On 13 February 2015 applications are due for the Michael Ventris Memorial Award for Mycenaean Studies of up to £2000, to be awarded to scholars who have obtained a doctorate within the past eight years or postgraduate students about to complete the doctorate in the field of Mycenaean civilization or kindred subjects, to promote research in (1) Linear B and other Bronze Age scripts of the Aegean and Cyprus and their historical and cultural connections, or (2) all other aspects of the Bronze Age of the Aegean and Cyprus. Applications (6 pages maximum) should be sent to the Deputy Director, Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom or via email (compatible with Word 2003) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Applications should include age, qualifications, academic record, an outline and projected budget of the proposed work (which is not intended to be Ph.D. research), and the names and addresses of two referees, who should at the same time be asked to write independently in support of the application. Further information, including detailed application instructions, is available at http://www.icls.sas.ac.uk/awards/awards-prizes.
On 13 February 2015 abstracts are due for oral or poster presentations at the 13th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (MAC 2015), to be held on 24-26 September 2015 at the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece. Further information is available at http://www.emac2015.gr or from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The main topics will be:
Methodological developments
Dating of ceramics
Production, dissemination and consumption
Slips and glazes
Technical ceramics
Ceramics as building materials
Vessel function and vessel use
Raw material studies
Pottery kilns
Alteration and conservation
AIA 2016
On 8 March 2015 (22 March with a late fee) submissions for workshops, colloquia, undergraduate submissions, and open-session papers and posters needing an early decision to acquire a visa or obtain funding are due for the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA 2016), to be held in San Francisco, CA from 7-9 January 2016. On 2 August 2015 (16 August with a late fee) submissions are due for workshops, other open session papers and posters, and any provisionally accepted colloquia that are resubmitting. On 15 November 2015 roundtable proposals and lightning session submissions are due. Submission forms and further information are available at http://www.archaeological.org.
Diálogos Micénicos
On 16 March 2015 proposals are due for the Diálogos Micénicos: Lengua, Textos, Historia, to be held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid from 12-13 May 2015. Titles and abstracts for proposed 20 minute papers should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
On 5-6 February 2015 the Theoretical Archaeology Group Turkey 2015: Archaeological Things (TAG Turkey 2015) will be held at Mimar Sinan University, İstanbul. Further information is available at http://tagturkey2014.wordpress.com/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
S. Souvatzi, E. Baysal, B. Boz; A. Baysal, B. Erdoğu, "To thing or not to thing?"
Ö. Çevik, "Ulucak Höyük Neolitik Toplumunda Antroposantrik İletişim Ağı"
Ç. Özdoğan, "Tunç Çağı'nda Levant'da deniz ticareti ağı"
Petras Symposium
On 14-15 February 2015 the 2ο Διεθνές Συμπόσιο Πετρά: Προ- και Παλαιο-ανακτορικό νεκροταφείο στο ιστορικό του πλαίσιο. 2nd International Petras Symposium. The Pre- and Proto-palatial cemetery in context will be held at The Danish Institute at Athens. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/Petras.excavations. The program will be:
M. Τσιποπούλου, "Διερευνώντας κοινωνικο-πολιτικές αλλαγές στον Προ- και Παλαιο-ανακτορικό Πετρά. Το νεκροταφείο των τάφων-οικιών. Documenting Sociopolitical changes in the Pre- and Protopalatial Petras. The House Tomb Cemetery"
P. P. Betancourt, M. Tsipopoulou, and M. Clinton. "The Tripartite Façade at the Petras Cemetery. Η τριμερής πρόσοψη του νεκροταφείου του Πετρά"
Μ. Τσιποπούλου, "Αναθηματική απόθεση 1. Ταυτότητα και χρονολόγηση ενός ιδιαίτερου τελετουργικού χώρου στο νεκροταφείο του Πετρά. Votive Deposit 1. Identity and chronology of a special ritual area in the Petras cemetery".
On 27-28 February 2015 a workshop entitled Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: the Potential of Digital Archaeology will be held in London. Further information is available at http://uwm.edu/mobilizing-the-past/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
J. Wallrodt, "Why Paperless?: Digital Technology and Archaeology"
J. M. Gordon, K. Koo, M. Toumazou, D. Counts, and E. Walcek Averett, "Technology and Teaching at the Athienou Archaeological Project, Cyprus"
On 7-9 January 2015 the 2015 Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2015) was held in London. Further information is available at http://banealcane.org/banea/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:
I. Jacobsson, "What do the Cypro-PPN sites tell us about the nature of the M-/L-PPNB transition?"
D. Bolger, "Fragmented identities: social and material transformations in 3rd millennium BC Cyprus"
F. Chelazzi, "Living by the rivers: social networks and settlement patterns in southwestern Cyprus during the second millennium BC"
Y. Asscher et al., "A slow social integration of the Philistines in the southern Levant is supported by a new radiocarbon based chronology"
K. Wright, "Craft production, food preparation and household differentiation Çatalhöyük East and other Neolithic sites in the Near East"
B. Kızılduman, "Interrelations between the Karpaz peninsula and the Levant during the Bronze Age"
