AVASA events

AVASA is at the centre of a fast series of events, which we describe in this web site. We provide a list here below, and you can read more detailed descriptions in a separate page.

May 4-5, 2022		Humanism and Digitization: Theory and Practical Achievements Congress at the "Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore", Milano
April 13, 2022		Middle Schools Project: Syria and the USA
March 26, 2022		At the Roots of Tomorrow: elementary students from Syria meet their peers from USA
March 23, 2022		Visit and music in Tell Mozan
March 7, 2022		Dr. Hiba Qassar's lecture "Whose heritage is this? The social role of archaeological patrimony in Syria"
March 6, 2022		Marwan Midani and his son Dan visited the Buccellatis in Los Angeles
March 2, 2022		Amer Ahmad's recent scientific research in Budapest (02/03/2022-02/10/2022)
February 23, 2022		Dr. Samer Abdel Ghafour's talk "Looting and Illicit Trafficking of Antiquities in the Middle East and North Africa"
February 21, 2022		"Gipeti spiati - Urkesh la città di 4500 anni fa" Podcast on Radio24/"Darwin, l'evoluzione della scienza" (interview, in Italian, to Prof. Giorgio Buccellati and Prof. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati)
February 4, 2022		International Balzan Prize
January 24, 2022		Snow on Tell Mozan

December 9, 2021		Yara Moualla defended her PhD Dissertation
December 3, 2021		Conference "ILUCIDARE Playground" Heritage Voices Out!
November 23-26, 2021		International conference "EMPOWER 2021: Young Global Citizens Co-Create Culture"
November 16, 2021		Conference and round table A Multi-Linear Digital Discourse in Theory and Practice: The Urkesh Global Record and the Four Banks Project
November 15, 2021		International congress Coronomics and Cultural Heritage in the Middle East
October 24, 2021		Article on Alfa&Omega about the "One-on-One" project: "Di esto en clase, pero que lo cuente Hiro es más real"
October 15, 2021		"ILUCIDARE Special Prizes 2020 for 'Archaeology for a young future'" Report by Hiba Qassar
October 12, 2021		"Al Daesh, como a los talibanes, hay que combatirlos con las ideas y la arqueología es útil" Inteview to Prof. Giorgio Buccellati and Prof. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
September 30, 2021		"Con la arqueología, la Biblia no resulta pura retórica" Inteview to Prof. Giorgio Buccellati and Prof. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
September 24, 2021		Graph representation and network analysis as a comparative tool: a case study in comparative religion
September 22, 2021		A multi-linear digital discourse in theory and practice. An example concerning archaeology and Mesopotamian and biblical religion
September 20-24, 2021		Curso para Profesores y Doctorandos La "Bibbia" in una prospettiva mesopotamica. Storia, storiografia, ermeneutica
September 15, 2021		Yasmine Mahmoud defended her PhD Dissertation Anthropomorphic figurines, statuettes and jewelry from Urkesh. An archaeological and historical study
September 7, 2021		The Urkesh Global Record (UGR): Overview & Zoom on the Bioanthropological Data

June 6, 2021		Immersive Live Tour Visit the Ancient City of Urkesh in the Syrian Jezirah
May 12, 2021		Urkesh and the Association "Rondine Cittadella della Pace"
April 21, 2021		A new article about the School Project

March 22, 2021		German journalists visiting Urkesh
March 18, 2021		A new forthcoming online talk: how to participate
March 12, 2021		The Schools Project meets experts from around the world thanks to Europa Nostra
February 27, 2021		The video of the latest conference on Urkesh now available online
February 22, 2021		"Cultural Heritage? A Personal-Tale from Tell Mozan in Syria"
February 11, 2021		A new publication on Urkesh now available on our website
January 14, 2021		"To Sift or Not to Sift.." at Urkesh

December 5, 2020		"Volume of Studies Honors Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati"
December 1, 2020		"Considering Variation in Ancient Architecture: A Study in Architectural Energetics"
November 11, 2020		"Urkesh beyond Urkesh: Community and Digitality"
November 10, 2020		"Archaeology for a young future" wins the ILUCIDARE Special Prize 2020 for excellence in Heritage-led International Relations
November 6, 2020		Award Ceremony for the ILUCIDARE Special Prizes (Europa Nostra)
October 30, 2020		Significant updates on the AVASA website
October 8, 2020		“The exploitation of plants at Tell Mozan (NE Syria) in 4th-3rd mill. BC”

September 22, 2020		Mozan/Urkesh Prize for Best Heritage Conservation Paper
September 1, 2020		Fire at Mozan
July 30, 2020		The book in honor of Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati is now available online
July 16, 2020		AVASA participates to a virtual meeting for Europa Nostra/ILUCIDARE
July 02, 2020		A significant new support for 2020 from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

June 30, 2020		A new project for the youngsters
June 23, 2020		"Archaeobotanical Research in Ancient Near East. A Glance to the Syrian Kurdistan"
June 16, 2020		Heritage Conservation grant from the Kaplan Fund
June 15, 2020		A collaborative project with Nanjing University
June 8-12, 2020		Curso para profesorer y doctorandos. La "Bibbia" in una prospettiva mesopotamica. Storia, storiografia, ermeneutica
June 3, 2020		AVASA and the ILUCIDARE Special Prizes in the news
May 28, 2020		The School Project shortlisted for one of the ILUCIDARE Special Prizes
May 21, 2020		Federico Buccellati appointed Director of the Mozan/Urkesh Archaeological Project
April 12, 2020		Two articles on the excavations at Tell Mozan

