Agenda

Centres

Chiang Mai 

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.

Beijing

As part of their History, Archaeology, Society lecture series, organised this year with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the theme of which is "Agriculture and the Making of Sciences (1100-1700)", the Beijing Centre and the Max Weber Foundation will welcome the young researcher Mengxi Zhao (University of Heidelberg) on 24 June for an online lecture entitled: "Materia Medica, Wild Herbs and Plain Food: Conceptualizing Famine Plants in Ming-Qing China and Tokugawa Japan".

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

Phnom Penh

Magali Berthon, former EFEO fellow (2018), is at the MNC from mid-May to mid-June on a postdoctoral contract with the Center for Textil Research at the University of Copenhagen. She is interested in the textile collection collected at the MNC before 1975 and is contributing to the documentation of a loom in the permanent collection.

On June 27, Chea Socheat of the Sculpture Conservation Workshop participates in a meeting organized by the Cambodian Ministries of Culture and Environment to evaluate a private company's project to erect a 108-metre-high Buddha statue on the Bokor Plateau (a high-altitude national park in southern Cambodia bordering the Gulf of Thailand in Kampot province). A field survey is planned in June.

The exhibition "Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia's Sacred Mountain", to which the Atelier contributed, is currently on display at the Smithonian's National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C., until September 18, in a smaller version featuring only the Krishna statue from the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Pondicherry

Ilona Kędzia will be conducting a three-month remote internship financed by the Polish National Science Center from June to August 2022. During her internship, Ilona Kędzia will have online consultations and readings with some Siddha practitioners, participate in the Śivadharma reading sessions and help formalising some of the big googledocs of Tamil texts that we have been working on in group reading sessions, in order to harmonise them and introduce simple html tagging.

Mr. Subramaniam N. has been assigned the work of identifying and preparing preliminary photographic documentation of temples in Kancipuram, and establishing contacts with priests and trustees of these temples. R. Ramya is working on transcribing Tamil texts and intervies related to the project. Suganya Anandakichenin will be working on the transcription and translation of the Hastigirimahatmya Sanskrit text and its commentaries,  Regular reading sessions are planned from June to August with Ute Huesken, Jonas Buccholz, Suganya Anakdakichenin, Dominic Goodall, T. Rajarethinam, K. Nachimuthu, Vigneshwaran Muralidharan and others.

The pilot project 'Preservation of two private collections of palm leaf manuscripts from Tamil country for posterity', led by Suganya Anandakichenin, Giovanni Ciotti and S.A.S. Sarma, under the British Library's Endangered Archives Program, supported by the Arcadia Fund, launched in August 2022 has been successfully completed. Ramesh, S. Venkatarajan and D. Murugesan cleaned and digitised about 180 manuscripts belonging to two collections (named "Kalliṭaikuṟicci" and Villiampākkam) while Akane Saito, S. Saravanan, M. Prathik and Suganya Anandakichenin catalogued these manuscripts.

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma will be going To Kancipuram from 10 to 13 June 2022 to participate in the traditional conference “Srichandrasekharendrasarasvatisvaminam jayanti-sabha” where he will discuss the grammatical topic “Akathitam ca1.4.51 iti  sūtravicāraḥ”.

Franklin Taagore, who has been working as a clerk at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO since 1972, will be retiring on June 1st 2022 after a service of 50 years.

Researchers

Alain Arrault

On June 15, Alain Arrault has been invited to give a lecture at the Fudan University (Shanghai), "Number Arts and Destiny in Ancient China". His lecture will be entitled: "The Chinese calendar and the popularisation of the number arts" (in Chinese and online).

Michela Bussotti

Michela Bussotti is participating in the International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL-12) "West meets East" which is being held in Lorient, France, from June 22 to 24. She will present a paper with Mariarosaria Gianninoto (ReSO): "Castorano's lexicographical works and his attempt of printing a Chinese-European language dictionary".

Élisabeth Chabanol

Nicolas Fiévé

Fabienne Jagou

Fabienne Jagou will be session chair and discussant at the international conference Individuals and their Inner Worlds in Chinese Religious Life, dedicated to Raoul Birnbaum of the University of California and organised by Inalco and the CEIB, at Inalco, on June 9 and 10 2022.

