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| September 17, 2015 |
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| Membership Info |
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Member Type: No membership
Expiration Date: N/A
Member ID: None
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| NEA Special Issue on Cultural Heritage - OPEN ACCESS |
The most recent Near Eastern Archaeology (Vol. 78.3, September 2015) is a special issue on cultural heritage entitled, "The Cultural Heritage Crisis in the Middle East." Given the relevance of this topic and the work ASOR's Cultural Heritage Initiatives has accomplished to help preserve the heritage threatened today, we've made this issue open access on JSTOR for any interested reader. To view the issue online now, click here. To learn more about how you can receive future issues of NEA, click here.
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| 2015 Academic Program and Business Schedule |
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The Academic Program and Business Schedule are now available on the Annual Meeting website. We are pleased to offer 92 sessions and more than 400 papers, as well as several receptions and special events. Please email Arlene Press by September 25 if you see that we need to make a correction to your name, affiliation, or paper title. |
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| Call to Action from Our Friends at CAORC |
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Our friends at CAORC (the Council of American Overseas Research Centers), and the Overseas Research Centers they represent (including our close affiliates, the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman, and the Cyprus-Ameican Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia), have asked for our help as they look toward securing Title VI funding for the upcoming fiscal year. We're glad to pass this information along, so that ASOR members who wish to support CAORC's efforts will be able to do so. Read more... |
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| Survey on Field Safety (2015): Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean Basin |
Stories about romantic escapades on archaeological excavations are legend, as anyone who has worked on a dig can surely attest. We have all heard about happy relationships that began in the field and thrived for decades. But as we also know, excavation lore contains stories of other kinds of “relationships” as well. This Survey on Field Safety: Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean Basin (2015) is designed to understand the ways in which archaeological fieldwork does – or does not – provide a safe and secure setting for all participants. In particular, it focuses on physical and emotional safety from intimidation, harassment and violence based on gender, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity. Read more...
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| Waitlist is Now Open for Annual Meeting Hotel |
The InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta has sold out of rooms at ASOR’s discounted rate ($149+) for Thursday, Nov. 19 and Friday, Nov. 20. There are a limited number of rooms available on all other nights. Please email Arlene Press if you would like to be added to a waitlist for rooms that open due to cancellations and changes, or if you would like to reserve a room for nights other than Thursday and Friday. In your email please include the nights that you need a room and your room preference (king or double).
Important: If you need to cancel an existing reservation at The InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta, please email Arlene Press instead of going through the hotel so that we are able to reallocate your room to an ASOR attendee on the waitlist.
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| ASOR's Cultural Heritage Initiatives Seeks Project Manager for Arabic Communications and Syrian Cultural Heritage |
ASOR's Cultural Heritage Initiatives is seeking qualified individuals for the position of Project Manager for Arabic Communications and Syrian Cultural Heritage. The Project Manager for Arabic Communications and Syrian Cultural Heritage will work collaboratively with the Cultural Heritage Initiatives (CHI) of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) to gather documentation of the condition of cultural heritage in Syria with a particular focus on Arabic language sources. Additionally the Specialist will contribute to weekly reporting activities and assist with Arabic translation for other areas of the project. Read more...
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| Elections for Individual and Institutional Board Members Will be Held Online |
This year, in an effort to increase participation among all ASOR members, we will hold the elections for Individual and Institutional Board Members via email. We will send an email in a special voting format provided by our email marketing provider, Informz. All votes will remain anonymous and the system ensures that everyone only votes once. If you prefer, you may contact the office to vote by mail. Additional information, including the names of the nominees, mission statements, and biographies will be posted in the next 10 days. In the mean time, please click here to view a brief description on how the voting process will take place over email.
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| Initiative on the Status of Women Facebook Group |
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The Initiative on the Status of Women Facebook group is a forum in which ASOR’s members and friends can raise and discuss issues facing women working in all facets of archaeology and Near Eastern studies, whether in the field or in other venues. The Initiative strives to be positive, active, resourceful, and problem solving. Your ideas, thoughts, observations, questions, and concerns are all welcome. So are posts about relevant articles, books, conferences, and so forth. Please join the conversation. View page... |
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| "Blast from the Past" Call for Photos |
You may have seen in a recent report by Susan Ackerman regarding news from the field, that there was a great Then/Now photo of Thomas Levy at Gezer. With this spark of inspiration, ASOR would like to do a "Blast from the Past" photo series! Have you been working at the same dig for a number of years? Do you have the opportunity to send us a "then" and "now" photo of you at that site? Send submissions to Kaitlynn Anderson and you could be featured on our blog and social media sites!
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