ASOR Annual Meeting 2015

New Member-Organized Session / Workshop Proposal Form

Submission deadline: December 15, 2014
This proposal is for:
New Member-Organized Session
New Workshop Session

Todays Date: December 15, 2014

Proposed Name of the Session or Workshop:

Archaeology of Ritual and Religion

Session / Workshop Length:
Single Session for 201

If multiple sessions, specify years:

201

2016

2017

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The Archaeology of Ritual and Religion session focuses on rituals and religions in the
Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean through the study of archaeological
remains and material culture. This session aims to explore the many varieties of
religious experience in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean by facilitating
dialogue and discussion among scholars specializing in differing time periods and
regions, and exploring the complex and sedimented intersectioning of ritual and
religion with other aspects of the human experience. Thus, studies of iconography
and visual culture, objects, architecture, landscape and space, texts, and ritual

practices (such as votive deposition, ritual meals, or funerary practices) are all

welcome. Papers that incorporate the intersectioning of ritual and religion with other

themes, such as power, politics, gender, the body, memory, identity, economics,

landscape, social position, culture contact, and the family, are especially encouraged.

Additionally, this year, papers that complicate current methodological and disciplinary

distinctions between public and private, state and household, or official and folk

religions would be particularly welcome.




Contact Information for Session or Workshop Chair (*please attach CV)
Last Name: Creel
First Name: Andrea
Middle Initial:
University
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California-Berkeley
Institutional Affiliation:
Address: 1781 Spruce St, Apt 2

City: Berkeley
State/Province: CA Zip/Postal: 94709
Tel. (Home): 510-502-1287 Tel. (Work):
Country:
Email: acreel@berkeley.edu
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File" and follow the necessary steps; OR 2) send documents as additional attachments with email.

Contact Information for Session Co-Chairs: (if applicable) / *please attach CV(s)
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Last Name: Brody
First Name: Aaron
Middle Initial:
Institutional Affiliation: Pacific School of Religion
Proposed Paper Title: The Specialized Religion of Phoenician Seafarers
Last Name: Wright
First Name: Laura
Middle Initial:
Institutional Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Proposed Paper Title: Funerary Cult in the Southern Levant: Relations with Egypt & Glyptics of the LB IIB
Last Name: Darby
First Name: Erin
Institutional Affiliation: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Proposed Paper Title: Gender and Ritual at En aeva

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Last Name: Creel

First Name: Andrea
Middle Initial:
Institutional Affiliation: University of California-Berkeley
Proposed Paper Title: Ritual Appropriation and Indigenous Communities in the Iron I Southern Levantine Drylands
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If session or workshop is accepted, I and my co-chairs (if applicable) commit myself (or ourselves ) to
serve as the liason(s) with the Program Committee, to coordinate the session's annual program, and to
keep appropriate records:
No
Yes
I and my co-chairs (if applicable) have reviewed the Instructions for Session Chairs on the ASOR
Annual Meeting web page that familiarizes session chairs with instructions for final submission of
materials and the information that will be needed from the presenters and chairs:
No
Yes

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