Click here to view the upcoming Friends of ASOR webinars. All webinar proceeds fund scholarships for members impacted by COVID-19, as well as increasing ASOR’s online resources for our members and the public.

Individual Webinar:
ASOR Sustaining Members: $0 | ASOR Members: $6 | Public: $12
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Season Pass (20+ webinars):
ASOR Sustaining Members: $0 | ASOR Members: $75 | Public: $150
Click here for more information about season passes.

How to register for a webinar: If you are an ASOR member, log into the online store. If you are new to ASOR, please click on the “New Visitor Registration” link to enter your email and chose a password for the online store. After logging in, navigate to “Meeting and Event Registration” to register for the webinar and pay the fee. Each paid registrant will receive a confirmation email after paying for the webinar. If you do not receive this email (and you have checked your Spam folder), please contact us because the system did not complete your registration. Please e-mail membership@asor.org with any questions or issues with registering.

You will be e-mailed a Zoom Webinar link about four days prior to each lecture. If you have not received a link by the Friday before the webinar, please contact ASOR. All webinars are recorded, and all paid registrants who cannot attend the webinar will be sent a link to download the recording.

• Columns as Cultural Capital: The Jordanian Practice of Gifting Archaeological Objects | Elizabeth Macaulay (August 28, 2022) 

• The Good Kings: The Modern Obsession with Ancient Egyptian Kingship | Kara Cooney (September 15, 2022) 

• Life and Death along the Nile: Insights from the Bioarchaeology of Nubia Expedition | Brenda J. Baker (September 29, 2022) 

• Travels with Olga Tufnell: Memoirs of a “Golden Age” Archaeologist in the Levant | Jack Green (October 13, 2022) 

• Representations of the Bible and the Ancient Near East in Film: From Griffith to Grindhouse | Kevin McGeough (October 27, 2022)

• Something from the Time of Jesus? Tourists, Souvenirs, and Buying the Holy Land | Morag M. Kersel (December 1, 2022)

• From Paganism to Christianity to Islam: The Transformation of Ancient Caesarea | Marsha Rozenblit, Yael Arnon, & Anna Iamim (December 15, 2022)

• “Earliest Inscription Found!” Exposing Sensationalism in the Field of Ancient Inscriptions | Christopher Rollston (January 12, 2023)

• Antiquities Trafficking in the Age of Social Media: How Big Tech Facilitates and Profits from the Digital Black Market | Katie Paul (January 26, 2023) - Learn More

• Secrets of Egypt’s Middle Kingdom Capital: el-Lisht | Sarah Parcak (February 8, 2023) - Learn More

• Into the Unknown: Exploring a “Lost” Old Kingdom Tomb & Egypto-Nubian Connections | Gregory Mumford (February 23, 2023) - Learn More

• How Museums are Saturating the Ancient World with Color | Pinar Durgun (March 9, 2023) - Learn More

• Urartu: Reframing Assyria’s Enigmatic Neighbor | Tiffany Early-Spadoni (March 23, 2023) - Learn More

• New Perspectives on Jerusalem’s 7th Century BCE Elite | Yuval Gadot (April 16, 2023) - Learn More

• The Boomer Archaeologist – Tribes, Identity and the Holy Land | Thomas E. Levy (April 27, 2023) - Learn More

• Jesus Reading Scripture: Exploring the Archaeology of Worship in First-Century Synagogues | Paul Flesher (May 11, 2023) - Learn More

• Monuments, Monumental Architecture, and Monumentality in Ancient Israel | Kyle Keimer (May 25, 2023) - Learn More