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On 13 May 2011 N. Papdimitriou addressed the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium on "The changing faces of death: Funerary ritual and society in Early Mycenaean Greece." Further information is available from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

On 30‐31 May 2011 A. B. Knapp delivered lectures to the Aegean Seminar in Zagreb and the University of Zagreb entitled "Identity and Materiality on Prehistoric Cyprus" and "'Early Maritime Ventures: Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean." Further information is available from Helena Tomas at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

On 6‐8 May 2011 the 2011 Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) will be held in Berkeley, CA. Further information, a list of sessions, and forms are available at http://arf.berkeley.edu/TAG2011/about/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

S. Katsarou, "The Neolithic Past on an Imaginary Stage"

C. Knappett, "The Potter's Wheel in the Bronze Age East Mediterranean: Innovation, Learning and Communities of Practice"

L. Nikolova, "Prehistoric Lifestyles and Visual Culture as a Theoretical Model"

N. Vander Beken, "'The Politics of Feasting in Minoan Crete': Reflections on the Mediating Role of the Minoan Palaces in the Creation of Asymmetrical Power Relations"

8th ICAANE

On
15
April
2011
proposals
for workshops
are
due
for
the 8th
International
Congress on
the
Archaeology
of
the
Ancient
Near
East
(8th ICAANE),
to
be
held
in
Warsaw,
Poland 30
April–4
May
2012.
On
15
October 2011
abstracts
(200
words
maximum)
for
papers (20
 minutes) and
posters are
due.
Further
information
is
available
at http://www.8icaane.org/. The
following
themes
of
possible
interest
to Nestor readers
have been
announced:

Townships
and
villages

Excavation
reports
and
summaries

High
and
low
—
minor
arts
for
the
elites
and
the
populace

Archaeology
of
fire

Conservation,
preservation
and
site
management

Bioarchaeology
in
the
ancient
Near
East

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