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
"Join international experts in ceramics from the Islamic world as they present new research on themes ranging from archaeological finds to contemporary practice.
Through a combination of pre-recorded and live panel discussions, we will discuss significant archaeological finds, ceramic technology and technique, trade across the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and the Silk Roads, contacts with Europe, architecture and tilework, collecting history, continuity and change in the 19th century, modernism, contemporary artistic practice, and contemporary craft traditions. The regions discussed will encompass the Islamic West, the Middle East, Central Asia, South and South East Asia, Africa and Europe.
The pre-recorded papers will be accessible to conference attendees from two weeks before the conference and for two weeks afterwards. On 19 July, we will open the conference with a live keynote lecture and from 20 to 23 July, we will hold live panel discussions each midday and afternoon. This conference is organised to coincide with the exhibition Epic Iran (29 May-12 September) and the display Contemporary Ceramic Art from the Middle East (19 May-17 October 2021)."
(from the conference website)
POMEDOR member Yona Waksman will present a talk in session 1 "The Islamic Mediterranean: Expanding the canon", entitled:
Interactions between the Islamic and the Byzantine worlds: technological issues in pottery manufacture raised by the recent large-scale excavations in Istanbul and Thessaloniki
View the video from July 5th to August 5th and attend the debate on July 20th 12h30 - 13h30 BST time
Free online event, registration required