.m., "Funan, the first great state of Southeast Asia (Mekong Delta, 1st-7th centuries)"
- Monday, March 16th, 17:00-18:45, "The first coastal states of Insulinde: from precursors to the first kings (Borneo, Java, Bali, 1st-7th centuries)"
- Wednesday March 18th, 17:00-18:45, "Srivijaya: from the precursors to the Malaysian thalassocracy (Sumatra, 1st-18th centuries)".

Costantino Moretti

Costantino Moretti is in Hamburg from 27th to 28th of March to take part in the inauguration of the "Cluster of Excellence EXC 2176, Understanding Written Artefacts" at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures - University of Hamburg.

Martin Nogueira Ramos

From 14th to 22nd of March, as part of the four-year programme of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science "Kinsei Nihon no kirishitan to ibunka kōryū", Martin Nogueira Ramos travels to Madrid to consult documents on the first evangelization of Japan (16th-17th c.) held in the library of the Royal Academy of History (Cortes, Legajos and Tomos fonds).

Charlotte Schmid

From February 24th to March 5th Charlotte Schmid will take part in the Winter School of Classical Tamil held at the EFEO Center in Pondicherry. The topic will be the upcoming edition of the epic Purananuru anthology. She will also give an update with Coline Lefrancq and Dominic Goodall on the project involving the EFEO on the archaeological site of Arikamedu.

Franciscus Verellen

Franciscus Verellen participates on March 15th and 16th in the colloquium Holy Places and Local Gods of Taoism 道教の聖地と地方神 organized by Professor Tsuchiya Masaaki at the Orientalist Library Tōyō bunko and the University Senshū in Tokyo.

Teaching

The list of the annual teachings of EFEO teaching-researchers is available on the École website. In October, the following classes will begin:

Alain Arrault
EHESS seminar: Identités et conduites lettrées dans la Chine des Song (960-1279) : les formes de l'écriture

Alain Arrault et Michela Bussotti
EHESS seminar: Histoire culturelle de la Chine impériale tardive : textes techniques et prescriptions du quotidien

Éric Bourdonneau
EHESS-INaLCO join seminar : Langue, histoire et sources textuelles du Cambodge ancien et moderne
Friday, March 27th: François Lagirarde (EFEO) "Thémis et Nomos: héritage theravādin et invention du bouddhisme des Thaïs"

Michela Bussotti
EHESS seminar Histoire de la culture visuelle en Asie Orientale
Wednesday, March 18th:
- Mathieu Capel (University of Tokyo, Cultures & Representations Department - CRJ) : "Corps marqués, piqués, taillés, ou le cinéma japonais en mal d'épaisseur au tournant des années 1980 (Katô, Suzuki, Yanagimachi, Sômai)"
- Marie Pruvost-Delaspre (University Paris 8 - Vincennes Saint Denis, ESTCA) : "(Dés)animés : métamorphoses monstrueuses et corps meurtris dans l’animation japonaise"

Paola Calanca
EHESS seminar: L'Asie maritime : les périls de la mer
Thursday, March 5th: Guillaume Carré (EHESS-CCJ) : "Le risque et l’opportunité, un courtier japonais face à la mer et à la navigation au 17e siècle"

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

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

Valérie Gillet
EPHE seminar as part of the Master in Asian Studies: Histoire et archéologie du Monde Indien
- Friday, March 6th: Les dynasties d’Andhra : les Ikṣvākus et Nagarjunakonda
- Friday, March 13th: Les dynasties d’Andhra, Emmanuel Francis (CNRS/CEIAS), les Śālaṅkāyanas and Vincent Tournier (EFEO), les Viṣṇukuṇḍins
- Friday, March 20th: Osmund Bopearachchi (Professor Emeritus), Le Śrī Lankā
- Friday, March 27th: Coline Lefrancq (ERC Dharma Project), Presentation of the Mahastan Excavations (Bangladesh)

Arlo Griffiths
EPHE seminar as part of the Master in Asian Studies:
- Épigraphie et littérature de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud-Est
- Lecture d'inscription sanskrite de l'Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est

François Lagirarde
EPHE seminar as part of the PSL-EHESS-EPHE-EFEO Master in Asian Studies: Religion, politique et culture de l'écrit dans les premiers royaumes thaïs (circa XIII-XVIIe siècles)

Costantino Moretti
EPHE seminar as part of the PSL-EHESS-EPHE-EFEO Master in Asian Studies: 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

