Events
Calendar of Events compiled by ICCROM
Events this month
11 November. IIC, United Kingdom
Transcript of event: Climate change and museum collections
The discussion was the first event in IIC’s new initiative, Dialogues for the New Century: roundtable discussions on the conservation of cultural heritage in a changing world.
11 November. ICON (Institute of Conservation), United Kingdom
11th Harold Plenderleith Memorial lecture on Useful or beautiful: places and things, 27 November 2008
Useful or beautiful: places and things is the subject of the 2008 Plenderleith Memorial Lecture and the speaker is Adam Wilkinson, the new director of Edinburgh World Heritage (EWH).
11 November. Fundación de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural, Venezuela
Fourth Forum: Preventive Conservation of Collections, 9 - 12 February 2009, Venezuela
Application deadline: 15 December 2008
4 November. Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
1Oth Cambridge Heritage Seminar (CHS10) on The Future of Historic Cities: Challenges, Contradictions, Continuities, 18-19 April 2009
Submission deadline: 15 November 2008
31 October. 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
29 October. Conference: Science and Technology in Archaeology and Conservation, 9 - 14 December 2008, Rome, Italy
Application deadline: 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
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
17 November. Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis of
Monuments and Historical Constructions
Scholarships
Application deadline: 31 January 2009
31 October. Fondazione Luigi Spezzaferro, Italy
University grant (pdf)
Application deadline: 1 December 2008
26 October. Getty Conservation Institute, United States
Guest Scholar Program, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Conservation Science
Application deadline: see website
Graduate Internships at the Conservation Institute
Application deadline: 15 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
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
24 November. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Switzerland
World Heritage Project Management Officer
Application deadline: 5 December 2008
12 November. Archives and Records Management Section (ARMS), Austria
Records Management Officer
Application deadline: 19 November 2008
4 November. School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada
Director
Application deadline: 5 January 2009
4 November. School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada
Assistant/Associate professors
Application deadline: 30 January 2009
4 November. Department of Archaeology, Flinders University, Australia
Associate Lecturer/Lecturer in Archaeology/Cultural Heritage Management
Application deadline: 10 November 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
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
24 November. School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, United States
Second leadership
institute for archives professionals, 19 - 25 July 2009
Application deadline: 20 January 2009
24 November. The Getty Leadership Institute, United States
Museum Leadership
Institute Program, 11 - 31 July 2009
Application deadline: 13 January 2009
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
24 September. University of Victoria, School of Continuing Studies, Canada
Campus courses:
Distance learning:
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
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
28 November. Institut du monde arabe (IMA)
Qantara
The Institut du monde arabe has launched a website on Mediterranean cultural heritage.
26 November. Asociación para la defensa del patrimonio tangible e intangible, Argentina
Registro Iberoamericano de profesionales, técnicos, artesanos e idóneos en patrimonio y gestión cultural
Website of the Ibero-American cultural heritage network.
25 November. Council for British Archaeology, United Kingdom
Community Archaeology Forum
Will provide help, information and guidance for anyone involved with community archaeology.
Thesite will also help you broadcast your work to the world.
18 November. The Getty Conservation Institute
e-Publications: Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places:
Guiding Principles (vol1) and Illustrated Examples (vol 2)
Two new publications on conservation documentation for cultural heritage places.
11 November. Transcript of event: Climate change and museum collections
The discussion was the first event in IIC’s new initiative, Dialogues for the New Century: roundtable discussions on the conservation of cultural heritage in a changing world.
11 November. ARCHIMEDES News (pdf)
E-Newsletter of the ARCHIMEDES project: Actions to regenarate cities and help innovative Mediterranean economic development enhancing sustainability.
11 November. Designers meet artisans (pdf) and Handicrafts and Employment Generation for the Poorest Youth and Women
e-Publications: UNESCO publications on the global vision of the economic and sociocultural role of handicrafts in society, encouraging the role of design as an important link between tradition and modernity.
updated on:
24 May, 2010
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