Siwa oasis - Vincent Battesti

20/05/2025

What Does the Sahara Sound Like from an Oasis? (Siwa, Libyan Desert, Egypt)

Lecture (in French, with video 🍿) given as part of the “Natures sonores” lecture series and the 2025 Fête de la Nature, at the Jardin des Plantes, (…)

13/10/2023

Perceptions and practices of the environment, oasis and desert contrasts (Sahara and Arabia)

Art. in French. submitted to… Parcours anthropologiques journal.

23/06/2022

Perceptions and practices of its environment, contrasted in the oases and in the desert (Sahara, Arabia)

Lecture (in French/English) given for the workshop “The contour of the senses. Subjectivities, representations and sensitive experience of (…)

12/02/2021

Thinking oasis history from the present: date palm agrobiodiversity and Saharan insularities

Lecture (in French) given for the research seminar “Saharan worlds: sources, spaces, societies (8th-19th century)”, February 12th 2021, IISMM, (…)

05/11/2020

The Mediterranean oases

Art. [in French] On the website of INSU (Institut national des sciences de l’Univers, CNRS), Les oasis méditerranéennes, Nov. 5, 2020

02/09/2020

On the necessity of combining ethnobotany and genetics to assess agrobiodiversity and its evolution in crops: a case study on date palms ({Phoenix dactylifera} L.) in Siwa Oasis, Egypt

Art. (in English): New: published Sept. 2020 Muriel Gros-Balthazard* & Vincent Battesti* et al.. published in Evolutionary Applications (…)

02/08/2020

Tomatoes in the heart of the Sahara

Interview (in French) by Christel Trinquier, Ouest-France, 2 August 2020.

22/10/2019

A sound from Siwa in Egypt - with RFI

Sound recorded in the oasis of Siwa (Egypt) broadcast on RFI “Écouter le monde”: Correspondances sonores (1/5)

03/06/2019

Domestication of date palms in Siwa oasis and across the Middle East and North Africa: articulate the scales of ethnography and domestication over the long term

Poster (in English) made for the International Symposium Harlan III, from June 3rd to 7th 2019, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier (France).

10/10/2018

What is the use of a geneticist to an anthropologist, and vice versa: date palms in the Sahara

Lecture (in French) given for the Master conference « Agrobiodiversité » (AE/AST - UE 39 M2, coord. by Serge Bahuchet and François Léger), October (…)

22/09/2018

Date palms of the Siwa oasis and the Saharan island network: Status of tested hypotheses

Lecture (in French) given during the WG2 Insularities workshop (BioDivMeX), on 22 September 2018 in the Kerkennah Islands (Tunisia).

20/06/2018

Date palm agrobiodiversity (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in Siwa oasis, Egypt: combining ethnography, morphometry, and genetics

Art. (in English): Vincent Battesti* & Muriel Gros-Balthazard*, Clémence Ogéron, Sarah Ivorra, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Claire Newton, 2018 — « (…)

04/05/2018

Exploring the Bettina Leopoldo collection on Siwa

Page in progress. With the complicity of Mrs Floriane Morin, Curator of the MEG Africa Department, in 2018 I explore the collection of Bettina (…)

07/11/2017

What are the palm trees of the Siwa oasis? Dialogue local and learned responses (morphometry, anthropology, and genetics)

Lecture given (in French) with Muriel Gros-Balthazard as part of the GDR Mosaïque Closing Days, on 7 November 2017, 02:30 pm-3:00 pm, Montpellier (…)

13/07/2017

The Discovery of Wild Date Palms in Oman Reveals a Complex Domestication History Involving Centers in the Middle East and Africa

Art. (in English), Gros-Balthazard, Muriel, et al., 2017 — « The Discovery of Wild Date Palms in Oman Reveals a Complex Domestication History (…)

19/01/2017

Questions raised in ethnoecology? Oasis illustrations

Lecture (in French) given for the seminar “Anthropologie générale — À l’interface des sciences sociales et des sciences naturelles” coord. by (…)

23/01/2016

Video/Film Deposits on Internet Archive

So far, mainly focused music/religious and on Siwa Oasis.

02/10/2015

BioDivMeX Prospective Workshop/ Atelier de prospective BioDivMeX

Conf. (in French & English), participation to the BioDivMeX Prospective Workshop at the Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP), from Sept. 29th (…)

06/04/2015

Coll. vbat of objects from the Siwa Oasis

Objects: collection vbat — Vincent Battesti, CNRS-Musée de l’Homme Photographies: Jean-Christophe Domenech, Musée de l’Homme, Muséum national (…)

06/01/2015

Categorization of the date palm agrobiodiversity in the oasis of Siwa (Libyan Desert, Egypt): the olive tree categorization should it or can it be similar?

