1. ISCCL & CIIC Meetings and Symposium at Australia ICOMOS 2013 conference

2. Registrations open for 2013 HCWA Seminar

3. Indigenous Heritage Program grants – Hon. Tony Burke media release

4. Throsby Park Open Day, Sunday 14 April

5. Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific Seminar, Deakin University (VIC)

6. RHSV exhibition – Celebrating the life of our city’s famous ship

7. Bundanon Trust event, Boyd Education Centre, Riversdale

8. Upcoming IPPHA courses

9. Save the Date! Local Government Heritage Workshop, Ballarat – Friday 17 May 2013

10. Australian Government’s Your Community Heritage funding program 2012-13 – now open

11. Twilight Jazz at Eryldene, 10 March 2013

12. National Archaeology Week, 19-25 May 2013

13. NAS training in Hanoi

14. APT Australasia presents Longford Academy 4, 6-10 May 2013

15. Australian Institute of Architects 2013 China Study Tour

16. News from World Monuments Fund

17. Cambridge Heritage Research Group Annual Seminar – abstract deadline extended

18. News from ICCROM

19. The George Alexander Foundation International Fellowship 2013

20. Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available

21. Heritage Victoria’s Inherit e-newsletter available online

22. Events at the Australian National University

23. SITUATION VACANT Built Heritage Consultant, Context, Melbourne

24. SITUATION VACANT Request for Tenders: Heritage Advisory Services panel, WA Local Government Association

25. SITUATION VACANT Report Writer(s) (part-time), Rappoport Heritage Consultants

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1. ISCCL & CIIC Meetings and Symposium at Australia ICOMOS 2013 conference

ISCCL & CIIC Meetings and Symposium
Canberra Australia
27-31 October 2013

The Australian members of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committees on Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL) and Cultural Routes (CIIC) are hosting a heritage event consisting of official meetings, tours in Sydney and Canberra and a symposium. The event dovetails into the Australia ICOMOS 2013 national conference, imagined pasts… imagined futures… that commences the evening of 31 October 2013. ICOMOS NSC members and others are welcome to attend the symposium but please make contact as numbers are limited.

Symposium topic:
Cultural Landscapes and Cultural Routes in the 21st Century, Issues and Opportunities

The topic covers issues of post disaster management, controlled and uncontrolled development on cultural landscapes and cultural routes, implementing historic urban landscape principles particularly cultural and green landscape systems, and the effects of globalization on the heritage values of cultural landscapes and cultural routes.

Papers from all regions are welcome. Papers can be 20 mins or shorter presentations.

Please submit an abstract by 31 May 2013, by email to Juliet Ramsay or Timothy Hubbard.

Download the ISCCL & CIIC Symposium flier.

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2. Registrations open for 2013 HCWA Seminar

The Heritage Council of WA’s 2013 Heritage Management & Planning Seminar will take place on 21-22 March in the historic setting of the Cottesloe Civic Centre. This two-day event will cover a range of topics along the theme of ‘Suburban Heritage – towards 2031’ and includes speakers from both inter-state and overseas. Registration is now open, with forms and a full program available from the State Heritage Office website.

The venue for this year’s informal dinner has been confirmed as the Indiana, Cottesloe Beach. This iconic venue sits at the heart of the Cottesloe Beach area and is a significant heritage landmark.  The Indiana is surrounded by the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition and is a short walk from the Civic Centre, where the seminar will be taking place. Arriving at 7 pm, guests will be able to enjoy the sunset over the Indian Ocean with their refreshments.

When registering for the seminar please remember to note any dietary requirements, and indicate which of the activities you will be participating in.

Any queries to Callum Crofton on (08) 6552 4151 or email the State Heritage Office.

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3. Indigenous Heritage Program grants – Hon. Tony Burke media release

Australia ICOMOS is committed to the dissemination of relevant cultural heritage information. In line with this commitment we are circulating the following press release from Hon. Tony Burke, dated 1 March 2013.

Federal Heritage Minister Tony Burke today announced the successful applicants for the Gillard Government’s Indigenous Heritage program.

