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October 2022

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Agenda

Tuesday, October 18 - Paris

CHAO Fei-peng 趙飛鵬 (National Taiwan University) gives a lecture entitled 寫本文獻與思想史研究─以《六祖壇經》為例, "New Research on Manuscript Copies of the Liuzu Tanjing (Platform Sūtra of the Sixth Patriarch)," on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, at 10:00 am.

In the Grand Salon of the Maison de l'Asie, 22 avenue du Président-Wilson, 75016 Paris.

*The conference will be in Chinese.

Wednesday, October 19 - Kyoto

As part of the "Kyoto lectures", Ethan I. Segal (Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University, author of Coins, Trade, and the State: Economic Growth in Early Medieval Japan, Harvard, 2011) presents: "An Archaeology of Wealth and Poverty: Unexpected Sources of Medieval Japanese Economic Thought".

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.

Nangnang, Pyongyang. Excavation of a tomb during the Japanese colonial government.

Thursday, October 20 - Seoul

The XLV Seoul Colloquium in Korea Studies, organized by the EFEO Center in Seoul, in collaboration with the Royal Asiatic Society, is led by Andrea De Benedittis, lecturer at the Department of Korean Language and History of the Università di Napoli l'Orientale on the topic: "Some considerations on Nangnang history and historiography".

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

Illustration: Nangnang, Pyongyang. Excavation of a tomb during the Japanese colonial government.

René Têtard, Tourane (Đà Nẵng) "market" train station, 1920's. FR ANOM 30Fi115/26.

Saturday, October 22 - Kyoto

The Italian School of East Asian Studies and the EFEO Kyoto organize a workshop in memory of Alexander Vovin (1961-2022), linguist and director of studies at the EHESS: "Exploring Language Diversity in Japan: How Philological and Linguistic Analysis Can Work Together." On Zoom only.

The conference will be held online only, details and registration on the Centre's blog. The link and password will be posted the day before on the Kyoto Centre blog.

Saturday, October 22 - Kyoto

On October 27 and 28, Đà Nẵng will host the international colloquium "From the Port to the World. A global history of Indochinese ports (1858-1956)".

The project was put together by doctoral students Sunny Le Galloudec (Le Havre Normandie University) and Thomas Claré (Aix Marseille University), both EFEO fellows. The colloquium will be hosted by the University of Science and Education (University of Đà Nẵng), the main institutional partner along with the University of Southern Brittany (UBS). Many other scientific partners are associated with the organization of the event, including the EFEO, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities of Hanoi (USSH), the University of Le Havre Normandie, the SHD, the IRASIA, etc.

Seventy papers will be presented by Vietnamese, French, and international scholars. The EFEO will be represented by Philippe Le Failler, who will give a talk on "Circulation and maritime smuggling of opium in the precolonial period.

Illustration: René Têtard, Tourane (Đà Nẵng) "market" train station, 1920's. FR ANOM 30Fi115/26.

Centres

Bangkok

The exhibition สักลาย: ศิลปะแห่งศรัทธาบนเรือนร่าง Saklai: silapa haeng sattha bon rueang rang ("Tattoos: a sacred art engraved in bodies), organized by the EFEO and devoted to the ritual tattoos of Thailand and Cambodia, continues at the Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC), which will host it until December 31, 2022.

The event that opened the exhibition on September 7 is now available online. The program included talks by Gregory Kourilsky, Olivier de Bernon, and Phongsathorn Buakhampanh (research assistant at the EFEO Centre in Chiang Mai), as well as a demonstration by master tattoo artists from northern Thailand.

Hanoi

On the initiative of doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences working on Việt Nam and currently present in the field, a day of lectures is being organized at the EFEO Centre in Hanoi on October 13, 2022. The ambition of this day is to offer a space for exchange based on the work currently being carried out by young French researchers in Việt Nam. The Centre in Hanoi, which is already opening its doors to them, has naturally been chosen to host this day. Simultaneous translation of the presentations will be offered to encourage discussions with the Vietnamese researchers and students who will be present.

