Minoan Seminar

The program of the Minoan Seminar has been announced for Spring 2014, to be held at the Archaeological Society at Athens, 22 Panepistimiou Street.

21 February 2014: Κ. Παπαδόπουλος, "Η συμβολή των Ψηφιακών Αναπαραστάσεων στη Μελέτη Αρχαιολογικών Δεδομένων από τη Μινωική Κρήτη: Μελέτες Περιπτώσεων από το Φουρνί Αρχανών και τη Ζώμινθο. The Contribution of Digital Reconstructions to the Study of Archaeological Data from Minoan Crete: Case Studies from Phourni, Archanes and Zominthos"

13 March 2014: G. Cadogan, "Myrtos–Pyrgos: Minoan monuments and memories by the Libyan Sea? Μύρτος – Πύργος: Μινωικά μνημεία και μνήμες στο Λιβυκό πέλαγος." Special seminar on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Minoan Seminar series, chaired by E. Sapouna-Sakellaraki and E. Hallager, with a keynote address by M. Vlazaki.

4 April 2014: V. Isaakidou, "Animals as food, capital and symbols: The contribution of zooarchaeology to the investigation of Cretan prehistory. Τα ζώα ως τροφή, κεφάλαιο και σύμβολo: Η συμβολή της ζωοαρχαιολογίας στη διερεύνηση της Κρητικής προϊστορίας"

30 May 2014: I. Caloi, "Phaistos and the Western Mesara plain in the Protopalatial Period: rethinking settlement and funerary data. Η Φαιστός και η πεδιάδα της δυτικής Μεσαράς κατά την Παλαιοανακτορική περίοδο: επανεξετάζοντας τα οικιστικά και ταφικά δεδομένα"

Why Things Matter

On 6-8 March 2014 a conference entitled Why Things Matter will be held at California State University Fullerton. Further information is available at http://lbst.fullerton.edu/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

N. Abell and E. Gorogianni, "Material Naturalization: On the Impact of Craftspeople and Their Products in Encouraging Culture Change at Ayia Irini, Kea, Greece"

H. Landenius Enegren, "The Secret life of loom weights: artefact agency and tacit knowledge"

10th Annual UChicago OI Seminar

On 7-8 March 2014 the Tenth Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar entitled The Early/Middle Bronze Age Transition in the Ancient Near East: Chronology, C14, and Climate Change will be held at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. Further information is available at https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/symposia/2014.html. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

S. Manning, "The Chronology and Complications of Climate-related Change ca. 2200 BC in the East Mediterranean/Southwest Asia"

B. Weninger, "Archaeological and Palaeoclimatological Data to Evaluate the Potential Impact of the 4.2 ka calBP event in the Aegean and Southeast Europe"

METAPHYSIS

On 22-25 April 2014 the AEGAEUM conference entitled METAPHYSIS. Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age, 15ème Rencontre égéenne internationale will be held at the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology (OREA), Department Aegean and Anatolia, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Vienna, Austria. Further information is available at http://metaphysis-aegaeum-15.univie.ac.at/. The (preliminary) program will be:

N. Marinatos, "Myth, Ritual, Symbolism and the Solar Goddess"

E. Alram, "Men with Caps: Chalcolithic Figurines from Aegina-Kolonna and their Ritual Use"

F. Gaignerot-Driessen, "The Lady of the House: Trying to Define the Meaning and Role of Ritual Figures with Upraised Arms in Late Minoan III Crete"

R. Jung and M. Pacciarelli, "A Minoan Statuette from Punta di Zambrone in Southern Calabria"

M. Vetters, "All the Same yet not Identical? Mycenaean Terracotta Figurines in Context"

E. Konsolaki-Yannopoulou, "The Symbolic Significance of the Terracottas from the Mycenaean Sanctuary at Ayios Konstantinos, Methana"

