The École française d'Extrême-Orient is celebrating its 120th anniversary this year, which will be celebrated at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres on December the 3rd in the form of a symposium. This meeting will be an opportunity to review the history of the School, but also the current status of its projects. We are also pleased to present the webdocumentary "120 years of research in Asia", which was made for this occasion to remind you of our historical roots and the variety of fields and research programmes underway in the twelve Asian countries where we are based.

Finally, on December 1st and 2nd, the General Meeting of the EFEO, which had been postponed because of the health crisis, will finally be held at the School's headquarters in Paris, and will allow our researchers to meet again for exchanges that I hope will be rich and constructive.

Christophe Marquet
Director

EFEO General Meeting

The General Meeting of the EFEO, which takes place every two years, will be held on December 1st and 2nd in Paris.

The first day will focus on information concerning services, teachings, and research at the EFEO, as well as relations with other Écoles françaises à l'Étranger and publications.

The second day will be devoted to the presentation of research work, organized around themes selected by the two units that bring together EFEO researchers.

Unit "Systèmes de pensée et pratiques : diffusion, échanges, adaptation"
L’ascèse (session chairman: Hugo David)
- Olivier de Bernon: "Les ‘ascèses’ (dhutaṅga) dans les pratiques de méditation traditionnelles du Cambodge et du Siam"
- Guillaume Dutournier: "Pragmatique de la transmission : l'ascèse commentariale dans le néoconfucianisme Song (XIIe s.)"
- Costantino Moretti: "Deux textes médiévaux sur la pratique ascétique : le Toutuo jing et le Shi’er toutuo jing"
- François Lachaud: "Trois excentriques et un tigre : variations sur la joie ascétique"

Les images cultuelles, propitiatoires et exorcistes en Asie : fabrication et usages (session chairman: Valérie Gillet)
- Alain Arrault: "Le corps des dieux : de la momie à la statue en Chine"
- Vincent Tournier: "Deux sources sanskrites relatives au culte des images dans l’Inde bouddhique"
- Michela Bussotti: "Fabriquer des images, fabriquer des histoires : des estampes ‘hors normes’ de la Chine impériale tardive"

Unit "Construction des centres de civilisation"
Dynamiques ethniques et politiques des relations plaine-montagne (session chairmen: Paola Calanca & Benoît Jacquet)
- Frank Muyard: "Histoire, politique et territoires autochtones à Taiwan à l'ère démocratique"
- Philippe Le Failler: "La redéfinition perpétuelle de l’espace frontalier : un instrument de l’inclusion des marges à l’ensemble national. Perspective historique concernant le Vietnam du Nord"
- Yves Goudineau: "Enjeux et politiques culturelles de la multiethnicité au Laos"
- Andrew Hardy: "De la muraille de Quang Ngai aux champs de Champassak : les réseaux sud-est asiatiques de la traite des Montagnards"
- Catherine Scheer: "Le domaine des esprits en question : les montagnards protestants du Cambodge entre politiques autochtones et évangélisation contextualisée"

De l’habitat à la ville (vestiges archéologiques, épigraphie, dynamiques sociales) (session chairmen: Paola Calanca & Benoît Jacquet)
- Olivier Tessier: "L’édification de citadelles au Vietnam durant la première moitié du XIXe siècle : un mouvement d’ensemble"
- Christine Hawixbrock: "Un habitat palatial préangkorien à Vat Phu : le site de Vat Sang'O 5 et le complexe de Vat Sang'O"
- Hélène Njoto: "Le mausolée du saint de Giri : datation et stylisation d'un des plus anciens monuments funéraires musulmans de Java (XVIe- XVIIe siècles)"
- Daniel Perret: "Grès et porcelaines importés comme marqueurs d'évolution spatiale de sites d'habitats anciens à Sumatra-Nord"
- Benoît Jacquet: "De la ville à l’habitat : l’émergence d’un patrimoine urbain non monumental à Kyōto"

Celebration of the 120th anniversary of the EFEO

The École française d'Extrême-Orient is organizing a colloquium to mark its 120th anniversary, under the patronage of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, with the following presentations:

- Alain Arrault: "Décentrement et recentrement, et inversement, de la sinologie à l’École française d’Extrême-Orient"
- Dominic Goodall: "L’École française d’Extrême-Orient et l’histoire du śivaïsme"
- Yves Goudineau: "L’École française d’Extrême-Orient dans l’espace européen de la recherche"
- Arlo Griffiths: "Le projet DHARMA et le renouvellement de l’épigraphie des mondes indiens et indianisés"
- Damian Evans: "Nouvelles perspectives du Lidar sur l’évolution urbaine et agricole ancienne en Asie du Sud-Est"
- Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat: "L’École française d’Extrême-Orient en Inde : recherches sur les traditions lettrées sanscrites"
- Franciscus Verellen: "L’EFEO au XXIe siècle : contexte et pertinence"
- Christophe Marquet: "Recherches sur les religions et l’histoire du Japon et de l’Asie orientale à l'EFEO : de Hanoi à Kyōto"

EFEO Paris seminar

Yves Goudineau (EFEO) speaks on: "Des "chasseurs de sang" dans la chaîne Annamitique. Archives, mythes et spéculations". This seminar is part of the sequence 2 Dire, écrire et transmettre l’histoire of the seminar ASIES of the master "Études Asiatiques".

From 10.30am to 12pm. The conference will take place online upon prior registration.
Once registered you will receive the elements to log in (seminar link and password).

EFEO Paris seminar

Benoît Jacquet (EFEO) speaks on: "Le mythe de la cabane : l’éphémère peut-il devenir patrimoine ?".

From 10.30am to 12pm. The conference will take place on site in the ground floor room and online upon prior registration.
Once registered you will receive the elements to log in (seminar link and password).

As part of the Kyoto lectures, Laura Moretti (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Nichibunken) presents: "Thoughts on the Cult of Tokugawa Ieyasu as the Great Avatar".

At 6pm (Japan time) on the Zoom platform. The password for logging in will be posted on the Kyoto Center's blog and the ISEAS website on the 14th.

Legend: Takizawa Bakin, Muhitsu setsuyō nita ji zukushi, Edo, Tsuruya Kiemon, 1797. National Library of the Diète (Tokyo).

The French Ambassador in Thailand, Thierry Mathou, and a delegation, including the COCAC - Cultural and Cooperation Advisor - Eve Lubin, visited the EFEO Center in Chiang Mai.

Legend: from left to right, Eve Lubin, Cultural and Cooperation Advisor, Yves Goudineau, head of the EFEO Center in Chiang Mai, and Thierry Mathou, French Ambassador in Thailand, and his wife.

Hugo David and SAS Sarma were honoured with an award for "their sincere and dedicated contributions to Sanskrit studies and research" by the Vadakke Madham Brahmaswam Vedic Research Centre, Thrissur Kerala, on 13 November 2021.

K.S.R. Chakravarthy, who has just received his Ph.D. from Tirupati University, joined the Indology Department of the French Institute of Pondicherry on November 1, and will work there for 12 months as a post-doctoral researcher under EFEO contract within the project "Intellectual History of Late Vedānta (1750-1900)", co-directed by H. David, J. Duquette and V. Vergiani.

Éric Bourdonneau

From December 3 to 17, Éric Bourdonneau will travel to Cambodia (Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Koh Ker) to prepare with the Cambodian partners of the project (Ministry of Culture, National Authority for Preah Vihear, Angkor Conservation and the National Museum of Cambodia) the resumption of the study and restoration program of the Dancing Shiva statue of Koh Ker.

Élisabeth Chabanol

From November 30 to December 30 Élisabeth Chabanol is in France to attend the General Meeting of the EFEO and to work on the study of the Korean ceramic collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon (with the curator, Mme Salima Hellal).

Hugo David

On Thursday 9 December, Hugo David will participate in the thesis jury of Beatrice Bonino, a doctoral student in Indian Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, entitled 'Syntax and semantics of existence in the Indian grammatical tradition: the root bhū- in the Mādhavīyadhātuvṛtti'.

On December 10, Arlo Griffiths participates in the online conference: "Indian Ocean and epigraphy".

On December 6, François Lachaud gives a lecture on "L'Empereur des ombres: vies et légendes japonaises de Napoléon (1800-1900)" at the Maison franco-japonaise in Tōkyō.

