The 51st IAC CONGRESS & GENERAL ASSEMBLY

‘Ceramics in the Mediterranean World: From Antiquity to Contemporaneity.’

IAC Congress 2024

From 16 to 20 September 2024

At the Caldas da Rainha Cultural and Congress Centre (CCC)

IAC General Assembly 2024

Friday 20 September 2024

At the Caldas da Rainha Cultural and Congress Centre (CCC)

and online via Zoom (registration in Summer 2024)

For IAC members only. Free of cost, registration mandatory.

The Alcobaça & Caldas da Rainha 2024 Congress will offer a rich conference programme with:

• Thematic presentations and debates led by specialists, meant to invite the participation of the public.
• Breakout Sessions: short IAC member presentations centered around personal research, recent work, new initiatives, new books, curatorial events, or other ceramic-related topics.

Conferences will be broken up with visits to local ceramic sites in both Alcobaça and Caldas da Rainha, including museums, factories and artist workshops.

Thursday will be devoted to an excursion to Lisbon to visit the National Azulejo Museum and the Gulbenkian Foundation.

The detailed programme is still in the making and will be announced shortly.

General Assembly of IAC members

The 51st General Assembly of the members of the Academy will continue the conversations started two years ago at the Geneva Congress relative to the future of the IAC, its structure and functioning. Proposals voted upon in the 2024 GA will be the result of two years of hard work by the IAC Commissions.

The GA agenda will be announced in the summer Bulletin ahead of the Congress.