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Plenary
Public Lecture
Teacher's Workshop
Communicating Archaeology to the Public session.
Plenary
session
The Committee on Annual Meeting and Program is pleased
to announce that Professor Ian Hodder will be presenting the Plenary lecture on
the evening of Wednesday, November 17th, 2004, the opening night of the meeting.
Professor Hodder will be speaking on "New Discoveries at Çatalhoyuk."
He is currently Dunlevie Family Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department
of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University and director of excavations
at Çatalhöyük
in Turkey. For more information, please see his
webpage at Stanford.
This event is free for those registered for the Annual Meeting.
Public
Lecture
"The Literary and Spiritual Worlds of Medieval
Persia: Exploring SAMA's Islamic Ceramic Collection"
by Prof. Bethany
Walker
at the San
Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA)
200 West Jones Avenue, San Antonio
7pm
Thursday evening Nov. 18th, 2004
free for SAMA members, $8 for the public,
$4 Thurs. night w/ASOR badge.
galleries will open at 6pm for viewing
Prof.
Walker's lecture will highlight the aesthetics of materials in the SAMA's collections,
and explore the connections of these images with themes in literature and Islamic
mysticism. Read the press
release for more information.
Getting
there: cab fare is about $6.00 from the Westin hotel (distance is 2 miles).
Teacher's
Workshop: How we Know what we Know about the Past
A 5 hour
workshop for high school teachers at the San Antonio Museum of Art on Saturday,
Nov. 20th, 2004. Participants will receive Professional Development credit hours
via the Museum.
Presentations will include:
Beverly Chiarulli, "Why is the Past Important? Lessons from the Bureau of Lands Management" (summary)
Ellen Bedell, "The online Uluburun Shipwreck Project: Archaeological Methods and Trade in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean World" (summary)
Neal Bierling, "Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls" (summary)
Peter Feinman, "Mesopotamia and the Classroom: Space, Time and Values" (summary)
This workshop is sponsored by ASOR's Outreach Committee and requires separate registration. For more information on participating, please contact Outreach Committee chair Gloria London (glondon@earthlink.net).
Communicating
Archaeology to the General Public
Pam Wheat speaks on "People
Dig It: Planning Public Outreach for Archaeology."
12:45-2:15pm,
Friday Nov. 19th, 2004.
Westin Riverwalk hotel
Wheat
is recipient of the 2004 Society of American Archaeology (SAA) Excellence in Public
Education Award. The award is conferred annually for outstanding achievements
by individuals or institutions in the sharing of archaeological knowledge and
preservation issues with the public. She
has created and facilitated archaeological outreach in a multitude of media and
formats including archaeology museum exhibits, popular magazine articles, videos,
teacher workshops and school lesson plans. These efforts have been undertaken
for, among other entities, the Texas Historical Commission (including the La
Salle Shipwreck Project), the Council of Texas Archeologists, the Texas Archaeological
Society, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (in Colorado), and the Houston Museum
of Natural Science. Wheat's efforts have helped to inform the public about their
rich archaeological heritage so that they are better equipped to make wise decisions
concerning the use and protection of archaeological sites now and in the future.
