Abstract deadline: 15 January 2009
The 11th International Mosaic Colloquium (of the international
mosaic colloquia sponsored by AIEMA) is being organized by the Uludað
University Mosaic Research Center (AIEMA-Turkey) in Bursa, October
16-20, 2009.
This center helps plan and facilitate mosaic research in Turkey,
and it is creating a data-base for documenting Turkish mosaics.
Every year the center also arranges small international meetings
to familiarize the scholarly world with Turkey’s mosaic heritage
and to present current field-work in this domain.
All of the presentations made at the 2006 meeting in Bursa were
published in a small volume that appeared earlier this summer. The
meeting held at Gaziantep in June, 2007, included not only art historians,
archaeologists and restorers but also mosaic artists. Thus several
different types of mosaic activities were brought together and represented
at the same gathering.
Theme of Colloquium and Call for Papers and Posters
The overall theme chosen for the International Colloquium in 2009
is “Mosaics of Turkey and Parallel Developments in the Rest
of the Ancient and Medieval World: Questions of Iconography, Style
and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late Byzantine
Era”. This topic focuses attention on Turkey geographically
and also gives wide latitude for other related studies.
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