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IMPORTANT notice re: staffing of Australia ICOMOS Secretariat Office
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Australia ICOMOS VIC World Heritage Forum
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40 Years of World Heritage – Australia ICOMOS National Symposium
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Australia ICOMOS ISC/NSC Funding Program
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Mudgee Regional Tour – September to October 2012
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Australia ICOMOS – Canberra Talk Series
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Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific Seminar, Deakin University (VIC)
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Brisbane Open House celebrates the city’s buildings, places and spaces
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UNESCO Project: ‘Safeguarding the Underwater Cultural Heritage of Asia and the Pacific’
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Port Arthur and sea‐level change: nine years on, presentation by Dr John Hunter
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Report on the 2012 US/ICOMOS International Symposium is now online
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The Garden of Ideas Exhibition, New South Wales
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“The Architecture of Southeast Asian Cities” conference, 12-14 June 2013
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“Between Rejection and Appropriation – The Architectural Heritage of Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe” conference
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Abstract submission reminder for SHATIS ’13
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“Protected Areas in a Changing World” conference – call for proposals
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ICICH partnership in Heritage and Tourism Conference, Taiwan, April 2013
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Invitation to Tender: Historian – Migration history of parks in Rockdale
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SITUATION VACANT Employment opportunities at Historic House Museum in Brisbane
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1. IMPORTANT notice re: staffing of Australia ICOMOS Secretariat Office
The Australia ICOMOS Secretariat will be staffed at a reduced level between 7 September – 3 October inclusive.
Thank you to all Australia ICOMOS members who have renewed their membership thus far – it is much appreciated. Please note that membership renewals will not be processed during the above time period, but publication orders where credit card details are provided will be.
The E-news will still be published. Please ensure all submissions for the E-news are submitted by 2pm Thursdays – this deadline will be strictly adhered to.
Though the Secretariat will be staffed intermittently, responses to queries, etc may take longer than usual.
Australia ICOMOS appreciates your patience during this time.
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2. Australia ICOMOS VIC World Heritage Forum
World Heritage Forum, VIC
Date: Tuesday 16 October
Time: Forum 6-9pm, Tour of Trades Hall at 5pm
Venue: Bella Union Theatre at Trades Hall
Cost: $ 20.00 (ICOMOS Members) $ 25.00 (Non Members); pay at the door
RSVP: by Friday 5 October via email to the Secretariat.
The ICOMOS theme for 2012 is World Heritage in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention.
Input from each state into three key questions will be forwarded to the national symposium, to be held in Sydney this November.
For further information, download the Australia ICOMOS VIC World Heritage Forum Invitation.
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3. 40 Years of World Heritage – Australia ICOMOS National Symposium
Australia ICOMOS has been holding a series of state-based forums around Australia in 2012 focusing on the 40th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention.
A National Symposium is proposed in Sydney to build upon the issues and discussions raised in each State and provide an opportunity for Australia ICOMOS to contribute to the national and international debate regarding the value of the World Heritage in the twenty-first century.
A ‘formal communication’ detailing the current state and future direction of the management of Australia’s World Heritage is proposed as an outcome of the Symposium, building on the work of the recent ACIUCN conference.
Date: Friday 16 November 2012
Time: 9am – 5.30pm
Venue: Education Centre, The Rocks YHA, Cumberland St, Sydney
Cost: $95 ICOMOS members, $130 non-members. Lunch and refreshments included.
Key questions on the day will include:
- THE INTERNATIONAL QUESTION: As it reaches its 40th Anniversary, is the UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage still a convention for conservation? If it isn’t, what is it now a convention for?
- THE NATIONAL QUESTION: If we look back on the last 40 years, what has Australia contributed to the international endeavour of World Heritage? What could Australia offer the world in the next 10 years?
- THE COMMUNITY QUESTION: Does the World Heritage Convention support communities in their endeavour to protect their heritage? Does the Convention and its operations provide benefits for communities?
The National Symposium provides an opportunity to not only engage with World Heritage but also to increase awareness of the importance of conserving and managing Australia’s cultural heritage. This is in line with Australia ICOMOS’ mission “to lead cultural heritage conservation in Australia by raising standards, encouraging debate and generating innovative ideas.” Focusing on this objective is particularly relevant in the light of the recently released State of the Environment Report, changes in government funding for heritage management and the current initiative of the Australian government to prepare an Australian Heritage Strategy.
Seating is limited on the day and we ask that interested parties register their interest to attend with the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat by email by COB Friday 5 October 2012. All are welcome, but those with particular expertise in World Heritage are encouraged to attend, as the structure of the day will allow participation and questions by delegates ‘from the floor’.
