Australia ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 625

  1. IMPORTANT notice re: staffing of Australia ICOMOS Secretariat Office and E-news
  2. Brisbane Brick Conservation Workshop
  3. 2014 Canberra and Region Heritage Festival, 5-21 April
  4. Ultimate Heritage Debate and Dinner, “Does Heritage Really Matter?”, Rymill House, 14 April 2014
  5. Lime Workshop, WA, Thursday 27 March
  6. Australia ICOMOS Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group – call for EOIs
  7. 2014 ACT Heritage Grants Program
  8. Call for EOI for two Co-opted members to the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee
  9. ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2014 – call for presentations
  10. Public Lecture: “Balancing Development and Urban Heritage in Melbourne” Uni of Melb, 9 April
  11. Indigenous Photographies symposium, Australian National University, 3 April
  12. AIA NSW Chapter coach tour, 5 April
  13. LAST CHANCE – Victorian Museums & Galleries Conference 2014, 3-4 April, Victoria
  14. New Publication – The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning and Culture
  15. “Benefits beyond borders” presentation, Adelaide, 2 April
  16. Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP) seminar, Melbourne
  17. Call for Entries: 2014 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation
  18. KAVHA Conservation Plan Review: Online survey closes 23 March!
  19. Port Arthur Talks, Thursday 27 March 2014
  20. Australia ICOMOS / Docomomo Sydney Talk Series, 27 March
  21. Book launch for Jane Lydon (ed.) Calling the shots, Brisbane, 2 April
  22. The Johnston Collection – What’s On in March
  23. 15th Annual Cambridge Heritage Seminar, 26 April 2014 – program available
  24. Article of interest re: Pingyao’s heritage
  25. SITUATION VACANT Heritage Architect (volunteer position), Yangon, Myanmar
  26. SITUATIONS VACANT Sub-consultants and Casuals for AHMS Panel
  27. SITUATION VACANT Tenders invited: Conservation Management Plan for Australian Parliament House
  28. SITUATION VACANT Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader, Cultural Heritage Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

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1. IMPORTANT notice re: staffing of Australia ICOMOS Secretariat Office and E-news

The Australia ICOMOS Secretariat will be staffed at a reduced level between 28 March – 11 April 2014 inclusive.

E-newsletters – PLEASE NOTE:

  • The E-news will not be published on Friday 4 April
  • The subsequent E-news will be published on Saturday 12 April

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. Brisbane Brick Conservation Workshop

The Brisbane Brick Conservation Workshop was held at the Old Museum, a building providing a beautiful example of polychromatic brickwork. The event was well supported by 55 attendees made up of brick trades people, heritage architects, heritage planners, DEHP Heritage Assessors, Local Council heritage officers and more. Dr Gerard Lynch had the audience engrossed, demonstrating his eminent knowledge on the subject matter.

The first session covered the development of Lime mortars in England, the various process, and mixtures and how they developed over time. The chemistry involved in early lime mortars, the use of Natural Hydrated Lime, workability and conditions for hardening and setting were covered. The introduction of Portland cement through to the technology and strength of current cement products were also discussed.

After a well-deserved break, the second session covered historic forms of pointing, with a review of the traditional tools that a bricklayer doing this work would be expected to carry. This session also discussed considerations in re-pointing, removal of modern cement and provided images of how the mortar and profile affects the finished work.

The third session provided an overview of traditional bricks and brick making in England, skills that were exported via brick makers to Australia and other places. Clamps and Kilns were examined along with the technological developments that occurred to the manufacture of bricks and the firing process over time. The final session for the day covered causes of failure and approaches to repair of both bricks and mortar.

We received many positive comments at the conclusion of the day with the information raising awareness of the problems in using cement mortar in heritage buildings constructed with lime mortars. An extensive amount of information was covered during the day’s course and we thank Dr Gerard Lynch for his energetic presentation.

FINAL CHANCE TO REGISTER for Adelaide and Melbourne – registration closes COB today

Workshop dates

  • Adelaide: Tuesday 25 March 2014
  • Melbourne: Thursday 27 March 2014

Workshop program, registration and payment details are available by clicking on the relevant link below for each workshop.