The Indigenous Heritage Program aims to support, identify, promote and conserve the Indigenous heritage values of places important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Mr Burke said the Government was supporting 55 projects across Australia, including several multi-year projects.

“Heritage isn’t simply a story of sandstone convict buildings and indigenous heritage isn’t merely an early chapter,” Mr Burke said.

“Indigenous heritage is the foundation of the Australian story.

“These sites tell the stories of different communities and in turn tell the story of our nation.

“Protecting and caring for these sites has been a task for millennia and a continuing commitment today.

“The program can also help in identifying Indigenous places which may have outstanding national value to Australia for inclusion in the National Heritage List.

“This funding will assist projects for the conservation of burial sites, conservation management plans, heritage surveys, interpretative signage, pamphlets, books and repair work.”

In the Wet Tropics, the Jabalbina Yalanji Aboriginal Corporation will receive close to $350,000 for the development of an Eastern Kuku Yalanji Cultural Heritage Management Framework for the management of cultural heritage data across Eastern Kuku Yalanji country and interpretive and explorative work for potential world heritage values in the region.

In South Australia, the City of Port Adelaide Enfield will receive close to $100,000 for the establishment of an interpretive trail to raise awareness of the Kaurna history and heritage of the area to the community and visitors.

The Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Council in the Northern Territory will receive $216,000 to document the significant Indigenous heritage sites in Mirarr Gundjeihmi country, to develop management plans and to assist in the transfer of cultural knowledge from local elders to the next generation.

A study by the Aboriginal Heritage Office Northern Region to develop conservation and management plans for northern Sydney’s Aboriginal sites to protect them from coastal erosion is also being funded. The Aboriginal Heritage Office Northern Region will also receive funding to identify previously unrecorded sites in northern Sydney’s urban bushland in council reserves and parks.

In Western Australia, the Kalyuku Ninti-Puntuku Ngurra Ltd will receive over $85,000 to comprehensively map and document waterholes and other significant sites along cultural routes in the northern part of Martu country and the Gibson desert as part of a broader strategy to re-engage young Martu with their country.

“Indigenous heritage projects provide education, training, employment and business opportunities that help Indigenous Australians meet their cultural obligations to care for country and maintain traditions,” Mr Burke said.

“The Gillard Government is committed to closing the gap of disadvantage between Indigenous and non Indigenous people.

“Our investment in programs such as the Indigenous heritage grants provides employment and training opportunities for Indigenous people which enables healthier and more productive livelihoods.”

For a full list of successful applicants click here.

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4. Throsby Park Open Day, Sunday 14 April

Take this chance to see this historic site, before the HHT places the restored property on the market.

The day will include talks by curators, architects and gardeners highlighting the history of the property and some of the measures the HHT put in place to conserve the site. Visitors will also be able to view the interior of the house and various outdoor areas of the property.

Sunday 14 April
11.00am — 4.00pm
Free event – Bookings not required

For further information, click here.

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5. Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific Seminar, Deakin University (VIC)

Deakin’s cultural heritage seminar series for 2013 will start on Thursday 21 March. The first seminar will be given by Professor Ian Lilley (University of Queensland) who will be speaking on “Sovereignty, translation and the integration of nature and culture in Asia-Pacific World Heritage”.

Abstract

The World Heritage ‘system’ is having trouble accommodating Indigenous demands for recognition and involvement. The sticking points concern matters of sovereignty and translation. Sovereignty encompasses the perceived threat to the integrity of the nation-state from Indigenous claims on the one hand and what Indigenous people see as the affront to their autonomy represented by the universalizing processes of the World Heritage system on the other. Translation is central to this tension, because the parties involved seem largely unable to appreciate each other’s presumptions and constraints. In terms of World Heritage policies, the problem has arisen largely because the we are not linking the priority “5 C’s” together properly, especially when it comes to matching up “communities” with “communication”. This is probably most evident in the continuing separation of nature and culture in the World Heritage system, despite the fact that many of the communities we deal with have been communicating for some time that they don’t approach their heritage this way. This seminar considers ways we all might do better in this connection, with a focus on our Asia-Pacific neighbourhood.

