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January 2022

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Dear colleagues

At the beginning of this new year, I wish you all the best of health, happiness and success. After the celebration of our 120th anniversary and our general meeting, which were the highlights of the end of 2021, this new year is unfortunately still uncertain for research in the field in Asia, and with its share of new constraints in France. Let us nevertheless remain optimistic and adapt to new circumstances, as we have done for the past two years! I wish you a good recovery and I hope to see you soon.

Christophe Marquet
Director of the EFEO

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Agenda

January, 17 - Paris, online

EFEO Paris seminar

Michela Bussotti (EFEO) speaks on: "Images populaires chinoises : objets éphémères, objets de recherche". This seminar is part of the sequence 3 Images: objects and sources 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).

December, 15 - Kyoto, online

As part of the Kyoto lectures, Laura Moretti (Université of Sydney) presents: "Rakugo as Variety Entertainment ⇆ Rakugo as Literature".

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: Cover image of the book by Matthew W. Shores, The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan. Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo, Cambridge UP, 2021.

Centres

Phnom Penh

From January 10 to 27, 2022, the EFEO Center in Siemreap will welcome some twenty master's students from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville for a field workshop supervised by Cyril Ros and Aline Hetreau-Pottier.

Nora Bourquin is in Phnom Penh from January 19 for a fortnight to study the images and fragments of images depicting the goddess Durga Mahisasuramardini preserved at the National Museum of Cambodia as part of her history thesis (EPHE) on this goddess in the social and cultural history of ancient Cambodia (second half of the first millennium AD).

Pondicherry

On the occasion of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Matrushree Oriental College in Jillellamudi (Andhra Pradesh) on December 9, 2021, S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma, who worked there for 16 years from the inception of the college until he joined the EFEO in 1987, gave a keynote address and was then honoured by the management and his former students.

Taipei

On January 12, the EFEO Center in Taipei and the Center for Research on Cultural and Intellectual History, Institute of History and Philology (IHP), Academia Sinica, are organizing the IHP-EFEO 2022 Young Scholars Workshop with the participation of Chen Peiyu (IHP), Chiang Fu-Chen (Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica), Stefan Kukowka (Inalco/NCCU, EFEO 2021 Research Fellow), Lee Hsiu-ping (IHP), Wang Li-ying (IHP), and Wang Shih-han (Columbia University/IHP). The workshop will be led by Chen Hsi-yuan (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica) and Frank Muyard (EFEO).

Researchers

Éric Bourdonneau

Éric Bourdonneau speaks at the master's and doctoral seminar "Les Sciences sociales et l'Asie du Sud-Est" (Social Sciences and Southeast Asia), organised by Manuelle Franck (Inalco), which takes place from 10 to 14 January 2022.

Frédéric Girard

Frédéric Girard is appointed member of the board of directors of the Société des études euro-asiatiques du musée du quai Branly.

On 27 January, as part of the bicentenary symposium of the Société Asiatique D'un Centenaire à l'autre: La Société Asiatique 1822-2022, Frédéric Girard gives a presentation entitled "Peintures drolatiques d'animaux, Chōjū jinbutsu giga 鳥獣人物戯画: une satire sociale du XIIe siècle?", at the Collège de France from 2.30 to 3pm.

Dominic Goodall

Dominic Goodall gives a Zoomed-in lecture entitled "Possibilities and Challenges in Manuscript Studies" at the Kantaloor Sala, Sree Ananthapuri Anyonyam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, on Saturday 22 January 2022. This is the 11th lecture in the monthly series: "National Lecture Series on Indian Intellectual History".

On 24 January, as part of the study day organised by Sonya Rhie Mace at the Cleveland Museum of Art around the exhibition "Revealing Krishna, Journey to Cambodia's Sacred Mountain", Dominic Goodall gives a talk entitled "Kṛṣṇa Among the Khmers: Some Thoughts About the Riddling 'Mismatch' of Pre-Angkorian Sculpture and Epigraphy".

Michel Lorrillard

Michel Lorrillard will carry out a mission to Luang Prabang between 10 and 14 January in order to study various objects relating to the oldest heritage of Laos (Khmer remains, 16th century inscriptions).

Legend: Stèle aux neuf-cents Viṣṇu (or Vishnu), Luang Prabang, 1914, photos by Charles Batteur (EFEO archives).

