Awards, contests

14 July. American Academy in Rome, Italy
Rome Prize
Application deadline: 1 November 2011

14 July. Euromed Heritage and Rehabimed
International Digital Photography Award
Application deadline: 15 September 2011

22 June. Hands On! International (HO! I) and European Museum Academy
Children’s Museum Award
Application deadline: 31 October 2011

Events

Calendar of Events compiled by ICCROM
Events this month

25 August. Tate Modern, United Kingdom
Conference: Anoxia and Microfading: The impact on collection care , 12-13 September 2011, London, United Kingdom
Registration deadline: contact organizers

22 August. ICOM-CC
Conference: Triennial 16th Conference, 19-23 September 2011, Lisbon, Portugal
Registration deadline: 31 August 2011

22 August. UNESCO Office in Venice
Conference: The Future of Venice and its Lagoon in the Context of Global Change 13 – 15 November 2011, Venice, Italy
Registration deadline: 31 October 2011

22 August. Association for Preservation Technology International (APT)
Conference: APT Victoria 2011, Heritage on the Edge: sustaining building, landscapes and communities 12 – 16 October 2011, Victoria, Canada
Registration deadline: 12 September 2011

22 August. UNESCO Chair on Preventive Conservation, Monitoring and Maintenance of Monuments and Sites (PRECOMOS)
Conference: International Conference on Preventive Conservation of Architectural Heritage 29-30 October 2011, Nanjing, China
Submission deadline for abstracts: 30 August 2011
Registration deadline: 15 October 2011

11 August. Doerner Institute, Germany
Call for papers: Munich Conference, “Climate for Collections: Standards and Uncertainties” 7 – 12 November 2012, Munich, Germany
Submission deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2011

11 August. European University Viadrina, Germany
Call for papers: Uncomfortable Architectural Heritage of Socialism: A comparison of social acceptance in Eastern and Central Europe 16 – 18 March 2012, Berlin, Germany,
Submission deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2011

4 August. United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO and partners
Event: “I Know Where I'm Going”: Remote Access to World Heritage Sites from St Kilda to Uluru, 23-24 November 2011, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Registration deadline: 11 November 2011

3 August. ICOMOS - International Council on Monuments and Sites
Event: 17th ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Symposium "Heritage, driver of development" 27 November - 2 December 2011, Paris, France
Registration deadline: 27 August 2011 (early bird registration)
27 September 2011 (post-tour reservations)

25 July. Historic Preservation Program, Columbia University, United States
Event: 12th International Conference on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone, 4-8 June 2012, New York City, United States
Registration deadline: contact organizers

25 July. "Gruppo del Colore", University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy
Conference: VII National Color Conference, 15-16 September 2011, Rome, Italy
Registration deadline: 10 September 2011

25 July. ICOM - International Committee for the Training of Personnel (ICTOP)
Conference: ICTOP Annual Conference, 23-26 October 2011, Toronto, Canada
Registration deadline: 15 October 2011

14 July. Vatican Museum, Holy See
Conference: “Sharing Conservation”, 4 October 2011, Vatican City
Registration deadline: 30 September 2011

13 July. Church of England, Church Building Council, United Kingdom
Symposium : The challenges of the conservation of artworks in churches, 11 October 2011, Westminster Abbey, London, United Kingdom
Registration deadline: contact organizers

13 July. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Call for papers: Developing Knowledge for Economic Advancement in Africa: 2nd International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-2), Johannesburg, South Africa, 14 – 18 November 2011
Submission deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2011
Registration deadline: 31 October 2011

28 June. Preservation Advisory Centre, British Library, United Kingdom
Future events
Registration deadline: see website

23 June. American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Event: International Conference on the Use of X-ray (and related) Techniques in Arts and Cultural Heritage, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 7-8 December 2011
Registration deadline: 2 November 2011 (advanced)

20 June. ICOM international committee for collecting (COMCOL) and ICOM Europe
Event: CAMOC's 2011 conference, Berlin, Germany, 31 October - 3 November 2011
Registration deadline: 25 September 2011

31 May. The Best in Heritage
Event: The Best in Heritage, Dubrovnik, Croatia 22 - 24 September 2011
Registration deadline: see website

31 May. International Association of Books and Paper Conservators (IADA)
Event: IADA XIIth Congress, 29 August - 2 September 2011, Berne Switzerland
Registration deadline: see website

4 May. Organizing Secretariat of Costume Colloquium, Florence, Italy
Call for papers: Costume Colloquium III: Past Dress – Future Fashion , 8-11 November 2012, Florence, Italy
Submission deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2011

8 April. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Foundation Corboud, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, and the Doerner Institut, Germany
Symposium: Let the Material Talk – Technology of Late Medieval Cologne Painting in Context, 24–26 November 2011, Cologne, Germany
Registration deadline: contact organizers

4 April. British Museum and partners, United Kingdom
Conference: Pest Odyssey 2011: Ten Years Later, 26-28 October 2011, London, United Kingdom
Registration deadline: 25 October 2011

22 March. European project CHARISMA (Cultural Heritage Advanced Research Infrastructures: Synergy for a Multidisciplinary Approach to Conservation/Restoration) and the British Museum
Call for papers: The Renaissance Workshop: The Materials and Techniques of Renaissance Art, 10-11 May 2012, London, United Kingdom
Submission deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2011

14 December. Asian Academy for Heritage Management (AAHM)
Conference: Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage, 8-12 November 2011, Manila, Philippines
Registration deadline: see website