Ian Lilley is Professor in UQ’s Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit. He oversees ATSISU’s research activities and the University’s Indigenous postgraduate support program, and facilitates other research on Indigenous matters. He has undertaken archaeological and cultural heritage studies throughout mainland Australia as well as in Torres Strait, Papua New Guinea and various parts of the Pacific. He did his PhD fieldwork in PNG, investigating ancient indigenous trading systems. His current projects focus on World Heritage and Indigenous people, local capacity-building in cultural heritage management, globally and in the Asia-Pacific, and on developments in Pacific archaeology in New Caledonia, where he does field research with French colleagues. Ian is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and the Society of Antiquaries of London as well as Secretary-General of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association and Convenor of the International Heritage Group NGO. He is a World Heritage Assessor for the UNESCO advisory body ICOMOS and Secretary-General of the ICOMOS International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management. His other professional interests are archaeology and identity, archaeology’s role in contemporary society and archaeological ethics.

Location  (note new venue)

Royal Historical Society of Victoria
239 A’Beckett Street
Melbourne (entry via William Street)

Date & Time

Thursday 21 March, starting at 5.30pm

For further information or to RSVP, please email Steve Cooke.

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6. RHSV exhibition – Celebrating the life of our city’s famous ship

Melburnians are invited to set sail exploring the history of Australia’s first light cruiser and one named after our own city, as the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV) and Military History and Heritage Victoria present the fascinating new exhibition “Fear God and Honour the King: HMAS Melbourne 1913 – 1928”.

HMAS Melbourne, a 5,600 ton warship with eight 6-inch guns, served the Royal Australian Navy from her commissioning in England in 1913 until her decommissioning in England in 1928. The ship took the name of the City of Melbourne, its seal as her crest, as well as the City’s credo, ‘Gathers Strength as She Goes’.

The exhibition, timed to commemorate the centenary of the ship’s arrival into Port Phillip Bay on 26 March 1913, features:

• The original seal of the City of Melbourne presented to the ship in 1913, courtesy of the Australian War Memorial
• A 12 bolt diving helmet and medals from the ship’s diver, also a Boer War veteran, from private collections
• The original Anzac day banner under which crew members marched in Melbourne post-WWI courtesy of the Museum of HMAS Cerberus
• More than 50 unique images from private collections, never before seen
• A fascinating chronology of life below decks and on board in peace and war, with items from the Australian National Maritime Museum, the State Libraries of Victoria and South Australia, Museum Victoria, the Australian War Memorial, Museum of HMAS Cerberus and a range of memorabilia from private collections

“HMAS Melbourne was a work horse of the RAN, steaming more than 250,000 miles during its lifetime,” explained Marcus Fielding, president of Military History and Heritage Victoria.

“She saw war service in the operations against the German colonies in the SW Pacific in 1914, escorted the 1st AIF fleet from Albany, saw service with the West Indies Squadron in 1915-1916 from Brazil to Canada and then served with the North Sea Fleet from 1916-1918.

“In 1922, Melbourne was involved in a dramatic rescue of the crew of an American schooner in the Tasman Sea, at the height of a hurricane.

“The exhibition, which takes its name from the scroll donated to the ship by the City of Melbourne in 1913, takes visitors on a journey back on board this ‘greyhound of the sea’, examining the ship’s war service and the lives of many of the crew who served in her.”

The exhibition will be held weekdays from 10am–4pm until the 1 May. Sponsors of the exhibition include the Port of Melbourne Corporation, Navy Health, the Melbourne Naval Centre and curator Cooee History and Heritage. A souvenir exhibition catalogue will be on available for $12. Pre-orders can also be made for the forthcoming history ‘HMAS Melbourne 1913-1928: The Forgotten Cruiser’, which will be launched at the Exhibition in March.

