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Awards, competitions, and prizes

17 August. Europa Nostra and the European Union
European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards 2013
Applications deadline: 1 October 2012

13 July. American Academy in Rome
Rome Prize Fellowships
Applications deadline: 1 November 2012

Events

Calendar of Events compiled by ICCROM
Events this month

27 August. The Swiss Association of conservator-restorers (SCR), Switzerland
Call for papers: To coat or not to coat? Protective coatings : history, theory and practice, 14-15 February 2013, Lugano, Switzerland
Submission deadline for abstracts: 5 October 2012

27 August. Harvard Art Museums, United States
Symposium: Material and Immaterial Aspects of Color: A Conversation among Artists, Conservators, Curators, and Scientists, 22 September 2012, Cambridge, United States
Registration deadline: contact organizers

24 August. ICOM-DEMHIST, international committee for historic house museums, ICOM-CC
Conference: The Artifact, its Context, and their Narrative: Multidisciplinary Conservation in Historic House Museums, 6-9 November 2012, Los Angeles, United States
Registration deadline: 15 September 2012 (early bird)

23 August. University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom
Call for papers: 3rd Historic Mortars Conference, 11-14 September 2013, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Submission deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2012

23 August. The Canadian Association for the Conservation of Cultural Property (CAC), Canada
Conference: 39th Annual Canadian Association for Conservation (CAC) Conference and Workshops, 21-25 May 2013, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Registration deadline: contact organizers

22 August. Le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (Direction générale des patrimoines), France
Event: Architecture et conservation préventive, 2-3 October 2012, Paris, France
Registration deadline: contact organizers

21 August. Universitaet Dresden, Germany
Call for papers: Flood Protection and Heritage Conservation on Rivers and Streams, 22-23 March 2013, Dresden, Germany
Submission deadline for abstracts: 17 September 2012

21 August. The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Belgium
Symposium: Making and transforming art: changes in artists' materials and practice, 22-23 November 2012, Brussels, Belgium
Registration deadline: contact organizers

20 August. European Science Foundation project COMST
Event: The Oriental book, 9-10 October 2012, Arles, France
Registration deadline: contact organizers

20 August. University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Call for papers: The 12th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 19-21 November 2012, Brighton, United Kingdom
Submission deadline for abstracts: 23 September 2012

20 August. Historic Preservation Education Foundation, Unites States
Event: 12th International Congress on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone, 22-26 October 2012, New York, Unites States
Registration deadline: contact organizers

20 August. Nordic Conservation Association, Norway
Conference: IIC Nordic Group - NKF’s XIX. International Conference, 15-17 October 2012, Oslo, Norway
Registration deadline: 1 September 2012

20 August. Eastern Analytical Symposium, United States
Symposium: Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition (EAS) 2012 , 12-15 November 2012, New Jersey, United States
Registration deadline: contact organizers

20 August. Centro Nacional de Conservación y Restauración (CNCR), Chile
Call for papers: Edición 2013 de la Revista Conserva
Submission deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2012

17 August. Australasian Registrars Committee, Australia
Event: Managing the Unexpected: collection management and disasters, 13-22 November 2012, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia and Dunedin and Auckland, New Zealand
Registration deadline: contact organizers

14 August. Queen Rania Institute for Tourism and Heritage, Hashemite University, Jordan
Call for papers: Seventh World Archaeological Congress (WAC-7), 14-18 January 2013, Dead Sea, Jordan
Submission deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2012

13 August. Institute of Conservation (ICON), United Kingdom
Conference: Conserving Context: relating object treatment to collections & settings, 14 March 2013, London, United Kingdom
Registration deadline: 14 February 2013 (early bird)

13 August.The Society for American Archaeology (SAA), United States
Call for papers: 78th Annual Meeting , 3-7 April 2012, Hawaii, United States
Submission deadline for abstracts: 13 September 2012

10 August.The Western Association for Art Conservation (WAAC), United States
Call for papers: Annual Meeting & Conference, 22-25 October 2012, Palm Springs, United States
Submission deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2012

3 August.The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival, United States
Call for papers: The Archaeology Channel Conference on Cultural Heritage Film, 8-10 May 2013, Oregon, United States
Submission deadline for abstracts: 21 November 2012

31 July. Cathedral and Church Buildings Division, United Kingdom
Event: Heating Without the Hot Air, 3 December 2012, London, United Kingdom
Registration deadline: contact organizers

30 July. Euromed
Conference: 4th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference, 29 October- 3 November 2012, Lemesos, Cyprus
Registration deadline: 24 September 2012

30 July. Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Italy
Conference: 3rd edition of the Cultural Heritage on line - Trusted Digital Repositories & Trusted Professionals, 11-12 December 2012, Florence, Italy
Registration deadline: contact organizers

