Awards, contests

14 July. American Academy in Rome, Italy
Rome Prize
Application deadline: 1 November 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 October. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Consell Insular de Menorca, Spain
Call for papers: 1st International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: archaeology, 9-13 April 2012, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Submission deadline for abstracts: 10 November 2011

21 October. 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

21 October. Docomomo, Finland
Conference: 12th International Docomomo Conference: the survival of modern - from coffee cup to plan, 7-10 August, Helsinki, Finland
Submission deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2011
Registration deadline: 31 May 2012 (early registration)

21 October. International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
Conference: IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2012, 11 – 13 April 2012, Paris, France
Registration deadline: contact organizers

21 October. University of Barcelona, Spain
Event: 10th Biennial International Conference of the Infrared and Raman Users' Group (IRUG), 28-31 March, Barcelona, Spain
Submission deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2011
Registration deadline: 25 January 2012 (early registration)

5 October. Musée du Louvre and Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France
Call for papers: French Bronzes: history, materials and techniques of bronze sculpture in France (16th - 18th C.), 9 - 12 June 2012, Paris, France
Submission deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2011

5 October. Centre for Research on Local Knowledge, Mali; Art Historical Department, Arts of Africa, Free University Berlin; Center for Advanced Studies “Morphomata. Genesis, Dynamics and Mediality of Cultural Figurations”, University of Cologne, Germany
Call for papers : New Spaces for Negotiating Art (and) History in African Cities, 14 - 17 March 2012, Bamako, Mali
Deadline: 31 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

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

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)

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 October. Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Research Fellowships in the Humanities
Applications deadline: 1 February 2012

21 October. Clothworker's Foundation, United Kingdom
Conservation fellowship
Applications deadline: 2 March 2012

21 October. Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation (FAIC), United States
Grants and Scholarships
Applications deadline: see website

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

Jobs

21 October. UNESCO
Director, Division for Cultural Expressions and Heritage
Application deadline: 15 November 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 October. Bulletin de l'ISPAN Special Edition, Haiti

21 October. Patrimonio y Desarrollo, Boletín Digital No. 10 - 2011 (pdf), Cuba
Electronic newsletter of CENCREM (Centro Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museología)is now available.

5 October. Bulletin de l'ISPAN 28, Haiti

5 October. La préservation des maisons de style gingerbread d’Haïti: Rapport de mission après le séisme de 2010, by Langenbach, Randolph, et al. World Monuments Funds

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

21 October. Erasmus Mundus
Master of Cultural Landscapes, France, Italy and Germany
Application deadline: 31 January 2012

20 September. Preservation Advisory Centre, British Library, United Kingdom
Training Calendar
Application deadline: see website

22 August. Hornemann Institute, Germany
Online courses :

• Microbic Infestation of Objects of Art and Cultural Heritage, 19 September to 13 November 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 October. European Museum Academy
The European Museum Academy Foundation is engaged in developing researches in the field of museum innovation, stimulating new ideas and experiences and offering its services as an incubator for new talents and new programmes in order to improve the quality of museum services and of the museological discourse at the European level.

21 October. Centro de Investigación, Documentación y Asesoría Poblacional (CEDAP), Peru
CIDAP es una institución no gubernamental sin fines de lucro que se propone contribuir a superar los problemas de pobreza de nuestras ciudades.

21 October. World CP
International Database of Cultural Policies

5 October. Heritage Portal
This site has been developed under the EU-funded NET-HERITAGE programme to provide a platform accessible to a wide audience of Researchers, Practitioners, Funding Agencies, Policymakers and anyone with an interest in European cultural heritage. It enables users to connect, share their knowledge and work collaboratively.

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.

updated on: 5 November, 2011