14 May. Ana Lorilla from the Philippines joined the ICCROM/Getty International Stone Conservation Course (SC13) this year in order to develop her capacity in the conservation of stone heritage in her area of the Philippines. She works as architect in residence for the Church of Nuestra Senora de la Porteria near Legazpi City in the Eastern Philippines.

Course announcement

16 May. Cultural Heritage Protection in the Asia - Pacific Region 2013: preservation and restoration of wooden structures
13 May. ICWCT 2014 - Wood Conservation Technology
9 May. International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage (ITC 2013)
25 April. CBH 2014 - Conservation of Built Heritage
19 April. International Course on Paper Conservation in Latin America. Meeting East

8 May. Mr. Ward Bucher from United States is undertaking a fellowship at ICCROM until the end of May.

7 May. Please help us vitalize our LATAM network!
We look forward to your participation! If you want to contribute your ideas, concerns or suggestions, please send an email to Andrea Martínez, current editor of our newsletter, at: fundaciongavia [at] gmail [dot] com

3 May. Cynthia Ide Rockwell, ICCROM’s Chief of Communications and Publications from 1980 to 1997, passed away on Sunday 28 April. She was 76 years old.

2 May. ICCROM is pleased to welcome Rugile Balkaite from Lithuania, who will be carrying out an internship at ICCROM until June 2013.

2 May. Turkey’s National Library to digitize cultural heritage
1 May. Mt. Fuji to go on World Heritage list, but Kamakura rejected
1 May. Excavation unearths evidence of Thessaloniki's urban life between 4th and 9th centuries AD