We hope that you and your loved ones are keeping well during this uncertain time. As our two institutes continue to be closed to the public, in lieu of the public events that we regularly hold, we are delighted to announce a
programme of online Levant-focused events starting in May, more details below.
To keep you engaged with research on the Levant during this time, a number of
Contemporary Levant articles relevant to COVID have been made available as open-access as well as the latest issue of
Levant. Our new issue of the
CBRL Bulletin is now available online and don't forget that we have a huge back-catalogue of
Podcasts as well as
research blog posts and
Bulletins from previous years, available on our website.
The open call for our annual 2020 prize for best paper submitted to our peer-reviewed journal,
Contemporary Levant is still open. The winning paper will receive a cash prize and their article will be published in the journal later this year.
More details about the prize and how to apply are available here.
And finally, there's still one week left for applications to the joint
British Academy -
Royal Scientific Society Jordan-UK El Hassan bin Talal Research Chair in Sustainability
- more details on the role and how to apply can be found here.
We hope you enjoy reading our April news and send warm greetings to you all.
We're thrilled to bring you the latest issue of the
CBRL Bulletin, our first to be published in-house. It's a bumper issue combining 2018 - 2019 and includes feature articles, summaries of all the research that we've sponsored, been affiliated to or conducted over the past two years along with updates from our institute directors and committee chairs. The online version of the
Bulletin is now available open-access
here and we hope to have printed copies available for members post-lock-down.
Call for papers to enter the 2020 Contemporary Levant Prize for Best Article is open - deadline for submission is 10th July. Contemporary Levant is CBRL's international peer-reviewed journal. The award recognises excellent research and scholarship that engages with current and emerging issues in the Levant and advances our understanding of the region. More here.
In this latest research blog post, CBRL Pilot Study awardee Jeanine Treffers-Daller describes how her project sets out to discover how the way Cypriots' approach to multilingualism may be a reflection on their socio-cultural identities.
Read more here.
CBRL Online Events
In lieu of the physical events that we regularly hold at our CBRL institutes and around the UK, during these uncertain times, we are pleased to bring you a programme of online events. Registration is required - details below - and we will be announcing more dates very soon both by email and on our website:
cbrl.ac.uk/events.
With Zahed Tajeddin (artist & archaeologist) and Diana Darke (author)
Diana's book,
My House in Damascus, upon which much of this talk is based is currently available with a 30% discount with 10% of the the cost of the book going to NHS Charities Together.
More details here.
