Lectures
Upcoming Lectures
3 May 2010
Dr Neil Faulkner
Trains, trenches, and tents: the archaeology of the Great Arab Revolt.
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- 3 May 2010
Trains, trenches, and tents: the archaeology of the Great Arab Revolt
Dr Neil Faulkner
Co-director, Great Arab Revolt Project
Research Fellow, University of Bristol
The Great Arab Revolt has been described as 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Its military and political significance has been contested since 1918. New archaeological research in the deserts and desert margins of southern Jordan since 2006 is forcing a radical reappraisal. The extent, intensity, and character of the militarisation of the landscape by the Ottoman Army in 1917 and 1918 imply a powerful insurgency by geographically mobile, yet socially embedded, Arab guerrilla-fighters. This lecture will summarise the evidence so far revealed and discuss its significance for our understanding of both the Great Arab Revolt and modern guerrilla warfare in general.
Past Lectures
For further information on lectures and seminars, please contact Dr Carol Palmer.
- 12th July 2009
Dr Lisa Maher (University of Cambridge) & Dr Tobias Richter (University College London)
The Epipalaeolithic in the Azraq Basin: Recent Work at Kharaneh IV - 12 March 2009
Dr Rami Daher (TURATH, German Jordanian University in Amman)
Amman: Engaging Urbanism, Public Spaces and Public Spheres - 2 February 2009
Dr Richard J. Payne (University of Manchester, UK & CBRL Senior Visiting Fellow)
Testate Amoebae in Eastern Mediterranean Wetlands: A New Tool For Regional Climate Reconstruction? - 18 January 2009
Dr Fiona McCallum (University of St Andrews)
Christian Political Participation in the Contemporary Middle East
- 26 November 2008
Professor Bill Finlayson (CBRL)
Exploring the Earliest Neolithic in Southern Jordan - 2 November 2008
Prof David Kennedy (University of Sydney)
The Jerash Hinterland Survey
- 16 December 2007
Janine Major (La Trobe University, Australia)
Natufian Art from the Perspective of Wadi Hammeh 27, Jordan - 25 November 2007
Prof Gary Rollefson (Whitman College/ACOR NEH Fellow) and Dr Alexander Wasse (University of East Anglia)
Where Shepherd Kings Went to Die: The Necropolis at Wissad Pools in the Eastern Badia of Jordan - 23 October 2007
Dr Erin Gibson (University of Glasgow & Senior CBRL Research Fellow)
Footsteps through the Sand: The Archaeology of Social Interaction in a Desert Landscape - 26 June 2007
Elizabeth Frantz (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Family Matters: Kinship and the Causes and Consequences of the Migration of Sri Lankan Domestic Workers to Jordan - 8 May 2007
Dr Lizabeth Zack (University of South Carolina Upstate/Fulbright Scholar)
Bucolic Towns and Blocks of Cement: Environmental Protest in Fuheis, Jordan - 10 April 2007
Prof David Kennedy (University of Sydney)
Ten years of aerial archaeology in Jordan 1997-2007 - 5 March 2007
Dr Morag Kersel (CAORC-ACOR Research Fellow)
Selling the Past
In co-operation with the American Centre of Archaeological Research (ACOR)
- 1 October 2006
Lucy Wadeson (University of Oxford)
The tombs of Petra: Preliminary results of work behind the facades - 12 September 2006
Dr Bob Bewley (English Heritage)
Aerial Archaeology