The September 2016 issue of Nestor (43.6) is available as a free download.
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INSTAP 2017
On 1 November 2016 applications are due to the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) for 2017 New or Renewal Research Grants, the Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete (SCEC) Librarian Fellowship, the SCEC Petrography Internship, Six-Week Research Grants at INSTAP SCEC, and the 2016-2017 Harriet Boyd Hawes Fellowship. Applications for Publication Team Support and Publication Subventions have no specific due dates. Further information and applications are available at http://www.aegeanprehistory.net.
In Poseidons Realm XXII
On 31 October 2016 titles and abstracts (250 words including up to 2 figures) are due for the conference In Poseidons Realm XXII: We're all in the same boat – the social importance of ships, rafts and ferries, to be held on 17-19 March 2017 at the RheinMoselCampus of the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences. Papers are invited on topics of archaeology and history of navigation on Rhine and Moselle, as are those on sociology and cultural history of the nautical life through all periods and regions as well as on issues relating to communication allowed by watercraft to cross rivers, lakes and seas including its effects. Reports on new results of all kinds of field and basic studies or present theoretical discussions of old and new problems will also be welcome, as will reports on other kinds of new findings, on results from nautical and freshwater archaeology and cultural history, and on the latest developments of methodology and technology. Conference papers will be published in Skyllis. Further information is available at http://www.deguwa.org/.
BANEA 2017
On 15 September 2016 session and workshop proposals (including a list of agreed speakers, titles, and abstracts) are due for the 2017 Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2017), to be held on 4-6 January 2017 in Glasgow, with the main theme of Grand Challenges and Blue Skies in the Study of the Ancient Near East; on 31 October 2016 paper and poster titles and abstracts (200 words) are due. Further information is available at http://www.gla.ac.uk/. Conference sessions will include:
Encounters with Materials and Technologies
Routines, Memory and Performance
Landscapes of Transition
Archaeologies in and of Conflict
Big Data, Large Scales, Long-term - New Approaches
Ongoing Fieldwork
Posters
Cycladic Seminar
The Cycladic Seminar has announced the following schedule of lectures in Autumn 2016, to be held at the Archaeological Society at Athens, 22 Panepistimiou Street.
4 October 2016: D. Panagiotopoulos, "An enigmatic (;) absence. On the meagre evidence for seals and sealing practices in the Bronze Age Cyclades"
8 December 2016: J. Wright, "Full Circle: the tale of a prehistoric survey on Kythnos"
Dialoghi sull'Archeologia della Magna Grecia e del Mediterraneo
On 7-9 September 2016 a conference entitled Dialoghi sull'Archeologia della Magna Grecia e del Mediterraneo: Rassegna annual di studi, ricerche e notizie di scoperte promossa dalla Fondazione Paestum will be held in Paestum. Further information is available at http://www.dialarchmed.com/en/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Vassilogamvrou, "The Mycenaean palace of Sparta and his weapons. An epochal discovery"
12th International Congress of Cretan Studies
On 21-24 September 2016 the 12 Διεθνές Κρητολογικό Συνέδριο. 12th International Congress of Cretan Studies will be held in Heraklion. Further information is available at http://www.12-iccs.gr./index.php/12ICCS/ICCS2016. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
G. Cadogan, "Μινωικές μετακινήσεις: "δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸνποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης'"
M. Cultraro, "The PREPI Project: Late Neolithic and Early Minoan settlement at Siderospilia, Prinias"
D. Lange, "Social mobility and collective identity. The Early Minoan Tholos tombs and the individual"
(Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean Greece
On 5-8 October 2016 a conference entitled (Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean Greece, organized by the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Cooperation with the Austrian Archaeological Institute will be held in Athens. Further information is available at http://www.orea.oeaw.ac.at/place-and-space.html. The program will be:
J. C. Wright, "Early Mycenaean Greece: what we still don't know"
B. Eder, G. Hatzi-Spiliopoulou, and B. Horejs, "Strategies in space: the Early Mycenaean site of Kakovatos in Triphylia"
C. de Vree, "The tholos tombs of Kakovatos – their place in Early Mycenaean Greece"