March 28, 2020		The School Project now includes also high schools
March 3, 2020		Students of the "Almaza Khalil" school visit Urkesh
February 23, 2020		An assessment of the site presentation panels
February 17, 2020		A new beginning for the School Project
February 13, 2020		Snow on Urkesh
January 9-11, 2020		"Community archaeology in time of war: the Mozan/Urkesh project in northeastern Syria"
January 7, 2020		A new book in honor of Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati

December 2019		"The pride of heritage"
November 2019		New articles on Urkesh
November 11, 2019		Father Hofseip: a major loss for Qamishli and the region
October 27, 2019		Bread and yogurt – and healing
October 24, 2019		Urkesh at the re-opening of the Archaeological Museum in Aleppo
October 20, 2019		Urkesh is safe
October 18, 2019		Updates from Urkesh
October 12, 2019		Jets over the expedition house
October 11, 2019		War is all around Urkesh

September 13, 2019		The dignity of archaeology
September 11, 2019		End of maintenance work in J1 area
August 30, 2019		New webpages added on the AVASA website
July 22, 2019		The support of our founders: Cariplo, AVSI, Steinmetz
July 12, 2019		A new introduction to Tell Mozan
July 08, 2019		Important maintenance work on the wall of the Temple Terrace

June 17, 2019		Matteo Delle Donne, Agricoltura, alimentazione e paleoambiente della Jazira siriana tra IV e III mill. a.C. – le evidenze da Tell Mozan
May 18, 2019		The exhibit at the Cotsen Institute, UCLA, is now open
May 15, 2019		"Tell Mozan and the possibilities of cultural protection from below"
May 5, 2019		A research seminar on Urkesh, in Urkesh..
May 2, 2019		A new support for the exhibit "The Millennia for Today"
April 14, 2019		The rain does not stop the visits to the site
April 11, 2019		Conservation Students visiting the Mesopotamian Lab

March 14, 2019		"Archaeology and Syrian Identity: 'Urkesh Gate', a good Tale from Syria"
March 13, 2019		Visiting villages
March 13, 2019		Spanish Tourists at Urkesh
March 11, 2019		Two more schools visiting Urkesh
February 26 - March 12, 2019		Digital work at UCLA
February 24-25, 2019		New schools visiting Urkesh
February 20, 2019		A new panorama for the Palace
January 10, 2019		Heavy rains and sectionsin front of the Temple Terrace

December 19, 2018		A French Delegation visits our exhibition in Damascus
December 9, 2018		New visit at Tell Mozan
November 14-17, 2018		"Research, Communication, and Identity in Times of Crisis: The Example of Tell Mozan"
November 1, 2018		Urkesh in the news
October 28-29, 2018		Urkesh at the re-opening of the Archaeological Museum in Damascus

August 31, 2018		A new official recognition
August 19-25, 2018		Urkesh in Rimini: a successful exhibition
August 2-3, 2018		Towards the Meeting: briefing with Yasmine Mahmoud
July 1, 2018		Towards the Meeting: the first encounter with the guides

June 23, 2018		"Archaeology for Peace" in Leiden
June 18, 2018		Event in San Marino
June 12, 2018		Tourists from Spain, Russia and the United Kingdom at Urkesh!
June 11, 2018		The end of the awareness campaign
June 7, 2018		The kids from the school project meet for the first time
May 21, 2018		The awareness campaign in 6 more villages
May 12, 2018		UCLA Cotsen Institute Open House
May 10, 2018		Flooding in Mozan
April 25, 2018		Opening of the exhibition in Qamishli
April 19, 2018		Awareness campaign in Simitek Ezzo and Maamarlo
April 18, 2018		More teachers-to-be visit Mozan
April 17, 2018		The new middle school students visiting the site
April 14, 2018		Kids from the Qamishli Orchestra visiting Mozan
April 13, 2018		Teachers visiting Mozan
April 5, 2018		Awareness campaign in Sabahia
April 4, 2018		New middle school students join the program

March 28, 2018		"The Urkesh Extended Project: Archaeology for the future"
March 2018		The Quamishli middle schools in Urkesh
March 1, 2018		Hajji Nasr awareness program
February 22, 2018		Awareness program at Topez
February 2018		The essays of the Domodossola middle school
January 2018		Urkesh at the Qamishli middle school

December 2017		Visiting Mozan from Erbil (Iraq)
December 20, 2017		Christmas market in Domodossola
December 15, 2017		Conferences at the University of Pavia
December 8, 2017		Medal of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
December 1, 2017		Lecture at the "Urkesh musical group" in Domodossola
November 15, 2017		Exhibition and round table on Urkesh in Beirut
October 30, 2017		Presentation to the music school of Domodossola

August 2017

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Federico Buccellati, Three-dimensional Volumetric Analysis in an Archaeological Context