Christophe Pottier
Joint EFEO - UFR of art and archaeology of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Paris-Sorbonne seminar: Archaeology in the Far East. The second half of the year will start on 28th of January and will be entitled: "Anastylosis 4.0 - Anastylosis and Digital Reconstructions, What Future".
- Tuesday, March 3rd: Christophe Pottier (EFEO), Anastylose et palimpseste : la quatrième dimension du puzzle
- Tuesday, March 10th: Pierre Pichard (EFEO), Restauration et reconstructions à Bagan (Myanmar)
- Tuesday, March 17th: Gregory Chaumet (Sorbonne université), Apport du numérique dans l’anastylose
- Tuesday, March 24th: Christophe Pottier (EFEO), Reconstruction et appropriations dans le Monde Khmer
- Tuesday, March 31st: Maric Beaufeïst (EFEO), Restauration monumentale à Angkor : évolution de l’anastylose

Catherine Scheer
EHESS seminar: Dialogues entre recherches classiques et actuelles sur l’Asie du Sud-Est.
Wednesday, March 19th: Andrea Acri, L'Asie du Sud-Est dans la ‘cosmopolis tantrique’: périphérie ou centre?

EHESS seminar: Anthropologie comparée de l'Asie du Sud-Est
- Thursday, March 12th: Yves Goudineau, Introduction. Centres, marches, marges en Asie du Sud-Est. Grands partages et intégrations
- Thursday, March 26th: Bernard Sellato, Tradition orale et enquête ethnohistorique

Charlotte Schmid
EPHE seminar as part of the Master in Asian Studies: Épigraphie et iconographie du monde indien. Divinités et donatrices, les femmes aux deux extrémités de la fabrique du visible

Vincent Tournier
EPHE seminar as part of the Master in Asian Studies:
- Lecture de sources relatives à l’histoire du bouddhisme en Āndhra
- Origines bouddhiques ― II. Lignages et ordres monastiques du bouddhisme indien

ASIAS seminar of the EFEO Paris

Monday, March 23rd

Valérie Gillet (EFEO) speaks on: "Le site de Paḻuvūr et ses quatre temples: configuration sociale et politique d’un centre urbain au Xe siècle en pays tamoul" [The site of Paḻuvūr and its four temples: social and political configuration of an urban centre in the 10th century in Tamil country] as part of the PSL-EHESS-EPHE-EFEO Master in Asian Studies, the general theme of which is Cities and Heritage.

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

Editions

The latest EFEO publications are being presented at stand 817 in the exhibition hall of the Sheraton Boston Hotel by Pierre Harry on the occasion of the annual congress of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) being held in Boston from March 19th to 22nd. [cancelled]

Publications website

Researchers' publications

Dominic Goodall, "Damanotsava: on Love in spring, on what Jñānaśambhu wrote, and on the spread of public festivals into the Mantramārga. Studies in the Saiddhāntika Paddhatis II", in Nina Mirnig, Marion Rastelli, & Vincent Eltschinger (eds.), Tantric Communities in Context, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 2019, p. 385–424.

Frédéric Girard, « Question the peculiarities of the designs of Shōbōgenzō from Dōgen », Dōgen no Shōbōgenzō no shisōteki tokushoku wo tou 道元の正法眼蔵の思想的特色を問う, in International Zen Stuides, Kokusai zenkenkyū 国際禅研究, International Zen Research Project, Kokusai zenkenkyū project 国際禅研究プロジェクト, Orientalist Research Centre of the University Tōyō, Tōyō daigaku Tōyōgaku kenkyūjo 東洋大学東洋学研究所, Tôkyô, december 2019, pp. 81-112. (in japanese).

Research Services

A call for applications for land allocations for the second half of 2020 has been launched: you will find all the information here.

A call for applications for the EFEO doctoral contract has been launched: information can be found here.

New recipients of allocations of the month

- Quentin Hardy obtained a three-month field grant, attached to the Pondicherry Center, for research on American "progressive censors" and the restructuring of the Japanese film industry (1945-1952).
- Hunter Watson obtained a three-month field grant, attached to the Vientiane Center, for research on the diffusion and evolution of ancient spellings on the Khorat plateau.

