back to Annual Meeting page or go to Board/Committee Mtg. Schedule

Index:    Thursday     Friday     Saturday

7:00pm-8:30pm

Plenary Session - "Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion to Recover the World's Greatest Treasures"
Matthew Bogdanos, Colonel in the United States Marine Reserves, Plenary Speaker - biography

Thursday sessions - November 16th

8:30-10:30am

· The Incense Trade Route 
· Archaeology of Mesopotamia I
· Archaeology of Cyprus I
· Hebrew Bible I
· New Technologies

10:45am- 12:45pm

· Art & Artifacts of the Ancient Near East
· Archaeology of Mesopotamia II
· Archaeology of Cyprus II
· Hebrew Bible II
· Current Issues in Palestinian Archaeology & Cultural Heritage Management

2:00- 4:00pm

· Current Excavations- ASOR Affiliated I
· The World of Women: Gender and Archaeology
· Individual Submissions I
· Archaeology of the Persian Levant
· Archaeology of Syria

4:15-6:15pm

· Current Excavations- ASOR Affiliated II
· Archaeology of the Transjordan
· Ancient Inscriptions
· Individual Submissions II
· Artifacts - the Inside Story

7:00-8:30pm

Public Lecture at the Smithsonian by Ronny Reich - "Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Jerusalem" *Details from the Smithsonian*

Friday sessions - November 17th

back to top

8:30-10:30am

· Ethics of Collecting
· Workshop on the Roman Aqaba Project
· Archaeology of Israel
· Geographic Information Systems
· ETANA Workshop I

10:45am-12:45pm

· Egypt and Canaan I
· Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches to Near Eastern and Eastern
· Prehistoric Archaeology
· Maritime / Nautical Issues
· The Transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age at Megiddo & the North

2:00-4:00pm

· Egypt and Canaan II
· Landscape Archaeology
· In the Footsteps of J. Lawrence Angel - Bioarchaeology in the Near East and   Eastern Mediterranean
· Workshop on Caesarea Maritima I

4:15-6:15pm

· Workshop on Caesarea Maritima II 
· Current Excavations non-ASOR affiliated
· Ancient Mediterranean Trade
· Material Culture in Ottoman Palestine

7:00 - 8:30pm

Presidential Forum - Eric Meyers, "Excavating ASOR"

8:30 - 10:00pm

President's Reception & Presentation of Awards

Saturday sessions - November 18th

back to top

8:30-10:30am

· Archaeology of Lebanon
· Archaeology of Anatolia I
· Archaeology of Religion and the Sacred I
· Arabia

9:00am-4:00pm

ETANA II Workshop

10:45am-12:45pm

Sunday Co-Sponsored SBL/ASOR session - November 19th

back to top

9:00am-11:30am

· Literature and History of the Persian Period
Theme: Judah's Neighbors under Persian Rule
* Co-Sponsored with ASOR's "Persian Period in the Levant" Session [A15]

Society for Biblical Literature program

Go back to the Annual Meeting page or the ASOR home page.

updated: 9/11/06