On 4-5 December 2015 a conference entitled Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity: Studies in Honor of John F. Cherry will be held at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, R. I. Further information is available at http://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/workshops/regional-approaches-to-society-and-complexity/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

C. Renfrew, "From the Beginning..."

S. Alcock, "Building Programs"

B. Knapp and P. Van Dommelen, "Shaping a Field: Editorship at the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology"

L. Talalay, "On a Lighter Note..."

J. Davis, "Some Reflections from an Old Friend"

S. Manning, "The Origins of Complex Society in Minoan Crete: Between Climate, Stimulus, Agency and Process"

B. Burns, "Importing Complexity: Extra-Aegean Contacts in Palatial and Post-Palatial Crete"

J. Bennet, "Gelb and Gell in the Aegean: Thoughts on the Relations between 'Writing' and 'Art'"

C. Broodbank and A. Bevan, "A Comparative Island Archaeology of Kythera and Antikythera"

B. Parkinson, "On the Shoulders of Giants: Regional Trajectories and Pathways to Complexity in Prehistoric Europe"

M. Galaty, "Prestige-Goods Economies Past and Present in Northern Highland Albania"

B. Knapp, "The Way Things Are ..."

L. Khatchadourian, "Where Things Stand"

C. MacKay, "Tradition and Divide in Archaeological Publication"

C. Witmore, "Complexity versus Corpulence: An Ecological Perspective"