EFEO Newsletter

Newsletter

April 2024

Content

Research news
- Agenda
- Centres
- Researchers
- Lectures
- Publications
- Research Services

Staff and service news
- Library
- Photo Library

Of particular note
- Video "Étude des bas-reliefs du temple de Ta Prohm Kel"
- Video "Archaelogical mapping"

News from the ResEFE

Research news

Agenda

Wednesday, April 3 - Hong Kong

Isabelle Charleux (CNRS-GSRL) presents a lecture on the topic "Representing the Sino-Mongol Frontier in the Late Qing Period from a Mongol Perspective," studying a Mongol banner map held by the Lee Shau Kee Library (HKUST).

This lecture is part of the series "The Backgrounds of the Chinese Maps: Their Reading and Understanding" organized by the EFEO Center in Hong Kong, the CUHK Institute of Chinese Studies, and the Lee Shau Kee Library (HKUST).

At 4.30 pm (Hong Kong) or 9.30 am (France), at the CUHK University Library, Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F. and online.

Monday, April 8 - Taipei

Alain Arrault gives a lecture in Chinese at National Chengchi University (NCCU) on the topic "Inside Chinese Statues in China or, Chinese Society as Seen from Below," organized jointly by the EFEO and the Center for the Study of Chinese Religions at NCCU.

From 2 to 4 p.m., Room 106, Bai Nian Building, National Chengchi University.

Wednesday, April 10 - Chiayi

Alain Arrault presents a lecture in Chinese entitled "Cultic Images in China: From Mummies to Statues, from Temples to Domestic Altars," organized jointly by the EFEO and the National Palace Museum.

At 2 p.m., Jixian Hall, National Palace Museum Southern Branch, Chiayi, Taiwan.

Friday, April 12 - Hong Kong

Anne Cheng (Collège de France), invited by the Institute of Chinese Studies at CUHK and the EFEO Center in Hong Kong, will give a lecture on "Has China Always been the 'Middle Kingdom'?

At 4 pm, in the Lecture Theatre, G/F, Institute of Chinese Studies (CUHK).

Tuesday 16 April - Taipei

Alain Arrault gives a lecture in Chinese entitled "From the 'Body of Flesh' to the Body of Statues, from Sanctuary to Home" at the Institute of History and Philology (IHP) of the Academia Sinica, organized jointly by the EFEO and the IHP.

At 2:30 p.m., Room 703, Research Building, IHP, Academia Sinica.

Wednesday, April 17 - Kyoto

As part of the "Kyoto lectures", Michael Lucken (INALCO) gives a lecture on "Greek Japan: Or How do we Possess a Culture?".

At 6pm (Japan) or 10am (France), on site and online on the Zoom platform. Login details are posted on the Kyoto Center's blog.

Thursday, April 18 - Seoul

The Seoul Colloquium in Korea Studies, organized by the CRRC (a branch of the Association Française pour l'Étude de la Corée-Séoul) and the EFEO Center in Seoul, in collaboration with the Royal Asiatic Society, is led by Christophe Duvert, lecturer at Soongsil University in Seoul, on the topic "Du Chosŏn à nos jours, où va le droit coréen?" (in French).

At 6:00 p.m. (Seoul time), Grand Conference Room (#310), Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University: register with the EFEO Center.

Northern tip of the Goto archipelago (Nagasaki prefecture), part of Kyūshū home to several Catholic communities.

Monday, April 24 - Paris

EFEO Paris seminar

Xavier Guillot (Professor at the Écoles d'architecture and visiting professor at the EFEO) speaks on "Alternative living projects in rural spaces in South and South-East Asia. Reflections on post-development through the study of several 'situated collectives'".

This seminar is part of Sequence 5 part of the common core curriculum of the Master in Asian Studies entitled "Migrations et circulations".

From 9am to 11am. On-site, in the EFEO's Grand Salon.

Legend: Photo of the Sadhana Forest collective in Auroville (© X. Guillot).

Tuesday, April 25 - Paris

The CNRS-EFEO international colloquium Asia-Pacific Indigenous Archaeology: Emergence and Perspectives, organized by Bérénice Bellina (CNRS) and Frank Muyard (EFEO), is being held at the Institut national d'histoire de l'Art (INHA) in Paris.

