Everything about France on this web site

13/08/2024

Humans in deserts, Deserts Exhibition

In preparation: exhibition in Paris, from spring 2025
13/08/2024

Humans in the Deserts

Ed. (in French) part III of a collective work: Deserts, Living in Extreme Environments, 2024
04/12/2023

Learning the senses, learning through the senses: Anthropology of sensory perceptions

Edited Book (in French) Vincent Battesti & Joël Candau (eds.), 2023, Paris, Éditions Pétra, 598 p.
01/11/2023

Job offer at the CNRS: Technician for heritage collections at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle

Position starting: February 1, 2024. Application deadline: Nov. 23, 2023.
17/06/2023

Time to refine the geography of biodiversity hotspots by integrating molecular data: The Mediterranean Basin as a case study

Art. in English. New ! in Biological Conservation.
25/05/2023

First public meeting of the CastaCorse project

The chestnut groves of Corsica: Anthropology, Ecology and History
01/12/2022

ESPAR cluster (Egypt, Sudan and Arabian Peninsula), French Ministry of Foreign Affairs/CNRS

Member of the Scientific and Strategic Council of the ESPAR Cluster
01/10/2022

Ethnoecology of the chestnut tree in Corsica, Mediterranean arboriculture in the light of Anthropology, Ecology and History

PhD thesis in progress (Oct. 2022-Sept. 2025): Doria Bellache
01/09/2022

CBNC — Conservatoire botanique national de Corse

Member of the Scientific Council of the National Botanical Conservatory of Corsica
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 (…)
21/04/2022

The body put to the cosmic test (The fleshly sociology of manned space flight)

Lecture (in French) given with sociologist Julie Patarin-Jossec and astronaut Jean-François Clervoy as part of the Histoire des sens lecture (…)
03/04/2022

{Nec pluribus impar}, The idiosyncratic sensory of an extraterrestrial anthropology. Research residency in weightlessness at the “Observatoire de l’Espace”

Art. in French (2022). First hot report on a double fieldwork in Novespace with the CNES Observatoire de l’Espace.
20/03/2022

Fieldwork at Novespace | Weightlessness Flight

March 2022: fieldwork for an Extraterrestrial Anthropology with the CNES Space Observatory
01/03/2022

Cycle of conferences “History of the senses” at the Museum

Scientific organization of a cycle de conferences with Léo Mariani, organized by Jeanne-Marie Manaranche, at the Muséum national d’histoire (…)
31/01/2022

The oasis model across the Sahara and the Near East

Lecture (in French) given for the UTL conferences, Université du temps-libre, of Marennes-Oléron, January 31th 2022, Saint-Pierre d’Oléron, île (…)
20/10/2021

Cultivate your anthropology in the field of an enhanced ethnoecology

HDR | Habilitation à diriger des recherches - Paris, 2021.
20/10/2021

Cultivate your anthropology in the field of an enhanced ethnoecology

HDR | Habilitation à diriger des recherches - Paris, 2021.
01/12/2020

Cosmic Utopia | Pronaos

Experiment in progress.
27/11/2020

“A denaturing orchard”: Ethnoecological approach of the chestnut groves of the Orezza valley (Castagniccia, Corsica)

Master thesis 2nd year, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, by Doria Bellache (dir. Vincent Battesti)
03/11/2020

LabEx DRIIHM

Member of the Scientific Committee of the LabEx DRIIHM
26/10/2020

Insularity Workshop WG2 in Corsica/Cargese

Co-organizer of the Insularity Workshop from 26th to 31st October 2020 at IESC (Cargese) in Corsica.
22/10/2019

Dates

Chap. (in French) for the exhibition catalogue Christophe Lavelle & Marie Merlin (dirs), Je mange donc je suis. Petit dictionnaire curieux de (…)
05/07/2019

Sound perception in Cairo: the city through the lens of a Sonic Ecology

Lecture (in French) with Nicolas Puig given as part of the Third “Congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans”, July 5th 2019, (…)
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).
13/05/2019

E.T. Anthropology: Research residence in zero-gravity at the CNES Space Observatory

For an extraterrestrial anthropology: sensorialities and cosmos. On board the Airbus A310 Zero-G.
19/10/2018

The Revue d’ethnoécologie (Journal)

International peer-reviewed journal. The Revue d’ethnoécologie journal is the last formula of a long direct line (almost a century!) of titles, (…)
25/02/2018

Creation of the CIRC: Centre international de recherches sur la Castagniccia

Finally, let’s get down to business.
03/06/2017

Concert “A night in Cairo”: the Egyptian master Ahmed Wahdan in Paris

Iftar evening/party on Saturday, June 10 at the Institute of Islamic Cultures (ICI), 19 Léon Street (18th Arr.) at 10:30 pm, free admission.
16/02/2017

Corps sonores (4/4) : Acoustiques urbaines : les sons de la société

Participation in the live radio broadcast “Culture Monde” on France Culture, Feb. 16th 2017, Maison de la Radio (Paris, France)
24/12/2016

Urban Ambiances — صوت القاهرة

The Voice/Sound of Cairo: Mics in the Ears
18/11/2016

Course « Anthropology of Sensory Perceptions » [2015-2018]

Anthropology course for the master EDTS at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris
22/06/2016

Les métiers du Muséum: Ethnoécologue

The Muséum’s jobs: Ethnoecologist Lecture (in French) given for the meetings “Les métiers du Muséum” at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, (…)
27/01/2016

Seminar/ talks of research 2016 Anthropologie des perceptions sensorielles: Apprendre

Anthropology of sensory perceptions: to learn Organizer of the seminar/talks of research 2016: To learn
23/12/2015

Research seminar 2016-2018 Anthropologie des perceptions sensorielles

Anthropology of sensory perceptions Organizer of the research seminar 2016, 2017, and 2018
17/10/2015

Opening of the new Musée de l’Homme, in Paris

My laboratory (UMR 7206 Éco-anthropologie) moved between late 2014 and early 2015 from the Jardin des Plantes (Botanical Garden) to the Musée de (…)
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 (…)
26/05/2015

Closure days of the seminar “Les révolutions en Égypte et en Tunisie; et si on parlait d’autres choses?”

