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February 2022

The EFEO wishes you a happy Lunar New Year. May this year of the Tiger bring you joy and prosperity.

Legend: Red Tiger, Imagerie populaire vietnamienne, Maurice Durand, PEFEO 36, EFEO, Paris, 2011, image 204.

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Agenda

February, 14 - Kyoto, online

As part of the Kyoto lectures, Giorgio Colombo (Nagoya University) presents: "Law, Justice, and International Relations in the Dawn of Meiji Restoration: the “María Luz” incident".

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: Woodblock print triptych of foreigners living in the open port of Yokohama, 1861, Utagawa Sadahide, (1807-1873), The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

February, 24 - Seoul, online

The XLI Seoul Colloquium in Korea Studies, organized by the EFEO Center in Seoul, in collaboration with the Royal Asiatic Society, is led by Bong Won Kang, Professor Emeritus, Department of Cultural Heritage, Gyeongju University, on the topic: "The Petroglyphs of Bangudae in Korea: Focused on Chronologies and Subsistence Patterns".

At 6:00 p.m. (Seoul time), online: register with the EFEO Center to receive the information needed to connect.

Legend: "Bangudae Petroglyphs".

Centres

Beijing

The third meeting of the History, Archaeology and Society academic conference series, organised this year jointly by the Beijing Centre, the Max Weber Foundation and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin under the title "Agriculture and the Making of Sciences (1100-1700)", will be launched online February 24 (date to be confirmed) with talks by Jörg Henning Hüsemann (University of Leipzig) and Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh (University of Cambridge).

For access details and a summary of the presentations, see the European Research Centre of Chinese Studies (Beijing) booklet.

Chiang Mai

The Chiang Mai Centre has just received a donation of a large part of the Dauplay family archives, a unique testimony to the history of Indochina, including more than 550 glass plate photographs taken from 1902 onwards, mainly in southern Laos. On this occasion, a round table with researchers and a reception were organised at the Centre.

Legend: Photo of the ceremony to hand over the Dauplay family archives to Yves Goudineau at the Chiang Mai Centre.

Phnom Penh

Khom Sreymom, curator-restorer at the National Museum of Cambodia's Sculpture Conservation Workshop (EFEO), travels to the California Science Center in Los Angeles in early February to monitor the arrival and installation of 101 works on loan from the National Museum of Cambodia and the Angkor Conservancy for Museum Partner's exhibition "Angkor: The Lost Empire of Cambodia," which opens February 16.

Siem Reap

H.E. Phoeurng Sackona, Minister of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia, and H.E. Hang Peou, Director General of the APSARA National Authority, visited the EFEO Center in Siem Reap on Monday, January 24, 2022. This visit was an opportunity for them to meet the centre's staff and to learn about the various research projects of the EFEO and its partners in Angkor and Cambodia.

Researchers

Éric Bourdonneau

Éric Bourdonneau is in Siem Reap until February 18 to lead the resumption of the study and restoration project for the Dancing Shiva of Koh Ker in collaboration with the National Authority for Preah Vihear, the Angkor Conservation Authority, and the National Museum of Cambodia (with the support of the Aliph Foundation, the Del Duca Foundation, and the GFC Pharma Association). He will be joined by Benoît Lafay (curator-restorer), Frédéric Ladonne (architect-programmer), Emmanuel Bougenaux and Laurent Laly (plinth builders), as well as Lizon Delomosne (Master 2 student at the École du Louvre, intern at the EFEO for a period of three months, who will be working on the photogrammetric aspect of the project).

Damian Evans

From February 10 to 17, Damian Evans is in Los Angeles for the final preparation and opening of the exhibition "Angkor: The Lost Empire of Cambodia" at the California Science Center, which he co-curated with Sophie Biard.

From February 17 to April 24, he goes to Laos as part of the Lidar mission for the geospatial component of the AFD-CHAMPA project.

Frédéric Girard

On February 4 Frédéric Girard gives a lecture entitled: "Motora Yujiro, Direct experience blogging to his Study on Oriental Philosophy (1905) and Dacheng qixinlun. "Pure experience" of the young Nishida Kitarō, in connection with the Dacheng qixinlun (Awakening of Faith in the Mahâyâna)" at the 6th annual ENOJP (European Network of Japanese Philosophy) conference organised by Professor Ferenc Takó, at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, from February 1 to 4 .

Detailed programme with zoom links.

