On 1 October 2016 a conference entitled Έρευνα και προβολή του αρχαιολογικού υφάσματος στην Ελλάδα was held at ICOM - Hellenic National Committee in Athens. Further information is available at http://www.museology.gr/events/artex. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
Δ. Σφακιανάκης: “Ρίξε κάτι πάνω σου. εναλλακτικοί τρόποι ένδυσης και σχήματα μινωικών ρούχων"
Χ. Κουκούλη Χρυσανθάκη, Σ. Παπαδόπουλος, Σ. Βακιρτζή, and Δ. Κεχαγιάς, “Προϊστορική κλωστοϋφαντουργία . Η περίπτωση της Σκάλας Σωτήρος Θάσου”
Τ. Μπολώτη, “Ύφάσματα και θρησκευτικά δρώμενα στη Γραμμική Β”
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.
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
