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Tree Forum, WA, Friday 10 May
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Local Government Workshop, Ballarat, Friday 17 May
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History, Culture & Collections Seminar, Melbourne Museum, 8 May 2013
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Nova Scotia Museum of Industry conference, Stellarton, Nova Scotia, 16-19 October 2013
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Architecture at the Ragged Edge of Empire symposium, Brisbane – call for abstracts
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Town Parks of New South Wales eBook now available
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Mining, Materiality and Cultural Heritage, a one-day symposium, 17 May, QLD
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Empire, faith and conflict conference, Fremantle, 3 – 5 October 2013
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ICOM-CC 17th Triennial Conference, Melbourne – call for papers extended
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Calling book reviewers from South Australia
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News from ICCROM
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Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available
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News from Cyark
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1. Tree Forum, WA, Friday 10 May
Following on from the Landscape Forum in 2011, which involved people from the National Trust of WA, ICOMOS and the Australian Garden History Society, Australian Garden History Society’s WA branch running a Tree Forum on Friday 10 May, with sponsorship from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Ellenby Tree Farms and the Arbor Centre.
Most of the concerns raised at the Landscape Forum related to the lack of protection for trees in the metropolitan area and on the fringes, including orchards in the hills and the vineyards and old olive trees in the Swan Valley. Therefore we are running a Tree Forum in order to provide an opportunity for a cross-section of experts and enthusiasts to engage in a dialogue about trees in Perth and beyond. Some of the speakers will be familiar to those who attended the Landscape Forum, including Craig Burton and Stuart Read, but we also have Australia ICOMOS expert Jane Lennon presenting on trees as markers in cultural landscapes.
If necessary, it is possible to register by obtaining an invoice and payment via bank to bank transfer or by cheque. In either case, please email Caroline Grant.
Download the Tree Forum flier.
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2. Local Government Workshop, Ballarat, Friday 17 May
The next Heritage Victoria Local Government Heritage Workshop for planners and heritage advisors will be held in Ballarat on Friday 17 May 2013.
Local Government Heritage Workshop
Friday 17 May 2013
The Trench Room, Town Hall
Sturt Street, Ballarat
The flier can be downloaded by clicking here.
Please RSVP to Lisa Rogers by email ASAP if you’d like to attend this workshop.
If you’re planning to head to the Ballarat Workshop by train, click on the following links for transport timetables
Examples of train times:
- 8am Ballarat via Melton train departing Southern Cross arrives Ballarat at 9.34am
- 3.55pm Melbourne via Melton – Departing Ballarat 3.55pm. arrives Southern Cross at 5.29pm
- 4.11pm Warrnambool to Melbourne – Departing Ballarat (Warrnambool train) 4.11pm, arrives Southern Cross at 5.28pm
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3. History, Culture & Collections Seminar, Melbourne Museum, 8 May 2013
Lake Mungo is the central feature of the World Heritage listed Willandra Lakes Region. Since the first archaeological discoveries of the late 1960s, the Mungo lunette has been the subject of extensive research and is recognised as one of the most significant indigenous cultural sites in Australia, with evidence of human habitation dating back over 45,000 years. Dr Nicola Stern of La Trobe University will present some of the most recent findings of a systematic inter-disciplinary survey of the Willandra Lakes Region, which began in 2009, in her talk:
Towards a history of human settlement at Lake Mungo in south west New South Wales
Discovery Centre Seminar Room, Lower Ground Floor, Melbourne Museum
1.00pm, Wednesday 8 May
The event is free, but please RSVP to this email address if you wish to attend so your place can be reserved.
Further details of the History, Culture & Collections seminar series programme for 2013 can be found by clicking here.
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4. Nova Scotia Museum of Industry conference, Stellarton, Nova Scotia, 16-19 October 2013
The Nova Scotia Museum of Industry is hosting “Industrial Strength”, a Canadian industrial heritage conference October 16 – 19, 2013 in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. Building on the success of past conferences in Vancouver and Hamilton, we hope to provide an exciting opportunity for those interested in industrial heritage to get together to share ideas, to report on recent work, and to build for the future.
Find the conference details at the conference website.
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5. Architecture at the Ragged Edge of Empire symposium, Brisbane – call for abstracts
Architecture at the Ragged Edge of Empire: Race, Place, Taste and the Colonial Context
Brisbane, Australia
27-28 June 2013
In his History of Queensland (2007), the historian Raymond Evans described the penal outpost of Moreton Bay (est. 1824 and later to become the colony of Queensland in 1859) as existing at the “ragged edge of Empire.” Initially a site of secondary punishment¬¬ for reoffending convicts, ensuring it was both geographically and morally remote from the imperial centre, the later colony was also climatically diverse (ranging from the sub-tropical to the tropical), racially conflicted (the Indigenous population at times outnumbering convicts and settlers four to one) and ethnically diverse (having the highest percentage of mainland European migrants within the Australian colonies). Undermining the ideal of a homogenous (British) settlement, such contingencies also effectively threatened, in the words of Evans, to undermine the creation of a new Britannia in the Southern semi-tropics.