Contact

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:

- October 14: "Continuity and Change: Sino-Vietnamese since the advent of the Romanised Vietnamese alphabet (1865-2022)" by Hoa Minh Le

- October 21: "The Political Thought of Phan Chau Trinh on Vietnam's Postcolonial Emancipation" by Cuong Nguyen

Contact : Olivier Tessier

Phnom Penh

Khom Sreymom and Chea Socheat of the Sculpture Conservation Workshop of the National Museum of Cambodia / EFEO are going to the EFEO Centre in Pondicherry from October 15 to 29 to take part in a workshop on inscription survey methods supported by the DHARMA program.

They will go to Tiruchirappalli to stamp an inscription that covers the entire floor of a temple carved out of the rock. For this purpose, a batch of Hanji paper has been specially ordered through the EFEO Centre in Seoul.

Pondicherry

"Hindu Temple Legends in South India," a sixteen-year project on the history of the ancient city of Kanchipuram, focusing in part on temple eulogies (māhātmya) in Sanskrit and Tamil, will be funded by the Heidelberg Academy and involve collaboration between Heidelberg and the EFEO Centre in Pondicherry.

To launch this project, its leader, Professor Ute Hueken, together with Dr. Jonas Buchholz, both of the South Asia Institute (SAI) at Heidelberg University, and Liudmila Olalde of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, will be visiting the Centre from October 10 to 17.

Legend: Ambulatory of the śivaita temple Ekāmbareśvara in Kanchi.

As part of the ERC project "DHARMA" (No. 809994), Adeline Levivier, a specialist in the study of epigraphy with digital tools, along with Khom Sreymom and Chea Socheat, from the sculpture conservation workshop of the National Museum of Cambodia / EFEO, will be traveling to India at the end of October to conduct a hands-on workshop on methods of documenting inscriptions.

One of their goals is to assist in the production of a corrected text of the Tiricirāmalai Antāti that Indra Manuel is studying. This is a hundred stanzas in Tamil carved in the cave excavated near the top of the "Rock of Trichy."

Legend: Detail of the Tamil inscription of Trichy.

Taipei

On October 21, 2022, the EFEO Centre in Taipei and the Research Centre for Taiwanese and Southeast Asian Archaeology, Institute of History and Philology (IHP), Academia Sinica are organizing the IHP-EFEO Young Scholars Workshop in Archaeology with the participation of Scarlett Chiu (IHP), Nicholas Hogg (University of Otago/IHP), Che-Hsien Evin Tsai (National Taiwan University), Mélissa Cadet (IHP), and Yi-Ting Hsu (University of Cambridge). The workshop will be led by Wang Kuan-Wen (IHP) and Frank Muyard (EFEO).

From October 20 to 30, 2022, Laurent Chircop-Reyes (CEFC) is visiting Taiwan at the invitation of the EFEO Centre in Taipei.

On October 24, he gives a lecture in the cycle of lectures on "French Historical Research and the Modern Era" organized by the EFEO and the Institute of Modern History of the Academia Sinica. This year's theme is People(s), State(s), and Citizens in Crisis. His talk is entitled "Caravan mobility and brigandage in Northern China (18th-20th centuries): Imperial archives, narratives, and orality".

On October 28, 2022, he gives a lecture on the topic "Escort-masters in Northern China: Studying a social category mixing protection against and complicity with brigandage (18th-20th centuries)," organized jointly by the EFEO and the Centre de recherche sur l'histoire culturelle et intellectuelle (Research Center for Cultural and Intellectual History), Institute of History and Philology (IHP), Academia Sinica.

Researchers

Alain Arrault

Alain Arrault is one of the "discussants" of Christian Lamouroux's book, La dynastie des Song (960-1279). Histoire générale de la Chine (published in 2022 by Belles Lettres), during a half-day session organized as part of the Cycle-débats of the Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine (EHESS), on Tuesday, October 18, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at the Condorcet campus, Centre de colloques, 3rd floor, room 3.01.

Michela Bussotti

Michela Bussotti participates in the workshop "Sinology network (II) Interdisciplinary spaces for China studies", from October 17 to 20, at Villa Vigoni (German-Italian Centre for European Dialogue, Como).

Olivier de Bernon

On October 3, Olivier de Bernon participates in the opening of the exhibition "King Sisowath's Journey to France in 1906" which he co-curated at the Musée de la Monnaie in Phnom Penh.

He will participate in the events organized to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Norodom Sihanouk and the 10th anniversary of his death.

