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Awards, prizes
15 January. Torsanlorenzo Gruppo Florovivaistico Soc. Coop., Italy
2009 International Torsanlorenzo Prize
This annual prize, supported by the International Union of Architects (UIA), was created to highlight landscape projects to and promote the quality of urban green spaces and forests.
Application deadline: 6 March 2009
15 January. Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC), Canada
2009 Jean-Paul L'Allier Prize
An OWHC prize is awarded every second year to a city member of OWHC and that has distinguished itself by its achievements in the conservation, enhancement or management of property inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Application deadline: 30 April 2009
13 January. UNESCO
2009 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards
In its tenth year, the Heritage Awards Programme recognizes the achievement of individuals and organizations within the private sector, and public-private initiatives, in successfully restoring structures of heritage value in the Asia-Pacific region.
Application deadline: 31 March 2009
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
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. 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 January. 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
27 January. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
Conference: In and Out Air Strategies. From Climate Change to Microclimate. Library, Archives and Museum Preservation Issues,
5 – 6 March 2009, Paris, France
Application deadline: 28 February 2009
15 January. Wessex Institute of Technology, United Kingdom
Conference: ISUF 2009 - Sixteenth International Seminar on Urban Form,
4 - 7 September 2009, Guangzhou, China
Abstracts presentation deadline: as soon as possible
15 January. Wessex Institute of Technology, United Kingdom
Conference: STREMAH 2009 - 11th International Conference on Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture,
22 - 24 July 2009, Tallinn, Estonia
Abstracts presentation deadline: as soon as possible
13 January. Universitá di Bologna, Italy
International Congress: Chemistry for Cultural Heritage (ChemCH), 11 – 3 July 2010, Ravena, Italy
First announcement
7 January. Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (RLICC), Belgium
First Announcement: Inauguration UNESCO Chair on Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites, 24 - 25 March 2009, Leuven, Belgium
Registration deadline: see website
29 December. Mediterra 2009
First Mediterranean Conference on Earthen Architecture, 13 - 16 March 2009, Cagliari, Italy
Registration deadline: see website
29 December. International Symposium, Turkey
Fifth International Symposium: Design Language in Historical Areas, 2-3 April 2009, Göreme, Turkey
Abstracts presentation deadline: 23 January 2009
19 December. Museum Computer Network (MNC), United States
Annual conference: 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
Abstracts presentation deadline: 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 >
Abstracts presentation deadline: 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
Symposium: Teaching with Digital Collections in the Liberal Arts Curriculum, 21 - 23 May 2009
Application deadline: see website
15 December. Society of American Archivists (SAA), United States
2009 Conferences/Workshops
Application deadlines: see website
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.
Films
7 January. Passion patrimoine, François Guillaume
33,000 buildings will not survive this century.
Some reasons: high maintenance and restoration costs, difficulties with inheritance rights and neglect.
The films presents efforts by concerned citizens to bring architectural heritage back to life.
Grants, scholarships, internships, funding
15 January. US/ICOMOS, United States
Internships : 2009 International Exchange Program
Applications deadline: 30 january 2009
12 January. Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), United States
Kress Fellowship: Paper conservation
Contact: Walter Newman < waltern [at] nedcc__org >
Applications deadline: 24 March 2009
12 January. Kress Foundation, United States
Fellowships: Conservation fellowships
Applications deadline: 1 March 2009
12 January. Courtauld Institute of Art, United Kingdom
Fellowship: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Courtauld Gallery
Applications deadline: 30 January 2009
7 January. Erasmus Mundus masters course
Scholarships: Masters in Structural Analysis of
Monuments and Historical Constructions
Applications deadline: 31 January 2009
7 January. Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission
Website: Funding opportunities
For the special action in 2009, the European Commission proposes to concentrate on the EU Neighbourhood and the eligible third countries are: Armenia, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Jordan, Moldova, Palestine and Tunisia.
Applications deadline: 1 May 2009
2 January. The Getty, 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
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
19 January. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, United States
Assistant/Associate Curator (Decorative Arts & Design)
Applications deadline: 9 March 2009
19 January. Glasgow Museums, United Kingdom
Conservator (Inventory)
Applications deadline: 30 January 2009
12 January. British Museum, United Kingdom
Scientist: Vitreous materials
Applications deadline: 30 January 2009
12 January. Institute of Archaeology, Prague, Czech Republic
Metals conservator
Contact: Estelle Ottenwelter < ottenwelter [at] arup__cas__cz >
Applications deadline: 15 February 2009
12 January. Courtauld Institute of Art, United Kingdom
Conservator of works on paper
Applications deadline: 11 February 2009
7 January. Cultural Heritage Project (CHP), Iraq
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. 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
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
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
36 January. Institut National du Patrimoine, France
courses and seminars: Continuing education 2009, France
Application deadline: see website net
19 January. Panthéon Sorbonne University, France; Padua University, Italy; Evora University, Portugal
ERASMUS Mundus: MA Industrial Technologies, Heritage and Territories
History, Enhancement, and Education (TPTI), France, Italy and Portugal
Application deadline: 10 February 2009
19 January. Scuola Alta Formazione “Umberto Baldini”, Italy
Course: Restauro Architettonico
e Restauro dei Dipinti Murali
in ambienti umidi”, 18 - 28 February 2009, Rome, Italy
Application deadline: 31 January 2009
8 January. Centro Internacional para la Conservación del Patrimonio (CICOP), Argentina
Courses: Arquitectura de Buenos Aires del Siglo XIX, 13 - 27 January 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Contact: < cicop [at] sinectis . com . ar >
Application deadline: see website
8 January. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy
Courses: Innovazione
tecnologica per l'archeologia, 12 - 13 February 2009, Rome, Italy
Application deadline: see website
7 January. Museum Victoria , Australia
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 and 2009 Conferences/Workshops
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
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
12 January. Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), United States
e-Publication: Preservation Education Curriculum
This curriculum is a teaching aid for an introduction to preservation course at library and information science schools.
9 January. Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), United States
e-Publication: GCI's Experts' Roundtable on Sustainable Climate Management Strategies, Tenerife, Spain, 2007
Topics addressed include current climate management strategies and emerging trends; the meaning of sustainability in relation to the preservation of cultural heritage; and whether cultural institutions such as museums, archives, and libraries can or should play a role in the debate about energy consumption. The participants' discussion papers are supplemented by a transcript of the meeting and a bibliography on climate management.
7 January. Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación, Argentina
Website: Tráfico ilícito de bienes culturales
Website to create awareness on the issue illicit traffic of cultural heritage in Argentina.
7 January. BBC, United Kingdom
Website: What is culture?
A BBC website to share thoughts and ideas about culture.
5 January. American Journal of Archaeology, United States
Website: Online Book Review
Online archaeology book review including books relating to cultural property.
5 January. Patrimoscope, France
Website: Le Patrimoscope
Website on cultural heritage and information and communication technologies (ICT).
5 January. Young Archaeologists Club (YAC), United Kingdom
Website: YAC Website
YAC is a UK-wide club for 8–16 year olds interested in archaeology.
updated on:
24 May, 2010
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