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ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 372
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An information service provided by the Australia ICOMOS
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Friday 6 February 2009
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1) Dragon Tails: Re-interpreting Chinese-Australian Heritage –
call for papers
2) UNITAR Hiroshima –
Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites Workshop 2009 –
“Conservation for Peace – World Heritage Impact Assessment”
3) GCI Bulletin – available
online
4) New Publication: Time
Honored: A Global View of Architectural Conservation by John Stubbs
5) The Director of the Heritage
Council of WA Retires
6) News from ICCROM
7) Heritage Conservation Job
Required
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1) Dragon Tails:
Re-interpreting Chinese-Australian Heritage – call for papers
9-11 October 2009
Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, Victoria
VENUE: Sovereign Hill Museums
Association, Ballarat, Victoria www.sovereignhill.com.au
CONFERENCE OUTLINE
In 1984, noted
historian Jennifer Cushman challenged researchers to move beyond the prevalent
one-dimensional approach to understanding the Chinese presence in Australia—an
approach that was primarily concerned with examining Australia’s attitudes
towards the Chinese. In taking up this challenge, and seeking to understand the
Chinese ‘on their own terms’, researchers have uncovered new sources and
applied inter-disciplinary approaches to reveal the complex picture of Chinese
community cultures, identities and race relations in Australia.
While we would
no longer say that the history of the Chinese in Australia is hidden or
neglected, where do these new stories fit within the wider narrative of
Australian history? What are the challenges involved in communicating and
interpreting these new perspectives, with their inherent complexity and
contradictions, to broader audiences? One of the major aims of this conference
is to bring together these new historical understandings about early
Chinese-Australians, and consider their place within broader histories of
Australia and the Chinese diaspora. Another aim is to create a forum for how
these stories might be interpreted in the classroom, and at cultural heritage
sites and museums.
This conference
welcomes papers from a wide range of disciplines, including history,
archeology, tourism, cultural studies, education, and museum/heritage
studies.
We are
particularly interested in work that:
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Tells about early Chinese-Australian history from Chinese-Australian
perspectives.
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Discusses Chinese-Australian heritage/history within broader perspectives (e.g.
Australian, Chinese, comparative, and/or transnational).
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Draws on new resources to tell new stories.
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Focuses on intercolonial (Northern Territory and Queensland) and/or
trans-Tasman connections.
THEMES:
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Chinese goldseekers and their legacy
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Developments and issues for Chinese-Australian heritage tourism (regional and
urban)
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Everyday life and culture for early Chinese-Australians
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Communicating Chinese-Australian heritage (e.g. education, multimedia, internet
technology)
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Early Chinese-Australian formations of politics, identity and citizenship
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Interrogating Chinese-Australian historiography and material culture
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Perspectives on heritage Chinese precincts
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Mapping historical connections between Asia and Australia
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Biographies and oral histories of Chinese-Australian ‘pioneers’
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Creative work that re-interprets Chinese-Australian history
PRESENTATIONS:
Papers Standard session
presentations should be 20 mins long (with 10 mins allowed for question time).
Panels – We’d welcome panel
submissions. Our suggested formats for the panels are:
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3 x 20 min papers with
a coherent theme, or
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Up to 5 speakers on a
discussion panel (approx 10 mins each, with at least 40 mins for discussion)
Abstracts (max 200 words), with
speakers’ full contact details and short biographical notes (max 100 words)
should be sent to keirreeves@iprimus.com.au
BY MONDAY 18 MAY 2009.
Enquiries about the conference
should be directed to keirreeves@iprimus.com.au
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2) UNITAR Hiroshima –
Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites Workshop 2009 –
“Conservation for Peace – World Heritage Impact Assessment”
Hiroshima, Japan, 19‐24
April 2009
Applications are now open for this
workshop with a deadline of 2 March 2009.
Details can be found at http://www.unitar.org/hiroshima/unitar-activities/world-heritage-sites/2009
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3)
GCI Bulletin – available online
To read the February 2009 issue of
the GCI bulletin, visit
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/bulletin/current.html?cid=gci004.
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4)
New Publication: Time Honored: A Global View of Architectural Conservation
by John Stubbs
For further information concerning
this publication, please see the attached flier.
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5)
The Director of the Heritage Council of WA Retires
Ian Baxter, WA’s colourful Heritage
Council director for over seventeen years, retired this week. Becoming
director in 1992, 12 months after the agency was established under the Heritage
of Western Australia Act, Ian has played a pivotal role in putting heritage on
the map in WA.
“Ian has made a significant
contribution to preserving our State’s heritage for future generations of
Western Australians,” Heritage Council of Western Australia acting chairperson,
Marion Fulker, said.
“There is no doubt that without
Ian’s personal commitment to the agency’s charter, a number of our significant
buildings would have fallen victim to the wrecking ball,” she said.
The West Australian of 2 February
2009, reported Ian’s parting shot, that politics be taken out of heritage
issues in WA, and for the Heritage Council to have more autonomy.
Described as a ‘tough-nut’, Ian
forged his reputation on issues including the Old Swan Brewery debate.
Under his leadership places including Newspaper House in St George’s Terrace
and the Raffles Hotel have been retained. Indeed, over 1300 places are
now legally protected on the state register.
Protecting WA’s heritage through
the mining boom of the past two decades has been a tremendous challenge for
HCWA. WA Icomites are grateful to the organization, under Ian’s leadership, for
taking on many of these challenges and we wish him all the best in his future
endeavours.
Stephen Carrick is currently HCWA’s
acting director.
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6) News from ICCROM
URUSHI 2009 - International Course on Conservation of
Japanese Lacquer
Applications are now open for the URUSHI 2009 - International
Course on Conservation of Japanese, to be held in Tokyo and Joboji-Hiraizumi,
Japan from 2 - 15 September 2009.
Application deadline: 15 March 2009
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/announce_en/2009_09urushi2009_en.shtml
MARC-AL 2009 - First Latin American Course on the
Conservation of Modern Architecture
Applications are now open for the MARC-AL 2009 the first Latin
American course on 'Conservation of Modern Architecture', to be held in Brazil
from 30 March 2009 - 30 March 2010.
Application deadline: 3 March 2009
http://www.ceci-br.org/novo/www/site/index.php?com=pagina&id=1987
ARIS 2009 - Architectural
Records, Inventories and Information Systems for Conservation
Applications are now open for the ARIS 2009 course on
'Architectural Records, Inventories and Information Systems for Conservation',
to be held in Rome, Italy from 2 September - 2 October 2009.
Application deadline: 16 February 2009
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/announce_en/2009_09aris_en.shtml
Heritage news in the media
worldwide
A monthly compilation of media articles on heritage topics.
Obviously, these all reflect the viewpoints of the authors.
January 2009: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2009_en/field_en/01press_en.shtml
Events, grants, job
opportunities, websites, etc.
Visit http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2009_en/field_en/misc_en.shtml
for a comprehensive listing
New: AFRICA 2009 Newsletter
ICCROM is pleased to announce the publication of a bilingual
(English-French) edition of AFRICA 2009 Newsletter 8.
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2009_en/various_en/01_05pubnewslafrica2009_en.shtml
ICCROM
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7) Heritage Conservation Job Required
Bournemouth University Heritage Conservation graduate seeks work,
willing to work in any location, Currently at Arundel Castle West Sussex UK.
Speciality is Building Conservation and Landscape Management.
For more information please contact Roddy Weaver by email hwicce99@hotmail.com
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