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May 2022

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Agenda

Monday, May 16th - Kyoto, on site and online

As part of the Kyoto lectures, KIM Seung-young (Kansai University of Foreign Languages) presents "Between Collective Security and Revival of ‘Old Diplomacy’: Japanese-French Diplomacy during the Manchurian Crisis, 1931-33".

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

Monday, May 23rd - Paris, online

EFEO Paris Seminar

Jean Michaud (University of Laval, Quebec, visiting professor at the EHESS) speaks on "Cherchez le messie. Enquête sur la naissance de la rébellion de Pa Chay Vue (Batchai) au Tonkin".

From 10:30 to 12:00. The conference will take place online on prior registration.
Once registered, you will receive the elements to connect (seminar link and password).

Illustration: The Méo revolt [in French Indochina (Laos)] 1920, @BNF/Gallica.

Monday, May 30th - Paris, online

EFEO/ASIES Paris Seminar

Catherine Scheer (EFEO) speaks on "Indigéniser le protestantisme bunong: les habitants des hauts plateaux du Cambodge entre rupture et continuité".

This seminar is part of the sequence 6: La question religieuse : sécularisation et réinvention of the common core of the Master in Asian Studies.

From 10:30 to 12:00. The conference will take place online on prior registration.
Once registered, you will receive the elements to connect (seminar link and password).

Centres

Bangkok

The EFEO Center in Bangkok is organizing a workshop entitled "Visual Documentation for Epigraphy" on May 11th and 12th, led by the DHARMA project and CIK (Corpus of Khmer Inscriptions) teams. The workshop will take place at the Sirindhorn Anthropology Center (May 11th) and at the Central Fund of the National Museum (May 12th).

Dominique Soutif, Julia Estève, Adeline Levivier, Nicolas Josso, and Chloé Chollet speak on the various techniques of photographic and digital documentation of inscriptions on stele (modelling, photogrammetry, RTI, etc.).

Illustration: Inscriptions from the central collection of the National Museum, Pathumthani (Bangkok).

On May 23rd, the Centre is organising a round table on the first results of the project "Epigraphic and archaeological research in the Fang river basin (Northern Thailand) (โครงการวิจัยจารึก ลุ่มน้ำฝางและโบราณคดีวัดพระธาตุดงส้มสุก), conducted within the EFEO in collaboration with Chiang Mai University.

The round table will be held at the Sirindhorn Anthropology Center with talks by Gregory Kourilsky, Apiradee Techasiriwan (Chiang Mai University), Vivan Saenchan (Buranavipat / Fine Arts Department), and Phongsathorn Buakhampanh (EFEO Chiang Mai).

Chiang Mai

From May 3rd to 6th, Yves Goudineau, head of the Center, will welcome a delegation of Polish researchers from the University of Lodz, specialists in Southeast Asia and Central Asia. The delegation will be led by Professor Tomasz Kaminski, EFEO partner in the European CRISEA project, who will give a seminar on Tuesday, May 3rd, in the Center's library on the topic "The European Union's development aid for Asia.

On Tuesday, May 10th, François Robinne, CNRS research director and anthropologist specializing in Burma, will give a lecture in the Center's library entitled "Burma: Nation-State discontinuity. Proposals to get out of the identity trap".

On April 21st, Yves Goudineau, head of the EFEO Center in Chiang Mai, welcomed about a hundred guests for the "Trance/Figuration" exhibition, inaugurated by the French Ambassador to Thailand, Thierry Mathou. This exhibition on "ritual tattoos" was organized by the EFEO (Isabelle Poujol) in liaison with the Alliance française.

The theme of tattooing was approached through the comparison of EFEO photographs of Buddhist Yantra tattoos practiced by monks in Cambodia (Olivier de Bernon) and Thailand (François Lagirarde); with a visual and auditory "installation" depicting contemporary trance scenes during ritual tattoos in Thai monasteries (Cédric Arnold) produced by the Alliance Française.

