Australia
ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 399
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An information service provided by the Australia ICOMOS
Secretariat
Friday 14 August 2009
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1)
Australia ICOMOS - Seeking: Working Group or Subcommittee Members
2)
Australia ICOMOS Member Feedback - Client Consultant Engagement Agreements
3)
Australia ICOMOS - Canberra Talk Series
4)
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!! - Young member drive
5)
Churchill Fellowship awarded to AI member Ken Horrigan
6)
Professional Development Program - International Heritage Protection, 25-29
August
7)
Calling for ACT ICOMOS Mentors!!!!
8)
GCI Bulletin - available online
9)
Global Heritage Review (GHR) bulletin available online
10)
Assistance sought in contacting Maltese community for research project
11)
Generic Research Project Development Workshop - EOI sought
Situations
Vacant
12) Call for Applications:
Visiting (Senior) Research Fellowships - Asia Research Institute, National
University of Singapore
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1) Australia ICOMOS - Seeking:
Working Group or Subcommittee Members
Are you interested in joining an Australia ICOMOS Working
Group or Subcommittee?
Australia ICOMOS has a number of working groups and
subcommittees which focus on areas of interest to Australia ICOMOS. These
committees and subcommittees are currently under review as the issues that gave
rise to the need for some are no longer relevant and others are in need of
renewed energy and commitment. Some of these act as 'Reference Groups' - ie.
they are made up of people with expertise in a particular area who can be
called on to assist and provide advice if a relevant issue arises in the works
of the Executive Committee.
If you have particular expertise in the following areas we
are interested in hearing from you:
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Pacific Heritage;
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World Heritage Reference Group; and
•
Indigenous Heritage Working Group
Some are standing committees that work with the Executive on
a more regular basis. These include:
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the Advocacy Working Group; and
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the IBC Marketing Group
We are also considering establishing two new working parties
arising from resolutions of the 2007 Extreme Heritage Conference.
These working groups would meet regularly to try and progress key Australia
ICOMOS work in the following areas:
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Climate Change and Cultural Heritage and
•
Heritage of Space Exploration.
If you are interested in getting involved in any of these
groups please send a brief Expression of Interest of no more than 500 words
including your name and contact details and an outline of your experience,
qualifications and interest in the topic.
Please clearly indicate at the top of your EOI the Working
Group you are interested in. A small selection committee led by Duncan
Marshall in the case of the Advocacy Working Group and Jane Harrington for the
World Heritage Reference Group will review the EOIs. The panel reviewing
the other groups is currently being determined. Once populated the Working
Groups and committees will be listed on the Australia ICOMOS website and the
membership will stand for a maximum of 3 years after which time they will again
be reviewed and if continued will be open to another call for Expressions of
Interest from members.
EOIs should be sent to georgia.meros@deakin.edu.au
by no later than 5pm 30 August.
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2) Australia ICOMOS Member
Feedback - Client Consultant Engagement Agreements
Call for Australia ICOMOS Member feedback regarding client
consultant engagement agreements.
The Australia ICOMOS National Executive is looking into the
development of a standard consultancy agreement and engagement conditions for
use by members. The agreement will be designed to cater for the specific type
of projects that the membership undertakes.
As part of the process, the Executive is looking for feedback
from members on relevant issues relating to conditions of engagement.
Assignment of copyright for example, has already been identified as one issue
that will be addressed.
For further information please contact Anthony Coupe - anthony.coupe@mulloway.com
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3) Australia ICOMOS - Canberra
Talk Series
KASHGAR, THE SILK
ROAD AND THE TIBETAN PLATEAU IN NEPAL - EXOTIC HERITAGE VERSUS MODERN STANDARDS
AND POLITICS
Dr Michael Pearson
This talk is about the stress being felt on the edges of
China and in neighbouring countries to 'modernise' ancient towns. The
pressures are political and social, as medieval living and ethnic affiliations
become untenable in a globalised world to both the state and, in some ways, to
the locals. The examples used are the city of Kashgar, currently being
demolished by the Han Chinese, other towns on the Silk Road, and Tibetan towns
north of the Himalayas in northern Nepal. The talk is based on Michael's
travels in the region over the last four years.
Members and the public are welcome. Refreshments will
be available. This is part of a series of talks organised in Canberra by
Australia ICOMOS.
