23 June. On 23 June, participants and lecturers from the ARC96 (Architectural Conservation Course 1996) held a 10-year reunion at ICCROM in Rome.

23 June. The latest issue of City & Time (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2006) is now available on-line. The contents include an article by Jukka Jokilehto on 'Considerations on Authenticity and Integrity in World Heritage Context'.
The journal is edited by Professor Sílvio Mendes Zancheti of the Centro de Estudos Avançados da Conservação Integrada, Brazil, and is devoted to the study and advancement of the conservation and transformation process of cities. The journals stated aim is to focus on concepts that can improve the quality of life in cities by actively using heritage as a catalyst for development.

23 June. Jim Black has been awarded the UK Royal Warrant Holders Association 2006 Plowden Medal.

22 June. The above book is now available from ICCROM as a PDF file. It was written in 1988 as an introduction to working practices  in an architectural conservation laboratory, and was aimed at helping the reader to understand the character and behaviour of building materials, their identification, and the diagnosis of their state of conservation. The book is out-of-print and is now being made available free-of-charge.

21 June. A colloquium dedicated to the history and traditions of hospitality in Italy took place at the National Archaeological Museum of Marches, Ancona, Italy, on 15 June 2006. 

21 June. ICCROM is pleased to announce the adhesion of Lao People’s Democratic Republic as a new Member State as of 21 June 2006. The adhesion of Lao PDR brings the number of Member States of ICCROM to 118.

20 June. The results of the first selection of the initiative 'Adopt a Mediterranean heritage' will be presented to Italian financial investors during a public event at the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD), Rome on 27 June 2006. 

20 June. ICCROM is pleased to announce that Mounir Bouchenaki, Director-General of ICCROM, has been made a Chevalier de l'Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur by Jacques Chirac, President of France, in recognition of his outstanding contribution through his work at UNESCO to the protection of cultural diversity.

20 June. On 19 June, the concluding phase of the eight-month course, 'Teamwork for Integrated Emergency Management' (TIEM), began at the Seoul Museum of History, Republic of Korea.

14 June. Susan Reynolds has taken up a two-month US/ICOMOS internship at ICCROM, made possible through a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

13 June. A programme design meeting was held at ICCROM from 5 to 7 June with the participation of: New York University; National Archives of Brazil; National Library of New Zealand; Musée du Centre de Recherches et de Documentation of Senegal; Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations; National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago; European Commission on Preservation and Access; and National Archives and Records Administration of the United States.

13 June. A course design meeting for the '2006 Sharing Conservation Decisions Course' was held at ICCROM on 23 May, with the participation of the partner institutions: Istituto Centrale per il Restauro di Rome, Opificio delle Pietre Dure di Firenze, Scuola di Alta Formazione Venaria di Torino.

9 June. The three-week CollAsia 2010 course on the 'Conservation of Southeast Asian Collections' in Storage concluded in Manila on 31 May.

31 May. Asian Academy for Heritage Management: research conference on 'Asian Approaches to Conservation', 3 - 4 October 2006, Bangkok, Thailand.
http://www.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=836

31 May. ATHAR Programme - Course on Documentation and Management of Heritage Sites in the Arab Region, Jordan and Syria

25 May. Course on Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage in the Asia - Pacific Region 2006: Research, Analysis and Preservation of Archaeological Sites and Remains, Nara, Japan

18 April. Conservation of Built Heritage 2007, Rome, Italy