About the exhibition

Exhibition: Fear God and Honour the King: HMAS Melbourne 1913 – 1928
Showing: until 1 May 2013
Open: 10am – 4pm, Monday – Friday
Venue: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne
Cost: Gold coin donation

Enquiries

t: (03) 9326 9288
e: email RHSV

About the RHSV

Formed in 1909, the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV) is committed to collecting, researching and sharing an understanding of the history of Victoria. Housing the most extensive single information resource on the history of Melbourne and Victoria, collections are open Monday to Friday, 10am – 4pm. The RHSV is a community organisation that relies on membership subscriptions. Join today and help promote and preserve the history of Victoria.

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7. Bundanon Trust event, Boyd Education Centre, Riversdale

The Bundanon Trust presents
Stephen Kellert and Glenn Murcutt in Conversation with Janne Ryan oF ABC’s By Design

This is a unique opportunity to hear American Social Ecologist Stephen Kellert and Architect Glenn Murcutt share their perspectives on the connection between nature and humanity and the need for environmental conservation and sustainable design and development. Stephen Kellert is the Tweedy Ordway Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology and Senior Research Scholar at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Glenn Murcutt’s architecture is recognised in Australia and internationally through awards such as the RAIA Gold Medal and the prestigious Pritzker Prize. He has designed distinctive buildings that both respond sympathetically to a particular Australian landscape setting and environmental conditions and ‘touch the earth lightly’ visually and environmentally through the use of practical vernacular materials and innovative technology. The acclaimed Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre, was designed by him in association with Wendy Lewin and Reg Lark.

Presented in association with University of Western Sydney.

Date: Sunday 14 April 2013
Time: Gates open at 1.30pm; Talk commences at 2pm
Venue: Boyd Education Centre, Riversdale
Cost: Tickets $20 adult, $15 concession
Bookings essential: call (02) 4422 2100 or email Bundanon

Viewing of Boyd Education Centre after talk.

Cafe and Bar on site (No BYO – Riversdale is licensed premises)

Visit the Bundanon Homestead and Arthur Boyd’s studio, open every Sunday 10.30 am – 4 pm.

Allow 20 minutes to travel to Riversdale from the Nowra turnoff. Turn right into Illaroo Road at the set of lights just before the bridge over the Shoalhaven River at Nowra.

Bundanon is Arthur and Yvonne Boyd’s gift to the Australian people. Bundanon Trust supports arts practice and engagement through its residency, education, exhibition and performance programs. In preserving the natural and cultural heritage of its site Bundanon promotes the value of the landscape in all our lives. Click here for further information.

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8. Upcoming IPPHA courses

The Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage & the Arts (IPPHA) is pleased to offer the following professional development courses for March/April 2013. (Click on the links to view course fliers)

• Bill Gammage’s The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia

  Monday 18 March 2013 at the Australian National University

  A one-day Professional Update on this multi award-winning book providing critical perspectives on the issues raised and examining the implications for how our continent is understood and might be managed in the future.

• Key issues in Native title

  8-12 April 2013 at the Australian National University, in collaboration with the Australian Government’s Attorney-General’s Department.

  A 5-day advanced short course on key conceptual and methodological issues and arguments pertinent to the theory and practice of native title anthropology.

• Physical conservation of buildings and structures

  15-19 April 2013 at Kakadu National Park and Pine Creek Historic Township, NT

  A 5-day field-based Professional Development Short Course covering a range of physical conservation issues and strategies for conserving buildings and structures in place. In 2013, for the first time, this course will be delivered in collaboration with Kakadu National Park and will provide hands on access to an intriguing range of historic buildings within the park and Aboriginal associations with and perspectives on these.

• Memory of the World: assessing the material records and links to other forms of heritage in international practice

  Wednesday 24 April at the Australian National University, Canberra

  A one-day Professional Update which explores our growing heritage of archives and documents, oral and visual recordings, as well as the strong links to places and intangible aspects of heritage, with case studies from Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

Where detailed flyers are available, registration is now open at the IPPHA website.

There are just a few places left for the Kakadu course so get in quickly!

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9. Save the Date! Local Government Heritage Workshop, Ballarat – Friday 17 May 2013

The next Heritage Victoria Local Government Heritage Workshop for planners and heritage advisors will be held in Ballarat on Friday 17 May 2013.

