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September 2020

Editorial

Dear Colleagues

In this new academic year, we will have to adapt to new constraints and pursue our projects in different ways. In particular, travel outside Europe will be difficult, because although the health situation is relatively under control in Asia, access to our sites is often impossible. This is an opportunity for us to focus on other types of work, and in particular on the publication of our research results.

The directors of the French Schools Abroad have nevertheless wished to maintain their annual meeting and will therefore meet in Athens at the end of September to share their experiences at the European level and to prepare for their upcoming evaluation. 2021 will be the year in which the Haut conseil de l'évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignent supérieur will evaluate the five-year 2017-2021 contract of the five Schools.

In the immediate future, we will prepare our annual report this fall, and I thank in advance all the researchers and departments for their collaboration.

I wish you all an excellent start to the new school year and I look forward to seeing you again very soon at the Maison de l'Asie.

Christophe Marquet
Director of the EFEO

Contents

Agenda

Research
- Centres
- Researchers
- Editions
- Researchers' publications
- Research Services

Staff and service news
- Direction
- Staff
- Library
- Photo Library

News from PSL Université Paris
- Master degree "Études Asiatiques"

Agenda

September 25 - Kyoto

As part of the Kitashirakawa EFEO Salon, the fourth lecture of the 2019-2020 cycle, on At the Frontier of Faith and Knowledge in Japan from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, is presented by Gaétan Rappo (Kyoto University / EFEO) on the topic: "Esoteric Buddhism of the Muromachi period and secular benefits (genze riyaku): reflection on the Dakiniten mandalas" (in Japanese without translation).

At 6 p.m. (Japan time). The conference will be broadcasted online via Zoom and on site at the EFEO Center in Kyoto (limited to 10 auditors upon registration at: efeo.kyoto@gmail.com).

The password for logging in will be posted on the Kyoto Center's blog and ISEAS websites the day before.

September 28 - Kyoto

As part of the Kyoto lectures, Kameyama Takahiko (University of Kyoto / Ryukoku University) presents: "Articulating Inner Dharma: Development of the Five Viscera Mandala in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism".

At 6 p.m. (Japan time). The conference will be broadcasted online via Zoom and on site at the EFEO Center in Kyoto (limited to 10 auditors upon registration at: efeo.kyoto@gmail.com).

The password for logging in will be posted on the Kyoto Center's blog and ISEAS websites the day before.

Research

Centres

Phnom Penh

Sculpture conservation workshop of the National Museum of Cambodia (EFEO): the legs as well as the base with the feet of a statue of Krishna Govardhana from Phnom Da (Ka 1641) were returned from the Cleveland Museum of Art last August. The statue will soon resume its original posture.

Photos: First checks and tests of "arm's length" positioning for each leg in turn.

Researchers

Luca Gabbiani

From August 31 to September 4, Luca Gabbiani will participate in the international conference "AAS in Asia 2020" (Association for Asian Studies), organized online from Kobe. On September 1, between 12:30 and 2:00 p.m. (Paris time), he will participate in the panel entitled "City Life in Nineteenth Century Beijing" (panel 1117) as a session chair and discussant.

Benoît Jacquet

Benoît Jacquet will participate in the exhibition Machiya Vision organized in partnership with Kyotography and the Foundation for Landscape and Urban Community Development of Kyoto. A video and an interview presenting his role in the preservation of the architectural and urban heritage of the city of Kyoto will be included in this exhibition.

The exhibition will take place in the SAI Gallery of the Ogaki Bookstore, from September 3 to 30, as part of the International Festival of Photography Kyotography (September 19-October 18).

Legend: © Katsuhiko Mizuno Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum.

François Lachaud

The lecture by François Lachaud (EFEO) "Les Chemins hantés du nord: Bouddhisme et société locale dans le Japon moderne (1700-2000)" [The haunted paths of the North: Buddhism and local society in modern Japan (1700-2000)], which was held as part of the ASIES (EFEO-EPHE-EHESS) Master's program on Monday, June 8, will be put online on September 20. Details will be posted on the website.

