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| August 16, 2016 |
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| Membership Info |
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| 4 Ways You Can Help Protect Cultural Heritage |
Cultural heritage plays an active role in people’s everyday lives. It is a way for people to express themselves, and it also connects us. Even though our cultures, our language, our religion, or our ethnicity may be very different, there are certain elements within cultural heritage that bring us together. Protecting all that is a daunting task. You may be thinking to yourself, “What can I do? I’m not an expert in this field.” Read more...
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| Board Nominations Committee Seeks Nominees |
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ASOR's Board Nominations Committee is seeking names of people who are willing to be considered for nomination to the ASOR Board of Trustees (Class of 2019). The committee seeks individuals who are willing to consider service as either Individual Trustees or as Institutional Representative Trustees. Read more... |
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| 3 Threats to Cultural Heritage in Syria and Iraq |
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The Islamic State and other radical groups engaged in the conflict in Syria and Iraq over the last three years receive much of the blame for the destruction of cultural heritage. However, these groups are not the only forces damaging heritage sites in the region. Click here to read about three things you may not realize are threatening cultural heritage. |
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| Remembrance: George E. Mendenhall |
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ASOR mourns the passing of Prof. George Mendenhall of the University of Michigan. Prof. Mendenhall was one of ASOR’s most generous supporters and our longest continuously serving member (since the 1930’s). A veteran of the Pacific theater in World War II and a student of Prof. William F. Albright, Mendenhall was one of the the most important scholars of his generation. He passed away just eight days shy of his 100th birthday. He was the Annual Professor at the American School in Jerusalem in 1955-56; he served as the Director of the School in 1965-66, and thereafter served for several years on the Jerusalem School Committee, until he joined the Amman Committee in 1971. He served as director of the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman in Spring 1975. Click here for a full remembrance. |
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| 2016 ASOR Program-at-a-Glance is Now Available Online |
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Wondering when a session at ASOR is taking place? The 2016 Program at-a-Glance is available online. Meeting highlights include the Plenary Address and Welcome Reception on Wednesday night, the Members’ Meeting on Thursday, the Junior Scholars Panel on Friday, numerous receptions, and complimentary shuttle busses to the downtown/Riverwalk area on Saturday night. Check the site often for updates including the complete academic program and the schedule of business meetings and special functions. |
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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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News@ASOR is supported by the Kershaw Family Trust
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Boston, MA 02215-2010
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