Welcome to CBRL’s December newsletter. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you, our members and friends, for your ongoing support of our work during 2018. Thanks to the generosity of your donations, this year we supported two PhD candidates on field trips to the Levant. This month we’re launching our 2019 Travel Grant Appeal and we would be grateful for donations of all sizes – more details below.
Next Wednesday our annual general meeting takes place at the British Academy in London followed by a lecture given by Neil Faulkner on Lawrence of Arabia. If you’re able to attend, we look forward to seeing you then.
Finally, we're pleased to share the work of former CBRL Pilot Studies awardee, Gerasimos Tsourapas who is organising a conference in 2019 - The International Politics of Middle East Migration. Taking place at
the University of Birmingham, the deadline for abstracts is the end of this week. Part of the British Academy's Rising Star Engagement Award, there is funding to cover participants’ costs.
We hope you enjoy reading our latest news and activities and we wish you all a happy festive season.
This month we’ve launched our 2019 Travel Grant appeal. Each year, thanks to the generosity of our members and friends, CBRL awards postgraduate travel grants to develop the next generation of researchers. Our target is to fund five PhD researchers and to do this, we need to raise £4,000. Please help us achieve this goal by donating to CBRL.
We're delighted to share the first in a new series of CBRL digital monographs: WF16 Excavations at an Early Neolithic Settlement in Southern Jordan; stratigraphy, chronology, architecture and burials by Steven Mithen, Bill Finlayson, Darko Maričević, Sam Smith, Emma Jenkins and Mohammad Najjar. Located in the spectacular Wadi Faynan area of Southern Jordan, the excavation of WF16 offers the potential to significantly enhance our understanding of the Pre Pottery Neolithic A period and the origins of the Neolithic. The monograph is available as open-access
here.
Earlier this year CBRL invited UK based heads of departments and chairs of departmental examination boards to nominate one final year first-class dissertation that covered Levantine studies. We’re thrilled to announce that the 2018 prize has been awarded to Nathan Tipping who graduated from the University of Warwick this summer with a degree in History and Politics. Read more.
Dr Teodora Todorova, 2018 CBRL Senior Visiting Research Fellow describes her research that is driven by the question of justice as an ethics of responsibility for others. Her work is concerned with activist and civil society theories and practices of solidarity and resistance to gendered and racialised power and state violence.Read more
Ceramicist, archaeologist and 2018 CBRL Postdoctoral Travel Grant awardee, Lisa Graham talks about her research within The Makounta-Voules Archaeological Project Survey that explores a large prehistoric site in northwestern Cyprus. Read more.
People at CBRL
Many thanks to CBRL's out-going Honorary Treasurer
After a four-year term, our wonderful Honorary Treasurer, Fiona Salzen, steps down at the end of December.
Read more.
Upcoming events...
19th December - British Academy, London - 5.15pm
CBRL members are invited to the Annual General Meeting
