“The 17th International Aegean Conference / Rencontre égéenne internationale intends to provide a forum for exchanging ideas about the use/s and appropriation of the past and the role of social memory in the Aegean Bronze Age. Attention will be paid also to the re-use of the Aegean past in the 19th-20th centuries as well as to politics of preservation of the cultural heritage. Papers dealing with the archaeological record and contexts and presenting recent archaeological research and/or new interpretations of older data are particularly welcome.”