CBRL news September 2018
Earlier this year we announced that CBRL would be partnering on a new literary exchange – Alta’ir . This is now underway, and throughout the month of September, poet Linda France is on a creative residency at our Amman Institute. Linda describes her first impressions of Amman in this fantastic blog post.

Next year marks the centenary of our founding institute, the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem (BSAJ). We are currently organising a programme of centenary events for 2019 and we look forward to sharing these with you shortly.

We would like to bring your attention to a correction of a lecture date that was publicised in the August newsletter; ' Syria's People: Lessons for the Future?' will take place on Monday 22nd October at the British Academy. If you are able to attend, we look forward to seeing you there.

We hope that you enjoy finding out about our current activities and reading about recent CBRL sponsored research projects.

From all at CBRL
Winner announced for 2018 Prize for Best Article 
This spring CBRL launched an annual prize for best article submitted to the journal, Contemporary Levant. We’re thrilled to announce that this year’s prize has been awarded to Ann-Christin Wagner, final year PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh for her paper: “Remapping the Holy Land from the Margins: How a Jordanian Evangelical church juggles the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ in the Syrian refugee response”. Read more
New Call: Newton-Khalidi Fund
Many of you will be aware that bids are now open for the AHRC element of the  Newton-Khalidi Fund for collaborative UK-Jordan research projects in Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development. If you would like to work with us as local partner, use our facilities, benefit from our local networks, or if you simply want to discuss proposals, we would be delighted to discuss your plans, however early in development.
News from the field
Creative Practice & Cultural Memory Workshop:
Exploring First World War Heritage in the Middle East 
Earlier this month, CBRL’s Amman Institute hosted a multidisciplinary workshop that brought together artists, historians and cultural critics from Jordan, Palestine, New Zealand and the UK to explore how the political and geographical inheritance of the First World War continues to inform artistic and literary practice in the region today. Read more
History from Graffiti
Michael Macdonald, Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Fellow at Wolfson College Oxford, describes how his CBRL funded research, which records inscriptions found on volcanic rocks in Jordan’s Black Desert, tells us more about the region’s nomadic peoples between the first century BC and the fourth century AD than any other any other section of the population at that time. Read more
Adapting to life at Azraq
Melissa Gatter, 2018 CBRL Travel Grant recipient and PhD candidate in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge describes her ethnographic fieldwork that set out to understand the complexity of nostalgia and time at Azraq refugee camp in northern Jordan.

To find out more about how you can support CBRL’s travel grants, please see here.
Dig life with Kathleen Kenyon at Jericho 
CBRL Centennial Award holder, Bart Wagemakers recently released two fantastic short films about dig life with Kathleen Kenyon at Tell es-Sultan in the 1950s. Created as part of the Jericho Off the Record project - part of the Non-Professional Archaeological Photographs archive - these films tell an important part of CBRL’s history. Watch the films here.
People at CBRL
New Fellows at CBRL’s British Institute in Amman
This autumn, Sarah Elliott (top) and Mirjam Twigt joined our Amman institute to undertake CBRL sponsored fellowships.

Sarah is an environmental archaeologist whose research focuses on the Neolithic of the Near East. Sarah previously worked with CBRL as a Research Assistant on the INEA Project that was co-directed by Bournemouth University and CBRL. During her current fellowship she will focus on developing research on Jordan's post-1750 rural heritage, particularly in traditional villages in the Tafilah area. Starting in January 2019, she will continue her research on Jordan's village heritage at Bournemouth University as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, which is also held in collaboration with CBRL.

Mirjam is an anthropologist, who has specialised in media-use by, and for, forced migrants. During her time at the BIA, Mirjam will conduct research into how refugees’ interpretations of humanitarian aid are influenced by increased affordability and availability of information and communication technologies.    Read more
Upcoming events...
29th September, British Institute in Amman, Jordan

22nd October, British Academy, London
*Please note a correction of the previously advertised date of this lecture. This event will take place on Monday 22nd October at the British Academy, London

19 th December, British Academy, London


Audio recordings of these lectures will be available on CBRL's SoundCloud shortly after the event.
Tune-in to the latest from CBRL's Research Podcasts...
Book presentation and discussion:
'From Ferguson to Palestine: State Control & Oppression'
Prof. Marc Lamont Hill & Sahar Francis