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On 10 April 2013 G. Cadogan spoke at The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium at the Institute of Fine Arts on "M & M's. Myrtos and Mallia: Middle Minoan Entente Cordiale or Unitary State?"

Neolithic Seminar

On 30 May 2013 abstracts (150-200 words, including name, institution, and the title of the paper) are due for the 20th Neolithic Seminar: The Transition to Farming in Eurasia: Changing Interpretative Paradigms, to be held on 8-9 November 2013 at the Department of Archaeology, Ljubljana University, Ljubljana, Slovenia. All previous Neolithic Seminar proceedings are available in the periodical Documenta Prehistorica XXI-XXXIX (http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/documenta/). Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; further information is available at http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/.

POCA2013

On 31 July 2013 abstracts are due for the 13th annual Postgraduates in Cypriot Archaeology (POCA 2013) conference, to be held on 1-3 November 2013, hosted by the University of East Anglia. Papers on Cypriot archaeology of any period, or on related subjects, will be welcome. Abstracts (250 words maximum), title, and email address should be submitted to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Further information and registration forms are available at http://www.uea.ac.uk/art-history/news-and-events/POCA2013.

9ICAANE

On 31 July 2013 abstracts (200 words maximum) for papers, workshops, and posters are due for the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (9ICAANE), to be held at the University of Basel, Switzerland on 9-13 June 2014. Further information is available at http://9icaane.unibas.ch. The themes of the congress will be:

Egypt and Ancient Near East – Perceptions of Alterity

Travelling Images – Transfer and Transformation of Visual Ideas

Ancient Near Eastern Traditions vs. Hellenization/ Romanization

Reconstructing Ancient Eco-Systems

Dealing with the Past: Finds, booty, gifts, spoils, heirlooms

Excavation Reports and Summaries in Near Eastern Archaeology

Gender and Landscape

On 13-14 April 2013 the Sixth IEMA Visiting Scholar Spring Conference: Engendering Landscape & Landscaping Gender will be held at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Further information is available at http://www.iema.buffalo.edu/conference/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

N. Galanidou, "Engendering the Archaeological Landscapes of Paleolithic Northwestern Greece"

R. Tringham, "Pivoting and Jumping through the Fabric of Çatalhöyük to an Imagined World of People with Faces, Histories, Voices, and Stories to Tell"

26th Conference on Archaeological Work in Macedonia and Thrace

On 20-22 March 2013 Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και τη Θράκη, 26η Επιστημονική Συνάντηση was held at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Further information is available at http://www.archaiologia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ΑΕΜΘ_2013_Το-Πρόγραμμα-του-Συνεδρίου.pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

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