Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period : Crusaders in Anatolia Symposium - 27-28 May 2021, online

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Start date and time
Thursday, 27 May 2021
End date and time
Friday, 28 May 2021

Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center (VEKAM) is a Research Center of Koç University that supports academic research on Ankara and its environs (vekam.ku.edu.tr). VEKAM maintains an extensive library and archive that specializes in the history and culture of Ankara, the capital of Modern Turkey.

Conference "Chalcis, un hub maritime médiéval en Égée"

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Conference "Chalcis, un hub maritime médiéval en Égée"
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Map of Chalcis (Negroponte), Viaggio da Venetia a Constantinopoli per Mare (Giacomo Franco 1597, © Wikimedia Commons),
and examples of Chalcis ceramic kept at the Cité de la Céramique, Sèvres (© S.Y. Waksman)
Start date and time
Wednesday, 17 March 2021 - 6:00pm

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.

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Abstract and further information on the Jean Pouilloux conferences

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Ceramics from Islamic Lands - 19-23 July 2021, online

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Start date and time
Monday, 19 July 2021
End date and time
Friday, 23 July 2021

The international conference "Ceramics from Islamic Lands" (initially planned 3-5 December 2020) is organised at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, by Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A) and Leslee Michelsen (Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art).

The Culinary Recipe from the XIIth to the XVIIth centuries (Europe, Islam, Far East) - online

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Start date and time
17 May 2021
End date and time
Saturday, 29 May 2021

The online symposium “The Culinary Recipe from the XIIth to the XVIIth centuries (Europe, Islam, Far East)” will be held from 17th to 29th May 2021. This is both the conclusive conference of the international research program CoReMA (Cookery Recipes of the Middle Ages: Corpus, analysis, visualisation) and the first act of the Micrologus Conference supported by UAI and POLEN laboratory “Between workshop and court: The recipe from the XIIth to the XVIIth centuries (Europe, Islam, Far East)”. The second act of the Micrologus conference will be held in 2022. 

Multidisciplinary approaches to food and foodways in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean

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This volume brings together archaeologists, archaeological scientists and historians contributing different specialisms to an emerging field of research: food and foodways in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean. It presents the output of the POMEDOR project “People, pottery and food in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean” funded by the French National Research Agency. POMEDOR focused on changes in transitional periods, such as the Crusades and the Turkish conquests, as viewed through archaeological and archaeometric studies of pottery.

PhD defense...

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PhD defense...
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Amphora of intermediate type Günsenin II-III, Byzantine Ephorate of Chalkida (scan S. Shabo, @POMEDOR project)
Start date and time
Thursday, 7 January 2021 - 2:30pm
Location

University Lyon 2

7 rue Raulin

69007
Lyon

France

See map: Google Maps

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... of Shadi Shabo. Shadi was part of the POMEDOR team, in charge of 3D acquisitions of representative examples of pottery studied during the project. He scanned amphorae, of types Günsenin I to IV, in the reference collection of the American excavations in the Athenian Agora, and in storerooms of the Byzantine Ephorate in Chalkida (Greece).

PhD announcement and link to attend the defense by zoom on 7th January 2021 at 14h30
don't forget to switch your micro and camera off!

Congratulations Dr Shabo!

The Story of Garum

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The Story of Garum recounts the convoluted journey of that notorious Roman fish sauce, known as garum, from a smelly Greek fish paste to an expensive luxury at the heart of Roman cuisine and back to obscurity as the Roman empire declines.

Congratulations ....

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.... to Alessandra Pecci!

Alessandra is an archaeologist who specializes in organic residues analysis of ceramics and floors, focusing on the understanding of ceramics contents and function, dietary habits, and the use of space. She is a very active member of the POMEDOR network.

She became "Profesora Agregada" at the University of Barcelona, History and Archaeology Department, in the ERAAUB team (Equip de Recerca Arqueològica i Arqueomètrica).

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