Insights

Welcome to Insights! Formerly our long-running quarterly e-update, since 2020, Insights has been our blog, hosting essays by fellows, interns, staff, and others.

Reflections on Race at the Lowest Place on Earth

Nov 4, 2020 Posted in ACOR, CAORC, Insights, Research, SCHEP Tagged with Agritourism, CAORC, economics, Faculty Development Seminar, FDS, Ghawr, Ghawr as-Safi, Migration, Race, safi, SCHEP, Sugar

by Blaine Pope, Ph.D. Since I traveled to Jordan for the first time, for the January 2020 ACOR-CAORC Faculty Development Seminar “Sustainability at the Margins,” life in the United States, in Jordan, and around the world has changed noticeably. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and massive worldwide protests against racism stemming from the Black…

Heritage vs. Development: The Bayt Ras Tomb Project 2017–2019

Sep 30, 2020 Posted in Insights, Research, SCHEP, VideoLectures Tagged with arthistory, baytras, Community, Heritage, jehadharon, lecture, methodology, northernjordan, northjordan, recorded lecture, roman, romantomb, SCHEP, tomb

ACOR Proudly Presents:“Heritage vs. Development: The Bayt Ras Tomb Project 2017–2019”An Online Lecture by Jehad Haron on September 29, 2020 About the Lecture: In November 2016, a Roman-era tomb was discovered in the town of Bayt Ras, Irbid, by a team working to dig a sewage line in the area. In 2017, USAID SCHEP worked…

Making a Connection with the Past: My ACOR Internship on the Temple of the Winged Lions

Sep 15, 2020 Posted in Insights

By Nora Al Omari I joined ACOR as an intern to participate in the Temple of the Winged Lions (TWL) Publication Project, through which I have handled, documented, and rehoused objects from the temple and also managed the digitization and cataloguing of archival materials from this important Nabataean- and Roman-era site. The Temple of the…

The Making of Amman: Stories, Tours, and Traffic Jams

Sep 3, 2020 Posted in Insights, MESA, Research, VideoLectures Tagged with Amman, cities, geography, interviews, lecture, maps, methodology, Modern History, recorded lecture, Urban Studies

ACOR Proudly Presents:“The Making of Amman: Stories, Tours, and Traffic Jams”An Online Lecture by Prof. Betty Anderson on August 26, 2020 About the Lecture: Dr. Betty Anderson will present the research that she, Dr. Fida Adely, and several local researchers have been conducting in Amman over the last few years. Their research seeks to collect…

أرشيف أكور: مصدر مرئي جديد للتدريس في المدارس عن تاريخ الأردن والمنطقة

Aug 9, 2020 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, Library, VideoLectures Tagged with Arabic, Archaeology, Archives, History, lecture, lecture recording, Library, photo archive, Photo archives, public lecture, research, visual heritage

“ACOR Photo Archive: A New Visual Resource for Middle and High School Teaching about Jordan and the Region. ” This Arabic presentation was delivered as part of the Jordan School Librarians Conference in November 2019 to introduce the ACOR Photo Archive project and its work to preserve endangered photographic heritage from Jordan and the region….

“Open Jordanian Heritage”: Wikimedians Share Stories of Editing Online

Aug 9, 2020 Posted in Insights, Library Tagged with Archives, Cultural Heritage, Event, Library, Public Programs, students, Volunteers, Wikipedia

A key part of ACOR’s mission is to “promote archaeological research, cultural heritage preservation, and knowledge-sharing through lectures, digital resources, publications, workshops, and training programs.” Over the past year, we have expanded our knowledge-sharing activities online through engagement with the world’s largest open-access knowledge repository: Wikipedia. Articles on wikipedia.org—about any number of subjects, and in…

Jordan’s Tourism Sector in the Wake of COVID-19: Where Do We Go From Here?