The Symposium will conclude at 5:30pm and be followed by the Australia ICOMOS AGM and drinks afterwards on the roof-top overlooking Sydney and the Harbour.
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4. Australia ICOMOS ISC/NSC Funding Program
At the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee (EC) meeting in Fremantle in August 2011, the EC endorsed the implementation of an ISC/NSC Funding Program to provide financial assistance for events, projects or programs that promote and strengthen Australian membership of ISCs and NSCs. The program aims to recognise Australia ICOMOS’s commitment to provide support for the work of AI members active in International Scientific Committees (ISC) or National Scientific Committees (NSC).
Australia ICOMOS has available a fund of up to $5,000 for the 2012-2013 financial year, and applications are currently open from Australia ICOMOS members who are also members of an ISC or NSC. Grants will be available to a maximum of $2,000 per annum. Grants are intended for discrete, one-off events, meetings or projects, and will not apply to funding for ongoing programs. Grants may be applied for in consecutive years by any ISC or NSC. Allocation will be competitive.
Eligible activities for the funding program may include, but are not restricted to:
- An annual meeting of all Australian ISC / NSC members
- An event for an individual ISC, NSC or group of ISCs
- Support for an international ISC meeting in Australia (Note: Australia ICOMOS is unable to fund the full extent of such a meeting, however if an international meeting was planned for Australia through other external funding, AI members would be eligible to apply for this fund as a small part of its budget)
- Discrete projects or programs of works that aim to promote Australian membership of ISCs or NSCs and actively engages with the AI membership
- Discrete projects or programs of works that allow AI members to support the work of an ISC or NSC and that has some benefit or relevance for Australian members
Procedure for applications for the ISC/NSC Funding Program:
- Any Australia ICOMOS member who is also a member of an ISC or NSC is eligible to apply for a grant
- The applicant must demonstrate how the grant will broadly benefit the ISC or NSC and, in particular, members of that ISC or NSC in Australia. Priority will not be given to requests where the benefit is to an individual member
- The grant is not available to cover personal travel expenses to attend ISC or NSC meetings
- When assessing the merits of a particular application for a grant, AI will take in to account the nature of the proposal, the potential benefits to the ISC or NSC (in particular to the Australian membership), and the ability of the proposal to actively engage the AI membership
- As a condition of funding, successful applicants will be expected to submit a written report to the Australia ICOMOS Executive on the project/program awarded funding, and a short version of this report for inclusion in the e-news, so that other members are informed about issues currently under discussion by that ISC or NSC
- Grant recipients will also be required to provide AI with an acquittal report of the project within one year of the grant being awarded. Copies of receipts or invoices for goods and services must be provided. Any shortfall between the grant and the expenses incurred will need to be returned to Australia ICOMOS.
Applications should be emailed to the Secretariat by COB Friday 26 October 2012. If you have any queries, please email the Secretariat or phone on (03) 9251 7131.
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5. Mudgee Regional Tour – September to October 2012
Three day event – Labor Day Long Weekend – Saturday 29 September to Monday 1 October
Join the Twentieth century Heritage Society of NSW on another of our insightful annual expeditions to a regional town. Talks, walks, dinners and drives in the company of those who appreciate the architectural and design heritage of the Twentieth Century. We look forward to your company on this interesting tour.
Enjoy the wonders of this mid-western town, including guided heritage walks, lunches and a special “Heritage Dinner” with two guest speakers, architect Dr Roy Lumby on cinemas in country NSW and historian John Broadley on Mudgee’s 20th century heritage.
Also enjoy access to private properties not normally open to the public.
Accomodation (2 nights) is paid separately by you – but so you won’t miss out (it’s a busy weekend in Mudgee) we’ve blocked book rooms at Parklands Resort just for our group. But be quick, accommodation is being snapped up and the rooms are going fast. The Parklands block booking is held only until 31 August!
Tour cost includes the heritage dinner with two guest speakers, three lunches, heritage walk of Mudgee town centre and driving tours of Mudgee, Kandos, Rylstone and Gulgong.
Full details and costs are available by clicking here.
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6. Australia ICOMOS – Canberra Talk Series
City of Canberra – Griffin and Landscape Issues
Dianne Firth and John Gray
Another of the centenary inspired talks on the design and heritage of Canberra.
Dianne Firth will discuss the legacy of the 1916 recommendation by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works to delay works on Walter Burley Griffin’s magnificent ornamental lake, frustrating Griffin’s attempts to implement it when the Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction.
Dr Dianne Firth researched Lake Burley Griffin for her PhD dissertation and her current research interests focus on the theory and practice of landscape architecture. She is Deputy Chairperson of the ACT Heritage Council, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects and Adjunct Associate Professor of landscape architecture at the University of Canberra.’
John Gray will discuss Walter Griffin’s ideas about planting at the federal capital site in the 1910s and 1920s and his limited success with those ideas. The controversy surrounding his planting proposals for City Hill will be covered in his talk.
Dr John Gray OAM has lived in Canberra for over 50 years. A retired landscape architect and Fellow (retired) of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, John was Director, Landscape Architecture for the NCDC in the 1980s. Adjunct Professor of landscape architecture, University of Canberra, in the early 2000s, his current research is in landscape conservation, afforestation and landscape development at the federal capital site in its early years.
Members and the public are welcome: Refreshments will be available appropriate to the talk’s topic! This is part of a series of talks organised by Australia ICOMOS.
Time & Date: 5.00-7.00pm, Thursday 27 September 2012 – the talk will start at 5.30pm
Venue: Menzies Room, National Archives of Australia, East Block, Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes (enter from Kings Avenue side)
RSVP: To Marilyn Truscott
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7. Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific Seminar, Deakin University (VIC)
Deakin University’s next Cultural Heritage seminar will be held on Wednesday 26 September. Dr Benjamin Isakhan will be speaking on ‘Heritage Destruction and Violence in Iraq: Bombing Mosques and Ethno-Sectarian Violence, 2006-7’.
Since the invasion of 2003, Iraq has suffered an extraordinary era of both heritage destruction and devastating spikes in violence. While cases such as the 2003 attacks on the Iraq National Museum and the Iraq National Library and Archive, as well as the systematic looting of Iraq’s sensitive archaeological sites, understandably caused outrage among scholars of heritage studies across the world, little attention has been paid to the destruction of Iraq’s many significant Islamic sites – particularly during the ethno-religious sectarian violence that raged across the nation in 2006-7. This paper presents the first results of a three year project funded by the Australian Research Council which aims to empirically test the assumption that a significant relationship exists between this spike in violence and the targeting of sites of Islamic heritage (mosques, shrines, etc.). To do this, the paper will compare and contrast the information in the world’s first database of heritage destruction (created by the author) and existing measures of violence in Iraq (such as the Iraq Body Count database). This will set the precedent for studies of both heritage and violence and enable policy formation towards the minimization of heritage destruction and spikes in violence during times of conflict.
Dr Benjamin Isakhan is Australian Research Council Discovery (DECRA) Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University, Australia. Previously, Ben was Research Fellow at the Centre for Dialogue at La Trobe University and Research Fellow for the Griffith University Islamic Research Unit, affiliated with the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies, Australia. Dr Isakhan is the author of Democracy in Iraq: History, Politics and Discourse (Ashgate, 2012). Ben is also the editor of The Secret History of Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 [2011]), The Arab Revolutions in Context: Civil Society and Democracy in a Changing Middle East (Melbourne University Press, 2012) and The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy (Edinburgh University Press & Columbia University Press, 2012). In addition, Ben has authored several publications including around 15 scholarly book chapters, 12 refereed journal articles and more than 20 refereed conference papers. Broadly, his research interests concern issues such as: Democracy in Iraq, the history of democracy and Middle Eastern politics and history. Ben’s current research includes the ARC-funded project ‘Measuring the Destruction of Heritage and Spikes of Violence in Iraq’ (DE120100315) which involves several field trips to Iraq.
All welcome. Free of charge.
Location
DeakinPrime
Deakin University Melbourne City Centre
Meeting Room 2
Level 3, 550 Bourke St
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia
Date & Time
Wednesday 26 September, from 5.30pm
For further information, please email Steve Cooke or contact him on (03) 9244 6827. RSVPs are also appreciated – please email Steve Cooke.
The full list of this year’s seminars is available at the CHCAP webpage or download the CHCAP 2012 seminar series flyer.
Previous seminar available online
For those of you who missed Andrea Witcomb’s seminar, the event was recorded and you can now access it via iTunes where you can also subscribe to future seminars.
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8. Brisbane Open House celebrates the city’s buildings, places and spaces
Brisbane Open House (BOH) celebrates the city’s surprising diversity and subtropical architecture, giving visitors a rare insight into the best of our buildings, places and spaces, free of charge.
Join BOH on 6 October 2012 to discover 51 architecturally diverse, well-designed and hertiage buildings in Brisbane city, South Bank, Fortitude Valley, Spring Hill and Bowen Hills.
