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| December 8, 2020 |
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| Membership Info |
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Member Type: Staff Membership
Expiration Date: 8/27/21
Member ID: 9736440
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| Eric Meyers & Early Synagogues This Sunday |
It is the last week to register for our next FOA Webinar on December 13 at 7:30pm EST, featuring Dr. Eric Meyers and "Early Synagogues, Jesus, and Galilee—A Jewish Perspective." An expert in Judaic studies, Dr. Meyers will discuss how archaeological work in Galilee over the past generation and a half has demonstrated that this region was overwhelmingly Jewish in the first century BCE and CE. In this lecture, Prof. Eric Meyers will take us on a journey across the Holy Land to discover how Judaism, and its places of worship, have evolved over the centuries. Register and pay here. Price is $5 for ASOR members and $10 for non-members. All proceeds will help ASOR respond to COVID-19 by funding membership scholarships and online resources.
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| ASOR Virtual Annual Meeting 2020 Recap |
ASOR’s 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting was a great success! Thank you to everyone who participated from around the world. There were 1,085 registrants from 39 countries and 6 continents. Check out the Virtual Exhibit Gallery and watch more than 430 recorded workshop, paper, and poster presentations. Remember, the digital academic content will remain online through June 2021 and access to ASOR's Online Library is now available. Read more . . .
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| Update to Excavation Grants & Fellowships for 2021 |
As prospects for fieldwork in 2021 and international travel continue to be impacted by COVID-19, ASOR grants and fellowships will be a little different this year. ASOR seeks to continue to support our members' research through excavation grants. In lieu of excavation fellowships for students, ASOR will be offering Summer Stipends for students to take part in research that does not require international travel. Read more about ASOR grants and student stipends here.
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| Libyan Update from ASOR's VAM: Museums in a Suitcase |
Over a dozen of ASOR’s Libyan colleagues took part in the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting, thanks to support from the U.S. Department of State’s Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), the Cultural Antiquities Task Force (CATF), and the U.S. Embassy Libya External Office (LEO). The meeting provided a forum for people to hear about the work of our Libyan colleagues and exchange ideas on best practices in cultural heritage stewardship. Click here to watch the paper by Intisar Elarebi of the Libyan Department of Antiquities on "Museums in a Suitcase: Recent Successes and Future Prospects."
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| Coming Soon – 2021 Call for Session and Workshop Proposals |
ASOR’s 2021 Annual Meeting will be held November 17-20 in Chicago, and will include a second virtual component to be held online December 9-12. Starting next week, ASOR members will be invited to submit proposals for the Chicago meeting, and/or the virtual program. The brief application form will ask for a list of 4 to 6 potential speakers and if the proposed session/workshop will be held in Chicago, online, or both. The deadline to submit proposals will be January 15, and ASOR’s 2021 Call for Papers will open on February 15. The application form, deadlines, and other important information will be posted by Tuesday, December 15 to ASOR’s 2021 Call for Member-Organized Sessions and Workshops.
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| Inaugural Shepard Grant: The Tabira Gate Stabilization Project |
ASOR's Shepard Urgent Action Grants program was created in 2020 to support emergency and rapid response activities on archaeological sites in the greater Mediterranean region. Dr. Tobin Hartnell reports on the stabilization of the Tabira Gate at Ashur, the first project to benefit from a Shepard Grant. The Gate had been badly damaged since 2015 when ISIL attempted to destroy the Assyrian-era gateway and was in urgent need of stabilization before the rainy season. Read more . . .
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| Call for Applications for ASOR Program Committee & Session Chairs Openings |
ASOR’s Program Committee (PC) is responsible for the intellectual content of the Annual Meeting, specifically determining the sessions to be held and the academic schedule. PC members volunteer to serve a term of 3 years with the possibility of renewing for a second term. The PC currently seeks applications from members with a research focus in Hebrew Bible, texts, and epigraphy. The application form is brief and can be submitted online. The deadline to apply is January 1, 2021.
The PC is also seeking applications for 5 Session Chair openings, Archaeology and Biblical Studies; Archaeology of Cyprus; Archaeology of Iran; Archaeology of Islamic Society; and Archaeology of the Near East: Bronze and Iron Ages. Session Chairs volunteer to serve one term (three years, 2021-2023) with the possibility of renewing for a second term. Session Chair applications are due by December 15, 2020.
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| Herbert Warren Mason Fellowship Established |
Established in memory of Herbert W. Mason, a scholar of ancient and medieval Near Eastern texts and contemporary literatures, this fellowship will be awarded biennially to a scholar/poet/writer/artist whose project proposal comes closest in scope to Herbert Mason’s oeuvre. The award of $5,000 may be used to support travel expenditures to special collections, acquire access to rare or hard to find research materials, art illustrations of a proposal, or to further scholarly studies. Applications for the Mason Fellowship will be available in late summer of 2021. Read more . . .
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