Presentation Slides Submission Deadline on November 7
2025 17吃瓜Annual Meeting
Welcome, 17吃瓜2025 presenters! Whether you鈥檙e joining us in Boston or presenting virtually, 17吃瓜wishes to bring to your attention the following guidelines that apply to all presentations accepted to the 17吃瓜2025 Academic Program.
Key Deadline: November 7, 2025
- Virtual Presenters: Submit a pre-recorded MP4 video (20 minutes max). Presenters are expected to join their session live via Zoom for discussion after their recording is played.
- In-Person Presenters (Boston): Submit presentation slides (PPT or PDF) by this date; no video is required. Maximum file size of 1GB.
Session Format and Schedule
- Sessions and workshops will run Thursday鈥揝aturday, 8:15 AM鈥�6:30 PM (ET) in Boston.
- Papers: 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A.
- Workshops: 10-minute presentations; formats vary (consult organizers).
Please visit the page for helpful presentation tips, video tutorials, and instructions on how to upload your presentation to the 17吃瓜Dropbox Folder. You will need to log into the 17吃瓜Online Portal to access this page. Please contact Jared Koller at jaredkoller@asor.org if you have any trouble accessing the page or uploading your presentation files.
Tasha Vorderstrasse is the Manager of the Continuing Education program at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia and North Africa (ISAC) at the University of Chicago. In her job, she coordinates the ISAC鈥檚 adult education program, in which she also teaches, in addition to giving ISAC Museum tours and providing other programming to University of Chicago students. She is also responsible for the ISAC social media pages. She received her PhD in Near Eastern Archaeology from the University of Chicago in 2004 and is interested in questions of how different forms of material culture can help us better understand how individuals constructed their identities over time. Her work on the reception of ancient and medieval West Asia and North Africa focuses on different ways in which various individuals understood and experienced the region, specifically looking at the collecting of antiquities, 19th-century photography, and how Black artists, historians, and intellectuals examined the ancient world.
The recent discovery of not one, but a succession of two temples from the First Temple period at Tel Moza鈥攋ust 7 km from Jerusalem鈥攈as reignited debate about how religion took shape in ancient Judah and the wider region. The revelations at Tel Moza are especially intriguing when set against the backdrop of traditional scholarship, which was both heavily guided by biblical texts and paradigms and hampered by the rarity of confirmed temple remains in Judah.
Shua Kisilevitz is Assistant Director of the Albright Institute and a research fellow at Tel Aviv University.
The Trustee Nominations Committee announces an open call for (self) nominations for the 17吃瓜Board of Trustees (Class of 2028). Trustees will serve a three-year term, starting January 1, 2026. There are three primary responsibilities of the members of the Board of Trustees:
