Awards, competitions, and prizes
20 July. American Academy in Rome
Rome Prize Fellowships
Deadline for application: 1 November 2008
23 June. Daimler and UNESCO
Mondialogo Engineering Award
Deadline for application: 31 October 2008
Events
Calendar of Events compiled by ICCROM
Events this month
31 octobre. Herity, Italy
Second international conference on the Measuring the value of cultural heritage, 3 - 5 December 2008, Rome, Italy
Application deadline: see website
31 October. 5th International Conference of Monaco and the Mediterranean
Fair and sustainable management of fresh water in the mediterranean, 26 - 28 March 2009, Monaco
Submission deadline: see website
31 October. Call for papers: World Heritage Centre of UNESCO
Forum
on Historic Urban Landscapes, 5 - 10 April 2009, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Submission deadline: 15 November 2008
29 October. Conference: Science and Technology in Archaeology and Conservation, 9 - 14 December 2008, Rome, Italy
Application deadline: see website
27 October. Lecture, American Academy in Rome
Heritage Conservation in Practice: A Critical Reflection on the Work of the Getty Conservation Institute by Jeanne Marie Teutonico, 3 November 2008, Rome, Italy
24 October. Event: Borsa Mediterranea del Turismo Archeologico, 13 - 16 November 2008, Paestum, Italy
21 October. Event: International meeting on heritage, development and tourism (pdf), 26 - 28
November 2008, Culiacán, Mexico
Application deadline: 20 November 2008
20 October. Event: Study days of the French Blue Shield Committee, 4 - 5
December 2008, Paris, France
Application deadline: 15 November 2008
2 October. Event: International Heritage Show, 6 - 9
November 2008, Paris, France
30 September. Call for papers: Forum UNESCO - Hanoi 2009: University and Heritage, 5 - 10
April 2009, Hanoi, Viet Nam
Submission deadline: 30 October 2008
24 September. Rhode Island School of Design, United States
Opening: The Chace Center
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect José Rafael Moneo. After a two-year construction period the five-story, 43,000-square-foot glass and brick structure, built on a former parking lot, will significantly increase the exhibition and programming capabilities of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
18 September. Conservation and Curatorial Departments, Statens Museum for Kunst; The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts; INCCA (International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art)
Seminar on Permanence in Contemporary Art – Checking Reality, 3 - 4 November 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark
Application deadline: see website
10 September. UCL Institute of Archaeology, United Kingdom
CHAT 2008: ‘Heritage Chat’, 14 – 16 November 2008
Deadline for application: see website
8 September. Museums and the Web 2009, United States
MW2009, 15 - 18 avril 2009
Deadline for presentation of demonstrations: 31 December 2008
25 August. International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), United States
46th IFLA World Conference, 21-23 October 2009, Brazil
Deadline for application: 31 December 2008
25 August. The Getty, United States
Symposium: Facing the Challenges of Panel Paintings Conservation: Trends, Treatments and Training, 17 - 18 May 2009, United States
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 1 January 2009
20 August. The Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development
International Conference on Intangible Heritage: Sharing Cultures 2009, 30 May - 1 June 2009, Azores, Portugal
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 31 October 2008
19 August. English Heritage, United Kingdom
On The Waterfront, 19 - 21 November 2008, London, United Kingdom
Deadline for registration: see website
19 May. Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali and U.O. Monumenti Medioevali e Moderni, Rome, Italy
Conference on L’Acqua le pietre i bronzi, le fontane monumentali. Gestione e conservazione. Esperienze a confronto, 23 - 25 October 2008, Rome, Italy
Abstract proposal submission deadline: see website
Films
16 October. Les dieux sont à vendre, Michel Brent
Documentary following the itinerary of a valuable African object are exported and sold illicitly.
Grants, scholarships, internships
31 October. Fondazione Luigi Spezzaferro, Italy
University grant (pdf)
Application deadline: 1 December 2008
13 October. Fondation Marc de Montalembert, Paris
2009 Grant for understanding the Mediterranean cultures
Application deadline: 31 December 2008
18 September. French Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Education and Research, the Department of Human and Social Sciences of the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH)
Hermes postdoctoral fellowships
Application deadline: 21 March 2009
20 July. American Academy in Rome
Rome Prize Fellowships
Deadline for application: 1 November 2008
26 June. Getty Conservation Institute, United States
Guest Scholar Program, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Conservation Science
Application deadline: 1 November 2008
Graduate Internships at the Conservation Institute
Application deadline: 15 December 2008
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
15 October. Rathgen Research Laboratory, Germany
Conservation Scientist (pdf)
Application deadline: 30 October 2008
9 October. Cultural Heritage Project (CHP), Iraq
Program Director
Application deadline: see website
9 October. Cultural Heritage Project (CHP), Iraq
Program Coordinator
Application deadline: see website
19 September. Department of Historic Preservation, Mary Washington University, United States
Assistant professor, building forensics and architectural conservation (pdf)
Application deadline: 31 October 2008
19 September. School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada
Director
Application deadline: see website
15 September. Cornell University, United States
Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources and Special Collections
Application deadline: 15 November 2008
27 August. American Academy in Rome
Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies (pdf)
Application deadline: 10 November 2008
25 August. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States
Faculty position: Master of Science in Historic Preservation Program
Application deadline: 1 November 2008
Publications
13 October. Seeing with Young Eyes: Using Art to Teach about World
Heritage (pdf), UNESCO Bangkok
Publication provides creative lesson plan tools and an update on country activities in the field of World Heritage Education. This approach was presented at the third Sub-regional Southeast Asian Teacher Training Workshop on Using Art to Teach about World Heritage held from 15 to 21 January 2006 in Penang, Malaysia.
1 October. Visual Resources: special issue on Imaging Blackness in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Maria P. Gindhart
This special issue of Visual Resources examines images of Africans and African Americans produced between 1820 and 1914 in the context of politics, popular culture and scientific studies of this period.
Training and development
22 October. Oz, Portugal
Courses on structural rehabilitation, 12 - 14 November and 19 - 21 November 2008
Application deadline: see website
22 October. Cultural Resource Management Program, University of Victoria, Canada
Upcoming courses and workshops: 2009
Application deadline: see website
22 October. American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)
Upcoming courses and workshops: 2009
Scholarships available
Application deadline: see website
8 October. Universitá Roma III, Italy
Masters in Economics and Cultural Institutions
Application deadline:
12 January 2009
8 October. Society of American Archivists, United States
Courses and workshops: Autumn 2008 - Spring 2009
Application deadline: see website
3 October. Fondazione per la Conservazione e il Restauro dei Beni Culturali, Italy
Masters in Book conservation
Application deadline: 3 November 2008
3 October. Scuola Superiore di Catania, Italy
Masters in Economics and Administration of Cultural
Heritage (pdf)
Application deadline: 31 October 2008
24 September. University of Victoria, School of Continuing Studies, Canada
Campus courses:
Distance learning:
24 September. Universitá di Firenze, Italy
MSc in Restauro degli Edifici Storici e Monumentali, Progetto Cantiere Sicurezza
Application deadline: 24 October 2008
8 September. University College Dublin, School of Biology and Environmental Science, Ireland
MSc in World Heritage Management
Application deadline: see website
18 August. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term
Problems, May and October 2009, May 2010, United States
Application deadline: see website
18 August. American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)
Workshops and courses, August - December 2008, United States
Application deadline: see website
10 June. Fundación ILAM (Instituto Latinoamericano de Museos)
Talleres ILAM 2008
Application deadline: see website
6 May. National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), India
Short courses on library and information science (pdf), New Delhi, India, April 2008 - March 2009.
Application deadline: see website
Contact: Dr. Narendra Kumar < narendrakumar [at] niscair . res . in >
Websites, e-journals, e-publications
27 October. Online heritage preservation bookshops in India:
15 October. ICOMOS Peru - new blog
New blog, in Spanish, created to enhance information disemination and discussion on cultural heritage. Professionals are invited to participate and make contributions.
15 October. e-journal: CeROArt N. 2
CeROArt is an e-journal and interactive platform, devoted to approaches to contemporary conservation.
- Call for papers for next issues of CeROArt
Deadline: see website
10 October. Disaster Relief for Museums Task Force, ICOM
Website of the task force to assist museums in natural and man made disasters, in particular, if disaster response exceeds national capacities.
8 October. INTI-Celulosa y Papel
Boletín sobre Conservación y Restauración, Argentina
Online newsletter on paper conservation in Spanish.
8 October. Digitization guidelines
Website for the US Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative publicly accessible since 30 September 2008.
1 October. AAAV - Anagrafe Archivi AudioVisivi
Website of Italian audivisual archives.
updated on:
24 May, 2010
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