N. Schlager, "Mysterious Creatures: a Paleontological Approach"

F. Blakolmer, "Hierarchy and Symbolic Meaning of Animals and Mythical Creatures in the Aegean Bronze Age"

E. Kyriakidis, "Tracing the Supernatural in Minoan Iconography"

M. Anastasiadou, "Human Heads in a Metaphysical Context: Trying to Define a Minoan Hybrid Creature"

S. Deger-Jalkotzy, "Synthetic Creatures – Early Greek Versions of an Archetypical Phenomenon"

J. L. Crowley, "In the Air Here or from the World Beyond? Enigmatic Symbols of the Late Bronze Age Aegean"

B. Hallager, "Minoan Emblems on Late Minoan Pottery"

M. Nikolaidou, "Religious Symbols in the Repertory of Minoan Pottery: Evidence for Materialised Myth and Ritualised Realities"

H. Whittaker, "Of Horns and Axes"

O. H. Krzyszkowska, "Warding off Evil: Apotropaic Imagery and Practice in the Aegean Bronze Age"

E. Banou and B. Davis, "The Symbolism of the Scorpion in Minoan Religion: a Cosmological Approach on the Basis of Votive Offerings from the Peak Sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno, Kythera"

C. Boulotis, "Sacral Knot, Eight-figured Shield and the 'Hidden Sword' on the Vapheio Signet-ring CMS I, No. 219: a Contribution to the Minoan-Mycenaean Religious Symbolism"

N. R. Thomas, "'Hair Stars' and 'Sun Disks' on Lions and Bulls: a Reality Check on Movements of Motifs and Symbols in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean"

M. Wiener, "Images of Warfare in Minoan Crete in their Aegean Context and the Denial of their Implications in Contemporary Discussions"

S. Privitera, "The Tomb, the House, and the Double Axes: Final Palatial Ayia Triada as a Ritual and 'Mythical' Place"

C. Tully, S. Crooks, and L. Hitchcock, "Numinous Tree and Stone: Re-animating the Minoan Landscape"

B. Montecchi, "The Labyrinth: Building, Myth and Symbol"

B. Eder, "Religious Ideology in Space: the Mycenaean Palaces and Beyond"

L. Morgan, "The Transformative Power of Mural Art: Ritual Space Symbolism, and the Mythic Imagination"

C. Mee and W. Cavanagh, "Feasting with the Dead"

L. Girella, "Regional Cemetery Patterns, Aspects of Ritual and Changes in Funerary Practices between MM II and LM I on Crete"

A. L. D'Agata, S. De Angelis, and S. Calderone, "Funerals of Late Minoan III Crete: Ritual Acts, Special Vessels and Political Affiliations in the 14th and 13th Century BC"

S. Voutsaki, "The Mycenaean Cosmos: the Dead and the Living in the Early Mycenaean Period"

A.-L. Schallin, "The Liminal Zone – the Evidence from the Late Bronze Age Dendra Cemetery"

M. K. Dabney, "Mycenaean Funerary Processions as Shared Ritual Experiences"

M. Lindblom and G. Ekroth, "Heroes, Ancestors or just any Old Bones? Contextualizing the Consecration of Human Remains from the Mycenaean Shaft Graves at Lerna in the Argolid"

J. S. Soles, "Priestess, Hero, Goddess: New Evidence for Minoan Religion"

U. Günkel-Maschek, "Establishing the Minoan 'Enthroned Goddess' in the Neopalatial Period: Imagery, Architecture, and Elitist Ambition"

V. Dubcová, "Divine Power from Abroad: Some New Thoughts about the Foreign Influences on the Aegean Bronze Age Religious Iconography"

C. W. Shelmerdine, "Poseidon, pa-ki-ja-na and Horse-taming Nestor"

I. Serrano Laguna, "di-u-ja"

M. Georgiadis, "Symbolisms, Rituals and Religious Beliefs at the Peak Sanctuary of Leska on Minoan Kythera"

W.-D. Niemeier, "Ritual Behaviour in the Mycenaean Sanctuary at Abai/Kalapodi"

O. Psychoyos, "The Mycenaean Sanctuary at Proph. Ilias on Mount Arachnaio within the Religious Context of the 2nd millennium BC"

B. Horejs and A. Galik, "The Role of Rituals for the Formation of Identities in an EBA Metal Production Centre in Western Anatolia"

P. P. Betancourt, T. M. Brogan, and V. Apostolakou, "Evidence for Ritual at a MM IIB Dyeing Workshop at Pefka, Crete"

A. Sanavia and J. Weingarten, "The Transformation of Tritons: Some Middle Minoan Decorated Triton Shells and an Anatolian Counterpart"

