Appel à communication sur la céramique de l'Anatolie, 9 et 10 Mai 2011

We are glad to inform you that an international workshop on the ceramics
from Northern and Central Anatolia dating from the Hellenistic (4th cent.
B.C.) to Early Byzantine (8th cent. A.D.) periods will take place on May
9th-10th, 2011 at the Faculty of Letters of Dokuz Eylul University in
Izmir, Turkey. We warmly invite contributions by scholars and graduate
students from a variety of disciplines related to this subject. Intended
to bring together Turkish, European, Mediterranean, and North American
scholars to discuss a range of issues concerning Hellenistic, Roman and
Early Byzantine ceramics of Northern and Central Anatolia, this conference
should be an excellent opportunity to increase our knowledge of this
material. It also aims to encourage dialogue among Turkish and European
scholars in classical archaeology of Turkey. Both the excavated finds as
well as museum pieces are the subject of this workshop that is offering a
firm base for the support of future research in Northern and Central
Anatolia concerning pottery studies. Therefore pottery experts as well as
museum curators from these landscapes in Turkey are kindly welcome. This
two-day workshop will contain both lectures of 20 min. as well as poster
presentations.

The aim of this meeting is to report on the state of research concerning
the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine ceramics from Northern and
Central Anatolia between the 4th B.C. to 8th century A.D., or thereabouts.
The geographical areas concerned are Northern and Central Turkey and its
close environs. The quantities of later ceramics which have come to light
on numerous sites in Turkish Black Sea as well as Central Anatolian
Plateau, as well as recent research on the various collections from the
geographical area concerned, now permit us to make significant additions
to the archaeological evidence, thanks to progress in Hellenistic and
Roman pottery research in Greece in the last two decades. The workshop has
the main intention to present extensively the less well-known Hellenistic
and Roman ceramics from neglected parts of Anatolia.

Concentrating on unpublished finds or collections from Northern and
Central Anatolia, the colloquium aims to tackle a series of questions
which can be grouped as five principal interlinked and overlapping themes:
production, trade-distribution, function, decoration and chronology.

All approaches and methods likely to enhance our knowledge on these themes
and questions are of course very welcome: archaeology, archaeometry,
history of art, philology, cultural anthropology, industrial history etc.
Most welcome are papers from excavations in Northern and Central Asia
Minor producing Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine ceramics and other
stratified finds (small finds, coins etc.) that will help us to build up a
more precise chronology.

Papers and oral presentations can be given in English, French, German,
Italian or Turkish, but English will be the preferred language for oral
presentations. We would be delighted if you could consider contributing to
this workshop. If you wish to participate, please submit a title for your
talk before May 1, 2011 by e-mail (if possible) to:
<gulserenkan@hotmail.com>, or by fax to: +90.232.453 90 93.

Entry to the workshop is free of charge for all; accommodation and travel
expenses will be paid by the participants, who should also arrange their
own accommodation as necessary. The proceedings of the workshop is planned
to be published in 2012.

The organizers seek to widen participation at this conference, and would
like to encourage colleagues from all parts of the world to attend. The
organizing committee kindly requests that you alert any persons within
your research community who would be interested in participating at this
conference, either by forwarding our e-mail, or by printing this circular
and displaying it in your institution.

We hope that you will be able to join us at the Dokuz Eylul University and
look forward to seeing you in Izmir!


Contact Addresses for the Workshop :
Ceramics of Northern and Central Anatolia Workshop
Dokuz Eylul Universitesi
Edebiyat Fakultesi
Arkeoloji Bolumu
Oda No: A-418
Tınaztepe/Kaynaklar Yerleskesi
Buca
TR-35160 Izmir, TURKEY.
Mobile Phone: +90.544.938 54 64.
Fax: +90.232.453 90 93.
E-mail: gulserenkan@hotmail.com