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Australia ICOMOS Mentoring Program, round two – calling for Victorian Members!
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Launch of Australian Heritage Week Heritage with Heartbeat at Rymill House in Adelaide – Hon. Tony Burke media release
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ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2013
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NSW National Trust Heritage Awards – winners announced
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2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage, Hawaii – announcement and call for papers
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Heritage Victoria’s Inherit e-newsletter available online
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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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APT NYC 2013 Registration is Now Open!
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Nova Scotia Museum of Industry conference, Stellarton, Nova Scotia, 16-19 October 2013
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News from World Monuments Fund
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Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available
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ICOMOS Netherlands “Water & Heritage” conference, 23-28 September 2013
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1. Australia ICOMOS Mentoring Program, round two – calling for Victorian Members!
As many of you will be aware, Australia ICOMOS launched a pilot mentoring program in Victoria last year following an earlier trial in the ACT. The program supports members to share their knowledge and networks with students looking toward careers in heritage.
As the program was so enthusiastically received by both mentors and mentees, we are very pleased to be offering it annually in Victoria, with other states to follow soon.
A big thank you to all those who mentored last year, generously sharing their time and knowledge, as well as feedback at the end to allow us to improve the program.
When naming their favourite aspect of the program, the majority of 2012 mentors named the personal contact (we both learned from each other; refreshing to talk to the younger generation; good to know there is actually a pool of interested people; like the opportunity to help a new person into the profession), and almost all felt that they were able to make a valuable contribution to the knowledge and career prospects of their mentee. And all respondents said they would be happy to mentor again (which we are hoping they will do!).
This year, students in heritage-related degree programs at Deakin, Latrobe and Melbourne universities can apply to be mentees, as can early-career ICOMOS members.
Last year we had more potential mentees than mentors, so we are hoping that many ICOMOS members based in Victoria will be interested to participate. Those who mentored last year are welcome and encouraged to participate again.
What is required?
- While the mentoring arrangements will vary, we ask that you get together at least 3 times during the program (late July to late October) to discuss issues involved in your practice and the student’s study and work interests.
- There will be a social event held in late July to introduce mentoring pairs.
- There will be a second organised event at the midpoint of the program – a CV workshop – followed by another opportunity for mentors and mentees to socialise.
- There will be a brief evaluation questionnaire distributed at the end of the year that we ask all participants to complete and return.
How do I get involved as a MENTOR?
If you would like to contribute to this valuable (and enjoyable) effort this year, and be an ICOMOS MENTOR, please email an expression of interest to Georgia Meros at the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat by 31 May 2013.
Please provide your contact details (email and a work or mobile number) and a brief outline of your field of professional experience and current practice. This will assist the Victorian Mentoring Team in matching mentors and mentees.
Mentors must be ICOMOS members, and can have professional experience in any sector of cultural heritage practice. We will try to ‘match’ by interest as many Victorian students and mentors as possible.
How do I get involved as a MENTEE?
Students in participating university courses will be advised of the application process by the focal point at their university.
Early Career ICOMOS members should email Georgia Meros at the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat for an information sheet and expression of interest form. These must be returned to the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat by 31 May 2013.
We will try to ‘match’ by interest as many mentoring pairs as possible.
When do we start?
We will be matching students and mentors next month, and will launch this year’s program with a social event in July where mentoring pairs can meet.
We hope that all Victorian-based members will welcome this opportunity to participate in the efforts of Australia ICOMOS and its partners to support young professionals across a range of cultural heritage disciplines. And we hope that many of last year’s fabulous mentors will put up their hand again this year.
Kristal Buckley (Deakin University)
Natica Schmeder and David Young (University of Melbourne)
Susan Lawrence (Latrobe University)
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2. Launch of Australian Heritage Week Heritage with Heartbeat at Rymill House in Adelaide – 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 18 April 2013.
Tony Burke: Thank you so much and good morning.
I want to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land that we’re on and their elders past and present.
I want to thank so much to Luke and Kali for having us here. I’ve had a quick opportunity to go through what is simply a magnificent building and I’ll say a bit more about it in a moment. But I do want to acknowledge you at the outset and your hospitality today.
To my parliamentary colleagues, Federal and State and also to those representatives of local government.
One of the first things that I took on when I was given the portfolio of heritage when I became Environment Minister, was to establish a heritage week.
I thought it was important to have an opportunity where for a week we would encourage the nation to actually focus on heritage issues. Because I think across the nation, most people miss the point with heritage.
Very often we define heritage simply by being the nice old building and the architecture is all that matters. It is not what heritage is about.
Heritage is about the fact that stories live in places. Some of those stories are natural, some of those stories relate to our Indigenous heritage. Many of those stories relate to the settlement that’s taken place and most of those stories are still living the next chapter right now.
I walked through the grounds and then inside this magnificent house and it was a great example of the stories living in the place.
I had someone when the first acronym was dropped just then say to me that does warrant a poem. I have a rule with my department that once they get to the third acronym at any meeting they have to read a poem to the group, because I have a great hatred of acronyms and a great love of poetry.
But one of my favourite poems is one by T. S. Eliot called Burnt Norton. When they’re walking through the ruins of an old church and living the experience of everything that used to occur in what is now those ruins. And there’s a line in there which I think explains pretty much the whole of the reason we have heritage policy. The line in the poem is, other echoes inhabit the garden.
That’s why heritage is so important, because the stories that exist don’t simply exist in memory, they exist in place. As I walk through the grounds here, you don’t just see a magnificent house. You see trees that would have been climbed by the Rymill children.
I think not only of Henry and Frank as the two brothers who purchased the property, but Henry very much who was responsible for the construction.
I think of Frank’s grandson John, dyslexic. Great trouble reading but grew up with an incredible sense of adventure and became one of our most significant Antarctic explores. I wonder when he used to visit this house, what sense of adventure John would have had.
His voice as a little boy playing on the steps or climbing in the trees and running around the gardens, that gave rise to someone who then went searching the world and eventually found money from the Royal Geographic Society, to conduct an exhibition that went across two winters in the Antarctic, that last, great, unknown frontier. But his story is inexplicably linked with where we stand today.
I think we need to use the opportunity of this week and every moment to make sure that the story we tell is not simply a story of beautiful buildings. We very easy fall into that, because the story of the architecture is the most obvious and we can get to that and grasp that straight away.
But it’s actually the story of the people that lived within the architecture, who built the buildings, who had their lives full. Just as the Rymill family before them and the Constantine children of today, have had so much of their lives formed and shaped by place means that the story of Rymill House is not simply a heritage story of the past, but one that has very much a living history continuing into the future.
We also, I think, need to acknowledge some challenges that governments State and Federal must continue to grapple with. That is preventing the destruction of heritage is not enough to sustain it. Often we find the key arguments and moments when we get media attention for heritage is when it’s a battle between the building and the bulldozer. That’s the important battle to win. It’s pretty hard if the bulldozer wins to keep too much of the heritage of a place going.
But that should never been seen to be the end of it. For places to be properly maintained and restored, there are trades which are very much dying out which we need to find a way to sustain them. You can find architraves, you can find ceilings. You can find work around the outside of buildings, where the number of skilled tradespeople that we have to maintain and in some cases re-invent what was previously there. But these individuals are falling in number at a rate of knots.
When we had the heritage work that came as a very big burst during the Global Financial Crisis, an investment – I wasn’t minister at the time – but it’s an investment as a member of the government that I’m tremendously proud of. We made sure that some of those skills through a new generation were brought up to date. But if we allow those skills to disappear and if we allow ourselves to have a situation where the relevant trades people in the years to come are only able to think in terms of components, then we will have beaten the bulldozer, but we would still lose.
I believe it’s a challenge, but while I’m not standing here with an immediate answer to it. While what we did a couple of years ago helped, it’s something that needs to continue to be front of mind. Without those correct trade skills being in existence, we fall short and fall short badly.
But the final thing that I think we still need to lift our game on with heritage, is making sure that the story is told.
One of my favourite museums in the world is actually Te Papa of New Zealand. They don’t have an incredible collection. They’ve got some wonderful items, but it’s not one of the best collections in the world by any stretch of the imagination. But what they do is so brilliantly tell the story. You walk into that museum and then walk out with a completely different understanding of New Zealand, its natural, physical, cultural history.
In the same way, I think it’s important for us to capture that. We established some time ago an app that you can now download on smartphones so that wherever you stand in Australia, within about 15km, you can get information on the local environmental and heritage sites.
Now, a lot of that information we need to get the story around. We’ve started in some places now, collecting oral history that we can then GPS back to place, so that when people are standing in a heritage site they can hear the voices that have been recorded to explain the stories and the colour that bring the places to life.
At the end of all of this, I think we simply have to remember with Heritage Week that it’s not building week. It’s not old building week, it’s Heritage Week. And, with heritage, we need to ensure that the full depth of the passionate arguments, the laughter, the echoes that inhabit place, are stories that help explain to Australians our past and thereby better and have an understanding of how we can build for that future.
That is what brings Heritage Week to life. That’s the story and conversation that builds our nation. And that’s the conversation that I hope everybody engages with in earnest this week, so that each week we can, not simply protect and restore, but build.
