The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity (IAA) at the University of Birmingham
and the CAA (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology) UK
Chapter Committee will be hosting this years CAAUK conference running from the
1st - 2nd April.

Registration for the conference is now open. To aid us in organising the
conference could we please ask you to register sooner rather than later to give
us an idea of numbers. The closing date for registration is the 21st March
2011. For registration details please follow the link below:

http://www.vista.bham.ac.uk/CAAUK_2011/Info/CAAUK_2011_Registration.htm

We are still accepting contributions to the event in the form of a poster or
paper on any topic within the sphere of archaeological computing. Specific
topical themes this year are as follows:


§ Working in a Visual World – From gaming to solid modelling, mobile technology
to augmented reality – we would welcome papers on any aspect of the pervasive
nature of computer visualisation and interfaces with archaeology and historical
disciplines.

Other themes of long-standing interest to researchers and practitioners
include:

§ Archaeological computing methods and techniques within the Cultural Resource
Management (CRM) environment – Submissions on current computing practice and
method are particularly welcome from commercial archaeology companies, museum
professionals, heritage managers, local authority officers or other bodies
working within CRM.

§ Pattern recognition – Finding patterns within archaeological data, site
patterning, image recognition, etc.

§ Theory within Archaeological Computing – The application of archaeological
theory within the computing environment e.g. post-processual approaches to
archaeological computing.

We would like to thank those all those who have submitted their abstracts so
far. For those looking to give a paper, these should be 20 minutes in duration.
Please send the title for the paper to be given along with a 300 word abstract
to caauk11@contacts.bham.ac.uk<

International Conference on 'The Hellenistic Court' - Student Bursaries still available

Hosted by The Centre for the Study of the Hellenistic World (CSHW), School of History, Classics &
Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh, 25th-27th February 2011.

This conference aims to demonstrate the centrality of palace institutions in the cultural and political
milieu of the disparate societies that made up the Hellenistic world, and will re-establish the
importance of recognizing the royal court as a major component in the culture of the Greek-
speaking world in the period c 323-31 BCE.

Places are still available, as are a number of student bursaries covering registration and the
conference dinner. Interested applicants should contact Professor Andrew Erskine
(andrew.erskine@ed.ac.uk).

An updated programme as well as information on registration can be found online at
http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/conferences/HellenisticCourt.htm.

Shane Wallace
Classics,
University of Edinburgh.