We are excited to welcome visiting scholar Jérémie Schiettecatte from the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University to our campus.
Please RSVP for this lecture here.
Jérémie Schiettecatte is a research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris. His current interests lay in the archaeology and history of the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa from the Bronze Age to the Early Islam. Since 2000, he has been working in Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia. He directed the Saudi-French Archaeological Mission in al-Kharj (Saudi Arabia) from 2011 to 2016, and the French Archaeological Mission in Eastern Tigray (Ethiopia) from 2020 to 2022.
He also directed several research programs, among which “EmOAD – Emergence of the Oases of Arabia Deserta” (Sorbonne University) (2014-16) and “Maparabia — Mapping Ancient Arabia for enhancing knowledge and shifting paradigms” (French National Research Agency, 2018-23). The latter project has resulted in the creation of a digital atlas, gazetteer and dictionary of ancient Arabia.
To learn more about Dr. Schiettecatte’s research project, please join us for the Digital Humanities Library event, “The MapArabia Digital Humanities Project: A Lunch with Visiting Scholar, Jérémie Schiettecatte“ (3/19@12:30 pm).
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of Anthropology.