25 July. National Center of Energy, Sciences and Nuclear Techniques (CNESTEN) and Agronomic and Veterinary Institute Hassan II, Rabat, Morocco
Call for papers: The Fourth International Conference TANCA 2012: "Environment and Cultural Heritage: Inventory, Valorization and Preservation", 22-23 October 2012, Rabat, Morocco
Submission deadline for abstracts: 7 September 2012

23 July. State University of New York College, Art Conservation and Design Departments and the Burchfield Penney Art Center, United States
Call for papers: The Asian Lacquer International Symposium, 20-24 May 2013, Buffalo, United States
Submission deadline for abstracts: 2  January 2013

18 July. Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, Italy
Conference: TJahrestagung/Convegno annuale 2012: Umstrittene Denkmale/Monumenti controversi, 19-22 September 2012, Bolzano, Italy
Registration deadline: contact organizers

18 July. Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM), Australia
Symposium: The 7th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium , 29-31 August 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Registration deadline: 31 July 2012 (early bird)

18 July. Institute of Conservation (ICON), United Kingdom
Call for papers: Icon Conference 2013: Positive Futures in an Uncertain World In partnership with the University of Glasgow, 10-12 April 2013, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Submission deadline for abstracts: 10 September 2012

17 July. French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) and partners, France
Call for papers: Arabo-islamic legacies in Mediterranean Europe (8th -18th centuries) – Archaeology, History, Anthropology, 11-13 September 2013, Marseille, France
Submission deadline for abstracts: 11 October 2012

13 July. The Rizal Library, Philippines
Conference: 5th International Conference: Libraries, Archives and Museums: Common Challenges, Unique Approaches, 25-26 October 2012, Quezon City, Philippines
Registration deadline: contact organizers

10 July. Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage and Shell, Netherlands
Call for papers: Van Gogh's Studio Practice, 24-26 June 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Submission deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2012

10 July. ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Cultural Tourism (ICTC)
Conference: ICOMOS ICTC International Conference on Cultural Tourism and 2012 Annual Meeting, 7-8 November 2012, Vigan, Philippines
Registration deadline: contact organizers

22 June. Hornemann Institute, Germany
Call for papers: Separated – reunited! Conservation and Restoration in Central Europe during the time of the iron curtain and today, 25- 28 September 2013, Hildesheim, Germany
Submission deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2012

8 June. International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC)
Conference: 2012 IIC Vienna Congress, 10-14 September 2012, Vienna, Austria
Registration deadline: contact organizers

23 May. Getty Conservation Institute, United States
Symposium: The Siqueiros Legacy: Challenges of Conserving the Artist's Monumental Murals, 16-17 October 2012, Los Angeles, United States
Registration deadline: 24 September 2012

23 May. CIMAM – International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern and Contemporary Art
Conference: 2012 Annual Conference ‘Museums Beyond the Crises’, 12-15 November, Istanbul, Turkey; Beirut Lebanon
Registration deadline: 30 September 2012

21 May. Laboratory of Conservation-Restoration and Research (LC2R), Draguignan, Provence, France
Call for papers: Conservation-Restoration & Health/Security of People and the Environment, June 2013, Draguignan, Provence, France
Submission deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2012

18 May. The Best in Heritage and Europa Nostra
Event: The Best in Heritage, 27 - 29 September 2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Registration deadline: 31 August 2012 (early bird)

23 April. Dyes in History and Archaeology (DHA)
Event: 31st Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology (DHA 31), 17-20 October 2012, Antwerp, Belgium
Registration deadline: 9 September 2012

18 April. ICOM-CC Metal Working Group, Historic Scotland
Call for papers and posters: International conference on metal conservation, 16-20 September 2013, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Submission deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2012

18 April. International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICOMOS-ICAHM)
Event: 2012 Annual Meeting. Theme: World Heritage Convention on its 40th Anniversary, 27-30 November 2012, Cuzco, Peru
Registration deadline: 1 October 2012

11 April. International Superior Conference of Archival Studies (CISA)
Conference: The place of archives and the role of archivists in today’s and tomorrow’s societies, 12-16 November 2012, Paris, France
Registration deadline: contact organizers

2 March. Transylvanian Historic Building Conservationists Society, The Transylvania Nostra Foundation, Technical University from Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Romanian National Committee of ICOMOS
Event: Historic Structures Conference: The Protection of Historic Load-bearing Structures and the Society, 20-22 September 2012, Cluj, Romania
Registration deadline: 30 August 2012

5 December. International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) and the Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa
Conference: 49th IFLA World Congress, 5 – 7 September 2012, Cape Town, South Africa
Registration deadline: see website

Grants, scholarships, internships, funding, volunteers

27 August. The International Conservation Center, Israel
Saving the Stones, October 2012, April 2013, Acre, Israel
Application deadline: see website

