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AIA 2026
On 24 March 2025 (7 April with a late fee) submissions for colloquia, joint AIA/SCS sessions, and open-session submissions needing an early decision to acquire a visa or obtain funding are due for the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA 2026), to be held in San Francisco, CA from 7-10 January 2026. On 4 August 2025 (18 August with a late fee) submissions are due for workshops, open session papers and posters, and any provisionally accepted colloquia and workshops that are resubmitting. On 1 November 2025 submissions are due for Lightning Sessions and Roundtables. Further information is available at http://www.archaeological.org.
PoCA 2025
On 1 May 2025 abstracts (250 words maximum) and other documents are due for the 22nd Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Meeting (PoCA 2025), to be held in hybrid form on 9-12 October 2025 by the University of Cyprus. Further information is available at https://pocaucy2025.wixsite.com/pocaucy2025/.
Change and power entanglements
On 7-9 March 2025 an Early Career Researcher Conference entitled Change and power entanglements: Investigating a reciprocal relation in the Bronze Age Aegean will be held in Heidelberg. Further information is available at https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/md/zaw/klarch/aktuelles/conferece_program_final.pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
C. De Gregorio, “Shifting power structures in late Prepalatial Crete: pottery as evidence of social change between EM III and MM I”
K. Vrettou, “Alternating paths and dynamics of maritime exchange networks in Prepalatial Crete”
K. Rottmann, “Miletus in flux: transcultural dynamics in the Minoanisation of Miletus”
M. Gillespie, “Crafting change: Mycenaean figurines on Aegina in LH IIIA2”
F. Toscano, “The status of power within households through the analysis of textile production: an overview from Crete in LMIII”
A Senar-Sarrat, ‘The role of women and changes in social values and textile production from the LBA to the EIA in ancient Greece”
E. Platania, “Shaping power through pastoralism: resource management and political structures in Minoan and Mycenaean Crete”
P. M. Militello: Keynote lecture
D. Markaki, “Communal buildings in Prepalatial Crete. Indications of hierarchy or collectivity?”
T. Messina, “Changes in power management by an architectural perspective in Neopalatial Phaistos”
N. Ayash, “Making due: projecting power in minimal space at the so-called sanctuary of Koumasa”
G. Georgakopoulos, “The banquethall(s) of the Zakros palace, between the two natural destructions at the end of the LMIB period”
S. Perrakis, “The emergence of a new ritual in LM IB Kato Zakros”
M. Prete, “Power and change in the Pediada region: a multiscalar approach for the analysis of power dynamics in understudied archaeological regions”
J. Stühler, “Beyond the megaron: relating palatial and non-palatial hearth structures in Mycenaean settlement”
N. Selekos, “Ritual innovations and power relations at the open-air cult place at mount Kynortion, Argolis”
S. Hilker, “Power and change in the LH settlement landscape”
A. Peterkova, “Settlement pattern changes as an expression of' power? A perspective from the East Aegean and West Anatolian Interface”
I. Vlachopoulos, “Rethinking power: social relations, space and the habitus in the IA of the Ancient Near East”
D. Vendramin, “Rural landscapes, landscapes of power. Readdressing grave goods as evidence for horizontal and vertical relationships in minor centres of Prepalatial Crete. A perspective from the circular tombs of Lebena, southern Crete”
F. Nani and S. Vitale, “Showcasing status and negotiating power: Kos, the Southeast Aegean, and the Eastern Mediterranean at the LH IIIB to LH IIIC transition”
I. Kutlesovski, “Power dynamics in the LBA/Transitional Period Turn in the Axios/Vardar River Valley based on funerary evidence”
D. Aquini, “Jewellery in transition. Precious ornaments during the emergence of the first Minoan palaces”
T. Andreovits, “From regionalism to iconographical 'koine': negotiating power through human body representations in Minoan seal imagery”
I. Komitsas, “Memory, conservatism and innovation in the Aegean LBA: social power dynamics via human imagery”
A. Verri, “The sword as an indicator of social and political power during the Mycenaean period”
S. Spanos, “Koukounaries (Paros) during the LH IIIC period. From refugee to ruler of the island”
G. Staudacher, “Sealed authority: power dynamics and administrative innovation at MM IIB Phaistos”
M. Mann, “Knowledge is power—What the Linear B tablets reveal about the power of the scribes”
G. Paglione, “God who shook the sea: E-ne-si-da-o-ne and the impact of the Theran eruption on Cretan religion”
The Great Women Behind the Great Men
On 12-13 March 2025 the 3rd workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece: Tribute to Maria Ludwika Bernhard. The Great Women Behind the Great Men will be held in Athens, Greece, organized jointly by the French School at Athens and the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens, with the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Greece. Further information is available at https://www.efa.gr/events/the-great-women-behind-the-great-men/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
S. Déderix and M. Bastide, “Introduction. From footnotes to history: the great women behind the great men of Greek archaeology”
