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| August 2, 2016 |
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| Mitigation and Restoration Work at Bosra al Sham: Helping Syrians Safeguard Their Cultural Heritage |
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ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives (ASOR CHI) helps Syrians and Iraqis protect their cultural heritage. Many of ASOR CHI's efforts have focused necessarily on documentation and awareness. Yet, in the midst of war, we are pleased to share hopeful and encouraging results from mitigation and restoration projects carried out by Syrians. Read more ... |
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| Annual Meeting Travel Grant Deadline August 15th |
The deadline to apply for an Annual Meeting travel grant is fast approaching. ASOR offers ten travel scholarships of $250 for students enrolled at ASOR member institutions. Through a generous gift of The Foundation for Biblical Archaeology, ASOR will offer up to six scholarships of $700 each for students to attend the Annual Meeting and provide work to support the meeting. Applications must be submitted by email and are due by August 15, 2016. Read more ...
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| Fiscal Year 2016 Honor Roll |
We would like to thank everyone who donated to ASOR in 2016. Your generous gifts directly help our mission to initiate, encourage, and support research into, and public understanding of, the history and cultures of the Near East and wider Mediterranean, from the earliest times. Every donation helps us foster original research, encourage scholarship, disseminate research, and more! Click here to see the full list of donors.
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| Cultural Heritage Initiatives Weekly Report 99-100 |
In the latest ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives Weekly Report you will find information on 15 mosques in the city of Fallujah, Anbar Governorate damaged or occupied by military forces between May 22 (the beginning of the recapture of Fallujah from ISIL militants) and June 28, 2016 (ASOR CHI Incident Report IHI 16-0019), a suicide bomber targeted the Sunni al-Nour Mosque in Abu Ghraib District, Baghdad Governorate (ASOR CHI Incident Report IHI 16-0020), and more. Read the full report here.
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| Annual Meeting Status and Hotel Room Update |
Summer is in full swing! ASOR members are in the field, traveling, and working on research projects, and the ASOR staff is actively preparing for the 2016 ASOR Annual Meeting to be held November 16-19 in San Antonio, Texas at La Cantera Hill Country Resort.
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| ASOR Member Irene Winter Elected as Member of the American Philosophical Society |
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ASOR member Irene Winter, Professor Emerita in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the former William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University, was elected as one of the thirty-three new members of the American Philosophical Society at its Spring 2016 meeting. Read more ... |
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