The first panel, "India & Mainland Southeast Asia," will be chaired by Yves Goudineau (EFEO), and the second, "Island Southeast Asia & East Asia," by Annabel Vallard (CNRS, UMR 8170).

Registration required by 19 April.

Programme and information

Centres

Bangkok

The EFEO Center in Bangkok is lending its expertise and logistical support to the project for the donation by anthropologist Jacques Ivanoff, a researcher at the CNRS, to the Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC) of a large collection of Moken objects and documentation about this nomadic maritime population living on the coasts of the Andaman Sea between Thailand and Burma.

Jacques Ivanoff, Fabienne Galangau-Quérat, Maxime Boutry and the SAC teams will be visiting Kuraburi, in the province of Phang Nga (southern Thailand), from 22 to 24 April, to examine and evaluate the collection currently housed in a Moken village.

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:

- 5 april: "Experiencing Nonprofits in Vietnam: A Community-engaged Q Methodology Study" by Dana R.H. Doan

- 19 april: "Silent Shadows: A Glimpse Into the Covert and Systematized World of French Military Brothels During the First Indochina War (1946-1954) by Marie Robin

Contact : Olivier Tessier

Kuala Lumpur

The Kuala Lumpur Centre is partnering the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Malaya University for the 10th Conference of the South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and religion, to be held in Kuala Lumpur from 2 to 4 December 2024.

Kyoto

From 29 April to 3 May, the Kyoto Centre is hosting a seminar on the translation of political texts written in Tibetan and Mongolian, as part of the ANR Natinasia project "Building Nationalism in Inner Asia: The Empowerment of the Tibetan Revolution in the early 20th century" coordinated by Fabienne Jagou.

Pondicherry

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma has been invited by the Veda Rakshana Nidhi Trust as an examiner for an examination entitled "Rig Veda Lakshana Pariksha". This examination will take place on 6 and 7 April 2024 at the Kanchi Mutt, Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu.

At the end of the month, he will travel to Hyderabad to give a presentation entitled "Divaḥ karma ca (Aṣṭādhyāyī 1.4.43) iti pāṇini sūtrārtha vicāraḥ" at a traditional symposium (saparikarādvaitavedānta-sabhā), organised by the Sringeri Shankarian monastery from 27 to 29 April.

Olga Nowicka, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Hamburg based at the Brahmasvam Vedaka Matham, Thrissur, Kerala, and working on the DiPiKA ("Digitisation and Preservation of Kerala Archives") project funded by The Arcadia Philanthropic Trust ('Arcadia') (GRANT [2203-4800]) in collaboration with the EFEO, will give a presentation at the Monday Colloquium at the Institut Français de Pondichéry on April 8. Her presentation is entitled "The Advaita Vedānta Monastic Tradition of Nampūtiri Brahmins in Kerala: Tracing the Order's History in the Inscriptional Evidence."

On 2 April, Edmond de Taillac, intern at the Pondicherry Centre and doctoral student at the École Normale Supérieure, will be presenting a lecture entitled "The other side of Jouveau-Dubreuil: uncovering the French archaeologist's collecting practices and supply networks in Southern India" at the Centre.

Legend: Gabriel Jouveau-Dubreuil (1885-1945) in front of a bas-relief (Conversion of Nanda), 14 July 1945 (Photo© RMN-Grand Palais (MNAAG, Paris) / Thierry Ollivier).

Gabriel Jouveau-Dubreuil (1885-1945) in front of a bas-relief (Conversion of Nanda), 14 July 1945 (Photo© RMN-Grand Palais (MNAAG, Paris) / Thierry Ollivier).

Siem Reap

From March 18 to April 12, an archaeological excavation campaign is being carried out on the site of the royal foundry at Angkor Thom, under the direction of Brice Vincent (EFEO) and in collaboration with the APSARA National Authority.

Legend: Offering ceremony at the royal foundry site, Angkor Thom (Siem Reap province).

