News and Events 2006

Lectures and Events at the British Academy, London

• University of Edinburgh
  The Traditional Muslim Families of Jerusalem during the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods
  Friday, 1st December, 5.00 pm
  Lecture by Dr Mohamad Alami (Independent Scholar, Jerusalem)
• SOAS, London 
  Judges and Adjucation in Ottoman Jerusalem
  Monday, 27th November, 5.00 pm
  Lecture by Dr Mohamad Alami (Independent Scholar, Jerusalem)
• CBRL, London 
  Landscape, Identity and Reciprocal Relations: The Wadi Arabah as Relationship and Discourse
  Tuesday, 10th October, 5.30 pm
  Lecture by Prof Piotr Bienkowski (Deputy Director, Manchester Museum, and Professor of Archaeology and Museology, University of Manchester) followed by book launch of CBRL publication ‘Crossing the Rift: Resources, Settlements Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah’ to be held at the British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London.

• Judges and Adjucation in Ottoman Jerusalem
  Monday, 27th November,  5.00 pm
  Speaker: Dr Mohamad Alami (Independent Scholar, Jerusalem)
  Venue: Room G60, The Near and Middle East Department at SOAS, London.
  This lecture is a joint CBRL and SOAS Research Seminar.
   

• The Traditional Muslim Families of Jerusalem during the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods  
  Friday, 1st December 2006, time tbc
  Speaker: Dr Mohamad Alami (Independent Scholar, Jerusalem)
  Venue: University of Edinburgh, School of Literatures, Languages and Culture

Lectures and Events at the CBRL Amman

• CBRL, Amman 
  The tombs of Petra: Preliminary results of work behind the facades
  Lucy Wadeson (University of Oxford)
  Sunday, 1st October, 4.30 pm
  Further information can be found here.
   

• CBRL, Amman
  Aerial Archaeology
  Dr Bob Bewley (English Heritage)
  Tuesday, 12 September, 6 pm
  Further information can be found here.

Lectures and Events at the Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem

Conference:

Anglo-Russian Archaeology Conference
2nd - 4th July, 2006

The Kenyon Institute, CBRL, and the Orthodox Palestine Society in the Holy Land held a ground-breaking 10-lecture international conference on the Russian presence in and archaeological explorations of Jerusalem and the East Mediterranean between 2 and 4 July 2006. The conference was jointly organized by the Kenyon Institute, CBRL (incorporating the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem) and the Orthodox Palestine Society in the Holy Land.

Subjects covered included the history of the Russian excavations in the Holy Land, the Armenian Mosaics in the Russian complex on the Mount of Olives, the development of Russian educational and clerical institutions during the British Mandate and their interrelations with the British Mandatory authorities as well as the early history of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The lectures were delivered by eminent visiting Russian and local scholars. Some of the lectures were delivered in Russian and featured simultaneous translation into English.

Find the original Conference Announcement here.
The Programme for the conference can be downloaded here.
A report on the conference will follow shortly.

Lectures:
 

• Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem
  ‘Izz-a-din al-Qassam: "The Brigand Sheikh" and the British Mandate: Official Responses to the Rise of Political Islam’ 
  Tuesday, 12 December, 5 pm
  A lecture summary will follow.
• Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem
  Contesting the Past in Mandate Palestine: History Teaching in Government Schools, 1919 – 1948 
  Tuesday, 28 November, 5 pm
  A summary of John Hart's lecture can be found here.
• Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem
  Pre-Christian Burials and Syncretism on the Mount of Olives: New Excavations near the Pater Noster Church
  Monday, 23 October, 5 pm
  An introduction to Deborah Sebag's lecture can be found here.

• Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem
  The Fatimid Hoard from Tiberias - Problems of Interpretation
  Tuesday, 11 July, 5 pm
  A report on Elias Khamis's lecture can be found here.
   

• Kenyon Institute Jerusalem
  Ayyubid Jerusalem (1187-1250): Renaissance of Islamic Architecture
  July 4, 2006
  A report on Dr Mahmoud Hawari 's lecture can be found here.
   

• Kenyon Institute Jerusalem
  Who Designed Damascus Gate?                                   June 27, 2006
  A report on Dr Yusuf Natsheh's lecture can be found here
   

• Kenyon Institute Jerusalem
  Jewish Magic in Late Antiquity: Aramaic Incantations on Bowls and Bones
  June 20, 2006
  A report on Dr Dan Levene's lecture can be found here
   

• Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem
  The Traditional Palestinian Families of Jerusalem during the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods
  Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 5 pm at The Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem
  Dr Mohamad Alami
  For further details email The Kenyon Institute
   

• Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem
  The Two Temple Mounts and Four Temples: A Reassessment
  Tuesday, 23 May 2006, 5 pm at The Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem
  Professor Dan Bahat  (University of Toronto, Canada).
  For further details email The Kenyon Institute

• Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem
  Underground Water systems in Middle Bronze-Age Palestine: A Reinterpretation
  A report on Dr Hani Nur el-Din's lecture can be found here.