Conferences and Workshops

The British Institute has co-organised and hosted a number of conferences and workshops in the past, bringing together researchers in the humanities and social sciences from all over the world.

Upcoming Events

Demographic Transition in the Middle East and North Africa: Disciplines in Dialogue 
To be held in the Rum Auditorium, University of Jordan, 14-16 January 2012
An international conference co-organised by the British Institute in Amman, the Faculty of Science of the University of Jordan, and the French Institute for the Near East and co-sponsored by the d’Alembert Fund of the French Foreign Ministry, the Council for British Research in the Levant, the Cultural Section of the French Embassy in Amman, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the University of Bern, and the University of Jordan.

The conference website can be found here.

Agriculture and Food Production in the Shadow of the Arab Oil Economy
The British Institute in Amman, 28-29 January 2012
An invited workshop supported by the British Academy to bring together key researchers to debate the current crisis in agriculture and food production in the Middle East and North Africa Region. The workshop is organised by Professor Martha Mundy (LSE) with Elizabeth Saleh (LSE), and co-ordinated by the British Institute in Amman.

Further details can be found here.

Past Events

Translation & Interpreting Studies Workshop
The British Institute in Amman, 5-7 September 2011
An invited workshop representing a new British Academy initiative to support young university academics in the Middle East and North Africa Region. The workshop was led by Professor Mona Baker, University of Manchester, and was co-ordinated by the British Institute in Amman. For more details, please visit the Translation Studies Portal.

Water, Life and Civilisation Workshop
The British Institute in Amman, 30 July 2011
Programme details can be found here.

Workshop on Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan and the Near East
Living, Planning and Managing a Lasting Temporariness
The British Institute in Amman, 7 March 2011
Organised by Luigi Achilli and Lucas Oesch, with the support of the CBRL, Ifpo and the French Embassy (Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle). The programme details can be found here.

Jordan’s Prehistory: Past and Future Research in collaboration with The Department of Antiquities of Jordan, ACOR, GPIA and IFPO
25 - 28 May 2009
Programme details can be found here.

Traditions and Transformations: Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa Region
4 - 7 April 2009
More information can be found here.

 

Aerial Archaeology Workshop
April 2007
Organised by Dr Robert Bewley and Prof David Kennedy with the support of the Department of Antiquities, Jordan, this workshop was held to train archaeologists from the region to expand awareness of the importance of aerial reconnaissance and develop expertise.
Since 1997, the aerial reconnaissance programme in Jordan, under the direction of Prof David Kennedy and Dr Robert Bewley (see, for example, Ancient Jordan from the Air, CBRL, 2004), has been the only one of its kind in the Middle East.

 

Landscapes in Transition: Understanding hunter-gatherer and farming landscapes in the early Holocene of Europe and the Levant.
March 2007
The British Institute in Amman organised and hosted this conference. More information, participants and paper abstracts can be found here. The publication of this conference in preparation.

 

Shifting Boundaries
February 2007
In co-operation with the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS), the British Institute organised the workshop Shifting Boundaries with participants from different backgrounds and disciplines to debate and challenge some of the popular perceptions of division between ‘East’ and ‘West’ that are often encouraged for example in modern journalism and even some academic debate. More information can be found here.