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Awards, competitions, prizes
17 February. IIC International Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
IIC Keck Award 2010
Every two years an award is offered to the individual or group who, in the opinion of IIC Council, has done most to further the public appreciatin of the work of the conservation profession. IIC is seeking nominations and would appreciate your proposals.
Submission deadline: 31 March 2010
Contact: < iic [at] iiconservation.org >
3 December. International Union of Architects
International student competition: A fresh look at 20th century architectural heritage
The International Union of Architects announces an international competition that invites architecture students from around the world to create imagemodels of 20th century significant architectural creativity.
Submission deadline: 26 March 2010
Events
Calendar of Events compiled by ICCROM
Events this month
24 February. Asociación Gremial de Conservadores - Restauradores de Chile
Call for papers: IV Congreso Chileno de Conservación y Restauración , 6 - 8 October 2010, Valparaiso, Chile
Submission deadline: 15 March 2010
24 February. Historic Mortars Conference
Online registration: HMC 2010 Conference and RILEM TC 203RHM final workshop, 22 - 24 September 2010, Prague, Czech Republic
Earlybird registration: 12 March 2010
22 February. WAC Inter-Congress
Call for papers: Museums and Indigenous People, 23 - 26 June 2010
Submission deadline: 10 May 2010
16 February. CeROArt
Call for papers: Special number of CeROArt
The CeROArt review confirms its project to publish a special number devoted to first articles from graduates in conservation‐restoration next autumn. Immediately afterwards, a European Conference of young restorers will be launched. It will be held in Brussels, the third week of November 2011.
Submission deadline: end of this month
12 February. International Association of Book and Paper Conservators
Event: IADA Symposium 2010 ’Out of Sight—Out of Mind?‘, 27-28 May 2010, Prague, Czech Republic
Earlybird registration: 1 March 2010
12 February. Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Call for papers: Heritage and the Olympics, 24 April 2010, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Application deadlines: 28 February 2010
9 February. Benaki Museum, Greece
Conference: Witness the Past, 18 February 2010, Greece
Application deadlines: see website
9 February. Université de Coimbra, Portugal
Conference : The history of construction in Portugal, alignments and foundations, 19 February 2010, Coimbra
Application deadlines: see website
27 January. ICOM-CC 16th Triennial Conference
Call for abstracts and posters: Cultural Heritage/Cultural Identity – The Role of Conservation, 19 - 23 September 2011, Lisbon, Portugal
Submission deadline: 16 April 2010
26 January. ICOM-CC WG: graphic documents
Meeting: Choices in conservation - practice versus research, 21 - 23 April 2010, Denmark
Registration deadline: see website
26 January. ICOM-CC WGs: wood, furniture; textiles; sculpture and architectural decoration; murals, stone and rock art; leather
Meeting: Multidisciplinary Conservation: a Holistic View for Historic Interiors, 23 - 26 March 2010, Rome, Italy
Registration deadline: see website
26 January. Hopetoun House Preservation Trust, United Kingdom
Conference: Fashion, Rituals, Furniture and Textiles: The phenomenon of the state bed, 22 - 23 April 2010,
Scotland
Contact: peterburman@btinternet.com; peter.burman@tu-cottbus.de
30 December. General ICOM conference
Travel grants: Museums for Social Harmony, 7 - 12 November 2010,
Shanghai, China
Registration deadline: see website
30 December. LIBER Manuscript Librarians Group
Conference: Meeting with manuscripts, today and tomorrow, 6 - 28 May, 2010, Rome, Italy
Registration deadline: 1 March 2010
1 December. Society of American Archivists (SAA), United States
2010 Conferences/Workshops
Application deadlines: see website
18 November. Italian Association of Conservation Scientists (AICS) and the 'Young Chemists' Group of Italian Chemical Society (SCI-Young Group)
Call for abstracts: Youth in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage - YOCOCU 2010 , 24 - 26 May 2010, Palermo, Italy
Submission deadline: 10 February 2010
Grants, scholarships, internships, funding
24 February. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Germany
German-African Scholarship Exchange Programme
Applications deadline: 15 March 2010
17 February. Conservation Department, Cincinnati Art Museum, United States
Kinney Foundation Paintings Conservation Internship
Applications deadline: 26 February 2010
12 February. Historic New England, United States
Mellon Fellowships (pdf)
Applications deadline: 29 March 2010
12 February. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, United States
Internships
Applications deadlines: 1 July (autumn session September – December); 15 October (spring session January – May); 1 February (summer session June – August)
9 February. National Library of Australia
Harold White Fellowships
Application deadline: 30 April 2010
8 February. The Clothworkers’ Foundation, United Kingdom
5 February. Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL), Maastricht, Netherlands
Internship: Architectural Paint Research, Historic Interiors, Wallpaintings, Paintings
in Interiors, Stucco conservation (pdf)
