ScapeCon 6
On 30 June 2023 abstracts (350 words maximum) are due from Early Career/Postdoc researchers, Ph.D. candidates, and Master students for the 6th Ιnternational Conference of ScapeCon: Contextualizing Fire in Aegean Prehistory (ScapeCon 6), to be held on 2-3 December 2023 hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/ScapeCon/ or from
2nd Symposium on the Archaeology of Western Anatolia
On 9 September 2023 abstracts (2-4 pages with 2-3 figures) are due for the Second International Symposium on the Archaeology of Western Anatolia: Archaeology and history of the Cayster (Küçük Menderes) Valley in south-eastern inland part of Izmir, to be held on 17-18 November 2023 in Izmir, Turkey. Further information is available at this site. The themes of the conference will be the following:
• Recent archaeological field projects (excavations and surveys) and museum studies as well as discoveries in and around the Cayster (Küçük Menderes) Valley, in i.e., Tire, Ödemiş, Bayındır, Kiraz, Beydağ, and Torbalı
• The Cayster Valley in ancient mythology
• Prehistorical and protohistorical researches in the Cayster Valley
• The Cayster Valley during the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods
• The Cayster Valley in ancient authors, eg., Homer, Herodotus, Strabo etc
• Ethno-cultural landscape of the ancient Cayster Valley and ethnoarchaeology
• Epigraphical research in the Cayster Valley
• Numismatic research in the Cayster Valley: circulations, dynamics and mechanisms
• Relationships between the Cayster Valley and other parts of Lydia and Ionia, the Achaemenid Empire as well as other neighbouring regions
• Historical geography and settlement patterns in the Cayster Valley during the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods
• Ancient roads, routes and population in the Cayster Valley
• The Cayster Valley as a part of the Roman province Asia
• The Cayster Valley under the tetrarchy reform of Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 296
• Population and settlement boom in the “Justinianic” era in the region of the Cayster Valley
• Thracesian Theme in western Asia Minor
• Archaeometric researches in the Cayster Valley
• Miscellanea
Trade Routes and Seafaring in the Ancient Near East
Interest in participating in the Fifty Sixth International Conference of the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies: Trade Routes and Seafaring in the Ancient Near East, to be held on 15-17 July 2024 at the Institute of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Oxford, should be sent to ARAM’s Oxford address: ARAM Society, the Institute of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England; tel. 01865-514041; email