24 August. Cultural Emergency Response (CER) programme, Prince Claus Fund, Netherlands
CER Call for proposals
Applications deadline: 1 October 2012

21 August. The National Archives, United Kingdom
Conservation Research Fellowship - Assessing the impact of dust in archives
Applications deadline: 3 September 2012

21 August. The British Library, United Kingdom
Book and paper conservation and preventive conservation
Applications deadline: 21 September 2012

16 August. The Getty Conservation Institute, United States
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Conservation Science
Applications deadline: 1 November 2012

8 August. The Heritage Council, Ireland
Conservation Internship Programme 2012/13
Applications deadline: September 2012

24 July. James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation, United States
Fitch Foundation Mid-Career Grants
Applications deadline: 15 September 2012

13 July. American Academy in Rome, Italy
Rome Prize Fellowships
Applications deadline: 1 November 2012

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

Jobs

27 August. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Unted States
Assistant Photograph Conservator, Paper Conservation
Application deadline: contact organizer

27 August. University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
Conservator
Application deadline: 5 October 2012

27 August. Auckland Libraries, New Zealand
Book Conservator
Application deadline: 9 September 2012

27 August. Yale University, United States
Director, Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Application deadline: 15 September 2012

24 August. United Nations
Young professionals programme
Application deadline: see website

13 August. The British Museum, United Kingdom
Curator; Bronze Age Collections
Application deadline: 14 September 2012

10 August. Heritage Conservation and Cultural Studies, Carleton University, Canada
Assistant Professor
Application deadline: 1 October 2012

9 August. American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Preservation/Conservation Librarian
Application deadline: 4 September 2012

6 August. Queen’s University, Canada
Conservator of Paper, Photographic Materials and New Media
Application deadline: 15 October 2012

6 August. The Museum of Fine Arts, United States
Collections Care Specialist
Application deadline: contact organizer

6 August. The Museum of Fine Arts, United States
Assistant Frame Conservator
Application deadline: 31 August 2012

31 July. Boston Athenaeum, United States
Project Conservator
Application deadline: contact organizer

26 July. The Fine Arts Conservancy, United States
Mid-Level or Senior Paper Conservator Opportunity
Application deadline: contact organizer

26 July. The Fine Arts Conservancy, United States
Senior or Mid-Career Paintings Conservator
Application deadline: contact organizer

19 July. Getty Conservation Institute, United States
Senior Project Specialist (Collections)
Application deadline: 30 August 2012

Publications, e-publications, e-journals

30 August. Changing Views of Textile Conservation, Getty Conservation Institute, United States

28 August. Cambridge Heritage Bulletin, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

16 August. e-dialogos Practising Conservation, Diadrasis, Greece

16 August. Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation, Educopia Institute: 2012, United States

16 August. International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Era. Volume 1, No. 1, March 2012 , Multi Science Publishing, United Kingdom

8 August. Sientan Precedente Histórico en Rescate de Pintura Mural, No.240, August 2012, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Mexico

7 August. World Heritage Capacity Building No.3, July 2012, IUCN, ICOMOS, ICCROM

6 August. Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization, Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 3, University of Hawai‘i Press, United States

1 August. First publications from young graduates in conservation, CeROArt, France

25 July. Second Status Report Online Access to Audiovisual Heritage, EUscreen

18 July. Territori della Cultura No.8, 2012 , Centro Universitario Europeo per i Beni Culturali, Italy

17 July. The Le Corbusier Gymnasium in Baghdad: discovery of construction archives (1974 -1980), 31 May 2012 , Caecilia Pieri

10 July. Project Newsletter No.4, July 2012, War Free World Heritage Listed Cities

9 July. Survey Report on Digitisation in European Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012, EUMERATE Thematic Network

6 July. International Preservation News No. 56, May 2012, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation (IFLA-PAC)

Surveys

31 July. Collections Care, AIC’s Collection Care Network (CCN), United States
AIC has created a survey to help identify the opportunities and challenges facing collections care professionals today.
Deadline: 30 August 2012

Training and development

27 August. The Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), United States
Workshop: Focusing on Photographs: Identification and Preservation, 23-24 October 2012, Atlanta, United States
Application deadline: see website

16 August. The British Library Centre for Conservation, United Kingdom
Workshop: Applying risk management to collection care, 11 October 2012, London, United Kingdom
Application deadline: see website

14 August. 20|21 Conservação e Restauro, Portugal
Workshop: Dry Cleaning Methods for Unvarnished Paintings, 1-2 October 2012, Porto, Portugal
Application deadline: 5 September 2012

13 August. The British Library, United Kingdom
Workshop: Preservation Assessment Survey, 26 September 2012, London, United Kingdom
Application deadline: see website