Véronique Degroot

Véronique Degroot is conducting an archaeological excavation campaign until October 11 on the site of Bumiayu, Palembang, South Sumatra, in collaboration with archaeologists from the National Agency for Research and Innovation (BRIN).

Valérie Gillet

Valérie Gillet is in India for a field mission in southern Tamil Nadu from September 23 to October 7. She will also visit the EFEO Centre in Pondicherry during her stay.

She will attend the first conference organized within the inter-EFEO project "Destins of Objects", to be held at the École française d'Athènes on October 24 and 25. This conference will be followed by a meeting of the project members (EFA, IFAO, EFR) on October 26.

Yves Goudineau

On October 19, Yves Goudineau will be participating in the colloquium La 'Voie royale' - Journée d'hommage à Léon Vandermeersch, organized by John Lagerwey and Marc Kalinowski at the Ricci Institute in Paris, and will be giving a talk on the theme "D'une pensée chinoise, l'autre. De l'usage sélectif de l'œuvre de Granet".

Benoît Jacquet

From October 24 to December 16, Benoît Jacquet will supervise a group of 24 students, accompanied by two teachers, from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Kyoto. During these seven weeks, he will organize a seminar and weekly workshops on the issues of ecological transition and urban revitalization, including a field study on abandoned Shinto shrines.

Legend: Replacement of a cryptomere wood (sugi) portico (torii) at Fushimi Inari Grand Shrine, 2021, © Benoît Jacquet.

Fabienne Jagou

Fabienne Jagou gives a talk entitled "The tribulations of a Tibetan conchshell in the Chinese Straits from the end of the 18th century to today" as part of the study day Mouvements des personnes et des objets au fil des âges: périples passés et représentations contemporaines.

Michel Lorrillard

Michel Lorrillard and Buakhampan Phongsathorn (EFEO Chiang Mai) are visiting Muang Sanakham during the second half of October to collect archaeological evidence and stamp three inscriptions on stele.

Christophe Marquet

Christophe Marquet gives a talk entitled "Yokohama 1924: a reinterpretation of votive painting by modern art" at the international colloquium Ex-voto: creations, subversion, and transgression, to be held on October 20 and 21 at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid (and by Zoom). This colloquium is being organized as part of the MIRACLE program (Mobilité Internationale de Recherches Autour des Connexions et des Limites de l'Ex-voto), with which the EFEO is associated.

Costantino Moretti

Costantino Moretti is participating in the seminar Histoire des sciences, histoire du texte, organized by Karine Chemla, UMR 7219, SPHERE laboratory. He will present a paper entitled "Random Notes on Standards, Textual and Formal Variants in Dunhuang Buddhist Manuscripts" on Thursday, October 27.

Daniel Perret

From September 20 to October 26, 2022, Daniel Perret, in cooperation with the Sarawak Museum Department, is leading the second archaeological excavation campaign at Santubong in the state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo (Malaysia).

Legend: Verification of the archaeological material of Sungai Jaong (excavations 2019).

Christophe Pottier

Christophe Pottier is on mission in Chiang Mai, Thailand until October 3.

Hélène Njoto

Hélène Njoto is on a field mission in East Java from October 12 to November 3. She will be accompanied by her research partner, Dimas Seno from BRIN (Agence Nationale de la Recherche et de l'Innovation).

Olivier Tessier

The photographic exhibition Les marchands ambulants et les cris de la rue à Hanoi, after Hanoi, Hué and Da Nang, is reinstalled in Ho Chi Minh City by Olivier Tessier in the gallery of IDECAF (Institute of Cultural Exchanges with France) from September 15 to November 6.

Lectures

Éric Bourdonneau
- Joint EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies - INaLCO, Lecture des inscriptions angkoriennes, starting from October 21

Paola Calanca
- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Le monde maritime chinois à travers l'Étude des Mers orientale et occidentale de Zhang Xie (1617) (histoire et traduction), starting from October 12

Luca Gabbiani
- Research Training Seminar of the Centre d’études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, La Chine au prisme des sciences sociales, starting from October 19

Benoît Jacquet

- Post-master seminar, Les saisons : l’adaptation de l’architecture au milieu japonais, 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

Fabienne Jagou
- Seminar of Master 2, Religion et Politique au Tibet (asio4107), Master Études européennes et internationales, Asie Orientale contemporaine course, organised by the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, on Thursdays from 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm starting from September 22

