News & Events
The Council for British Research frequently sponsors and supports lectures, conferences and other events both in the UK and in the Middle East.
On this page, you will find news from the CBRL and information about
upcoming events, as well as a look back at some previous ones.
News
CBRL-BRISMES Research Network Award
‘The Middle East after the Arab Uprisings: New Directions for Politics, Society and Culture’
The CBRL, in partnership with the British Society for Middle East Studies (BRISMES), has launched a new scheme to support research networks exploring the impact of the Arab uprisings on politics, society and culture in the region. Closing date 27 February 2012.
For full details, click here.
Upcoming UK Events
Crystal Bennett Annual Memorial Lecture
Date and Time:
13 March
2012 at 6 pm,
to be followed by a reception
Venue: Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY
Speaker: Prof Piotr Bienkowski, University of Manchester
Title: Umm al-Biyara
in Petra: Excavating the Iron Age settlement and Nabataean palace, 1960-2012
For more details, please click here.
Past Events
CBRL AGM Lecture
Date and Time: 14 December 2011 following the AGM at 6 pm
Venue: Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY
Speaker: Dr Augusta McMahon,
University of Cambridge
Title: Death and Taxes: Early Urbanism at Tell Brak, Syria
For more details, please click
here.
Joint Lecture with The London Middle East Institute
Date and Time: 28 November 2011 at 7 - 9 pm, lecture to be preceded by a
reception
Venue: SOAS, Khalili Lecture Room, Russell Square, College
Buildings
Speaker: Dr Kay Dickinson, Goldsmiths, University of London
Title: Syrian Cinema, Out of
Time?
Joint Lecture with The Anglo Jordanian Society
Date and Time: 20 October 2011 at 6 pm to be followed by a reception
Venue: The Hampshire School, 15 Manresa Road
Chelsea, London, SW3 6NB
Speaker: Prof Bill
Finlayson,
CBRL Director
Title: The first farmers: 10,000 years ago in Jordan
For more
details, please click
here.
Re-excavating Kenyon's Jerusalem.
A review, fifty years on Cosmology and commerce in the Ancient Near East On the Cusp of the Bronze Age: Ritual landscapes, olive domestication and the rise of urban society Crystal Bennett Memorial Lecture Dispossession and Displacement: Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa. Is the Past Prologue? International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East (ASEMNE) Arab Women Writers in Diaspora: Horizons of Dialogue Intonational Variation in Arabic Crystal Bennett Memorial Lecture
Dr
Kay Prag
Sat 28 May, 14.30 at
Dr David Wengrow
Reader in Comparative Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Thursday, 13 January 2011, 6:00 pm
The Stevenson Lecture Theatre, The Clore Education Centre, The British Museum, London
All welcome. Free admittance. .
Download the poster with more information here.
CBRL Annual General Meeting Lecture
Dr Jaimie Lovell
Director, The Kenyon Institute, CBRL
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
The Institute of Archaeology Lecture Hall, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PYPY
Download the poster with more information here.
7 October 2010
Held at the Institute of Archaeology Lecture Theatre,
University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY
Dr Lindy Crewe: Local traditions in an islandwide context: Excavations at the Early-Middle Bronze Age settlement of Kissonerga-Skalia in
south-western Cyprus
To download the poster from this lecture, click here.
Dr Dawn Chatty (Deputy Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
25 May 2010
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH
The Middle East and North Africa has become both a major refugee producing area as well as host for more than a quarter of the world’s forced migrants.
This lecture will reflect on the earliest wave of forced migrants into region, the Circassians, and ask whether there is anything to be learned from their experiences.
Download full details here.
Paphos, Cyprus
29 April - 1 May 2010
Call for Papers
This international congress aims to highlight recent advances in natural and material science applications to archaeology and cultural heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East, and to provide an international academic forum, hitherto not available, for dissemination of results of current research in these fields in the region.
For further information and the Call for Papers, please click here.
Session Abstract Form
Paper Abstract Form
University of Manchester
10 December 2009
A one-day interdisciplinary workshop on the works of Arab women writers in diaspora.
For details and registration, please click here.
University of York, UK
28-29 September 2009
CBRL is proudly supported this first international conference on Intonational Variation in Arabic, held at the University of York.
The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers working on Arabic prosody and intonation, and to explore the range of prosodic variation observed in spoken varieties of Arabic.
The provisional programme of the conference and pdfs of some of the talks can be found here.
University College London, G6 Lecture Theatre, 31 Gordon Square WC1
Tuesday 6 October 2009 6pm
Alan Walmsley: The Amman Citadel, the Palace of Mushatta, and the making of legends in Jordan