8 August . The Association of Canadian Archivists and the McGill University School of Information Studies, Canada
Workshop: Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term Problems, 26-28 September 2012, Montreal, Canada
Application deadline: 31 August 2012

6 August. The American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works, United States
Workshop: Emergency Planning and Mitigation Strategies for Historic Sites, 24 September 2012, San Antonio Texas, United States
Application deadline: see website

24 July. The British Library, United Kingdom
Course: Understanding and preserving audio collections, 22-24 October 2012, London, United Kingdom
Application deadline: see website

24 July. Archives Association of British Columbia, Canada
Course: Introduction to Archival Preservation (Distance Education), 24 September 24 - 16 November 2012
Application deadline: 31 August 2012

9 July. Herculaneum Centre, Italy
Course: Vesuvian Archaeology Study Programme, September 2012 and March 2013, Ercolano, Italy
Application deadline: see website

3 July. International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST) - UNESCO
Workshop: 1st International Workshop on Space Technologies for World Heritage, 9-28 October 2012, Beijing, China
Application deadline: 31 August 2012

22 June. University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia; Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy
Course: economics and techniques for the conservation of the architectural and environmental heritage, October 2012, Venice, Italy
Application deadline: 30 September 2012

22 June. 20|21 Conservação e Restauro de Arte Contemporânea, Portugal
Course: 9th Masterclass 20|21: Dry Cleaning Methods for Unvarnished Paintings, 1-2 October 2012, Porto, Portugal
Application deadline: 15 September 2012

23 April. Turin School of Development, Italy
Course: Master in Wold Heritage and Cultural Projects for Development, Fall 2012, Turin, Italy
Application deadline: 2 September 2012

Video

6 August. Stripped Bare + Bathed: The Preservation of Dali's Masterworks, The Dali Museum
This exhibit demonstrates the museum's mission to "preserve the art of Dali." Preservation is a continuous, labor-intensive process involving the care of works of art in all media: oils, works on paper, and objects. Over the past decade the museum has conserved 25 of its 96 oil paintings.

19 July. Numbers, Art Babble
Richard McCoy, Conservator of Objects and Variable Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, discusses the restoration of Robert Indiana's /Numbers/

10 July. The heritage curse, Aljazeera
Is World Heritage designation overwhelming the very sites it is meant to protect?

Websites, online databases

23 August. The Palestinian institution for cultural landscape studies (Al-Mashhad)
The major themes of this website are devoted to provide the reader with a compendious description of the PICLS, with emphasis on our main fields of interest such as landscape, conservation geography and cartography etc.

23 August. The Cosmati Pavement
Website that reveals how one of Westminster Abbey’s finest treasures, the Cosmati pavement, the site was brought back to life by a two-year conservation project launched by the Westminster Abbey .

17 August. Light Damage Calculator, Canadian Conservation Institute
CCI new online tool provides an estimate of the fading of colours exposed to light, based on the best available data.

16 August. Digital Collection. Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has introduced an online database for its digital collections.

1 August. Inventory of FLOSS in the Cultural Heritage Domain
As part of the Europeana Version 2 project this inventory aims to create a valuable resource, collecting relevant open source software tools for the cultural heritage domain.

27 July. Conservation Science Tutorials
With the support of the Getty Foundation, FAIC has created a series of self-paced modules that review key science principles in conservation.

27 July. Caring for collections online induction resource
The online “Caring for Collections” resource is aimed at library staff who handle books and documents. It provides an overview of how to care for the books and documents in library collections and why this is important.

26 July. ICOMOS Open Archive
Eprints on Cultural Heritage, a global archive specialising in the conservation and restoration of monuments, sites and landscapes.

25 July. The Archaeology Slide Collection, University of York, United Kingdom
An important collection of archaeological images date back to the 1950s.

6 July. POPART project – the Preservation Of plastic ARTefacts in museum collections
Twelve partners worked together to establish protocols for analyzing, examining and conserving these artefacts for the future generations to enjoy and to study.

6 July. Researching Ivory
Researching Ivory: Integrating scientific analyses, historical data, artefact studies and conservation needs.

6 July. E-Corpus
E-corpus is a collective digital library that catalogs and disseminates numerous documents: manuscripts, archives, books, journals, prints, audio recordings, video, etc.

6 July. Sottoscrizione a favore degli archivi danneggiati dal sisma, Italy
Donate to the recovery of archives damaged in the May 2012 earthquake in Emilia Romagna, Italy.

22 June. Alliance for Response, United States
Alliance for Response is a national program on cultural heritage and disaster management. Through a series of local Forums, it builds bridges between the cultural heritage and emergency response communities before disasters happen. The Forums lead to new partnerships, policies, and cooperative planning efforts.

updated on: 3 September, 2012