On the large terrace of the EFEO Center has been added an important collection of photographs of popular traditions of "protective tattoos"-especially of the legs and torsos-practiced until recently in the countryside of northern Thailand (Tak, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai provinces) or Laos, by village tattoo masters using non-Buddhist motifs. This collection, bringing an ethnological dimension to the exhibition, was assembled by Phongsathorn Buakhampan, research assistant at the EFEO, who has been conducting surveys of these village tattoos for many years.

At a time when tattooing is becoming a fashionable adornment for a whole section of the younger generation, mixing motifs of the most diverse origins, the aim is to remind us of the essential sacred dimension of tattooing in this region of the world - a gesture that conforms to Buddhist texts or popular traditions - which establishes an essential ritual relationship between a master and those who ask to be tattooed out of devotion or concern for protection.

The exhibition will remain at the EFEO Center in Chiang Mai until May 22nd, and then will go to Chiang Rai from May 27th, before being presented this summer at the National Gallery in Bangkok.

Hanoi

On May 10th the EFEO Center in Hanoi will welcome Roselyne Bachelot, French Minister of Culture.

Ho Chi Minh City

The GIS Asie co-finances with the EFEO a series of lectures and debates organized by the Saigon Social Sciences Hub (SSSH) for early-career social scientists specializing in Vietnamese studies, hosted by the EFEO's office in Ho Chi Minh City.

Upcoming events:

- May 12th: "Fim heritage and archives in the Mekong region", by Martino Cipriani.

Contact: Olivier Tessier

Pondicherry

Olga Nowicka, who recently defended her doctorate from the Jagiellonian University, Krakow (Poland) and is now working as a post-doctoral fellow with the CSMC, University of Hamburg, will stay in South India from May onwards. She will continue her collaboration with the EFEO team in Kerala on the EAP Major project 1304, “Sanskrit and Malayalam Manuscripts from Śaṅkaran Institutions of Central Kerala”, and on the establishment of an open archive for palm-leaf manuscripts in Thrissur. She will also pursue her ongoing study of the typically Keralan hagiographies related to the figure of Śaṅkara, and of the four Hindu maṭhas Śaṅkara is believed to have founded in that city.

Lucy May Constantini, a PhD candidate in the Religious Studies department of the Open University, UK, will leave Pondicherry after a one-month stay during which she pursued work with Dr. S.A.S. Sarma on her project “Practice and Text in the South Indian Martial Art Kaḷarippayaṟr˘: confluence, contradiction, evolution”.

She invited G. Sathyanarayanan Nair, gurukkaḷ of CVN Kalari Sangham at East Fort in Thiruvananthapuram for a 2-day workshop to bring a practice-based traditional angle to the philological study of a kaḷarippayaṟr˘ manuscript undertaken with Dr. S.A.S. Sarma.

They presented together a lecture-cum-demonstration about the findings of the workshop and a short demonstration of principles discussed. Lucy May Constantini's research is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership.

Photo by Jayan N.P. Jayan at CVN Kalari Sangham, East Fort, Thiruvananthapuram, 2013.

Siem Reap

As part of his delegation to the EFEO, Jean-Sébastien Cluzel is organizing in Siem Reap, with the collaboration of Christophe Pottier, a workshop on "Digital and Archaeology" during the week of May 2nd to Friday, May 6th.

A public session entitled "Anastylosis: a Digital Perspective" will be held at the EFEO Center on Wednesday, May 4th, from 2 to 6 p.m.

As part of the Siem Reap conferences, Jean-Sébastien Cluzel will give a presentation entitled "Introduction of Japanese anastylosis in France" on Thursday 5th May 2022 at 6 pm.

Researchers

Hugo David

On 20th May, 1pm CET (4.30pm IST), Hugo David will give a lecture entitled "Can a Word Signify in More than One Way? Polysemy, Ambiguity and Metaphor in Bhartṛhari and a Few Later Sanskrit Authors" at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University (Beijing, China) (online event, Zoom ID: 83416508601).

Guillaume Dutournier

As part of the workshop "L'écriture philosophique à l'épreuve de la rencontre entre Chine et Occident", organised by doctoral student Jin Qian (Department of Philosophy, Panthéon-Sorbonne University), Guillaume Dutournier will speak on May 7th, on the theme "Marcel Granet, the China experience and the 'history of classifications'".

