Michael Langlois

After years of silence, Semitica is back!

Semitica was created in 1948 by the Intitute of Semitic Studies of the University of Paris, with a board including R. Blachère, A. Dupont-Sommer, Ch. F. Jean, J. Nougayrol, and Ch. Virolleaud, its chairman. In 1973, the Institute was transferred to the College of France; Semitica was regularly published until the 2000s, when it slowed down.
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On June 3, 2010, I received the “Habilitation to Supervise Research” Degree, which enables me — for example — to direct Doctoral (PhD) students.
During the public defence, I presented new unpublished studies in philology, epigraphy, and textual history of Joshua 10, prepared under the supervision of Thomas Römer, Professor at the College of France.

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The Institute of Near Eastern Studies of the College of France and our CNRS team (UMR 7192) organize, with the collaboration of the Asiatic Society, a meeting with the following theme:

Fault and Punishment in Oriental Civilizations

This meeting will take place on June 21-22, 2010 at the College of France. Here is the full program: Read the rest of this entry »

Jean-Marie Durand, Professor at the College of France (Assyriology chair), has just published a volume on clothes and textiles in the akkadian texts of Mari. This work is part of the Paris Babylonian Dictionary Project (Volume 1), and I was pleased to help with technical and IT matters (see p. 8).

Durand, Jean-Marie. La nomenclature des habits et des textiles dans les textes de Mari. Archives Royales de Mari XXX. Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2009, 604 p.

I was interviewed by French Magazine Littéraire (in English: “Literature Magazine”) in its June 2009 issue (number 487). You can read here the “Work in progress” column (p. 21) written by Lauren Malka:

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