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| November 6, 2014 |
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| Membership Info |
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| Special Events at the 2014 Annual Meeting |
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This year's Annual Meeting in San Diego has a few special events lined up. Please follow the link to a list of the events, including the Plenary Address with Jason Ur, the Welcome Reception, the USCD Reception hosted by the Qualcomm Institute, the CAARI Reception, and more! Two new events this year are the Syrian Heritage Initiative Luncheon & Symposium and the UCLA Reception. 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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| 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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| American Institute of Iranian Studies Sends Three Scholars to ASOR Annual Meeting |
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The American Institute of Iranian Studies is a non-profit consortium of US universities and museums, founded in 1967 for the purpose of promoting the interdisciplinary study of Iranian civilization and US-Iran dialogue. In the belief that person-to-person connections are essential for fostering mutual understanding, AIIrS serves as the main conduit for academic and cultural exchange between Iran and the US. AIIrS has awarded scholarships for three Iranian scholars to attend the ASOR Annual Meeting. Be sure to hear their papers at the meeting in San Diego. Read more... |
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| 14th Annual Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize - 2015 |
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The William F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem announces the 2015 Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize call for papers. This prize provides $650 for the best published article or paper presented at a conference by a Ph.D. candidate in Syro-Palestinian or biblical archaeology. Authors may be of any nationality but the article or paper must be in English. Co-written or co-presented pieces may be submitted if all the authors or presenters are doctoral candidates; the prize, if awarded, will be divided equally among authors/presenters. Read more... |
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| ACLS Humanities E-Book Releases Round 11 |
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The American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-Book (HEB) recently released Round 11 of their online collection. These 353 titles bring the total of the volumes in the collection to 4,315. The new round includes additional titles from two of HEB’s original publishing partners, Oxford University Press and Harvard University Press, as well as books from new partners such as University of Toronto Press and Michigan State University Press. Read more... |
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| Obituary: Dr. Roger W. Anderson, Jr., Long Time Hesi Digger |
"Roger W. Anderson, Jr., long time Hesi digger and staff member, passed away unexpectedly in October at his home in Mukilteo, Washington. At the time of his death he was hard at work preparing the Early Bronze III materials excavated at Hesi for publication. He had made great progress in collecting and organizing the materials. He was looking forward to presenting a talk in San Diego on finding, identifying, and reinterpreting the Early Bronze Age materials that Petrie and Bliss had excavated at Hesi in the 1890s. More than that, however, Roger was a really nice guy who will be greatly missed by his family, friends, and colleagues."
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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. ASOR was also well represented. 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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| 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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