Recipients of allocations still on mission

- Clara Jullien in Hô Chi Minh Ville, to conduct research on the urban refuge: Urban integration of environmental migrants in Vietnam.
- Zacky Khairul Umam in Jakarta, to conduct research entitled Master of Two Oceans: Ibrahim al-Kurani (d. 1690) and the Formation of the Islamic Republic of Letters.
- Carmen Spiers in Pondicherry, to conduct research on the Atharvaveda and its ritual manual, the Kausika Sutra.
- Melody Shum in Hanoi, to conduct research entitled The Vietnamese Revolutionary Underground: Vietnamese Revolutionary Networks in South China c. 1900 – 1940.

Post-doctoral still on contract

- Marie Aberdam, for a project on Les manuscrits khmers sur papier de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient P. CAMB. Paris 225, traduction et analyse [Khmer manuscripts on paper from the École française d'Extrême-Orient P. CAMB. Paris 225, translation and analysis].
- Julie Rocton, for a project on the Étude des manuscrits de l’Abhinayadarpaṇa, littéralement « le miroir de l’expression » [Study of Manuscripts at Abhinayadarpaṇa, literally "the mirror of expression"].
- Javier Schnake, for a project entitled Aux sources de l'historiographie lao: l'Aḍḍhabhāgabuddharūpanidāna pāli (XVIe siècle), édition et traduction [To the sources of Lao historiography: Aḍḍhabhāgabuddharūpanidāna pāli (16th century), editing and translation].
- Yael Shiri, for a project entitled The Śākyas as a trope of Buddhist identity in the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya.
- Delphine Vomsheid, for a project on L’architecture palatiale prémoderne de la maison Maeda, de Kanazawa à Tōkyō [The pre-modern palatial architecture of the Maeda house in Kanazawa at Tōkyō].

Staff and service news

Direction

On March 7th Christophe Marquet, Director, will take part in the gala of the Franco-Cambodian grouping of pharmacists GFC Pharma, which this year will be given in honor of the EFEO to support its activities in Cambodia.

On March 12th he will take part in the EFEO's Board of Directors.

On March 13th he will give a talk as part of the introductory course on techniques for the restoration and conservation of Asian works at the Paris Catholic Institute. He will discuss the question of the restoration of Japanese popular paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries.

On 26th and 27th of March he will visit the Rietberg Museum in Zurich to study a collection of Otsu-e paintings.

In the framework of the 4th session "Cities and Heritage" of the common core seminar of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Christophe Pottier, Director of Studies, will speak on March 9th : "History of Cities, Temple Urbanism and Heritage at Angkor" at 9:30 a.m. at the Maison de l'Asie.

The Board of Administrators of the EFEO will meet on Thursday, March 12th, at 10:00 a.m., in the Grand salon of the Maison de l'Asie.

Library

François-Xavier André participates in the annual meeting of the library curators of the EFE network, which takes place on 2nd and 3rd of March at the Casa de Velázquez.

Antony Boussemart participates in the annual congress of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and affiliated committees (Council of East Asian Libraries, Council of Research Materials on Southeast Asia) held in Boston (USA) from March 19th to 22nd. [cancelled]

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Photo Library

Exhibition

A new photographic exhibition "Kalash, the last animists of the Hindu Kush" by photographer Xavier Nory is on display until the end of May. Xavier Nory has donated to the EFEO his photographs on the Kalash and on the Cham site at My Son (Vietnam).

Photographs of Xavier Nory, report made in the village of Krakal, Bumburet valley (Pakistan) in January 1986 then from September 1987 to January 1988 and from May to September 1988.

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Of particular note

Conference "Anthropologie et archéologie du fer"

Stéphanie Leroy, IRAMAT-CEA, Paris-Saclay, and director of the IRANGKOR project in collaboration with the EFEO will give a presentation entitled: "La production et la circulation du fer dans l'empire Khmer éclairés par les crampons architecturaux des temples d'Angkor" [The production and circulation of iron in the Khmer empire illuminated by the architectural spikes of the Angkor temples] at the colloquium Anthropologie et archéologie du fer [Anthropology and archaeology of iron], March 4th-5th, 2020, musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac.

Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger

Blog

Putting online a blog that allows you to discover the Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger in a different way, through its activities and its "treasures"... The second article is dedicated to the photographic exhibition: "Kalash, the last animists of the Hindu Kush".

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News from EURICS

The inaugural EURICS Fellows Conference will be given by Prof. Xiaobo ZHANG on Wednesday, 11t March 2020, from 17:00 to 18:30 in the Guard Room, on the following topic: "Facing coronavirus in China: responses and challenges". A cocktail will be offered around 6.30 pm.

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