Guillaume Dutournier
- Doctoral seminar of the Institut français de recherche sur l'Asie de l'Est (IFRAE), L’âge pionnier de la sinologie : auteurs classiques et questions disciplinaires, starting from September 27

- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Le savant et le politique dans l'histoire chinoise, starting from October 13

Costantino Moretti
- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Introduction à la lecture des manuscrits chinois médiévaux, starting from October 25

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire et philologie du bouddhisme chinois médiéval, starting from October 27

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 October 20, Mona Lilja and Mikael Baaz of the University of Gothenburg

Publications

32e Salon de la Revue

The Publications (Distribution) Department will have a stand at the Salon de la Revue on October 14, 15, and 16 at the Halle des Blancs-Manteaux in Paris.

Collection Indologie 154

Dominic Goodall, The East Mebon Stele Inscription from Angkor (K. 528). A Sanskrit Eulogy of the tenth-century Khmer Sovereign Rājendravarman, Collection Indologie n˚154, Pondicherry : Institut Français de Pondichéry / École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2022, 331 pages.

The epigraphy of the ancient Khmer kingdom centred in what is today Cambodia comprises about 1500 inscriptions written in Sanskrit or Old Khmer or both between the sixth and the fourteenth centuries CE. Remarkable as much for their graceful calligraphy and layout as for their elegance and erudite sophistication, these extraordinary documents have hitherto primarily been mined for historical data rather than savoured for their poetry. The present volume contains a substantially improved edition and annotated English translation of the second longest Sanskrit inscription of the Khmer-speaking region, a stela that records the creation of a five-towered temple dedicated to Śiva by the tenth-century Khmer ruler Rājendravarman. For the benefit of enthusiasts of kāvya, the text is given also in Devanāgarī.

All EFEO publications are available on the publications website.

Publications website

Researchers' publications

Yves Goudineau has published with NIAS Press, in collaboration with the EFEO, a collective work on the anthropology of Laos that he edited with Vanina Bouté (EHESS): From Tribalism to Nationalism. The Anthropological Turn in Laos. This work is being published in honor of the late Grant Evans, who was a professor at the University of Hong Kong and a research associate at the EFEO Centre in Vientiane.

François Lagirarde, Javier Schnake & Thissana Weerakietsoontorn, "La stèle 286 du corpus de Sukhothai : l’inscription du Wat Burapharam", in Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, 107 (2021), pages 303-359.

Michel Lorrillard, "Reflections on Khmer Influence in Upper Laos", in Nicolas Revire & Pitchaya Soomjinda (éd.), Decoding Southeast Asian Art – Studies in Honor of Piriya Krairiksh, River Books, Bangkok, 2022, pages 154-167.

Pierre-Yves Manguin, "The assembly of hulls in Southeast Asian shipbuilding traditions: from lashings to treenails", in Giulia Boetto, Patrice Pomey & Pierre Poveda (ed.), Open Sea / Closed Sea: Local and Inter-Regional Traditions in Shipbuilding (Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Marseille 2018, ISBSA 15), Archaeonautica, 21, 2021, pages 135-138.

Pierre-Yves Manguin, "'A Real Seafaring People': Evocations of Sailing inMalay Literature", Archipel, 103, 2022, pages 7-32.

Pierre-Yves Manguin, "[Compte-rendu] Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks Across India and Southeast Asia, by Himanshu Prabha Ray. London and New York: Routledge, 2021", Asian Perspectives, 61(1), 2022, pages 169-174.

Krishna et les ogres, le Kailasayatra, translated from Sanskrit by André Couture and Charlotte Schmid, illustrated by Laurent Gapaillard, Les Belles Lettres, Indian Series ~ The first Western translation of the strange tale of Krishna and the ogres, whose encounter occurs during a pilgrimage of Krishna to Mount Kailasa, 2022.

Research Services

Post-doctoral contracts

The recruitment campaign for post-doctoral contracts (from 3 to 12 months) for the year 2023 has just been launched. It will close on October 13 at 6 pm (Paris time).

For more information

EFEO Field Scholarships

The call for applications for the EFEO Field Scholarships for the first semester of 2023 has been launched. The deadline for submitting applications for the field grant allowing Master II and doctoral students to study in Asia in one of the EFEO centres is October 13 until 6:00 p.m. (Paris time) for a stay to be planned between January 1 and June 30, 2023.