This fieldwork will make it possible to continue the archaeological and archaeometallurgical study of a production site for statues and objects made of copper and copper alloys, active at least during the 11th century and located in the immediate vicinity of the Angkor Thom royal palace. This royal foundry offers an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover a wide range of skills, tools and technical techniques (lost-wax casting, hammering, forging), as well as the way in which the work of the founders, blacksmiths and other metalworkers in the service of the king and the palace was organised.

Legend: Excavation of a trench in the "foundry furnace zone".

This is the fifth fieldwork undertaken on this site, which is now at the heart of the LANGAU research programme dedicated to the study of copper metallurgy in Angkorian Cambodia (9th-15th centuries).

Legend: Modern foundry of the master founder It Sopheap, Pradak (Siem Reap province).

Taipei

From April 6 to 17 Alain Arrault (EFEO) will be visiting Taiwan to do research on the collections of religious statuettes in Taiwanese museums. This visit is part of the annual exchange of researchers between the EFEO and the National Palace Museum (MNP, Gugong). He will give three lectures on April 8, 10, and 16.

Vientiane

From April 8 to 12, Buakhampan Phongsathorn, research assistant at the EFEO Centre in Chiang Mai, will be carrying out a mission on behalf of the Vientiane Centre in the northern Laotian province of Bo Keo, where a large number of ancient images of the Buddha have just been discovered. Michel Lorrillard will be going there at the end of the month.

Legend: Stamping of a Sankrite inscription (Mône period) recently discovered in the province of Vientiane.

EFEO CHAMPASAK

Archaeological excavations at Vat Song O - Christine Hawixbrock (archaeologist) and Bounsouang Sanpaserd (Vat Phou engineer - draughtsman) - March 2024 (© CHAMPA Project).

On 6 April, Christine Hawixbrock will be concluding the excavation campaign on the Vat Song O site, co-financed by the CHAMPA project and MAFSL (Mission Archéologique Française au Sud-Laos).

An official visit to the site with the local district and provincial authorities will take place on 2 April, where a presentation of the work in progress will be given, focusing on the enhancement of the site with a view to ensuring its long-term preservation.

Legend: Archaeological excavations at Vat Song O - Christine Hawixbrock (archaeologist) and Bounsouang Sanpaserd (Vat Phou engineer - draughtsman) - March 2024 (© CHAMPA Project).

The CHAMPA project's LIDAR team (David Bazin, Vilasak Phongsawat, Sybounheuang Phimmasen) is providing support and sharing its field survey methodology with Soukphasone Phimmasenh (Master's student at Sorbonne University and recipient of an EFEO field scholarship) until 5 April as part of her study of the evolution of the remains of the ancient city between the PRAL (Marielle Santoni) surveys in 1994-1995 and their current state.

Legend: Soukphasone Phimmasenh and Sybouneuang Phimmasen prospecting in the ancient city - March 2024 (© CHAMPA Project).

In April, the LIDAR team will be finalising the topographical surveys and orthophotos of the sites excavated this year at Nong Vienne and Vat Song O.

Legend: Sybouneuang Phimmasenh and Vilasak Phongsawath. - Topographical surveys at Vat Song O - March 2024 (© CHAMPA project).

Legend: Vladyslav Sydorov, Adam Wijker and Yohann Perron during fieldwork at Ban Houay Ngoeun - March 2024 (© CHAMPA Project).

Legend: Adam Wijker and Vilasak Phongsawath - Archaeological mapping in the laboratory at Vat Phou - March 2024 (© CHAMPA Project).

Bertrand Porte, following his mission to the Savannakhet museum collections, will be visiting Vat Phou from March 31 to April 6 to finalize the program of activities for the four members of the Vat Phou museum staff employed by the EFEO as part of the museography component of the CHAMPA project and in anticipation of the extension of the storeroom and the redevelopment of the museum. The staff members concerned are Chanphenh Phommavandy, Thongbang Phengsawat, Soubanh Kanhaphanh and Sisamai Silaphet.

Researchers

Alain Arrault

Alain Arrault is on a research trip to Taiwan from 6 to 17 April.