Time & Date: 5.00-6.30 pm, Thursday 27
August 2009 - the talk will actually start at 5.30.
Venue: Menzies Room, National Archives of
Australia, East Block, Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes (enter from Kings Avenue
side).
RSVP: To Duncan Marshall at marsd@ozemail.com.au
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4) YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!! -
Young member drive
We are keen to increase the number of young members in
Australia ICOMOS and would like to encourage students and young cultural
heritage graduates to apply for membership.
Our membership base includes many highly regarded and
experienced heritage professionals - through Australia ICOMOS membership,
younger cultural heritage professionals have the opportunity to network with
their more experienced counterparts, with the potential to gain valuable
professional knowledge and insight from these members.
If everyone who belongs to ICOMOS could get one new young
and early career member (or associate) into ICOMOS, we would be able to achieve
this goal. In your work and lives you will come across people involved
and interested in heritage and conservation and you can encourage them to join
ICOMOS.
There are lots of benefits of joining ICOMOS - not only the
fantastic people you will meet but Membership of Australia ICOMOS brings
discounts at ICOMOS functions, at many conferences in Australia and
internationally and on ICOMOS publications. The E-mail News provides a weekly
bulletin board of information and events in Australia and overseas, including
state based events, conferences and site visits, as well as information on heritage
publications, funding and grant opportunities, course details and job offers.
Members also receive a number of issues annually of the Australia ICOMOS
refereed journal Historic Environment. Applications for members to join the
Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee (EC) are encouraged from all states and
territories. For Young Professional and full Members, the International ICOMOS
card gives free or reduced rate entry to many historic and cultural sites.
Australia ICOMOS' mission is to lead cultural heritage
conservation in Australia by raising standards, encouraging debate and
generating innovative ideas. Members include a wide range of professionals
including administrators, planners, historians, educators, curators,
archaeologists, architects, interpretation specialists, conservators and
engineers. Students, young professionals and those interested in heritage are
encouraged to join.
There are various membership categories and applications can
be to be made to the Secretariat:
§ Those
who are interested in ICOMOS but who do not meet the requirements for full
membership, or else do not have heritage conservation as their core focus,
could apply to become Associates of ICOMOS.
§ Those
at the beginning of a career in e.g. architecture, archaeology, planning or
history, with 3 years experience and who are under 30 years of age may be
eligible for Young Professional membership at reduced rates.
§ Heritage
professionals, with at least 3 years of heritage experience may be eligible for
full Membership.
The International Council on Monuments and Sites, ICOMOS, is
a Paris-based international nongovernmental organization of specialists
dedicated to the conservation and restoration of heritage sites and monuments.
Established in 1965, it has 9,000 members in 130 countries across the world.
ICOMOS is closely linked to UNESCO.
The membership forms and details are available on the web
page www.icomos.org/australia and
from Georgia Meros at the Secretariat, phone (03) 9251 7131 or austicomos@deakin.edu.au. All
applications are received at the Secretariat and referred to the Executive
Committee (EC) for consideration. Complete applications must be received 4-6
weeks before the Executive Committee meeting date to allow consideration. If
received after this, they are held over to the next meeting.
Please send in applications to the Australia ICOMOS
Secretariat or if further information is required contact the Membership
Secretary, Helen Wilson at wilsonhelen@optusnet.com.au.
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5) Churchill
Fellowship awarded to AI member Ken Horrigan
Queensland AI member and past Executive Committee member, Ken
Horrigan, has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship.
Ken will research heritage and sustainability, in particular
the application of environmental rating systems and energy efficiency measures
to heritage buildings.
Ken's research will investigate:
§ Leading
environmental rating tools and systems and how they address heritage buildings
§ Current
thinking and policy positions of key government and non-government heritage
organisations with regard to environmental sustainability and heritage
conservation
§ Case
studies focusing on energy efficiency and heritage buildings.
Ken will visit Canada, the UK and the US, and his research
project will coincide with the Heritage Canada conference in September and the
Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI) conference in Los
Angeles in November.
Information regarding the Churchill Memorial Trust and
Churchill Fellowships can be found at www.churchilltrust.com.au.
Australia ICOMOS congratulates Ken and wishes him all the
best with his research project.
