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On 23-25 September 2016 an international workshop entitled Aegean World and South Caucasus: Cultural Relations in the Bronze Age will be held in Tbilisi. The program will be:

Z. Bragvadze, "Colchis-Aegean Relations in the Middle Bronze Age"

M. Kvachadze and G. Narimanishvili, "Late Bronze-Early Iron Ages Beads from Trialeti"

N. Shanshashvili and G. Narimanishvili, "Dynamics and Nature of the Relations Between South Caucasus and Aegean World in the Bronze Age"

Commemorative Symposium for Professor Oliver Rackham

On 13-14 August 2016 a Commemorative Symposium for Professor Oliver Rackham was held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Further information is available at http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/corpus-events/commemorative-symposium-for-professor-oliver-rackham/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

P. Warren, “Oliver Rackham and the Ancient Landscapes of Crete”

WAC-8 Kyoto

On 28 August - 1 September 2016 the Eighth World Archaeological Congress (WAC-8 Kyoto) was held at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Further information is available at http://wac8.org/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:

E. Aspöck, “Digitizing Early Farming Cultures: sharing data on Neolithic sites and finds in Greece and Anatolia”

K. Lorentz, “Archaeologies of Childhood in the Mediterranean: The case of Cyprus”

D. Pullen, “Entrepreneurs, the Market, and Craft Production in Mycenaean State Economies”

On 31 August – 4 September 2016 the 22nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA AM 2016) was held in Vilnius, Lithuania. Further information is available at http://www.e-a-a.org/ or http://eaavilnius2016.lt/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:

N. Russell, "Spirit Birds at Neolithic Çatalhöyük"

M. Crudo, J. K. Jacobsen, G. P. Mittica, and S. G. Saxkjaer, "Greek Migration along the Ionian Coastline (Southern Italy)"

K. Luci, "The Middle Bronze Age necropolis in Gllareva - the Mycenaean influence in Kosova"

SAA 2017

On 8 September 2016 abstracts (200 words) for submissions are due for the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, to be held on 29 March–2 April 2017 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Individual submissions may be papers/research reports, or posters; formats for organized sessions include symposium, electronic symposium, poster symposium, forum, debate, or lightning round. Further information is available at http://www.saa.org/AbouttheSociety/AnnualMeeting/tabid/138/Default.aspx.

PeCla 2016

On 1 October 2016 abstracts (500 words) for papers or posters are due for the 5th International Postgraduate Conference: New Directions in Classical Archaeology (PeCla 2016), to be held on 1–2 December 2016 at Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic. Further information is available at http://ukar.ff.cuni.cz/en/pecla2016_eng.

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