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| ASOR's Cultural Heritage Committee Responds to the Destruction in Mosul |
ASOR's recently-formed Cultural Heritage Committee (chaired by Sturt Manning, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology, Cornell University) has issued this statement in response to last week's news regarding ISIS's destruction of archaeological remains in the Mosul Museum and the nearby Nergal Gate at Nineveh.
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| Uncovering the Past: The Nelson Glueck Collections |
The ASOR Archives recently launched an online exhibit showcasing materials from the Nelson Glueck collections. The online exhibit was made possible thanks to generous grants from the David Berg Foundation and the Lanier Theological Library as well as other donors and foundations. Read Glueck’s pre- and post-WWII journals and correspondence, and browse an image gallery of photos he took during his many expeditions into the desert, where he identified hundreds of sites.
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| ASOR's Journey to be Green |
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The ASOR office has made an effort to be a little greener as we do our part to further Near Eastern archaeology. Changes from how we deliver content, send out reminders, clean our work space, and eat our numerous snacks are all ways we try to be a little more green. Read more for a full list and some photos taken in our office, as well as a chance to contribute some of your own green ideas! Read more... |
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| J.M. Kaplan Fund Awards ASOR $57,000 to Expand its Syrian Heritage Initiative |
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On January 13, 2015, the J.M. Kaplan Fund awarded ASOR $57,000 to expand our Syrian Heritage Initiative. The project is part of a $756,000 cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of State to document, protect, and preserve the cultural heritage of war-torn Syria. Read more... |
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| Visiting Assistant Professor Position in Classical Archaeology |
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The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University invites applications for a visiting assistant professor position in the field of Classical archaeology, with a preference for candidates with research interests in the Classical, Hellenistic or Roman periods. Scholars with museum experience and/or active fieldwork projects are of particular interest. Teaching will be at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; interdisciplinary offerings are desirable. All candidates should submit a letter of application and a curriculum vitae by April 6, 2015. Read more... |
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| ASOR Survives the Storm |
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This winter has been an eventful one. In Boston, where our main office is located, we’ve seen more than 100 inches of snow. Only 5.8 inches shy of the all-time record of 107.8 inches that fell in 1995-96! This is the snowiest month on record, the snowiest February, and the second snowiest winter in recorded history. With only a few weeks left till spring, we may still break that record—not that anyone in our office is hoping for that. We’re all ready for warmer weather. Read more... |
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| CASOR Mary Louise Mussel Student Travel Fellowship |
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The Mary Louise Mussell Student Travel Fellowship was established for students who wish to participate in archaeological field research in the Middle East. Mary-Louise Mussell will be remembered as the lead excavator of the early Christian church of Roman Aila (modern Aqaba). Dr. Mussell lost a long and arduous battle with cancer on January 23, 2005. Read more... |
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| Valentine's Day Trivia Winner - Mina Hanna! |
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This Valentine's Day, we sent out our 2nd annual Valentine's Day Trivia question! Last year, Helen Dixon answered how many roses would it take to equal the length of all the abstracts submitted and took home the prize. This year, Mina Hanna answered the correct birthday for our ASOR website! The ASOR website was created on March 17, 1997, meaning there's only two more weeks till its birthday! We hope Mina enjoys his $50 credit to the ASOR store. Read more... |
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| Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions: Call for Papers |
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The Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions is hosting Religion on the Ground: A SAMR Conference in Conjunction with the 2015 IAHR in Erfurt, Germany on August 22, 2015. A major development in the study of ancient religion over the past few decades has been the growing emphasis on the social, material, and experiential realities of non-elites. This development has affected both the sorts of questions scholars are asking, and the sorts of data on which they draw to formulate their answers. Rather than focusing on the philosophical or theological concerns of elite texts, scholars have sought to bring a wider body of evidence to bear on understanding and interpreting the lived experience of religion. The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 3, 2015. For more information, click here. |
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| JPASS - Individual Access to All JSTOR Journals For ASOR Members |
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ASOR has partnered with JSTOR to provide individual access to the most influential research and ideas published in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences over centuries anytime, anywhere. Regardless of your institutional affiliation, JPASS serves as your personal library card to the rich selection of journals on JSTOR, roughly 83% of its content. Current ASOR members can receive a 50% discount if they sign up for JPASS through ASOR. JPASS includes unlimited reading and 120 article downloads from the JSTOR archival collections. Read more... |
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| Syrian Heritage Initiative Facebook and Website Update |
The ASOR Syrian Heritage Initiative is part of a broad, international effort to document, protect, and preserve the cultural heritage of war-torn Syria. For regular updates about the rapidly evolving crisis, follow along with the Syrian Heritage Initiative on our new Facebook page. “Like” the page for immediate access to our newest Weekly Reports and for up-to-the-minute information about developing stories and important news items. Keep checking the two resources available for the most recent updates on the Syrian Heritage Initiative!
Syrian Heritage Initiative website
Syrian Heritage Initiative Facebook page
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