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| June 5, 2018 |
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| Membership Info |
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Member Type: No membership
Expiration Date: N/A
Member ID: None
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| ASOR is on the Move! |
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After relocating to temporary offices in Boston last summer, and after extensive discussions, the ASOR Board has decided that ASOR can best support our program goals by purchasing a facility in the Washington, D.C. area to serve as ASOR’s permanent and independent home. ASOR will begin relocating our offices this summer. Read more … |
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| New ASOR Early Career Scholars Social Media Accounts |
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The Early Career Scholars Committee (formerly Junior Scholars Committee) is proud to introduce to the ASOR community our new Facebook page and (@ASOR-ECS)! This past year our committee motioned for a name change to one that better personifies the diverse community we represent and to elevate the status of the newest generation of students, scholars, teachers, researchers, and the like. |
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| Request for Honors & Awards Nominations |
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Do you know someone who has made an outstanding contribution to our field or has performed service above and beyond to our organization and deserves to be recognized? The Honors and Awards Committee is currently accepting nominations! Click here for a description of the award and honor categories and click here to submit a nomination. For a list of previous awardees, click here. |
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| NEH Grant to Digitally Preserve Syrian Tablets |
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"The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Matthew Rutz, an associate professor of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown, a $166,632 grant to digitally preserve clay tablets that are important to Syria’s cultural heritage. The project, co-directed by Jacob Lauinger of The Johns Hopkins University, will enable researchers to explore the country’s ancient history and provide critical new tools for understanding the the writing on the tablets." Read more ... |
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| Fellowship Recipient Report - Samuel Wolff |
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Samuel Wolff, recipient of the 2017 Study of Collections Fellowship Recipient, writes about visiting the offices of the Palestine Exploration Fund in London in order to study the archival material from the 1934 excavation directed by Alan Rowe at the western side of Tel Gezer. Click here to read his report, "Research in the Palestine Exploration Fund Archives." |
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| Winners of the Gitin Pottery Volumes |
In order to further support ASOR's Student and Early Career Members, ASOR gave away 60 sets of Seymour Gitin's The Ancient Pottery of Israel and Its Neighbors from the Iron Age through the Hellenistic Period. These volumes are an outstanding resource—indeed, many are calling them "The Ceramics Bible."
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| ASOR/EPHE European Symposium |
The ASOR Membership and Outreach Committee is pleased to announce its first overseas outreach initiative at the Sorbonne, in partnership with Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes – Paris Sciences et Lettres (EPHE-PSL), in Paris, September 4-6, 2018. The event will be a scholarly symposium with honorary chairs Susan Ackerman, President of ASOR, and Hubert Bost, President of EPHE-PSL.
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| ASOR Summer Schedule in Effect |
Starting in June, the ASOR office in Boston will be open longer hours Monday-Thursday and close at noon on Fridays. This schedule will continue through the end of August. We appreciate your cooperation.
The ASOR office in Boston will also be moving to another temporary office in Boston at the end of June, and we will have a new (temporary) phone number until late December. The new number will be (617) 236-0408. We appreciate your patience during this time of transition. |
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