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Invitation To Vicomites – Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee Meeting In Melbourne
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Books for review
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Burra Charter workshops – Cairns & Melbourne
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News from Heritage South Australia
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International conference on structural health assessment of timber structures – abstract reminder
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Heritage Victoria’s Inherit newsletter available online
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Timber Decay and Conservation Master Class
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Shared Built Heritage ISC – new website and conference announcement
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Global Heritage Fund’s Director to give a presentation on China’s heritage in Pingyao Ancient City
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Take part in volunteer initiatives with REMPART
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New Masters in Heritage Science, University College London
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Archaeology Week – next week!
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Report from Australia ICOMOS/Heritage Victoria scholarship recipients
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Zacatecas Charter now available on the Australia ICOMOS website
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Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation’s May bulletin available online
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World Monuments Fund seeks your vote
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SITUATION VACANT National Trust of Australia (WA) seeks quotations
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1. Invitation To Vicomites – Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee Meeting In Melbourne
Vicomites (ICOMOS members in Victoria) are cordially invited to join the Executive Committee (EC) for two events on Saturday 29 May 2010:
- Tour of Heritage Victoria’s Conservation and Research Centre (the Lab), where land and maritime archaeological objects are conserved and stored, lead by Senior Conservator Jenny Dickens, 30 mins, 5.00pm, 4 Harper Street, Abbotsford, followed by drinks with the EC (free)
- Dinner at the nearby Retreat Hotel, 226 Nicholson Street, Abbotsford 7.00pm (members’ own expense)
RSVP to both events by COB Friday 21 May to the Secretariat.
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2. Books for review
We have more books ready to go out to willing reviewers for our journal Historic Environment. As usual you get to keep the book in return for the review. The following titles are available.
- Kirsty Douglas, Pictures of Time Beneath: Science, Heritage and the uses of the Deep Past, CSIRO Publishing, 2010
- Michael Pearson and Jane Lennon, Pastoral Australia: Fortunes, Failures and Hard Yakka – a Historical Overview 1788-1967, CSIRO Publishing, 2010
Please email Caitlin Allen by email at caitlin.allen@bigpond.com.au if you are interested in reviewing any of these books. Caitlin will respond to the reviewers that have been allocated a book within the next week to let you know and to send you the reviewers guidelines. If you don’t hear from us with a book allocation, please keep expressing interest for future reviews. We appreciate that so many members are interested in contributing to the journal.
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3. Burra Charter workshops – Cairns & Melbourne
As part of the Burra Charter development program, Australia ICOMOS is running a series of workshops in order to engage directly with members about the range of tasks related to the Charter, the current guidelines and possible future guidelines. These workshops will supplement information gathered through the electronic surveys advertised in the e-news and other research. The workshop will include a report back on findings so far, as well as explore a range of issues related to the Charter and its guidelines.
The next lot of workshops will be held in Cairns & Melbourne.
Cairns
On Friday 21 May the Cairns Burra Charter workshop will be held in Chambers 1 at the Courthouse Hotel, Abbott St, Cairns. The workshop will run between 5-7pm, with snacks provided and drinks available at the bar. Members of the public and ICOMOS members are invited to attend.
RSVP to Alice Buhrich via email or 0416 767 583, by COB Wednesday 19 May.
Melbourne
The Melbourne workshop will be held at:
Heritage Victoria
Conference Room
Level 4, 55 Collins Street, Melbourne
3-5pm, Friday 28 May 2010
All welcome!
Please RSVP via email to Megan McDougall by COB Wednesday 26 May.
Australia ICOMOS will be providing drinks and nibblies for the workshop participants at the conclusion of the workshop.
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4. News from Heritage South Australia
Click here to view the latest news from Heritage South Australia. News updates include:
- The National Historic Sites Federal Funding (closes May 31 2010)
- An upcoming University of South Australia Symposium related to Heritage
The Department for Environment and Heritage is redeveloping their website and they would like your feedback and input re: the Heritage webpages – complete their survey.
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5. International conference on structural health assessment of timber structures – abstract reminder
SHATIS’11 – International conference on structural health assessment of timber structures
16-17 June 2011
Lisbon
Please note that the abstract deadline is 1 June 2010.
Abstract templates and other information can be found at the Conference website.
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6. Heritage Victoria’s Inherit newsletter available online
The latest Inherit newsletter from the Heritage Council of Victoria and Heritage Victoria is available for download here.
Inherit welcomes suggestions of stories and events to be included in future issues. You can subscribe to this free e-newsletter by sending your details to inherit.magazine@dpcd.vic.gov.au.
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7. Timber Decay and Conservation Master Class
Learn about timber decay and conservation in Heritage Buildings, at Heritage Victoria’s ‘Timber Decay and Conservation Master Class’.
This master class will appeal to architects, heritage consultants, builders, carpenters, TAFE trainers and others with a general interest in the conservation of decaying timber.
Many heritage buildings experience timber decay and this one-day master class, led by David Young OAM, will address wood anatomy, fungal rot, dealing with termites and conservation and repair.
In addition, the master class will fulfil the requirements for 6 formal points as part of the Building Commission Continuing Professional Development program.
When: Friday 4th June, 9am – 4pm
Where: Woodlands Homestead, Greenvale.
Hurry, places are strictly limited.
