The December 2017 issue of Nestor (44.9) is available as a free download.
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2018 Harriet Boyd Hawes Fellowship
On 1 February 2018 applications are due for the 2018 Harriet Boyd Hawes Fellowship ($3000) to support investigation of the role of women or gender studies in Bronze Age Crete at the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, highlighting spheres and aspects of ancient life that have not yet received sufficient attention in Aegean Bronze Age studies. Applicants should be scholars in the field of the Aegean Bronze Age/Early Iron Age who have completed a PhD in Archaeology, Anthropology, Art History, Ancient History, or Classics. Applications should be sent to
Ethnography/experimental archaeology
Exploration of written archives and collections from various periods
Library research
Examination of archaeological materials, including artifacts, bones, and other organic remains
2018 Michael Ventris Award
On 15 February 2018 applications are due for the Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies for 2018 (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 by email, ideally as a PDF attachment to the Classics Manager, Valerie James (
Andrew Sherratt Fund
On 15 March 2018 applications are due for the Andrew Sherratt Fund for 2018 (up to £1000), to assist postgraduate students in Old World Prehistory, from academic institutions anywhere in the world, to travel or gain access to resources that would otherwise be unavailable to them. Further information, including a link to the Google form for application, is available at https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/archaeology/research/andrew-sherratt-fund.
5th Wollesen Graduate Symposium
On 22 December 2017 abstracts (300 words maximum) are due for the 5th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium. The Art of Passage: Transnational Encounters and the Convergence of Cultures, to be held on 9 March 2018, hosted by the Department of Art and the Graduate Union of the Students of Art at the University of Toronto. Further information is available at https://gustasymposium.wordpress.com/. Considering the expansive definition of “passage,” this symposium hopes to contribute to the increasingly robust scholarship that seeks to rehabilitate, reveal, and interrogate the formative role that intercultural encounters have had on the history of art. We encourage submissions from students and scholars employing interdisciplinary approaches in the context of visual culture from antiquity to the present. Potential paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
Colonialism and postcolonial perspectives
Cultural exchange through artistic movements, techniques, methods, etc.
Exiles, networking, and circulations of ideas
Transnationalism and its impact on local traditions
Nationalism, independence, and globalization
Cosmopolitanism vs tradition
Dislocation in the shaping of art in and beyond the “margins”
The effect of globalism on art and art history
Migrations and utopias
“Hybridity,” “mimicry,” and artistic practices
Art and ideologies
Art beyond the Western canon
Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese
On 15 January 2018 abstracts (200 words maximum) are due for an international conference entitled Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese during the first millennium BC: Recent discoveries and research results, to be held in October 2018 at the University of the Aegean on Rhodes. Further information is available at http://dms.aegean.gr/rac/. The conference will particularly welcome papers in the following thematic circles:
New archaeological finds on sanctuaries and cult practices in the Dodecanese
Epigraphical and literary evidence on the religion and cults in the Dodecanese
The context of religion and cult practice in the Dodecanese
Theoretical issues on the relation between archaeology, religion, and cult
Aegean Lectures
The program of the Aegean Lectures has been announced for winter 2017-2018. All lectures will be held at 19:00 at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9, Athens).
10 November 2017: F. Gaignerot-Driessen, “Living, dying, and praying on a Late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age mountainous site: preliminary results of the 2015-2017 archaeological fieldwork on the Anavlochos, Crete”
10 December 2017: L. Bombardieri, “Working (with) class. Ideology, ritual and labour in Middle Bronze Age Erimi (Cyprus)”
26 January 2018: R. Christidou, “The northeastern Aegean bone industries as case study of local cultural dynamics”
Australian Archaeological Association (AAA2017)
On 6-8 December 2017 the Australian Archaeological Association (AAA2017). Island to Inland: Connections across land and sea conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia. Further information is available at http://aaa2017.conferenceonline.com.au/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
K. Youngs, “Lux on the Water: Riverine Connections and Prestige Crafts on Late Bronze Age Cyprus”
S. Crooks, “Cry Me a River - Mourning in Middle Chalcolithic Cyprus: Picrolite Cruciforms and the Kouris River Blues”
I. Berg, “Making Metals in the Aegean: The Sea as a Transforming Agent”
L. Hitchcock, “The Maritime and Riverine Networks of the Eurotas River Valley in Lakonia, Greece”
C. Tully, “Cockles, Mussels, Fishing Nets and Finery: The Relationship Between Cult, Textiles and the Sea Depicted on a Minoan-Style Gold Ring from Pylos”
6th PeClA 2017
On 11-12 December 2017 the 6th PeClA 2017 International Postgraduate Conference (Perspectives on Classical Archaeology 2017): Resources: Power and Connectivity in the Ancient Mediterranean will be held at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Further information is available at https://www.orea.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/Institute/OREA/Events/2017/PeClA/PeClA2017_program.pdf. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
B. Horejs, “Resources and Their Impact on Aegean-Anatolian Societies Through Time. A View from Prehistory”
F. Franković, “Something Old, Something New and Something Borrowed – Appropriating Foreign Material Culture in the Late Bronze Age Aegean”
P. Pavúk, “Resources at Troy: Land, Storage and People”
Aegean Seminar in Zagreb
The Aegean Seminar in Zagreb has held the following lectures in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
24 October 2017: S. Allen, “Harvesting Power: Mycenaean Agriculture in Review”
30 November 2017: S. Amicone, “Pottery Making Recipes at the Dawn of the Metal Age: Insights into the Selection and Processing of Raw Materials in Prehistoric Balkans”
Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στις Κυκλάδες
On 23-26 November 2017 the conference Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στις Κυκλάδες: Περὶ τῶν Κυκλάδων νήσων was held in Athens. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
T. Carter, D. A. Contreras, D. D. Mihailović, J. Hilditch, and Y. Pitt, “The results and significance of the Stélida Naxos Archaeological Project survey”
Α. Σάμψων, J. K. Kozlowski, and Μ. Kaczanowska, “Ένας οικισμός της μεσολιθικής στη Σίκινο”
Ε. Λεγάκη, Μ. Μαυροειδόπουλος, and Ε. Ορφανίδου, “Ευρήματα της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Χαλκού από σωστικές ανασκαφές στη Νάξο και το Κουφονήσι”