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3. 2014 Canberra and Region Heritage Festival, 5-21 April

Close to 100 events at this year’s Canberra and Region Heritage Festival will highlight what makes our region unique. Celebrate our Aboriginal, natural and built heritage with tours, talks, open days, performances, dances, high teas, screenings, demonstrations and plenty of children’s events.

Introduce yourself to our heritage gems while Canberra is at its autumnal best, be it Ainslie, Umgagong, Namadgi National Park or Black Mountain. Visit places not usually open such as Parkwood Chapel, Robertsons’ House or Cuppacumbalong.

The first train arriving in Canberra in May 2014 inspired this year’s theme journeys. Children can download a Rail Trails map and explore the role and paths of trains in the ACT over the last century. Bring your map along to the Easter extravaganza at the Railway Museum and see the actual train that steamed into the young national capital, beautifully restored.

Nocturnal outings include the popular St John’s Graveyard Torchlight Tour, spotlight walks, Mysterious Queanbeyan by Moonlight and Time the Yowie Man’s Lake George and Haunted Collector Tour. You can kick up you heels at Tharwa’s bush dance or in the church hall at Ainslie.

The festival also provides opportunities for Canberrans to explore their local region with open gardens in Nimmitabel, historic houses in Goulburn and Yass, and exhibitions and tours in Cooma, Captains Flat and Queanbeyan.

For a full list of events click here. 

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4. Ultimate Heritage Debate and Dinner, “Does Heritage Really Matter?”, Rymill House, 14 April 2014

Join Marty Fields, one of Australia’s most talented comedians, actors, singers, writers and musicians, and MC for this pinnacle event, during Australian Heritage Week for the Ultimate Heritage Debate and Dinner at Rymill House on Monday 14 April 2014.

Keynote Addresses

  • Hon Greg Hunt MP, Federal Minister for the Environment
  • Lieutenant Governor Hieu Van Le AO

Special guest presentations

  • Professor Mads Gaardboe, Dean of Art, Architecture and Design, UniSA
  • Ben Hewett, SA Government Architect
  • Damian Borchok, CEO, Interbrand Australia & New Zealand

An intellectual debating challenge of “words, wit and wisdom” contesting the theme “Does Heritage Really Matter?”, with an impressive line up of high-profile and influential debaters:

  • Professor Norman Etherington, President, National Trust of SA
  • Vickie Chapman MP, Deputy State Liberal Leader
  • Vincent Ciccarello, CEO, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

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  • Paul Davies, Heritage Architect, NSW/TAS
  • Hon. Pat Conlon MP, Minister for Transport and Infrastructure
  • Michael Roder SC, Barrister, Howard Zelling Chambers

Guests will be pampered with a sumptuous four-course dinner matched with South Australian premium wines.

The fundraising initiatives of the evening will support the establishment of the “Living Heritage” Scholarship for Architecture students of the University of South Australia.

Further information and bookings

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5. Lime Workshop, WA, Thursday 27 March

For over two thousand years the simple process of burning limestone to form building mortar has shaped the built environment. From The Colosseum and the Acropolis to Sydney Harbour and Fremantle Prison lime mortar continues to demonstrate its functionality in our built heritage. It is important that we retain an understanding of this traditional material to allow us to repair and preserve our historic masonry into the future.

Hydraulic Lime is a modern bagged material that combines the practical advantages of modern construction with the suitability of traditional lime mortar. This material is used widely across Europe the US and Australia but has yet to be fully understood in Western Australia. Come along to this seminar to understand the benefits of this material in your heritage project.

Presented by Marc Beattie and Clinton Long this seminar will combine the application of Burra Charter Principles with practical knowledge of using hydraulic lime mortar using examples from Australia and the UK.

Where: Clinton Long Project Management Unit, 1 / 2 Walcott Street, Mount Lawley WA 6050 (next to Shell garage on Lord street Junction, parking on Farnley Street)

When: Thursday 27 March, 5.00 – 7.00pm

Cost: $10

RSVP: by email to Anne Brake by Tuesday 25 March

A short questionnaire will be developed for those collecting PD points.