The aim of the symposium Architecture at the Ragged Edge of Empire: Race, Place, Taste and the Colonial Context is to consider factors or contingencies of the colonial experience that challenged, worked against, or sat alongside the more formal (governmental) representations of colonisation. It will also consider their impact on, or expression through, colonial and/or settler architecture. While colonial architecture is often assumed to approximate that of ‘home’, especially in formal and material terms, a question regarding architecture’s disciplinarity –it’s conceptual framing as an aesthetic or a high art – is often difficult to reconcile with the climatic, geographical, ethnic and racial complexity of the colonial context. By attaching architecture to philosophical and aesthetic concepts of beauty (such as the sublime or picturesque) and artistic agency (imagination, association, genius or judgement), western architecture has also been historically linked to specific climatic, racial and social ideals. Building on Kay Anderson’s thesis (2002) that European contact with Australian Aborigines generated a “crisis” for Enlightenment ideals of humanism, the symposium seeks to consider whether the climatic, geographical, racial and ethnic variations presented by the colonial context also challenged and/or altered western conceptions of architectural practice.
Papers that consider factors or contingencies that challenge the colonial context and its architectural representation are invited. These may explore but are not limited to the following topics:
Place
While the deterministic role of climate and landscape on colonial architecture is commonly argued, the disciplinary positioning of architecture within the colonial context is rarely considered. How was the practice of architecture framed or viewed by architects working in colonial settings? Could the entanglement of taste (architecture as a cultivated rather than mechanical art, painting instead of engineering) be maintained? What effect did the topographical and climatic diversity revealed by colonisation have? Was architecture rendered mute or reduced to a technical practice in such circumstances? Was it possible to cultivate an artistic practice or architectural culture within tropical/sub-tropical/arid settings? Did the aspiring artist/architect need to leave for more temperate climes in order to develop an aesthetic sense or could these concerns be addressed locally (southern versus northern colonies, or east versus west)? Or, from a slightly difference perspective, did colonial communities view climate as degenerate or redemptive, and did climate theorists explicitly address the arts/ architecture alongside the problems of labour and national character?
Race
While British colonial institutions governed the early penal and settler societies of Australia, the populations of these new communities were often heterogeneous, ethnically diverse, and racially conflicted. In Australia, this was perhaps made most explicit by the imbalance of settler and indigenous populations and the conflict and dispossession that resulted, and further complicated by the ethnic diversity of settler populations themselves. Such conditions were often mirrored in colonial settlements the world over.
While racial and ethnic diversity and conflict are acknowledged as attributes of the colonial condition, their impact on the architecture of white settlement is less considered. How did issues of race, ethnic heterogeneity, hybrid populations or racial conflict impact on colonial architectural practice? Did architecture participate in broader agendas of cultural representation, racial division and/or ‘reform’? Did ethnic and racial diversity challenge the authority of colonial institutions and/or Enlightenment and humanitarian values of universality and equality? Were “hybrid” communities viewed, in accordance with nineteenth century theories on race—as potentially infertile, unproductive and lacking in character (Young 1995, Beasley 2010)— or did they make explicit and support alternative models, such cosmopolitanism? Was the ‘other,’ external or internal, framed by discourses other than that of colonisation or ‘empire’?
Taste
A final issue to consider is the problem of taste. Within Australia, colonised initially under a penal system and later through free settlement and migration schemes, significant proportions of early populations were often illiterate or semiliterate, valued for their physical labour rather than their intellectual capacity. Cultural refinement, as Evans has suggested, though not entirely lacking, often remained somewhat at a discount—at best a luxury and at worst a distraction. What role did the concept of ‘taste’ play in these societies? What was the impact on the practice of architecture of such a demographic mix? How was architecture viewed by such communities (technical practice or higher art) and was it valued? Did architecture, and the broader arts, play a role in the lives, education and ‘improvement’ of such communities or was it the sole domain of government and a wealthy elite? Was a culture of architectural taste developed and if so how and by whom?
This symposium invites papers that consider the above and related issues, both within Australia and other colonial contexts. We invite abstracts of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers.
Please submit abstracts to Deborah van der Plaat via email no later than 10 May 2013.
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6. Town Parks of New South Wales eBook now available
A new eBook on Town Parks of New South Wales – Past, Present, and Future, by Australia ICOMOS member Warwick Mayne-Wilson is now available.
The book reflects Warwick’s 20 years’ experience as a conservation landscape architect in undertaking heritage studies of major parks in New South Wales, plus additional research and field recording of over 50 parks, the majority nominated by councils throughout NSW at his invitation. As nobody in NSW has attempted to tell the history of their proclamation, evolution and development from British settlement on, this book fills that gap, as well as discussing issues of park design, management, meaning, and needs for the future. Highlights of the story are the proclamation of more than 200 parks between 1885 and 1890 to celebrate the centenary of settlement, and the major boost to their development made possible by Unemployment Relief Works funding in 1930-35.
