ACOR promotes research & publication across disciplines, w/ a special emphasis on archaeology in Jordan. Learn more at https://xitter.cf/t.co/74bhNK12D4
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Discover intriguing insights about the ancient biblical world during the 18th Annual Archaeology Discovery Weekend, Saturday – Sunday, Nov. 14 – 15. Themed “People & Places of the New Testament World,” this two-day event will offer lectures by world-renowned scholars, exhibits and hands-on activities that will focus on archaeological and historical figures, sites and artifacts. Topics to include the Shroud of Turn, the Pool of Bethesda, the House of Caiaphas, and historical biographies of characters such as Herod, Mary, James and Paul.
Information: lasierra.edu/archaeology
Admission: FREE Meanwhile, learn about the adventures of La Sierra’s archaeologists in the field this summer in Jordan, where they returned to excavate at the Balu’a Regional Archaeological Project. Read the BRAP Beat newsletters detailing the intriguing discoveries and daily work of archaeologists and volunteers from La Sierra University and other institutions in the U.S., Canada and Germany:
BRAP Beat: bit.ly/4xUf7ic
@riversidecagov @loveriverside16 @archaeologymag #Archaeology #WeAreLaSierra #ChangeYourWorld
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Pleasure meeting Dr. Pearce Paul Creasman, Director of the American Center of Research @ACORJordan. Productive discussion on research collaboration, cultural heritage preservation, and development cooperation opportunities. Looking forward to strengthening our partnership!🤝🏛️📚
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OCLC has introduced the Arabic Discovery Catalog, a new initiative that brings together bibliographic records from libraries in Arab countries into one catalog to enhance discoverability and visibility of these collections.
⤵️ Learn more. #OCLCnews 🧵 1/3 oc.lc/3Necv9z
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On Nov 13, the American Research Institute in #Turkey is hosting a virtual & in-person talk on '#Ottoman Art in America: A Century Long Artistic Relationship Between Türkiye and the United States' by ARIT Istanbul Director Dr. Zeynep Simavi! aritweb.org/events/ #arthistory
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6 years after we started, 732 pages translating philosophy from the Islamic East responding to Ibn Sina!
A labor of love from myself and co-author Fedor Benevich... with two more volumes on the way.
It is also available open access here:
brill.com/display/title/6139…
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The Project on Middle East Political Science is thrilled to announce POMEPS Studies 49: Urban Politics in the Middle East! Download the full PDF here! pomeps.org/pomeps-studies-49…
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Out now! 'Living Communities and Their Archaeologies in the Middle East', edited by @rickbonnie, @MartaLorenzon, and Suzie Thomas.
The book is freely available in #OA. Access here: doi.org/10.33134/HUP-19
#archaeology #community #MiddleEast
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Join us TOMORROW at 3:00PM EDT for the Friends of ASOR Webinar "The Hellenistic Archive at Tel Kedesh: The Long and Serendipitous Road to Publication-1999-2023" Presented by Sharon Herbert!
Learn more and register here: buff.ly/3Lf7cG7
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My talk, “Teaching Turkish: The Evolution of Diplomatic Language Schools in the 18th Century”, about how changing pedagogical practices at schools for diplomatic interpreters in Istanbul, Paris, & Vienna informed a tradition of orientalist scholarship. youtube.com/watch?v=Yn1UcQQJ…
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New issue of ACOR Jordan Newsletter Vol. 35, No. 1 (2023) publications.acorjordan.org/… @ACORJordan
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📢 The @UniofOxford 's Endangered Cultural Heritage in the Global South Hub (ECHGS) invites the submission of papers:
Reporting Heritage Destruction: A Double-Edged Sword?
3️⃣ conference themes to choose from
🔴 Submission deadline: 10th September 2023 🔴 buff.ly/47FcpjM
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Applications are being accepted for the NEH #Fellowship at @ACORJordan! Scholars who have a PhD or have completed their professional training are eligible to apply. The fellowship is for 4-8 months of research in #Jordan. Deadline is Oct 1! acorjordan.org/neh-fellowshi… #humanities
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The Department of Antiquities and @ACORJordan signed 3 agreements to restore the Byzantine Church in Aqaba, Karak Castle, and the Beit Ras Amphitheater, underscoring the department's responsibility to preserve Jordan's cultural heritage sites. Read More: petra.gov.jo/Include/InnerPa…
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We recently visited the Santissima Annunziata in Florence to capture this stained glass window for ourselves.
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بردوارات التروتوارات!
European loan-words of #urbanism in 19th-c #Arabic - a fun post, our #47 ! Click here: tinyurl.com/yfbwsbyv @DukeHistoryDept @Invisu @ifaocaire
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For a long time, social histories depicted Bedouins as a threat to intensive agriculture, especially in the more arable regions next to the coast.
Nora Elizabeth Barakat, Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility & Property in the Ottoman Empire (New Texts Out Now):
buff.ly/43D4yQK
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Coming soon! The next call for applications for the Multi-Country Research #Fellowship will launch on Aug 17 & the CAORC-NEH #Research Fellowship will launch on Sept 13. Updated guidelines will be available on the CAORC website closer to the launch dates. caorc.org/fellowships
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New: The Barghouti Residence in one of the few remaining oak-forested sites in the western Dabouq suburb of Amman, Jordan, was built without cutting down any trees. buff.ly/3rezidc #SustainableArchitecture #EnvironmentalPreservation #MiddleEasternArchitecture #house
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Thanks for the shout out! Here's an image of 2 kites. @achiii @UPennAnth @ymrowan @ISAC_UChicago @NSF
The Kites in Context project, funded by the National Science Foundation and ASOR and staffed by friends of ACOR, had a busy season dealing with floods from unseasonable rains.
The project is documented on their twitter account (xitter.cf/KitesinContext). (1/)
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In our new paper, an automated deep learning approach for detecting looting at archaeological sites from UAV optical data is developed. Real-time information and protection of heritage sites using drones can be applied. Ethical implications discussed: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…