16/09
(Mon)

WELCOME & REGISTRATION
at Montebelo Mosteiro de Alcobaça Historic Hotel

OPENING OF THE 51st IAC CONGRESS

WELCOME SPEECHES

• Hermínio RODRIGUES, Mayor of Alcobaça
• Vitor Manuel CALISTO MARQUES, Mayor of Caldas da Rainha
• Luís Miguel CAPÃO FILIPE, President of AptCVC & Conceição HENRIQUES, Board Member of AptCVC
• Torbjørn KVASBØ, IAC President

KEYNOTE LECTURE on Congress theme: “Ceramics in Mediterranean World: from Antiquity to Contemporaneity”

Alexandre NOBRE PAIS, President of the Agency for Museums and Monuments of Portugal

OFFICIAL SIGNING CEREMONY
for the donation of the Alcobaça Ceramics Museum “Maria do Céu and Luís Pereira de Sampaio Collections” to the Alcobaça City Council

Coffee break

EXHIBITION OPENING
at the Armazém das Artes, Alcobaça

“IAC Members’ Exhibition: Mediterranean Ceramics and their Global Influence”

Lunch at the Municipal Market of Alcobaça

GENERAL ASSEMBLY I
at the Cine-Teatro de Alcobaça

– IAC members only –

CULTURAL PROGRAMME (for non-IAC members)
Visits of the Alcobaça territory and factories

CULTURAL PROGRAMME (for IAC members)
Visits of the Alcobaça territory and factories

Opening Dinner and IAC/UNESCO evening
at the Montebelo Mosteiro de Alcobaça Historic Hotel

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17/09
(Tue)

PANEL DISCUSSION: “Ceramic Confluences in the Mediterranean: A Historical View”
Introduced and moderated by Jaume COLL, Director of the Museo Nacional de Cerámica y de las Artes Suntuarias “González Martí” (Spain)

“Mediterranean Contributions to Table and Display Ceramics, during the Middle Ages, in Southern Portugal”
Rosa VARELA GOMES, Professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)

“Ceramics and Thermalism: Itinerary and Imaginary”
Helena GONÇALVES PINTO, Professor at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (Portugal)

“Picasso, Ceramics and the Mediterranean”
Salvador HARO, Head Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Malaga (Spain)

– Q&A / Discussion –

THEMATIC PRESENTATIONS

Moderated by Jaume COLL, Director of the Museo Nacional de Cerámica y de las Artes Suntuarias “González Martí” (Spain)

“Mediterranean Heritage”
Carmen MARCO DASI (Spain) & Karine PASCUAL (Spain)

“MEDITERRANEAN ECHOES: The Byzantine Legacy of Slipware. A comparison between the ceramics of Seminara (Italy) and the production of Tsanak Kale (Turkey)”
Umberto BATTAGLIA (Italy) & Monica DE MARCO (Italy)

“The St. Genadius Stone in the Church of Santiago de Peñalba”
Luis ORTEGA ECHEVARRIA (Italy/Spain)

“NAOS”
Estefania VALLS URQUIJO (Guatemala)

“Ceramics by Domenico Vandelli, from Italy to Portugal at the End of the 18th Century”
Dr. Jorge PEREIRA DE SAMPAIO (Portugal)

“IN BLUE AND WHITE: Reflections on Baroque Azulejos”
Dr. Rosário SALEMA DE CARVALHO (Portugal)

12 BREAKOUT SESSIONS

by Judith SCHWARTZ (USA), Aurelija SEILIENE (Lithuania), Sharbani DAS GUPTA (USA), Langming LIN (China), Naho YAMASHITA (Japan), Shlomit BAUMAN (Israel), Avi AMESBURY (Australia), Boo Yun LEE (Republic of Korea), Samuel NORTEY (Ghana), Martin MCWILLIAM (Germany), Lihong LI (China) and Norma GRINBERG (Brazil).

EXHIBITIONS OPENING
at the Caldas da Rainha Cultural and Congress Centre

• “IAC Members’ Exhibition: Contemporary Portuguese Ceramics”
• “IAC Members’ Exhibition: Azulejos”
• “IAC Benelux Members’ Exhibition: Fusion of Vision”

18/09
(Wed)

ARRIVAL & MINGLING
at the Caldas da Rainha Cultural and Congress Centre (CCC)

PANEL DISCUSSION: “Ceramics in contemporaneity: reality, relations and confrontations in the Mediterranean World”
Introduced and moderated by Isabel FERNANDEZ DEL MORAL, Ceramics Chief Curator in the Barcelona Design Museum (Spain)

“Paving the Way”
Bela SILVA, Artist (Belgium/Portugal)

Title to be confirmed.
Ossama EMAM, Ceramic artist and IAC Council Representative for Africa (Egypt)

“Cultural Heritage: Contemporary Interpretation of Mediterranean Traditions Using Terra Sigillata & Luster”
Shamai GIBSH, Ceramic artist and IAC Council Representative for the Middle East (Israel)

– Q&A / Discussion –

THEMATIC PRESENTATIONS

Moderated by Dr. Stéphanie LE FOLLIC-HADIDA, Art historian, Critic and Curator specialising in Contemporary Ceramics, Founding member of the C14 PARIS fair, IAC Vice president and representative to UNESCO (France)

“The Status of Bider Pottery in the Village”
Bouriche BOUMEDIENE (Algeria)

“Gender, Voice, and Identity: Mediterranean Woman Artists”
Ray CHEN (USA)

“Ceramics in Dialogue”
Antonio FOIS (Italy/United Kingdom)

“Contemporary Ceramics”
Elahe HOSSEINI (Islamic Republic of Iran)

“The Mare Modul Project: Underwater Ceramic Habitats for Restoration and Ennrichment of Marine Flora and Fauna”
Danijela PICULJAN (Croatia)

11 BREAKOUT SESSIONS

by Holly HANESSIAN (USA), Anne-Brit Soma REIENES (Norway), Stéphanie LE FOLLIC-HADIDA (France), Nelson LIM (Singapore), Amélie PROULX (Canada), Annika TEDER (Estonia), Kay APLIN (UK), Mirta MORIGI (Italy), Jerónimo SAINZ DE AGÜERO (Mexico), Yanze JIANG (China) and Adil WRITER (India).

19/09
(Thu)

20/09
(Fri)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY II

– IAC members only –

GENERAL ASSEMBLY II (cont.)

– IAC members only –

IAC ROUND TABLES

– IAC members only –

CULTURAL PROGRAMME
Free afternoon to explore Alcobaça and Caldas da Rainha