Australia ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 329
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An information service provided by the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
Friday 4 April 2008
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1)  Australia 2020 Summit
2)  Australia ICOMOS celebrates World Monument's Day - 2008 theme: 'Religious Heritage and Sacred Places'
3)  South Australian ICOMOS event - World Heritage Day Workshop
4)  World Heritage Day Event - Western Australia
5)  News from ICCROM
6)  Link to Heritage Tasmania's Enews
7)  New book on conservation by Barbara Appelbaum
8)  Final draft recommendations from the Global Climate Change Symposium - ICOMOS Scientific Council now available
 
Situations Vacant...
9) Conservation Scientists at Rathgen Research Laboratory, Berlin

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1) Australia 2020 Summit
 
A reminder that the deadline for public submissions to the Summit is next Wednesday 9 April. Australia ICOMOS members are encouraged to make submissions on cultural heritage aspects of any or all of the summit topics. These can be made online at http://www.australia2020.gov.au/submissions/index.cfm.

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2) Australia ICOMOS celebrates World Monument's Day - 2008 theme: 'Religious Heritage and Sacred Places'
 
World Monument's Day on 18 April 2008 celebrates the signing of the UNESCO Venice Charter.  This special day offers an opportunity to raise public awareness concerning the diversity of the world's heritage and the efforts that are required to protect and conserve it, as well as to draw attention to its vulnerability.

Each State branch of Australia ICOMOS will celebrate the 2008 theme of 'Religious Heritage and Sacred Places'.

Australia has always had all major world religions represented since the white settlement, and these reflects our considerable 'shared built and intangible' heritage, in additional to indigenous spiritual places. 
 
Two Sydney events will showcase an historical approach of how religious places demonstrate early town planning applications in the c1901 garden suburb of Haberfield lead by Sue Jackson-Stepowski, and the another event demonstrates how world religions co-exist as late 20th century 'share built heritage' in a very diverse outer suburban setting of Fairfield, organised by Helen Wilson and Graeme Wiffen.

South Australia branch will show-case conservation works being undertaken at St Francis Xavier Cathedral on 18th April, as well as be the venue for a practitioners' seminar on the use of lime mortars and appropriate mixes in such conservation works, led by Liz Vines and Anthony Coupe.

For Victorian members of ICOMOS, a small tour has been arranged to coincide with the Heritage Council's Forum on the cultural landscape of the Wimmera-Mallee to be held at Murtoa near Horsham on Friday, 18th April 2008. The tour will leave Horsham on Sunday, 20th April at 9.00 am and visit Longerenong Homestead, Belmont Homestead and a range of churches and the synagogue in Ballarat. It is expected to conclude at 4.00 pm in Ballarat leaving time for people to return home to Melbourne or other places. There will be a small fee to cover the cost of a picnic lunch and tour notes. Travel will be by private car.
 
Please contact Timothy Hubbard, Victorian state rep for the ICOMOS Executive Committee at timothy@heritagematters.com.au or (03) 5568 2623 if you interested in attending.
 
Information about 'Heritage and the Land', the Heritage Council's Forum and the registration form can be downloaded from http://www.heritage.vic.gov.au/page_27.asp?ID=27#225. Bookings close Friday, 11th April.

West Australian seminar on 18th April deals  with "what makes a sacred site; changing and differing tangible and intangible needs", to be held in the St Bartholomew's Chapel, East Perth Cemetery:  Speakers include Father Abbot of the Benedictine 'New Norcia', Australian's only monastic town established in 1846 by Spanish monks associated with San Martin Pinario adjoining the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia ( http://www.newnorcia.wa.edu.au/monastery_history.htm).  Organised by WA colleagues Anne Blake, Ian Hocking, Alan Kelsall and Sarah Murphy 
 
For further details, please visit the Australia ICOMOS web site at www.icomos.org/australia/ or contact the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat austicomos@deakin.edu.au .

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3) South Australian ICOMOS event - World Heritage Day Workshop
 
 
South Australian ICOMOS event
Attention - Architects, Heritage Consultants, Conservation Practitioners
World Heritage Day Workshop - April 18th 2008
Theme:  Religious Heritage and Sacred Places
St Francis Xavier Cathedral Hall, 4 - 7pm, Wakefield St , Adelaide
 
An Australia ICOMOS seminar, supported by the Heritage Branch of South Australia, is to be held at St Francis Xavier Cathedral Hall, Adelaide on April 18th to celebrate World Heritage Day.  The theme this year for World Heritage Day is Religious Heritage and Sacred Places.
 
This seminar, to be held at St Francis Xavier Cathedral, will discuss heritage issues generally related to this theme, using a case study involving a visit to the conservation works at the Cathedral and the building of the new sacristy.
 
This will be a highly practical seminar for architects and others wishing to discuss conservation processes and include discussions on the theme as follows:
   
The workshop will be held at the hall adjacent to St Francis Xavier Cathedral.  There will be a charge of $15.00 for ICOMOS members, $25 for non members, with generous drinks and nibbles provided at the end of the seminar.  Any surplus funds will be donated to the Streetwise Asia fund for Heritage Conservation. 
 
