1)
eXtreme Heritage Update
2) NSW and ACT members: World Heritage Day talk -
Friday 15th June in Sydney
3) Workshop on the Protection of Movable
Cultural Heritage Act 1986
4) CHCAP Research Seminar, Thurs 7 June
5)
Additional $4 Million to Protect Our Coastal Environment
6) Call for Papers:
6th Annual Hawaii Intl Conf Arts & Humanities
7) 9th International
Conference Art2008
8) Pratt Foundation Fellowship closes soon.
9)
Position Vacant: ISSI Inc
10) Consultancy Opportunity - Rottnest Island WW
II Defence Heritage Interpretation Plan
11) Heritage Projects Coordinator
(NSW)
12) Available now! The Future Past: Caring for Heritage
Places
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1) eXtreme heritage conference
update.
19th-21st July 2007.
Is time speeding up? To
the conference organising committee and all the presenters and convenors it
certainly seems that way!
The deadline for early bird registrations, June
15th is fast approaching. Don’t miss out !
Do you know a non- member
thinking of coming to the eXtreme heritage Conference?
If you do
encourage them to become an ICOMOS member and take advantage of the special
member registration rates. There is a substantial saving if they combine the
members discount rate with the conference early bird saving. To have their
membership application assessed in time for the conference early bird cut off
date it must be received by the secretariat no later than 5pm 31st May 2007.
We are busy putting the final touches to all the social events full
details of these will be revealed soon, so keep your eye on the website.
Following receipt of the last few acceptance forms from presenters the committee
will finalise the program of presentations this should be available on the web
from the end of next week. The line up for the public forum has also been
finalised and the Qld Minister for Natural Resources and Water is opening this
event. The Queensland Heritage Council is supporting the conference by catering
for the Heritage Poster Exhibition opening which is another free event for
delegates. They will be taking this opportunity to provide us with a detailed
overview of their state-wide heritage study that is currently
underway.
We are still seeking poster submissions as we now have extra
exhibitions space available so if you would like to promote a project you are
working on or have recently completed, please submit your entry via the website
www.aicomos.com
As you will know by know
Australia ICOMOS is sponsoring the inaugural meeting of ICOMOS Pasifika at this
conference. That meeting will take place concurrently with the AICOMOS Executive
meeting on the 18th the day before the Symposium on Climate Change and Heritage
Impacts. It is partly through the generosity of AI conference delegates from the
Fremantle conference that we have been able to support our colleagues in the
Pacific in this way. So thank you to all those who took part in last years
conference dinner Raffle. We will be maintaining this tradition and the
tradition of great prizes this year. It will be great to meet our colleagues
from ICOMOS Pasifika and share experiences and we are ensuring hat there are
enough social occasion during the conference to facilitate relaxed
networking.
As always feel free to contact me by email susan.mcintyretamwoy@jcu.edu.au . For questions
around papers and logistics, please contact the conference managers Waldron
Smith Management as directed on the website.
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2) Attention NSW and ACT
members:
World Heritage Day talk - Friday 15th June in
Sydney
Juliet Ramsay has just returned from attending
the International Scientific Committee Cultural Landscapes in Italy, and ISC
Historic Towns & Villages in Helsinki which was a co-operative event with
ICOMOS Finland to discuss the Vienna (HUL) Memorandum (also attended by AI
members Ian Hocking, Sue Jackson-Stepowski and Agnieshka Kiera). Juliet will
discuss current international issues and the workings of ISCs under the new
rules, while a local perspective case study will demonstrate a landscape
approach applied to a Sydney historic landscape (speaker awaiting formal
confirmation). Due to meetings of this ISC and CIVIHH in Helsinki, this
celebration of World Heritage Day will happen on FRIDAY 15 June.
Young member, Amy Nhan, has been busy seeking out
a not-visited-before and highly pertinent venue. Be prepared to BYO
bring-your-own ‘CHAIR’, and being mid winter to wear warm clothing. Details
awaiting confirmation and will be announced shortly via NSW membership global
email.
Enquiries to Sue Jackson-Stepowski, NSW Representative and AI
Secretary email: stepowsk@tpg.com.au
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3) Workshop On
The Protection
Of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986
The Department
of Environment and Water Resources, presents a workshop on significance
assessment and the guidelines for Expert Examiners under the Protection of
Movable Cultural Heritage Act.
The workshop will provide an opportunity
for discussion about the preparation of Expert Examiner reports, and to meet
members of the National Cultural Heritage Committee.
Curators and
heritage specialists with an interest in heritage objects and collections are
encouraged to attend.