Christophe Marquet

Christophe Marquet gives a lecture on "Les débuts de l’orientalisme en France : la découverte savante du Japon au XIXe siècle", in the cycle "Corée-Japon : les frères ennemis de l'Asie orientale" at the Université Libre de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, on 20 January 2022. Conference in partnership with the Conseil départemental des Yvelines and the Musée départemental Maurice Denis, as part of the Japan month.

Legend: Utagawa Kunikazu 歌川國員, Jitsugo-kyō dōji-kyō guchū-shō 実語教童子教具注抄 (Annotated edition of L'enseignement des vérités et l'enseignement de la jeunesse, s.d. circa 1843), Japanese moral textbook from the Léon de Rosny collection (© BULAC, JAPAF 163).

Costantino Moretti

On January 14, Costantino Moretti is a member of the jury for Éléonore Nancy's Master 2 thesis, La sculpture sino-tibétaine en métal doré du règne de Ming Xuande (1425-1436) (Sino-Tibetan sculpture in gilded metal from the reign of Ming Xuande (1425-1436)), Master Études asiatiques - EPHE, under the supervision of Isabelle Charleux (CNRS, GSRL - EPHE-PSL).

On 18 and 25 January, Costantino Moretti gives a lecture at the Centre Sèvres. He will read extracts from the Shi Lao zhi and the Jingdu sanmei jing.

On 31 January, Costantino Moretti is external rapporteur and member of the jury for Ying Chen's doctoral thesis, Chinese apocrypha titled Foshuo fumu enzhong jing and its material culture in the medieval Chinese society, University of Oxford.

Frank Muyard

On 7 January, Frank Muyard takes part in a round table organized by the Institute of Sociology of the Academia Sinica on Hsiau A-Chin's Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan: Youth, Narrative, Nationalism.

Hélène Njoto

On January 5, Hélène Njoto presents Webinar 13 "Introduction to Southeast Asian Forms of Mosque Architecture" by Imran bin Tajudeen (Singapore), part of the Archaeology and Art History of Southeast Asia Programme of which she is co-organiser.

2:00-3:15 pm (Singapore time), online, registration required.

Christophe Pottier

Christophe Pottier is in Cambodia from January 11 to February 3. He will join Armand Desbat, who will be in the field from January 5 to February 5 as part of the MAFKATA/CERANGKOR Archaeological Mission, and will prepare the next phases of the mission's work.

On January 13 Christophe Pottier will give a presentation entitled "Aperçu de l’aménagement du territoire Angkorien" to the master's students of the ENSAPB field workshop at the EFEO Center in Siemreap. He will also take part in the final jury for the evaluation of the projects of this Workshop on January 24.

Bertrand Porte

On 24 January, Bertrand Porte takes part in the study day organised by Sonya Rhie Mace of the Cleveland Museum of Art around the exhibition "Revealing Krishna, Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain".

The title of Bertrand Porte's talk is entitled "Conservation Observations and Remarks on the Phnom Penh Krishna and the Buddha from Wat Kompong Luong".

You can find the fascinating "Archaeological investigation" of this Krishna Govardhana statue presented by Bertrand Porte in 2019, available online here.

Catherine Scheer

Catherine Scheer is in Cambodia until 5 February 2022, for a field survey in Mondulkiri province.

Charlotte Schmid

On January 23, as part of the exhibition "Revealing Krishna, Journey to Cambodia's Sacred Mountain" held at the Cleveland Museum, Charlotte Schmid gives a lecture at the "Dr. Ranajit K. Datta Distinguished Lecture in Indian Art" entitled "How Krishna Became Vishnu: Early Images of Krishna in India".

Legend: Vishnu known as "Viśvarūpa", Mathura, 4th-5th century.

Lectures

Alain Arrault and Michela Bussotti
EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire culturelle de la Chine impériale tardive : textes techniques et prescriptions du quotidien
- Readings from the Tiangong kaiwu: the session on 14 January will be devoted to ch. 12 Oils; the session on 28 January to ch. 14, Metals: Silver.