Lecture (in French) given to the Annual Meeting of the GDR Mosaïque at the Institut des Sciences de la Communication of the CNRS, Jan. 6th 2015, (…)

09/10/2014

Why geneticists make mistakes. Talking about the date palms of Siwa oasis (Libyan desert, Egypt)

Lecture (in French) given for the Transversal Axis seminar « Catégories, constructions et hybridations des savoirs » (Categories, constructions (…)

13/02/2014

To categorize date palms with no gene and embarrassment in Siwa, oasis of the Libyan Desert

Lecture (in French) given to the seminar Ethnobotanique(s): théories et pratiques, Master “Évolution, patrimoine naturel et sociétés” (EDTS), (…)

11/02/2014

Siwa, Oasis of the Libyan Desert: The secret life of the gardens and their palm trees

Lecture (in French) given to Conférences de La Rahla, Amicale des Sahariens, Paris, Feb. 11th 2014, 7pm

07/01/2014

The agrobiodiversity of the Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in Siwa Oasis (Egypt): between what is said, written, and forgotten

Art. (in French) in Revue d’ethnoécologie - vol. 4, 2013, “The Date Palm : Origin and Cultivation in the Middle East and in Egypt” [Siwa #0]

15/03/2013

Saharan Oasis Gardens: The Beautiful as Sensual Contentment and the Landscape from Below

Lecture given for the seminar “Antropological approaches to landscape”, in the course “Anthropology of Nature” of Philippe Descola, at the Collège (…)

17/12/2012

Scans of children drawings from Siwa oasis on their environment

Scans’ Collection in Open Access on MediHal… – RSS feed: https://media.hal.science/rss.php?r... – Web page: https://media.hal.science/index.php..

13/12/2012

The agrobiodiversity of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in Siwa, an oasis of the Libyan Desert: what is said, written and forgotten

Lecture given at the workshop “Ecological and Anthropological Approaches to Agrobiodiversity and Food systems” from December 6th to 7th 2012 at (…)

17/04/2012

Oasis, gardens in the desert

Lecture given for the exhibition “Les territoires de l’eau, irrigation et partage de l’eau en Méditerranée”  from Feb. 7th to July 13th 2012 at (…)

18/01/2011

Thirsty or drowned, the strange destinies of hydraulic societies of North African oases (Jerid oases in Tunisia and Siwa oasis in Egypt)

[bg jaune]Cancelled[/bg jaune] Out of Water: Sustaining Development in Arid Climates, a conference taking place on April 1 & 2, 2011, at the (…)

22/12/2009

From Siwa to Cairo, the making of heritage feeds from the Others’ desire

Article (in French) published in Égypte/Monde arabe n°5-6, 2009: Pratiques du patrimoine en Égypte et au Soudan. Issue edited by Omnia Aboukorah, (…)

23/06/2009

Tourism in oasis, Natural and cultural mirages of an encounter?

Art. (in French) in Cahier d’études africaines (2009, éditions de l’EHESS, Paris) Numéro “Tourismes. La quête de soi par la pratique des autres” (…)

12/02/2009

The reinvention of ruin when you do not appreciate the landscape, and other spatial considerations in the Arab world

Lecture given at the École nationale supérieure du paysage (ENSP) in Versailles (France), February 11st, 2009.

07/08/2008

Earthen architectures. The example of Siwa

Architectures de terre, l’exemple de Siwa Chapter (in French) in the exhibition catalogue “Berbères, de rives en rêves” (2008) at the abbey of (…)

16/05/2008

Berbères, de rives en rêves

• Architectures berbères de terre (Berber earthen architectures). Exhibition “Berbères, de rives en rêves” (Berbers, from shores to dreams) , May (…)

28/11/2007

Living nature: a look of children

• “A Berber oasis, Siwa”/ “The oasis, or the nature in a garden” (Une oasis berbérophone, Siwa/ L’oasis, ou la nature dans un jardin). Author of a (…)

08/10/2007

Gardens of the nature: Berber oasis of Siwa in Egypt

Lecture given at the Musée de l’Homme (Paris) for the exhibition “Natures vivantes”.

29/01/2007

“Why should I go to see from above things I already know from below?”

Article (in French) in the volume 3/3rd serie of Egypte/Monde arabe, 2006. Original title: “Pourquoi j’irais voir d’en haut ce que je connais déjà (…)

04/10/2006

Dwelling with feet of clay, Trials and tribulations of construction materials and techniques in Siwa (Egypt)

Art. (in French) Journal des Africanistes (2006). Original title: De l’habitation aux pieds d’argile, Les vicissitudes des matériaux et techniques (…)

19/07/2006

The space of a nature: Ethnoecology of the oasis of Siwa (Egypt) [temporary title]

Book (in French) in progress…

05/04/2005

Siwi botanical vocabulary: cultivated plants in Siwa

This vocabulary in Jlan n Isiwan (language of Siwan people) is in progress. It presents links between words in French and in Siwi (and in Latin (…)

02/04/2005

“Environment needs clay!”, Evolutions of the habitat in the oasis of Siwa

Lecture given at the Conference Habitat, habitation et urbanisme en Corse et en Méditerranée, Calvi, April 2005.

04/05/2004

Anthropological investigations in Siwa: some data

Lecture given at the Weekly Seminar in the CEDEJ, May 2004, Cairo, Egypt.