Plans for conference?

[Koen G]

I do think it will be interesting, if just for the negative (non-parallel) conclusions

Negatie conclusions are useful as well.. we are in no position to be picky

R.Sale: I think academic publications about the VM are more comfortable for certain disciplines than for others. Iconography is all the way at the uncomfortable end, unfortunately. Commentaries by academics about the images are often in the negative ("it does not resemble any traditional x or y"), or short remarks. It should be possible to write something suitable for the conference, but the topic would have to be relatively free of interpretation to make it palatable for a wider audience.