The penultimate chapter provides a discussion, stimulated by debates in the USA, on how to encourage more people to make well-informed, caring, and imaginative decisions about parks to satisfy people’s needs for outdoor recreation and social interaction in the 21st century. It concludes with a representative range of over 50 well-illustrated examples of town parks, both historical and contemporary.
It can be downloaded as a PDF (for a fee) from the Warwick Mayne-Wilson website.
Further information on this title is available in the Town Parks eBook – Overview and the Town Parks eBook flyer.
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7. Mining, Materiality and Cultural Heritage, a one-day symposium, 17 May, QLD
Mining, Materiality and Cultural Heritage: one-day symposium
Dr Kirsty Gillespie, Professor Ian Lilley, Dr Diana Young
Friday 17 May 2013
Time: 10.00am – 12 noon
Location: University of Queensland, Level 4 Seminar Room, Sir James Foots Building (47A) (St Lucia)
The exhibition ‘Musical Landscapes of Lihir’, currently showing at the University of Queensland’s Anthropology Museum, addresses the relationship of mining and cultural heritage. In Lihir, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, gold mining has impacted on the local and regional economy enabling, amongst other things, increased access to consumer goods and a correspondingly increased level of kastom – feasting that pays for performance and ancestral maintenance.
In conjunction with this exhibition a one-day symposium will explore scholarly approaches to the intersection between resource industries, materiality and cultural life. The symposium aims to connect with the growing concern, amongst people who experience resource industry activity in the place where they live, to strike a balance between an engagement with economic growth and development, and the maintenance of cultural identity. Registration for the symposium is free.
Symposium convenors:
Dr Kirsty Gillespie
Professor Ian Lilley
Dr Andrew Sneddon
Dr Diana Young
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8. Empire, faith and conflict conference, Fremantle, 3 – 5 October 2013
Empire, faith and conflict
3 – 5 October 2013
Fremantle, WA
On the eve of the centenary of the Great War, the World History Association and the Australian Historical Association have combined forces to deliver this unique event which will consider the intersection of empire, faith and conflict in world history.
The University of Notre Dame Australia is proud to host this event on its Fremantle campus.
Proposals for conference papers, panels and posters are now welcome. Papers are invited from scholars and postgraduate students of all historical traditions, periods and genres, including the Ancient, Medieval and Modern ages.
Session themes might include (but are not limited to) imperialism; science and faith; mission; church history; military history; gender studies; colonisation and post-colonialism; trans-national, regional and national histories; historiography; art, artefacts and visual evidence; strategy, security, terrorism and diplomacy; faith in war; and myth and legend.
To submit your conference proposal click here and follow the links. More information about the call for submissions is available by clicking here.
Registration is now open. For more information visit the conference website.
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9. ICOM-CC 17th Triennial Conference, Melbourne – call for papers extended
ICOM-CC 17th Triennial Conference
15-19 September 2014
Melbourne, Australia
Theme: Building Strong Culture through Conservation
ICOM-CC is extending the deadline for contributions to the 17th Triennial Conference to Friday 3 May 2013.
Abstracts for Papers must be submitted by this date.
A separate Call for Posters will issued in August.
Invited papers and poster abstracts will be due on 15 November 2014.
Please use the abstract template provided on the conference website and refer to the selection criteria provided there.
For any questions, email the conference committee.
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10. Calling book reviewers from South Australia
Australia ICOMOS has one review copy of the following new publication, for review for Historic Environment. You get to keep the book in return for writing a short review!
- Lance Campbell & Mick Bradley, City Streets: Progressive Adelaide 75 years on, Wakefield Press, August 2012
Please contact Sandy Blair, the HE Reviews Editor, if you are interested in reviewing the above title. Click on the link to read the City Streets Media Release.
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11. News from ICCROM
To view the April 2013 news from ICCROM, click here.
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12. Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available
To read the latest Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin, click on the following link.
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13. News from CyArk
CYARK NEWSLETTER, VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3
- Announcing the CyArk Advisory Council
CyArk recently convened a group of experts–the CyArk Advisory Council, chaired by current ICOMOS International president Gustavo Araoz –to help guide decisions about which sites we capture. Read More»
- Data Management at the Sydney Opera House
With four laser scanners, the Scottish Ten team collected over 800 scans and more than 45,000 photographs. The data management was monumental, but between daily scan registrations, a voluminous spread sheet, mounds of metadata, and a good old fashioned highlighter, the logistically complex project came together, one scan at a time. Read More»
- CyArk joins transatlantic project to celebrate John Muir
A transatlantic project that will digitally document in 3D the homes of Scottish conservationist John Muir using cutting-edge scanning technology was announced by First Minister Alex Salmond in New York on April 8th. Celebrating Muir’s 175th anniversary, his homes in Scotland and California will be digitall preserved. Read More»
- Save the date! 20-22 October 2013
CyArk 500 launch at the Tower of London! More information to follow.
- New Project goes live on CyArk
CyArk is proud to announce the launch of Saskatoon, Canada’s Third Avenue Church on the CyArk website. Read More
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