Mycenaean Seminars 2017-18
The University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Classical Studies has announced the following schedule of Mycenaean Seminars for 2017-2018, to take place in the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House South Block Ground Floor G22 / 26, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Unless otherwise stated, Mycenaean Seminars begin at 3:30 pm. Further information is available at https://ics.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/Mycenaean%20Series%202017-18.pdf.
18 October 2017: M. Devolder, “Reconstructing the Architectural Sequence of the Palace at Malia”
15 November 2017: A. Nafplioti, “Bones, isotopes and life histories”
6 December 2017: I. Schoep, “A locational analysis of writing and sealing practices at Ayia Triada in the Late Minoan I period (ca. 1700/1675-1470/1460 BC)”
17 January 2018: B. Horejs, “Proto-urbanisation, rising elites and the role of metallurgy in the Early Bronze Age Aegean-Anatolian world(s)”
21 February 2018: B Burke and B. Burns, “Mycenaean Eleon in Eastern Boeotia: from the Shaft Grave Era through the Post-Palatial Period” (Seminar sponsored by INSTAP)
21 March 2018: L. Girella, “On the side of Rhadamanthus: Phaistos and its region at the beginning of the Neopalatial period”
16 May 2018: K. Paschalidis, “Shaft Grave IV in Grave Circle A. New and unexpected light in a very old story”
New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium 2017-18
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium has announced the schedule of lecturers for 2017-2018, to take place at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts, One East 78th Street, NY, New York at 6:30 pm. Further information is available at https://nyabac.tumblr.com/.
22 September 2017: P. Pavùk, “Cultural Encounters at the Center of the East Aegean–West Anatolian Interface in the Late Bronze Age”
1 November 2017: A. Kanta, “The Religious Center of the City of Knossos: Excavations of a Plot in the Modern Village”
2 March 2018: S. Hemingway
20 March 2018: N. Moeller
6 April 2018: J. Wright
Ancient Communities and Their Elites
On 6-8 October 2017 an international conference entitled Ancient Communities and Their Elites from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity (Central Europe – Mediterranean – Black Sea) will be held in Trnava, Slovakia on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the re-established Trnava University in Trnava and the 20th anniversary of the Department of Classical Archaeology. Further information and the registration forms are available at http://klasarch.truni.sk/conference-2017. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
B. F. Steinmann, “Making Knossos Great Again: Changing Strategies in Minoan Elite Representation between LM I and LM II before and after the Destruction of the Palaces”
V. Dubcová, “Mastering a Griffin. The Agency and Perception of Near Eastern Images by the Aegean Bronze Age Elite”
F. Blakolmer, “What does the Iconography tell us about the Warrior-chiefs of the Shaft Graves at Mycenae?”
Ü. Aytan, “Mediterranean from another angle”
Making, Understanding, Storytelling
On 14 October 2017 a workshop on experimental archaeology entitled Making, Understanding, Storytelling will be held at the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens. Further information is available at http://www.iihsa.ie/athensprog.html. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
G. Kourtessi-Philippakis, “Stone knapping in Prehistory and the contribution of Experimental Archaeology” (in Greek, summary in English)
K. Sarri and U. Mokdad, “Recreating Neolithic textiles: an exercise on woven patterns”
Υ. Papadatos and E. Venieris, “The manufacture of Early Cycladic figurines: experimental approaches and archaeological implications”
J. Day and M. Kobik, “Reconstructing a Minoan pottery kiln from Priniatikos Pyrgos, Crete”
Ε. Κοnstantinidi, N. Papadimitriou and A. Goumas, “Mycenaean jewellery: investigating questions of technology and craftsmanship”
E. Maragoudaki, “‘Cutting edge technology’: reconstruction and use of Late Bronze Age woodworking tools”
ASOR 2017
On 15-18 November 2017 the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR 2017) will take place in Boston, MA. Further information is available at http://www.asor.org/am/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. M. Crandal, “Field ORA in the Storerooms of Tel Kabri”
B. Davis, “The Phaistos Disk: A New Way of Viewing the Language behind the Script”
N. Yahalom-Mack, I. Segal, and I. Finkelstein, “The Complexity of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Copper Trade: A View from the Southern Levant”