Application deadline: contact organizers
2 February. British Academy, United Kingdom
Grants: LUK-Latin American/Caribbean Link Programme
Applications deadline: 20 April 2010
14 January. New York University, New York, United States
Fellowship: Leon Levy Visiting Fellowship in the Conservation of Archaeological Materials
Applications deadline: 1 March 2010
14 January. New York University and the University of Delaware, United
States
Fellowships: Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Conservation Education
Applications deadline: see announcement
13 January. National Gallery of Art, United States
Fellowships: Conservation and Conservation Science
Applications deadline: 15 February 2010
2 January. National Gallery, United States
Fellowships: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Charles E. Culpeper Foundation
Applications deadline: see website
30 December. Smithsonian Institution and Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies (SCEMS), United States
Fellowship (SCEMS)
Applications deadline: 15 February 2010
31 July. The Getty, United States
Getty Conservation Grants
Applications deadline: see website
6 May.International Conservation Centre, Old City of Acre, Israel
Internship: Saving the Stones programme
Applications deadline: see website
Jobs
24 February. Fort Wayne History Museum, United States
Marketing Coordinator
Application deadline: see website
17 February. British Museum, United Kingdom
17 February. Whitney Museum of American Art, United States
Paper conservator (temporary position - 6 months)
Application deadline: 10 March 2010
9 February. National Library of Australia
Preservation Services Laboratory Manager (pdf)
Application deadline: 16 February 2010
8 February. The Leather Conservation Centre, Northampton, United Kingdom
Book Conservator (pdf)
Application deadline: 16 February 2010
5 February. Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL), Maastricht, Netherlands
Associate Educator & Conservator in Modern and Contemporary Art (pdf)
Application deadline: 31 May 2010
3 February. University of Massachusetts, United States
Tenure Track Positions in Anthropology: International Heritage Studies
Application deadline: open until filled
3 February. Buffalo State College, Buffalo, United States
Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in Conservation Science
Application deadline: open until filled
3 February. The Science Museum, London, United Kingdom
Temporary Preventive Conservator
Application deadline: 12 February 2010
3 February. National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Technical Officer, Paper and Textiles
Application deadline: 7 February 2010
1 February. Khanya College History Programme, Johannesburg, South Africa
Historian or Industrial Sociologist
Application deadline: see website
27 January. Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, United States
Ten-Week Summer contract position, Paper Conservation Lab
Application deadline: 15 March 2010
26 January. Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
Conservator
Application deadline: 28 February 2010
4 January. The Museum of Modern Art New York, United States
Thomas Walther Project Assistant Conservator (pdf)
Application deadline: 15 February 2010
14 November. Grand Egytian Museum, Egypt
Petition and donations
9 February. Donations for the Bibliothèque de l’Institut des Belles Lettres Arabes de Tunis (IBLA)
Website of the Groupe de recherche islamo-chrétien for donations following the devastating fire in the Bibliothèque de l’Institut des Belles Lettres Arabes de Tunis (IBLA).
1 February. Online petition to stop the expulsion of the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (ICR) from their headquarters
Open letter to Giorgio Napolitano, President of Italy, in support of the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (recently renamed Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro).
Publications
26 February. John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion" at the Boston Public Library, edited by by Narayan Khandekar, Gianfranco Pocobene, and Kate Smith
This book, comprehensively illustrated, examines and documents Sargent Hall as an art installation (constructed between 1890 and 1919) and describes its restoration history, culminating in the authors’ 2003–4 restoration.
23 February. Ethnographic Conservation Newsletter #31
ICOM-CC Working Group
23 February. Cultural Heritage on line. Empowering users: an active role for user communities
Proceedings of the 2009 Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale conference.
16 February. Museum and Heritage
The December edition of Museums & Heritage has now been published, in this edition we look at ways venues can cut their carbon footprint and adopt sustainable practices.
9 February. Accessibility to Cultural Heritage: Nordic Perspectives
Accessibility to cultural heritage is about consciousness, knowledge, creativity and balance. Heritage has meaning only through its encounter with people. This report shows how accessibility questions are being addressed through practical examples drawn from across the Nordic countries.
2 February. New PDF publications of the Getty Conservation Institute, United States
Recommendations
5 January. Florence Declaration, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Florence, Italy
Recommendations for the preservation of analogue photo archives.