Download the Timber Decay Master Class Information Sheet
Download the Timber Decay Master Class Registration Form
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8. Shared Built Heritage ISC – new website and conference announcement
The International Scientific Committee on Shared Built Heritage (SBH) has a new website – http://sbh.icomos.org
They are also organising a scientific conference – New life for historic cultural landscapes: examples of creative policy plans – to be held in conjunction with their annual meeting. This will take place Suriname, on 18-23 October 2010. For further information, click here.
This will be the first meeting of the Committee in the Latin American/Caribbean region and they encourage people from the western hemisphere to participate.
The focus of the conference will be on the former plantation structures around Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname. This is just an example of the many former colonial plantations around the world that are in a position of change. Production of sugar, coffee, cotton and other tropical products have changed. The former plantations offer a wide variety of historical cultural elements (buildings, landscape, and even traditions, genealogy, songs, beliefs) that are part of the identity of the people of the country involved. Can these plantations can be (re)used in a way that part of this culture and identity will be preserved?
Papers on the conference themes, especially examples from other countries, are most welcome. Please contact the SBH ISC secretary at the address below.
The conference is open to all ICOMOS SBH ISC members and for all professionals working with and interested in the topics.
Mr Benedict Goes
ICOMOS Netherlands / ISC on Shared Built Heritage
Director / Secretary-General
Herengracht 474
1017 CA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: +31 (0) 20 716 73 50
Email the Secretary
www.icomos.nl
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9. Global Heritage Fund’s Director to give a presentation on China’s heritage in Pingyao Ancient City
GHF’s Executive Director, Jeff Morgan, just returned from China and will be presenting a 20 minute progress report on GHF’s progress to save China’s heritage in Pingyao Ancient City, Foguang, Shanxi and a new project to preserve the Fujian Tulous.
For further information about the project, click here
For further information about the event and to register, email Laura Mam.
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10. Take part in volunteer initiatives with REMPART
Union REMPART is divided into member associations, which organise more than 200 volunteer work initiatives, known as chantiers. Every year chantiers all over France draw more than 3 000 volunteers, around 25% of whom come from abroad.
For further information, click here.
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11. New Masters in Heritage Science, University College London
The Centre for Sustainable Heritage is delighted to announce a new Masters in Heritage Science, to start in September 2010 at the University College London
The course will cater for interdisciplinary Masters students and for heritage professionals with several years experience and demonstrable aptitude for research. It will be delivered in four 14-day blocks, and can be taken either as full time or part time.
The fifth and final module, the Masters Dissertation, can be taken as a placement, to carry out a piece of research that is particularly relevant to heritage institutions. This will hopefully allow enough flexibility for candidates to attend the course, as well.
Further information is available here, in this leaflet, or contact:
Matija Strlic
Course Director, MRes Heritage Science
University College London – Centre for Sustainable Heritage
The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
E: m.strlic@ucl.ac.uk
T: +44 20 7679 5994
F: +44 20 7916 1887
M: +44 79 6492 5660
SKYPE: matija.strlic
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12. Archaeology Week – next week!
National Archaeology Week starts next week – 16-22 May! Lots of events and exhibitions have been organised throughout Australia to promote archaeology to the community.
In NSW there are some exciting events planned, including:
- Tour of archaeological sites on Cockatoo Island by Mike Hincks (Monday 17 May) including recently discovered convict confinement cells
- ‘Diving into archaeology’ with the Heritage Branch (Wednesday 19 May) with talks by Wayne Johnson, Tim Smith and others
- Talk about recent archaeological work in Darling Harbour by Abi Cryerhall (Thursday 20 May)
- Talk on Sydney’s early history by Dr Grace Karskens and Dr Ian Hoskins (Saturday 22 May)
- Display of artefacts from 2008 excavations at the Sydney Observatory (Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 May)
For more details on these events and much more, please check out the NAW website.
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13. Report from Australia ICOMOS/Heritage Victoria scholarship recipients
Amanda Mulligan and Giselle Harris have written about their experience at the Cultural Heritage Management Summer School at the University of Canberra. Click here to read their report.
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14. Zacatecas Charter now available on the Australia ICOMOS website
The Zacatecas Charter was recently adopted by ICOMOS Mexicano.
Click here to view.
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15. Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation’s May bulletin available online
Click here to view the latest bulletin of Deakin University’s Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.
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16. World Monuments Fund seeks your vote
World Monuments Fund is one of 49 non-profits competing for a $200,000 grant through the American Express Members Project. This is an online voting campaign that, at the end of a three-month cycle, will award the grant to the nonprofit that gets the most votes in its category.
Some of WMF’s activities include:
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH – run a field school program for high school students to learn basic carpentry and preservation skills in economically depressed Newburgh, NY
DISASTER RECOVERY – help our colleagues in Haiti conserve the Gingerbread Houses, placed on our 2010 Watch list and then damaged in the January 2010 earthquake
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM – bring conservation specialists to Babylon to help Iraqi conservators better understand how to conserve ancient mud brick while helping to prepare this site for future tourism
Anyone who is interested in voting, click here.
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17. SITUATION VACANT National Trust of Australia (WA) seeks quotations
The National Trust of Australia (WA) has two consultancies for which it is seeking quotations.
Information about each is available by clicking on the links below.
Submissions close on Monday 24 May.
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Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
Georgia Meros, Secretariat Officer
Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Deakin University
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Burwood VIC 3125
Telephone: (03) 9251 7131
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Email: austicomos@deakin.edu.au
http://www.icomos.org/australia
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