The 2nd International Conference on Art & Archaeology 2016 will take place on December 11-14, 2016 in Jerusalem, Israel.
The POMEDOR project will be present through two communications:
"Archaeological and Archaeometric Investigations of Islamic and Crusader Pottery in the Levant"
Yona Waksman, France, Edna Stern, Anastasia Shapiro, Smadar Gabrieli, Israel, Alessandra Pecci, Spain
The 6th Archaeological Meetings of the IFEA (Institut Français d'Etudes Anatoliennes) "Merging Techniques and Cultures. Technological Approaches in Archaeology" will take place on November 24-25 at the Koç Research Center (RCAC). They bring together specialists of various disciplines dealing with different periods, presenting approaches to techniques and "chaînes opératoires" in archaeology to students and researchers.
The Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation organizes in collaboration with the Istituto per i beni archeologici et monumentali (Basilicata), which will be held in Athens (1- 3 October 2015), an international conference on “Milk and dairy products. Aspects of production and consumption in Mediterranean societies of antiquity and the Middle Ages”. The meeting is inscribed within the project MenSALe / Storie e rappresentazioni della cultura dell'alimentazione regionale; the three volumes of work already carried out will be discussed on the afternoon of 1rst October.
The Congress proposes to make an introduction and an overview of research conducted specifically in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean. This will expose the state of research that has multiplied in recent years in the field of medieval and modern period archaeological studies showing new results from random and systematic discoveries to excavation of shipwrecks, ceramic kilns, workshops and various productions are also regularly unearthed, which testify to the presence and the superposition of different temporary and sedentary civilizations in the Middle East and Anatolia.
The European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics is a biennial conference convening scholars and young researchers with diverse academic backgrounds both from humanities and science. The scope of the meeting is to promote interdisciplinary and integrated studies of ancient ceramics covering various aspects from production, dissemination and use, and up to post-depositional alteration and conservation. Methodological developments, new approaches and scientific progress are presented in terms of analytical and measuring techniques, data processing and interpretation.
The Dîwân association (association for young researchers in History of the Medieval Muslim Worlds) organises a three-day meeting, giving Ph.D. students the opportunity to present their work.
This meeting will start with a presentation of “Menestrel”, a workgroup of scholars and documentation specialists formed in order to develop a documentary network for Medieval studies on the Internet.
A one day international conference organized by Dr Konstantinos D. Politis (European Social Fund Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Athens), convening scholars from diverse fields to present and discuss the archaeology of the Sugarcane Industry as excavated in various sites in the Near East and eastern Mediterranean islands.
The program includes an oral communication and a poster proposed by POMEDOR member E.J. Stern
PROGRAMME
09:00 Registration and coffee/tea