Australia
ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 380
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An information service provided by the Australia ICOMOS
Secretariat
Friday 3 April 2009
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1) (Un)Loved Modern Conference update
2) Tour of Fortifications around Port Phillip Heads, 17
– 19 April 2009
3) ICOMOS South Australian Event to Celebrate World
Heritage Day
4) Link to Heritage South Australia’s E-newsletter
5) New Heritage Funding Scheme – TOP-UP: the
Community Co-Contribution
6) Dragon Tails: Re-interpreting Chinese-Australian
Heritage – call for papers
7) Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the
Arts: Media Release – Boost for World Heritage Nomination of Australian
Convict Sites
8) GCI Bulletin – available online
9) Course announcement – Cultural Heritage and
Legal Aspects in Europe
10) Job opportunities at DEHWA
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1) (Un)Loved Modern Conference
update
The organising committee for the (Un)Loved Modern Conference to be held in
Sydney, 7-10 July 2009, is delighted to announce that registrations have passed
150, with at least 90 members of Australia ICOMOS registered thus far. We have
delegates attending from every state and territory in Australia, as well as
from New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Sweden, Belgium,
Canada, China and South Africa.
We’re looking forward to an energetic three days in Sydney
as speakers, invited guests and delegates share their knowledge and experience
with the challenges of conserving our modern heritage. Details of the conference programme will continue to
be updated on the conference website over the next few weeks as speakers
finalise their papers, and we announce more information about the social functions at the
conference. Some of the field
sessions on Thursday afternoon have booked out already, so if you are keen
to experience first-hand some of the challenges of conserving 20th Century
heritage in Sydney, register now
to ensure your place on a tour.
One of the conference aims is to stimulate debate about how
we can best protect our modern heritage, particularly in light of the current
economic and development pressures threatening much of it. The broader the
range of participants in this debate, the more inclusive outcomes from the
debate will be. Please spread the word to your colleagues and professional
acquaintances. This conference offers an
unparalleled opportunity to mix with international leaders in the field of
conserving 20th Century heritage.
More details at the conference website: www.aicomos.com
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2) Tour of Fortifications
around Port Phillip Heads, 17 – 19 April 2009
Friday 17 to Sunday
19 April 2009
To Mark World
Monument Day, 18 April 2009
A three day tour has been arranged to mark World Monument
Day, the theme of which this year is Science and Heritage.
The fortifications around Port Phillip Heads were essential
to the defence of the ports of Melbourne and Geelong from the Gold Rushes to
the Second World War. They comprise Fort Queenscliff, Point Nepean and South
Channel Fort. The former two are well known and much loved. The latter, an
artificial island just inside the Heads, is particularly interesting for its
‘disappearing’ guns but is very difficult to access. All three
sites display a sequence of development based on the technical innovations of
military science.
The tour begins with a reception at Fort Queenscliffe at 4.00
pm on Friday 17 April followed by an official welcome and launch by the Mayor
of the Borough of Queenscliffe. Jane Ainsworth and Timothy Hubbard will present
an informal talk on the guns and cannon of south-west Victoria, some of which
have been identified as having outstanding international significance. Dinner
will be at a local restaurant.
The main part of the tour is an all-day journey by charter boat
on Saturday 18 April starting at Queenscliff Pier at 9.00 am. This will
include an extended stopover on South Channel Fort with a leading expert on the
fortifications from Parks Victoria. The next stop will be Portsea with another
extended site visit to Point Nepean. Again, leading experts will explain the
development of the site, its identification and protection under the
Commonwealth Government, and the fight to have the land returned to the State
Government as a national park. The Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park now
incorporates much of the landscapes and seascapes around the Heads. Weather
and time permitting, the return journey to Queenscliffe will include
Pope’s Eye, the other artificial island which was not developed into a fort. Dinner will be at another local restaurant.
On Sunday there will be a private and extended inspection of
Fort Queenscliff led by the fort’s professional guides. The tour will
conclude about lunchtime on Sunday 19 April.
