Conferences
The single most important event in the Academy’s year is its annual conference and general meeting. Conferences are held in different centres and usually focus on local pipe collections. They also feature reports on the state of research into the pipe industry in the region involved. We have recently met in Ruhla in Germany, Metz in France, Liverpool in the UK, Budapest in Hungary and Grasse in France.
NEXT CONFERENCE
Novi Sad, Serbia 5-8 October 2011
Our 2011 conference will be held from 3-6 October in Novi Sad, Serbia. It will focus on the collections of the City Museum there and will have as a theme 'The Turks abroad: the production, distribution, iconography and influence of Ottoman pipes and pipe-makers in Europe and beyond (16th to 20th century)'.
More details and a booking form will be available in the Spring of 2011. If you are interested in attending, please let Susie White know at admin@pipeacademy.org.
Grasse 2010
Members of the Academy studying the Rothschild Collection [Photo: Susie White]
Our 2010 conference was held from 3-6 November in Grasse (Alpes Maritimes) in southern France. It focussed on the unique collection of the Baroness Alice de Rothschild made between 1880 and 1920 and containing almost 500 pipes in wood, clay, meerschaum and porcelain of the highest quality. The highlight of the conference was the handling session in the Municipal Library (above) where delegates were able to study individual items in detail. There were also papers on recent advances in pipe research in the south of France, northern Italy and Spain.
If you would like to read summaries of the papers given at the conference they can be found below in English and French.
Hungary 2009
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The 2009 Academy Conference in Hungary: delegates at the Blaskovitch Museum [Photo: Susie White]
Our 2009 conference took place from 7-10 October at the National Museum in Budapest. Entitled ’Between East and West: relics of pipesmoking from the territory of East-Middle Europe from the excavated early claypipes to the culture of artistic meerschaum-carvings’, it brought together museum curators, archaeologists and collectors from all over the world, but especially from south eastern Europe. In honour of the occasion a new display ’The Gift of the White Goddess: Meerschaum carvings from the pipe collection of the National Museum’ was opened. We also visited the Blaskovitch and Drebrecen museums both of which contain impressive pipe collections and both of which staged special exhibitions for our visit.
Liverpool 2008
The president with two new members at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, September 2008
In September 2008 we met in the newly opened Victoria Gallery and Museum in the University of Liverpool. The conference included visits to the ethnographic collections of the World Museum in Liverpool, a symposium ‘The pipe in its socio-economic context’ and a reception in the Adelphi Hotel.