He will be giving a lecture at the Institute of History (NTHU) on "The First Latin Translation of a Chinese Calendar" on 12 April at 2.20pm.

Paola Calanca

From 17 to 27 April, Paola Calanca will be travelling to Taiwan to work with colleagues from the CCK Navigation practices project, to lead a master's seminar at Tamkang University (Tamsui) and to carry out research in the Penghu archipelago.

Hugo David

As part of the project "An Intellectual History of Late Vedānta," funded by the Leverhulme Foundation and in which the EFEO is a partner, Hugo David will, beginning in April, lead twice-weekly online reading sessions of the Śivamahimakalikāstuti, a devotional hymn with two meanings composed in the 16th century by Appayya Dīkṣita, and its commentary by his descendant, Tyāgarāja ("Rāju") Śāstrī, composed in the early 19th century.

First session Thursday 11 April at 9.30am.

Contact

Hugo David will be taking part in the presentation of the book Textes Clés de Philosophie Indienne. Illusion, Réalité, Ordre du Monde et Libération, collected by M. Ballanfat, on Tuesday 2 April from 6pm at the Vrin bookshop in Paris.

Contact

Textes Clés de Philosophie Indienne. Illusion, Réalité, Ordre du Monde et Libération

Benoît Jacquet

From 13 to 28 April, Arlo Griffiths will be on a mission to Vietnam, to continue surveys and the inventory carried out as part of the "Corpus des inscriptions du Campā" programme and the DHARMA project. He will be accompanied by Dr Nguyễn Văn Quảng (Huế University, Vietnam), Salomé Pichon (PhD student, EFEO), Adeline Levivier (Visual Data Manager of the DHARMA project), William Southworth (Curator at the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands) and Trần Kỳ Phương (Independent Researcher, Vietnam).

The team will visit various sites and museums in the provinces of Bình Thuận, Ninh Thuận, Phú Yên, Bình Định, Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên Huế.

Fabienne Jagou

From April 29 to May 3 Fabienne Jagou is organizing a seminar at the EFEO Center in Kyōto on the translation of political texts written in Tibetan and Mongolian as part of the ANR Natinasia project, which is based on the analysis of the particular dynamics of the Chinese revolution of 1911 in Tibet, in order to determine their influence on the transfer of political ideas to Tibet and Central Asia.

Christophe Marquet

Hiroshige II, The Gankirō House in Yokohama, 1861, xylogravure mounted on fan, private collection.

On Wednesday 24 April, Christophe Marquet gives a lecture (in Japanese) entitled "Hiroshige no uchiwa-e: Furansu de no shin-hakken wo chūshin ni 広重の団扇絵-フランスでの新発見を中心に" ("Hiroshige's fan prints: new discoveries in France") as part of the International Art Research Center Seminar, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.

At 6pm (Japan) or 10am (France), on site and online at Zoom. Connection information on the Kyōto Centre blog.

Legend: Hiroshige II, The Gankirō House in Yokohama, 1861, xylogravure mounted on fan, private collection.

The book directed by Christophe Marquet, La Pérégrination vers l'Ouest. Intégrale des illustrations de l'édition japonaise de 1806-1837 (2023), was awarded the "Trophée de la conception artistique" at the Trophées de l'édition organised by Livres Hebdo.

Costantino Moretti

Costantino Moretti is in Taiwan from April 10 to 14. He is taking part in the International Conference on Manuscripts and Material Culture in East Asia as part of a partnership between the National Taiwan University (NTU), the EFEO-Paris, the EPHE-PSL, and the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures-Universität Hamburg (CSMC). He will present a paper entitled "Early Collations of Buddhist Scriptures". This conference is organised with the support of the PSL Global Seed Fund 2024.

Frank Muyard

On 18 April, Frank Muyard will be giving a lecture entitled "Les élections présidentielles et législatives taiwanaises de 2024 : Impacts et perspectives" at the Alliance française in Taipei.

Frank Muyard visits France from 20 to 28 April:

- On 24 April, with Bérénice Bellina (CNRS), organising the workshop Indigenous Archaeology and Museum Repatriation Policies in the United States, India, and Taiwan at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, in collaboration with the Labex "Les passés dans le présent" and the MSH Mondes au GIS Patrimoines en partage as part of their seminar "Retours, restitutions, circulations".