Survey
25 February. Questionnaire on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Strategies in
Museums and Archives, Rathgen Research Laboratory, Germany
Submission deadline: 31 May 2010
Training and development
17 February. Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University (Rits-DMUCH), Kyoto, Japan
UNESCO Chair Program on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management: Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2010, 13 - 26 September 2010
Application deadline: 31 April 2009
12 February. Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation, KU Leuven, Belgium
Training:
Master of Conservation of Monuments and Sites, Leuven
Registration deadline: 1 March (non EU-residents) and 1 June (EU-residents)
12 February. British Library and Vitae, United Kingdom
Workshop: Manage you networks and build your profile, 15 March 2010, London
Registration deadline: see website
11 February. University of Bologna, Italy
Training: Master degree course on Science for
conservation (pdf)
Earlybird registration: 30 September 2010
Registration deadline: 30 October 2010
9 February. Academy of Applied Arts in Prague, Czech Republic
Training: English and Czech
Registration deadline: see website
8 February. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Seminar: Monumental Objects re-displayed in the new Medieval and Renaissance
Galleries , 15 - 16 April 2010, London
Registration deadline: contact organizers
8 February. Institut National du Programme (INP), France
Professional development: 2010 programme
8 February. Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Training: BA and MA in Conservation
Inscription examination: BA: 22 June and MA: 7 July 2010
6 February. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
Training: PhD in Practice, Austria
Application deadline: 1 March 2010
6 February. UNITAR
Training: Conservation for Peace: Monitoring Indicators, 18 ‐ 23 April 2010
Registration deadline: 19 February 2010
5 February. Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL), Maastricht, Netherlands
Course: Synthetic Resins for Varnishing and Retouching
Application deadline: 1 May 2010
4 February. Hornemann Institute, Germany
Online courses: Continuing training
18 January. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid and the Ministry of Culture, Spain
Course: Rehabilitación de
Jardines y Parques Históricos
Application deadline: contact organizers
30 December. Fundación Ortega y Gasset, Argentina
Training and scholarships: Gestión Cultural Patrimonio y Turismo Sustentable
Application deadline: see website
12 November. Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro (ISCR), Italy
Formulazione di miscele alternative di solventi organici e confronto con i sistemi acquosi, 18 - 19 March 2010
Application deadlines: 18 February 2010
10 November. .Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology, Turkey
Spot Tests for Material Characterization workshop, 5 - 8 July 2010
Application deadlines: see website
2 November. American Association of Museums (AAM)
AAM professional development programme in 2009-10
Application deadlines: see website
2 November. The Campbell Center, United States
Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies 2010
Application deadlines: see webite
2 November. Cultural Resource Management Program, School of Continuing Studies, University of Victoria, Canada
Upcoming courses and workshops 2010
Application deadlines: see website
23 October. Australian National University, Australia
New graduate programme: Cultural and Environmental Heritage, Canberra
Application deadline: see website
20 October. ABER-SENAI (Associação Brasileira de Encadernação e Restauro), Brazil
Training: 2010 Courses
Application deadline: see webite
15 October. Fundación ILAM (Instituto Latinoamericano de Museos)
Talleres ILAM 2010
Application deadlines: see website
15 October. Society of American Archivists (SAA), United States
SAA Continuing Professional Education in 2010 and 2010 Conferences/Workshops
Application deadlines: see website
15 October. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term
Problems, 13 - 18 June 2010, United States
Application deadline: see website
21 September. ar.emagister.com
Lista de cursos de restauración de bienes culturales
Application deadline: see website
Websites, e-journals, e-publications
18 February. OUR PLACE
Website offering a photographic databank on World Heritage Sites. It is developped in partnership with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
17 February. Il Portale del Restauro
Italian website on heritage conservation and restoration. It also gives links to events, exhibitions, conservation products, etc.
16 February. Costing the Earth, BBC Radio, United Kingdom
BBC Radio programme looking at man's effect on the environment and how the environment reacts, questioning accepted truths, challenging those in charge and reporting on progress towards improving the world.
- Protecting the Past: Alice Roberts investigates the threats posed to our great historic sites by climate change.
8 February. HERITY Portugal launched
HERITY International Certification started in Portugal. HERITY is an organization that involves heritage visitors in supporting the quality of conservation, communication and services of the sites they visit.
8 February. A History of the World
A History of the World is a partnership between the BBC and the British Museum that focuses on world history, involving collaborations between teams across the BBC, and schools, museums and audiences across the UK. The project focuses on the things we have made, from flint to mobile phone.
8 February. UNESCO Communication and Information Sector is on twitter
Join to start receiving UNESCOCI's tweets.
1 February. Paintings newsletter 2010-2011 and Wood, Furniture, & Lacquer Newsletter 2008-2011 Issue 1
ICOM-CC Working Groups publications
12 January. Carpenters from Europe and Beyond
Published by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, this website celebrates the rich tradition of
carpentry in France through a vast collection of images, multimedia, historic documents and contemporary portrayals.
3 January. Archaeology, Volume 63 Number 1
The last number of publication of the Archaeology Institute of America is now online.
updated on:
24 May, 2010
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