Andrew Hardy

On February 16 Andrew Hardy presents "Migration practices and historical issues in Vietnam (20th century)" at the doctoral seminar Mobilités et migrations en Asie orientale that he is co-organising at the French Institute for Research on East Asia (IFRAE).

Christine Hawixbrock

From February 12 to April 19, Christine Hawixbrock is in Laos for a new excavation campaign on the site of Vat Sang'O 5, in the province of Champassak, in southern Laos.

Legend: Clearing of the Vat Sang'O 5 site before the Georadar survey scheduled for 17 February 2022.

On the same dates, Nicolas Nauleau (archaeologist associated with the EFEO in Siem Reap) will be in charge of the second EFEO excavation site in the same region, that of Houay Sa Houa 2, located in the heart of the ancient city of Vat Phu.

Legend: General view northwest of trench 3000 where a sandstone stele is visible (March 2020).

Benoît Jacquet

On February 4, Benoît Jacquet participates in a round table discussion on the theme of "creative public space", with Imamura Hajime (Tōyō University) and Veronika Antoniou (Urban Gorillas), during the Creatoyo days, at Tōyō University, Hakusan campus, in Tōkyō.

Christophe Marquet

Christophe Marquet gives a lecture in Japanese on "Popular imagery considered from the point of view of Ōtsu paintings" (Ōtsu-e kara mita minga no sekai 大津絵から見た民画の世界), at the symposium "The popular image in France and Japan: Comparisons between Epinal images and Ōtsu paintings" (Minshūga no nichifutsu hikaku. Epinaru hanga to Ōtsu-e wo chūshin to shite 民衆画の日仏比較エピナル版画と大津絵を中心として), co-organized in Tōkyō by the group "Comparative research on imagery in the West and the East, for a new cultural history", and the Fondation Maison franco-japonaise, February 19-20, 2022.

Detailed programme on the MFJ website.

He takes part in the organisation of the exhibition Le monde de l'image populaire [The World of the Popular Image] (Minshūga no sekai 民衆画の世界), which is being held at the Maison franco-japonaise during the symposium, from February 17 to 23.

Costantino Moretti

On February 22 Costantino Moretti takes part in the seminar Asian Buddhisms: Transmissions, Communities, Thought (Master's degree in "Études asiatiques" - PSL-EHESS-EPHE-EFEO). He presents a paper entitled "Apocryphal Scriptures in Medieval Chinese Buddhism".

Christophe Pottier

Christophe Pottier is on mission in Cambodia until February 3rd. He is leading the first phase of an experimental Lidar acquisition operation using a drone. This operation, conducted with Damian Evans on several key sites, will evaluate the technological advances made since the Lidar campaign 10 years ago in Angkor.

On February 18 Christophe Pottier is a discussant in Kevin Chua's lecture entitled "Parmentier's Photographic Archaeology" in the National Gallery of Singapore's online lectures "Living Pictures: Lectures on Photography in Southeast Asia".

Catherine Scheer

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

On February 18, she speaks at the general anthropology seminar at the University of Toulouse, with a paper entitled: "Les dieux-esprits en débat: articuler réforme protestante et activisme autochtone sur les hauts plateaux du Cambodge".

Legend: Photo taken on 6 January 2022, during a discussion with villagers from Chong Plas (Mondulkiri, Cambodia), on the origin of one of the "buffalo horn" inscriptions (K. 1350) (Photo: Sochea Köm).

Franciscus Verellen

Franciscus Verellen, Director of Studies Emeritus at the EFEO and Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, will take part on February 5 (5:00-6:30 p.m. GMT) in a public discussion on "Cutting-edge conversations on the Celestial/Heavenly Masters (Tianshidao)" as part of the Global Daoist Studies Forum.

Link to Zoom.

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

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 February 16, Nicolas Pinet (UMR CCJ-CRJ) presents "La représentation des classes et quartiers populaires dans le cinéma japonais (1920-2020) : essai de mise en perspective historique"

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

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 February 10, David C. Andolfatto (Musée du quai Branly, Paris), presents "Un volcan dans l’Himalaya. Les notices persanes d’une carte du Gange et de l’ouest du Népal de 1784" and Sarah Anaïs Andrieu (Observatory of Alternative Movements in Southeast Asia - CASE), presents "Wayang golek purwa in Sunda (West Java, Indonesia): connections and derivations"
The seminar sessions will take place in person. Access via BBB is available for those who cannot attend the Marseille campus

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 February 3, Pierre Prouteau (CASE) presents "Du son des trois mondes aux paysages sonores de Thaïlande : réflexion sur le rôle d'une cosmologie médiévale dans une anthropologie du son contemporaine"
- On February 17, Léo Mariani (MNHN) presents "L'odeur de la nature ou le goût des possibles. Une anthropologie de la modernité depuis l'Asie du Sud-Est"

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

Arts Asiatiques 76 – 2021

Arts Asiatiques 76, École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris, 2021, 128 pages.

