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Public Lecture on conservation of visual culture, Uni of Melbourne, Tuesday 3 June
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MOADOPH Australian Prime Ministers Centre Seminar, 13 June, Canberra
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Upcoming IPPHA course on Working with Indigenous Collections, July 2014
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ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2014 – registration open
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Latest news from Significance International
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Draft Australian Heritage Strategy released for public consultation – PLEASE GET INVOLVED!
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“Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage” conference, UK, July 2015 – call for papers
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2014 ACT National Trust Heritage Awards
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Town Parks of New South Wales – fully revised, expanded and just printed
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News from ICCROM
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Economic benefits of UNESCO World Heritage site status – talk, 11 June, Hawke Centre (Uni SA)
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Royal Botanic Garden & Domain Master Plan released for public consultation, deadline 31 May 2014
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Review of Queensland Heritage Act 1992 – Discussion Paper available online
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18th ICOMOS General Assembly – information from ICOMOS Italy
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News from CyArk
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EOIs requested to attend a focus group on the drivers of built heritage management in Australia
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ICOM-CC 17th Triennial Conference, Melbourne – Group & Poster Sessions announced
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Link to Heritage Tasmania’s E-newsletter
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News from The Best in Heritage
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Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available
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Australia ICOMOS / DOCOMOMO Sydney Talk Series, 3 July
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SITUATIONS VACANT Manager, Heritage Places Team & Senior Specialist (Interpretation), Heritage Places Team (2 Positions), GML Heritage, Sydney
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SITUATION VACANT Senior Manager, Policy and Strategy, Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW)
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SITUATION VACANT Director, Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (EPA)
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1. Public Lecture on conservation of visual culture, Uni of Melbourne, Tuesday 3 June
Challenging time: Melbourne’s contribution to the conservation of visual culture at home and beyond
Associate Professor Robyn Sloggett has been at the heart of the developments of teaching, research and conservation practice at the University of Melbourne for more than two decades. She presents here, together with specialist colleagues Dr Nicole Tse and Susanna Collis, some of the achievements, challenges and future directions offered by this exacting and exciting discipline.
Date & Time: Tuesday 3 June 2014, 5.00–6.00pm
Venue: The Oratory, Newman College, University of Melbourne, 887 Swanston Street, Parkville
Bookings: book online or by email
Download the Challenging time – Melbourne’s contribution to the conservation of visual culture at home and beyond flier.
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2. MOADOPH Australian Prime Ministers Centre Seminar, 13 June, Canberra
Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House (MOADOPH)
Australian Prime Ministers Centre Seminar 2014
Friday 13 June, 4.00–7.30pm
Join leading academics and creative thinkers on 13 June 2014 at the Australian Prime Ministers Centre (APMC) seminar, as we delve into the minds and motivations of prime ministers from Barton to Howard.
The Australian Prime Ministers Centre Seminar 2014 presents highlights from our annual research program on prime ministers, and other leading work by invited guests. This year’s seminar features research on prime ministers from Barton to Howard, for a fascinating mix of academic and creative projects.
The Australian Prime Ministers Centre Seminar 2014 will be held in the Members Dining Room at Old Parliament House, 18 King George Terrace, Canberra from 4.00pm – 7.30pm on Friday 13 June 2014. The event is free after entry to the museum.
Bookings required – please book via email, by 5 June.
Following the seminar, participants are invited for further discussion and refreshments in the Members Bar.
APMC Seminar 2014 is presented in collaboration with the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University and the Centre for the Study of Australian Politics, ANU.
In addition, APMC summer scholar and emerging poet Mitchell Welch will be at the museum on Saturday 14 June to deliver two exciting events which grapple with the interplay between politics and poetry and the experience of using Old Parliament House as a creative space (1.30pm in the House of Representatives Chamber and 3.30pm in the Zine Lounge).
For more information on these events and bookings, click here.
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3. