CBRL news November 2019
Welcome to CBRL’s November newsletter.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you, our members and friends, for your ongoing support of our work during 2019. Thanks to the generosity of your donations, this year we supported three PhD candidates on field trips to the Levant. This month we’re launching our 2020 Travel Grant Appeal and we would be grateful for donations of all sizes – more details below. 

November has seen events take place in CBRL hubs both in East Jerusalem and London. CBRL's Kenyon Institute co-hosted a book launch of author Andrew Ross's new work, Stone Men: The story of stonemasons building Israel in discussion with Fida Touma and yesterday evening, CBRL's very own Mandy Turner discussed her recent book From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of “Peace” along with several of the chapter authors. Meanwhile, earlier this week at Wolfson College Oxford, CBRL launched its lecture series on "Language and Identity" with a fascinating lecture given by Michael Macdonald (pictured above).

We are currently running two student prizes that close this weekend: the CBRL Master's Dissertation prize and a joint Poster Prize at the BANEA 2020 conference. Please do encourage entrants and spread the word, thank you.

We're pleased to report that our Jerusalem Director, Mandy Turner, recently presented at the Expert Group M eeting that took place in Amman and focused on living conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory and development under occupation - the meeting will form the basis of UN policy recommendations. Mandy also presented at the Muwatin 25th Annual Conference at Birzeit University - her paper will be translated into Arabic and published early next year. 

We hope you enjoy reading our news this month.

From all at CBRL
This month we’ve launched our 2020 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 today.
Entitled Fanning the Flames or a Troubling Truth: The Politics of Comparison in the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Mandy’s latest article is published in the special issue of the journal Civil Wars volume 21, number 1. Read more.
News from the field
CBRL Travel Grant recipient John Winterburn (University of Oxford) discusses his research that explores the mysterious linear stone feature that runs across southern Jordan, the Khatt Shebib. Here he unravels some of the theories that try to decipher when and why it was built and what purpose this 150km structure served. Read more.
In this research blog post, CBRL Pilot Studies awardee Gerasimos Tsourapas (University of Birmingham) discusses his research that looks at Jordanian responses to Syrian displacement and contextualises these within Jordan’s broader socio-economic and political context.  Read more here.
Upcoming events
11 December - Institute of Archaeology, London

If you would like to attend this event, please register here.

with Bill Finlayson (Oxford Brookes University)
This is CBRL's AGM lecture and Crystal-M. Bennett Memorial lecture
16 January - King's College London


with Robert Bewley  (EAMENA, University of Oxford)
This lecture is given in memory of Dr Andrea Da Silva Zerbini (1984-2019)   
28 February - SOAS, University of London


with Salman Abu Sitta (Palestine Land Society)
This lecture is in partnership with SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies and the Palestine Exploration Fund.
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