Speakers include: Dr Leah McKenzie, Director,
Heritage Division, Department of the Environment of Water Resources
Veronica
Macno, Curator, The Workshops Rail Museum/Queensland Museum
Venue: The
Workshops Rail Museum
North Street, North Ipswich
Date: Wednesday 6
June 2007 Time: 11am-4.30pm
RSVP: Rosemary Hollow, Department of
the Environment and Water Resources: rosemary.hollow@environment.gov.au
Phone: 02 6274 2539
Register by: cob Thursday 31 May
There is no
charge to attend this workshop. It is sponsored by the Department of the
Environment and Water Resources with support from the Queensland
Museum
Australian Government Dept of Environment and Water Resources
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4) CHCAP Research Seminar, Thurs 7
June
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia
and the Pacific presents a joint Research Seminar.
Thursday 7th June
from 4:00pm - 6:15pm
4:00- 4:45pm:
Addressing the issue of
sustainable tourism at six World Heritage Sites.
Presenter: Chris Landorf,
Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture & Built Environment, University of
Newcastle.
4:45 - 5:00pm Break for questions, discussion and
refreshments
5:00pm-5:45pm:
'Singular Scenes': Encounters,
representations, and the generation of racial knowledge about Aboriginal
Australians.
Presenter: Bronwen Douglas, Senior Fellow, Division of
Pacific & Asian History, Australian National University.
5:45 -6:15pm
Concluding questions, discussion, refreshments.
Research
Synopses:
Addressing the issue of sustainable tourism at six World
Heritage Sites.
A reality of World Heritage listing for many sites is an
increased pressure to form the basis of economic growth through tourism. This
comes with associated issues of site degradation and loss of connection between
local communities and their heritage. However, recent developments in the World
Heritage nomination and reporting process indicate a growing awareness of the
need to better balance environmental conservation with sustainable economic and
social development. Chris will report on the extent to which five heritage
management plans address the issue of sustainable tourism.
'Singular
Scenes': Encounters, representations, and the generation of racial knowledge
about Aboriginal Australians.
This paper considers the production,
reproduction, and independent life of certain iconic representations of Noongar
men encountered at King George Sound in Western Australia in 1826. Originally
the works of artists and naturalists on the expedition of the Frenchman Dumont
d'Urville, these representations were variously deployed, appropriated, and
plagiarized by metropolitan savants, editors, or publishers in the course of
constructing extremely adverse stereotypes of Aboriginal people that positioned
them at the base of human racial hierarchies. Bronwen treats these encounters as
situational and permeable: not as a generalized clash of incommensurate cultures
but as ambiguous intersections of multiple personal agencies, both indigenous
and foreign, which were usually at cross-purposes but were not necessarily
opposed.
There is no entry charge and everyone is welcome
Venue:
Moot Court, Building C Room 3.19, Deakin University
For a map of the campus
see http://www.deakin.edu.au/campuses/burwood-map.php.
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5) Additional $4 Million to Protect Our Coastal
Environment
The Australian Government today announced an
additional $4 million in community funding to protect and conserve Australia’s
coastal and marine environments.
The funding, to be provided through a
special round of the Australian Government Envirofund, was jointly announced by
Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation, Senator Eric Abetz, and
Assistant Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr John
Cobb.
Senator Abetz said Round 10 of the Envirofund will provide targeted
help to allow communities protect and improve their local coastal and marine
environments.
“While Australia has an enviable record in environmental
protection, further action to help conserve and clean-up our coastal environment
is desirable”, the Minister said.
“The best environmental outcomes are
achieved when the local community and the Government can work together.
“This funding will allow community groups to come forward with their own
local, on-ground ways to improve the coast environment, and if worthy, the
Australian Government will assist the community to make it
happen.”
Community groups and individuals can now apply for grants of up
to $50,000 to undertake local environment projects to protect our foreshores,
beaches, estuaries and marine environments.
Some examples of the types of
projects eligible for funding include restoring coastal sand dunes through
planting of native grasses and shrubs; monitoring of threatened coastal animal
species to aid their recovery; construction of beach walkways to protect native
plants and animals; and public awareness campaigns to help reduce marine
pollution.
Mr Cobb said the special coastal and marine round of
Envirofund would continue the Australian Government’s commitment to helping
community groups and individuals tackle important natural resource management
issues at the local level.
“Since its inception in 2002, the Australian
Government Envirofund has provided more than $110 million for almost 7000 local
environment projects throughout all regions of Australia,” he
said.
“Round 10 of the Envirofund will focus solely on coastal and marine
projects, providing coastal communities with the support they need to undertake
valuable on-ground work that will benefit not only their local environment, but
the wider coastal and marine environments that are enjoyed by millions of
Australian and overseas visitors every year.
