Several initiatives to support our Ukrainian colleagues:
from the International Association of Byzantine Studies
from the Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen
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!).
...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!
... 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.
... 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".
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.