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6) Professional Development
Program - International Heritage Protection, 25-29 August
International Heritage Protection - Professional
Development Program by
Prof Lyndel Prott & Prof Patrick O'Keefe, AM
Five Day Professional Development Program - Tuesday 25 to
Saturday 29 August 2009
Prof Prott, an eminent barrister and former Director of the
Division of Cultural Heritage, UNESCO, Paris, is a distinguished Professor
teaching and supervising PhD students in the Museum Studies Program at the
University of Queensland. Prof O'Keefe, is a Member of the Australian Academy
of the Humanities and of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London,
Founding Chairman of the Heritage Law Committee of the International Law
Association, a post he held the post for 12 years, and now a distinguished
Professor teaching and supervising PhD students in the Museum Studies Program
at the University of Queensland.
This Professional Development Program is available as a Five
Day Intensive for people from all professional back grounds, especially international
humanitarian law, Human Rights Commissions, Environmental and Heritage
Agencies, Museums, Galleries, Libraries and Archives. This course is designed
to give participants an introduction to international laws concerning heritage
in its various forms, giving them a solid grounding in the obligations
concerning heritage established by major international legal instruments such
as the UNESCO Conventions, Recommendations and Declarations. Participants need
have no prior knowledge of law or of the international legal system. It
is an ideal program for people aspiring to join the UN or UNESCO.
The course also provides participants with knowledge of
international rules which affect exchanges, exhibitions, recovery of stolen
cultural objects, protection of antiquities, and acquisition and exhibition
policies. Lack of knowledge of this body of legal obligations and the
relevant ethical codes could lead to potential losses to museums and breaches
of international legal obligations for which a country may be liable. Cultural
rights are addressed as an integral part of Human Rights. All the course
modules are illustrated with international case studies, including several from
the Asia Pacific Region, through the first hand legal knowledge of the course faculty.
Participants will study the Hague Convention for the
Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict 1954 and its two
Protocols (1954, 1999), the UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and
Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural
Property 1970, the UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural
Objects 1995, the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater
Cultural Heritage 2001, UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the
Intangible Cultural Heritage 2003 and the UNESCO Convention on the Protection
and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions 2005. More briefly
there will be consideration of the UNESCO Convention concerning the Protection
of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage 1972, the 11 UNESCO heritage
Recommendations and the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity
2001. The adoption and implementation of these instruments both in Australia
and other countries will be studied as well as their implications for
Australian heritage and other cultural workers.
Participants will also become acquainted with the
international support mechanisms and networks and will investigate, as part of
their course, Australia's or their country's participation (or failure to
participate) in the implementation of this instruments through their national
legislation and administration.
For further details please visit
http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/index-new.html?page=114407&pid=37084
Or contact: Professor Amareswar Galla
Museum Studies, The University of Queensland
Email: museum@uq.edu
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7) Calling for ACT ICOMOS
Mentors!!!!
Are you willing to mentor and pass on your wisdom and
experience to a new generation of cultural heritage professionals?
The Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage, University
of Canberra, in conjunction with the Institute for Professional Practice in
Heritage and the Arts, ANU, is seeking ICOMOS members based in or close to
Canberra, to participate in a trial mentoring program for students and early
career professionals.
What is required?
§ A
monthly meeting of just an hour or so with a mentee to discuss issues involved
in your practice and the student's study or early career professional's work,
over a 4 or 5 month period;
§ Involving
the mentee in a site visit or meeting, where appropriate, would be an added
bonus for the mentee;
§ Responding
to some questions at the end of the mentoring trial for evaluation purposes.
How do I get involved?
If you would like to become an ICOMOS MENTOR, or learn
more about the idea, please send an expression of interest to Tracy Ireland by 28
August 2009.
Email tracy.ireland@canberra.edu.au.
Mentors should be ICOMOS members with substantial professional experience in
any sector of cultural heritage practice.
When do we start?
We hope to start the mentoring program in September with a
meeting a mentors and mentees to discuss the roles of mentors and mentees and
expectations for the program- date to be announced.
