TAG-US 2014

On 23-25 May 2014 the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG-US) 2014: Convergence was held at the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. Further information is available at https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID= 1195202. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

M. N. Pareja, "East Meets West: Monkeys in Bronze Age Aegean Glyptic"

M. N. Pareja, "Strangers from a Strange Land: The Appearance of Blue Monkeys in the Bronze Age Frescoes at Akrotiri, Thera"

Embodied Identities

On 7-8 June 2014 a workshop entitled Embodied Identities: Figural and Symbolic Representation of the Self in Anatolia was held at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, in Taksim. Further information is available at http://rcac.ku.edu.tr/embodiedidentities. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

S. Vasilakis, "The Role of the Sea in Forging Prehistoric Maritime Cultural Identity in the East Aegean-West Anatolian Interface"

New Antiquities

On 26-28 June 2014 a conference entitled New Antiquities: Transformations of the Past in the New Age and Beyond was held in Berlin. Further information is available at http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/newantik/program/index.html. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

C. Tully, "The Artifice of Daedalus: Modern Minoica as Religious Focus in Contemporary Paganism"

L. Bonga, " Mother-Goddess Misconceptions"

H. Vogel, "'The Goddess is alive!' – Goddess Feminism and Archaeology: the Case of Çatal Höyük"