The program includes Brisbane’s newest environmentally sustainable office building 111 Eagle Street, the News Queensland Media Centre (featuring Australia’s largest open-plan newsroom), and the historic Windmill at Spring Hill, the oldest surviving building in Brisbane.
Visitors can enjoy self-guided and guided tours by leading local architects and volunteers.
They can also enjoy free talks by a series of speakers who are influential in the design and architecture industry at the BOH Speaker Series at the IKEA Outdoor Lounge at King George Square.
Young people will love the hands-on, free educational BOH Children’s Program created by 11 of Queensland’s leading architects, designers and illustrators. They can also enjoy activities at various BOH buildings throughout the day.
The event receives support from a broad range of private and public sector organisations and is the product of a unique partnership between the office of the Queensland Government Architect, the Brisbane Development Association and the National Trust of Queensland.
Find out all the latest information at the Brisbane Open House website.
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9. UNESCO Project: ‘Safeguarding the Underwater Cultural Heritage of Asia and the Pacific’
The UNESCO project “Safeguarding the Underwater Cultural Heritage of Asia and the Pacific: Building Regional Capacities to Protect and Manage Underwater Archaeological Sites through the Establishment of a Regional Centre of Excellence Field Training Facility and Programme of Instruction” (2009-2011) has produced a Training Manual for the UNESCO Foundation Course on the Protection and Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific (2012).
The Manual is now available for public through free download from the UNESCO Bangkok website.
Please feel free to contact the project assistant, Montakarn Suvanatap, for any technical assistance and further information regarding the manual, via email or on +662 391-0577 ext. 513.
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10. Port Arthur and sea‐level change: nine years on, presentation by Dr John Hunter
Nine years ago, Dr John Hunter gave a talk on the results of the seven‐year study of sea‐level change at Port Arthur. The study was inspired by work carried out 160 years earlier by Thomas Lempriere, the storekeeper at the settlement, under the direction of Sir John Franklin and the explorer, James Clark Ross. John Hunter will firstly summarise this earlier work and show how its results fitted in with the overall understanding of sea‐level rise and climate science.
Date & Time: Wednesday 10 October 2012 at 5.30 pm
For further information, download the Port Arthur John Hunter talk flier.
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11. Report on the 2012 US/ICOMOS International Symposium is now online
The Commentary, Review and Conclusions from the 15th US/ICOMOS International Symposium are available by clicking here.
Visit and “like” their Facebook page to see photos of the event.
Information regarding the 2013 US/ICOMOS International Symposium Call for Abstracts is also available online.
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12. The Garden of Ideas Exhibition, New South Wales
The Garden of Ideas national touring exhibition sponsored by the Australian Garden History Society is on show at the Red Box Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. This exhibition explores the ideas behind garden design imported into Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries, and local evolution and additions to these.
It features original archival plans, photographs, objects and rare books, such as books of James Jones, superintendent of the Botanic Gardens Sydney who visited Paris in the 1870s for its great exhibition, noting French park design and management of the era, which was innovative.
Entry is down the ramp off Mrs Macquarie’s Road, near the Woolloomooloo Gates to the gardens (and the land bridge and the Art Gallery of NSW). Five minutes’ stroll from Martin Place or Macquarie Street.
Please visit the Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust website for more information.
Two upcoming events in parallel with the exhibition include:
October 4: Talk by Stuart Read – ‘Changes in the Sydney Botanic Gardens over the last 15 years – and heritage values’
Managing a modern botanic garden that is also well-loved as jogging track, major events space, green relief from city streets,bat-home &more – is at the best of times a challenge. How is this being achieved in a way that retains this place’s layered heritage values?
Bookings essential – for the above two talks: phone: (02) 9231 8182 or email the Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust.
October 7: Self drive afternoon visit to Camden Park house, garden & nursery
A special ‘private’ visit to this famous place, only otherwise open to the public once a year. This place is rightly listed on the NSW State Heritage Register and while widely known as the ‘home of the Australian wool industry’ might be better appreciated for its role as early home of the country’s wine industry, early booster to its nursery industry and supplier of plants to generations of NSW and other gardeners, parks managers and more.
Includes tour and light refreshments.
$30 general / $20 AGHS members. Bookings essential for this event – phone: (02) 9997 5995 or email Jeanne.
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13. “The Architecture of Southeast Asian Cities” conference, 12-14 June 2013
“The Architecture of Southeast Asian Cities:
How do architectural and urban expressions of modernity relate to heritage?“
Paris, France
12-14 June 2013
This conference is organised by the Contemporary Asian Architecture and Cities: Heritage and Projects research group, based in Paris. This group consists of departments from IPRAUS, ACS and OCS, and is hosted by the UMR AUSser n°3329 research unit. The conference will take place June 12-14 2013 at the National Superior Architecture School of Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB), where IPRAUS is located.