Further details on program to follow in future e-newsletters.

Local Government Heritage Workshop
Friday 17 May 2013
The Trench Room, Town Hall
Sturt Street, Ballarat

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10. Australian Government’s Your Community Heritage funding program 2012-13 – now open

Grants of up to $500,000 are available for individual projects. The Guide for Applicants and Application Form are available from the Your Community Heritage website.

If you require further information after reading the Guide for Applicants and Frequently Asked Questions, please contact the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (Australian Government) by telephone on (freecall) 1800 653 004 or by email.

Applications close 21 March 2013.

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11. Twilight Jazz at Eryldene, 10 March 2013

This Sunday evening, an opportunity to relax to some good sounds in delightful garden surroundings.

Enjoy a picnic on the lawn (tennis) court relaxing to the sounds of the Charlotte Jane Band.

Tea, coffee and home-made cakes available from the garden cafe. Gourmet rolls can be pre-ordered.

Venue: 17 McIntosh Street, Gordon (a few minutes stroll from the rail station). Free parking at the railway end of McIntosh St.

Time: 5-8pm, gates open at 4pm

Cost: $30 non-member, $25 Eryldene members/students under 25, $10 children, $70 family (2 adults, 2 children).

Bookings recommended: phone (02) 9498 2271, email Eryldene or book online

Eryldene is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register as… the most intact surviving example of the work of William Hardy Wilson, the prominent early twentieth century Australian architect, artist, writer and advocate of the Colonial Revival style. It comprises a residence, complementary outbuildings and garden setting, reflective of the close similarity of interests of both architect and client, Professor Eben Gowrie Waterhouse. The garden was developed by Waterhouse to a remarkable individual character and was the setting for his world-renowned efforts in developing the nomenclature and hybridisation of camellias. It remains a resource for their study. The house, gardens and outbuildings are significantly intact, with some room settings retaining their original furnishings and detail (Moore et.al,1988:17).

The place is also of considerable aesthetic significance for its demonstration of an exemplary example of a garden as an extension of a house, with a series of open air rooms carefully furnished with trees, shrubs and flowers, superbly proportioned garden structures (temple, garden study, teahouse/tennis pavilion, fountain, pigeon-house) (Read, S., 2004).

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12. National Archaeology Week, 19-25 May 2013

National Archaeology Week (NAW) is a week of activities aimed at increasing public awareness of Australian archaeology and the work of Australian archaeologists both at home and abroad, and to promote the importance of protecting Australia’s unique archaeological heritage. In May each year an exciting nationwide program of event and activities is held, including public lectures, seminars, exhibits, demonstration excavations and displays. Events will be promoted in each state and on the NAW Facebook page.

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13. NAS training in Hanoi

Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) training was conducted at the Institute of Archaeology building in Hanoi, Vietnam over a three day period during November/December of 2012.

To read more and donate to this project, click here.

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14. APT Australasia presents Longford Academy 4, 6-10 May 2013

APT AUSTRALASIA CHAPTER – ‘LONGFORD ACADEMY’
5-Day Program in Advanced Conservation Techniques
Woolmers and Brickendon Estates, Tasmania
6-10 May 2013

An initiative of the Association of Preservation Technology (APT) Australasia Chapter, Woolmers Estate, Brickendon, the National Trust of Australia (Tasmania) and Heritage Tasmania, this year’s program will focus on “Quality and Sustainability – investigation and repair of significant building fabric”.

The fourth ‘Longford Academy’ (LA4) is a short program in the conservation of traditional structures held at Woolmers and Brickendon Estates at Longford, Tasmania (World Heritage inscribed).

For more information see the APT Longford Academy 4 Notice.

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15. Australian Institute of Architects 2013 China Study Tour

A Journey through Architecture and Time: down the Yangtze from the mountains to the sea Australian Institute of Architects China Tour 2013

The Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter is pleased to announce our third study tour to China in September 2013 to be led by Institute Fellow Anne Warr.

Following on the successful study tours led by Anne in 2010 and 2012, our 2013 tour traverses the centre of China, following the mighty Yangtze River from the mountains to the sea.