Jul 15, 2020 Posted in Insights

by Nizar Al Adarbeh, Starling Carter, Hussein Khirfan, and Shatha Abu Aballi, USAID SCHEP* Steady Growth and Increasing Opportunities: The Tourism Sector in Jordan In recent years, Jordan’s tourism industry has grown steadily to become one of the most important sectors for the country’s employment and GDP. Jordan’s World Heritage Sites, including Petra and Wadi…

“Sustainability at the Margins” in Jordan – Notes from an Ecologist

Jul 14, 2020 Posted in Insights Tagged with FDS

by Marjolein Schat, Ph.D. As an ecologist who teaches a wide array of biology and environmental science courses, I was intrigued by the announcement for “Jordan: Sustainability at the Margins,” an ACOR-CAORC faculty development seminar. CAORC’s summary about the importance of bringing a global perspective to the classroom resonated with me, the topic sounded like…

Nabataeans on the Shores of the Dead Sea

Jun 22, 2020 Posted in Insights, Lecture, VideoLectures Tagged with dead sea, excavation, History, lecture, lecture recording, nabataean, nabatean culture, preservation, public lecture, south, southern jordan

ACOR Proudly Presents:“Nabataeans on the Shores of the Dead Sea”An ACOR Public Lecture by Dr. Konstantinos D. Politis on March 10, 2020 About the Lecture: Ancient sites that have recently come to light on the Dead Sea littoral reveal what life was like for the average Nabataean some two thousand years ago. Ancient texts also…

The Movement to Abolish Article 308: A Brief Reflection on Women’s Activism in Amman, Jordan

Jun 15, 2020 Posted in Insights

by Josephine Chaet, ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow 2019 Since returning to my home institution in 2019, following almost two years of intermittent fieldwork in Jordan, I have slowly begun the process of analyzing the ethnographic data collected over sixteen months of research with three non-governmental women’s organizations located in the urban core of Amman. This endeavor…

Exploring the tourism development landscape in Aqaba

May 15, 2020 Posted in ACOR, Fellows, Fellowships, Research Tagged with anthropology, ASOR, research, tourism

Kimberly Cavanagh was a Fulbright Scholar (2019–2020) residing at ACOR while undertaking research to complete her book manuscript exploring tourism development in Aqaba, with the working title “Shifting Landscapes: The Social and Economic Development of Aqaba, A Red Sea City.” Dr. Cavanagh is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina Beaufort…

The ACOR Photo Archive: Mobilizing Digital Tools to Preserve Visual Heritage

May 12, 2020 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, Library, VideoLectures Tagged with Archaeology, archive, Archives, archivist, History, lecture, lecture recording, Library, photo archive, public lecture, research

للتنويه: هنا يتوفر محاضرة توجيهية عن أرشيف أكور باللغة العربية ACOR Proudly Presents:“The ACOR Photo Archive: Mobilizing Digital Tools to Preserve Visual Heritage”An ACOR Public Lecture by Dr. Jack Green and Jessica Holland on February 11, 2020 About the Lecture: The ACOR Photo Archive contains rich collections of tens of thousands of photographs, but its…

Cosmetic Adornment during the Iron Age in the Southern Levant

Apr 30, 2020 Posted in ACOR, Fellows, Fellowships, Named Fellowships, Profile, Research Tagged with Archaeology, ASOR, Bikai Fellowship, Fellows

A Pierre and Patricia Bikai Fellowship at ACOR was awarded to Betty Adams for spring 2020. She is a graduate student in Near Eastern Archaeology at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, where her studies have concentrated on the chemistry and composition of ancient makeup as represented by traces remaining on artifacts from ancient Jordan….

Religious Change in Southern Jordan in the Byzantine and Islamic Periods

Apr 23, 2020 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, VideoLectures Tagged with Archaeology, History, lecture, lecture recording, public lecture, research

ACOR Proudly Presents: “Religious Change in Southern Jordan in the Byzantine and Islamic Periods” An ACOR Public Lecture by Dr. Robert Schick on December 10, 2019 About the Lecture: In the first centuries AD, everybody in the area of Jordan south of the Wadi Mujib were devotees of some Nabataean or Roman religion or another….

“Jordan: Sustainability at the Margins” | Looking back at the 2020 ACOR-CAORC Faculty Development Seminar

Apr 10, 2020 Posted in ACOR, CAORC, Hostel, SCHEP, Uncategorized Tagged with FDS

By Jacqueline Salzinger, Development and Communications Officer In January 2020, ACOR kicked off the new decade in the company of twelve faculty members visiting Jordan from the U.S. They were joining us for just over two weeks through a program put on in partnership with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) under the…

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