Download the Lime Workshop flier.

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6. Australia ICOMOS Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group – call for EOIs

At its AGM Australia ICOMOS resolved to review its 2001 Statement on Indigenous Cultural Heritage, and to consider the preparation of a Reconciliation Action Plan. Reconciliation Australia encourages all organisations to prepare Reconciliation Action Plans (RAPs) setting out what they will do to contribute to reconciliation in Australia, and it is working with organisations across Australia to turn their good intentions into real actions. RAPs are developed through the organisation as a whole, with opportunities for all members to contribute. For more information about RAPs visit the Reconciliation Australia website which includes endorsed RAPs, such as that prepared by the National Trust of Australia (WA).

Australia ICOMOS is forming a working group of members to advance the RAP process and to establish a timetable for its completion. Several members have already agreed to serve on the working group and this is a call for expressions of interest from additional members.

EOIs can only be accepted from individuals who are current financial members of Australia ICOMOS. However, Australia ICOMOS is extremely conscious that the proposed RAP will be enhanced by active involvement of Aboriginal people and Aboriginal people who are interested in contributing to this project at any point are strongly encouraged to contact the conveners of the working group or the Australia ICOMOS Membership Secretary to explore opportunities for membership.

If you are interested in joining the working group please email Lance Syme or email Meredith Walker with an Expression of Interest (EOI) by Friday 21 March.

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7. 2014 ACT Heritage Grants Program

The ACT Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Simon Corbell MLA, launched the 2014/15 ACT Heritage Grants program on Thursday 13 March. The ACT Heritage Grants Program is an annual ACT Government funded program administered by the ACT Heritage Unit in the Environment & Sustainable Development Directorate (ESDD) to assist the community in working to conserve and promote the heritage of the ACT.

More information including guidelines and an application form are available on from the ESDD website.

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8. Call for EOI for two Co-opted members to the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee

I am contacting all Full members on behalf of the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee to encourage submissions for an Expression of Interest to be co-opted to the Executive Committee for the remainder of the year. I would like to acknowledge the contributions of two members of the EC who have recently resigned due to other commitments – Kate Cowie and Lance Syme – and thank them for their considerable efforts as members of the EC.

As well as these vacancies, we discussed at our last meeting in Hobart that we have some gaps in terms of geographic distribution on the committee and we would be keen to see particular EOIs that may remedy these gaps. This does not mean we would not welcome interest from you if you are not in the states, as outlined below, but that we would give priority to these areas. These co-options would be effective until the next AGM, to be held in October, and we would encourage any appointee to stand for election to the committee for 2015. Our next EC meeting is to be held in Perth on the weekend of 17-18 May and we would hope that appointees would be able to attend that meeting.

Participating in the EC is certainly a commitment, but I am sure my personal experience is echoed by many others who have been involved as an EC member. It is an excellent opportunity to contribute to Australia’s cultural heritage in a meaningful way, to gain a greater understanding of issues at a national level, to network with amazing people and actually have a bit of fun along the way.

Our priorities for EC membership at the moment are for EC membership that reflects:

  • ACT (state representative) – a necessary co-opted position; and
  • Northern Territory

However, we are open to all those interested – and this is an excellent way of getting more actively involved in Australia ICOMOS (AI). You will be working with an enthusiastic and friendly team of people and will have a lot of fun along the way. We are a welcoming organisation, and you will be helped settle into the Committee role both by induction policies that we have now prepared and by other EC members. It is a fast learning curve, but a good one!

Your time commitments would be: 3 x 1.5 day meetings for the remainder of this year; one of which will be associated with the AGM. The meetings are spread around the member states and usually associated with a professional/social event for members in that state. The schedule for the remainder of 2014 is: 17/18 May – Perth; 23/24 August – Sydney; 18/19 October (and AGM) – Melbourne (dates for the meeting in Melbourne are yet to be finalised but the meeting will take place in conjunction with an event/seminar).

All Executive Committee members make a significant commitment to the organisation, giving up not only their time but also paying the first $300 of travel costs to each of these meetings. Any cost over and above this will be reimbursed.