Gregory Kourilsky

On June 7 Gregory Kourilsky will give a talk in the seminar Asian Buddhisms: Transmissions, Communities, Thought (EPHE/PSL-EFEO-EHESS) led by Vincent Eltschinger, Marta Sernesi, and Vincent Tournier. His talk will be entitled "The 'kammaṭṭhān tradition' of Southeast Asia: an epistemological approach" (see Lectures).

François Lachaud

Costantino Moretti

Costantino Moretti is invited to the University of Hamburg - Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) from June 6 to August 6 to participate in a research project in the framework of the Cluster of Excellence "Understanding Written Artefacts".

Frank Muyard

Frank Muyard is participating in the 4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies being held at the University of Washington in Seattle from June 27-29 2022, where he is giving a paper entitled "Taiwan Archaeology in the Making: From State Negligence to National Prehistory".

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

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 June 2, Jean Michaud (Laval University), "The Art of not being Scripted so much: Musings on the Absence of a Common Writing System for Hmong Language(s)"

- On June 16, closing session

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 June 2:
- Eka Ningtyas (Inalco), "Javanism and the nationalist consecration in Indonesia 1908-1928"
- Panggah Ardiyansyah (SOAS University of London), "Kedhatyan at Sukuh: Early Modern Javanese Appropriation of Ancient Temple Ruin"
- Li Lingli (EHESS – Gottingen University), "Circulation of texts in the Indian context: The case of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa"
- Raffaello De Leon-Jones Diani (EHESS), "‘The Poem of the World-Teacher,’ Padmasāgara and remembering the Mughal court"

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 June 2, Jean Michaud (Laval University), "Ethnographie des populations des hautes-terres du Vietnam Septentrional : une recension critique des écrits endogènes et exogènes sur un siècle"

Publications

All EFEO publications are available on the publications website.

Researchers' publications

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)

- 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"

- Thomas Claré is in Vietnam for a fieldwork at the national archives related to his research on opium smuggling in French Indochina: networks, flows and territories of illicit trade (1858-1954)

Post-doctoral fellow currently under contract

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)

Recipients of allocation for the second semester 2022

The committee for the allocation of field grants met and chose to distinguish the applications of:

- Laura Agnel for a project in Tokyo, on Sugae Masumi (1754-1829), an ethnographic scholar on the paths of Tōhoku: Pious literature, illustrated daily notes and travels in northern Japan in the 18th century

- Victor Baptiste for a project in Pune on the poetic and mystical aspects of translation in Indo-Persian culture: the literary work of Āqil Khān 'Rāzī'

- Mohamed Belhadj for a project in Kyoto on hospitality and cosmopolitanism: an ethnography of the 'Muslim friendly' phenomenon in contemporary Japan

- Vissa Chanthapasouk for a project in Siem Reap on Wat Phou in Laos: From the archaeology of a temple to the architecture of a site

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

- Bin HA for a project in Beijing on the analysis of Pe kinship and marriage relationships - from endogamy to inter-ethnic marriage

- Fansuri Hamzah for a project in Jakarta, entitled "Identity and piety in contemporary Indonesian Islam: hijrah phenomenon among urban Muslims

- Sunny Le Galloudec for a project in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, focusing on the port-city of Đà Nẵng (Turan), from the Pacific War to the end of the Việt Nam War (1941-1975)

- Sandeep Subramanian for a project in Pondicherry, entitled "An Investigation into the Feasibility of Unsupervised Algorithms for Automatic Character Recognition and Paleographic Exploration of South Indian Manuscripts"

- Ziqi Wu for a project in Hanoi on Guangzhouwan, a crossroads of colonisation and modernisation. Between Southern China and French Indochina, local society in the game of international relations

Staff

Xénia de Heering joins the ANR-Natinasia project, coordinated by Fabienne Jagou, as a CNRS research engineer from 1 June.

Library

Photo Library

Isabelle Poujol is in Bangkok for the re-mounting of the exhibition Trance/figuration, Tattooos From Birth to Death at the National Gallery from June 24 to July 1 (see Chiang Mai).

Of particular note

Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger

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