A. Karnava, "On Sacred Vocabulary and Religious Dedications: the Minoan 'Libation Formula'"

D. Puglisi, "Dressing the Girl or Dressing the Goddess? Looking for a Connection between Initiation Rituals and Enacted Epiphanies in Minoan Crete"

M. Nilsson, "Minoan Stairs as Ritual Scenes"

B. R. Jones, "The Ritual on the Thera Adyton Fresco: New Light from the Ancient Near East"

A. G. Vlachopoulos, "Images of Physis or Perceptions of Metaphysis? The Iconography of the Xeste 3 Building at Akrotiri, Thera"

M. Marthari, "The Libation Ritual on Thera. The Evidence from Akrotiri Pictorial Pottery"

K. Polinger Foster, "Animal Hybrids, Masks and Masques in Aegean Ritual"

F. Dakoronia, "Sacrifice on Board"

J. Weilhartner, "Textual Evidence for the Use of Fire in Mycenaean Rituals"

C. Gallou, "'ἀμενηνά κάρηνα' or Actors in Mycenaean Metaphysics? The Role of the Skull and Bodily Fragmentation in Mycenaean Ritual"

A. Yasur-Landau, "The Baetyl and the Stelai: Aniconic Traditions in Levantine and Aegean Cult"

C. Chabot Aslan and M. Pieniążek, "Heroic Past, Memory and Ritual at Troy"

J. G. Younger, "Identifying Myth in Minoan Art"

J. Murphy, "The Power of the Ancestors at Pylos"

E. Borgna and A. Vordos, "Construction of Memory and the Making of a Ritual Landscape: the Role of Gods and Ancestors at the Trapeza of Aigion, Achaea, at the LBA-EIA Transition"

A. P. Chapin, "Mycenaean Mythologies in the Making: the Frescoes of Pylos Hall 64 and the Mycenae Megaron"

R. B. Koehl, "The Ambiguity of the Minoan Mind"

C. Morris, "The Metaphysics of Touch: the Tactical Qualities of Minoan Sacred Objects"

T. G. Palaima, "The Metaphysical Mind: Heroes, Individuals, Social Groups and Gods in Mycenaean Times and in Homer"

A. A. D. Peatfield, "A Metaphysical History of Minoan Religion"

J. Maran, "Endnote"

G. Albers, "Early Temples in the Levant and the Question of Origins of Temples"

K. Bernhardt, "Absent Mycenaeans? On the Mycenaean Figurines and their Imitations on Crete in LM IIIA-B"

T. Boloti, "A 'Knot'-bearing(?) Minoan Genius from Pylos. Contribution to the Cloth/Clothing Offering Imagery of the Aegean Late Bronze Age"

D. Constantinidis, "Proximity Analysis of Metaphysical Aegean Ritual Spaces during the Bronze Age"

J. M. Flood, "The Evolution of Water Shrines and Symbolism during the Cretan Bronze Age"

S. Gimatzidis, "The Tree of Life: the Materiality of a Ritual Symbol in Space and Time"

L. Hitchcock, A. Maeir, and A. Dagan, "The Entanglement of Aegean Style Ritual Actions in Philistine Culture"

P. Kounouklas, "Griffin at Kynos. How, why, and when"

T. Krapf, "Symbolic Value and Magical Power: Examples of Prehistoric Objects Reused in Later Contexts in Euboea"

S. Lupack, "The Sanctuary of pa-ki-ja-ne and its Special Relationship with the Wanax"

M. Miller, "The Boat - in between the Land and the Sea"

S. Müller-Celka, "Places for the Dead in Domestic Space"

M. Nugent, "Portals to the Other: Stepping through a Botanic Door"

M. Pietrovito, "Beyond the Earthly Shell: the Minoan Pitcher Bearers (Anthropomorphic Rhyta of the Pre- and Protopalatial Periods; Differentiating the Sacred from the Divine)"

F. Ruppenstein, "Mycenaean Chamber Tombs as Houses of the Dead and the Question of Secondary Burial Practices"

C. Thurston, "New Approaches to Mycenaean Figurines in LH IIIC"

A. Vasilogamvrou, Title to be announced

M. Zavadil, "Souvenirs from afar – Star Disk Pendants and Moulded Spacer Beads Reconsidered"

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