Institut des Civilisations - Salle Françoise Héritier
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Symposium organized by EPHE - PSL at Collège de France and Institut d'études avancées de Paris.

  • November 19, 2025: Institute of Civilizations - Collège de France - 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75005 Paris (Salle Françoise Héritier)
  • November 20, 2025: Institut d'études avancées de Paris - 17 quai d'Anjou, 75004 Paris (Salle des Gardes) - See the program on the IEA de Paris website

Scientific Committee: Cécile Bernal-Beauger (EPHE - PSL), Jean-Luc Fournet (Collège de France, EPHE - PSL), Cécile Reynaud (EPHE - PSL)

Under the direction of Cécile Bernal-Beauger, who is responsible for the archives of the École Pratique des Hautes Études within the Research Department, the important "Inventaire des archives de la recherche" has recently been published. It lists and indicates all EPHE archives - known up to now - that have been processed, transferred or deposited by the institution with archives or libraries.

The aim of this inventory is to facilitate and encourage the widest possible research: it indicates the main producers (researchers, teacher-researchers, collaborators, scholars) as well as the places of research production (research libraries, laboratories, research centers and organizations, institutes and learned societies) mentioned within the fonds.

These two days, which will bring together archive professionals, library professionals and researchers from a wide range of disciplines, in the humanities as well as in the life and earth sciences, will study these collections in all their diversity, in order to provide a broad perspective on the institutional and intellectual history of the École, the researchers and learned personalities who make it shine, and its libraries, laboratories, institutes and research organizations.

Registration required.

Program for November 19 at the Collège de France

9:00 Welcome coffee

9:30 Welcome and general presentation of the symposium
Michel Hochmann (President, EPHE - PSL), Cécile Reynaud (Vice-President Research, EPHE - PSL), Jean-Luc Fournet (Collège de France; UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, EPHE - PSL)

10 a.m. "L'inventaire des archives de l'École pratique des hautes études: un outil au service de la recherche" (The inventory of the archives of the École pratique des hautes études: a tool for research)
Cécile Bernal-Beauger (Archives Department, EPHE - PSL ; UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée) and Natacha Rodine (Archives Department, EPHE - PSL). Introduction to the history of the archives by Jérôme Billaud (Direction de la Recherche et des Études Doctorales, EPHE - PSL).

10:30 a.m. "Archiving research: institutions and researchers at the crossroads of scientific, legal and epistemological issues"
Cyprien Henry (Archives and Cultural Heritage Mission, MESR)

11 a.m. Break

Part one. - Research archives: sources of cooperation between scientific and technical professions

11:30 a.m. "The digitization project 'L'EPHE dans la recherche française pendant le premier siècle de son existence (1868-1968)': issues and challenges for the EPHE and the Archives nationales"
Anne Rohfritsch (Département de l'Éducation, de la Culture et des Affaires sociales / Direction des Fonds - Archives nationales), Alexis Douchin (Département des archives privées / Direction des fonds - Archives Nationales), Cécile Bernal-Beauger (Pôle Archives, EPHE - PSL ; UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée), Natacha Rodine (Pôle Archives, EPHE - PSL)

12pm "Sharing, hybridization and heuristics: EPHE documentary collections on deposit at the Humathèque Condorcet"
Clément Oury (Direction Humathèque - Campus Condorcet), Julie Lauvernier (Département des Ressources et Données, Humathèque - Campus Condorcet), Timothée Bonnet (Service Archives, Humathèque - Campus Condorcet)

12:30 ""Politics has a lot to do with it": Marcel Cohen and Marcel Mauss, between EPHE and Collège de France"
Christophe Labaune and Valentin Noël (Archives Department - Collège de France)

1 p.m. Lunch break

Part two. - Identifying, describing and exploiting research archives

2pm "Manuscripts from the Indian and Central Asian world: archives of investigative work" Georges-Jean Pinault (GRE)
Georges-Jean Pinault (GREI EA 2120, EPHE - PSL), Jérôme Petit (Département des Manuscrits, Bibliothèque nationale de France ; GREI EA 2120, EPHE - PSL)

2:30 pm "Rolf Stein (1911-1999) and Tibetan studies at the École pratique des hautes études: the photo library of the Centre de Documentation sur l'Aire Tibétaine (CDAT)"
Marta Sernesi (CRCAO - Équipe TBACT, EPHE - PSL), Emanuela Garatti (CRCAO, EPHE - PSL)

15h "Les fonds d'indianistes Jules Bloch et Colette Caillat: histoire, présentation et valorisation" (The Jules Bloch and Colette Caillat collections of Indianists: history, presentation and development)
Nalini Balbir (GREI EA 2120, EPHE - PSL), Fabienne Bagnis (GREI EA 2120)

3:30 pm "Projet ANTa (Archives numériques de Tanis): the archives of the Montet Mission at Tanis (Egypt, 1928-1956), a major archaeological documentation collection at the École pratique des hautes études"
François Leclère (AOrOc - UMR 8546 CNRS / ENS / EPHE - PSL)

4 pm Break

4:30 pm "L'étude de l'Iran ancien à l'EPHE au regard du Nachlass de Jean de Menasce (1902-1973)" (The study of ancient Iran at the EPHE in the light of Jean de Menasce'sNachlass (1902-1973))
Samra Azarnouche (CeRMI - UMR 8041, EPHE - PSL) and Farzaneh Zareie (Pôle Développement des collections, AMOMAC team, Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations - BULAC)

5pm "The papyri of the EPHE: a promising heritage collection"
Jean-Luc Fournet (Collège de France, UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée; EPHE - PSL), Jean Gascou (Sorbonne University)

5:30 pm "The archives of the Institut d'Hydrologie et de Climatologie de l'École pratique des hautes études from 1913 to the present day"
Elodie Guigon (UMR METIS 761, EPHE - PSL)

18h "Federating and making visible. The archives of the École pratique des hautes études accessible through a new European portal"
Vassa Kontouma (UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, EPHE - PSL), Aurélie Jouvenel (UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée ; Pôle montage et suivi de projets, EPHE - PSL)