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Awards, competitions, and prizes

24 September. Fondation Marc de Montalembert and the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INAH), France
2013 Marc de Montalembert Prize
Applications deadline: 1 November 2012

21 September. Fondazione Luigi Micheletti, Italy
Luigi Micheletti Award 2013
Applications deadline: 15 October 2012

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

26 September. American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works Photographic Materials specialty group (AIC-PMG) and the International Council of Museums Conservation Committee's Photographic Materials Working Group (ICOM-CC-PMWG)
Conference/Call for posters: Photographs conservation joint meeting, 11-15 February 2013, Wellington, New Zealand
Submission deadline for posters: 2 November 2012
Registration deadline: contact organizers

21 September. The Islamic Manuscript Association, United Kingdom
Call for papers: Ninth Islamic Manuscript Conference: Manuscripts of the Mamluk Sultanate and Its Contemporaries, 2-4 September 2013, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Submission deadline for abstracts: 22 October 2012

21 September. ICOM - INTERCOM: International Committee on Management
Conference: INTERCOM 2012 - #museumchallenges, 25-29 November 2012, Sydney, Australia
Registration deadline: contact organizers

19 September. Library of Congress, United States
Symposium: New Research on Iron Gall Ink, 11 October, Washington D.C., United States
Registration deadline: contact organizers

11 September. Asociación Argentina de Conservadores y Restauradores (ASACOR), Área Transdepartamental de Artes Multimediales del Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte (IUNA), Argentina
Call for papers: 1º Jornadas ASACOR, "De la teoría a la práctica", 29-30 November 2012, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Submission deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2012

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

5 September. Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne / IREST - EIREST, France
Event: Patrimoine Mondial et Gouvernance des Pôles Touristiques, 9 October 2012, Paris, France
Registration deadline: contact organizers

5 September . The Radio-Past Project
Event: Non-destructive approaches to complex archaeological sites in Europe: a round-up, 10-17 Janauary 2013, Ghent, Belgium
Registration deadline: contact organizers

3 September . The Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials (AICCM) Australia
Symposium: The meaning of materials in modern and contemporary art, 10-11 December 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Registration deadline: contact organizers

3 September. Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba (ARNAC), Cuba
Call for papers: XVI Taller de Historia y Archivología, 31 October-2 November 2012, La Habana, Cuba
Submission deadline for abstracts: 15 October 201

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

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: 15 October 2012

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. 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)

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

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

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

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 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

Grants, scholarships, internships, funding, volunteers

3 September . Trinity College Library, Ireland
Internship in book and manuscript conservation, November 2012, July 2013, Dublin, Ireland
Application deadline: 28 September 2012

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 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

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

Jobs

5 September. Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH), Kingdom of Bahrain
Cultural Heritage Specialist
Application deadline: 14 October 2012

3 September. Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom
Collections Officer (Documentation)
Application deadline: 23 September 2012

3 September. Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom
Collections Officer (Object Conservation)
Application deadline: 23 September 2012

3 September. Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom
Collections Officer (Paper Conservation)
Application deadline: 23 September 2012

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

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

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

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

Publications, e-publications, e-journals

24 September. METAL 2010, ICOM-CC Metal Working Group
Proceedings of the Interim Meeting of the International Council of Museums- Committee for Conservation Metal Working Group that took place in Charleston, SC, USA on October 11-15, 2010.

21 September. Blog: Cultural Property & Archaeology Law, Kimberley Alderman, United States

18 September. Training manual for the UNESCO foundation course on the protection and management of underwater cultural heritage in Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO Bangkok

18 September. Technical Bulletin 33, National Gallery, United Kingdom

18 September. 2012 IIC Vienna Congress - Paper and poster summaries and fully published student posters, International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC)

10 September. News in Conservation, August 2012, International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC)

7 September. Building an Emergency Plan: A Guide for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions, The Getty Conservation Institute, United States

1 September. Utilisation des mousses et des pâtes syntactiques pour combler les lacunes des poteries archéologiques, CeROArt, France

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

Training and development

18 September. Northern States Conservation Center, United States
Course: Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives, 1 October - 9 November 2012, online
Registration deadline: contact organizers

11 September. Cámara de Comercio de Toledo, Spain, Art + Mark, Fundación ILAM
Course: Máster en Creación y Comunicación de Proyectos Culturales , 22 October 2012
Application deadline: contact organizers

3 September. Balboa Art Conservation Center, United States
Workshop: Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments, 9-10 October 2012, California, United States
Application deadline: see website

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Websites, online databases

21 September. Underwater Cultural Heritage in Vietnam
Raising awareness and building capacity.

18 September. Her.cul.es Project
Strengthening the attractiveness of European higher education in Heritage and Cultural Tourism.

11 September. Wiki Loves Monuments 2012
Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo contest around cultural heritage monuments in September.

10 September. ICON Ceramics and Glass Group forum
Feel free to ask questions about materials and techniques that you're encountering for the first time, or for advice on specific objects.

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.

updated on: 1 October, 2012