News and Events 2007

Lectures and Events at the British Academy, London

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• Refugees Studies Centre - Workshop
  9th January 2007
  The lives of refugees and other forced migrants are a growing, highly pertinent contemporary research area.  It is particularly topical in areas covered by some of the British Schools and Institutes abroad, in particular the Council for British Research in the Levant, the British Institute in East Africa, the British Institute at Ankara, and the British Institute of Persian Studies.
  
  The CBRL, BIEA, BIAA and BIPS have agreed to work together as institutional partners to develop a common agenda for the coming years.  We are holding a one-day meeting of invited researchers working in the different regions to discuss this proposal.
  Further information can be found here.
   
• The Frontiers of the Ottoman World: Fortifications, trade, pilgrimage and slavery
  15th - 16th February, 2007
  The workshop is funded by the British Academy and organised by the British Academy-sponsored Schools and Institutes that support research on Ottoman history.
  
  Recent or ongoing research supported by several of the schools and institutes has focused on Ottoman frontiers and their fortifications in different parts of the empire and its successor states from the Ukraine to the Sudan. However, hitherto there has been no attempt to consider how the research findings of individual schools and institutes relate to one another. Furthermore, archaeological work has only rarely been related to textual evidence and to the more general historical context.
  The Frontiers of the Ottoman World workshop aims to bring together archaeologists, historians and specialists in archival research to assess the nature of the Ottoman Empire's frontiers, with special reference to the roles of fortifications, trade (especially the slave trade) and pilgrimage routes in frontier society. We also aim to examine how garrisons as representatives of the Ottoman state interacted with the local population, and the nature of their relationship with the government in Istanbul, giving us an insight into the dynamics of Ottoman power on a local level and the effectiveness of its governance.
  As well as assessing the current state of research, the workshop aims to lay the foundations for a larger, longer-term research initiative that can explore such issues in greater depth. For further information click here.
   

Lectures and Events at the British Institute, Amman

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• Shifting Boundaries, Click for Images
  February 2007
   

• Landscapes in Transition   Click for Images
  Understanding hunter-gatherer and farming landscapes in the early Holocene of Europe and the Levant
  March 2007
   

• Aerial Archaeology Workshop Click for Images
  14th - 16th April 2007
   

Lectures and Events at the Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem

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• After the Apocalypse: The Nachleben of Apocalyptic Literature in the Armenian Tradition
  4th - 6th June 2007
  The Kenyon Institute, the Centre for Literary Studies (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and the Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate have pleasure in announcing this three-day international conference. The conference will explore the Armenian apocalyptic tradition and its interrelations with other apocalyptic traditions in the Levant and the Byzantine Commonwealth.
  
  The first day of the conference will be held at the Givat Ram Campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the second day will take place at the Armenian Monastery of St James in the Old City of Jerusalem, and the final day at the Kenyon Institute, East Jerusalem.
  
  Subjects covered will include apocalyptic traditions in the Armenian epic, historical apocalypticism and prophetic literature in Armenia, the reception of biblical and extra-biblical apocalypses in Armenia, Byzantium, the Orthodox Slavonic world, etc. The lectures will be delivered by local scholars and visiting scholars from Armenia, USA, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK.
  
  The conference programme can be found here.
   
• Current Approaches to Graves and Cemeteries in the Holy Land: Patterns and Challenges
  20th June 2007
  The Kenyon Institute is pleased to announce this one-day international workshop, jointly organised with the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America (Washington, USA).
  For the workshop's goals and further information, please click here.
   
• British Archaeological Groundbreakers in the Holy Land
  Tuesday 18th September
  Organised by the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society and the Kenyon Institute, this one-day conference will be addressed by senior British, Israeli and Palestinian scholars.
  
  The final programme can be found here, and a list of participants here.