Form of application

If you wish to submit an EOI please provide:

  1. a brief statement of no more than 500 words outlining why you believe you would be suited to the position
  2. a copy of your Curriculum Vitae

If you are interested could you please forward an Expression of Interest as noted above, via email to the Secretariat, to reach us no later than COB Friday 21 March 2014. If you would like to discuss further or have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me (my mobile is 0419 816 525) or any other member of the EC. We look forward to hearing from you.

Elizabeth Vines OAM
President, Australia ICOMOS

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9. ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2014 – call for presentations

Presentations are now invited for the ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2014 – download the ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2014 – Call for Presentations for further information.

The details of the Symposium are outlined below.

Date & Time: Saturday 19 July 2014, 8.30am to 5.00pm

Venue: Sir Roland Wilson Building Theatre, Bldg 120, ANU campus.

Cost: $70 full, $50 members of the host organizations, $30 concession & full-time students – registration details will be available by the end of April 2014.

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10. Public Lecture: “Balancing Development and Urban Heritage in Melbourne” Uni of Melb, 9 April

“Balancing Development and Urban Heritage in Melbourne: Have We Got It Right? Where To Now?”

In this public ‘conversation’, which is the first of a trio to be held at Newman College over the next few months on the history and the future of the city of Melbourne, Professor Gerard Vaughan, former Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, and currently a member of the Australian Institute of Art History, The University of Melbourne, discusses with Ray Tonkin, former executive director of Heritage Victoria, the prospects and problems that confront us.

Date & Time: Wednesday 9 April 2014, 5.00-6.00pm

Venue: The Oratory, Newman College, University of Melbourne, 887 Swanston Street, Parkville

Bookings: book online or email Uni of Melb

Download the Balancing Development and Urban Heritage in Melbourne flier.

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11. Indigenous Photographies symposium, Australian National University, 3 April

The Centre for Art History and Art Theory, ANU School of Art and Aboriginal Studies Press present a symposium Indigenous photographies, celebrating the publication of Calling the shots: Indigenous photographies edited by Professor Jane Lydon (UWA).

The symposium will explore the curatorial use of Indigenous images, Indigenous interactions with collections and the histories of photography within Australia’s colonial past.

Join Professor Jane Lydon in discussion with Professor Helen Ennis (School of Art ANU), Dr Melinda Hinkson (School of Archaeology and Anthropology ANU), Dr Martyn Jolly (School of Art ANU) and contributors Dr Lawrence Bamblett (AIATSIS), Shauna Bostock-Smith ( PhD candidate), Dr Karen Hughes (Swinburne) and Dr Julie Gough (artist, curator and writer)

When: Thursday 3 April, 3.00-4.30pm

Where: Room 1.02, downstairs at the Roland Wilson building, Australian National University (ANU)

RSVP online

This event is free and open to the public.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.

Aboriginal Studies Press is the publishing arm of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).

Download the Indigenous Photographies symposium flier

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12. AIA NSW Chapter coach tour, 5 April

The Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) NSW Chapter presents a Hunter Region coach tour of two iconic early Blacket award winners.

  • Tocal College by Ian McKay and Phillip Cox, Architects in Association
  • The Rothbury Estate Winery by Allen. Jack & Cottier. Architects (Partner in Charge Keith Cottier)

Russell Lee from Cox Architecture and Keith Cottier from AJ+C will be our special guests on the tour. Registrants will receive a resource booklet prepared by NSW Heritage Officer Noni Boyd and Heritage Expert Margaret Desgrand.

Date & Time: Saturday 5 April, 8.00am to 6.00pm

Meeting Point: Corner of Macleay and Manning Streets, Potts Point. The coach will also pick up at Hornsby and Morisett. Pick up location is requested at time of booking.

Cost: Non-Members $150, Members $130; includes morning tea, lunch with a glass of Hunter Valley wine, afternoon snack; resource booklet, expert guides and luxury coach.

Click here to register online.

NB: Please advise your pickup location, email address and mobile number to Eleni Ragogo by email.

