1. Australia ICOMOS AGM – REVISED start time and other activities

2. Streetwise Asia Christmas Cards – make a real difference this year with your Christmas giving

3. Free talk in Brisbane, Thursday 25 November

4. Australian Archaeological Association 2010 conference

5. ACT Heritage Council seeks Expressions of Interest for Membership

6. Summer School in The Conservation of Traditional Buildings

7. 16th Engineering Heritage Australia Conference, November 2011

8. Reducing Risks to Cultural Heritage course

9. Worldwide recognition for Booderee National Park

10. News from ICCROM

11. Householding in Transition: Emerging Dynamics in ‘Developing’ East and Southeast Asia – call for papers

12. ICOMOS International catalogue of publications for sale 2010-2011

13. Centre for Citizenship & Globalisation’s September bulletin available online

14. SITUATION VACANT Experienced Conservation/Heritage Professional, Palassis Architects (WA)

15. SITUATION VACANT Executive Director, National Trust of Australia (ACT)

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1. Australia ICOMOS AGM – REVISED start time and other activities

Please see timetable below for the schedule of events in relation to the 2010 Annual General Meeting, which will be taking place on Saturday 27 November:

Please RSVP (attendance only) to Tracy Ireland by COB Wednesday 24 November for the Canning Stock Route exhibition, the AGM and the Cocktail Reception.

Apologies for the AGM should be emailed to the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat by COB Friday 26 November.

The EC extends an invitation for members to join them for dinner at 8pm at the Blu Ginger Indian Restaurant at 5 Genge St, Canberra. A banquet menu will be available for $40 per head, with drinks extra. Please RSVP to the dinner to Tracy Ireland by COB Thursday 25 November.

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2. Streetwise Asia Christmas Cards – make a real difference this year with your Christmas giving

Dear fellow ICOMITES,

I am bringing this to your attention in case you, like me, would like some of your Christmas spending directed to something that will have a lasting positive benefit for others.

STREETWISE ASIA – CHRISTMAS CARDS

Your Christmas card shopping this year can make a real difference by supporting the Streetwise Asia school upgrade in Tocdog, Bohol in the Philippines.

Streetwise Asia is committed to improving the educational facilities of poor children in Asia. School communities are transformed when facilities are improved.

By purchasing a gift card (with a hand crafted sketch of the Bohol School), you will be contributing to this Streetwise Asia 2011 project. This year Streetwise Asia is assisting a very poor school with over 500 students who currently occupy a derelict timber school building, which is unsafe. In 2010 together with AusAID we completed a life changing project at the Kuguita School on Camiguin Island Philippines.

We will send you hand crafted Christmas cards corresponding to each gift. Your total purchase price will be a donation to the Streetwise Asia Fund, and is therefore Tax Deductible. A minimum order of $50 is requested, due to the handling time of making the cards and sending them.

Cards and gift prices range as follows:

$5.00 – donate a timber floor board

$10.00 – repair a broken down school desk

$15.00 – donate a new floor stump – essential as many stumps are termite infested and in need of replacement.

$25.00 – contribute to the new capiz windows

$35.00 – donate a sheet of roofing iron. Re-roofing is essential as the roof is leaking and in sections in near collapse condition

Note that for businesses (and for an order of $150 or more), you can arrange personalised cards with your name included in the card, indicating your support for the Streetwise Asia Tocdog School project in the Philippines.

The Streetwise Asia Christmas card information and order form (which includes a card example) can be filled out to order your cards. Each card contains a specific note about the project related to your gift. Cards will be posted within 72 hours of receipt of order.

Any queries, email Liz Vines, the Streetwise Asia Fund Coordinator.

Liz Vines
Streetwise Asia Fund Coordinator

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3. Free talk in Brisbane, Thursday 25 November

Hosted by Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM)

Thursday 25 November
11.30am to 12.30pm

At DERM offices: Gondwana Rainforest Room, Level 3, 400 George Street, Brisbane

The Welsh Slate technical manager from the Penrhyn quarry in Bethesda is travelling throughout Australia giving presentations on the history of the quarry, the use of slate roofing and the technical issues for heritage practitioners. This quarry has supplied roofing slates to Australia for over 150 years and is still in evidence in a number of early buildings.

For further information contact Ruth Woods.

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4. Australian Archaeological Association 2010 conference

From 9-13 December 2010, the Australian National University is hosting the Australian Archaeological Association conference at Batemans Bay.

The theme of the 2010 conference is ‘Challenges for archaeology in understanding cultural and natural landscapes: local, national and global perspectives’.

With 17 individual sessions and over 120 papers, this conference will be a great opportunity to hear about new work taking place in Australia and overseas as well as to mix with a diverse range of heritage professionals. Sessions include:

• Rethinking Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region
• Linear Landscapes
• Shifting Archaeology at the Shoreface: 21st Century challenges for investigating, interpreting and managing coastal archaeological sites
• Seascapes and Islands
• Materiality and narrative: constructing stories of people and place from objects
• Practice and Outcomes – recent developments in CHM and archaeology of the Hunter Valley, NSW
• Australian Cultural and Natural Landscapes: an Indigenous affair
• Current Research in Papua New Guinea
• Visual landscapes: the role of rock art in mediating social relations through time and space
• Wastelands: subversive spaces and landscapes of contemporary life

For further information please visit the conference website.

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5. ACT Heritage Council seeks Expressions of Interest for Membership

Expressions of interest are invited from persons in the ACT interested in being considered for appointment to the ACT Heritage Council (Council).

