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Outback and Beyond
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Australian Heritage Information (AHI) website launched
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Erika Esau lecture, University of Melbourne – REMINDER
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New conservation publication
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Professional Development, Melbourne
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Link to Heritage Tasmania’s E-newsletter
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Advanced professional development courses in heritage management at Port Arthur
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EuroMed2010 – Call for Papers
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Blue Shield Australia’s MayDay 2010 event
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Speak out in 2010! – Australia ICOMOS Canberra Talk Series
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Course & seminar – Stone in Built Heritage Conservation
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Heritage South Australia E-News
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Australian Institute of Urban Studies Seminar, NSW
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Situations Vacant – Antarctic Heritage Trust (AHT), Various positions (Conservation Programme, Antarctica)
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Situations Vacant – Senior Policy & Assessment Officer, SA Heritage Branch
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1. Outback and Beyond
CONGRATULATIONS to all those members and others who took up the opportunity to register for Broken Hill before the close off for Early Bird Registration. You have ensured that we will have a well attended conference.
Of course, there are still opportunities to register right up until the conference.
The program is pretty well settled and our international speakers are confirmed. Inevitably there will be some further tweeking of details up until the conference date, but all registrants and potential registrants should be assured that the program that you have signed up for will go ahead.
TOURS
There are still spaces in the pre and post tours.
The post conference tour through Mungo to Mildura is close to full, so get in quick. There are more spaces in the pre-conference tour from Adelaide through Burra and other mining sites. This is a golden opportunity to have exclusive time with several of our international guests, who are keen to participate in this tour and gain a better understanding of the South Australian mining experience. Check the website (http://www.aicomos.com/2010-outback-and-beyond/) for further details of these tours.
INDIGENOUS ISSUES
The conference committee has been keen to ensure that pertinent issues around the indigenous occupation of this part of the country are covered. Unfortunately no papers have come forward on indigenous life and activity around Broken Hill. However there are several papers dealing directly with indigenous engagement with the pastoral industry. The conference committee remains open to other suggestions, keeping in mind that we now have a pretty full program.
WEBSITE
Keep up to date on arrangements by referring to the website http://www.aicomos.com/2010-outback-and-beyond/ and any practical questions should be directed to our conference organiser:
Bradley Hayden
ICOMOS 2010 Conference Secretariat
PO Box 5013
ALBURY NSW 2708
P – (02) 6023 6300
F – (02) 6023 6355
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2. Australian Heritage Information (AHI) website launched
The Heritage Chairs and Officials of Australia and New Zealand (HCOANZ) at their 25-26 February meeting agreed to launch the Australian Heritage Information (AHI) website. The AHI webpage, a Commonwealth led project under the Cooperative National Heritage Agenda (CNHA), is now live and can be found at http://www.heritageinfo.gov.au/index.html
Hosted on the DEWHA website, this portal has been developed to provide a central point of access to the wealth of useful heritage tools, guidelines, heritage registers, other resources and publications that jurisdictions, including the Commonwealth, have produced individually or collaboratively. Targeted audiences include heritage place owners and managers, students/teachers, researchers and local governments. The site also incorporates the existing Australian Heritage Places Inventory (AHPI) search tool and the contact information and websites for other heritage organisations.
As new resources are produced this site will be updated.
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3. Erika Esau lecture, University of Melbourne – REMINDER
ERIKA ESAU – AUSTRALIA AND CALIFORNIA 1850-1935
6.00 pm, Friday 19 March (drinks from 5.30)
Sisalkraft Theatre, Architecture Building
University of Melbourne (off Swanston St)
Sponsored by the Faculty of Architecture and Heritage Victoria’s professional development program, with refreshments provided by Australia ICOMOS
California and Australia have always had strong similarities and significant connections, most of all in terms of their architecture. Erika Esau’s lecture reports upon the research for her new book Images of the Pacific Rim: Australia and California, 1850-1935. She is concerned with exchanges between California and Australia, especially in the early years of the twentieth century. But the special relationship dates from the time of the gold rushes, when the first frame house in California was built of wood from houses brought from Tasmania. Esau has discovered much else about the travels of Australian architects to California, and about the means by which Californian developments were disseminated in Australia.
Please also see the attached flier.
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4. New conservation publication
Architectural Conservation: An Introduction by Leo Schmidt
Originally written in German for a German audience with a focus on the history, theoretical development and current situation of conservation in Germany, this translation of Dr Schmidt’s work reveals for the first time to the English-speaking audience the full richness and unusual challenges of the German heritage conservation experience from its origins in the 19th and early 20th centuries, through the two World Wars, the post-war partition of the country into the Federal and Democratic Republics, and finally, the country’s reunification twenty years ago.
