Previous Conferences

At least one conference is held annually. Previous conference listings are indexed below.

Unfortunately, abstracts are not available, but many of these papers have been published or are forthcoming in Medieval Ceramics and these are noted as appropriate.

The following conference programme listings are available online:

2017 Conference: Ceramics and Drink, Leicester

Our next conference will be held in Leicester on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd June in collaboration with the Centre ...
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2013 Conference: Pottery Afloat – Ceramics in marine contexts

8th June, 2013 Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth The opening of the new Mary Rose Museum in early 2013 provides an ...
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2012 Conference: Recent Research and New Discoveries in Glass and Ceramics

Friday 16th November 2012 The Wallace Collection, London Organised by the Medieval Pottery Research Group & the Association for the ...
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2011 Conference: Recent Work and Current Research

Saturday 11 June 2011 Activity Spaces 1 and 2, Museum of London Programme 9.30: Registration and coffee 10.00: Looking Forward: ...
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2010 Conference: Dating and Deposits:ceramic chronology and site formation

14th-16th June 2010 Perth, Scotland The following papers were presented: Radiocarbon dating of carbonised food residues from London shelly ware ...
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2009 Conference: Science and Ceramics:Recent developments in analysis and interpretation

6th June 2009 British Geological Survey, Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham Dedicated to the memory of Alan Vince The following ...
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2008 Conference: Pottery of the Western Mediterranean:Production, influences, distribution and use AD 900-1600

7th-9th July University of Siena, Italy The MPRG is delighted to announce that our 2008 conference will be held in ...
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2007 Conference: Pottery on the Move: Method, meaning and the distribution of medieval pottery

Saturday 9th June 2007 The House of Laymen, St William's College, College Street, YORK YO1 7JF This meeting aims to ...
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2006 Conference: Ceramics Cloistered and Crenellated: Pottery From Medieval Institutions

12th-14th June 2006 Trafford Hall, Chester Much of the medieval pottery first published came from early excavations at castles, palaces ...
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2005 Conference: Pottery in Public

Saturday 18th June 2005 Education Rooms, Museum of London There are now more ways than ever for archaeological objects to ...
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2004 Conference: Under the Influence: Examinations of change in the ceramic record

28th-30th June 2004 King Alfred's College, Winchester The theme of this conference was change, not only how we observe it ...
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2003 Conference: Mix it, Risk it, Make it, Fake it: The Technology of Medieval Potting

Saturday 14th June 2003 Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham The following papers were presented: (MC* denotes published paper in Medieval Ceramics ...
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2002 Conference: The State we’re in: pottery in post-Roman Ireland

2nd-4th September 2002 Trinity College Dublin The following papers were presented: Historical and Archaeological setting, Prof Terry Barry, Dept Medieval ...
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2002 Conference: Dynamics of an industry: late medieval/post-medieval slipwares of Britain

Saturday 18th May 2002, Mortimer Wheeler House, 46 Eagle Wharf Road, LONDON N1 7ED The following papers were presented: Symbolism ...
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2001 Conference: Scottish Medieval Ceramic Studies

11th-13th May 2001 Edinburgh City Arts Centre The following papers were presented: Historic Scotland and the study of Scottish medieval ...
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2000 Conference: 25 years of medieval pottery studies: past, present and future

29th-30th March 2000 Exeter College, Oxford The following papers were presented: (MC* denotes published paper in Medieval Ceramics Vol.*) Session ...
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1999 Conference: Building bridges: a multidisciplinary approach to ceramic studies

May 1999, Sheffield The MPRG annual conference was held at Sheffield over two days in May 1999. The aim was ...
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1998 Conference: Pottery in England 900 to 1200 AD

16th May 1998 Museum of London Interpretation Unit The following papers were presented: (MC* denotes published paper in Medieval Ceramics ...
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1997 Conference: Pot in use:the study of the material culture of consumer sites

12th-14th May 1997 The Star Hotel, Worcester The following papers were presented: (MC* denotes published paper in Medieval Ceramics Vol.*) ...
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1996 Conference: Pottery from Hull

Pottery from Hull 1996, Hull Sorry - no details available at present ...
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1995 Conference: The Publication and Presentation of Medieval Pottery

7th October 1995 Norwich Castle Museum The following papers were presented: Synthesis: the beginning of the end or a new ...
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1995 Conference: Ceramics from the Rhineland, 7th-16th centuries

10th-13th May 1995 Cologne and Bonn, Germany The following papers were offered: (MC* denotes published paper in Medieval Ceramics Vol.*) ...
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1994 Conference: Assemblages from Production Sites: problems and strategies

21st May 1994 Nottingham The following papers were presented: A recently excavated assemblage from Nottingham and its research context - ...
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1993 Conference: Late Medieval Imported Pottery

22nd-24th March 1993 Connaught Hall, Southampton University The following papers were offered: (MC* denotes published paper in Medieval Ceramics Vol.*) ...
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