Frédéric Girard

Frédéric Girard presents "Les grands courants bouddhiques japonais" at the conference of the Société des Amis du Musée Cernuschi to be held on Wednesday May 18th, at 6 pm in the auditorium of the Musée Cernuschi.

Benoît Jacquet

On May 14th and 15th , Benoît Jacquet will take part in the "Consolidated Design" workshop jury, at the French Institute of Japan-Kansai, for the Ki-Time wooden construction project which will take place in August 2022 in Kyōto.

On May 28th (13h30-17h30), Benoît Jacquet will take part in the Congrès franco-japonais sur les villes 2022 and in the seminar "Timber Frame: Restoration and Reconstruction in France, Vietnam and Japan" for which he will be one of the discussants.

Gregory Kourilsky

On May 18th and 19th, Gregory Kourilsky will travel with Nicolas Revire (Thammasat University) to the province of Petchabun (North-East Thailand). The aim of this mission is to initiate a multidisciplinary research project on the archaeological site of Si Thep, belonging to the Mon civilisation of Dvāravatī.

Christophe Marquet

Christophe Marquet has resumed his duties as director of studies at the EFEO and will be welcomed from May 2022 as "specially appointed professor" (tokunin kyōju) at the Institute for Research in Humanities of Kyōto University, by virtue of the partnership with the EFEO.

Répertoire illustré des images bouddhiques (Zōho Butsuzō zui), 1796, acquisition Bibliothèque Royale, vente Klaproth, 1840. BnF, dép. des Manuscrits, Japonais 295

On Thursday May 12th from 5 to 6.30 p.m., Christophe Marquet will give a lecture on "La découverte savante du Japon au début du XIXe siècle. Retour sur les collections oubliées de livres anciens japonais dans les bibliothèques françaises", at the Association française des amis de l'Orient. The conference will take place at the Maison de l'Asie, Paris, and online on Zoom (registration required).

Illustration: Expanded edition of the illustrated repertory of Buddhist images (Zōho Butsuzō zui 增補佛像圖彙), 1796, acquired by the Bibliothèque Royale at the Julius Klaproth sale, 1840 © BnF, dép. des Manuscrits, Japonais 295.

Frank Muyard

Frank Muyard will participate in the 2022 International Conference on Tamsui Studies: Industry and Society organised by the History Department of Tamkang University on May 26th and 27th 2022 in Tamsui, Taiwan.

Martin Nogueira Ramos

As part of the four-year kaken - Kirishitan project, Martin Nogueira Ramos is visiting Nagasaki Prefecture from May 24th to 27th to consult the archival holdings of the towns of Shimabara (Matsudaira bunko) and Ōmura (Ōmura-shi rekishi shiryōkan). He will consult mainly documents relating to the village society and religious politics of the Shimabara and Ōmura fiefs in the 17th century.

Christophe Pottier

From April 20th to May 31st, Christophe Pottier is leading a campaign of the MAFKATA archaeological mission on the Trapeang Phong site in Roluos.

The excavations concern three terrepleins with long and dense sequences of domestic occupations. The last two weeks will be devoted to post-excavation studies. Archaeologists Nicolas Nauleau, Tho Thon and San Kosal and surveyor Leng Satya (the latter three from the APSARA Authority) are supervising some forty workers from the neighboring villages as well as six Laotian archaeologists working with the CHAMPA project (Anongluk PHOUTTHAVONG, Chanphenh PHOMMAVANDY, Khammanxong TONGNAMAVONG, Soubanh KANHAPHANH, Soudthaphone CHOUMSILIVONG and Souksavath SANPHASOUK), and Laura Docquier, an M2 student at Sorbonne University.

Christophe Pottier is supervising the resumption, from April 25th to May 4th, of the Lidar drone acquisition campaign, which was started last February but interrupted due to a hardware failure. This operation, conducted with Damian Evans on several key sites, will evaluate the technological advances made since the Lidar campaign 10 years ago at Angkor.

Catherine Scheer

From May 21st to 23rd, Catherine Scheer goes to Cairo to participate in the meeting of the Réseau des Écoles française à l'étranger, which focuses on the role of the contemporary in the research of the EFE.

