Calls for Papers

Κέα-Κύθνος ΙΙ

On 30 June 2024 abstracts are due for an international conference entitled Κέα-Κύθνος ΙΙ: Ιστορία και Αρχαιολογία, to be held on 20-24 October 2024 on Kea and Kythnos. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/groups/230503754201416/permalink/1489116688340110/. Topics will include:
• Archaeological field work, material studies, and synthetic studies
• Management of sites and monuments
• Museological and museographic topics
• Epigraphic and numismatic issues
• Diachronic studies focused on landscape archaeology
• Historical studies on Kea and Kythnos

 

14th ICAANE

On 30 June 2024 abstracts are due for workshops at the 14th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (14th ICAANE), to be held on 2-7 June 2025 in Lyon; on 31 October 2024 abstracts for papers and posters are due. Further information is available at https://14icaane.inviteo.fr/. Thematic sessions covering interdisciplinary research and new approaches of the archaeology of the Ancient Near East, from Prehistoric to Islamic times will be:
• Advances in Near Eastern Archaeology
• Natural resources and anthropised landscapes
• Heritage and archaeology
• The materiality of inscribed and figurative objects
• Neolithic paths
• Life and death: Human behaviour and practices
• Characterizing culture?
• Islamic archaeology

 

Decoding Representations of Status

On 1 September 2024 abstracts (300 words maximum) are due for an online symposium entitled Decoding Representations of Status in the Bronze Age Aegean: Patterns, definitions and interpretations, to be held on 28-29 November 2024 via Zoom, hosted by the Dokuz Eylül University Archaeology and Archeometry Application and Research Center in Türkiye and the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Topics will include:
• Manifestations of status on pottery
• The semantics of symbols in LBA society
• Display of status in graves
• Rituals (religious and/or secular) and status connections
• Defining status through architecture
• Storage strategies and their relation to status
• Possession of metals and status
• Indications of status in the osteoarchaeological and archaeobotanical archaeological data
• Theoretical approaches on status