Lectures
Upcoming Lectures
Check back soon for lectures in 2012...
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Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Understanding Authoritarianism in the Middle East: What Can Interpretive Political Science Contribute? Dr Daniel Neep (CBRL Research Director, Syria) In collaboration with Ifpo, Amman For a flyer and more details, please click here.
Monday, 28 November 2011
Twixt Sand and Sown: the Population Dynamics of Southern Jordan between Byzantium and the Mamluks- a New GIS ProjectDr Claudine Dauphin and Dr Mohamed Ben Jeddou For a flyer and more details, please click here.
Monday, 14 November 2011
Depictions of Islam in European Biblical ArtProfessor Martin O'Kane (University of Wales, Trinity Saint David) For a flyer and more details, please click here.
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
The Economic Value of Archaeology: Concepts and Case Study of Feynan, Jordan Paul Burtenshaw (Institute of Archaeology, UCL) For further details, please click here.
Monday, 26 September 2011
Middle Eastern Conspiracy Theories: What lies beneath?Dr Matthew Gray (Australian National University)
22 June 2011
For further details, please click here.
Kharaneh IV: Environment and Aggregation at a 20,000-Year-Old Hunter-Gatherer Site in Eastern Jordan
Dr Lisa Maher and Dr Tobias Richter For the flyer, please click here.13 June 2011
- “Youthquake”: Questions Concerning the Genesis and Implications of
- Demographic Transition in the Middle East and North Africa
- Prof Édouard Conte (CNRS and Ifpo, Amman, and the University of Berne)
- In collaboration with Ifpo, Amman
- For further details, please click here.
- 30 March 2011
- From Rock to Ritual: Reconstructing Funerary Practices at Petra
- Dr Lucy Wadeson (University of Oxford, CBRL Senior Visiting Fellow) For the flyer, please click here.
- 22 November 2010
East meets west: The story of a Mamluk brass basin with Latin inscriptions - Dr Luit Mols (Independent Scholar)
- Presented jointly with the Netherlands Institute for Academic Studies in Damascus
- 27 October 2010
Lecture and book launch of Landscapes in Transition and Changing Natures: Hunter-gatherers, Farmers and the Modern World
Prof. Bill Finlayson (CBRL Regional Director)
- 29 September 2010
Landscape and climate change in Jordan and the Middle East
Dr Bernhard Lucke (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
- 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
Presented in association with the British Embassy.
- 22 November 2010
Presented jointly with the Netherlands Institute for Academic Studies in Damascus
East meets west: The story of a Mamluk brass basin with Latin inscriptions
Dr Luit Mols (Independent Scholar)
Medieval Mamluk Damascus was famous for its achievements in inlaid and engraved metalwork. It was not only admired locally, but also in Cairo, the Yemen, ánd the west. Western travellers were in awe of their quality and abundance. Curiously, a number of Mamluk metalwork vessels from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries mix eastern and western decoration. One such object is a basin in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, which can be related to a Sicilian owner. It combines a Latin inscription with Arabic texts and other Mamluk-style decoration. This paper (lecture) will address the stylistic features of both Mamluk and stylistically combined metalwork objects. Moreover, it will focus on the roles of individual (western) patrons in the 14th and 15th centuries and that of the open market.
Past Lectures
For further information on lectures at the British Institute in Amman, 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