Leo Schmidt is head of the Department of Architectural Conservation at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, one of two universities in the world offering a Graduate Program in World Heritage Cultural Sites Studies. He is a member of ICOMOS Germany and the ICOMOS Training Committee, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Cost: 20 Euros. Order from www.amazon.de or www.weltbild.de
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5. Professional Development, Melbourne
Disability Access in Heritage Buildings Master Class
Learn how to comply with legislation, as well as provide dignified access for people with disabilities to and within heritage buildings, at Heritage Victoria’s ‘Disability Access in Heritage Buildings Master Class’.
This master class will appeal to architects, planners, heritage consultants, access consultants, builders, TAFE trainers and anyone with a general interest in disability access.
Many heritage buildings offer specific challenges that need to be overcome when providing access to all, and this one day master class will address the Disability Discrimination Act, Building Code of Australia, Heritage legislation and provide disability access solutions. All attendees will also receive a copy of the technical leaflet ‘Access for all to Heritage Places’.
In addition, the master class will fulfil the requirements for 5 formal points as part of the Building Commission Continuing Professional Development program.
When: Friday 26th March, 10am – 4pm
Where: Fitzroy Town Hall, Fitzroy
Bookings: To secure your place at this master class, complete the attached Registration Form.
Enquiries: For further information, please contact Heritage Victoria (heritage.victoria@dpcd.vic.gov.au or (03) 8644 8800). Hurry, places are strictly limited
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6. Link to Heritage Tasmania’s E-newsletter
To download the February 2010 issue of Heritage Tasmania’s E-newsletter, visit http://www.heritage.tas.gov.au/showItem.php?id=1709
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7. Advanced professional development courses in heritage management at Port Arthur
The Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority and the ANU’s Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage and the Arts (IPPHA) are pleased to announce two professional development advanced short courses that will provide a unique professional development opportunity for participants who enroll as part of IPPHA’s programs. The courses will provide an unparalleled opportunity to build advanced skills while getting to know two of Australia’s most outstanding heritage sites (the Port Arthur and Coal Mines Historic Sites), both of which will be considered by the World Heritage Committee for listing later this year as part of the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage Nomination.
The courses will be offered as professional development opportunities to experienced practitioners working in the heritage sector seeking to enhance their skills. They will also be offered as topics in the cultural and environmental heritage stream of the Graduate Program in the Liberal Arts at the Australian National University.
The advanced professional development short courses are:
World Heritage: Conserving Cultural Heritage Values
5-9 July at Port Arthur (5 days)
The course will be taught by a team of highly-regarded heritage professionals including Professor Sharon Sullivan, the Honorable Dr Barry Jones, Joan Domicelj, Kristal Buckley and Dr Jane Harrington. Other Port Arthur and ANU staff will also assist.
Best Practice in Managing Heritage Places
27 September-1 October at Port Arthur (5 days)
The course will be taught by eminent heritage professionals Dr Michael Pearson and Professor Sharon Sullivan. Port Arthur and ANU staff will also assist.
Further details for each course are available on the IPPHA website at: http://rsh.anu.edu.au/ippha.
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8. EuroMed2010 – Call for Papers
EuroMed2010 – Call for Papers
Dedicated to Digital Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries
November 8 – 13th, 2010
Limassol, Cyprus
Papers for the EUROMED2010 joint conference are now being invited. The conference will provide an opportunity to exchange research results, opinions, experiences and proposals on the best practice and hi-tech tools from Information and Communications Technology to document, archive, preserve, manage and communicate Cultural Heritage (CH). The main goal of the event is not only to illustrate the programs underway but also excellent work wherever it is located and however it is supported, in order to promote a common approach to the tasks of e-documentation of World Cultural Heritage. Furthermore, regional capacities in the area of Cultural Heritage and IT will be facilitated in advancing their know-how through the exchange of information and generation of new ideas and cooperation’s, where the world meets the finger prints of several ancient civilizations on earth.
To reach this ambitious goal the topics covered will include experiences in the use of innovative recording technologies & methods and how to take best advantage to integrate the results obtained to build up new tools and/or experiences as well as improved methodologies for documenting, managing and communicating CH.
