On 7-8 November 2013 an international workshop entitled Damaged Goods: Contextualising Intentional Destruction of Objects in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus will be held at the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, organized by AegIS (UCL-INCAL-CEMA) and the ARC 'A World in Crisis'. Further information is available at http://www.uclouvain.be/450666.html. The program will be:
J. Chapman, "Keynote address: Bits and Pieces: The Fragment as Transformation"
K. Harrell, "Traumatology in the Mycenaean Period and Early Iron Age"
S. Nanoglou, "Going the Other Way: Providing a Framework for the Destruction of Objects in the Bronze Age"
On 18-20 September 2013 the International Ancient Warfare Conference 2013 was held in Aberystwyth. Further information is available at http://ancientwarfare2013.wordpress.com/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
J. Emmanuel, "Egyptian and Early Aegean Naval Warfare"
H. Whittaker, "Symbolic Aspects of Warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean"
M. Lloyd, "Death of a swordsman, death of a sword? The killing of swords in the Early Iron Age Aegean (ca. 1050 to ca. 650 B.C.E.)"
On 1 November 2013 applications are due to the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) for 2014 New or Renewal Research Grants, the Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the Petrography Internship at the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete (SCEC), the SCEC Librarian Fellowship, and Six-Week Research Grants at INSTAP SCEC. Applications for Publication Team Support and Publication Subventions have no specific due dates. Further information and applications are available at http://www.aegeanprehistory.net/; applications can now be submitted via e-mail as MS WORD documents or fillable PDF forms.
Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program
On 15 January 2014 applications are due for the Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program at the University of Cincinnati, Classics Department in the fields of archaeology, history, or philology, tenable during the academic year 2014-2015. Tytus Fellows will ordinarily be at least five years beyond receipt of the PhD, and will come to Cincinnati to pursue their own research. The minimum and maximum terms for Long Term Fellows are one semester and a maximum of two; Short Term Fellows will reside in Cincinnati for a minimum of one month and a maximum of two. Both categories of Tytus Fellows receive housing, a transportation allowance, a monthly stipend of $1,000, and office space, as well as the use of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College Libraries.
On 15 February 2013 applications are due for the Tytus Summer Residency Program at the University of Cincinnati, Classics Department in the fields of archaeology, history, or philology, tenable for one to three months during the summer of 2014; summer fellows receive free university housing, office space, and the use of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College Libraries.
Further information is available at http://classics.uc.edu/index.php/tytus, where application forms are also available, or from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
On 8 September 2013 abstracts (250 words) for papers (20 minutes maximum) and posters are due for an international conference entitled Land, Territory, and Population in Ancient Greece: Institutional and Mythical to be held on 23-25 October 2013 at Bellaterra (Barcelona). Paper and panel contributions will be admitted in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, German, and Italian. Further information is available at http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/institucionsmites/content/colloqui-terra-territori-i-poblaci%C3%B3-lantiga-gr%C3%A8cia. Contributions are invited addressing the following topics:
Population relationships in the II and I Millenium BC
Legal regulation of foreign relations: The condition of 'foreigner'
Cultural and commercial ties
Land occupation and production: Colonization, foundation of cities, and land distribution; Different degrees of access to land tenure
Migration movements
In Poseidons Realm 19
On 31 October 2013 abstracts (250 words maximum) are due for the conference In Poseidons Realm XIX: Life by water and waterside, to be held on 21-23 March 2014 at the Pfahlbaumuseum, Unteruhldingen, Bodensee. Conference papers will be published in Skyllis. Further information is available at http://www.deguwa.org/.
BANEA 2014
On 31 October 2013 paper, poster, and workshop proposals are due for the 2014 Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2014), to be held on 9-11 January 2014 at the University of Reading. Further information is available at http://www.reading.ac.uk/archaeology/Conferences/BANEA/ or from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Proposals for themed workshops of half day or whole day duration are invited; key topics will include:
Sustainability and resilience
Access and networks
Social identity, power, and governance
New agendas in landscape archaeology
Near Eastern archaeology in the contemporary world
Other current research themes
Excavation and survey reports
Pasiphae 8 (2014)
On 31 December 2013 manuscripts are due for the 8th volume (2014) of Pasiphae: Rivista di filologia e antichità egee, an annual international journal containing philological, epigraphic, historical, and archaeological studies of the Aegean civilizations, especially of the Minoan and Mycenaean world; articles will also be welcomed on the relations between the Minoan and Mycenaean world and the contemporary Mediterranean civilizations (Cyprus, the Anatolian and Syro-Palestinian coasts, Egypt and the Western Mediterranean) as well as papers on the Mycenaean heritage in the Greek world of the 1st millennium B.C. For the contents of the first six volumes (2007-2012), see www.libraweb.net/sommari.php?chiave=333; further information is available at http://www.libraweb.net/documenti/Guidelines-PASIPHAE_2013.pdf. Contributions must be e-mailed to Anna Sacconi at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Minos
Authors are invited to send their original manuscripts for publication in the digital relaunch of Minos, to be published starting in 2014 in two annual issues (May and November) as a double-blind peer-reviewed journal in electronic format. With a multidisciplinary approach, Minos will publish articles and reviews of books on writing in the scripts of the Aegean area, particularly Linear B (the original focus of the journal), and also on archaic epic. Further information is available at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwnlON4qzyfoSzcwYVRnekJIUTQ/edit?pli=1
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