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13. LAST CHANCE – Victorian Museums & Galleries Conference 2014,  3-4 April, Victoria

The 2014 Victorian Museums & Galleries Conference will be held in Warrnambool on 3 and 4 April. The program features keynote presentations, interactive discussions, international speakers, a Patricia Piccinini exhibition preview, exciting behind the scenes tours, and a unique gourmet BBQ featuring the Shipwrecked! Sound and laser show.

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14. New Publication – The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning and Culture

The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning and Culture, 
Edited by Greg Young and Deborah Stevenson

The newly published Ashgate Research Companion is a cutting-edge global compendium on planning and culture and is the world’s first authoritative publication of its kind. The book was edited and conceptualised by A/Prof. Greg Young, University of Sydney (Principal Editor and ICOMOS member) and Professor Deborah Stevenson (UWS).

Released in the internationally prestigious Ashgate series, the book consists of twenty-five new chapters, authored by the leading global writers on planning and culture from Australia, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. The collection includes key chapters on heritage by Sir Gregory Ashworth (Groningen), Professor Jean Hillier (RMIT), Professor Kim Dovey (Melbourne), A/Prof. Glen Searle (UQ) and A/Prof. Greg Young (USyd). The book’s six themed parts and six illustrated ‘case study windows’ encompass key topics as shown in the Table of Contents.

Apart from heritage topics chapters include a cultural history of modern urban planning; a feminist perspective on planning cultures; planning theory considered in a global context; planning theory and the Tea Party movement; the cultural and creative industries; the cultural economy of Japanese creative cities; cultural planning and sustainable development; planning and place identity; the ‘slow city’ movement; public space and diversity in New York; the reinvention of place in Nordic countries, global cultural governance policy and cultural planning and its interpretations.

Greg Young’s Introduction ‘Planning and Culture in a Grain of Sand’ and chapter ‘Stealing the Fire of Life: A Cultural Paradigm for Planning and Governance’ are relevant to all ICOMOS members as they push the boundaries for culture, heritage and planning in far-reaching new directions.

An order form and further description of the book can be viewed at the Ashgate website.

The book is available as an e-book and will be launched in Sydney later this year by Lord Mayor Clover Moore.

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15. “Benefits beyond borders” presentation, Adelaide, 2 April

Benefits beyond borders:
UNESCO World Heritage Site status as a key vector of sustainable development and cultural cohesion
with Amareswar Galla

 Wednesday 2 April 2014, 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start
Allan Scott Auditorium, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building, 50-55 North Terrace, Adelaide

Pursuing UNESCO World Heritage Site status as a key vector of sustainable development and community cohesion.

What are the benefits of a World Heritage listing, and how can it be used as a key vector for sustainable development and cultural cohesion?

Professor Amareswar Galla explores these questions, using World Heritage Sites, such as Ha Long Bay (Vietnam) as case studies to show how diverse people can together reap the benefits from a UNESCO World Heritage listing – including investment, jobs and economic partnerships.

This event is free but register online to attend.

For further information, see the Benefits beyond borders flier.

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16. Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP) seminar, Melbourne

Welcome to another year of seminars by from the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific at Deakin University. To all our presenters last year, a big thank you!! We hope you will continue to participate in CHCAP seminars and keep us posted on your research progress.

We launch 2014 with a presentation by Dr. Denis Byrne (Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney) titled “Reclamation: Making landscape in Pearl River Delta/reflections on the culture-nature binary”.

Abstract

Since at least the Song Dynasty (960-1279) people in the Pearl River Delta have been ‘reclaiming’ the delta seascape to create new farmland. More recently reclamation in the Delta and up and down the China coast has been undertaken for port and airport construction, urban expansion, fish farm and theme park construction. The English term ‘reclamation’, implying a recovery of something already ours, is reflective of the modernity’s vision of a subservient nature. But activity in the reclamation zone also speaks to the permeability of the land-sea border and the tension between human projects and natural processes, especially when we think of 21st century climate change and its promise of inundation. Reclamation seems like a good fact and metaphor for thinking about ICS’s research theme ‘Heritage and Environment’ which, rather than just a combination of two research areas, is vitally interested in the culture-nature binary that haunts them and ways of transcending it.