Articles:
- Nicolas Revire, Rajat Sanyal & Rolf Giebel, Avalokiteśvara of the “Three and a Half Syllables”: A Note on the Heart-Mantra Ārolik in India

- David C. Andolfatto, Les temples deval de la Karnali (Népal occidental) : réflexions sur leur datation et leur vocation

- Nachiket Chanchani, Castles in the Heartland: Place-Making in Early Modern Bundelkhand

- Ellen Johnston Laing, The Tiger and its Association with Protection
and Prosperity in Late Imperial China

Études thématiques 34

Paola Calanca, Liu Yi-chang & Frank Muyard (éd.), Taiwan Maritime Landscapes from Neolithic to Early Modern Times, Études thématiques 34, Paris, EFEO, 2022, 392 pages.

Taiwan Maritime Landscapes examines the maritime history and prehistory of Taiwan, with particular attention paid to the often neglected pre-17th century periods. It expands our understanding of the island’s past and its nautical environment, and highlights the persistence of Taiwan’s relationships with its neighbors, first through the maritime activities of Austronesian peoples, then around the 2nd millennium AD by way of the Minnan sailors. Supported by a multidisciplinary approach, the works presented herein showcase recent advances in archaeological and historical research on these issues. It documents the natural maritime and climatic environment of Taiwan, its first Neolithic communities, their diversification up to the 1st millennium AD, and the integration of the island into Chinese and European maritime networks. It illustrates and explores the island societies’ cultural and commercial connections with populations and polities across the South and East China Seas as well as the nautical knowledge underpinning these relations. The articles presented in this book offer new insights and avenues for Asian maritime history research.

Collection Indologie n˚150

TheAmṛtasiddhi and Amṛtasiddhimūla. The Earliest Texts of the Haṭhayoga Tradition, Critically edited and translated by James Mallinson and Péter-Dániel Szántó, Collection Indologie n˚150, Haṭha Yoga Series n˚2, Institut Français de Pondichéry / École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2021, 817 pages.

This book introduces, edits, and translates the two earliest texts of the hathayoga tradition, the Amrtasiddhi and the Amrtasiddhimula (which survives only in Tibetan translation). Basing their study on a bilingual manuscript, an extremely rare phenomenon, the authors argue that the origins of hathayoga are found in an eclectic tantric Buddhist milieu, probably active in the second half of the 11th century CE. The texts provide fundamental and later very influential teachings on the nature of the yogic body, psycho-physical practices centred on manipulating bindu, the types of practitioners, and much more. The book is addressed primarily to scholars, but will also be of interest to students and practitioners of yoga.

All EFEO publications are available on the publications website.

Publications website

Researchers' publications

Frédéric Girard, "La dynamique de la chorégraphie du Shirabyōshi et du Nō circulaire de Zenchiku", in Mouvement, cinétisme et modèles dynamiques dans la musique et les arts visuels, under the direction of Pierre-Albert Castanet and Lenka Stransky, chapter Mouvement du corps et de l’esprit, Éditions Delatour, 2021, p. 249-288.

K. Nachimuthu, H. Balasubramaniam, Tolkāppiyam Text, Transliteration and Translation in Hindi, Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai 2021, 1165 pages.

K. Nachimuthu, "Tamiḻum Malayāḷamum - Vēṭikkaiyāṉa Moḻikkaḷaṅkaḷ", in Kākkaiccirakinile (Tamil Literary Magazine), Vol. 11. No. 1, January 2022, Chennai, p. 122-127.

Research Services

Call for applications for the 2nd semester 2022

The EFEO has launched the call for applications for the EFEO field grants for the second semester of 2022.

The deadline for submitting applications for the field grant that will allow Master II and doctoral students to study in Asia in one of the EFEO centres is March 14, 2022, inclusive, for a stay scheduled to begin between July 1 and December 31, 2022.

Conditions and procedures

Recipients of allocation currently on mission

- Riyanto Geger is in Jakarta, for a study entitled "Actual and Mythical History in Migrant-Autochthonous Community Relationship in Seram, Eastern Indonesia"

- 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"

- 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 currently under contract

- 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

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.

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