The Council is an independent body established under the Heritage Act 2004. Council’s role includes identification and assessment of nominations to the ACT Heritage Register and providing advice on appropriate conservation of cultural, natural and Aboriginal heritage places and objects in the ACT.

To be eligible for appointment applicants must demonstrate relevant expertise in disciplines relating to Aboriginal culture, Aboriginal history, archaeology, architecture, engineering, history, landscape architecture, nature conservation, object conservation, town planning and urban design. Otherwise they must represent the public from the following groups: the community; the Aboriginal community; or the property ownership, management and development sector.

Applications close on Friday 10 December 2010. Please return the application form (available here) to:

Secretary
ACT Heritage Council
GPO Box 158
Canberra ACT 2601

or send it via email.

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6. Summer School in The Conservation of Traditional Buildings

The twelfth Summer School in The Conservation of Traditional Buildings will be held at the University of Canberra from 17–28 January 2011.

This latest offering from Australia’s leading professional development program in heritage conservation is fully subscribed, but there is a waiting list for those interested.

For details click here.

All enquiries to David Young.

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7. 16th Engineering Heritage Australia Conference, November 2011

16th Engineering Heritage Australia Conference
Wrest Point Conference Centre
13-16 November 2011, Hobart, Tasmania

Hosted by Engineers Australia, this conference is the next in the series of biennial Australia and New Zealand engineering heritage conferences,  the last being in Dunedin in New Zealand in November 2009, when a preview of the Hobart conference was presented.

For further information, see the 16th Engineering Heritage Australia conference – Second Announcement flier.

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8. Reducing Risks to Cultural Heritage course

Dates

23 May to 9 September 2011 (online)
3 October to 14 October 2011 (face-to-face)
17 October to 28 November 2011 (online)

Place

Venue for the face-to-face portion to be confirmed.

Partners

ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property)
CCI (Canadian Conservation Institute)
ICN (Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage)

Background

Today, preventive conservation has become a leading theme in all fields of cultural property. Useful scientific and technical knowledge continues to grow but is often incorporated in current practice slowly, incorrectly, or not at all. Despite the best intentions, professionals and institutions dealing with the preservation of cultural property may apply unrealistic standards, guidelines or lists of best practice, with no clear sense of priority, or of realistic expected benefits. With limited resources, decision makers are usually confronted with difficult choices in planning conservation strategies.

For further information, click here.

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9. Worldwide recognition for Booderee National Park

Media release from the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

Australia’s own Booderee National Park took out a global responsible tourism award in London overnight.

Booderee won the ‘best conservation of cultural heritage’ category at the Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards 2010, competing against tourism organisations from across the world.

Environment Minister Tony Burke congratulated the park on this tremendous achievement.

To read the entire media release, click here.

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10. News from ICCROM

To view the November 2010 news from ICCROM, click here.

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11. Householding in Transition: Emerging Dynamics in ‘Developing’ East and Southeast Asia – call for papers

Householding in Transition: Emerging Dynamics in ‘Developing’ East and Southeast Asia
25 – 26 July 2011
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Jointly organized by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Centre for Developing Areas Research, Department of Geography (Royal Holloway, University of London) and IGU Commission on Gender and Geography.

In recent decades, dramatic social and economic changes have swept the ‘developing’ East and Southeast Asian region, having profound implications for household structures and their members’ everyday lives. Drawing on Douglass’ (2006) concept of ‘householding’ this workshop seeks to enhance understanding of the challenges being faced in the creation and sustaining of household-level social processes that cover all life-cycle stages and extend beyond the family. The workshop covers three broad themes of the up most contemporary and regional salience, namely (non)marriage and divorce; inter-generational questions concerning ageing and care; and finally, issues surrounding migration and the ‘left behind’.

For further information, visit the conference website.

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12. ICOMOS International catalogue of publications for sale 2010-2011

The ICOMOS Documentation Centre’s catalogue has been updated. Click here to download it.

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13. Centre for Citizenship & Globalisation’s September bulletin available online

Click here to view the latest bulletin of Deakin University’s Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation.

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14. SITUATION VACANT Experienced Conservation/Heritage Professional, Palassis Architects (WA)

Palassis Architects is a medium sized architectural practice, based in Perth WA, specialising in conservation planning, conservation works and sustainable adaptive re-use of heritage places. An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Conservation Architect, or suitably qualified heritage professional, to join our multidisciplinary team.

The successful applicant will ideally have previous experience in preparing and writing conservation management plans, heritage assessments and archival records, and will possess a sound working knowledge of the ICOMOS Burra Charter. High level report writing skills are a requirement of this position.

Applicants with appropriate conservation expertise will be considered.

For further information please contact Kevin Palassis.

Closing date for applications: Friday 3 December 2010 at 4:00pm (WST).

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15. SITUATION VACANT Executive Director, National Trust of Australia (ACT)

The National Trust (ACT) is a not-for-profit organization of people interested in heritage conservation and celebration in the ACT region and Australia wide. Applications are invited from leaders with heritage expertise and business development experience to apply for the full-time position of Executive Director. The successful applicant will provide strong and inspirational leadership in championing the Trust’s role locally and nationally, in natural and cultural heritage conservation, education and celebration; increase participation and capacity in our business activities; working closely with the Trust movement nationally to achieve outcomes; engage and value our membership; and promote sound governance and effective organisation. The position description may be obtained from the Trust’s website (from the “News” section on the home page).

Applications close on Friday 19 November 2010.

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Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
Georgia Meros, Secretariat Officer
Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood VIC 3125
Telephone: (03) 9251 7131
Facsimile: (03) 9251 7158
Email: austicomos@deakin.edu.au
http://www.icomos.org/australia

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