Revolution in Egypt and Tunisia: let’s just talk about something else? Co-organizer of a two-days conference for the Closure of the Seminar “Les (…)
08/10/2014

Seminar « Les révolutions en Égypte et en Tunisie ; et si on parlait d’autres choses ? »

Revolution in Egypt and Tunisia: let’s just talk about something else? Co-organizer of the seminar semimonthly during the academic year 2014-2015, (…)
03/02/2013

Milson research team

Formally since 2012. MILSON is a research team dedicated to the discussion of the problematics and methods used in different disciplines (…)
03/02/2013

GDR 3353 Mosaïque

Since 2009. Research group closed at the end of 2017. Member of the GDR 3353 Mosaïque. The GDR Mosaïque “Agroecosystems, Agrobiodiversity, and (…)
16/02/2012

Mics in the ears: how to ask people in Cairo to talk about their sound universes

Lecture given at the international workshop held by the collective MILSON: “For an Anthropology of Sound Milieux” (February 16th and 17th, 2012, (…)
04/12/2011

Symposium “Landscape evolutions, domestication and agrodiversity”

Part of the organization committee of the Symposium “Landscape evolutions, domestication and agrodiversity”, December 6th, 2011, Paris
24/09/2011

1st Afea Congress: Knowledge, No/Our Limit

Organization Committee of the 1st Afea Congress (Association française d’ethnologie et d’anthropologie), on the issue “Knowledge, No/Our Limit” (…)
29/03/2011

Natural and cultural landscapes, changes and preservation

Participation (in French) in the survey on Causses and Cévennes region application as part of World Heritage List of Cultural and natural heritage.
03/05/2010

Course “Anthropology of Sensory Perceptions” [2009-2015]

Anthropology course for the master EDTS at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris
11/10/2009

Recruited at the CNRS

Research officer 1st class, section 38 (ethnology/anthropology).
28/12/2008

General assembly of the new federative association of anthropology (in France)

It was long in coming, many spokes put in the (few) wheels of the project, but it happens ...
05/06/2008

CLETAF

Comité de liaison et de travail de l’anthropologie en France Liaison and work committee of anthropology in France
25/05/2008

Presentation of my Research project

Research Project: Production of natures in North Africa and the Middle East. The oasis societies as laboratory, Marseille and Paris, March and May (…)
21/05/2008

Opening of the exhibition Berbères, de rives en rêves (Berbers, from shores to dreams)

Wednesday, May 21st at 5 pm, Abbey of Daoulas
17/11/2007

Inauguration of the exhibition Alive Natures: in the Children’s eyes

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007. 7 pm. Musée de l’Homme • Palais de Chaillot, Paris.
11/05/2007

Fieldworks and ethnology

All the research fieldworks on the zone of North Africa (the Maghreb) and the Middle East: fieldworks in oasis and urban fieldworks. On a (…)
07/12/2006

Moonlighter: AssisesEthno.org

Member of the Organization Comitee of the Assises de l’ethnologie et de l’anthropologie en France (Congress of the Ethnology and Anthropology in (…)
08/01/2006

Trees

18/02/2005

The professional experiences

(the most valorizating, of course).
02/07/2004

Natures in the city, Dreams, claims and practices: For a compared project from Cairo

Lecture given at the Conference AFEMAM, Lyon, July 2nd-4th, 2004.
09/05/2004

Being Muslim in Cairo, Tehran, Istanbul, Dakar and Paris

Being Muslim in Cairo, Tehran, Istanbul, Dakar and Paris • Sounds of public spaces in Cairo. Participation to the exhibition “Being Muslim in (…)
15/04/2003

Place names of the land registry of Nocario (Haute-Corse), An ethnotoponymic approach

Lecture given at the CTHS Congress, April 15th, 2003, Bastia (France)
30/11/2002

EHESS - seminar Identification de l’outillage agricole

Since 2003 Correspondent in the seminar of François Sigaut « Identification de l’outillage agricole : construction d’un système informatisé (…)
30/11/2001

Société des africanistes

since 2002 Member of the Société des africanistes (Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France).
30/11/2000

ENSP - École nationale supérieure du paysage de Versailles

since 2001 Associated researcher in the team « Outils et processus d’intervention sur le paysage », ENSP - École nationale supérieure du (…)
30/11/1998

MNHN - Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle

since 2009 CNRS Researcher in the lab. Éco-anthropologie [UMR 7206 CNRS/MNHN/Univ. de Paris), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle on the site (…)
10/12/1998

Was Rimbaud An Economist?

Art. review of L’Horreur Économique for d.pict, 1998.
30/11/1995

Relations to the desert of the monotheistic religions

DEA (Master) thesis (Social Sciences) - Paris, 1993.
30/11/1995

An experimental charcoal burner’s clearing, Methodology of anthracology on charcoal burner’s clearing for an approach of management of the forest environment in Languedoc [South France]

Master’s thesis (Biology of the organizations and populations) - Montpellier, 1992.