Mycenaean Seminars
The University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Classical Studies has announced the following schedule of Mycenaean Seminars for spring 2016, to take place in the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, South Block, Ground Floor G22 / 26, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Unless otherwise stated, Mycenaean Seminars begin at 3:30 pm. Further information is available at http://icls.sas.ac.uk/institute/meetingslist/index.html or from Dr. Olga Krzyszkowska at
20 January 2016: P. Tomkins, “Making p(a)laces, marking differences. Exploring the ‘prepalatial' origins of the Minoan palaces
17 February 2016: D. Nakassis, “Digital Nestor: Aegean scripts in the 21st century”
16 March 2016: B. Eder, “Kakovatos in Triphylia (Peloponnese): rise and fall of an Early Mycenaean site”
18 May 2016: G. Flouda, “Digging up the past: the Minoan site of Apesokari in the Mesara”
New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium has announced the following lectures, to take place at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts, One East 78th Street, NY, New York at 6:30 pm. Interested guests are always welcome; R.S.V.P. 212-992-5803 or
12 February 2016: Lorenzo D’Alfonso, “New insights in Central Anatolia after the fall of the Hittite Empire: reconsidering the early stages of Phrygia and the Neo-Hittite polities”
11 March 2016: J. Murphy, “Death in Bronze Age Pylos”
1 April 2016: C. von Ruden, “Why Tell el-Dab'a Matters. Skill and Materiality in Painting the Palace District of Ezbet Helmi"
20 May 2016, J. Weingarten, “The Arrival of Monsters in MM II Minoan Crete: why then, and what happened next?”
Aegean Lectures
The Aegeus Society for Aegean Prehistory and the Swedish Institute at Athens have announced the Aegean Lectures in winter and spring 2016, to take place at the Swedish Institute at Athens at 7:00 pm. Further information is available at http://www.aegeussociety.org/gr/index.php/aegean-lectures/
29 January 2016: Σ. Νανόγλου, “Ερμηνευτικές προσεγγίσεις στα προϊστορικά ειδώλια”
19 February 2016: V. Vlachou, “Exploring the archaeology of Marathon from the 10th to the 7th c. BCE”
4 March 2016: Δ. Παναγιωτόπουλος, “Μινωική Κουμάσα 2012-2016. Στόχοι, αποτελέσματα και οράματα του νέου διεπιστημονικού προγράμματος”
15 April 2016: D. Mylona, “Animal remains in context: issues of economy and food choices at Neopalatial Mochlos, Crete”
May/June 2016: J. Bennet, “What were Aegean texts for?”
GAO Conference 2016
On 12-13 March 2016 the Graduate Archaology at Oxford Conference: Human-Nature Interactions in Archaeological Research will be held by the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Further information is available at http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/gao.html. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include
K. Trimmis, “The ‘teahouse paradox’: Human – Cave interaction in the Neolithic of South East Europe as case study for an Archaeology of Feelings”
N. Ayash, “Stars in the Minoan religion”
M. Nugent, “Ideal, real and imagined: generating value and identity – botanic motifs of the Bronze Age Cycladic Islands”
A. Bogaard, “Nature and nurture in early farming: Practical (and magical) action at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, central Anatolia”
A. Pateraki, “Minoans and the Sea”
In Poseidon's Realm XXI
On 21-24 April 2016 the conference In Poseidon's Realm XXI: Underwater archaeology - interdisciplinary approaches and technical innovation will be held in Dresden, Germany. Further information is available at http://www.deguwa.org/?id=266. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include
H. W. Daehnhardt and H. Hristov, “The storm of the Sea People and the Battle of the Delta”