Earlier this week we were honoured to welcome HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal to CBRL’s British Institute in Amman, of which he is the patron. There are some excellent photos of his visit on our
Facebook page
.
Over the last two days, the team in Amman have been busy transporting a lorry load of archaeological remains from the institute to the new
Wadi Faynan 16 museum
in southern Jordan.
At CBRL’s Kenyon Institute in East Jerusalem we welcomed new Deputy Director, Dr Toufic Haddad earlier this week. Director Mandy Turner and Toufic have been busy working with partners at the Educational Bookshop and British Council Palestine on a forthcoming literary festival in November –
Kalimat
– stay tuned for more news on this in next month's newsletter.
This weekend
Alta'ir
, the creative literary exchange between Jordan and the north-east of England of which CBRL is a partner along with Durham Book Festival, St Mary's College Durham, Dr Fadia Faqir and the British Council, will be the topic of discussion at Durham Book Festival. Jordanian writer,
Mofleh Al Adwan and British poet Linda France will share their experience of the creative residency swap and discuss their writing.
In other news, our friends at BRISMES have now opened the
call for papers
for their 2019 conference that will take place in Leeds – deadline is the 8
th
November –
we look forward to seeing you there next year.
We hope that you enjoy reading about our latest news and activities and we look forward to seeing you at one of our forthcoming events.
From all at CBRL
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CBRL alumni awarded British Academy Fellowships
Philip Proudfoot, former Assistant Director at CBRL’s British Institute in Amman and Sarah Elliott, current CBRL Visiting Fellow, have each been awarded a highly prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. Read more about their projects here. Congratulations Sarah and Philip!
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Funding success for 2018 CBRL sponsored Pilot Study
We’re thrilled to announce that 2018 CBRL Pilot Study grant awardee
Dr Yafa Shanneik (University of Birmingham) has been awarded a British Academy grant to develop her research with Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Jordan.
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Contemporary Palestinian Life Writing
2018 CBRL Visiting Fellow Sophia Brown, who is Associate Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London describes her time at CBRL’s Kenyon Institute and some of the highlights of her fieldwork.
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Timing the earlier Holocene of the Levant
From 2015-2016 Piotr Jacobsson spent a year at the CBRL institutes researching the limitations of extant radiocarbon data from the Levant over the period 9,500-5,500 cal BC (calibrated radiocarbon year BC) and identifying areas where new methods and concepts will aid future chronological
research
. Here he discusses the importance of this project.
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CBRL seeks a new Honorary Treasurer
CBRL’s Honorary Treasurer, Fiona Salzen, will be stepping down in December after four years of service. If you know of someone who may be interested in this position, please do spread the word. To find out more about the role, please see
here
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Contemporary Levant’s
2018 winning article is now online
Ann-Christin Wagner’s award-winning article, “Remapping the Holy Land from the Margins: How a Jordanian Evangelical church juggles the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ in the Syrian refugee response”, has now been published in the latest issue of
Contemporary Levant
– available as an
online open-access paper
now.
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21st October - CBRL British Institute in Amman
with Dr Robert Bewley
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22nd October - British Academy, London
with Prof. Dawn Chatty and Diana Darke
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13th November - SOAS, London
with Prof. Pnina Werbner, Dr Claudia Liebelt, Dr Laura Ferrero, Prof. Deniz Kaniyoti, chaired by Dr Michelle Obeid
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19th December - British Academy, London
with Dr Neil Faulkner
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