- On 25 April, with Bérénice Bellina (CNRS) organising the CNRS-EFEO international colloquium Asia-Pacific Indigenous Archaeology: Emergence and Perspectives.

Hélène Njoto

From 1 to 3 April, Hélène Njoto is in the field in Ambon working with a team of documentary filmmakers and organising meetings with government institutions and universities to discuss the sustainability of the ALIPH project.

Martin Nogueira Ramos

On Friday 5 April, Martin Nogueira Ramos will be a discussant at the "Croyances et évolution" session of the CRCAO's ninth doctoral day (theme: "Changement et métamorphose"). He will also take part in the round-table discussion "De la théorie à la pratique, du discours religieux et spirituel à la vie quotidienne". The day will be held at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (hybrid format).

Daniel Perret

Daniel Perret is on a post-excavation mission in Sarawak from 1 to 5 April with the Sarawak Museum Department.

Legend: Photo of the previous post-excavation mission in February-March 2024 (© Daniel Perret).

Christophe Pottier

On Thursday 4 April, Christophe Pottier gives a presentation entitled "L'hydraulique du Grand Angkor" at the international colloquium La gestion de l'eau dans les civilisations de l'Asie organised by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, the Société asiatique, the Collège de France and the Académie de l'Eau.

On 25 April, Christophe Pottier will be giving a presentation entitled "Au-delà des temples et des rois d'Angkor: histoire datée et dater l'histoire" at the colloquium Les Temps du Monde - Modélisation des âges, chronologie et archéométrie to be held from 24 to 26 April at the EHESS (Centre de Colloques - Campus Condorcet) to mark the end of the ANR Meryt project.

Catherine Scheer

From 24 to 26 April, Catherine Scheer will be in Marseille for the conference Demandes de justice et traitement des injustices socio-spatiales et environnementales dans les pays du Sud organised by William's Daré, Stéphen Huard, Philippe Lavigne Delville, Eric Léonard and Tania Murray Li. She will be presenting a paper entitled "Des bulldozers brûlés au tribunal de Nanterre : Parcours de paysans bunongs du Cambodge en quête de justice".

On 30 April, she will be taking part in the History and memory seminar co-organised by Pierre Petit, Lisa Richaud and Vanessa de Frangville with a presentation entitled "From murderer to hero: memory politics in the highlands of Cambodia".

Franciscus Verellen

Franciscus Verellen, Director of Studies Emeritus at the EFEO and Vice-President of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and visiting professor at Princeton University, will be giving a series of research seminars on the texts of the Taoist Canon in April and May 2024. He will also be giving two public lectures, one at Harvard University on the military and political actions of General Gao Pian at the end of the Tang period (618-907), and the other at Princeton University on the collapse of the Tang dynasty as witnessed by the Taoist master Du Guangting (850-933).

Lectures

Éric Bourdonneau

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

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

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)

Véronique Degroot

- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Introduction à l'histoire de l'art et à l'archéologie de l'Indonésie occidentale: protohistoire et période hindo-bouddhique

Hugo David

- License 3 Seminar in Indian Studies, "Dramatic Texts 1 and 2" (O5IS413/06IS414), Université Paris-3 "Sorbonne Nouvelle"

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Philosophie et exégèse dans le monde indien: Śālikanātha et Bhartṛhari sur les universaux

Luca Gabbiani

- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire sociale, économique et institutionnelle de la Chine moderne (XVe-XXe siècle)

Benoît Jacquet

- Master 2 seminar, Suivi du projet de PFE "Paysages : architectures, villes et territoires en transition", École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette

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

- Master 1 seminar, Une histoire de la construction en bois au Japon, at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette

- Master 1 seminar, Pratiques constructives du projet architectural, 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, Bouddhisme et civilisation japonaise : Les Masques du démon : bouddhisme, shamanisme et religion vernaculaire dans le département d'Akita

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Bouddhisme et civilisation japonaise : Le Chant du cœur de Yanagi Muneyoshi

Costantino Moretti

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

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

Hélène Njoto

- EHESS 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 11 April, Hélène Njoto will lead the seminar. Chander Shekhar (University of Delhi - EHESS) presents "The Chahar Gulshan of Rai Chaturman Kaysth (18th century). Continuity of Cultural and Historical recordings" and Adrian Vickers (Sydney University) presents "A missing link in Javanese-Balinese cultural history?"

