Just a note to remind you about Accordia's activities in the New Year. First, the present season of Accordia Lectures, The Italy Lectures will be continuing. Accordia Lectures are open to all, and everyone is welcome. (Details below) Secondly, on some Tuesdays this Term, the ones when there is no Accordia Lecture, we have organised a short series of Research Seminars at the ICS. The first of these will be on 30th January. Full details follow very shortly. So you can make an appointment with Accordia every Tuesday! The first Accordia Lecture in the New Year (or the new Millennium, depending how you count) will be on this coming Tuesday: Tuesday January 23rd in the Institute of Archaeology UCL, Room G6, Gordon Square, London WC1 at 17.30 Dr Robin Skeates, University of East Anglia "From thunder-stones to the Iceman: collectors and collections of Italian prehistory" After the Lecture there will be traditional Accordia hospitality in the common room at the end of the 6th floor of the same Gordon Square building (turn left as you come out of the lift and just follow the corridor). We look forward to seeing everyone there. Our New Year program of Accordia Lectures looks like this Accordia Lectures, New Year 2001 all joint events with the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) at Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1, or with the Institute of Archaeology UCL (IOA) in Gordon Square, London WC1 all on a Tuesday, @ 17.30: either ICS in Room 329-300 Senate House, or IOA in Lecture Room G6 jan 23 IOA Dr Robin Skeates, University of East Anglia "From thunder-stones to the Iceman: collectors and collections of Italian prehistory" feb 13 IOA Dr Peter van Dommelen, University of Glasgow "Colonising the nuraghi of Sardinia: a Carthaginian response to a prehistoric landscape." mar 6 ICS Dr Gillian Shepherd, University of Birmingham "Dead but not buried: child disposal in archaic Sicily" may 8 IOA Dr Chris Smith, University of St Andrews "The Archaeology of the GENS: another look at evidence from Osteria dell'Osa and Satricum" There will be traditional Accordia hospitality after each Lecture in the form of a small reception. Everyone is welcome. In the Institute of Archaeology, the reception will normally take place in the common room at the end of the 6th floor of the Gordon Square building (turn left as you come out of the lift and follow the corridor). In the ICS, the reception will take place in the Common Room of the School of Advanced Study, also floor 3, Senate House (just follow the corridor). If you are not sure that you are on our Mailing List, please drop me a line. If you are in a position to put up one or more posters in a prominent place, please write in for some extra copies. A happy and prosperous New Year to all from Accordia, John Wilkins [log in to unmask]