On December 13, he is participating in the jury for the dissertation by Lucie Tisserand (Lyon, Université Jean-Moulin / Lyon III) entitled Figures de l'esthétique de l'iki dans la littérature populaire japonaise des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles à travers les écrits de Tamenaga Shunsui (1790-1844) et Tōri Sanjin (1790-1858).

On December 25, as part of the seminar on the Henri Cordier collection organized at the Tōyō bunko, François Lachaud will talk about Gaston Cahen's book, Histoire des relations de la Russie avec la Chine sous Pierre le Grand (1912).

On December 8, Pierre-Yves Manguin presents "The Butuan boats and Southeast Asian shipbuilding traditions", at the Philippine International Quincentennial Conference, during the panel "The Early Philippine and Southeast Asian Building and Gold Crafting Technology" by Father Saturnino Urios University in Butuan City (Mindanao), Philippines.

The conditions of access are as follows:

- The library will be opened Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

- It will no longer be necessary to reserve a seat in the reading room, but you will have to be registered or pre-registered on the online catalogue for the "Maison de l'Asie"

- The documents will be communicated 20 minutes after their reservation from your reader's account, and will be made available on the shelves on the patio side of the reading room

- The library will welcome 15 readers per day. In case of overcrowding, priority will be given to readers consulting EFEO documents.
The health pass will not be required, but the wearing of masks and the respect of protective measures will continue to apply. If you are experiencing Covid-19 type symptoms, please postpone your visit to the library.

Check the EFEO's Facebook page and Twitter account regularly for any updates on the terms and conditions of the public reception service.

Due to the organization of the EFEO general meeting, the Paris library is exceptionally closed on Wednesday, December 1, and will welcome you on Thursday, December 2, with flexible hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Because of the annual closure of the Maison de l'Asie, the Paris library is closed from Thursday, December 23, 2021, at 6 p.m. to Monday, January 3, 2022, at 8 a.m.

Six maps from the EFEO's Paris library have been loaned for display in the exhibition "Mapping the World. Perspectives from Asian Cartography," which is being held at the National Library of Singapore from December 10, 2021 to May 8, 2022.

Discover the new virtual exhibition on the theme of the EFEO's 120th anniversary: "The EFEO celebrates 120 years of research in Asia".

To mark its 120th anniversary, the EFEO has put online a webdocumentary entitled "L'École française d'Extrême-Orient: 120 ans de recherches en Asie" [The French School of the Far East: 120 years of research in Asia], which aims to raise awareness of its history, its Centers, its researchers, and the richness of the holdings of its library and archives: prints, printed works, manuscripts, maps, blueprints, photographs, images, etc.

As part of the international colloquium "From the Port to the World. A Global History of Indochinese Ports (1858-1956)", of which the EFEO is a partner and which will be held at the University of Đà Nẵng, in Việt Nam, from October 26 to 28, 2022, the call for papers has been extended until December 31.

The exhibition "Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia's Sacred Mountain" is organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of the Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia and in collaboration with the National Museum of Cambodia, the École française d'Extrême-Orient and the Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet

The Maison de l'Asie closes from Friday December 24, 2021 at 4 pm to Monday January 3, 2021 at 8 am.

The Minister Frédérique Vidal has decided to select 26 projects, including 3 proposed by ResEFE, in the framework of the second call for projects of the National Open Science Fund (FNSO) in favour of open scientific publication and editing.

The 3 selected projects are:

- RAPIDO, which allows to enrich and link the publications published by Persée with external sources -referentials, research data- in order to include them in a scientific environment supported by open data, using an automated protocol. Leaders and partners: ENS de Lyon, EFR, EFA, CNRS - INIST, ABES.

- THOLOS, enabling the development of an innovative editorial model for open access publication of complex objects (sculptures) in 3D augmented digital books. Leaders and partners: French School of Athens, ArScAn.

- TOPEDITOR, which proposes to materialise, among 480 identified and geo-located medieval houses in Toledo, in an innovative publication the relations between medieval texts and ancient urban morphology. Promoters and partners: Casa de Velázquez, EHESS OpenEdition, Métopes, Huma-Num.

Listen to the EFE round table entitled "Les chercheurs sur leur terrain de travail: questions sociales et environnementales", which took place during the RDV de l'Histoire in Blois, in October 2021.