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| October 7, 2014 |
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| Save the Date: Syrian Heritage Initiative Symposium |
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ASOR's Syrian Heritage Initiative (SHI), will be hosting a public Symposium at the 2014 ASOR Annual Meeting on Sunday, November 23 at the Westin San Diego hotel. The goals of the SHI Symposium are to raise awareness about the challenges facing Syrian cultural heritage preservation and to provide a forum where heritage specialists and the public can engage in discussions about the project. If you are attending the Annual Meeting, we hope that you will stay through Sunday to participate in this exciting and important event. Read more... |
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| 2015 Annual Meeting Call for Member-Organized Sessions and Workshop Sessions |
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ASOR members may propose Member-Organized Sessions around a specific theme, or Workshop Sessions that minimize formal presentation in favor of open discussion. Sessions and workshops may be approved for up to 3 years and can accommodate presenters invited by the session chair as well as papers submitted by ASOR members (with the approval of the session chair). Deadline for session and workshop proposals is December 15, 2014. Read more... |
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| Accessing the Friends of ASOR Content |
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If you became a Friend of ASOR prior to August 17th and you're asking to log into the blog - don’t worry. All you have to do is create your login below. You will not receive duplicate emails, nor will your Friends of ASOR status be changed. Read more... |
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| ASOR at the Cultural Heritage Event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
A little less than two months ago, the American Schools of Oriental Research entered into a collaborative agreement with U.S. Department of State to document, preserve, and prevent damage to cultural heritage sites in Syria. The five co-directors for the project are Scott Branting, Jesse Casana, Michael Danti, Abdal-razzaq Moaz, and Andrew Vaughn. LeeAnn Barnes Gordon is Project Manager for Conservation and Heritage Preservation. On Monday, September 22, 2014, many in the international cultural heritage community gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for an event titled "Heritage in Peril: Iraq and Syria." Read more...
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| A Gala Weekend in Durham |
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A gala weekend celebration was held on September 12-13, at Duke University in Durham, NC, in honor of two of ASOR’s most dedicated and long-standing members, Eric and Carol Meyers. The primary celebrants were former “Duke Diggers,” who, between 1970 and 2000, had dug with Eric and Carol at their various excavations in the Galilee: Khirbet Shema, Meiron, Gush Halav, Nabratein, and Sepphoris. But ASOR was well represented too. The weekend was superbly organized by Sheldon Fox, who is not only a former Duke digger but the former Treasurer of ASOR (and a current ASOR Trustee). Read more... |
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| ACOR Fellowship Announcement 2015-2016 |
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National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship: One to two awards of four to six months for scholars who have a Ph.D. or have completed their professional training. Fields of research include: modern and classical languages, linguistics, literature, history, jurisprudence, philosophy, archaeology, comparative religion, ethics, and the history, criticism, and theory of the arts. Social and political scientists are encouraged to apply. The award for six months is $25,200. Awards must be used between August 15, 2015 and December 31, 2016. Read more... |
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| Non-Book Award Nomination Deadline Extended to Friday |
The deadline for ASOR's non-book award nomination has been extended to this Friday, October 10, 2014. Different awards include: The Richard J. Scheuer Medal, The Charles U. Harris Service Award, The P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award, The W. F. Albright Award, and the ASOR Membership Service Award. For more information regarding award descriptions and how to nominate, please visit our website.
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| An Open Letter from the New Editors of BASOR |
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The Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research has long been one of the most important and respected refereed journals in the field, a reflection of the broad emphases and high caliber of the membership of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Moreover, for some twenty years now, James Weinstein has served in a peerless manner as the editor of BASOR, with various people assisting him, most recently the winsome and indefatigable Larry Herr. Read more... |
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| Help Make Digs Safer and Take the Survey Today |
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Stories about romantic escapades and happy relationships that began on archaeological excavations are legend, as anyone who has worked on a dig can surely attest. 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 is designed to understand the ways in which archaeological fieldwork does – or does not – provide a safe and secure setting for all participants. Read more... |
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| WorldMap – Geospatial Visualization and the Digital Humanities |
By: Jeff Howry, Ph.D., Research Associate, Semitic Museum
WorldMap is a collaborative, interactive web-based mapping platform, not just a static presentation of map data. Users can contribute data to build their own maps or add their own data layers using any of 13 different base maps provided by Bing, Google, ESRI, OpenStreetMap and others. Users can comment or annotate places on existing maps that they or others create. Maps and layers created by users can be private, shared with designated colleagues and classmates or published publicly. Read more... |
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