Dominique Soutif

Since April 14th and until May 30th 2022, Dominique Soutif has been conducting an excavation campaign on the Prasat Khna site (Preah Vihear province, Cambodia).

This work is part of the Yaçodharâçrama archaeological mission (MAEE - ERC Dharma project, led by Chea Socheat, APSARA, Julia Estève, ITK/ISIC, Bangkok, Dominique Soutif and Edward Swenson, University of Toronto). They are carried out in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia.

Olivier Tessier

Olivier Tessier goes to Hanoi from May 7th to 11th to work on the collective work "Local governance of water resources in the Đồng Nai - Sài Gòn basin: the case of the Phuoc-hoa project", which he co-edited.

On May 10th he took part in the ceremony at the French Embassy to present the EPHE's honorary doctorate to Nguyên Kim Son, Minister of Education and Training of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and in the reception at the EFEO Center in Hanoi of Roselyne Bachelot, Minister of Culture in France.

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

- On May 13th, Wulei xianggan zhi

Éric Bourdonneau
EHESS-INaLCO seminar, Langue, histoire et sources textuelles du Cambodge ancien et moderne

Valérie Gillet
- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire et archéologie du monde Indien

Yves Goudineau and Catherine Scheer
EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Anthropologie comparée de l'Asie du Sud-Est

- On May 12th, Jacques Leider (EFEO), "Un point de vue décentré sur l’histoire des marges entre Birmanie et Inde"

- On May 19th, Oliver Tappe (Heidelberg Universiy), "Mobility and Mimesis in Houaphan : Historical trajectories of interethnic relations in the Lao-Vietnamese borderlands"

Fabienne Jagou
- Seminar of Master 2, Religion et Politique au Tibet (asio4107), at the École normale supérieure in Lyon, on site

- Seminar of Master 2, Études appliquées à l’Asie (asio4101), at the École normale supérieure in Lyon, 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, Paysage/s : architectures, villes & territoires en transition, 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

- Master 1 seminar, Histoire de la construction en bois au Japon, 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 plaese contact 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 May 12th: Andrea Acri (EPHE), "From Aji Uṇḍal to Siti Jenar: “unorthodox holy men” in the Old Javanese Tantu Paṅgәlaran and Modern Javanese Suluk texts" and Carl W. Ernst (UNC-Chapel Hill, Visiting Professor), "‘Abd al-Rahman Chishti’s (17th century) interpretations of Hindu texts"
The seminar sessions will take place online

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 May 19th, Tania Li (Professor at the University of Toronto and visiting professor at EHESS), "Involutions’s Dynamic Others: Capitalist Relations on Indonesia’s Commodity Frontiers"

Publications

All EFEO publications are available on the publications website.

Publications website

Researchers' publications

Éric Bourdonneau, "Angkor : un autre regard sur la fin de la cité", dans Histoire & Civilisations n°83, mai 2022, Le Monde - National Geographic, p. 46-49.

Hugo David, "Action Theory and Scriptural Exegesis in Early Advaita-Vedānta (3): Maṇḍana Miśra on Ontology, Time and Commandment", in V. Eltschinger, B. Kellner, E. Mills & I. Ratié (eds), A Road Less Traveled. Felicitation Volume in Honor of John Taber, Vienna, Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 2021 (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde), p. 37-94.

De Jong, W., Flores Urushima, A., Jacquet, B., Takahashi, T., "Cedars of the North Mountains: Historical forest culture and practices in modern day nature policies", International Forestry Review, Vol. 24 (1), 2022.

Cedars of the North Mountains: Historical forest culture and practices in modern day nature policies

Christophe Marquet, book review of Berlinguez-Kôno Noriko (dir.), La Genèse des études japonaises en Europe. Autour du fonds Léon de Rosny de Lille (2020) et de Machi Senjurō (dir.) 町泉寿郎, Reon do Ronī to jūkyū seiki Ōshū tōyōgaku. Kyūzō kanseki no mokuroku to kenyū レオン・ド・ロニーと１９世紀欧州東洋学―旧蔵漢籍の目録と研究 (2021), published in Ebisu. Études japonaises, n° 59, 2022, p. 389-400 and in Japanese in the Newsletter of the Nishōgakusha University in Tōkyō.

