The
program
of
the New
York
Aegean
Bronze Age
Colloquium has
been
announced for spring
2011.
All
lectures
will be
held at
the
Institute
of
Fine
Arts,
One
East
78th
Street
at 6:30 pm.
Please
R.S.V.P.
to
212‐992‐5803
or
15 April 2011: P. Pantou, "The Development of Social Ranking and Mycenaean State Formation in Thessaly"
13 May 2011: N. Papdimitriou, "The changing faces of death: Funerary ritual and society in Early Mycenaean Greece"On
3‐5
March
2011 the 15th
annual Symposium
on
Mediterranean
Archaeology (SOMA
2011) took
place
at
Catania
University, Sicily.
Further
information
and
the registration
form
are
available at
http://ml.ci.uc.pt/mhonarchive/archport/msg10207.html or
from
A. Czeszewska, "Wall paintings at Neolithic site Çatalhöyük. How can we interpret prehistoric art?"
C. T. Fontebrera, "The crocus in the Aegean: medical and ideological symbolism in the women's world."
D. Sylviane, "Reconstructing the Landscape of the Dead. Some Observations on the Minoan Funerary Space in the Agiopharango Valley (South Central Crete)"
D. Yılmaz, "New Observations on the Troy I Culture in the Light of the Some Survey Finds from the Coastal Troad"
Students, researchers, and professors with an interest in the history and archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean are invited to visit the website of the New Archaeological Research Network for Integrating Approaches to ancient material studies (NARNIA) at http://narnia-itn.eu/ for information about the range of fellowships and training courses that have been announced, or will be announced soon, on the constantly updated project's website.
NARNIA is a cross‐disciplinary network integrating approaches from a diverse array of research fields for the study of ancient materials from the Eastern Mediterranean. While the prime objective of the project is to train early stage researchers that are just about to embark on PhD research, the training courses and two conferences that will be organized in the four-year duration of the project are open to all interested individuals.
The February 2011 (38.2) volume of Nestor is now available as a free download. This is the new free digital publication model for all future issues of Nestor.
On 1 March 2011 abstracts are due for a workshop on Commensality and Social Organisation, to be held on 6‐9 October 2011 organized by ToRS (Institute for Cross‐cultural and Regional Studies), University of Copenhagen. Abstracts (300 words maximum) should be sent to
On 13 March 2011 (27 March with a late fee) submissions for colloquia, workshops and open‐session papers and posters needing an early decision to acquire a visa or obtain funding are due for the 113th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA 2012), to be held in Philadelphia, PA from 5‐8 January 2012. On 7 August 2011 (21 August with a late fee) submissions are due for all other workshops, open session papers and posters, and any provisionally accepted colloquia that are resubmitting. Submission forms and further information are available at http://www.archaeological.org.
On 30 April 2011 titles and short abstracts are due for an international round table entitled Destruction: Archaeological, philological and historical perspectives. Perspectives archéologiques, philologiques et historiques, to be held on 24‐26 November 2011 at Louvain‐la‐Neuve, Belgium by Le Centre d'étude des mondes antiques at the Université catholique de Louvain. Abstracts for 20 minute papers in English or French should be sent to