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In Search of the Golden Fleece

On 27-28 January 2017 a conference entitled In Search of the Golden Fleece: Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and the Ancient Near East will be held at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. Further information is available at http://www.ertegun.ox.ac.uk/news-events/%E2%80%9C-search-golden-fleece%E2%80%9D-linguistic-and-cultural-interactions-between-greece-and-ancient. The program will be:

P. Dardano, "Homeric covenantal terminology and its Near Eastern forerunners"

S. Durnford, "Where was Aḫḫiya? Who was Attarissiya?"

C. Metcalf, "The literary evidence - from Hittite to Homer?"

On 21-22 March 2017 the conference Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets will be held by the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Further information is available at https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/urbs2/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

W. Waal, "The journey from East to West. Rethinking the transmission and introduction of the alphabet to Greece"

Α' Διεθνές Αρχαιολογικό και Ιστορικό Συνέδριο για τη Θεσπρωτία

On 8-11 December 2016 the Α' Διεθνές Αρχαιολογικό και Ιστορικό Συνέδριο για τη Θεσπρωτία. 1st International Conference on the Archaeology and History of Thesprotia was held at Archaeological Museum of Igoumenitsa. Further information is available at http://www.igoumenitsamuseum.gr/view_events/7/3/forthcoming. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

A. Chabrol, V. Kapsimalis, and G. Kourtessi-Philippakis, "Human occupation and geomorphological evolution of the Corfu strait (NW Greece) during the Holocene: submarine seismic profiles and sedimentological proxies"

Γ. Κουρτέση-Φιλιππάκη, "Η αρχαιολογική έρευνα επιφανείας στη λεκάνη του Μέσου Καλαμά Θεσπρωτίας: 2011-2015"

Θ. Παππάς and Π. Πομώνης, "Οι λίθινες πρώτες ύλες στη λεκάνη του Μέσου Καλαμά Θεσπρωτίας: Μια γεωαρχαιολογική προσέγγιση"

Michael Ventris Memorial Award for Mycenaean Studies

On 1 February 2017 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 by email, ideally as a PDF attachment to the Classics Manager, Valerie James, Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Further information, including detailed application instructions, is available at http://www.icls.sas.ac.uk/awards/awards-prizes.

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