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UK events organised by BASIS organisations

Each sponsored organisation has its own programme of events held in the UK and overseas. Highlights of their UK programmes for the 2009-10 academic year appear below. Details of the full programmes for each organisation can be found on their individual websites.

Monday 10 May 2010, 5.30pm
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
The Society for Libyan Studies
Life in the Maritme Villas of Roman Tripolitania
A lecture by Professor Luisa Musso, Universita di Roma Tre
Open to all. This event is free of charge and no registration is required.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 6pm (tbc)
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
The British Institute for the Study of Iraq
Iraq and Afghanistan: criminal benefit from cultural loss
A BISI Appeal Lecture by Vernon Rapley, New Scotland Yard
For details and tickets, see www.bisi.ac.uk

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 6pm
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
The British Institute of Persian Studies and the British Society if Middle Eastern Studies
Can we write a history of the Hawza? Challenges, Issues and Prospects
A lecture by Dr Sabrina Mervin, co-director of l’Institut d’Etudes de l’Islam et des Sociétés du monde Musulman in Paris
Open to all. This event is free of charge and no registration is required.

Tuesday 25 May 2010, 5.30pm
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Council for British Research in the Levant
Dispossession and Displacement: Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa. Is the Past Prologue?
A lecture by Dr Dawn Chatty, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Open to all. This event is free of charge and no registration is required.

Thursday 17 June 2010, 5.30pm (tbc)
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
The British Institute for the Study of Iraq
Women and Gender in Iraq: historical and contemporary perspectives
BISI Bonham Carter Forum and Lecture with Dr Nadje S Al-Ali, SOAS
No tickets required, but please confirm to bisi@britac.ac.uk

Monday 21 June 2010, 6pm
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
The British School at Rome
Herman van Swanevelt, a Dutch Artist in Seventeenth-century Rome
A lecture by Dr Susan Russell, The British School at Rome
For more information visit www.bsr.ac.uk
Open to all. This event is free of charge, to register contact Gill Clark at bsr@britac.ac.uk

Monday 4 October 2010, 5.30pm
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
The Society for Libyan Studies
Recent Developments in Libya
A lecture by Sir Vincent Fean, British Amnbassador to Libya
Open to all. This event is free of charge and no registration is required.

Tuesday 7 December 2010, 5.00pm, following the Society's AGM
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
The Society for Libyan Studies
Beads, Mummies and Monuments: Garamantian Burial Practices and Trans-Saharan Trade
A lecture by Professor David Mattingly FBA, University of Leicester
Open to all. This event is free of charge and no registration is required.