The conference will deal with recent physical transformations and developments of Southeast Asian cities. This broadly defined geographical area is characterised in part by the diversity of its human settlements, which historically have experienced intense cultural exchanges with each other and with other cultures from beyond Southeast Asia.
For more details, download the The Architecture of Southeast Asian Cities conference information guide.
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14. “Between Rejection and Appropriation – The Architectural Heritage of Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe” conference
“Between Rejection and Appropriation:
The Architectural Heritage of Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe”
23-24 November 2012
Leipzig, Germany
International conference organised by ICOMOS Germany and the Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas at Leipzig University (GWZO) in cooperation with the International Scientific Committee of ICOMOS on 20th Century Heritage and the “denkmal” Trade Fair 2012.
For more information, refer to the Between Rejection and Appropriation Conference flyer.
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15. Abstract submission reminder for SHATIS ’13
The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2nd International Conference on Structural Health Assessment of Timber Structures (SHATIS ’13) is 15 October 2012.
The conference website includes information on how to submit your abstract online.
Remember that only a complete submission, according to the form online, will be processed for review.
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16. “Protected Areas in a Changing World” conference – call for proposals
“Protected Areas in a Changing World”
The 2013 George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites
11-15 March 2013
Denver, Colorado
Call for Proposals
Every two years, the George Wright Society organizes the USA’s premier interdisciplinary professional meeting on parks, protected areas, and cultural sites. The Society is now accepting abstracts for their 2013 conference – the deadline for submissions is 1 October 2012.
For more information, please visit the conference website.
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17. ICICH partnership in Heritage and Tourism Conference, Taiwan, April 2013
The ICOMOS International Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICICH) is pleased to announce its partnership in a conference being held in Taiwan on 5-9 April 2013, on the topic of Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage Values: Visiting Pasts, Developing Futures. This conference is being convened by the University of Birmingham – Ironbridge Institute, and National Taiwan University, in association with UNESCO UNITWIN Network – Tourism, Culture, Development (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), and the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, UK.
Visit the conference website.
The ICICH session will focus on the theme Tourism and Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Sustainable Relationship? Click here for more information on this session.
This is a highly topical issue regarding the ongoing sustainability of intangible heritage and how it can continue as living—growing, changing?—heritage under today’s global pressures, including tourism. ICICH welcomes all interested speakers.
The abstract deadline is 5 October 2012 – click here for more information in relation to the call for papers.
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18. Invitation to Tender: Historian – Migration history of parks in Rockdale
Rockdale City Council is seeking expressions of interest to undertake historical research and oral history into the Migration History of Parks and Reserves in Rockdale LGA.
The successful tenderer will be able to undertake all aspects of the brief and therefore it may be necessary for the work to be undertaken by teams with expertise in historical research and oral history.
Project Synopsis
The purpose of this brief is to invite submissions from professional historians and professional oral historians to prepare historic research and oral history interviews about the parks and reserves of Rockdale Council and their role in the migration heritage story of Rockdale LGA. The research will provide a thematic history of the parks and reserves of Rockdale which have social heritage significance for migrant groups with the outcome being the creation of a web page and publication.
Rockdale’s population includes over 40% of people who were born overseas; these people are represented by Chinese, Greek, Macedonian, Lebanese, Italian, Egyptian, Bengali and other communities. The parks and reserves of the local area have a strong cultural connections to the different migrant communities and together help to demonstrate Rockdale’s history.
A full brief is available by contacting Ms Suzanne Wren – Urban Planner, tel: (02) 9562 1750 or email Suzanne.
The project manager is Louise Thom who can be contacted on Tuesdays: Louise Thom, Heritage Advisor, tel: (02) 9562 1746 or email Louise.
The closing date for submissions is 22 October 2012.
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19. SITUATION VACANT Employment opportunities at Historic House Museum in Brisbane
The Board of Trustees from one of Brisbane’s oldest historic homes is seeking to appoint a Secretary Manager and a Communications and Engagement Officer.
Both positions work towards promoting the longevity, conservation and accessibility of the site, ensuring activities and management support a sustainable future for the House.
Applications for both part-time positions need to be submitted before COB Monday 8 October 2012.
For more information on the position of Secretary Manager: Secretary Manager – Newstead House
For more information on the position of Communications and Engagement Officer: Communication and Engagement Officer – Newstead House
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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 VIC 3125
Telephone: (03) 9251 7131
Facsimile: (03) 9251 7158
Email: austicomos@deakin.edu.au
http://www.icomos.org/australia
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