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Events listed below (please scroll down):
Plenary,
Wadi Arabah session, Thursday evening public lecture, Friday evening dinner
honoring Rudy Dornemann
Plenary
session
The Committee on Annual Meeting and Program is pleased to announce that
Professor Lord Colin Renfrew will be presenting the Plenary
lecture on the evening of Wednesday, November 19th, 2003, the opening
evening of the meeting. Professor Renfrew will be speaking on issues concerning
antiquities trade and archaeological ethics. He is currently Director
of the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre (IARC)
at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Disney Professor
of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge,
UK. For more information, please see his
webpage at the Univ. of Cambridge.
This event is free for those
registered for the Annual Meeting.
Wednesday
special session on Wadi Arabah
While the regular schedule of academic sessions will begin the night of
Wednesday, Nov. 19th with the Plenary, a special day-long
conference on the Wadi Arabah will be held at the Fernbank Museum
on that day. No registration was required for this conference.
NEW: Read the article in the New York Times on
this program.
The Wadi Arabah Project aims to
establish the key historical role of
the Wadi Arabah as a dynamic interface between southern Jordan and the
Negev of southern Israel. The project brings together scholars who have
been carrying out fieldwork on both sides of the Wadi Arabah, in Israel
and Jordan, to co-operate in producing a collaborative overview of an
area which was always more of a route than a barrier.
This section is aimed at all those who hold primary data on the resources,
archaeology and history of the Wadi Arabah. Its purpose is twofold:
firstly, to address the four objectives of the Wadi Arabah Project,
as far as current evidence allows; secondly, to identify the gaps in
knowledge and discuss further fieldwork. The proceedings will be published
in the British Academy Monographs in Archaeology series by Oxford University
Press.
The session organizer is Piotr Bienkowski of the Liverpool Museum.
Fernbank Museum of Natural
History
767 Clifton Road, NE
go to Fernbank's
website
Thursday
evening lecture
The Committee on Annual Meeting
and Program has arranged a special evening lecture on Thursday, November
20th on the Emory University campus (read lecture
summary or see press release). The lecture
will be given by Dr. Edward Bleiberg, curator at the Brooklyn Art Museum,
who will speak on the exhibit "Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt"
which opens at the Carlos Museum at Emory in October. This lecture will
be open to the public - registration for our Meeting is not necessary
for admission. The Carlos Museum will be open following the lecture for
visitors to view the exhibit.
If you would like to travel
from the meeting hotel (Grand Hyatt) to Emory (roundtrip) and help cover
expenses for the lecture and evening's events, you may reserve a place
on one of our shuttle buses for $20. To make a reservation for this transport,
please respond by November 10
(if you would like a form faxed to you or wish to pay by phone with a
credit card, please call the ASOR Boston office at 617-353-6570).
Thursday evening schedule:
6:15pm Shuttle departs from Grand Hyatt for Emory University
7-8:15pm Lecture by Dr. Bleiberg.
Auditorium, Woodruff Health Sciences
Admin. Bldg., Emory
8:30-10:00pm Reception, sponsored by the Foundation for
Biblical Archaeology, followed by a tour of the
Carlos Museum exhibit on Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt
10:15pm Shuttle returns from Emory to Grand Hyatt
Carlos Museum at Emory University
571 South Kilgo St.
go to the Carlos's website
Friday
evening dinner
Come join the ASOR family
for a special evening honoring Dr. Rudy Dornemann as he prepares to retire
from his position as Executive Director of ASOR at the end of 2003. Additional
Honors and Awards will be presented after dinner.
Friday evening program:
7:00pm Cocktail and Hors d'oeuvres reception
7:45-9:00pm Dinner featuring native fare from Georgia
9:00-10:00pm Awards presented
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