Joint Event - Funding Opportunities for Researchers in Middle Eastern Studies at the British International Research Institutes (BIRI): BIAA, BIPS, BISI and CBRL

Date: Thursday, 3 October 2024

Time: 18:00-19:30 UK time

Location: Online via Zoom

Free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential.

About the Event

The British International Research Institutes (BIRI) are global research partners in the arts, humanities and social sciences. The BIRI comprise nine institutes that are hubs in a network of regional contacts and activities that cover, among other, the Mediterranean, Turkey, the Middle East, Iran and Central Asia. We are very pleased to announce that for our next webinar, we will hear from myriad BIRI institutions about their funding and scholarship opportunities for students and scholars who are invested in learning about our region:

• The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), founded in 1947, supports, enables and encourages research in Türkiye and the Black Sea region across the arts, humanities and social sciences. BIAA supports and generates research across a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, urban planning, politics, history, sociology and art history, and across historical periods from the Neolithic through to the Byzantine, Ottoman and contemporary eras. 
• The Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) is a learned society working to advance public education on the Levant through promoting and disseminating research in the humanities, social sciences and related subjects, on and in Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus.  
• The British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) is the UK’s foremost learned society dedicated to promoting and supporting scholarship, humanities and social sciences research, and research excellence on all aspects of Iran and the wider Persianate world, and to increasing public understanding and knowledge of this region. 
• The British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI) supports the study of Iraq, from prehistoric times to the present, including social sciences research on modern and contemporary Iraq. BISI launched its Visiting Iraqi Scholarship programme in 2005, in order to offer Iraqi academics and heritage professionals with the opportunity to undertake short periods of research at UK partner institutions (universities, museums and libraries). 

Speakers:

• Peter Cherry (BIAA)
• Martyn Weeds (BIAA)
• Kamal Badreshany (CBRL)
• Rosalind Wade (BISI)
• Shabnam Holliday (BIPS)
• Robert Steele (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Chair:

• Sabiha Allouche (University of Exeter)

Event organised by the BRISMES Outreach & Pedagogy Subcommittee and the British International Research Institutes (BIRI).