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| June 16, 2020 |
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| ASOR Links |
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| ASOR Affirms ACLS' Statement on Equity & Justice |
ASOR affirms and supports the statement made by The American Council of Learned Societies, an organization of which ASOR is member, on the role humanistic studies play in fostering equity and justice in society. Read more . . .
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| Meet The New BASOR Editorial Team |
ASOR is pleased to announce the appointment of the new editors of The Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR)—a team of four scholars from the United States and Europe. Read more about the backgrounds of the team that will start their terms in January 2021. Read more . . .
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| 2019 ASOR-GCI Conservation Workshop Highlights |
The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), in collaboration with the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), organized a workshop on conservation and archaeology for selected directors of excavations and members of ASOR following its Annual Meeting in November 2019 in San Diego, CA. Read more . . .
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| Endangered Cultural Heritage of the Middle East: The Jewish Heritage of Iraq and Syria |
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The Jewish Cultural Heritage Initiative (JCHI)—a joint project of the London-based Foundation for Jewish Heritage and the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)—has completed its initial assessment of present and past Jewish heritage sites in Iraq and Syria. Thanks to the generous sponsorship provided by the Thomas S. Kaplan and Daphne Recanati Family to the Foundation for Jewish Heritage, this work has identified the location and condition of 368 settlements and heritage sites from antiquity to the present day in this once vibrant center of Jewish life. Read more . . . |
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| Call for Applications for Fellowship Program for Emerging Displaced Scholars |
In partnership with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Columbia Global Centers in Amman is now accepting applications for the second cohort of the Fellowship Program for Emerging Displaced Scholars (starting in Jan 2021). Eligible candidates are scholars working in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who have been forcibly uprooted from their home countries and respective academic institutions. The deadline for applications has been extended to June 30, 2020. Click here for more information and/or to apply for the fellowship.
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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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| 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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| 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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