A preliminary tour explores the mountain regions of Yunnan at the headwaters of the Yangtze, while the main tour moves downstream from Chongqing to Nanjing by river boat, and then by bus through the water towns of the Yangtze valley. The tour finishes in Shanghai, where we will explore the city’s architects, artists and writers. This will be a tour of great diversity and discussion.

To view the study tour brochure and booking form click here. You are encouraged to book early to secure your place on this unique study tour.

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16. News from World Monuments Fund

To read the latest news from the World Monuments Fund, click here.

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17. Cambridge Heritage Research Group Annual Seminar – abstract deadline extended

Registration is now open for “Heritage Scapes”, the Cambridge Heritage Research Group’s annual seminar, on Saturday 13 April 2013, at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

To register, complete the Heritage Scapes Registration Form and return it to:

Calum Robertson
Division of Archaeology
Downing Street
Cambridge
CB2 3DZ
UNITED KINGDOM

Attendance fees for the 14th Heritage Research Seminar are:

• £25 – Waged
• £15 – Unwaged

The 14th Annual Heritage Seminar also invites you to send in abstracts for papers and presentations that address the issues below. Please send proposals to Leanne Philpot via email or Calum Robertson via email by Friday 15 March 2013 (previous deadline – 1 March).

Please address all questions regarding the 14th Annual Heritage Research Seminar to Leanne Philpot via email or Calum Robertson via email.

“Heritage Scapes”

Various concepts of ‘scapes’ have been employed within the heritage discourse over the last decade. Stemming from an initial concern with the decontextualisation of heritage sites from their surroundings, more abstract notions of landscapes, including the inter-connections between natural, cultural, social and symbolic dimensions are being debated.

Interest in environs has furthered advances in landscape studies and in contextualizing heritage spatially. At the same time we see attempts at exploring heritage through the effects of space: heritage-scapes, city-scapes, and memorial-scapes.

Behind the vocabulary of ‘scapes’ lies a move towards a broader vision of the networks of meaning that create heritage, linking it with markers in both real and symbolic environments.

Is this suffix, this ‘scape’, an escape or does it reflect a change in how we understand heritage? Is the adoption of spatial terminology advancing how we learn of is it merely metaphorical? How it is attempting to develop conceptual and analytical terms that capture the dynamic between space and heritage? And will the new terminology be inclusive of cross-cultural concepts of space?

Download the Heritage Scapes poster.

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18. News from ICCROM

To read the latest news from ICCROM, click here.

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19. The George Alexander Foundation International Fellowship 2013

In 2013, the ISS Institute is offering four Fellowships each for the amount of $10,000, sponsored by the George Alexander Foundation. These Fellowships are available Australia wide for applicants 35 years or younger.

The aim of this Fellowship is to promote the acquisition of higher-level skills and an appreciation of international best practice in the areas highlighted below. Applications in other areas will also be considered. This Fellowship is intended to examine innovative approaches that demonstrate potential benefits for, and application in, Australia. 

Closing date for the receipt of applications is Monday 8 April 2013.

For further information, visit the Fellowships page of the ISS Institute website.

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20. Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available

To read the latest Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin, click on the following link.

• Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin_4 March 2013

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21. Heritage Victoria’s Inherit e-newsletter available online

To download the latest issue of Inherit, click here.

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22. Events at the Australian National University

THINKING SPACES

Thinking Spaces presents a series of night time installations on the campus of the Australian National University. Installations will run nightly from sunset, 15-27 March.

A launch event is being held from 6.00pm – 9.00pm on Friday 15 March 2013 on the lawns of Menzies Library, Crn Fellows and Garran Rd, ANU.

Timed to coincide with the Canberra Centenary and the 50th anniversary of the Menzies Library, Thinking Spaces celebrates the people and places that have helped shape the cultural and intellectual landscape that is the Australian National University. Large-scale projections drawn from archival photographs and films of ANU people and events will be featured at select locations, re-inscribing local histories and celebrating moments of inspiration and discovery. When you visit the installations on campus use your mobile phone to launch the Thinking Spaces website, where you’ll have access to unique recordings and stories behind the installations. Thinking Spaces invites you to get involved and contribute to the making of the project. If you’re an ANU student or a staff member, past or present, you may have a story or even a photo of a particularly memorable moment of life on campus more details can be found on the Thinking Spaces website.