Christophe Marquet

On September 19, Christophe Marquet will give a lecture in Japanese on "The popular imagery of Otsu from the Edo period: technique, themes, diffusion and uses" (江戸時代の民衆画、大津絵-その技法・画題・用途を考える-), as part of the comparative research group on popular imagery in Asia and the West (Kaken Grants 2019-2022 program, directed by Pr Hara Kiyoshi, univ. Aoyama gakuin) at the Bunkyō Academy Foundation, Tōkyō, 2-4 pm.

Legend: Utagawa Kuninaga, Otsu's Painting Merchant, woodcut, ca. 1801-1815, coll. part.

On September 25, Christophe Marquet will give a communication on "The notion of "essay of critical reflection through evidence" (kōshō zuihitsu 考証随筆) through the case of the painter-writer Santo Kyoden, alias Kitao Masanobu (1761-1816)", as part of the research program "Essais 'au fil du pinceau' (zuihitsu) à l’époque d’Edo (XVIIe-XIXe s.) : recueils de réflexions et d’observations sur le passé et le présent des savants japonais (pré-) modernes" [Miscellaneous ‘running brush’ Essays (zuihitsu) in the Edo period (17th-19th c.). ): collections of reflections and observations on the past and present of (pre-)modern Japanese scholars], at the University of Paris.

Legend: Print merchant, early 18th century, from Santo Kyoden, Kotto-shu, 1813, National Diet Library, Tokyo.

Vincent Tournier

On June 19, "Les amis de Pierre-Antoine Bernheim" [Friends of Pierre-Antoine Bernheim] Foundation of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres awarded the History of Religions Prize to Martin Nogueira Ramos, EFEO lecturer and head of the EFEO Center in Kyoto, for his work La foi des ancêtres: Chrétiens cachés et catholiques dans la société villageoise japonaise XVIIe-XIXe siècles [Ancestors' faith: Hidden Christians and Catholics in Japanese village society in the 17thto 19th centuries] (Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2019). His work traces the history of Japanese Christian communities from the time of proscription (1614) to the return of missionaries to the archipelago in the second half of the 19th century.

Lectures

Teaching will resume at the beginning of the academic year. The list of the annual lectures of EFEO teacher-researchers is available on the École's website.

Fabienne Jagou
Seminar of Master 1 and 2, "Religion et Politique au Tibet" [Religion and Politics in Tibet], at the École normale supérieure in Lyon, starting Monday, September 14.

Editions

Orders are processed normally, but due to the current situation the delivery time is extended by a few days.

Hugo David, Une philosophie de la parole. "L’Enquête sur la connaissance verbale (Śābdanirṇaya)" de Prakāśātman, maître advaitin du Xe siècle (critical edition, translation, commentary, with a new edition of the commentary of Ānandabodha), Monographie 198, EFEO, Paris, 2020, 2 volumes, xii + 879 pages.

Daoism : Religion, History and Society vol. 11-2019, under the direction of Franciscus Verellen and Lai Chi-Tim, Chinese University Press / École française d’Extrême-Orient, Hongkong, 215 pages.

Deviprasad Mishra (with an introdution by Dominic Goodall) Flowers in Cupped Hands for Śiva. A critical edition of the Śambhupuṣpāñjali, a seventeenth-century manual of private worship by Saundaranātha, Collection Indologie n°144, Institut Français de Pondichéry / École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2020, 412 pages.

Nirajan Kafle, (with a preface by Dominic Goodall) Niśvāsamukhatattvasamhitā, A Preface to the Earliest Surviving Śaiva Tantra, Collection Indologie n°145, Early Tanra Series n°6, Institut Français de Pondichéry / École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2020, xiv, 538 pages.

Publications website

Researchers' publications

Frédéric Girard, "Dōgen, les temples et l’érémitique" (Dōgen to juin to inton), in Conférence annuelle de la Bibliothèque du Matsugaoka bunko, Kamakura, 2019, Matsugaoku bunko kenkyū kiyō n°34, 2020, pages 35-61.

Dominic Goodall, 'Dressing for Power: On Vrata, Caryā, and Vidyāvrata in the Early Mantramārga, and on the Structure of the Guhyasūtra of the Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā', in Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions, Essays in Honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson, edited by Shaman Hatley, Harunaga Isaacson, Srilata Raman, and Dominic Goodall, Gonda Indological Studies 22, Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2020, pages 47–83.

