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

The pictures here above are from a book launch event held at the CBRL Kenyon Institute earlier this month. Noura Erekat (Rutgers University) spoke about her new book, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, in conversation with Omar Shakir (Human Rights Watch) to an audience of more than 200 people. It was standing room only for the many Palestinian and international scholars, aid workers and diplomats who made up the audience. Such an event was a wonderful reminder of the appetite for public discussion in East Jerusalem and the valuable role that CBRL’s Kenyon Institute plays in facilitating this.

There is still time (deadline is 27 th September) for UK and Levantine-based scholars to apply to participate in the joint CBRL - British Academy Knowledge Symposium on the theme of ‘Belonging.’ This event will take place at CBRL’s Amman Institute in January 2020. For more details and information on how to apply, please see here.

Following last month's sad news at the passing of our friend and colleague Dr Andrea Zerbini, we would like to give a heartfelt thanks to everyone who sent in messages of condolence and made donations to the travel fund set up by Andrea. Thank you.

We hope you enjoy reading our news this month.

From all at CBRL
We are pleased to announce two new Master's dissertation prizes in the field of Levantine studies for the academic year 2019 - for Levantine archaeology or history and Contemporary Levantine studies. Please do spread the word with colleagues who will be examining Master's dissertations and to exam boards. We would like to thank Prof. Rosemary Hollis for her generous donation to CBRL that has made this year's dissertation prizes possible.  More details. 
Earlier this month an article on the CBRL research project, the Deep Past as a Social Asset in the Levant (DEEPSAL) was published in the journal of Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites  as well as an open-access project report on the ADS platform. You can read more about the DEEPSAL project here .
We are thrilled to announce that co-authors Dr Shatha Abu-Khafajah (Hashemite University) and Dr Riham Miqdadi (United Arab Emirates University) are this year's winners for their paper entitled:  Prejudice, military intelligence, and neoliberalism: Examining the local within archaeology and heritage practices in Jordan. An Honourable Mention has been awarded to Dr Lauren Banko (Yale) for her article: A stranger from this homeland: deportation and the ruin of lives and livelihoods during the Palestine Mandate.   Read more.
We're delighted to announce the second year of our par tnership of Alta'ir - a creative writing exchange between Jordan and the North of England. This year's participant writers are British author Andrew Michael Hurley and Jordanian author Kafa Al Zoubi. Both writers will speak about their experiences of the exchange at an event, chaired by Dr Fadia Faqir, at the  Durham Book Festival on 12 October 2019. Read more.
News from the field
Pilot Study grant recipient Dr Hussam Hussein (University of Kassel) describes his research that looks at the discourses around Syrian refugees’ impact on water resources and how these discourses infor m and shape water policies and strategies. Read more.
Former travel grant recipient writes a vivid account of the experience of visiting Palestine for the first time and working with actors from the Freedom Theatre. Read more.
People at CBRL
We're delighted to introduce CBRL's fellows for 2019-2020 who will be joining the scholarly communities at our institutes over the coming months. From left to right:
Dr Roberto Rocco (King's College London) will be based at CBRL's Kenyon Institute to work on a new research project that investigates whether, and to what extent, integration in global markets has exacerbated patterns of economic and social dualisation in Palestine, Tunisia and Egypt. More here.
Dr Michel de Vreeze (Durham University) is an archaeologist whose work looks into the different routes of Early Bronze urbanisation and complexity in the Levant by comparing the Early Bronze ceramic record from Lebanon with the southern Levant. More here.
Dr Alex Henley (Oxford University), based between Amman and Jerusalem, is conducting fieldwork for a project on 'Genealogies of Islamic Religious Leadership in Post-Ottoman States.'    More here.
Upcoming events
21st October - Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, London

with Prof. Rosemary Hollis and Dr Seth Anziska (UCL)
25th November - Wolfson College, Oxford

with Michael MacDonald (University of Oxford)
Chaired by Prof. Clive Holes, this lecture is the first of the series 'Language & Identity in the Near East, Ancient & Modern.'
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