Early Applied Arts: Ceramics
Applied Ceramics in a Byzantine Context
Part of the workshop series: The State of the Arts
Saturday 25 February 2012
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London
“Do not hide your light under a sack but set it up
so that all those who approach are enlightened”
Organisers: Pamela Armstrong and Judith Herrin
This day school on Byzantine ceramics is aimed at the non-specialist. It is suitable for a general audience who have little or no prior knowledge of either the Byzantine world or its ceramics. It will also provide new material of interest to Byzantinists and other medieval specialists.
Rather than focus on the most recent finds of Byzantine ceramics and the latest theories of interpretation, at this meeting each specialist will approach his topic from the point of view of how information is extracted from inanimate pots, and how that information then fits into the wider perspective of the Byzantine world, using ceramics to illustrate their themes. With the objective of making pottery studies accessible, the programme has been constructed with an opening paper on the general state of study of Byzantine ceramics followed by three themed sessions.
Tickets £15 including lunch. Booking is available via the
King's e-shop.
Programme
9.30 Registration & coffee
10.00 Welcome: Judith Herrin & Pamela Armstrong
10.15-11.00 Smadar Gabrieli, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Western Australia
The potter, the merchant, and the housewife
11.00-12.30 Session I: Contribution of ceramics to our understanding of the Byzantine world
Ken Dark, Director, Research Centre for Late Antique & Byzantine Studies, Reading University
Pottery and Politics: Byzantine ceramics as indicators of cultural identity
Katie Green, Doctoral student in Archaeology, Newcastle University
Ceramics and landscape survey
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Session II: Ceramics as markers for international & inter-regional contacts & trade
Athanasios Vionis, Lecturer in Byzantine Archaeology and Art, University of Cyprus
Travelling pottery in Byzantium
Mark Jackson, Lecturer in Archaeology, Newcastle University
All fired up about exchange in the east Mediterranean
Yona Waksman, CNRS researcher, Laboratoire de Céramologie, Lyons, France
Contributions of archaeological sciences to Byzantine ceramics studies
15.30-16.00 Tea break
16.00-17.00 Session III: Ceramics and the wider public
Reino Liefkes, Senior Curator, Ceramic & Glass Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum
The new ceramic galleries of the Victoria & Albert museum
Discussion
Tickets £15 including lunch. Booking is available via the
King's e-shop.