Douai International Symposium

Click here for the provisional programme for the Early Medieval Pottery Workshops conference to be held in Douai in early October.

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The 1st International Congress on Ceramic Studies

Tribute to Mercedes Vegas will be held in Cadiz from 1st-5th November 2010.

The event is aimed to anyone who is interested in ceramic studies,The congress will be a forum to analyze and synthesise recent advances in the techniques of cermaic analyisis, including methodology, morphological and typological classifications, graphical representations, new technologies in data processing, experimental studies, and scientific techniques.

Proposals for papers or posters are welcome. For more information, click here.

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Medieval Domestic Cultures Conference

To be held at Rewley House, Oxford, 24th-26th September 2010.

The Society For Medieval Archaeology's autumn conference will examine the evidence for the interiors of late medieval domestic buildings. It is jointly organized with the Vernacular Architecture Group and brings together for the first time in recent years, scholars from all the relevant archaeology, history and architectural history to review the latest work in this field in England, Scotland and Wales.

Click here for more information.

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Launch of Festschrift for Frans Verhaege

Some photos from the launch of Festschrift for Prof Frans Verhaege (a very old friend of the Medieval Pottery Research Group) that took place in Bruges, Belgium, on Thursday 29th April 2010.

Click here to download a pdf of the images.

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Ceramic views of Scotland and northern England from the Neolithic to the 20th century: issues of method, practice and theory

An inter-disciplinary meeting, Glasgow, July 1-2, 2010

Please see the link below for further details:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/newslinks/ceramicviews/

You can also download the poster for the event here

LAUNCHED - Wiki page for Revised Research Strategy and Agenda Project

Wiki page now launched for the Revised Research Strategy and Agenda Project. For further information and details see the following article: MPRG Research Strategy and Agenda: Regional Framework Project (pdf 36.5KB) or click here to view the website.

SEM2010 - SEM & Microanalysis in the study of historical technology, materials and conservation, 9th-10th September 2010

The British Museum will be hosting a conference on SEM and Microanalysis in the study of historical technology, materials and conservation on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th September 2010. For more information visit www.britishmuseum.org/sem2010 or click here for the event flyer.