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3. ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2013
ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2013
A Centenary of Celebrating heritage – The Centenary of Canberra 2013
Date: Saturday 20 July 2013
Time: 8.30am to 5pm
Venue: Sir Roland Wilson Building Theatre, Bldg 120, ANU campus
Cost: $70 full, $50 members of the host organizations, $30 concession & full-time students
Themes
- Presenting Canberra’s heritage through a range of media
- How to reach the non-believer – significant places accessible to all
- Collections maketh the memories
- Bureaucratic and boring – where’s the fun in Canberra?
- What happened before the Federal bubble burst on this Limestone Plain?
Complete the ACT and Region Symposium 2013 registration form (Word).
Download the ACT and Region Symposium 2013 information & registration form (PDF).
Read about ACT Historic Workshops & Symposium history ACPHA.
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4. NSW National Trust Heritage Awards – winners announced
The iconic tank stand, where a young Don Bradman honed the skills that would see him become part of Australian folklore, is among the amazing and varied pieces of heritage restored and recognised at the 19th National Trust Heritage Awards for NSW.
The awards have come to represent the pinnacle for those saving our past for the future.
2013 winners include the restoration of a now-vibrant wetlands in the Hunter Valley, rebuilding a crumbling church (which is a resting place to 40 first fleeters), reviving Wollongong’s North Beach Bathers Pavilion, creating a ‘sand library’ to assist with vital mortar restoration projects, and reshaping the Chinese Gardens in Darling Harbour.
Australia ICOMOS would especially like to congratulate Joan Domicelj (Lifetime Achievement Award Winner) and Letizia Coppo-Jones (Cathy Donnelly Memorial Award (Outstanding Female Heritage Professional) Winner).
For further details visit the the NSW National Trust website.
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5. 2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage, Hawaii – announcement and call for papers
2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage
Honolulu, Hawaii
12-16 May 2014
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation and University of Hawaii are hosting the 2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage in Honolulu, Hawaii in May 2014.
This conference aims to:
- address management and protection strategies of underwater cultural heritage in Asia and the countries of the Indian and Pacific Oceans in the 21st Century
- facilitate regional cooperation through the development of academic and governmental networks in the Asia-Pacific region
- provide a forum for discussion of technical and ethical issues related to underwater cultural heritage and underwater archaeology
A wide range of people involved with underwater cultural heritage are encourage to attend including those from universities, government agencies, museums, NGOs, IGOs, the private sector and the community
This conference follows the Inaugural Asian Academy for Heritage Management (AAHM) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference hosted by the National Museum of the Philippines, held on 8-12 November 2011.
For further information, visit the conference website and download the items at the links below.
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6. Heritage Victoria’s Inherit e-newsletter available online
To download the latest issue of Inherit, click here.
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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. APT NYC 2013 Registration is Now Open!
APT NYC 2013
11-15 October 2013
New York, NY
The Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) is pleased to announce a Call for Abstracts for APT NYC 2013, taking place in Times Square from 11-15 October 2013.
Workshops
NYC offers four intensives: on disaster preparedness where you can see firsthand the effects of Hurricane Sandy and dig into the decisions NYC preservationists are still making regarding what to save; where you can deepen your ability to choose tests and analyze the results for historic masonry materials; where you’ll study the conservation of modern-era metals analyzing skyscrapers after 1940; and learn how to build your own thin-tile “Guastavino” vault.
Field Sessions
NYC does everything in a big way, which is why APT is offering the largest array of field sessions in its history. Four full-day sessions are offered on Saturday 12 October; all half-day sessions are scheduled on Monday 14 October. Since many museums are closed on Mondays, there’s no better way to get an expert, behind-the-scenes look at NYC sites of particular interest to preservationists. Whether your interest is infrastructure, historic sites, neighborhood development, transportation, or urban outdoor spaces, you will find a session to enhance your Conference experience.
For more information, visit the conference website.
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10. 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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11. News from World Monuments Fund
To read the latest news from the World Monuments Fund, 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. ICOMOS Netherlands “Water & Heritage” conference, 23-28 September 2013
ICOMOS Netherlands
‘Protecting Deltas, Heritage Helps’
Amsterdam, Netherlands
23-28 September 2013
As a heritage organisation in a ‘land of water’ ICOMOS Netherlands recognises the important role heritage can play in managing the challenges the world is facing due to climate change.
ICOMOS Netherlands aims to raise international awareness of the connection between water and heritage and will bring together experts from both fields during this conference.
Drawing on knowledge from all over the world inspirational lectures and interesting discussions will lead to a joint statement to put the integration of heritage in the protection of deltas on the international agenda.
For further information download the ICOMOS Netherlands conference Pre-Announcement and the ICOMOS Netherlands conference Pre-Announcement Programme.
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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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