The international conference "Ceramics from Islamic Lands" was organised by Mariam Rosser-Owen (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) and Leslee Michelsen (Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art).
The inaugural keynote lecture and the roundtables discussions are available on the V&A blog:
https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/projects/ceramics-from-islamic-lands-conference
Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center (VEKAM) is a Research Center of Koç University that supports academic research on Ankara and its environs (vekam.ku.edu.tr). VEKAM maintains an extensive library and archive that specializes in the history and culture of Ankara, the capital of Modern Turkey. Since 1994, the center organizes panels, symposiums, exhibitions, conferences and seminars that contribute to the academic life in Turkey; and publishes twice yearly a peer-reviewed journal: Journal of Ankara Studies (www.ankaradergisi.org).
The international conference "Ceramics from Islamic Lands" (initially planned 3-5 December 2020) is organised at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, by Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A) and Leslee Michelsen (Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art).
The online symposium “The Culinary Recipe from the XIIth to the XVIIth centuries (Europe, Islam, Far East)” will be held from 17th to 29th May 2021. This is both the conclusive conference of the international research program CoReMA (Cookery Recipes of the Middle Ages: Corpus, analysis, visualisation) and the first act of the Micrologus Conference supported by UAI and POLEN laboratory “Between workshop and court: The recipe from the XIIth to the XVIIth centuries (Europe, Islam, Far East)”. The second act of the Micrologus conference will be held in 2022.
The 4th International Scientific Conference “Historical, Cultural, International, Religious and Political Relations of the Crimea with the Mediterranean Region and Eastern Countries” will be held in cooperation with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, The State Historical and Archeological Museum-Preserve “Tauric Chersonese”, the Sevastopol State University from May 26 to May 31, 2020, on the basis of The State Historical and Archeological Museum-Preserve “Tauric Chersonese”, and the Sevastopol State University.
The following sections are planned for the conference:
The aim of the LRCW Conference series is the presentation and publication of Late Roman pottery (3rd century AD to the end of Antiquity) from the Mediterranean region.
The 7th conference proposed the following sessions:
- The Western Mediterranean
- The Eastern Mediterranean
- Mediterranean Islands in the stream
- Late Roman Pottery in Hispania
- Special session: The problem of the 8th century
Presentations by POMEDOR members include:
Eva Todorova, together with Charikleia Diamantis
"Corpus of Byzantine Amphora Stamps"
The 16th International Congress of Turkish Art will be held from October 3 to October 5 2019 in Ankara, at Hacettepe University.
Several POMEDOR members will attend and present communications, including:
Yasemin Bağcı
Ceramics and Cultural Interaction in 14th-Century Anatolia
Jacques Burlot - Yona Waksman
Defining the Decoration Production Technology of an Early Ottoman Pottery: The Case of the “Miletus Ware”
Iryna Teslenko - Dilyara Aliadinova
Glazed Ceramics Tableware in the Early Ottoman Crimea
The EMAC meetings cover a wide range of subjects, through the following sessions:
* Development of new methods and techniques
* Chronology and dating
* Provenance and networks
* Applied decorations
* Technical ceramics
* Ceramics as building materials
* Vessel function and vessel use
* Production centres and raw material studies
* Alteration and conservation
* Experimental studies and ethnoarchaeology
* Statistics and databases in ancient ceramic studies: papers in honour of Mike Baxter
Among the communications and posters presented by POMEDOR members:
POMEDOR member Edna Stern contributed to the French-Israeli workshop "Methodologies in Medieval Archaeology, New Perspectives".