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8) GCI Bulletin - available
online
To view the August 2009 issue of the GCI bulletin, visit
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/bulletin/current.html?cid=gci007
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9) Global Heritage Review (GHR)
bulletin available online
To view the Summer 2009 issue of the GHR bulletin, visit
http://www.globalheritagefund.org/news/publications/ghr_summer2009.html
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10) Assistance sought in
contacting Maltese community for research project
Australia Icomites who attended the recent (Un)Loved Modern
conference in Sydney will have heard keynote speaker Dr John Schofield from
English Heritage discuss a project that he has been working on in Malta.
John is undertaking research in Malta, and is trying to trace people from
Valletta's once notorious Strait Street who emigrated to Australia in the 1950s
and 60s. If members have any advice on how to make contact with the Maltese
communities, especially in Sydney and Melbourne, do please contact him at john.schofield@english-heritage.org.uk.
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11) Generic Research Project
Development Workshop - EOI sought
Generic Research Project Development Workshop - Deakin
University, Burwood Campus
Facilitators: Dr Emily Potter and Associate Professor
Andrea Witcomb
Date: Thursday 17 September 2009
Time : 10.00am - 1.30 pm
Venue: S2.04 (Meeting Room)
Dr Emily Potter and Associate Professor Andrea Witcomb are
running a generic research project development workshop on Friday 11 September
2009, from 10am - 2pm.
This proposed workshop is not tied to any bureaucratic
requirements and is only for those who elect to participate.
The emphasis of this workshop is on ARC applications in
development or ideas for CRGs for next year. Its aim is to enable researchers who
are considering going down the CRG or ARC road, or those who have an ARC
proposal already under way, to discuss the requirements and processes of ARC
and CRG applications, and to develop their thinking together.
While the workshop is open to those who are yet to commence
putting an application together, we're asking that all participants bring
something along that indicates their field of interest or potential topic. This
could be a working title, or a general idea for a project; or if you are further
along the path, it could be a draft 100 word summary, or even an outline of
your aims and possible approach.
Please send expressions of interest in attending, along with
your title, idea, summary or outline, to Emily Potter at emily.potter@deakin.edu.au and andrea.witcomb@deakin.edu.au by
Monday August 31.
For more details please contact:
Dr Emily Potter
Research Fellow, Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
Email: emily.potter@deakin.edu.au
Tel : (03) 9244 3923
Assoc/Prof. Andrea Witcomb
ICG Deputy Director
Email: andrea.witcomb@deakin.edu.au
Tel : (03) 9251 7232
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12) Call for Applications:
Visiting (Senior) Research Fellowships - Asia Research Institute, National
University of Singapore
POSITION 1
3-MONTH VISITING (SENIOR) RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
Applications are invited for 3-month Visiting (Senior)
Research Fellowships at the Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University
of Singapore to commence in April 2010, July 2010 and October 2010. The
positions are intended for outstanding researchers whose work focus on Asia,
with a balance anticipated between senior and junior scholars. Interested
applicants should have at least a PhD with a few years of postdoctoral research
experience. Applicants are invited to indicate which of the ARI clusters
they would like to be affiliated with. Interdisciplinary interests are
encouraged. The position is essentially a writing fellowship, and at least one
published outcome is expected. Applicants who do not normally publish in English
will be encouraged and assisted to do so.
For more information regarding the clusters, visiting
fellowship and application procedure, please visit http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/article_view.asp?id=11
Closing date for applications: 1 October 2009
POSITION 2
VISITING (SENIOR) RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
(UNDER ARI SABBATICAL LEAVE SCHEME)
Applications are invited for Visiting (Senior) Research
Fellowships under the ARI Sabbatical Leave Scheme at the Asia Research
Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS) to commence in April
2010, July 2010 and October 2010. The positions are intended for researchers
whose work focus on Asia and would like to devote their sabbatical term from
their home institutions to conducting work in ARI, NUS. Interested applicants
should have at least a PhD with a few years of postdoctoral research
experience. Applicants are invited to indicate which of the ARI clusters
they would like to be affiliated with. Interdisciplinary interests are
encouraged. The position is essentially a writing fellowship, and at least one
published outcome is expected. Applicants who do not normally publish in
English will be encouraged and assisted to do so.
For more information regarding the clusters, visiting
fellowship and application procedure, please visit http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/article_view.asp?id=270
Closing date for applications: 1 October 2009
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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 Victoria 3125
Telephone: (03) 9251 7131
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Email: austicomos@deakin.edu.au
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