50th anniversary

ACOR Celebrates its 50th Anniversary in Washington, D.C.

Leave a Comment / ACOR, Life@ACOR, News & Event, أخبار وأحداث / April 23, 2019
Randolph B. Old, Abdelelah Al Khatib, Barbara A. Porter, and Edward W. Gnehm, Jr. at ACOR's 50th Anniversary Celebration in Washington, D.C. On April 4, 2019, ACOR gathered many of its long-time supporters and friends together at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. for our final 50th Anniversary Celebration. This special occasion provided opportunity …

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From Virginia to the Dead Sea: Lieutenant William Francis Lynch and the 21st Century

Leave a Comment / CAORC, Fellows, Research / July 4, 2018
In preparation for ACOR’s 50th Anniversary and twenty-five years after I first ‘discovered’ Lieutenant Lynch, I finally visited him. Commodore Lynch rests, posthumously, in Baltimore’s famous Greenmount Cemetery, less than ten miles from my home in Baltimore. His gravestone attests to his command of the Dead Sea Expedition of 1848, bears the name of his …

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ACOR@50

Leave a Comment / ACOR, Life@ACOR / May 13, 2018

  Miriam Saleh, Development Officer, reflects on ACOR’s past, present and future. PAST In 2018, ACOR will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Like many in Jordan, our research center relocated in 1968 to Amman in response to the Six-Day War. In a small flat, with a handful of books that one could scarcely call a library, …

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50th Anniversary Lecture by Dr. Barbara A. Porter

Leave a Comment / ACOR, VideoLectures / March 26, 2018

The ACOR Video Lecture Series provides accessible discussions of new research into the past and present of Jordan and the broader Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean worlds. This video, adapted from the February 2018 public lecture delivered by ACOR Director Dr. Barbara A. Porter, highlights achievements  and memories from ACOR’s 50 years and looks forward …

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