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CBRL is delighted to bring you two upcoming online webinars with a focus on research in Jordan. Please see below for more information.If you would like to attend these events, please click through on the relevant links to register.&#160;More event information about these events can be found on their website.&#160;Reinventing partnership: reinvigorating museum education in Jordan&#160;With Dr Arwa Badran, Dr Shatha Abu-Khafajah &#38; Prof. Robin Skeates&#160;Wednesday 18th June, 4pm BST&#160;&#160;Register for this event here:&#160;https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BQ1hPHmOQUC9j9sZhxJQog&#160;&#160;&#160;In this on-line seminar, we invite discussion on the nature of partnership building in and around the museum and heritage sector in Jordan. We reflect on our own experiences of trying to develop successful partnerships, gained during the first year of our AHRC Newton-Khalidi funded research-and-development project on ‘Learning from Multicultural Amman: Engaging Jordan’s Youth’. Here, as well as thinking critically about the challenges surrounding partnership working, we have sought to identify and experiment with new forms of partnership working: between museums; between museums and education providers; between government agencies and museums; and between Jordanian museum professionals and international experts.&#160;Arwa Badran&#160;is a researcher at Durham University on an AHRC funded project on engaging the youth in museums in Jordan. After completing her BA in Archaeology at the University of Jordan,&#160;she worked as a field archaeologist for a few years before&#160;pursing&#160;higher education in museum studies at Newcastle University, where she read for an MA on building connections between museums and the public and later a PhD on the introduction of museums in school curricula. She worked as Lecturer in Museum Studies at the Hashemite University in Jordan, contributing to the establishment and development of the first&#160;BA degree in cultural heritage and museology&#160;in the Middle East. She has also worked as a consultant for UNESCO on&#160;heritage education projects in the Arab region and currently sits on the Executive Committee of the World Archaeological Congress.&#160;&#160;Shatha Abu-Khafajah&#160;is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at the Hashemite University in Jordan. Shatha graduated as an architect from the University of Jordan in 1997. She specialized in documentation and conservation of archaeological heritage while doing her Masters degree in archaeology. Her PhD in cultural heritage management from Newcastle University, acquired in 2007, enabled her to synthesize architecture and archaeology with special interest in establishing a sustainable approach to heritage management in the Arab region that is community-based and context-oriented.&#160;Robin Skeates&#160;is a Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University in the UK. His research and publications explore a wide variety of themes within the overlapping fields of material, visual and sensual culture studies, and museum and heritage studies. His recent books include&#160;Museums and Archaeology&#160;(Routledge, 2017) and&#160;The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology&#160;(Oxford University Press, 2011).&#160;&#160;What are we talking about when we talk about moderation in contemporary Jordan?&#160;Dr Geoffrey Hughes in conversation with Dr Philip Proudfoot&#160;Wednesday 1st July, 4pm BST&#160;&#160;Register for this event here:&#160;https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FV7JOFxkQEuROkUH3De-mQ&#160;&#160;As the discourse of “Countering Violent Extremism” has become more prominent both within the Middle East and in talk about the Middle East, so too has the concept of moderation emerged as an apparent interpretive key to understanding the region and its most pressing political and theological debates. Yet if the definition of ‘extremism’ remains controversial, the concept of moderation is all too often taken to be self-evident—even as those with disparate political and religious convictions seek to lay claim to it. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Jordan, I trace the history and contemporary social lives of Arabic-language notions of moderation like&#160;‘itidal'&#160;and&#160;'wasitiyya'. I seek to map out how these terms have helped foster new forms of dispute and social control even as they have been taken up by secular and religious commentators drawing on a vibrant pre-existing textual tradition.&#160;Geoffrey Hughes&#160;is a lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Exeter. His research explores how those living in the Middle East draw upon their own traditions as well as globally circulating technologies and discourses to remake the world around them. His first book,&#160;Affection and Mercy: Kinship, Islam and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan&#160;(2021) draws on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork to show how marriage has come to be a site of political struggle amidst a radically restructuring economic order, changing gender roles, and new technologies for large-scale population management. More recently, he has been studying how blood feuds are increasingly moving onto social media and how a ‘politics of accusation’ has become an increasingly prevalent dimension of global social imaginaries.&#160;&#160;Philip Proudfoot&#160;is a British Academy Post-Doctoral fellow at the University of Bath. Previously, he was Assistant Director of CBRL Amman.&#160;His background is in political anthropology, where he is a specialist in Syria &#38; Lebanon. His work examines issues of forced migration, humanitarianism, civil war, gender and sexuality, and working-class culture. He is currently working on a book&#160;manuscript that describes the lives of Syrian migrant labourers in Beirut during the Syrian uprising and civil war while also working on a British Academy sponsored post-doctoral research that examines 'activist-humanitarians' responding to the European refugee 'crisis.'&#160;