“To make it easier for
coastal communities to get their environment projects off the ground, the
Australian Government will again consider a reduced level of applicant
contribution for coastal Envirofund projects, particularly where they are
undertaken by volunteers.
More information and examples of eligible
activities are in the Envirofund Round 10 Guide and Application Form. The
coastal and marine round of Envirofund opens for applications on Monday 21 May
and closes on Friday 20 July.
For copies of the application form visit www.nht.gov.au/envirofund or telephone 1800 065
823.
Media contacts:
Office of John Cobb Tom Chesson :
0418 415 597
Office of Eric Abetz Brad Stansfield: 0419 884 666
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6) Call for
Papers/Abstracts/Submissions
6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Arts & Humanities
January 11 - 14, 2008
Waikiki Beach
Marriott Resort & Spa, Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio
Honolulu Hawaii,
USA
Submission Deadline: August 23, 2007
Sponsored
by:
University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban
Neighborhoods
The Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance
Web
address: http://www.hichumanities.org
Email address:
humanities@hichumanities.org
The 6th Annual Hawaii International
Conference on Arts & Humanities will be held from January 11 (Friday) to
January 14 (Monday), 2008 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, and
the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will
provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and
humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own
particular disciplines. Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are
welcome.
Topic Areas (All Areas of Arts & Humanities are
Invited):
*Anthropology
*American Studies
*Archeology
*Architecture
*Art
*Art History
*Dance
*English
*Ethnic
Studies
*Film
*Folklore
*Geography
*Graphic Design
*History
*Landscape Architecture
*Languages
*Literature
*Linguistics
*Music
*Performing Arts
*Philosophy
*Postcolonial Identities
*Product Design
*Religion
*Second Language Studies
*Speech/Communication
*Theatre
*Visual Arts
*Other Areas of Arts
and Humanities
*Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other
or other areas.
Submitting a Proposal:
You may now submit your
paper/proposal by using our new online submission system! To use the system, and
for detailed information about submitting see: http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm
Hawaii
International Conference on Arts & Humanities
P.O. Box 75036
Honolulu,
HI 96836 USA
Telephone: (808) 542-4385
Fax: (808) 947-2420
E-mail:
humanities@hichumanities.org
Website: http://www.hichumanities.org
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7) 9th International
Conference Art2008
The 9th International
Conference Art2008 will take place in Jerusalem, Israel on May 25-30,
2008.
Dear Colleague,
We are happy to host the upcoming 9th
International Art Conference in Jerusalem on Non-destructive Investigation and
Analysis. The success of twenty years of Art conferences throughout Europe has
set the background for Art2008. The main objective of Art2008 is bringing
together experts in non-destructive evaluation and material analysis with
professionals from the fields of preservation of cultural heritage, archaeology,
art history and architectural researchers of ancient
structures.
Non-destructive methods of analysis have become a routine in
many areas of technology, engineering and medicine. With a growing number of
application areas, non-destructive analysis found its way into the world of art
and archeology. Its advantage over sampling is obvious in the cases of unique
objects of cultural heritage. Continuous improvement of sensitivity and
reliability has caused non-destructive investigations to become a preferred
approach even in cases where microanalysis sampling is permitted.
Many
non-destructive techniques and evaluation methods applied in the natural
sciences offer advantages to cultural heritage preservation. The synergy between
experts will lead to the continuous development and adjustments of new
scientific methods and their application in the fields of preservation,
reconstruction and diagnostics of museum and archeological objects.
For
details of the First Announcement and Call for Papers please see our website www.isas.co.il/art2008
Please bring the
conference to the attention of your colleagues.
We look forward to your
participation.
Prof. Amos Notea
Conference
Chairman
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Conference Secretariat:
POB 574, Jerusalem
91004, Israel
Tel: 972-2-6520574
Fax: 972-2-6520558
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8) Pratt Foundation Fellowship closes
soon.
To all considering applying for the Pratt
Foundation Fellowship,just a gentle reminder that applications close Monday 28th
May at 4.00 pm when hard copies of your application must be received at ISS
Institute.
Please call Jeanette if you have any questions at this
stage,we are here to help.
More information and application form can be
found at:http://www.issinstitute.org.au/os/index.html
ISS
Institute
101/685 Burke Road
Camberwell 3124
AUSTRALIA
Phone 61
3 9882 0055
Fax 61 3 9882 9866
Email issi.etm@pacific.net.au
www.issinstitute.org.au
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9) Position Vacant
International
Specialised Skills Institute Inc
Business and Programs
Manager
• Office located in Camberwell