Martin Nogueira Ramos

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Histoire du christianisme japonais (XVIe-XIXe s.)

Christophe Pottier

- Master's seminar at Sorbonne University, Archaeology in the Far East

Catherine Scheer

- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Faire de la recherche sur le terrain : contraintes, contournements, engagements en Asie du Sud-Est

On 4 April Victoria Kumala Sakti (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) presents "Rethinking "Vulnerability" : The Ethics and Poetics of Research with Older Displaced Persons in Indonesia"

- EHESS seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Anthropologie comparée de l’Asie du Sud-Est. Marges et pouvoirs locaux : ethnographies et histoire régionale

On 4 April, from 2pm to 4pm, Simon Rowedder (University of Passau) presents "Towards an Ethnography of 'Smallness' - The Case of Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos", followed by a workshop from 4pm to 5pm led by Jade Thavixay (M2 EHESS) on "Retour de terrain d’une ville du Nord Laos à la frontière avec la Chine".

Charlotte Schmid

- EPHE seminar in the framework of the Master's degree in Asian Studies, Épigraphie et iconographie du monde indien

Publications

Arts Asiatiques 78 (2023)

Arts Asiatiques 78 (2023), École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris, 2023, 144 pages.

Articles :

- Ashwini Lakshminarayanan, Towards Investigating the Representation of Gandhāran Female Donors

- Yamabe Nobuyoshi & Zhao Li, A Reexamination of Paintings and Inscriptions on the Rear Wall of Qumtura Cave 75 through Digital Restoration in Comparison with Other Relevant Paintings

- Alice Bianchi, A Case of Mistaken Identity: An Ink Chrysanthemums Painting Attributed to Xiang Shengmo (1597–1658) and its Historical Significance

Notes :

- Sophie Biard : Le(s) Roi(s) lépreux : nouveaux éléments d’analyse

- Claire Déléry & Roberto Gardellin, Un nouveau chef-d’œuvre pour la collection de porcelaines Yuan du musée Guimet

All EFEO publications are available on the publications website.

Publications website

Researchers' publications

Alain Arrault, "Recovering Memory by Cumulating Calendars: Festivities at Dunhuang in Medieval China (9th–10th Centuries)", in Anke Walter, éd., The temporality of Festivals. Approaches to Festive Time in Ancient Babylon, Greece, Rome, and Medieval China, Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2024, pages 59-91.

The temporality of Festivals. Approaches to Festive Time in Ancient Babylon, Greece, Rome, and Medieval China

Hugo David, "Contre l’hypothèse d’un Dieu Créateur. Kumārila Bhaṭṭa. Ślokavārttika, Glose Versifiée [sur le Commentaire de Śabarasvāmin] (Saṃbandhākṣepaparihāravāda st. 41-117)", dans Textes Clés de Philosophie Indienne. Illusion, Réalité, Ordre du Monde et Libération, textes réunis par M. Ballanfat, Paris, Vrin, 2024, pages 273-313.

Clés de Philosophie Indienne. Illusion, Réalité, Ordre du Monde et Libération

Caricatures en extrême-Orient, Origines, rencontres, métissages, sous la direction de Laurent Baridon et Marie Laureillard, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, Hémisphères, 2024 :

- Frédéric Girard, "Peintures drolatiques d’animaux", pages 29-43.

- François Lachaud, "L'Ours blanc et le diable rouge : Kobayashi Kiyochika (1843-1915) ou la guerre en caricatures", pages 135-154.