For more information

Recipients of allocation currently on mission

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

- Mohamed Belhadj is in Kyoto, for a study on hospitality and cosmopolitanism: an ethnography of the "Muslim friendly" phenomenon in contemporary Japan

- Vy Cao is in Ho Chi Minh City, for a study entitled "Imprimeries et Maisons d'édition dans le delta du Mékong. Réseaux de production et de circulation de l'imprimé à l'aune du XXe siècle"

- Pierre Gautier is in Japan, for a study entitled "Une approche inédite de la nudité féminine dans l'art japonais de 1907 à nos jours"

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

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

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

- Camille Lenoble is to Japan, for a work of archiving and referencing of primary sources on male transvestism in Japan

Post-doctoral fellow currently under contract

- Maria Mélanie Chauveau, 5 months for a study entitled "Territorialité Bishnoï et enjeu identitaire. La transformation des terres agricoles dans les zones arides du Rajasthan : recomposition des espaces et mutations des relations entre humains, animaux et végétaux"

- 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

Director

Nicolas Fiévé is in Cambodia from October 22 to November 2. In Phnom Penh and Siem Reap he will meet with the Cambodian authorities in charge of Culture, Research, and Heritage, with the EFEO's main scientific partners in Cambodia, and with the directors and staff of the Centres.

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.

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Photo Library

Village guardian deity (kaval deivam). The god has a wrathful look, wears a garland of skulls and his hands hold an arrow, a bow and a severed head, 1999

Photographic exhibition "Louis Finot and Yunnan"

The photographic exhibition Louis Finot et le Yunnan will be installed on the first floor of the EFEO from October 7 to the end of December 2022. Some fifty photographs will present the trip that Louis Finot (director of the EFEO and then acting director on several occasions between 1898 and 1930) probably undertook in the 1920s to Yunnan fou (now Kunming). These photographs are a selection of those presented by Alain Arrault in the photographic album Mémoires de Chine (EFO/Magellan, 2022).

The writing of Mémoires de Chine also allowed Alain Arrault, with the help of Vianney Le Goaziou, to provide information on the 850 stereoscopic glass plates of the Louis Finot collection taken in China. These pictures have just been put online on the photo library website.

Legend: Jewelry store on rue de l'Est, Kunming, China, between 1910 and 1930, Louis Finot fonds (EFEO_FINL03067).

Decoration of a pole for the buffalo sacrifice ceremony, Champassak, southern Laos, February 1971

Collection Brat

The Antoine Brat collection has been completed with 300 entries. These photographs were taken in Luang Prabang and Pakse, Laos, between 1963 and 1971.

Legend: Decoration of a pole for the buffalo sacrifice ceremony, Champassak, southern Laos, February 1971 (EFEO_BRAA00636).

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Of particular note

IndexAngkor

Discover the page on the CollEx-Persée website for the project "Indexation dynamique du corpus des journaux de fouilles de la Conservation d'Angkor" (IndexAngkor) [Dynamic indexing of the corpus of excavation diaries from the Angkor Conservation], led by François-Xavier André, head of the EFEO libraries, and Christophe Pottier, Associate professor and head of the EFEO Centre in Chiang Mai.

Interview

Registration is now open for the MASA 2022 : Fabriquer, exploiter, diffuser, archiver et réutiliser des données archéologiques, to be held in Tours from November 30 to December 2, 2022.

Registration is free but required.

Through feedback (management of excavations, post-excavations, publications), papers will take into account all or part of the dimensions proposed in the title and the relationships between them: making, using, disseminating, archiving, reusing. They will focus in particular, but not exhaustively, on the issues that constitute for archaeological research :
- the archiving of digitized and digitally native media ;
- the reconfiguration of obsolete information systems;
- the reuse of data for archaeological research and beyond;
- corpus-publication relations.

Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger

25e Rendez-vous de l'histoire de Blois

The Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger - ResEFE - will be present at the 25th Rendez-vous de l'histoire in Blois during the Carte blanche for the Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'étranger: "Patrimoines maritimes matériels et littéraires" Paola Calanca, for the EFEO, will present "Perception of maritime space in China: imaginary and realities.

Friday, October 7, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., in the council room of the Blois City Hall.

The ResEFE will also be present at the Salon du livre (Stand 75 to 80).