ANU HERITAGE TOURS

The ANU Heritage Office is offering a suite of guided tours throughout March to highlight the varied and significant aspects of the Acton Campus. The tours are approximately 1.5 hrs in duration. The tours take on a casual format, encouraging ongoing discussion while strolling through the campus. These tours are also under development in self-guided format and will soon be available on the ANU Heritage website. Please contact Amy Guthrie, Sustainability Officer – Heritage at this email address to reserve your places as numbers are limited. The following tours will be offered in March:

• Tuesday 12 March
  12.30pm-2.00pm
  Acton Conservation Area Tour
  Meeting Point: Gates of Old Canberra House, Lennox Crossing

• Thursday 14 March
  12.30pm-2.00pm
  Architecture of ANU Tour
  Meeting Point: Gates of Old Canberra House, Lennox Crossing

• Monday 18 March
  12.30pm-2.00pm
  Political History of ANU Tour
  Meeting Point: Street Theatre, University Avenue

• Wednesday 20 March
  12.30pm-2.00pm
  Landscape of ANU Tour
  Meeting Point: Street Theatre, University Avenue

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23. SITUATION VACANT Built Heritage Consultant, Context, Melbourne

Context is looking for a skilled and enthusiastic built heritage specialist to join our team. Based in our Melbourne office, this position is full-time (or 0.8 by negotiation).

The Built Heritage Consultant will be involved in heritage assessments, heritage advice services including impact assessment and conservation management plans. You’d be working with a diverse and highly skilled team, and would get the chance to contribute to a great range of projects, expand your knowledge and broaden your skills. In this role you would be managing smaller projects. It is a middle level position, with great opportunities for advancement.

Your training could be in any of the built heritage disciplines: architecture, architectural history, landscape architecture, or archaeology, and you might also have or be working towards a cultural heritage qualification. Experience in working in consultancy practice is essential.

You will have excellent research, writing, and field survey skills, and to be able to undertake the assessment, policy formation and written documentation of culturally significant places, including buildings, sites and cultural landscapes.

We are looking for someone who combines the ability to be a team player, with the initiative and motivation to be self directed and forward thinking. In a busy consultancy practice, your skills in prioritising and time management would be valued. A commitment to quality is essential.

Our workplace is friendly and we value a strong team culture. We offer opportunities for training and professional development, through internal projects and externally.

For a copy of the position description and details of how to apply, please contact Mary Ward (03) 9380 6933 or email Context. context@contextpl.com.au.

Closing date for applications is Monday 25 March 2013.

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24. SITUATION VACANT Request for Tenders: Heritage Advisory Services panel, WA Local Government Association

The WA Local Government Association (WALGA) has opened a Request for Tenders process in order to establish a panel of heritage advisors for local governments in WA. Applications are invited from sole practitioners, or individuals within a firm, who are experienced heritage professionals.

The tender is advertised at WALGA’s Tenderlink website and is open until 12 March 2013.

For further information contact Andrew Casella at WALGA on (08) 9213 2000.

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25. SITUATION VACANT Report Writer(s) (part-time), Rappoport Heritage Consultants

Rappoport is a medium sized boutique heritage consultancy practice based in Mascot NSW. Due to increasing work, we are looking for experienced heritage report writer(s). This position(s) can be part time with flexible work hours. The successful applicant(s) must have a proven track record in writing CMP’s, SOHI’s and Interpretation Strategies and Schedule of Conservation Works and will need to have a thorough knowledge and understanding of the NSW Heritage Management process and procedures. This position also requires the person(s) to have attention to detail and must be competent in Microsoft Word.

If you are interested in part-time work and you have the relevant experience, please forward your CV and examples of your work to Rappoport Heritage Consultants via email.

Applications close 12 March 2013.

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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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