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[/vc_column_text][mk_image src=”http://www.asortest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/social-fb-icon4.jpg” image_width=”42″ image_height=”42″ hover=”false” custom_url=”https://www.facebook.com/ASOResearch/” margin_bottom=”0″][mk_image src=”http://www.asortest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/social-tw-icon4.jpg” image_width=”42″ image_height=”42″ hover=”false” custom_url=”https://twitter.com/ASOResearch?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor” margin_bottom=”0″][mk_image src=”http://www.asortest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/social-in-icon4.jpg” image_width=”42″ image_height=”42″ hover=”false” custom_url=”https://www.linkedin.com/company/american-schools-of-oriental-research” margin_bottom=”0″][mk_image src=”http://www.asortest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/social-ml-icon_7.jpg” image_width=”42″ image_height=”42″ hover=”false” custom_url=”mailto:asor@bu.edu” margin_bottom=”0″][mk_image src=”http://www.asortest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-icon3.jpg” image_width=”42″ image_height=”42″ hover=”false” custom_url=”http://asorblog.org/” margin_bottom=”0″][/vc_column][vc_column border_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.01)” width=”1/6″ css=”.vc_custom_1490365673198{margin-right: 20px !important;border-left-width: 2px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;border-left-color: #99422f !important;}” el_class=”sticky-sidenav”][mk_divider divider_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.01)” thickness=”1″ margin_top=”3″ margin_bottom=”3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”ca-sidebar-37292″ el_class=”.widget { overflow: hidden; margin-bottom: 0; }”][/vc_column][vc_column border_color=”rgba(170,170,170,0.01)” width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1490225606852{margin-right: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;border-right-width: 2px !important;border-bottom-width: 2px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-right-color: rgba(227,228,228,0.75) !important;border-bottom-color: rgba(227,228,228,0.75) !important;}”][vc_column_text responsive_align=”left”]AD HOC COMMITTEE ON ASOR’S NAME
17吃瓜members have been discussing the possibility of changing the聽organization鈥檚 name since at least 1982. Most recently, a workshop was offered at聽the 2018 17吃瓜Annual Meeting in Denver on “What’s in a Name? Re-assessing the聽Oriental in the American Schools of Oriental Research.” The workshop was very well聽attended, and the presentations and discussion were both thoughtful and聽provocative. As a result, the organizers created a summary of the workshop’s聽conversations and forwarded them to various governing bodies within ASOR,聽including the 17吃瓜Board of Trustees. That summary was delivered in Fall 2019.
After considering this summary, the 17吃瓜Board voted, at its November聽2019 meeting, to continue the discussion by forming an ad hoc committee to study聽ASOR’s name.
The Ad Hoc Committee on ASOR’s Name is charged with evaluating whether ASOR’s name is still聽appropriate for the organization and, if not, to recommend to the Board of Trustees聽a new name, or a modified name, or some selection of new or modified names that聽17吃瓜might adopt instead.
The committee will (1) review聽previous discussions about ASOR鈥檚 name; (2) review discussions other 鈥淥鈥澛爋rganizations have had about their names and the decisions they have made, for聽example, the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago and the School of聽Oriental and African Studies at the University of London; (3) review the experiences聽of other learned societies that have changed their names or have decided not to,聽including these learned societies’ discussions regarding the names of their聽publications; and (4) actively solicit and carefully consider input from the ASOR聽membership about ASOR’s current name and any possible name change.
- Peyton Randy Helm, Chair
- Lisa Ackerman
- Emily Miller Bonney
- Eric Cline
- Emily Hammer
- Kiersten Neumann
- Eric Welch