Sgraffito and Champlevé in Islamic Lands (9th - 14th century) : Iran, the Caucasus and Beyond, Lyon 11 May 2023

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Start date and time
11 May 2023, 9 AM
End date and time
11 May 2023, 6h30 PM

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

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

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

The exhibition "L'art et la matière. Céramiques antiques et contemporaines"... ywaksman
The exhibition "L'art et la matière. Céramiques antiques et contemporaines"...
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A replica of this "Digenis Akritas" (?) found in Thebes (Greece), manufactured by potter J.-J. Dubernard,
is on display in the exhibition (photo S.Y. Waksman).
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Musée gallo-romain
RD 502

Saint Romain en Gal

France

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... 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.

Visit the virtual exhibition

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A research stay in Lyon...

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A research stay in Lyon...
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Thursday, 1 April 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".

Information on the PAUSE program

I. Teslenko's Academia webpage

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Conference "Chalcis, un hub maritime médiéval en Égée" ywaksman
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.

Register

Abstract and further information on the Jean Pouilloux conferences

Watch the conference on YouTube

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

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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).

Multidisciplinary approaches to food and foodways in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean ywaksman

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.

LRCW7: 7th International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry ywaksman
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Start date and time
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
End date and time
Saturday, 19 October 2019

The aim of the LRCW Conference series is the presentation and publication of Late Roman pottery (3rd century AD to the end of Antiquity) from the Mediterranean region.
The 7th conference proposed the following sessions:

  • The Western Mediterranean
  • The Eastern Mediterranean
  • Mediterranean Islands in the stream
  • Late Roman Pottery in Hispania
  • Special session: The problem of the 8th century

Presentations by POMEDOR members include:

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