Call for Papers: 2nd meeting of Baltic and North Atlantic Pottery Research Group in Tallinn, April 12-13, 2018

Baltic and North Atlantic Pottery Research Group 2nd Meeting in Tallinn, 12th–13th April 2018 at Estonian Maritime Museum, Vesilennuki 6, Tallinn Tallinn-Tartu-Nyhamnsläge 16-01-2018 First circular letter Dear members of BNPG and participants, Less than three months remain until our second meeting and thus it is high time to share some practical information with you. Let us first express our gratitude to all the authors who have made presentation proposals – without your lively interest there would be no meeting! For the forthcoming meeting, we have 20 presentations, which is just enough for two days and leaves us also plenty of time for discussion and other issues. We are also encouraging the attendance of the persons who have heart for the research of pots and sherds – there is room for all! And now to the details some of you have already asked: ACCOMMODATION We have not made any special arrangements, but suggest three options, based on the location. The prices of the hotels in Tallinn start from 45–50 EUR per night, the selected places might have slightly higher price range. Check booking.com for additional places! Hestia Hotel Ilmarine (https://www.hestiahotelgroup.com/hestia-hotel-ilmarine/ ) This is probably the closest hotel to the venue, with distance by foot some 1.3 kilometres. It is also conveniently near to the Old Town, some 200 metres of north from the town wall. Park Inn Hotel Central Tallinn (https://www.parkinn.com/hotel-centraltallinn ) This one has the best public transport connection to the airport (tram) and harbour (by foot) as well to the venue. The distance between the hotel and the venue is 2.3 kms by foot, to the Old Town – 500 m. Rixwell Old Town Hotel (http://www.rixwell.com/en/rixwell-old-town-hotel ) This is for those who want to be inside the Old Town. The distance between the hotel and the venue is 1.7 kms, thus also quite near the venue. !1 CONFERENCE VENUE The meeting will take place at Seaplane Harbour, which currently houses an exhibition of Estonian Maritime Museum. As mentioned above, the site is within walking distance from the Old Town. For those preferring public transport, bus 73 runs from central Tallinn and stops next to the Seaplane Harbour (Lennusadam in Estonian). You can check the bus route and schedules here: https://transport.tallinn.ee/#bus/73/a-b/10611-1/map/en. Alternatively, taxis can be used to reach the site. COST OF THE MEETING As already mentioned in the Call for Papers, the fee of the meeting will be 30 EUR, which will cover coffee/tea, snacks as well as minutia (name tags, pens and paper, abstract leaflet, etc.). One must be aware that the lunch on Thursday and Friday and the official dinner are not included and should be paid individually on spot! The dinner will be a la carte, check the menu from here: http://peppersack.ee/#menu. For any special wishes, please inform Erki (erki.russow@tlu.ee ). There are two options how to pay the fee - bank transfer with the caption “BNPG2 Tallinn” to account at Ceramic Studies i Sweden: Bank: Handelsbanken. IBAN SE 75 6000 0000 0006 7738 4238. BIC: HANDSESS (For Swedish bankgiro 5874-9029) - or on the first day of the meeting, during the registration 12.04. between 8.30–9.15. Cash! PAPERS, POSTERS, BOOKS AND SHERDS The speakers have 20 minutes for the presentation plus 5 additional minutes for the questions and comments. Every speaker should prepare a power point presentation and this should be added in advance to the conference computer during coffee or lunch breaks. Although we have not advertised the possibility to present posters during the meeting, we can offer enough wall space for this – if you find that you have either interesting data to share or important questions regarding the identification of pottery, we welcome also this kind of medium. In that case, please inform Erki (erki.russow@tlu.ee) as we would like to put the list of posters also to the abstract leaflet. We also encourage the participants to bring the relevant literature as well sherds – the dissemination of the information through the published research and through the firsthand experience of the pottery is a vital part of the meeting! Thus, we will find a special corner for the books and another one for sherds. With best wishes and looking forward to meet again, Erki, Arvi and Torbjörn !2 If you have any questions, please contact: For questions regarding meeting in Tallinn Erki Russow erki.russow@tlu.ee Mobile phone: +372 56 660 522 For questions regarding the financial matters Torbjörn Brorsson torbjorn.brorsson@ceramicstudies.se Mobile phone: +46 70 298 65 56 Conference venue and suggested accommodation !3 BALTIC AND NORTH ATLANTIC POTTERY GROUP 2nd meeting, Tallinn, April 12th – 13th 2018 PROGRAMME Wednesday 11th of April Informal gathering: time and place - TBA Thursday 12th of April 8.30 – 9.15 9.15 – 9.30 Registration Welcome 9.30 – 10.45 1st session 