Nicolas Fiévé, Yola Gloaguen, Benoît Jacquet, dir., Mutations paysagères de l'espace habité au Japon, Paris, Collège de France, Bibliothèque de l'Institut des hautes études japonaises, 2020, 384 pages.

Research Services

Research allocations for the first half of 2021: postponement of the call for applications

Due to the uncertainties surrounding travel to Asia in the context of the current pandemic, the École has decided to postpone the call for applications for the field allocations planned for the first half of 2021. A new call for applications should be launched at the beginning of 2021 for grants for research stays planned for the second half of the year, subject to favorable conditions for the realization of these student projects.

Call for applications for post-doctoral studies at the EFEO

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

For more information, click here.

Post-doctoral student still on contract

Nicolas Revire, for a project between Thailand and South-East Asia. His research will focus on "Une "vie indochinoise" du Buddha d’après les sources iconographiques".

Staff and service news

Direction

On September 4, the Director, Christophe Marquet, and the Director of Studies, Christophe Pottier, will participate in the EFEO's exceptional Board of Administrators.

From September 13 to 15 the director will be in Matsue to conduct research at the departmental museum and the Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum.

On the 16th, he will visit the EFEO Center at Tokyo and will meet with officials of the Toyo bunko.

On the 18th he will attend the opening of the exhibition "Otsu-e: Another History of Edo Painting" (Tokyo Station Gallery), in which he has taken part.

On the 19th, he will give a lecture at the Bunkyo Academy Foundation, Tokyo.

On the 20th, he will be a member of the recruitment jury of the University of Kyoto (Hakubi Center for Advanced Research).

On the 25th, he will give a lecture at the University of Paris.

From September 29 to October 2, the Director and the Director of Studies will visit the École française d’Athènes [French School of Athens] for the meeting of the Committee of Directors of the Écoles françaises à l’étranger [French Schools Abroad], on the theme "The Schools, their host countries and Europe: insertions, interactions, networks".

Staff

Benoît Jacquet, who was on leave, will be returning to the EFEO as of September 1.

Philippe Le Failler has been named head of the EFEO Center in Hanoi as of September 1. He replaces Andrew Hardy who has been reassigned to France.

Nicolas Gomes arrives at the EFEO on September 1 to assist Rosebert Vere in his duties as janitor and manager of the Maison de l'Asie.

Salomé Pichon, doctoral student, joins the ERC DHARMA research team headed by Arlo Griffiths.

Library

The library's reading room remains open with a limited number of places, which must be booked in advance. Time slots are reserved for advanced students (M1, M2 and PhD) and researchers in Asian studies wishing to consult the collections of the Maison de l'Asie. For practical reasons, we ask readers to reserve their documents at least 24 hours in advance. Reserved works will be pre-deposited on a table when the reader arrives. Reservations are made as usual on the library catalogue, via the reader account.

TO BOOK TIME SLOT, CLICK HERE.

In the event of changes in opening hours and access conditions, this will be relayed on the École's website and social networks.

The inventory of the EFEO's European Manuscript Collection (MSS EUR) has just been published on Calames. This inventory is the fruit of a long work begun by Gaël Zobda in 2012 and continued by Christophe Caudron (2013) and Anaïs Massiot (2018).

Consisting of more than 500 quotations, dated mainly from the period of the Indochinese Union (1887-1941), this corpus is the result of research carried out in the field by Indochinese civil and military administrators.
It includes archives (mainly correspondence), documents relating mainly to ethnological description and ethnolinguistics (language teaching, translations, lexicons).
The collection includes Prosper Odend'hal's Journal de marche, as well as numerous anonymous documents, testimony to the French presence in Indochina.

Legend: Detail of the first page of the manuscript "Etude sur le dialecte des Ma̓ns Quân̆ Cộc" by Captain Bonifacy (EFEO MSS EUR 134).

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Photo Library

The photographic holdings of the EFEO remain accessible on the photo library website.

Legend: Temple n°1192 Nagayon of the Pagan site in Myanmar (EFEO_PICP00002).

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Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger

Conference: The ex-voto as an object: design, exhibition

From September 29 to October 2, the meeting of the Committee of Directors of Écoles françaises à l’étranger [French Schools Abroad], on the theme "Schools, their host countries and Europe: insertions, interactions, networks", will be held at the École française d’Athènes [French School of Athens].