Michela Bussotti
EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire de la culture visuelle en Asie Orientale. From November 3rd on.
- On January 5, Ariane Perrin (Università Ca’ Foscari) presents "Habiter un espace funéraire : La dimension cosmologique dans les tombes du royaume de Koguryo (IVe-VIIe siècles) situées en Chine et en Corée du Nord"
- On January 19, Cédric Laurent (University of Rennes 2) presents "Le paysage classique en Chine : espace narratif et espace symbolique"

Paola Calanca and Pierre-Yves Manguin
EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Asie maritime: du port au grand large, les gens de mer et leurs cultures.
- On January 6, Damien Peladan (University of Bordeaux) presents "Pratiques de navigation des pirates japonais en mer de Chine orientale, 1350-1419"
- On January 13, Mathieu Fauré (University of Rykkyo, Japan) presents "Saunier du Japon Prémoderne : les sauniers de Noto et la régie du sel du fief de Kaga"
- On January 20, Paola Calanca (EFEO) presents "Les calendriers de la mer"
- On January 27, Pierre-Yves Manguin (EFEO) presents "Les ex-voto marins d'Insulinde : des pratiques religieuses universelles"

Fabienne Jagou
- Seminar of Master 2, Religion et Politique au Tibet (asio4107), at the École normale supérieure in Lyon, from September 16th, on site
- Seminar of Master 2, Études appliquées à l’Asie (asio4101), at the École normale supérieure in Lyon, from September 20th, on site

Benoît Jacquet
- Post-master seminar, Les saisons : l’adaptation de l’architecture au milieu japonais, "Immersion AMP" programme, Post-master "recherches en architecture" (HESAM-ENSAPLV), at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette

- Master 2 seminar, Introduction au Projet de fin d’études, at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette

- Master 2 seminar, Retour d’Osaka : par-delà la modernité, at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette

François Lachaud
- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, L’Ermite et le libertin : vies du moine Kenkō et discours de la retraite au XVIIIe siècle

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Les Temples des ombres : bouddhisme et religion vernaculaire dans le Tōhoku

For the link write to François Lachaud

Costantino Moretti
- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Introduction à la lecture des manuscrits chinois médiévaux.

- Seminar within the framework of the EPHE Lectures, Histoire et philologie du bouddhisme chinois médiéval.

Hélène Njoto
- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Interactions between islamicate and indic societies in South and South-East Asia : comparative perspectives
On 13 January, Mulaika Hijjas (SOAS London), presents "The 'para-Islamic' in Malay manuscript culture: Hikayat Cekel Waneng Pati in the Palembang palace library" and Michele Bernardini (Università di Napoli "L'Orientale"), presents "The book of Kesikbash and the Jomjomenâme in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Iran, and its links with the Buddhist tradition.

Martin Nogueira Ramos
From September 2021 to January 2022, 4th year bi-weekly seminar at Sophia University (Tōkyō) in the Faculty of Liberal Arts entitled: "Christianity as a Local Religion in Early Modern Japan (16th-19th c.)"

Catherine Scheer
EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Dialogues entre recherches classiques et actuelles sur l’Asie du Sud-Est
- On January 6, Marie-Sybille de Vienne (INaLCO/CASE) presents "Royauté malaise en Malaysia contemporaine: anachronique, résiliente ou structurale?"
- On January 20, Lukas Ley (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) presents "The future as infrastructural fact: Telling time through anti-flooding infrastructure"

Vincent Tournier
- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Asian Buddhisms: Transmissions, Communities, Thought | Bouddhismes d’Asie : Transmissions, Communautés, Pensée
Programme

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studiess, Sources sanskrites relatives au culte des images et des stūpa bouddhiques

Publications

All EFEO publications are available on the publications website.

Publications website

Researchers' publications

Michela Bussotti, "Les compositions botériennes de la Chine" in E. Andretta, R. Descendre, A. Romano éd., Un mondo di Relazioni. Giovanni Botero e i saperi nella Roma del cinquecento, Roma, Viella Editrice, 2021, p. 403-457.

Michela Bussotti, "Mingmo Huizhou de nüxing ticai chubanwu yu Zhongguo chuantong wenhua" (Les éditions concernant les femmes à Huizhou à la fin de Ming et la culture traditionnelle chinoise), Huixue 15, 2021, p. 23-56.

Research Services

Recipients of allocations for the 1st semester 2022

- Riyanto Geger is awarded a 6-month fieldwork grant, attached to the Jakarta Centre, to carry out a study entitled "Actual and Mythical History in Migrant-Autochthonous Community Relationship in Seram, Eastern Indonesia".

