Awards, competitions, and prizes

August. Convenio Andrés Bello (CAB)
VII prize CAB 'Somos Patrimonio'
Deadline for application: 15 February 2008

Events

Calendar of Events compiled by ICCROM
Events this month

17 December. Archives & Museum Informatics
Museums and the Web 2008 , Montreal, Canada, 9 - 12 April 2008
Deadline for scholarships: 31 December 2008

17 December. UNESCO Programme: Memory of the World, held at National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Registration: Third Memory of the World Conference, Australia, 19-22 February 2008
Deadline for registration: 1 February 2008

11 December. Centro Regionale per la Progettazione e il Restauro -CRPR- (Regional Centre for Planning and Restoration) of the Sicilian Region, Palermo Italy
Call for abstracts: Conservation: An act of Discovery 10th Conference of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM), Palermo, 20-26 October 2008
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 31 December

5 December. Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Call for abstracts: Stone 2008: 11th International Congress on Deterioration and Conservation of Stone, 15 - 20 September 2008
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: see website

9 Octobre. Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal and Getty Conservation Institute
Call for papers: International Symposium on Stone Consolidation in Cultural Heritage, 6 - 7 May 2008
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 31 January 2008

September. Association internationale des sociologue de langue française (AISLF)
Call for papers: Mémoire et patrimoine à l'ère de la globalisation, 7 - 11 juillet 2008, Istanbul, Turquie
Dans le cadre du XVIIIe congrès international de l'AISLF, « Être en société. Le lien social à l'épreuve des cultures », le GT 14 « Institutions du patrimoine » propose de s'interroger sur les mutations des pratiques patrimoniales et mémorielles à l'ère de la globalisation et dans la mesure où ce phénomène marque l'affaiblissement de la référence territoriale.
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 30 January 2008

September. National Center for Conservation, Restoration and Museology (CENCREM), Cuba
VII International Congress on Cultural Heritage: Safeguard and management, Cuba 17 - 21 March, 2008
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 30 January 2008

Grants, scholarships, internships

27 December. Society for the History of Technology
Fellowships: Chemical Heritage Foundation 2008-09
Application deadline: 15 February 2008
Contact: <fellowships [at] chemheritage_org>

20 December. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, United Kingdom
Interships: conservation
Application deadline: 21 January 2008
Contact: Calvin Winner <c.winner [at] uea__ac__uk>

19 December. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, United States
Summer Interships: conservation
Application deadline: 11 January 2008
Contact: Tania Collas <tcollas [at] nhm__org>

19 December. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Conservation Center (LACMA), United States
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship: conservation of objects, textiles, paintings, paper and conservation science
Application deadline: 14 March 2008
Contact: Mark Gilberg <mgilberg [at] lacma__org>

19 December. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Conservation Center (LACMA), United States
Summer internships: conservation of objects, textiles, paintings, paper and conservation science
Application deadline: 14 March 2008
Contact: Mark Gilberg <mgilberg [at] lacma__org>

19 December. Smithsonian Institution, United States
Fellowships: Conservation of Museum Collections
Application deadline: 15 January 2008

19 December. University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Funded PhD Studentship: Modelling moisture transport through stone: predicting the effects of climate change on cultural heritage
Application deadline: 10 January 2008
Contact: Christopher Hall <christopher.hall [at] ed__ac__uk>

19 December. Art Institute of Chicago, United States
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship: Conservation Science
Application deadline: 31 January 2008
Contact: Kim Muir <kmuir [at] artic__edu>

17 December. American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Agora Excavations, Greece
Stages : Conservation archéologique - pour les excavations de l'été 2008
Date limite d'envoi des candidatures : 11 janvier 2008
Contact: Amandina Anastassiades <amandina [at] agathe__gr>

6 December. National Gallery of Art (NGA), Washington DC, USA and the Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation des Collections / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CRCC/CNRS), Paris, France.
Andrew Mellon and CRCC/CNRS Fellowship: Conservation science for the study of reactions at the wet-dry interface in cellulosic materials
Application deadline: 14 janvier 2008
Contact: Michael Skalka <m-skalka (at) nga.gov>

6 December. Erasmus Mundus Programme
Scholarships: Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions
Application deadline: 31 janvier 2008

16 November. Smithsonian Institution, United States
Fellowship: Museum Practice Guidelines and Application Information
Application deadline: 15 February 2008

14 November. Museum of Modern Art New York City, United States
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship: Photography Conservation
Application deadline: 1 March 2008
Contact: Lee Ann Daffner <leeann_daffner (at) moma__org>

14 November. Buffalo State College Art Conservation Department, United States
Tuition remission and book allowances

September. Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Leverhulme Post-doctoral Visiting Fellowship to museum and heritage researchers:
University of Leicester
Application deadline: see website

September. Institute for Conservation (ICON), United Kingdom
Setting up an Icon Internship
Application deadline: see website

September. UNESCO/Keizo Obuchi (Japan)
2008 Cycle: Co-Sponsored Research Fellowships Programme
Application deadline: 11 January 2008

September. The Getty, United States
Getty Conservation Grants
Application deadline: see website

Jobs

19 December. Artlab, Australia
Projects (Large Objects) Conservator
Application deadline: 11 January 2008
Contact: Joanna Barr <barr.joanna [at] dpc__sa__gov__au>

17 December. Museum Conservation Services Ltd, United Kingdom
Conservator, art on paper
Application deadline: see website
Contact: Nicholas Burnett <mcs [at] paperconservation__co__uk>

17 December. Musées d'art et d'histoire, Geneva
Conservation scientist
Application deadline: end of January 2008
Contact: Kilian Anheuser <kilian.anheuser [at] ville-ge__ch>

16 November. International Council of Museums, ICOM, France
Director General ICOM
Application deadline: see website

14 November. Langelands Museum, Denmark
Paper conservator
Application deadline: see website
Contact: Ida Hovmand <nj (at) langelandkommune__dk>

Publications

29 December. Heritage Journal, Cultural and Historical Research Trust, India.
The first issue of Heritage, a six-monthly journal published by the Cultural and Historical Research Trust, Imphal was formally released by the principal, DM College of Commerce, and well-known archeologist, Okram Kumar today at the Manipur Press Club.

17 December. Standard-setting in UNESCO, UNESCO Publishing.

17 December. Philosophy : A cosmic responsibility, UNESCO Courier, November 2007.

5 December. IFLA: principles for the care and handling of library material.

5 December. Visual resources: an international journal of documentation.

Training and development

21 December. Erasmus Mundus Programme
Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis
of Monuments and Historical Constructions
Scholarships available
Application deadline: 31 January 2008

20 December. Northern States Conservation Center, Australia
Distance learning course on collections areas: 2008 calendar
Application deadline: see website

14 November. International Academic Projects, United Kingdom
Distance learning course on chemistry for conservators, March - June 2008
Application deadline: see website

17 October. Institute of Conservation (ICON)
Accreditation for Conservation Scientists
The Heritage Science Group is seeking expressions of interest from heritage scientists interested in professional accreditation.
Expression of interest form deadline: 7 January 2008
Contact: barry.knight (at) bl.uk

September. Archaia.eu
Training Seminars: Research Planning, Characterisation, Conservation and Management in Archaeological Sites, 28 - 30 January and 15 - 17 May 2008
Application deadline: see website

5 December. Cultural Resource Management Program, University of Victoria, Canada
Courses and workshops: 2008
Application deadline: see website

Websites, e-journals, e-publications

27 December. English Heritage, United Kingdom
Our Place network
English Heritage has launched a networking website for heritage sector staff working in education and community engagement. Miriam Levin, Head of Outreach for English Heritage, said “Our Place is a groundbreaking networking site and the first of its type in the country. It’s the Facebook for the cultural sector.”

27 December. Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt
Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage
The official website of the Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage.

27 December. Voluntariado Cultural, Fundación Sophia
A new website for promoting cultural volunteering in initiatives on tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

20 December. e_conservation magazine: December
The second number of e_conservation magazine is now online and can be downloaded for free.

18 December. e-journal: CeROArt N. 1
CeROArt is an e-journal and interactive platform, devoted to a multidisciplinary approach of art and objects conservation, exhibition and restoration.

17 December. Best practices for audio preservation
This publication presents the results of research and development carried out by the Sound Directions Project with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the United States.

16 November. Inventory of heritage organisations in Europe
A public access database of non-governmental heritage organisations in Europe.

12 November. e-petition: Textiles Conservation Centre
The Masters Textile Conservation Programme of the TCC is considered the leading course internationally. The University of Southampton proposes to close TCC commencing summer 2008 with full closure by September 2009. This petition is to hopefully prevent the closure of such an important academic institution which has a distinguished history and international reputation.

12 November. Web Journal on Cultural Heritage
The third edition of this free online journal is now available.

12 November. Fédération française des conservateurs restaurateurs, FFCR
The website of the French Federation of Conservator-restorers.

updated on: 24 May, 2010