The specific history of reclamation in the Pearl River Delta is entwined with the history of work-travel and immigration between there to California, Australia and other destinations and the transnational flow of environmental knowledge that accompanied it.

Biography

Denis Byrne joined the Institute in 2014 as a Senior Research Fellow specialising in heritage studies. He is an archaeologist whose work has been in Indigenous heritage conservation in Australia and in the cultural politics of heritage in Southeast Asia. His books Surface Collection (Rowman & Littlefield 2007) and Counterheritage (Routledge in press 2014) challenge Western-derived heritage practices in Asia and explore new approaches to the writing of archaeology and heritage. He is currently researching the transnational heritage of migration in the Australia-Asia sphere.

Date: Monday 7 April 2014

Time: 5.30pm

Venue: Meeting Room 3, Deakin Prime, City Campus, 3/550 Bourke Street, Melbourne

DINNER: The seminar will be followed by dinner around 7 p.m. at a nearby restaurant. Please RSVP to Yamini Narayanan by email for dinner booking

Email list: To be included in the CHCAP email newsletter distribution list, email Yamini Narayanan

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17. Call for Entries: 2014 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation

Entries are now being accepted for the 2014 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. The Awards were established in 2000 to recognize the achievement of individuals and organizations within the private sector, and public-private initiatives, in successfully conserving structures of heritage value in the region. In 2013 the award cycle received entries from the widest geographic spread to date, with a total of 47 projects submitted from 16 countries across Asia and the Pacific.

With support from the Sino-Ocean Charity Foundation the programme will continue this year to expand and explore new and exciting issues related to exemplary heritage conservation practice.

Entries for the 2014 Award programme must be submitted with an official entry form, project description using the official format, occupant comment form(s), owner consent form, rights authorization form, including drawings and photos in hard copy and on CD before 31 March 2014.

Click here to visit the official heritage awards website and to download the e-brochure and entry forms.

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18. KAVHA Conservation Plan Review: Online survey closes 23 March!

A new Conservation Management Plan for Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area (KAVHA) is being developed. Everyone with an interest in this important heritage place is invited to contribute their ideas.

Go to the project website, register your email address to receive Project Updates, and contribute your ideas via the on-line survey – it closes this Sunday 23 March at midnight.

It is expected that a draft Plan will go on public exhibition around mid 2014.

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19. Port Arthur Talks, Thursday 27 March 2014

Jane Franklin at Port Arthur
presented by Dr Alison Alexander

In a period when most ladies sat at home with their embroidery, Jane Franklin achieved fame throughout the western world, and was probably the best travelled woman of her day. Born in late eighteenth century London and married at the age of 36 years to Sir John Franklin, she travelled widely, and with an original ambition to live life to the full she was equally desirous of making her kind and mild husband a success. Arriving in Tasmania in 1837 when Sir John became governor, she swept like a whirlwind through the colony: attempting to rid the island of snakes; establishing a scientific society and the Hobart regatta; and adopting an Aboriginal girl to name a few of her many activities.

In 1837 the Franklins visited Port Arthur. In her diary and letters, Jane Franklin, an acute observer, gave a full and frank description of her visit. This paper analyses this description.

Alison Alexander has written 24 books about Tasmanian history, ranging from commissioned histories of a variety of institutions and areas, to biographies. Her most important books are: The ambitions of Jane Franklin (2013), and Tasmania’s Convicts (2010).

ALL WELCOME!

When: Thursday 27 March 2014 at 5.30pm

Where: Junior Medical Officer’s Conference Room

Download the ‘Jane Franklin at Port Arthur’ flier.

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20. Australia ICOMOS / Docomomo Sydney Talk Series, 27 March

DOUGLAS SNELLING: AUSTRALASIA’S MISSING LINK TO CALIFORNIA MODERNISM

Snelling

Douglas Burrage Snelling (1916-1985) was one of Asia-Pacific’s most significant interpreters of California modern design and architecture innovations from the 1930s to the 1970s – particularly luxury lifestyle themes popular in Beverley Hills and Palm Springs and ‘Polynesian pop’ aspects of the tiki style. Inspired by a stream of apprentices from Frank Lloyd Wright – notably Richard Neutra, Harwell Hamilton Harris and Gordon Drake – he was briefly employed by Beverley Hills architect Douglas Honnold and received technical instructions from John Lautner on how to build the southern hemisphere’s first ‘infinity’ (spill-edge) swimming pool.