The tour will cost $155 per person for ICOMOS members and
$170 for non-members. Unfortunately there cannot be any discounts or
concessions because of the cost of the charter boat. The cost includes: the
opening reception and talk on Friday, the boat trip, lunch and other
refreshments on Saturday, and the extended inspection of Fort Queenscliff on
Sunday, as well as tour notes and admissions. Payment can be made by credit
card using the form attached to this e-newsletter. Places are strictly limited
and payment in full must be received by close of business on Tuesday 14
April (Easter Tuesday).
Accommodation is plentiful in Queenscliff but participants
are advised to book as soon as possible to confirm their accommodation.
Further enquiries can be made from Timothy Hubbard, Victorian
state representative of the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee by phone on
(03) 5568 2623 and 0419 353 195 and by email on timothy@heritagematters.com.au.
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3) ICOMOS South
Australian Event to Celebrate World Heritage Day
Theme of Event -
Heritage and Science
Date: 20 April 2009
4.45 registration
for 5pm start – 7.30pm,
AIA Headquarters,
100 Flinders St, Adelaide
An Australia ICOMOS meeting, supported by the Department for
Environment and Heritage, is to be held at the AIA Headquarters on 20 April
2009 to celebrate World Heritage Day. The theme this year for World Heritage
Day is Heritage and Science.
This meeting, will discuss heritage issues generally related
to this theme, and our guest speaker will be Stephen Forbes, Director of the
Adelaide Botanic Gardens, who will talk about heritage and science at the
gardens, and in particular about the recent architectural project there –
adjacent to the Museum of Botany.
This will be a highly practical interactive meeting for
architects, landscape architects, and other interested parties, and there will
be open discussion about the conservation processes as part of this Botanic
Gardens project.
After the talk, there will be intermission with drinks and
famously generous nibbles followed by a “news session” with local
conservation architects talking about recent projects. Participants are still
being confirmed, and this too will be interactive.
The event will be held at 100 Flinders Street. There will be
a charge of $15.00 for ICOMOS members, $25 for non members. Any surplus funds
will be donated to the Streetwise Asia fund for Heritage Conservation –
and a short introduction about the progress of this fund will be provided at
the start of the meeting.
Please RSVP to McDougall & Vines mcdvines@bigpond.com by 16 April 2009
at the latest to assist with catering purposes. Please also have correct
money to pay at the door. If any participants have examples of recent heritage
projects they wish to present at the meeting, please contact Liz Vines.
Elizabeth Vines
South Australian Executive Committee representative,
Australia ICOMOS
0419 816 525
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4) Link to Heritage South
Australia’s E-newsletter
To view the March 2009 issue of Heritage South
Australia’s E-newsletter, visit
http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/latest_e_news.html
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5) New Heritage Funding Scheme
– TOP-UP: the Community Co-Contribution
The National Trust and the Victorian Government are pleased
to introduce a new funding opportunity to assist community heritage
conservation projects in Victoria.
The Top-Up scheme has been developed as an incentive which
provides financial support to community groups involved in raising funds for
conservation of public heritage places or objects.
This Program provides eligible groups with access to the
recently expanded National Trust External Appeals System to manage fundraising
accounts and provide tax-deductible status to donations.
In addition, groups using the National Trust External Appeals
System who are advanced in achieving their fundraising target may be eligible
to receive a Top–Up Grant of up to $10 000.
As a pilot program, only a limited number of Top-Up Grants
will be available.
Closing date for applications: Friday, 29th May 2009
For application forms please visit www.nattrust.com.au/donations_appeals/external_appeals
For enquires please contact Rohan Storey, Architectural
Historian at the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) on (03) 9656 9800 or
email rohan.storey@nattrust.com.au
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6) 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:
•Tells
about early Chinese-Australian history from Chinese-Australian perspectives.
•Discusses
Chinese-Australian heritage/history within broader perspectives (e.g.
Australian, Chinese, comparative, and/or transnational).
•Draws
on new resources to tell new stories.
•Focuses
on intercolonial (Northern Territory and Queensland) and/or trans-Tasman
connections.
