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 October 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
21 September. ESF Research Networking Programme PALATIUM and Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation, University of Leuven
Call for papers: Virtual Palaces, Part I. Digitizing and Modelling Palaces, 18-19 November, Leuven, Belgium
Submission deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2011
21 September. CITEMA - European city for arts and crafts, Italy
Event: Artistic handicraft as a factor of social and economic innovation, 6 - 7 October 2011, Florence, Italy
Registration deadline: contact organizers
21 September. Institut national du patrimoine, France
Seminar: La conservation et la restauration des jardins historiques, 6 - 7 octobre 2011, Paris, France
Registration deadline: contact organizers
21 September. Preventive conservation,maintenance and monitoring of monuments and sites (PRECOMOS)
Conference: International Conference on Preventive Conservation of Architectural Heritage 29 – 30 October 2011, Nanjing, China
Registration deadline: 15 October 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. 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
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. 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
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
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
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
21 September. Collection Care department, British Library, United Kingdom
Volunteer: Preventive Conservation Voluntary Work Opportunity
Applications deadline: 21 October 2011
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
20 June. Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Fellowships: Cambridge/Africa Collaborative Research Programme
Applications deadline: 1 October 2011
Jobs
21 September. Centre for Sustainable Heritage, University College London, United Kingdom
Forum Coordinator (National Heritage Science Forum)
Application deadline: 4 October 2011
21 September. Museum Victoria, Australia
Senior Conservator, Collection Preservation
Conservation Assistant
Application deadline: 26 September 2011
28 July. Haute école de Conservation-restauration Arc, Switzerland
Scientific research collaborator in conservation
Application deadline: 30 September 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
21 September. Gestión de colecciones, by Amelia Aguado de Costa
21 September. Bulletin de l'ISPAN 27, Haiti
21 September. Twelve houses restored in Japan and Italy, by Marco Imperadori et al.
21 September. IFLA Newsletter No. 94, International Federation of Landscape Architects
21 September. Implementing the Incident Command System at the Institutional Level: A Handbook for Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Other Cultural Institutions, by David W. Charmicheal
20 September. Conservation Guidelines for Outdoor Murals, Debra Daly Hartin, Canadian Conservation Institute
20 September. The Visible Past / Open Context Loosely Coupled Model for Digital Humanities Ubiquitous Collaboration and Publishing: Collaborating Across Print, Mobile, and Online Media, by Sorin Adam Matei, Eric Kansa, Nicholas Rauh
The paper presents a platform for supporting academic collaboration and publishing created by flexibly linking Visible Past, a web collaboration and digital-print publishing with Open Context, a geo-historical data archiving and publishing service.
20 September. E-Dialogos, Diadrasis
Annual digital journal on research in Conservation and Cultural Heritage.
20 September. Financiamento da Regeneração de Áreas Urbanas Patrimoniais na América Latina, by Silvio Zancheti
O livro Financiamento da Regeneração de Áreas Urbanas Patrimoniais na América Latina, do professor Silvio Mendes Zancheti, apresenta um quadro sistemático do processo de financiamento da regeneração de áreas urbanas patrimoniais (centros históricos e outros tipos de áreas) na América Latina no período 1990 – 2005.

Training and development
20 September. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Master in Heritage
Application deadline: 30 September 2011
20 September. Preservation Advisory Centre, British Library, United Kingdom
Training Calendar
Application deadline: see website
22 August. Hornemann Institute, Germany
Online courses :
Registration deadline: contact organizers
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
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
21 September. War Free World Heritage Listed Cities
Promoting good governance for the protection of urban heritage in times of armed conflict.
21 September. Smarthistory
Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. We use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art. We are seeking contributors — especially for canonical non-Western material and other survey topics not yet covered.
21 September. Museum International No. 248, UNESCO
Haiti, Cultural Heritage and Reconstruction
21 September. Encyclopedia of Life
Global access to knowledge about life on Earth
20 September. Academia.edu
Academia.edu is a place to share and follow research
20 September. ICOMOS Open Archive
ICOMOS Open Archive: Eprints on Cultural Heritage, a global archive specialising in the conservation and restoration of monuments, sites and landscapes.
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.

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