Snelling was a fore-runner (from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s) of the ‘indigenous modern’ (pseudo thatched roofs) thrust in luxury Asia-Pacific resorts and residences. This movement peaked with Peter Muller and Kerry Hill’s hotels in Bali and Amanresorts from the 1970s to the 1990s and included Sydney residences with tribal-style roofs in corrugated steel by Richard Leplastrier and Peter Stutchbury during the 1980s and 1990s. Snelling can be regarded as ‘the missing link’ practising architecture and multi-disciplinary design in Sydney between the departure of Wright’s former students Walter and Marion Griffin in 1935 and the 1950s career beginnings of a new generation of organic modernist architects and designers who later became known as ‘The Sydney School’.

This talk will cover Douglas Snelling’s pan-Pacific career from birth in England to adulthood in NZ, his two working stints in Hollywood, his successful professional life in design and architecture in Sydney, schemes for resorts and houses across the South Pacific, retirement to Hawaii and role as a diplomat for the King of Cambodia. Snelling’s eldest son Christopher will show and explain key family memories from the late 1960s to Douglas’ death in 1985.

SPEAKERS

Davina Jackson M.Arch (history and theory) is a visiting research fellow with Goldsmiths College of Art at the University of London and an associate editor Arts Music Architecture with Berlin science publishers De Gruyter Open. She is the Sydney author of an RMIT PhD thesis on Douglas Snelling and author of the Australia-Pacific architecture summary in the forthcoming Routledge World of Modernism anthology.

Christopher Snelling is the eldest of Douglas Snelling’s three sons and Manager of the Powerhouse Discovery Centre at Casula. He is a former marketing director for the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Members of the public are welcome!

Time & Date: Thursday 27 March 2014, 5.30 for 6.00pm start
Cost: Members $7, non-members $12 payable at the door. Wine and nibbles will be provided.
Venue: GML Heritage, 78 George Street, Redfern
RSVP: email Jane Vernon or call (02) 9319 4811. RSVP is essential as places are limited.

Download the DOCOMOMO – AUSTRALIA ICOMOS TALK_27 March 2014 flyer.

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21. Book launch for Jane Lydon (ed.) Calling the shots, Brisbane, 2 April

Calling the shots

Museum of Brisbane and Aboriginal Studies Press invites you to the launch of Calling the shots, edited by Professor Jane Lydon (UWA).

To be launched by art historian and curator Djon Mundine.

The launch will be followed by a panel discussion with Jane Lydon, Michael Aird, Shauna Bostock-Smith and Djon Mundine (facilitator)

Date & Time: 6:00pm, Wednesday 2 April 2014

Venue: Museum of Brisbane, Level 3, City Hall, Brisbane

Bookings: click here

Calling the shots is published by Aboriginal Studies Press.

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22. The Johnston Collection – What’s On in March

Click here to read the latest news from the Johnston Collection.

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23. 15th Annual Cambridge Heritage Seminar, 26 April 2014 – program available

Hosted by the Cambridge Heritage Research Group at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

The Great War is arguably one of the most significant conflicts in recent history. In this centenary year of the beginning of the First World War, as the grand narratives about the conflict come under renewed scrutiny and debate this conference focuses on the alternative forms of war heritagisation and commemoration emerging globally. In exploring other voices disregarded by the mainstream grand narratives of European geopolitics, we aim to explore the weight of how we are inheriting 1914. With over 50 million pounds being invested in the UK in local communities’ projects to re-establish claims on the memory of 1914 we are interested in exploring perspectives from the periphery (i.e. local, indigenous, former colonies and other previously overlooked regions). This 15th Cambridge Heritage Seminar seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from a wide array of disciplines and communities of practice to explore the range of narratives being constructed.

Download the Cambridge Heritage Seminar Program.

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24. Article of interest re: Pingyao’s heritage

Click here to read.

