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S A V E A N C I E N T S T U D I E S A L L I A N C E 2021 MID YEAR REPORT
M I DN Y AN U EAAL RR RE EP POORRTT 22002201 INTRODUCTION A lthough it is difficult to believe we are at the midpoint of our organizational year It has already been an exciting year for SASA as we continue to grow and expand our audience and as our projects begin to come to fruition I invite you to peruse this Mid Year Report to gain a sense for some of the exciting recent developments at SASA Welcome David Danzig DIGITAL OUTREACH UPDATE 4 000 SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWERS 30 000 Laoco n and His Sons 2nd century BCE Roman 2 WEBSITE VISITS MISSION VISION 3
M I DN Y AN U EAAL RR RE EP POORRTT 22002201 ARCHAEOGAMING MODULES GRANT I n June of 2021 SASA was awarded a grant from The New Jersey Council for the Humanities in partnership with The National Endowment for the Humanities for our SASA Archaeogaming Video Learning Modules Project Our Archaeogaming Video Learning Modules AVLMs includes gameplay from popular video games and extrapolates concepts ideas and visuals in a complete lesson for middle school through high school students This grant was awarded to launch our Pilot Program of AVLMs in New Jersey schools Any views findings conclusions or recommendations expressed in this Web resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities this Fall and Spring in order to test and refine our project before making them more widely available Any views findings conclusions or recommendaThe first two modules are nearing tions expressed in this Web resource do not necessarcompletion with two more on the ily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities way this Winter Cuneiform tablet hymn to Marduk 1st millennium BCE Babylonian 4 ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 5
M I DN Y AN U EAAL RR RE EP POORRTT 22002201 SUMMER READING GROUPS T his summer we continued our Texts in Translation Reading Groups Program that offers free discussion groups of Ancient texts with no background or language skills necessary 13 groups master classes Over 100 participants Topics spanning Carving Maya Glyphs in Soap to Olympic Games to The Other in Egyptian Literature And even a Spanish language group Mosaic Disk from Templo Mayor 15th century CE Aztec 6 ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 7
AN UEAAL R RREEPPOORRTT 22002201 M I DN Y VIRTUAL CONFERENCE REPORT T his summer our First Annual Virtual Conference Opening the Ancient World in partnership with Digital Hammurabi was a smash hit We had over 1 800 viewers over the course of its two days This conference brought together presenters who produce expert research even as their careers lie beyond the tenured professoriate working as Non profit employees Higher Education Administrators University Lecturers High School Teachers Community College Professors Independent Researchers Healthcare Chaplains Clergy Freelance Writers Publishing Editors Businesspersons Lawyers We are working on publishing the conference proceedings in an open access forum We look forward to seeing you at next year s Virtual Conference in Summer 2022 Colossal Statue of Akhenaten 13th century BCE Egypt 8 MISSION VISION 9
M I DN Y AN UEAAL R RREEPPOORRTT 22002201 ANCIENT STUDIES RESOURCES DATABASE T his August we made live the first version of our Ancient Studies Resources Database a one of a kind collection of websites teeming with quality information about Ancient Studies The database is aimed at undergrads grad students and researchers across the world 900 websites and Over growing Includes areas such as Ancient Africa Ancient Philosophy East Asian Archaeology Classics Biblical Studies Egyptology and much more Detail of Liubo players from an Eastern Han tomb 2nd century CE China 10 ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 11
M I DN Y AN UEAAL R RREEPPOORRTT 22002201 DOWNWARD TREND RESEARCH FIRST PRESENTATION I n July David Danzig and Valeria Zubieta Lupo presented the first group of results from our Downward Trend Research Project at the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale This project is working on quantifying the downward trend in Ancient Studies in higher education and beyond This presentation covered the indicators of Language Course Enrollment and Degree Completion in all Ancient Studies fields in the US Unfortunately our results show clear evidence for the precipitous recent decline in Ancient Studies Our predictions are highly unsettling WATCH THE RECORDING AT SAVEANCIENTSTUDIES ORG RESEARCH Al Khazneh at Petra 1st century CE Nabataean 12 ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 13
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