The EuroMed2010 joint event will focus on interdisciplinary and multi- disciplinary research concerning both cutting edge Cultural Heritage Informatics and use of technology for the representation, documentation, preservation, archiving and communication of CH knowledge. The scope includes standards, metadata and every phase of CH information technology: initial data capture/digitization, information/data processing, reconstruction, visualization and documentation as well as dissemination of results to the scientific and cultural heritage communities and to the general public (Multilingua, Multimedia Digital Library). We are also interested in aspects of the wider legal, IPR and ethical responsibilities of Cultural Heritage Informatics. Research subjects parallel the interests of CIPA, ISPRS and EuroMed including culturally significant monuments, artefacts and sites as well as the activities of museums, libraries, archives, and organizations involved with their care.
For further information, visit http://www.euromed2010.eu
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9. Blue Shield Australia’s MayDay 2010 event
Blue Shield Australia’s MayDay 2010 event is fast approaching.
Every year, cultural institutions around the world participate in MayDay. In some countries activities are focused on 1 May. in Australia, our event lasts the whole of the month. It’s a national effort to remind everyone in cultural organisations about the importance of disaster preparedness.
On Thursday 6 May, at the National Library in Canberra, Blue Shield Australia is joining with DISACT to present a symposium on the topic (for more information and bookings contact info@blueshieldaustralia.org.au) – but activities don’t have to be of this magnitude. We’re encouraging everyone involved in galleries, libraries, archives, museums, monuments, sites and heritage collections, to do something to mark the occasion. It could be updating and reissuing your disaster plan or just holding a fire extinguisher training session.
If you decide to take part, please let BSA know – info@blueshieldaustralia.org.au or contact Robyn Riddett directly (rgrd@bigpond.com). All participants will be entered into a draw to win appropriate prizes. Archival Survival, for example, has put up two Mini-Vacs, each worth $50.
You can find out more on BSA’s Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blue-Shield-Australia/316266557776?ref=search&sid=672738967.3055109497..1
Robyn Riddett
(Australia ICOMOS Pillar Representative on Blue Shield Australia)
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10. Speak out in 2010! – Australia ICOMOS Canberra Talk Series
Would you like to give a talk on some interesting heritage topic to the Canberra membership during 2010?
Every few months Australia ICOMOS organises a talk in Canberra on a heritage subject which might be of interest to members and others. The talks so far have been as simple as a slide show about an exotic heritage place through to presentations about more weighty methodological issues. We are in the process of working out the talks program for 2010 and are looking for proposals.
If you have a topic you would like to talk about, please contact Duncan Marshall at marsd@ozemail.com.au with any suggestions.
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11. Course & seminar – Stone in Built Heritage Conservation
The course and seminar, to be held in Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia, March 22 – March 26, 2010, will deal with the conservation and restoration of stone walls, pavings and architectural elements.
To download the brochure and application form, visit http://www.stiavnica91.sk/
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12. Heritage South Australia E-News
It has been a while since the last Heritage South Australia E-News was distributed. A new format for the E-News will be employed moving forward.
The Heritage Branch will still keep in touch via email, but will direct subscribers to updated Latest News items on their website. While this communication will not necessarily be monthly, it will deliver up-to-date SA Heritage news.
Visit their website and follow the link to Latest News to read about the following items:
- Decision to waive a portion of the mandatory referral fee when State Heritage owners make Development Applications to install rain water tanks and solar panels;
- Adelaide City Council’s current community consultation on local heritage places; and
- Recent South Australian Heritage Grants program announcement.
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13. Australian Institute of Urban Studies Seminar, NSW
The Australian Institute of Urban Studies (AIUS) is holding a seminar on 17 March 2010.
Topic: The implications for Sydney of Australia’s predicted population growth.
See the attached flier for further information.
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14. Antarctic Heritage Trust (AHT), Various positions (Conservation Programme, Antarctica)
The Antarctic Heritage Trust (AHT) in NZ have various interesting positions available in the 2010-11 conservation programme in Antarctica.
Details of the positions can be found on their website at http://www.nzaht.org/AHT/Vacancies/.
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15. Senior Policy & Assessment Officer, SA Heritage Branch
Senior Policy & Assessment Officer – Department for Environment and Heritage Adelaide
Full Time, Contract up to 2 Years
Vac No: C1465/2010
$71,025 – $75,381 p.a. (AS06)
The Senior Policy and Assessment Officer will assist the Cultural Heritage Policy and Assessments Team to implement key South Australian Government strategies for heritage management. It combines skills in assessing heritage significance with analysis an improvement of processes. You will develop assessment reports; assist with developing policies and guidelines; provide expert advice on the significance of heritage places to the South Australian Heritage Council and Register Committee; and help improve the South Australian Heritage database.
To find out more about the Department and this role visit http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/deh/vacancies/index.html to download the job and person specification.
Applications Close: 5.00pm, 19 March 2010
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Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
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