Momoko Seto, director for the CNRS

Portrait de Momoko Seto, lauréate de la Médaille de Bronze du CNRS 2021, spécialiste de vidéos expérimentales, mêlant prise de vue réelle, animation (images en time-lapse) et photographie macro, au Centre de recherche sur les arts et le langage (Cral). " J'ai rejoint le CNRS en 2006 dans le Réseau Asie-Imasie, pour lequel j'ai réalisé vingt portraits de scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales en Asie-Pacifique. En 2012, j'ai intégré le Cral afin d'utiliser le médium…

"Words from Asia and the Pacific" is a series of interviews conducted by Jean-François Sabouret, Director of the Asie-Imasie Network (CNRS), with humanities researchers and experts on Asia and the Pacific. Lê Thành Kôi, born in Hanoi in 1923, is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Education and Education and Development at the Sorbonne. After a career as research director and lecturer, he published "Le VietNam, histoire et civilisation" (Éditions de Minuit, 1955). In 1963, he began an…

Founded in 1983 in the wake of Roland Barthes, the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le langage (CRAL) at the CNRS-EHESS (CNRS school of higher studies in social sciences) is dedicated to the study of arts, language and aesthetics. The unit brings together literary scholars, art historians, musicologists, philosophers, linguists, sociologists of art and literature. Featuring interviews with several prominent members the centre over its long history, this documentary provides an original…

For the first time, this film tells the story of the great adventure of lacquer, the eminent technique that has existed in Asia for over 9,000 years. From lacquer trees to synthetic lacquer, Japanese Wajima bowls to mass-produced furniture in China, and polished lacquer paintings in Vietnam, craftsmen, artists and scientists illustrate the different faces of these objects which have become works of art.

"Words from Asia and the Pacific" is a series of interviews conducted by Jean-François Sabouret, Director of the Asie-Imasie Network (CNRS), with humanities researchers and experts on Asia and the Pacific. Bruno Dagens, who was born on 19 February 1935 in Nijmegen in the Netherlands, is a historian, archaeologist and Sanskritist. He spent his childhood in North Africa and his youth in Strasbourg. He was introduced to archaeology and research by Daniel Schlumberger during excavations at…

"Words from Asia and the Pacific" is a series of interviews conducted by Jean-François Sabouret, Director of the Asie-Imasie Network (CNRS), with humanities researchers and experts on Asia and the Pacific. Christian Huetz de Lemps is a French geographer who was born on 12 May 1938 in Charenton-le-Pont (94). While being a top-level sportsman, he continued his geography studies. In 1961, he was a member of the French volleyball team and that same year raked second at the "agrégation"…

"Words from Asia and the Pacific" is a series of interviews conducted by Jean-François Sabouret, Director of the Asie-Imasie Network (CNRS), with humanities researchers and experts on Asia and the Pacific. Jean-Marc Regnault was born in 1944 in Lille to a French father and a Czech mother. From the age of 18 to 25, he worked as a schoolteacher and then resumed his studies in history. In 1974, he obtained his agrégation and became a history and geography teacher in secondary education. He then…

"Words from Asia and the Pacific" is a series of interviews conducted by Jean-François Sabouret, Director of the Asie-Imasie Network (CNRS), with humanities researchers and experts on Asia and the Pacific. Maurice Godelier is a French anthropologist who was born on February 28, 1934 in Cambrai in northern France. A philosopher by training, he very quickly became interested in economics. He entered the EPHE as works supervisor to Fernand Braudel, then became assistant professor to Claude…

The Words from Asia and the Pacific series is made up of interviews conducted by Jean-François Sabouret, Director of the Réseau Asie - Imasie (CNRS), with humanities researchers, experts on Asia and the Pacific. Jacques Gernet is a French sinologist who was born born on 22 December 1921 in Algiers, Algeria. He was influenced by his father, a Hellenist and anthropologist, who was influenced by the sociological tradition of Durkheim. Between November 1942 and September 1945, he had to…

"Words from Asia and the Pacific" is a series of interviews conducted by Jean-François Sabouret, Director of the Asie-Imasie Network (CNRS), with humanities researchers and experts on Asia and the Pacific. Georges Condominas is a French anthropologist who was born in Haiphong, Vietnam in 1921. He carried out a major ethnographic work of reference on the ethnic groups of the Indochinese highlands, with photos and sketches. In 1955, he graduated from the EPHE for his thesis published in…

"Words from Asia and the Pacific" is a series of interviews conducted by Jean-François Sabouret, Director of the Asie-Imasie Network (CNRS), with humanities researchers and experts on Asia and the Pacific. Claudine Salmon was born in 1938 in Bruyères, in the Vosges. In 1962, she graduated in Chinese from the School of Oriental Languages. At the same time, she studied law (BA in 1963), literature (BA in 1964) and graduated from EHESS, 6th section, in 1969. Wife of Denys Lombard ("Le carrefour…

"Words from Asia and the Pacific" is a series of interviews conducted by Jean-François Sabouret, Director of the Asie-Imasie Network (CNRS), with humanities researchers and experts on Asia and the Pacific. Gérard Fussman, who was born on May 17, 1940 in Lens (Pas-de-Calais), is a French Indianist. An admirer of Georges Dumézil's writings, he began learning Sanskrit in his first year at the ENS, even as he intended to join the French School at Athens. He graduated as an agrégé in Classics…

"Words from Asia and the Pacific" is a series of interviews conducted by Jean-François Sabouret, Director of the Asie-Imasie Network (CNRS), with humanities researchers and experts on Asia and the Pacific. André Lévy was born in 1925 in Tientsin(now Tianjin ), China. His interest in this country became apparent during his primary studies at the Tientsin Municipal School. After obtaining his baccalaureate in philosophy and letters during the troubled time of the German occupation of France…