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On 15-17 October 2013 an international conference entitled Implantations humaines en milieu littoral Méditerranéen : facteurs d'installation et processus d'appropriation de l'espace, de la Préhistoire au Moyen Âge will be held at the Structure des Espaces du Fort Carré, Antibes. Further information is available at http://www.cepam.cnrs.fr/IMG/pdf/programme_rencontres-antibes_201web.pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

T. Fragkopoulou, "Diachronic patterns of human occupation in the South-East coast of Crete"

L. Karali, S. Lambropoulos, and M. Bardani, "The geographic area of Elis through the centuries"

L. Karali and M. Bardani, "Prehistoric habitation in the coastal areas of Peloponnese"

POCA 2013

On 1-3 November 2013 the 13th annual Postgraduates in Cypriot Archaeology (POCA 2013) conference will be held by the University of East Anglia. Further information and registration forms are available at http://www.uea.ac.uk/art-history/news-and-events/POCA2013. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

C. Alexandrou and B. O'Neill, "Examining the chaine operatoire of the Late Cypriot II-IIIA (15th-12th century B.C.) female terracotta figurines: an experimental approach"

C. Constantinou, "Identifying and comparing socio-economic developments in the Neolithic Eastern Mediterranean: a view from Cyprus and the northern Levant"

E. Cory-Lopez, "The sculpting of picrolite during the Middle Chalcolithic period (4th and 5th Millennium BCE)"

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"

International Ancient Warfare Conference 2013

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.)"

INSTAP

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..

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