News & Events
The Council for British Research frequently sponsors and supports lectures, conferences and other events both in the UK and in the Middle East.
On this page, you will find news from the CBRL and information about upcoming events as well as a look back on previous functions in the UK and the local institutes.
News
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Upcoming UK Events
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Past Events
Dispossession and Displacement: Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa. Is the Past Prologue?
Dr Dawn Chatty (Deputy Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
25 May 2010
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH
The Middle East and North Africa has become both a major refugee producing area as well as host for more than a quarter of the world’s forced migrants.
This lecture will reflect on the earliest wave of forced migrants into region, the Circassians, and ask whether there is anything to be learned from their experiences.
Download full details here.
International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East (ASEMNE)
Paphos, Cyprus
29 April - 1 May 2010
Call for Papers
This international congress aims to highlight recent advances in natural and material science applications to archaeology and cultural heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East, and to provide an international academic forum, hitherto not available, for dissemination of results of current research in these fields in the region.
For further information and the Call for Papers, please click here.
Session Abstract Form
Paper Abstract Form
Arab Women Writers in Diaspora: Horizons of Dialogue
University of Manchester
10 December 2009
A one-day interdisciplinary workshop on the works of Arab women writers in diaspora.
For details and registration, please click here.
Intonational Variation in Arabic
University of York, UK
28-29 September 2009
CBRL is proudly supported this first international conference on Intonational Variation in Arabic, held at the University of York.
The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers working on Arabic prosody and intonation, and to explore the range of prosodic variation observed in spoken varieties of Arabic.
The provisional programme of the conference and pdfs of some of the talks can be found here.
Crystal Bennett Memorial Lecture
University College London, G6 Lecture Theatre, 31 Gordon Square WC1
Tuesday 6 October 2009 6pm
Alan Walmsley: The Amman Citadel, the Palace of Mushatta, and the making of legends in Jordan