8th ICAANE
On 15 April 2011 proposals for workshops are due for the 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (8th ICAANE), to be held in Warsaw, Poland 30 April–4 May 2012. On 15 October 2011 abstracts (200 words maximum) for papers (20 minutes) and posters are due. Further information is available at http://www.8icaane.org/. The following themes of possible interest to Nestor readers have been announced:
Townships and villages
Excavation reports and summaries
High and low — minor arts for the elites and the populace
Archaeology of fire
Conservation, preservation and site management
Bioarchaeology in the ancient Near EastVAST 2011
On 29 May 2011 abstracts are due for the 12th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST 2011), to be held on 18‐20 October 2011 in Prato‐Florence, Italy. Further information is available at http://www.vast‐conference.eu/. On 5 June 2011 paper submissions are due; on 3 July 2011 camera‐ready papers are due. Contributions are sought that advance the state of the art in the technologies available to support sustainability of human heritage, with an emphasis on the following themes:
2/3/4D data capture and processing in Cultural Heritage
Augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations
Data acquisition technologies
Digital libraries
Digital capture and annotation of intangible heritage (performance, audio, dance, oral)
Interactive environments and applications for Cultural Heritage
Long term preservation of digital artefacts
Metadata, classification schema, ontologies and semantic processing
Multilingual applications, tools and systems for Cultural Heritage
Multimedia data acquisition, management and archiving
Multi‐modal interfaces and rendering for Cultural Heritage
On‐site and remotely sensed data collection
Standards and documentation
Storytelling and design of heritage communications
Tools for education and training in Cultural Heritage
Usability, effectiveness and interface design for Cultural Heritage
Visualization
POCA 2011
On
31
July
2011
abstracts
are due
for
the
11th
annual
Postgraduates
in
Cypriot Archaeology (POCA
2011) conference,
to
be
held
on
19-22
November
2011,
hosted
by
the Maison
de
l'Orient
et
de
la
Méditerranée
"J. Pouilloux",
University
of
Lyon
2.
On
15 November
2011
manuscripts
are
due
for
publication
in Cahiers of
the Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes n°
41
(2011).
Papers
(20
minutes)
in
English
or
French
on
Cypriot
archaeology
of any
period,
or on
related
subjects,
will
be
welcome;
papers
presented
in
French
should
be submitted to Anna Cannavòaccompanied
by
an
abstract
in
English
with
English
or
bilingual
PowerPoint
slides. Abstracts
(250
words
maximum)
should