R. Sweetman and A. Kakissis, “BSA wives of the early 20th century: their contributions to scholarship”
R. Rannou, “Les épouses sur les chantiers de fouilles, des archéologues ‘malgré elles?’”
K. Brandt, “Sisters, daughter(s), and nieces – the many supportive women behind the great Wilhelm Dörpfeld”
M. Cultraro, “The woman who lived twice. Sophia Schliemann and her contribution to pioneering archaeology”
S. Ximeri, “Hilda White Pendlebury: ‘the right wife for an archaeologist’”
ΑΕΘΜ
On 13-14 March 2025 the 37th meeting of the conference Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και τη Θράκη (ΑΕΘΜ) will be held in Thessaloniki. Further information is available at https://www.aemth.gr/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
Γ. Μπασιάκος and Χ. Κουκούλη, “Χωροθέτηση, ομοιότητες και διαφορές πρώιμων μεταλλουργικών εγκαταστάσεων στο Β. και Ν. Αιγαίο”
Α. Βασίλας, Χ. Βασίλας, and Σ. Βασιλείου, “Νέα ευρήματα από τον οικισμό Eποχής Σιδήρου στη θέση Λαγόμανδρα Χαλκιδικής”
Α. Ντάρλας and Α. Σύρος, “Επαναλειτουργία του σπηλαίου και επανέκθεση του Μουσείου Πετραλώνων”
Ε. Μανακίδου, Δ. Τσιαφάκη, and Κ. Τσονάκα, “30 χρόνια πανεπιστημιακής ανασκαφής στο Καραμπουρνάκι: τεκμηρίωση, διαχείριση και προβολή του αρχαίου οικισμού”
Σ. Χρονάκη, Α. Σαμούρης, Ν. Αθανασιάδης, Ζ. Αμοιρίδου, Σ. Βογιατζή, Δ. Καδή, Α. Καραθάνου, Ά. Λύκα, Κ. Μαστορογιάννης, Γ. Παπαδιάς, Γ. Παρχαρίδου, Κ. Παυλόγλου, Ι. Νεστορίδης, Κ. Χονδρός, Σ. Ανδρέου, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Η πανεπιστημιακή ανασκαφή στην Τούμπα Θεσσαλονίκης, 2024”
Ευ. Βούλγαρη, Μ. Σωφρονίδου, and Κ. Κωτσάκης, “Μικρογραφικά αγγεία από το Δισπηλιό Καστοριάς”
Τ. Μπεκιάρης, Γ. Στρατούλη, Χ. Στεργίου, Β. Μέλφος, and Κ. Κωτσάκης, “Μακρολιθικά τεχνουργήματα από το νεολιθικό Δισπηλιό Καστοριάς: τυπολογία και τεχνολογικά χαρακτηριστικά”
Ά. Μπαντίκης, Β. Κασαπάκης, Σ. Ανδρέου, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Η χρήση της εικονικής πραγματικότητας στην εκπαίδευση αρχαιολόγων: το παράδειγμα του ανασκαφικού χώρου της Τούμπας Θεσσαλονίκης (Meta-Toumba)”
Ι. Μάνος, Σ. Δημάκη, Μ. Γεωργιάδης, and Κ. Παυλόγλου, “Προκαταρκτική μελέτη της πελεκημένης λιθοτεχνίας από τη νεολιθική θέση Βραστερό, Τ.Κ. Δήμητρας, Δήμος Δεσκάτης, Π.Ε. Γρεβενών”
Écritures et déchiffrements
On 6-8 February 2025 an international colloquium entitled Écritures et déchiffrements du golfe Arabo-Persique à la mer Égée entre les Troisième et Premier millénaires avant notre ère. Où en sommes-nous? was held at the University of Milan. Further information is available at https://www.iulm.it/en/news-ed-eventi/news/colloque-international-3-giorni-convegno. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
L. Godart and A. Sacconi, “L’apparition de l’écriture en Crète"
M. Civitillo, “What does 'deciphering' Cretan Hieroglyphic script mean? A few points on potentially ‘inflected’ sign sequences”
E. Notti, “Naming, writing and measuring ‘at the time of Minos’. Some reflections on Bronze Age Aegean notations on clay vessels and their representations”
C. Consani and M. Negri, “Geroglifico A-SA(-)SA-*095-NE - Lineare A (J)A-SA-SA-RA-ME (e varianti). Fra interpretazione fonetica dei segni, esegesi testuale e decifrazione. Parte I”
C. Consani and M. Negri, “Geroglifico A-SA(-)SA-*095-NE - Lineare A (J)A-SA-SA-RA-ME (e varianti). Fra interpretazione fonetica dei segni, esegesi testuale e decifrazione. Parte II”
C. Varias García, “Linear B script after Ventris’ decipherment: progress achieved and future perspectives”
M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki and A. Greco, “Le tavolette in Lineare B di Kydonia (The ku-do-ni-ja Epigraphic and Palaeographic Project)”
S. Ferrara, “Synergistic Methods applied to the Decipherment of Ancient Scripts”
M. Valério, “The Cypro-Minoan script system: reappraising recent developments”
XIII TUCRC
On 1 March 2025 the Thirteenth Annual Tennessee Undergraduate Classics Research Conference (TUCRC) was held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Further information is available at https://classics.utk.edu/undergraduate-conference/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
A. Schollenberger, “Reconstructing the Mycenaean Warrior Ethos: Exploring the Displays of Power of the Mycenaean Elite through Chariot Iconography”
L. Pajor, “Identifying Religion in Mycenaean Feasts from the Archaeological Record”
The February 2025 issue of Nestor (52.2) is available as a free download.