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Friends of ASOR Webinar Series

Friends of ASOR Webinar Series

Friends of ASOR Webinar Series

Friends of ASOR Webinar Series

Friends of ASOR Webinar Series

FRIENDS OF ASOR WEBINARS

Friends of ASOR is excited to announce the 2024-2025 season of our monthly webinar series. Find our upcoming webinars below, click here to see our previous webinars. All webinar proceeds fund scholarships for members as well as increasing ASOR’s online resources for our members and the public.

UPCOMING WEBINARS

16 webinars expected in the 24-25 season

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April 2, 2025

How to Re-Place Carthaginian Votive Dedications into Context

Dr. Brien Garnand (moderated by Dr. Aaron Brody)

PREVIOUS WEBINARS

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March 19, 2025

Amulets and their Critics: Jews, Christians, and Samaritans in Late Antique Palestine

Dr. Megan Nutzman (moderated by Dr. Rebecca Wollenberg)

March 5, 2025

Why is Alexander on the Alexander Sarcophagus? Rethinking a Funerary Monument from Sidon

Dr. Jessica Nitschke (moderated by Dr. Helen Dixon)

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February 19, 2025

The Archaeology of Psychotropic Substances in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia

Dr. David Ilan (moderated by Dr. Sarah Kielt Costello)

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February 5, 2025

Women’s Work in Abydos: Margaret Murray, Amice Calverley, and Myrtle Broome

Dr. Kathleen Sheppard (moderated by Dr. Julia Troche)

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January 22, 2025

Thirsty Work: Building and Brewing on Bronze Age Cyprus

Dr. Lindy Crewe (moderated by Prof. Sturt Manning)

January 8, 2025

Archaeology and Heritage During the Civil War in Sudan: What Can We Do?

Dr. Geoff Emberling (moderated by Prof. Brenda Baker)

December 4, 2024

Who Were the Thracians? Exploring an Enigmatic Ancient Culture at the Getty Villa Museum

Dr. Sara E. Cole (moderated by Dr. Sarah Beckmann)

November 6, 2024

Beyond the Museum Walls: Engaging with Archaeology and New Media

With panelists Michael Zimmerman, Sarah Beckmann, Deidre Brin, and Adam Aja (moderated by Debra Trusty and Tine Rassalle)

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October 23, 2024

“And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam” (I Sam 17:6-7): Weaponry, Weaving, and Broken Similes in the Duel between David and Goliath

Prof. Laura Mazow (moderated by Prof. Margaret Cohen)

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October 9, 2024

Man-Hunting in the Desert: The Ill-Fated Palmer Sinai Expedition of 1882

Dr. James Fraser (moderated by Prof. Ronald Hendel)

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September 18, 2024

How to Plan Your Funeral in Ancient Assyria

Prof. Petra Creamer (moderated by Prof. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni)

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September 4, 2024

What Makes Jerusalem Special?

Prof. Jodi Magness (moderated by Prof. Eric Cline)

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Mark your calendar for our next FOA webinar, "How

Mark your calendar for our next FOA webinar, "How to Re-Place Carthaginian Votive Dedications into Context," on Wednesday, April at 2:00 pm EST, presented by Dr. Brien Garnand. Dr. Garnand will discuss the interpretation of Carthage's liminal open-air votive precinct and demonstrate how 3D models of individual stelae can be replaced into their original positions by using archival site plans and annotated photographs as well as demonstrate how we can create a precise scale model of the excavation site. Register for the free lecture here by clicking the link in our bio.
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Make sure to join us TONIGHT at 7:00pm ET for our

Make sure to join us TONIGHT at 7:00pm ET for our FOA Webinar, "Amulets and their Critics: Jews, Christians, and Samaritans in Late Antique Palestine," presented by Dr. Megan Nutzman. You can still register by clicking the link in our bio! #FOAWebinars

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Alexander Smith received a 2024 Harris Project Gra

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A final reminder that the deadline for the Call fo

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Save the date for our next FOA webinar, "Amulets a

Save the date for our next FOA webinar, "Amulets and their Critics: Jews, Christians, and Samaritans in Late Antique Palestine," presented by Dr. Megan Nutzman on Wednesday, March 19th at 7:00 PM ET. Medical treatments in the ancient Mediterranean world were rudimentary and often unsuccessful, and so individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure their afflictions. Dr. Nutzman will discuss one of the most common forms of ritual healing employed in Roman and late antique Palestine: amulets. Register for the free lecture by clicking the link in our bio.
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Our next CHI project snapshot highlights an ASOR w

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Join the ASOR Early Career Scholars (ECS) Spring 2

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Read the latest Fieldwork Report from Claire Hook.

Read the latest Fieldwork Report from Claire Hook. Claire received a 2024 Katherine Barton Platt Excavation Fellowship to work with the Brač Island Project in Croatia and excavate the hillfort site of Gradina Rat. Read her fieldwork report by clicking the link in our bio.

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Holly Winter received a Study of Collections Fello

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Our next CHI project snapshot highlights an ASOR workshop in Oudhna, Tunisia in 2022 that focused on heritage protection in Libya and Tunisia and provided basic training to participants. Swipe on to read about the workshop. #asorchi

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