19 October. Preservation Advisory Centre, British Library, United Kingdom
Events Calendar
Registration deadline: see website

22 April. Life Beyond Tourism
Calendar of events:2011
Registration deadline: see website

Grants, scholarships, internships, funding, volunteers

22 August. International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Fellowship: IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe International Fellowship, Residency at the Bristish School at Rome
Applications deadline: 15 October 2011

19 July. Getty Conservation Institute, United States
Fellowship: Conservation Guest Scholars and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Applications deadline: 1 November 2011

19 July. Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology
Funding : Conference financial assistance Asian Academy for Heritage Management's Asia Pacific Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage
Applications deadline: 1 September 2011

13 July . Musée du quai Branly, France
Scholarships : Bourses des collections
Applications deadline: 15 September 2011

20 June. Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Fellowships: Cambridge/Africa Collaborative Research Programme
Applications deadline: 1 October 2011

15 April. International Conservation Centre, Old City of Acre, Israel
Internship: Saving the Stones programme
Applications deadline: 10 September 2011

Jobs

24 August. ARS Progetti, Italy
Team Leader, Financial specialist/banker, Architect/urban designer, Housing specialist/chartered surveyor
Application deadline: 15 September 2011

22 August. ARS Progetti, Italy
Senior progect manager; Assistant project manager, Culture and Cultural Heritage Projects
Application deadline: 9 September 2011

28 July. Haute école de Conservation-restauration Arc, Switzerland
Scientific research collaborator in conservation
Application deadline: 30 September 2011

14 July. ICOMOS
Head of the ICOMOS Documentation Centre - Replacement of maternity leave
Application deadline: 26 August 2011

Project

25 August. Revitalising World Heritage Site Museums in Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam, UNESCO
This UNESCO-Japan Funds-in-Trust project was designed as a pilot project to accompany the process of revitalizing the World Heritage-related site museums and interpretation centres dedicated to archaeological sites of the three countries.

Publications, e-publications, e-journals

25 July. Frontières du patrimoine: circulation des savoirs, des objets et oeuvres d'art, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Germany (CRIA-EHESS), Nabila Oulebsir (CRIA, University of Poitiers), Dominique Poulot (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne), Astrid Swenson (Brunel University, London), Laurier Turgeon (Université Laval, Quebec)

25 July. UNESCO Iraq Newsletter 2011
First issue of the UNESCO Iraq Office’s newsletter (Arabic).

25 July. Bulletin de l'ISPAN 25, Haiti
The latest edition of the Bulletin de l'ISPAN is now available.

25 July. Connecting No. 8
Euromed Heritage Newsletter.

19 July. e-conservation magazine No. 20
The latest issue of e-conservation magazine is now online and can be downloaded for free.

Training and development

22 August. Hornemann Institute, Germany
Online courses :

• The Examination of Transparent Coatings on Furniture and Wooden Objects, 5 September to 6 November 2011
  
• Microbic Infestation of Objects of Art and Cultural Heritage, 19 September to 13 November 2011
  

5 August. Cultural Heritage without Borders, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Call for Applications: 7th Regional Restoration Camp in Gjirokastra, 24 September - 8 October 2011, Albania
Application deadline: 1 September 2011

4 August. University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia and Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy
Course: ETCAEH - Economics and Techniques for the Conservation of the Architectural and Environmental Heritage, October 2011, Venice, Italy
Application deadline: 18 September 2011

29 June. Libera Università LUSPIO and Istituto Superiore per le Tecniche di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali e dell'Ambiente "Antonino De Stefano" (ISAD), Italy
Course: Master annuale di I livello Esperto in Conservazione e Restauro dei Beni culturali, 15 November 2011 - 15 December 2012, Rome Italy
Application deadline: 10 October 2011

28 June. Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative (MEPPI)
Course: MEPPI Beirut 2011, 10 – 18 November 2011 (face to face), Beirut, Lebanon; December 2011 – July 2012 (distance component)
Application deadline: 31 August 2011

31 May. European Research Centre for Book and Paper Conservation-Restoration, Horn, Austria
Courses 2011
Application deadline: see website

15 April. Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Course: MSt in Historic Environment, September 2012 to July 2014, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Application deadline: applications will be accepted from 1 September 2011 to 30 March 2012

14 February. Cátedra Regional de Ciencias de la Conservación Integral de los Bienes Culturales y Naturales para América Latina y el Caribe de la UNESCO (CRECI), Cuba
Actividades de Superación profesional, Año Académico 2011

5 January. Escola SENAI Theobaldo de Nigris, São Paulo, Brazil
Conteúdos abordados nos cursos de Preservação 2011
Registration deadline: contact organizers

Websites, online databases

22 August. Leiden-Stanford Heritage Network
The Leiden-Stanford Heritage Network represents a group of concerned heritage scholars, activists, ethnographers and theorists committed to establishing an innovative set of contributions to heritage as a discipline, as a practice and as a concept.

22 August. Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts Online
The Arabic manuscripts collection of the Wellcome Library (London). For the first time this website enables a substantial proportion of this collection to be consulted online via high-quality digital images of entire manuscripts and associated rich metadata.

19 July. SUSTCULT project
Achieving SUSTainability through an integrated approach to the management of CULTural heritage.

14 July. Blog: Los lugares tienen memoria

14 July. Sustainable Preservation Initiative, United States
The Sustainable Preservation Initiative (SPI) seeks to preserve the world's cultural heritage by providing sustainable economic opportunities to poor communities where endangered archaeological sites are located.

updated on: 1 September, 2011