THEMES:
•Chinese
goldseekers and their legacy
•Developments
and issues for Chinese-Australian heritage tourism (regional and urban)
•Everyday
life and culture for early Chinese-Australians
•Communicating
Chinese-Australian heritage (e.g. education, multimedia, internet technology)
•Early
Chinese-Australian formations of politics, identity and citizenship
•Interrogating
Chinese-Australian historiography and material culture
•Perspectives
on heritage Chinese precincts
•Mapping
historical connections between Asia and Australia
•Biographies
and oral histories of Chinese-Australian ‘pioneers’
•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:
•3 x 20 min papers with
a coherent theme, or
•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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7) Department of the
Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts: Media Release – Boost for
World Heritage Nomination of Australian Convict Sites
The Australian Government’s nomination of the
Australian Convict Sites to the World Heritage List has received a significant
boost, with Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett saying today that he has
received formal notification the nomination will be assessed this year.
“This is good news as it means Australia’s
nomination is progressing to the next stage of the process and is now one step
closer to a decision,” Mr Garrett said.
“The World Heritage Centre has advised that the
nomination will be forwarded to the International Council on Monuments and
Sites (ICOMOS) for evaluation.
“An initial assessment of the nomination will now take
place, followed by an ICOMOS mission later in the year to assess the 11 sites
included in the serial nomination. It is expected the assessment will be
provided to the World Heritage Committee for a final decision in 2010.
“The progress of the nomination reflects the huge
amount of work done to date by state and territory governments, property
managers and local communities. I congratulate everyone who has been involved.
“The places included in the serial nomination are a
tangible record of one of the greatest penal experiments in history—the
transportation of more than 166,000 men, women and children to a vast and
relatively unknown land,” Mr Garrett said.
The Australian Convict Sites are:
•Tasmania: Port Arthur
Historic Site (Tasman Peninsula), Cascades Female Factory (Hobart), Darlington
Probation Station (Maria Island), Coal Mines Historic Site (via Premadeyna) and
Brickendon–Woolmers Estates (near Longford).
•New South Wales: Old
Government House and Domain (Parramatta), Hyde Park Barracks (Sydney), Cockatoo
Island Convict Site (Sydney) and Old Great North Road (near Wiseman’s
Ferry).
•Norfolk Island:
Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area.
•Western Australia:
Fremantle Prison.
These sites are already included in the National Heritage
List and protected under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity
Conservation Act 1999.
The Tasmanian Minister for Environment, Parks, Heritage and
the Arts, Michelle O’Byrne, welcomed the news, saying this is an
important step toward international recognition of Australia’s convict
heritage.
“It is extremely pleasing to reach this milestone and
move closer to a prestigious World Heritage listing for our special convict
places,” Ms O’Byrne said.
“Like those of the other states and territories
represented in the nomination, Tasmania’s convict journey is a
fascinating and very human tale. It is ultimately a tale of survival under
extreme conditions and one that is deserving of the world’s highest
heritage honour.’’
For more information visit www.heritage.gov.au
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8) GCI Bulletin
– available online
To read the April 2009 issue of the GCI bulletin, visit
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/bulletin/current.html?cid=gci005
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9) Course announcement –
Cultural Heritage and Legal Aspects in Europe
Between 20-27 September 2009 the Institute for Mediterranean
Heritage (Piran, Slovenia) and the National Institute for the Protection of
Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, in collaboration with the European Heritage
Legal Forum and with the support of the Council of Europe, are organising an
international course on Cultural Heritage and Legal Aspects in Europe.
Throughout seven days of thematic lectures and visits, the
course aims to provide European heritage professionals and researchers updated
insights in current trends and issues in cultural heritage from the legal
perspective. Please find attached the announcement where further details and
the link to the website can be found.
The deadline for application is 10 June 2009.
For futher information, visit http://www.dediscina-heritage.si/seminar.html
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10) Job
opportunities at DEHWA
Senior Heritage Officer (APS6)
Reference: 1420 - Salary range $64,156 – $72,587
Heritage Officer (APS5)
Reference: 1093 - Salary range $58,713 – $62,285
Please see the attached document for more information about
the above roles. Alternatively, visit http://www.environment.gov.au/about/jobs/index.html
to download the selection documentation.
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