Conferences & Workshops
The Kenyon Institute has been host to a number of international conferences and workshops, exploring various topics within the humanities and social sciences. Here you will find conference announcements, as well as information on previous events.
Forthcoming Workshops/Conferences
February 2011: a closed workshop in conjunction with Al Hoash Art Court and the British Council.
Previous Workshops/Conferences
Millennium
Development Goals (29th-30th November 2010) Workshop on progress towards
the Millennium Development Goals partnered by UNDP-PAPP. The workshop
marked the 10th anniversary of the adoption by world leaders of the
Millennium Development Declaration which committed states to the global
realisation of eight goals (MDGs). The anniversary represented an
important opportunity to re-evaluate the limits of contemporary models of
development as represented by the MDGs.
Conflict in Cities and the Contested State Feedback Forum (Jan 13th 2010).
Conflict in Cities and the Contested State is a five year ESRC sponsored research project that focuses on divided cities as key sites in territorial conflicts over state and national identities, cultures and borders. The project seeks to understand the cities as arenas of intensified ethno-national conflicts, particularly with respect to the role that architecture and the urban fabric play as a setting and background for everyday activities and events. The study of phenomena related to creating, maintaining, crossing or ignoring ethnic and territorial borders, both physical and symbolic, are central to the projects aims.
The Feedback Forum aimed to provide further detail about the project and to hear the views of those who are concerned about the development of the city. In this way we wish to both to contribute to a wider discussion on the challenges and problems facing Jerusalem and to learn from the knowledge and experience of others. For more information on the project visit www.conflictincities.org.
The European Union's Internal Discourse on Democracy in the Middle East (11th November 2009).
This workshop was supported by the ESRC as part of a first grant to Dr Michelle Pace (RES-061-25-0075) of the University of Birmingham and focused upon EU "democracy promotion" in the Middle East. The workshop itself involved representatives from civil society, the EU, NGOs and diplomatic representatives from EU states and explored the underlying assumptions, particularly that democratisation requires political institutions and processes including regular, free, fair and transparent elections and a thriving civil society, a growing middle class and a proper civic education. For more information, contact Dr Pace here.
In September 2007, in cooperation with the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, the Kenyon hosted the one-day conference British Groundbreakers in the Holy Land, addressing the history of British archaeological research in the Middle East. The conference was attended by senior British, Israeli and Palestinian scholars. For the final conference programme, please click here.
In June 2007 the Kenyon Institute and the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America (Washington, USA) jointly organised a one-day workshop on the subject of Current Approaches to Graves and Cemeteries in the Holy Land: Patterns and Challenges. Further information on the goals and contents of the workshop can be found here.
Also in June 2007, the Kenyon Institute, the Centre for Literary Studies (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and the Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate presented a three-day international conference titled After the Apocalypse: The Nachleben of Apocalyptic Literature in the Armenian Tradition. The conference explored the Armenian apocalyptic tradition and its interrelations with other apocalyptic traditions in the Levant and the Byzantine Commonwealth. A conference programme can be found here.