- Valentina Grillo is awarded a 6-month field grant, attached to the Yangon Centre, to carry out a research project entitled "Living Outside Camps: the (Ir)Regular Life of Refugee Women from Myanmar".

- Cansu Gurkaya is awarded a 6-month fieldwork grant, attached to the Pondicherry Centre, for a study on representations and practices of citizenship in Auroville (India)

- Quentin Hardy is awarded a 3-month fieldwork grant, attached to the Tōkyō Centre, to carry out a research project entitled "American progressive censors and the restructuring of the Japanese film industry (1945-1952)"

- Hu Yi-Fan is awarded a 3-month field grant, attached to the Beijing and Taipei Centres, to conduct research entitled "Across Boundaries: Transnational Intellectual Networks and Knowledge Production in Modern China"

- Céline Pisseloup is awarded a one-month fieldwork grant, attached to the Kyoto Centre, to carry out a study of the measurements, proportions and construction rules of palatial architecture in Japan in the 16th and 17th centuries - the teaching of the Shōmei carpentry manual

- Bryan Sauvadet is awarded a two-month fieldwork grant, attached to the Kyoto Centre, to carry out a study of the formal and iconographic evolutions of Buddhist painting induced by women at the Korean court from the 14th to the 16th century

Recipients of the Pierre Ledoux International Youth Foundation

Each year, the Pierre Ledoux Foundation - International Youth offers a mobility grant to some of the EFEO's fieldwork grant winners, enabling them to spend time in Asia.

This Foundation, created under the aegis of the Fondation de France in 1997 on the initiative of Pierre Ledoux, then Honorary Chairman of Banque BNP, and his wife, aims to contribute to the training of young people by enabling them to travel and broaden their human and professional horizons.

To find out more

The winners of the first half of 2022 are :

- Coline Galand is awarded a grant for her 2-month stay to carry out a research of the current forms of the puppet arts in the valley of Kathmandu

- Salomé Pichon is awarded a grant for her 6-month stay in Cambodia and Vietnam, for the epigraphic study of agrarian practices in ancient Cambodia and Campā between the 9th and 10th centuries AD

- Céline Pilorget is awarded a 2-month grant for a study of Minjung painting in South Korea (1980s)

Recipients currently on mission

- Laura Docquier is in Cambodia, for a study of the archaeological material from B.P. Groslier's excavations at the Leper King Terrace in 1969

- Cher Hui-Yun is in Malaysia, for a research project entitled "S’approprier des ressources minières de la côte est malaisienne (1900-1945) : des entreprises mises sous tension sociale et environnementale".

- Sunny Le Galloudec is in Ho Chi Minh-City and in Hanoi, for research on "Une étude de la concession française ville-port de Tourane (Dà Nang), 1858-1975"

- Pramote Seemak is in Thailand, for a research project entitled "Ayutthaya : l'évolution du rapport de la ville à l'eau sous l'effet des projets (1926-2019)"

- Nolwen Vouiller, is in Nepal, for a "Étude des relations entre humains et non-humains auprès de la 'Khauraha', une rivière de la Bufferzone du Parc National de Bardia"

Post-doctoral fellows selected for the year 2022

- Stéphen Huard, 4 months for a project entitled "Tracing local history through spirit cults. The case of the Alon cult in central Myanmar"

- Kiik Laur, 5 months for a project entitled "Speaking Politics in the Ethnic Patchwork of Highland Asia and Burma"

- Edouard L'Hérisson, 6 months for a study of the writings of Ogasawara Shōzō 小笠原省三 (1892-1970) with a view to processing the archives of the construction of the Chōsen jingū 朝鮮神宮 (shrine in Korea)

- Rosina Pastore, 5 months for a project entitled "Brajvāsīdās, the author: a preliminary investigation of his Brajvilās"

- Sun Jiawen, 4 months for a project to create a documentary archive and bibliographic study (from 1977 to the present) on the movement to send educated young people to the countryside in China (1953-1980) and on the "lost generation"

Staff and service news

Direction

An exceptional EFEO Administrative Board meeting will be held on Tuesday, 25 January at 10 a.m. by videoconference.

Christophe Pottier participates in the 35th Technical Session and 28th Plenary Session of the ICC-Angkor/Sambor Prei Kuk on 20 and 21 January 2022 in Siem Reap.

Library

Adaptation of the library's opening hours

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.

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