Stéphanie Leroy, Emmanuelle Delqué-Količ, Brice Vincent, Pierre Baptiste, Enrique Vega, Forrest McGill and Mark Fenn, "Le fer comme moyen de datation des bronzes khmers : première approche de prélèvement in situ", Technè, 52, 2021 p. 82-91.

Research Services

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"

- Valentina Grillo is in Bengladesh, for a study entitled "Living Outside Camps: the (Ir)Regular Life of Refugee Women from Myanmar"

- Cansu Gurkaya is in Pondicherry and Auroville, for a study on the representations and practices of citizenship in Auroville (India)

- William Kwok is in Phnom Penh for a study entitled "The Banality of Organization: Massacres as a Coordination Problem in the Shadow of War"

- Camille Senepin is going to Vietnam, for a research entitled "Towards a heritage hegemony? Political and cultural dynamics of a Vietnamese possession cult seen from two peripheral centres: the Tứ phủ in Nam Định and Huế"

Post-doctoral fellows currently under contract

- 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)

Staff and service news

Direction

From May 21st to 23rd, the management of the EFEO (Nicolas Fiévé and Valérie Gillet) and Catherine Scheer will take part in the annual seminar of the Écoles françaises à l'étranger (EFE), on the topic of the role of the contemporary in the research of the EFE, at the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (Ifao) in Cairo.

Library

Conditions of access of the library

The library is opened Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Consult the catalogues and digital tools :
- Catalogue of books and periodicals
- Catalogue of Archives and Manuscripts
- Digital heritage library

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

Archivists' meeting

Sovannara Mey and François-Xavier André will be at the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (Ifao) in Cairo from May 14th to 18th for the annual meeting of the network archivists.

Contact

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Photo Library

From May 2nd to June 30th, the Maison des étudiants de l'Asie du Sud-Est (MEASE) at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris will host the exhibition "Au fil de l'eau. Rivers of Southeast Asia".

This exhibition commemorates the 90th anniversary of the existence of the MEASE, founded in 1930 under the name Maison de l'Indochine.

For this occasion, the EFEO has agreed to lend some fifty photographs from the collections of its photo library, as well as five films, both old and recent. The set illustrates the close relationship that the local populations had, and still have, with the major rivers of the region.

The exhibition has been put together by Isabelle Poujol (EFEO, photo library) and Luca Gabbiani (EFEO, director of the MEASE), with the collaboration of the entire EFEO photo library team.

Dates: May 2nd to June 30th

Address: Maison des étudiants de l'Asie du Sud-Est, Grand Salon, 59B Bd Jourdan, 75014, Paris

Opening hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon, Sunday, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Free admission

Photographic exhibition
"Sadhu, yogi and other ascetics"

Discover, until June 1st, the photographic exhibition "Sādhu, yogin and other ascetics" on the 1st floor and in the library of the Maison de l'Asie.

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Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger

Directors' Committee and Annual EFE Seminar

From May 21st to 23rd, the Directors' Committee and the annual seminar of the Écoles françaises à l'étranger (EFE) will be held at the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (Ifao) in Cairo.

On this occasion, the exhibition EFE: la part du contemporain will be presented in the main hall of the Ifao.

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News from PSL Université Paris

Online registration opens - Year 2022/2023

Applications for the Master’s degree in Human and Social Sciences, “Asian Studies” (EA) are open for the year 2022-2023 according to a multi-phase registration schedule. The EA Master's degree is a multi-disciplinary, research-oriented programme at M1-M2 level, organised around two training courses of your choice:
- Track 1: "History and social sciences: fields, texts and images" (EHESS-EFEO)
- Track 2: "History, philology and religions" (EPHE/PSL-EFEO)

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News from EURICS

Lettre n° 21

Find No. 21 of the EURICS Briefs | Analyses, "Why China’s Understanding of Multilateralism Matters for Europe" by Anna Caffarena.

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