The XVIIIth Conference of the ECerS will include a session "Ceramics and glass in cultural heritage and art".
The topics of this session include but are not limited to the following:
This international workshop aims at promoting archaeological and archaeometric approaches to Islamic-period sites, based especially on finds from recent excavations in Iran and the Caucasus.
It will take place at the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon on 11 May 2023
The International Congress of Byzantine Studies is the world’s largest academic event dedicated to the latest research and findings on the Byzantine Empire, its history, and culture. Since the first congress in 1924 in Bucharest, it has been held approximately every five years in different locations, attracting up to 1,500 participants in recent years. In 2026, the 25th Congress will take place in Vienna, where researchers from around the globe will present their work in hundreds of presentations. Cultural events and receptions will offer numerous opportunities for informal exchange.
Standing Up For Science in France
In the face of Trump’s administration’s relentless attacks on democratic institutions, civil rights, science, public health agencies, environmental regulation, and climate data collection, and as universities and research institutions across Europe also come under increasing pressure, the French scientific community is taking action. On March 7, 2025, scientists, educators, students, and concerned citizens will march and rally in cities across France to defend science and the humanities as pillars of democracy.
This mobilization is organized in solidarity with the "Stand Up For Science" movement, which emerged in the United States just weeks ago in response to repeated attacks by Trump and Musk on scientific institutions. Thousands of researchers, educators, students, and citizens committed to democratic rationalism will gather in more than 20 cities to demand that sciences remain free, independent and protected from political, religious, and corporate interference.
Trump’s administration is waging a full-scale war on scientific facts, jeopardizing decades of progress in critical fields such as climate science and public health:
Government websites scrubbed of scientific data
Established facts dismissed and distorted
Political interference in scientific findings
Deep funding cuts to research programs
Mass firings of scientists and experts
This is more than just anti-intellectualism. It is outright censorship to serve powerful interests. When scientific truth is silenced or equated with mere opinion, the foundations of democracy itself are at risk.
source: text communicated by the French committee of Stand Up for Science
more information: https://standupforscience.fr/
Read the paper by Maria Leontsini and POMEDOR member Ilias Anagnostakis:
This paper points out technological connections in pottery manufacture between the Byzantine and Islamic worlds in the 10th-11th centuries.
Abstract
The International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East has been organised since 1998 by the scientific community of scholars working on and in the Near East. It is an exceptional forum for dialogue and scientific exchanges between all colleagues involved in the study of the Ancient Near East.
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
The XIVth congress of the AIECM3, "Association internationale pour l'étude de la céramique médiévale et moderne en Méditerranée", which will take place in Ravenna on 18-23 November 2024.
The provisionnal program in online!
The following sessions are proposed:
