Awards, competitions, and prizes

28 March. Convenio Andrés Bello (CAB)
VII prize CAB 'Somos Patrimonio'
Deadline for application extended: 20 June

25 March. English Heritage, United Kingdom
Awards for the Presentation of Heritage Research 2008
Deadline for application: 2 May

25 January. Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Direzione Generale per i BeniArchitettonici e Paesaggistici
Prize for architectural thesis: moving in the immovable (pdf)
Deadline for application: 31 July

21 January. European Association of Archaeologists
The European Archaeological Heritage Prize 2008
Deadline for application: 1 May

18 January. UNESCO Office of the Regional Advisor for Culture in Asia and the Pacific
2008 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation
Deadline for application: 31 March

Call for projects

22 January. Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (EPA) and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Les musées au service du développement (pdf)
Application deadline: 31 July

Conservation centre

1 February. Plart, Italy
New Plastic Conservation Centre in Italy
Plart – whose name derives from the combination of the terms “plastic” and “art” – is a new museum devoted to plastic materials.

Events

Calendar of Events compiled by ICCROM
Events this month

31 March. International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (INCCA)
Conserving the present: synthetic binders, plastic materials, videos and installations, 7, 14 and 21 April 2008, Milan, Italy
Application deadline: see website

27 March. 8th European Conference on Research for Protection, Conservation and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Cultural heritage research meets practice, 11 - 13 November 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Deadline for presentation of papers extended: 2 avril

25 March. 12 encuentro internacional patrimonio desarrollo y turismo, Bolivia
Small cities, large heritage, 4 - 6 June 2008, San Luis de Potosi, Bolivia
Early bird registration: 1 April

16 March. Danish Branch of the Nordic Association of Conservators
Preserving the Evidence of Industrial Society, 24-27 May 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
Application deadline: 31 September

13 March. Centro Internazionale Citta' d'Acqua, Venice, Italy
Forum 2008: Mediterranean City (pdf), 27 - 29 May, Reggio Calabria, Italy
Application deadline: 31 March

5 March. Vatican Museums
Tribute to Cesare Brandi (pdf), 8 April

27 February. Rathgen-Forschungslabor, Berlin, Germany
Hands-On Workshop on Non-Destructive Elemental Analysis (pdf), 7 - 8 April
Application deadline: see website

26 February. Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation - Association of Friends of the Costume Gallery of Florence
Costume Colloquium: A tribute to Janet Arnold, 6 - 9 November 2008, Florence, Italy
Early bird registration : 30 June

25 February. VSMM 2008
Call for papers - VSMM 2008: Digital Heritage: Our Hi-tech-STORY for the Future, 20 - 26 October 2008, Limassol, Cyprus
Deadline for presentation of papers: 2 June

20 February. Abracor (Brazilian Association of Conservators and Restorers of Cultural Property ), Brasil
Call for papers - XIII Congress: Preservation of Cultural Heritage: ethics and social responsibility (pdf), 10 - 11 September
Deadline for presentation of papers: 31 March

29 January. Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC); et alii, Portugal
Call for abstracts: Historical Mortars Conference (HCM2008), 24-26 September 2008, Portugal
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 15 April

29 January. Museum of Science, Portugal
Call for abstracts: Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC2008), 16-21 September 2008, Portugal
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 15 May

14 January. Uludag University Mosaic Research Center, Faculty of Science-Literature, Archaeology Department and Association Internationale pour l'Etude de la Mosaique Antique (AIEMA)
11th International AIEMA Mosaic Symposium, Bursa, Turkey, 16-20 October 2009
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 30 August

7 January. ICOM - Conservation Committee (ICOM-CC)
Diversity in Heritage Conservation -  Tradition, Innovation and Participation, New Delhi, India, 22-26 September 2008
Early bird registration deadline: 31 March

Grants, scholarships, internships

31 March. UNESCO World Heritage Center
Fellowships: UNESCO–VOCATIONS PATRIMOINE Fellowships for World Heritage Site Managers
Application deadline: 11 April

31 March. International Centre for the Study of Herculaneum, Italy
Grant: research on Herculaneum
Application deadline: 15 April

10 March. The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, United Kingdom
Paid graduate fellowship: Sustainable architecture and Urbanism (pdf)
Application deadline: 18 April

10 March. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
Samuel H. Kress Advanced Training Fellowship in Imaging (pdf)
Application deadline: 21 April

3 March. Sharjah Archaeology Museum
Research internship (pdf)
Application deadline: 10 April

27 February. Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, Austria
Internships: objects and textiles conservation
Application deadline: 1 May
Contact for objects: Christiane Jordan <christiane.jordan [at] ethno-museum__ac__at>
Contact for textiles: Elisabeth Tarawneh <elisabeth.tarawneh [at] ethno-museum__ac__at>

21 January. Philadelphia Museum of Art, United States
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship: Objects Conservation
Application deadline: 1 April
Contact: Christopher Wasson <cwasson [at] philamuseum__org>

February. Smithsonian, United States
Conservation fellowships and internships
Application deadline: see website

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

Jobs

28 March. UNESCO, World Heritage Centre, Culture Sector Unit
Chief of Latin America and the Caribbean region, (pdf)
Application deadline: 22 April

16 March. Rathgen Research Laboratory, Germany
Conservation Scientists (pdf)
Application deadline: 11 April

16 March. National Archives, United Kingdom
Project Conservator
Application deadline: 18 April

16 March. Columbia University Libraries, United States
Conservation Assistant
Application deadline: Open until filled

16 March. Simon Gillespie Studio, United Kingdom
Conservator-restorer
Contact: Simon Gillespie Studio <info [at] simongillespie__com>
Application deadline: see website

13 March. Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
Chief Librarian (pdf)
Application deadline: 7 April

11 March. Turquoise Mountain Foundation
Senior Conservation Architect and Conservation Architect, Kabul, Afghanistan
Application deadline: 15 April

10 March. Antarctic Heritage Trust, New Zealand
Conservators, Antarctica
Application deadline: 31 March

26 February. Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, United States
Head Conservator (pdf)
Application deadline: 18 April

26 February. Cleveland Museum of Art, United States
Chief Conservator and Chief Curator
Application deadline: see website

26 February. Northwestern University, United States
Conservation Librarian
Application deadline: see website
Contact: Peter J. Devlin <library-personnel [at] northwestern__edu>

26 February. Etherington Conservation Services, United States
Assistant paper conservator
Application deadline: see website
Contact: Michael Lee <mlee [at] thehfgroup__com>

26 February. Pole d'Archeologie Interdepartemental Rhenan (PAIR), France
Archaeozoologist
Application deadline: 10 June
Archaeological conservation: metal artefacts
Contac: Elise Alloin <elise.alloin [at] pair-archeologie__fr>

Publications

16 March. Patrimoine en partage
Published by the Agence de l'Oriental with the aim of de continuing the intercultural dialogue between the Mediterranean countries.

Training and development

31 March. International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (INCCA)
Interview methodology for conservators, 21 April 2008, Denver, CO, United States
Application deadline: see website

16 March. International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (INCCA)
Workshop: INCCA Database for Artists' Archives, 6 June
Application deadline: 23 May

16 March. Northern States Conservation Centre, United States
Distance training: Care of Archaeological Artifacts, Pest management in collections and exhibitions, 31 March - 25 April
Application deadline: see website

4 March. University of Northumbria at Newcastle, United Kingdom
Distance training: MA in Preventive Conservation, October 2008
Application deadline: September

27 February. Rathgen-Forschungslabor, Berlin, Germany
Hands-On Workshop on Non-Destructive Elemental Analysis (pdf), 7 - 8 April
Application deadline: see website

11 February. UCLA, United States
Document Imaging and Document Management, 6 - 8 June
Application deadline: see website

8 February. The Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material Inc. (AICCM), Australia
New methods of cleaning paintings, 28 July - 1 August
New methods of cleaning painted surfaces of 3D objects, 4 - 8 August
Scholarship application deadline: see website

5 February. International Academic Projects and the Corning Museum of Glass, United States
Short course: Conservation of glass, 19 - 23 May, United States
Application deadline: see website

5 February. Lesvos Petrified Forest Museum, Greece
Placements for conservation students in the Lesvos Petrified Forest Museum
The Museum is offering up to five (5) placements for conservation and restoration students in the period May-September 2008. The students will work with the conservation and restoration team. Their duties will include conservation, restoration, photography and documentation of the fossils, and their work is expected to be realized both within the museum premises, as well as in the outdoor parks.
Application deadline: see website

1 February. Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
Conservation at the RCA 2011 Onwards
The Royal College of Art will be suspending its intake of new students to the RCA/V&A Conservation programme from 2008-9.

24 January. Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), in partnership with the Academy of Fine Art and Design (AFAD) in Bratislava and the Slovak National Library (SNL) in Martin, Slovak Republic
Course: Fundamentals of the Conservation of Photographs, phase 1, summer course: 21 July - 15 August, 2008; phase 2, distance learning: 1 September - 30 April, 2009
Application deadline: see website

21 January. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, United States
Summer Course: Pre-Program Archaeological Conservation Field School, 22 June - 26 July, 2008
Application deadline: see website

21 January. Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), United States
Course: Archival preservation management, 17 - 18 April 2008
Application deadline: 3 April

21 January. International Academic Projects Ltd (IAP), United Kingdom
Course: Pigments and the polarizing microscope, 9-13 June 2008
Application deadline: see website

4 January. AIC online courses
- Estimating Conservation Projects, 1 May – 28 May
- Laboratory Safety for Conservation, 5 June – 2 July
- Mitigating Risk: Contracts and Insurance for Conservation, 10 July – 6 Aug
- Professional Responsibility in Conservation, 11 Sept – 8 Oct
- Records and Information Management for Conservation, 16 Oct – 12 Nov
Scholarships available
Application deadline: see website

4 January. AIC workshops
- Mastering Inpainting, 5-9 May, Shepherdstown, WV
- Conservation of Plastics and Rubber, 15-18 May, New York, NY
- Digital Inkjet Printing for Textile Conservators, 13-15 June, Philadelphia, PA
- Conservation of Tracing Paper, two sessions: 4-5 Aug or 7-8 Aug, Williamstown, MA
- Adhesives for Conservation, 6-10 Oct, Omaha, NE Scholarships available
Application deadline: see website

September. Archaia.eu
Training Seminars: Research Planning, Characterisation, Conservation and Management in Archaeological Sites, 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

31 March. World Architecture Community
World Architecture (WA) is an independent global forum and extensive database targeting to become the 'Home Page' of architects from all countries of the world. This global directory will be continuously developed and updated through your collaborative efforts.

28 March. Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI): current projects
Envisions an open, Internet-based knowledge commons of world cultural heritage. AAI is working to provide innovative digital services for sharing research, thus filling the gaps in traditional publication. To this end, they have created Open Context- a free, open access resource for the electronic publication of primary field research from archaeology and related disciplines.

28 March. Art and Craft of Uzbekistan
The site offers an electronic directory on nine Museums of Uzbekistan and enables users to view Uzbekistan masterpieces, obtain information on exhibitions and contact the museums.

16 March. Patrimoine numérique : mémoire virtuelle, mémoire commune ?
Publication on digital heritage available on INA's (Institut national de l'audiovisuel) website.

16 March. Tracking the reel world (pdf)
TAPE (Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe) has published a survey of audiovisual collections in Europe.

14 March. UNESCO Cultural Heritage Laws Database
UNESCO’s new database of cultural heritage laws facilitates identification and retrieval of information about the national laws of its Member States that deal with cultural heritage -- whether movable, immovable, intangible, underwater or natural.

12 March. Audio Tape Digitisation Workflow
TAPE (Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe) has published web-based guidelines for digitisation. They describe the digitisation workflow for analogue open reel tapes as a step by step approach for the production of digital copies from analogue tapes from a technical point of view.

4 March. The Object in Transition conference
The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and Getty Research Institute (GRI) are pleased to announce that the video recording of "The Object in Transition" conference is now available to view on-line.

updated on: 24 May, 2010