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Awards, prizes
22 December. Society of American Archivists (SAA), United States
SAA Preservation Publication Award
Established in 1993, this award recognizes and acknowledges the author(s) or editor(s) of an outstanding published work (audio-visual, electronic, or print; article, report, chapter, monograph) related to archives preservation and, through this acknowledgment, encourages outstanding achievement by others.
Application deadline: 28 February 2009
1 December. Association des Maires de France, Dexia, La Fédération Française du Bâtiment et la Fondation du Patrimoine, France
Les Rubans du Patrimoine 2009
Fifth edition of the French award for built heritage conservation projects.
Application deadline: 31 January 2009
Events
Calendar of Events compiled by ICCROM
Events this month
29 December. Mediterra 2009
First Mediterranean Conference on Earthen Architecture, 13 - 16 March 2009, Cagliari, Italy
Deadline for registration: see website
29 December. International Symposium, Turkey
Fifth International Symposium: Design Language in Historical Areas, 2-3 April 2009, Göreme, Turkey
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 23 January 2009
19 December. Museum Computer Network (MNC), United States
Annual onference: MNC 2009, 11 - 14 November 2009
Application deadline: see website
18 December. Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials, Australia
Call for papers: AICCM National Conference 2009: Conserving Public and Private Collections (pdf), 21 - 25 September 2009
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 31 May 2009
17 December. Royal Academy of Arts, United Kingdom
Call for papers: Conservation: principles, dilemmas and uncomfortable truths, 24 - 25 September 2009
Contact: Alison Richmond < a.richmond [at] vam.ac.uk >
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 31 March 2009
17 December. Northeast Document Conservation Centre, United States
Conference: Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections, 27–29 May 2009
Online registration: opens in January 2009
16 December. Hornemann Institute, Germany
International Symposium: Theories and Practice in Conservation of Modern Art: Reflections on the Roots and on the Perspectives, 13 - 14 January 2009
Application deadline: see website
16 December. Reed College, Portland, Oregon, United States
Teaching with Digital Collections in the Liberal Arts Curriculum, 21 - 23 May 2009
Application deadline: see website
15 December. World Monuments Watch
2010 Nominations
Launched in 1996 and issued every two years, the World Monuments Watch calls international attention to cultural heritage around the world that is threatened by neglect, vandalism, conflict, or disaster.
Application deadline: 15 March 2009
1 December. British Library, United Kingdom
Conference: 'Unlocking Audio 2 - Connecting with Listeners', 16-17 March 2009, United Kingdom
Registration deadline: 16 February 2009
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.
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
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
Grants, scholarships, internships
2 January. Getty Conservation Institute, United States
19 December. Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies (SCEMS) and Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute (MCI), United States
Conservation fellowships and internships (MCI)
19 December. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, United States
17 December. Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore
Fellowships: ACM Research Fellowships (pdf)
Application deadline: 31 January 2009
17 December. HABS/HAER/HALS, United States
Fellowship: HABS-SAH Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship
Application deadline: 1 February 2009
15 December. University of Cape Town, South Africa
2009 Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Research Associateships: Archive and Public Culture 2009
Application deadline: 5 January 2009
2 December. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, United States
Visiting Scholar in Archaeology, 2009-2010
Application deadline: 1 February 2009
17 November. Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis of
Monuments and Historical Constructions
Scholarships
Application deadline: 31 January 2009
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
Jobs
23 December. Council for British Archaeologists (CBA) United Kingdom
Office Administrator
Application deadline: 7 January 2009
22 December. Centre for Sustainable Heritage, Faculty of Built Environment, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
19 December. UKOLN, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Research Officer: Text Digitisation
Application deadline: 30 January 2009
19 December. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, United States
Curator, Department Head, Chinese and Korean Art and Assistant/Associate Curator of Chinese Art
Application deadline: see website
19 December. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, United States
Project inventory conservator: Museum’s collection of photography and works on paper
Application deadline: see website
17 December. Walters Art Museum, United States
Assistant/Associate Book and Paper Conservator
Application deadline: 5 January 2009
17 December. HABS/HAER/HALS, United States
2009 summer positions: Heritage Documentation Programs
Application deadline: 17 February 2009
17 December. Huntington Library, United States
Lloyd E. Cotsen Chief Preservation Officer (pdf)
Application deadline: 1 February 2009
17 December. Swedish National Heritage Board, Sweden
Conservation scientist (pdf)
Application deadline: 20 February 2009
17 December. University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, United States
Conservation assistant
Contact: Lynn Grant <lgrant0 [at] sas__upenn__edu>
Application deadline: 1 February 2009
17 December. Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand
Metals conservator
Application deadline: 30 January 2009
17 December. Intermuseum Conservation Association, United States
Paper Conservator
Application deadline: 15 January 2009
15 December.College of Design, Construction and Planning,
University of Florida, United States
Assistant Professor Position: Sustainability and the Built Environment (pdf)
Application deadline: 3 February 2009
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
Publications
30 December. Cave Art by Jean Clottes
Just published by Phaidon Press: Art historian Jean Clottes focuses on questions of aesthetics and techniques of cave art.
29 December. Historic Landscape Analysis by Stephen Rippon
Reprint just published: This handbook introduces some of the techniques that archaeologists, historians, historical geographers and planners can use to unravel the complex history of British countryside.
