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| July 19, 2016 |
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| Membership Info |
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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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| 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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| Posters on Parade Deadline August 1st |
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Are you working hard this summer and want to share your research with colleagues and others in the field? The 2016 ASOR Annual Meeting, November 16-19, in San Antonio, TX is the perfect venue! The deadline to submit your abstract for the Projects on Parade Poster Session is Monday, August 1, 2016. Read more ... |
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| Thank You! From the National Humanities Alliance |
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The National Humanities Alliance thanks all who took action to urge legislators to protect funding for the Department of Education’s international education programs! The House Appropriations Committee approved a bill providing $65.103 Million for Title VI and $7.061 Million for Fulbright-Hays international education programs. Read more ... |
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| Congratulations to the 2016 ACLS Fellowship Recipients! |
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ASOR would like to congratulate Jesse Casana, Asa Eger, and George Anthony Keddie on receiving fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. ACLS fellowships and grants are awarded to individual scholars for excellence in research in the humanities and related social sciences. Read more ... |
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| Honorific and Memorial Gifts from Fiscal Year 2016 |
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We just concluded Fiscal Year 2016 last Thursday (June 30, 2016). During the past twelve months, quite a few people from the larger ASOR family have supported our organization by making gifts in honor and memory of friends and loved ones. Please follow this link to view the full list of names and gifts. |
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| Richard L. Coffman Begins Term as ASOR Board Chair |
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ASOR is pleased to announce that Richard L. Coffman began a three-year term as Chairman of the Board of Trustees on July 1, 2016. The ASOR Board unanimously and enthusiastically elected Coffman to the position at its April 2016 meeting in Washington, D.C. Coffman follows Dr. B. W. Ruffner who served as Board Chair for three years. Read more... |
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| Cultural Heritage Initiatives Weekly Report 97-98 |
In the latest ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives Weekly Report you will find information on recent DigitalGlobe satellite imagery showing the complete destruction of the Nergal Gate at the archaeological site of Nineveh, Ninawa Governorate. Updates on the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh, Ninawa Governorate. New information showing two additional mosques damaged (allegedly by the Popular Mobilization Front) in al-Karmah District, al-Anbar Governorate, and more. Read the full report here.
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