Caricatures en extrême-Orient, Origines, rencontres, métissages

Research Services

Recipients of allocation on mission on January

- Enzo Labetoulle is in Beijing for a study on "Tchouang-tseu : une éthique paradoxale de la spontanéité"

- Maxime Ghazarian is in Vietnam for a study on "L’évolution des relations entre l’Europe communautaire et le Việt Nam, 1973-1996"

- Fansuri Hamzah is in Indonesia for a study on the "Identity and Piety: Hijrah Movement among Urban Muslims in Contemporary Indonesia"

- Alice Lesté-Lasserre is in Kyoto for a study on the "Ethnographie des femmes fugeki 巫覡 spécialistes des oracles du Mont Ikoma (Japon)"

- Le Thuy Tien Nguyen is in Vietnam for a study on "La biographie de Giai Minh – Nguyễn Kim Muôn (1892-1946) : Ecrits et Oeuvres d’un bonze moderniste"

- Arielle Noy-Gsell is in Taipei for a study on "Retour d'objet et mise en réseau de biens. Réciprocités négociées entre musées d'ethnologie et communautés autochtones à Taiwan"

- Soukphasone Phimmasenh is in Laos for a study on "l’évaluation actualisée des vestiges de la Ville Ancienne : prospections actuelles et comparaison avec les données des années 1990"

- Saputra Rangga Eka is in Jakarta for a study on "The Hadhrami-Sayyids after the Independence of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore: Dynamics of socio-economical adaptation and the question of identity"

Staff and service news

Library

The library is closed following major water damage.

Exhibition "The Art of Ikat: A Cambodian Renaissance"

The library has loaned facsimiles of archives held at the EFEO Paris for the exhibition "The Art of Ikat: A Cambodian Renaissance," which runs until May 31, 2024, at the Royal Library of Denmark - Copenhagen University Library Søndre Campus.

These three documents relate to a 1949 exhibition at the Albert Sarraut Museum in Phnom Penh, devoted to Cambodian fabrics and weaving implements. These include an invitation card, an article on the front page of No. 246 of the newspaper La Liberté and a list of the names of the fabrics on display: "pidan", "hol" and "charabat" sampots, and "kramar chboch" scarves.

Find out more in our archive inventories:
http://calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20211214151234344285
https://archives.efeo.fr/index.php/aas-j-4-1-5

Exhibition "The Art of Ikat: A Cambodian Renaissance", Royal Library of Denmark - Copenhagen University Library Søndre Campus, from 22 February 2024 to 31 May 2024.

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The photographic exhibition Le Prince Damrong Rajanubhab et George Cœdès. Collaboration et regards croisés sur l'histoire du royaume de Siam will be on display at the EFEO (1st floor) from April 22 to June 30. It is being held in conjunction with the symposium of the same name to be held at the INaLCO foundation (2 rue de Lille, Paris 75007) on May 15, 2024.

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Of particular note

"Étude des bas-reliefs du temple de Ta Prohm Kel"

Discover Phoeung Dara's talk on the "Étude des bas-reliefs du temple de Ta Prohm Kel" (in Khmer, with French subtitles) given at the conference Le centre EFEO de Siem Reap: recherche et formation. Les projets partenaires, held on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the reopening of the Siem Reap EFEO Center (1992-2022) on December 13, 2022.

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"Archaeological mapping"

Watch the short video "Archaeological mapping" (in French, with English subtitles) in memory of Damian Evans (1975-2023), based on the interview he gave for the EFEO's 120th anniversary webdocumentary in 2022.

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Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'Étranger

Call for applications for 4 doctoral contracts 2024-2027

As part of the support provided to international cooperation actions, the Ministry of Higher Education, Research (MESR) and the Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'étranger (EFE) are pleased to announce the opening of the call for applications for doctoral contracts of the EFE Réseau.

This year, four doctoral contracts are open, supported by the École française d'Athènes, the École française de Rome, the Institut français d'Archéologie orientale du Caire and the Casa de Velázquez (École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques).

Applications should be sent directly to the EFE concerned, in the form of a pdf document including
- A thesis proposal of no more than five pages;
- the CV of the candidate proposed to undertake the research;
- a letter of introduction from the prospective thesis director(s);
- the opinion of the Director of the Doctoral School.

The application documents can be sent until May 5 2024, according to the procedures of each EFE.

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