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25. SITUATION VACANT Heritage Architect (volunteer position), Yangon, Myanmar

Position title: Heritage Architect (volunteer position)
Location: Yangon, Myanmar
Host organisation: Yangon Heritage Trust
Vacancy reference number: 10532926

The Yangon Heritage Trust is a non-government organisation which was founded in January 2012.

Its main aim is to preserve the built heritage of Yangon, in conjunction with Government, and protect Yangon’s historic cityscape. The Trust is supported by architects, members of the business community, individuals and other non-government organisations both locally and internationally.

The organisation has requested an Australian Volunteer to assist its growing team. The Volunteer for this assignment would bring with them extensive expertise in, amongst other skills, heritage and conservation planning, policy development, promotion and communication.

In addition to professional expertise, volunteers need skills in training & developing others, applied awareness and sensitivity to cross-cultural communication, patience, tolerance and flexibility. They manage with good humour the daily challenges of working with very limited resources.

For full position description and application details, click here.

Applications close Wednesday 26 March.

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26. SITUATIONS VACANT Sub-consultants and Casuals for AHMS Panel

PRE-QUALIFIED SUB-CONSULTANTS AND CASUALS PANEL FOR AHMS
For short & mid- term contracts (Part-time and Full-time)

Archaeological and Heritage Management Solutions (AHMS) is a leading heritage and archaeological consultancy servicing Australia and the Asia-Pacific region since 1998. We specialise in provision of archaeological and heritage management services to a range of private and public sector clients. Our team of archaeologists and heritage specialists have over 20 years’ experience in providing quality archaeological and heritage advice to our clients. Our team is the cornerstone of our successful approach to project delivery and risk management. We commit to ensuring that more than 50 per cent of our team are senior consultants and specialists with extensive experience and a demonstrated ability to resolve complex heritage management issues. Our commitment to senior expertise is unmatched in the heritage consulting industry and ensures we achieve consistently high quality outputs in all our projects.

AHMS does business with a wide range of clients, including all tiers of government, mining, residential and infrastructure sectors, as well as private developers. We provide a full range of Indigenous, historical and built heritage services in addition to community consultation and engagement. From time to time we require extra resources to deliver the best and most timely service to our clients. This panel offer is not an offer of a specific job. Those who successfully register for this panel will be pre-qualified by our selection team to streamline engagement of sub-consultants, casuals and part time employees.

To register for this panel please email Mr Kris Gallen and request an information kit.

Applications close 4 April 2014.

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27. SITUATION VACANT Tenders invited: Conservation Management Plan for Australian Parliament House

The Department of Parliamentary Services has released a Request for Tender for the development and provision of a Conservation Management Plan for the Australian Parliament House, in Canberra.

For further information, see the Austender website.

The closing date is 17 April 2014.

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28. SITUATION VACANT Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader, Cultural Heritage Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

University of Birmingham
College of Arts and Law

Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage
School of History and Cultures
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader, Cultural Heritage Studies

£37,756 – £70,106 (Lecturer salary from £37,756 – £45,053 a year with potential progression to £50,688 a year / Senior Lecturer/Reader salary from £46,400- £53,765 a year with potential progression to £70,106 a year). The successful candidate will be appointed at the grade appropriate to their experience and qualifications.

Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage is internationally recognised for its cross-disciplinary research, postgraduate heritage programme and its long term partnership with the World Heritage Site of Ironbridge Gorge and its associated museums. The Institute is seeking to appoint a Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader to support its continued development in research and postgraduate activity.

The Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader will be based at the University’s Birmingham Campus and will be expected to make a significant contribution to the Institute’s international research profile by publishing original research and securing research funding. Alongside research you will be expected to teach on the postgraduate courses, to recruit and supervise research students and to work with external partner organisations, foremost being the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. The Institute is particularly interested in applicants whose research interests fall within the following broad areas: Heritage and identity-making; The politics of world heritage; Tourism and heritage relations and; Intangible cultural heritage. Applicants with interests in associated areas will also be considered. We welcome those who have experience of conducting research within Europe as well as beyond including East / South East Asia.

For further information about this opportunity, visit the University of Birmingham website.

Closing date: April 11 2014

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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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