1 Miglė Urbonaitė-Ubė: Current situation of medieval and early modern period pottery research in Lithuania 2 Frauke Witte: The Writing on the plate – written statements on the ceramics in Northern Europe 3 Volker Demuth: Medieval pottery from South-Western Norway 10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break 11.15 – 12.30 2nd session 4 Marcin Majewski, Marian Rębkowski and Paulina Romanowicz: Regional development of pottery produced at the southern coast of Baltic in the Middle Ages and early post-medieval period. A case of Pomerania 5 Riikka Tevali: The difficult question of greyware in underwater sites in Finland 6 Mats Roslund: Liberating the un-free. Baltic ware as a source for social interaction 12.30 – 13.45 Lunch 13.45 – 15.30 3rd session 7 Elina Terävä, Georg Haggrén and Tarja Knuutinen: Ceramics in the medieval castle of Raseborg: Imported serving and cooking vessels and local production? 8 Erik Johansson: The medieval pottery from Carl XI:13, Åhus, Sweden. The relationship between the pottery assemblage and the chronological and spatial development of the site 9 Arvi Haak and Erki Russow: Imported and local wares in Tartu (south Estonia) in the 13th century 10 Ieva Ose: Some remarks on German stoneware c. 1200–1550 and funnel neck jugs excavated in Latvia 15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break 16.00 – 17.00 BNPG meeting * Round table: Kalmar finds * Issue of next meeting * Managing committee 19.00 Dinner at Peppersack, 2 Viru St. Friday 13th of April 9.00 – 10.40 1st session 11 Christoph Keller: Paffrath, Kierberg or Walberberg – production and trade of Rhenish greywares 12 Philip H. W. B. Hansen: An Archaeometric Study of the 12th Century Kiln of Hellum 13 Derek Hall: Northern Exposure – ceramics from the Orkney and Shetland Islands 14 Torbjörn Brorsson and Natascha Mehler: The North Atlantic trade in redwares (c. 1450–1650) 10.40 – 11.00 Coffee break 11.00 – 12.15 2nd session 15 Ilze Mālkalniete: “Green stove” of Ērģeme medieval castle 16 Michael Sørensen: Domestic Comforts: Use of the Tile-stove in Castles of Medieval Denmark (AD 1200–1600) 17 Tara Gullbrand and Tom Wennberg: Early Modern Tile Stoves in Gothenburg – A New Understanding 12.15 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 14.45 3rd session 18 Elisabet Regner: Saints to hold in your hand. Ceramic devotional images and the materiality of religion in Late Medieval Sweden 19 Alise Šulte, Baiba Dumpe and Vitolds Muižnieks: Ikšķile medieval castle and its ceramics collection 20 Michał Starski: Transformations of pottery production on the threshold of modern times in the Gdańsk Pomerania 14.45 – 15.15 Coffee break 15.15 – … 21 Michiel Bartels: Workshop Postmedieval Dutch ceramics, 1550–1800 Saturday 14th of April Informal social gathering, sightseeing etc for the late leavers 

Baltic and North Atlantic Pottery Research Group 2nd Meeting in Tallinn, 12-13 April 2018 Call for Papers Dear colleagues, The Baltic and North Atlantic Pottery Research Group (BNPG) is a group of archaeologists, historians, art historians and such alike with a passion for medieval and post-medieval pottery produced and traded within Northern Europe. It arose in 2016 with the aim to bring together specialists from different regions to meet and exchange knowledge. Following the very successful first meeting of the Group in Stockholm back in 2016, we decided to meet again in two years in Estonia. Hereby we announce that the second meeting will take place in Tallinn on 12–13 April 2018. As last time, we decided that we will not need a more specific topic to address, so all contributions from people dealing with pottery from the Nordic region that would fit into medieval and later periods are very welcome. The venue for our meeting is very kindly provided by the Estonian Maritime Museum: the sessions will take place at the Seaplane Harbour in Tallinn, Europa Nostra Grand Prix winner in 2013. Although the museum does not possess collections comparable to the Kalmar one we had the chance to see in Stockholm, we probably have a chance to look at the ceramic material from Estonia at an exhibition that will be located at the museum. In addition, we encourage you to take a small selection of finds with you if there are sherds that might need an eye of the fellow pottery researchers – we will offer extra table for such kind of queries. We have also booked a venue for the conference dinner at a restaurant called Peppersack that is located in the Old Town. We encourage everybody interested in the topic to send their abstract of no more than 250 words by 15.11.2017 to bnpg@bnpg.eu and for registration of participation by 15.01.2018 to the same address. For an additional information please contact erki.russow@tlu.ee The conference fee will be 30 EUR covering the coffee breaks and trivialities. It will not include lunch breaks nor conference dinner 12.04.2018. Organizing committee for the meeting: Erki Russow, Tallinn Torbjörn Brorsson, Lund Arvi Haak, Tartu