Welcome to CBRL’s first newsletter for 2021.
We hope that you and your loved ones continue to stay well during these uncertain times.
Due to the ongoing circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, our funding of research remains on hold. But calls for our Networking Partnership Awards remain open, more information below. We aim to open applications for funding for our fellowships and other awards in spring.
We are currently putting together a programme of webinars for 2021, featuring the latest world-class research on the Levant. If you have missed any of our previous webinars, you can catch up via our YouTube and SoundCloud pages. If you are interested in hosting an event with CBRL, please get in touch.
From all at CBRL.
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Networking Partnership Awards
Our Networking Partnerships Awards provide funding for the establishment or development of research partnerships between the UK and Levant-based researchers. This is a rolling call where funds are available to support researchers undertaking initial exploratory meetings or research, with a view to preparing a later application for more funding. Find out more and apply here.
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New research published on refugee vulnerability in Azraq camp
Dr Melissa Gatter, a 2018 CBRL travel grant recipient, has recently published an article in Territory, Politics, Governance on research funded by CBRL. Her article explores how humanitarian assessments of vulnerability in Azraq camp, in Jordan, create a system that preserves vulnerability and drives securitised responses. Read the full article here. You can also read Melissa's blog on how Syrian refugees are adapting to life in Azraq camp. |
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Our Levant journal is on Twitter
To coincide with their publication of a special edition on Ottoman waterscapes, our journal Levant is now on Twitter. Follow them @JournalLevant to keep up-to-date on their peer-reviewed research on Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria.
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ACOR photo archive project
Our friends at the American Center of Research (ACOR) have provided some interesting insights and reflections on their photo archive project. Encompassing the indexing, digitisation, description, and online publication of 31,000 photographs, the archive is a valuable resource for the international research community. Last year, the archive provided 700 photographs to the CBRL-partnered Living Museum of Umm Qais project. We congratulate ACOR for this achievement and for sharing their insights and experience. We encourage everyone to check out this great resource. |
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Reflections on excavations at Khirbat Faris, southern Jordan
In our latest research blog, archaeologist Alison McQuitty shares stories about life on the archaeological site of Khirbat Faris during a CBRL-funded excavation carried out in the late 1980s/early 1990s, focusing on rural landscape in Jordan. Read the blog here.
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Wednesday 17 February, 16.00 GMT
Understanding the development of complex societies in Lebanon during the Early Bronze Age
With Dr Kamal Badreshany and Professor Graham Philip (University of Durham).
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Tune into the latest CBRL webinars |
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Women's activism in the Levant
With Dr Sara Ababneh (Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan), Dr Islah Jad (Birzeit University) and Dr Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick).
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