... to Valentina Vezzoli, specialist of Islamic pottery and member of the POMEDOR network, for her position at the University of Udine (Italy).

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2022 has been a tough year, in Ukraine and beyond. Let's hope for a better 2023!!

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After so many difficult months, we were happy to meet with some of you "in real life" again at our AIECM3 "grand messe" conference on medieval and modern Mediterranean ceramics in Granada last November - and sorry to miss all those who could not attend.

Let's hope there will be more opportunities in 2022, and that we may keep an hybrid version of our forthcoming meetings, with both the option of remote attendance and the obvious advantages of live sessions (including the food & drink "off" ones!).

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... to Georgia Giannaki, a PhD student at the University of Lyon (France) and the National and Capodistrian University of Athens (Greece), who obtained a Zellidja grant from the French Academy for her PhD project "The beginnings of glazed ceramics in Byzantine Greece".

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...to Professor Nikos Kontogiannis, who will become the next Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (Washington D.C.).

Nikos has been a very active member of the POMEDOR network, we are looking forward to his leadership at DO and to further collaborations!

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... shows, among other artifacts, some of the replicas of Byzantine pottery manufactured by the potter Jean-Jacques Dubernard for the POMEDOR project (see the photos of the POMEDOR conference dinner).
It should be visible, Covid forbids, at the Gallo-Roman Museum of Saint-Romain-en-Gal (France) until 15th August 2021.

Visit the virtual exhibition

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... for I. Teslenko in the framework of the "PAUSE" program, starting 1rst April 2021.
Iryna Teslenko will be hosted by the "Archaeology & Archaeometry" laboratory in Lyon (CNRS UMR5138) during 6 months to carry out her research project "Northern Black Sea from Late Byzantine till Ottoman times: Transformation of Material Culture in a Changing World".

Information on the PAUSE program

I. Teslenko's Academia webpage

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The series of conferences "Jean Pouilloux" organized by the "Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée" (Lyon, France) present results of academic research to a wide audience.

The conference of March 17th 2021, "Chalcis, un hub maritime médiéval en Égée", is proposed by Yona Waksman.

It will be in French and accessible by zoom. Registration is free and mandatory.

Register

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