On 31 May 2013 a conference entitled Carl and Elizabeth Blegen Remembered. Ploutarchou 9, Celebrated was held by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation. Further information is available at http://www.archaiologia.gr/en/blog/agenta/carl-and-elizabeth-blegen-remembered/. The program was:
N. Vogeikoff-Brogan, "The Life of Carl W. Blegen: From a Grass Roots Perspective"
I. Tzonou-Herbst, "From the Mud of Peirene to Mastering Prehistoric Stratigraphy: Carl Blegen's Formative Years in the Corinthia and Argolid"
Y. Fappas, "The Govs of Mycenaean Archaeology: Carl W. Blegen's and Alan J. B. Wace's Friendship and Collaboration Through the Lens of Their Correspondence"
R. Pounder, "The Blegens and the Hills: A Family Affair"
Y. Galanakis, "'Islanders vs. Mainlanders,' 'The Mycenae Wars,' and Other Short Stories"
V. Florou, "Η Οικία Blegen επί της οδού Πλουτάρχου 9: Μια κληματαριά, πυκνή σκιά ωραίων συναντήσεων"
E. French, "'Εις ανώτερα': The Govs in the 1930s"
B. Rose, "Carl Blegen at Troy, 1932-1938, and the Question of a Trojan War"
N. Karadimas, "Οι ανασκαφές του Carl Blegen στην Πύλο μέσα από τον ελληνικό και ξένο τύπο"
J. L. Davis, "Blegen in Pylos: A Cultural and Cross-Cultural Phenomenon"
G. Papathanasopoulos, "Remembering Carl Blegen"
EAA 2013
On 4-8 September 2013 the 19th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA AM 2013) was held in Pilsen, Czech Republic. Further information is available at http://www.eaa2013.cz. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:
J. Vieugue, K. Kotsakis, L. Salanova, and G. Toufexis, "The adoption of pottery in south-eastern Europe: Social or economic factors?"
E. N. Yalman, "Pottery as memory item at Çatalhöyük"
E. Andoni, "Cultural and chronological features of Early Neolithic pottery of southeastern settlements of Albania"
P. Pavúk, L. Girella, and M. Gregor, "Same people, changing fashions: Negotiating identities in NE Aegean"
A. Vianello, "Entangled Aegean-type wares"