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| June 2, 2020 |
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| Board Approves Code of Conduct |
On May 15, 2020, the ASOR Board of Trustees approved a Code of Conduct for the ASOR Annual Meeting and Other ASOR Sponsored Events. This text will be posted at the Annual Meeting in Boston and beyond. Thank you to all those members who worked on the language for this policy. Read more . . .
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| Libya Update: Nalut Workshop Part 2 |
With funding from the U.S. Department of State, ASOR’s team in Libya hosted a weekend workshop in Nalut, a city in the Nafusa region of western Libya. The second part of the workshop focused on the intersection of cultural and natural heritage, with visits to local geological formations and the Nalut Museum of Dinosaurs and Natural History. Read more . . .
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| Redesigned Online Resources Homepage |
The Online Resources homepage has undergone a makeover. We now need your input to make further improvements. We seek to expand our offerings of recorded lectures, online databases, archives (e.g. the past issues of ANE Today), collections, tips for online teaching, and anything else that would be useful to your fellow members and the public. We will be featuring a new resource at the top of this page every week. Help us carry out our mission more effectively by sending resource suggestions to programs@asor.org.
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| Honors & Awards Spotlight: Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran |
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At the 2019 Annual Meeting, Sidnie White Crawford received the Frank Moore Cross Award (an award named for her dissertation director) for her book, Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran. This award is for a volume related to the history and/or religion of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. Read more about this award and how to nominate books for ASOR awards. Read more . . . |
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| Membership Scholarships Available For COVID-19 Financial Hardships |
The ASOR family is a strong and close one, and that fact has never been more evident than in these challenging and stressful times. As part of our ongoing efforts to support our members, we are pleased that we have membership scholarships available for any current or lapsed ASOR member. Thanks to several anonymous donors, we have enough funds to pay the membership fee for those who have experienced a financial hardship related (directly or indirectly) to the COVID-19 crisis. Read more . . .
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| Harvard Renames Its Semitic Museum |
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ASOR Member Institution, Harvard Semitic Museum, has decided to rename its museum from the long-standing "Semitic Museum" to the "Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East" (HMANE) to better "reflect its core mission in clearer terms,” according to Director Peter Der Manuelian. Read the interview with Dr. Manuelian in the Harvard Gazette that describes this watershed decision and the history behind this storied institution, founded in 1889. Read more . . . |
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| Featured Online Resource: ECS Video Series |
The Early Career Scholars (ECS) of ASOR presented a virtual brown bag lunch entitled, “Online Teaching: From Triage to Best Practices” on April 2, 2020. More senior and early career scholars joined forces to discuss online vs. face to face course design, synchronous vs. asynchonous course elements, intellectual property, etc. ASORtv is excited to share this informative series. Watch the video now . . .
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| 120 Years of ASOR: The Jerusalem School |
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It was in 1921 that ASOR received its name as the American Schools of Oriental Research. This name change signified that the scope of research, both geographically and historically, was greatly expanded from the original goals of the organization in the Levant. Continue exploring the 120 years of scholarship at ASOR with the second segment of this institutional history! Read more . . . |
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