29 December. Visual Resources, Vol. XXIV, No. 4, December 2008
Just published: the new issue of 'Visual Resources', an international journal of documentation.
23 December. Torun guidelines for conferences in stone conservation
Guidelines for improving the quality and accessibility of knowledge in the field of stone conservation.
15 December. HEREDUC - Heritage Education
The HEREDUC handbook for teachers
This handbook contains approaches to heritage in Europe and concentrates on how teachers might integrate heritage education in lessons, in primary as well as secondary schools.
2 December. The Getty Conservation Institute, United States
Plant Biology for Cultural Heritage, edited by Giulia Caneva, Maria Pia Nugari, and Ornella Salvadori
This book brings together wide-ranging scientific contributions from the field of plant biology relating to the biodeterioration and conservation of art, architecture, and archaeological sites around the world.
Training and development
28 December. Centro Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museología (CENCREM), Cuba
CENCREM: 2009 course programme (pdf)
Application deadlines: see programme
19 December. The Getty Leadership Institute, United States
17 December. ABER-SENAI, Brazil
Courses: ABER-SENAI - conservation of graphic documents and Preventive conservation, March 2009
Application deadlines: see webite
17 December. The Campbell Center, United States
Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies 2009
Application deadlines: see webite
16 December. Hornemann Institute, Germany
Online courses in English:
Online courses in German:
Application deadlines: see website
15 December. American Association of Museums (AAM)
AAM professional development programme in 2009
Application deadlines: see website
15 December. Fundación ILAM (Instituto Latinoamericano de Museos)
Talleres ILAM 2009
Application deadlines: see website
15 December. Society of American Archivists (SAA), United States
SAA Continuing Professional Education in 2009
Application deadlines: see website
1 December. 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
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 deadlines: 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:
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
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
23 December. SAFECorner, United Kingdom
e-Publication: Interpol Tracking Task Force to Fight the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property Stolen in Iraq meeting in Lyon, 17 and 18 December 2008
SAFECorner announces the conclusions of the meeting and links to the downloadable file.
23 December. Internet Archaeology, United Kingdom
e-Publication: Developing SASSA: a Soil Analysis Support System for Archaeologists
SASSA is a free-to-use, internet-based system designed to familiarise archaeologists with the concepts and possibilities offered by the scientific study of soils and sediments associated with archaeological sites.
22 December. PapierRestaurierung, United States
e-Publication: PapierRestaurierung Vol. 9 (2008), No. 4
The December 2008 issue, vol. 9, of PapierRestaurierung, the IADA periodical on paper conservation, his now available.
19 December. Integrated Pest Management Working Group (IPM-WG), United States
Website: museumpests.net
Website of the Integrated Pest Management Working Group, a group of collection managers, conservators and other professionals interested in issues on the implementation of integrated pest management in museums and other collection-holding institutions.
19 December. UKOLN, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Website: Cultural Heritage at UKOLN
UKOLN is working with Collections Trust, Culture 24 and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council to provide resources and information to the museum, library and archive sector in the digital context. It has published a range of short briefing documents aimed at supporting use of networked technologies and services in the cultural heritage sector. The initial series of documents covers Web 2.0.
17 December. Sénat de la République de France
e-Publication: L'aliénation des collections publiques
Analysis of heritage legislation in six European countries (Denmark, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain andUnited Kingdom).
17 December. Revue Culture et recherche, France
e-Publication: Numérisation du patrimoine culturel
The papers from the conference on digitization of cultural heritage held in Paris, November 2008.
17 December. School of Information's Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record, University of Texas, United States
e-Publication: Developing Sustainable Practices in Preservation Environments
The papers from the 2007 conference on sustainability in conservation are now available online.
16 December. COUNTER
Website: COUNTER Project
Website of a European research project exploring the consumption of counterfeit and pirated leisure goods.
15 December. Hornemann Institute, Germany
e-Publications: Centre for the Preservation of World Heritage
Offers electronic publications in the field of cultural conservation and a quick overview of the available abstracts and brief reports. Complete text can be downloaded or in some cases, the authors maybe contacted.
15 December. DEMOS, United Kingdom
e-Publication: It's A Material World: Caring for the public realm, by John Holden and Samuel Jones
This pamphlet explores the future of heritage conservation, and why to survive it must involve everyone.
15 December. ICOMOS
e-Publication: ICOMOS World Report 2006/2007
on Monuments and Sites in Danger, edited by Michael Petzet and John Ziesemer
The new World Report 2006/2007 on Monuments and Sites in Danger provides a broad spectrum of threats in the different regions of the world.
15 December. HerO - Heritage as Opportunity Sustainable Management Strategies for Vital Historic Urban Landscapes
Website: HerO
Website of the European programme for urban sustainable development
2 December. Sociedad de investigación de arte rupestre de Bolivia
Website: SIARB
Website of the Bolivian Rock Art Research Society.
1 December. UNESCO-Sharjah
e-Publication: The UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture 2008
The Prize pays tribute to outstanding individuals involved in teaching and spreading Arab culture by highlighting its contribution to the world throughout history to the present day.
1 December. Trust for African Rock Art (TARA)
Website: African rock art
TARA has launched its new website. It provides information about TARA, its activities and resources, as well as information about African rock art and related activities around the world.
updated on:
1 June, 2009
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