Please RSVP to McDougall & Vines mcdvines@bigpond.com, by 14 April at the latest to assist with catering purposes. Please also have correct money to pay at the door.

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4) World Heritage Day Event - Western Australia
 
WA ICOMOS and RAIA (WA) heritage committee invite you to St Bartholomew's Chapel, East Perth Cemeteries on 18 April 2008, to hear Fr Placid Spearritt OSB, Abbott of New Norcia, address the question What makes a site sacred? as part of world wide celebrations of World Heritage Day. A tour of East Perth Cemeteries exploring the conservation and management of Victorian cemeteries before the presentation will be led by Sarah Murphy, Manager Properties and Collections, National Trust of Australia (WA) and Phil Palmer, Senior Landscape Architect, EPCAD. Refreshments will be served after the event.
 
Places are limited so please RSVP no later that 11 April to Janet Sully (08) 9388 2810 or janet@hocking-hpa.com.au .
 
ICOMOS & RAIA members $10 (lecture only, tour free)
Others                                     $15 (lecture only, tour free)

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5) News from ICCROM
 
COURSE ANNOUNCEMENTS
 
AFRICA 2009 - Conservation and management of immovable cultural heritage, Benin
Applications are now open for the course on Conservation and management of immovable cultural heritage', to be held in Benin from 1 September - 21 November 2008.
Application deadline: 2 May 2008
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/announce_en/2008_09Africa2009RegBenin_en.shtml
 
ATH R: Conservation and management of heritage sites in the Arab Region
Applications are now open for the course on Conservation and management of immovable cultural heritage', to be held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates from 27 October - 4 December 2008.
Application deadline: 6 June 2008
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/announce_en/2008_10AtharUAE_en.shtml
 
Management Planning for Cultural Heritage
Applications are now open for the course on 'Management Planning for Cultural Heritage', to be held in Shanghai, China from 24 November - 6 December.
Application deadline: 1 June
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/announce_en/2008_11ManagSites_en.shtml
 
NEWS
Heritage news in the media worldwide
A monthly compilation of media articles on heritage topics. Obviously, these all reflect the viewpoints of the authors.
March 2008: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2008_en/field_en/03press_en.shtml
 
UNESCO-ICCROM workshop on storage: update
A specialized workshop for trainers in reorganization of collections in storage was held at ICCROM in January 2008.
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2008_en/events_en/03_11workshopPrevenUNESCO_en.shtml
 
ICOM-CC meeting on terminology in Rome
On 7 March, the ICOM-Committee for Conservation Terminology Task Force met at ICCROM.
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2008_en/events_en/03_07meetingICOM- CC_en.shtml
 
PUBLICATIONS
AFRICA 2009 Newsletter
ICCROM is pleased to announce the publication of a bilingual (English-French) edition of AFRICA 2009 Newsletter.
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2008_en/various_en/03_28pubnewslafrica2009_en.shtml
 
FELLOW AND INTERNS
Ona Vileikis Tamayo
Ona Vileikis Tamayo, from Colombia, is undertaking a two- month internship at ICCROM during March and April.
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2008_en/interns_en/03_03internVileikis_en.shtml
 
Jagath Weerasinghe
Jagath Weerasinghe, from Sri Lanka, will undertake a two- month fellowship at ICCROM during March and April.
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2008_en/interns_en/03_03fellowWeerasinghe_en.shtml
 
OBITUARY
Hernan Crespo Toral
Hernan Crespo Toral, former Assistant Director-General for Culture at UNESCO, died at his home in Quito, Ecuador on 23 March 2008, aged 70.
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2008_en/various_en/03_27obitCrespoToral_en..shtml
 
ICCROM
iccrom@iccrom.org
http://www.iccrom.org

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6) Link to Heritage Tasmania's Enews
 
To view the March 2008 issue of Heritage Tasmania's Enews bulletin, visit
http://www.heritage.tas.gov.au/showItem.php?id=995.

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7) New book on conservation by Barbara Appelbaum
 
Barbara Appelbaum's book Conservation Treatment Methodology (Elsevier, 2007) presents a systematic approach to decision-making for conservation treatments. The methodology is applicable to all cultural property, independent of object type or material. It will be of interest to conservators, as well as curators, art historian, architects, and those in the field of historic preservation.
 
It is available at Amazon.com and at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/712171/description#description

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8) Final draft recommendations from the Global Climate Change Symposium - ICOMOS Scientific Council now available
 
Please contact the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat via email (austicomos@deakin.edu.au) to request a copy of the recommendations.

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9) Conservation Scientists at Rathgen Research Laboratory, Berlin
 
For more information concerning these vacancies, please visit http://www.iiconservation.org/jobs/jobs.php?job_id=175.

Applications close 11 April 2008.

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