13th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

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Start date and time
22 May 2023
End date and time
26 May 2023

The International Congresses on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) are organized every two years by the scientific community of scholars working on and in the Near East and studying therein cognitive, material and environmental evidence from the most remote phases until the Islamic period within a multidisciplinary approach.

The 13th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East will take place from 22 to 26 May 2023 at University of Copenhagen, Southern Campus.

XXIVe GMPCA congress - Archéométrie 2023, Nice 17-21 April

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Start date and time
17 April 2023
End date and time
21 April 2023

Since its foundation in 1976, the GMPCA (Groupe des Méthodes Pluridisciplinaires Contribuant à l'Archéologie) association aims to develop research on multidisciplinary methods contributing to archaeology in France and around the world. This association brings together specialists from various disciplines contributing to the resolution of archaeological and art history problems. The interface of these disciplines with archaeology is called "Archaeometry".

Congratulations...

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

For a peaceful 2023!

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The "Tête d'Or" park in Lyon, soon after dawn (photo S.Y. Waksman)
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2022 has been a tough year, in Ukraine and beyond. Let's hope for a better 2023!!

Les jeudis Alimentation – Santé – Société, Lyon 24/11/2022

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24 November 2022, 19h

Les jeudis Alimentation – Santé – Société, des séances de discussion et de débat entre chercheur.es et acteurs.rices des Transitions Alimentaires, permettent de réinterroger la place de l’alimentation dans nos sociétés.

La conférence « Reconstituer l’alimentation des populations du passé grâce à l'archéologie », aura lieu le jeudi 24 Novembre 2022 à 19h à la Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie – Lyon

Food, Kitchens and Cooking in the Crusader Period; between East and West, Haifa 5-7/9/2022

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Start date and time
5 September 2022
End date and time
7 September 2022

This research workshop of the Israel Science Foundation was organized by Judith Bronstein (Haifa University), Lisa Yehuda (Tel Aviv University) and POMEDOR member Edna Stern (Israel Antiquities Authority) in the framework of their ISF project.

The program proposed talks by several other POMEDOR members, and included a great visit of the emblematic site of Saint-Jean d'Acre, guided by the very archaeologists who excavated large parts of the Crusader city and studied its food-related stuctures and material culture (E. Stern, E.J. Stern, L. Yehuda).

Junior Professor position, "Artistic and Material Cultures of the Islamic Medieval Worlds”

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A position of junior professor ("chaire junior") is opened at the CIHAM laboratory, Lyon 2 University (France).

It consists in a 5 years contract, and may possibly lead to a permanent position of professor.

A research environment of 200 k€ is provided by the French National Research Agency (ANR).

Download further information, application deadline: 30th May 2022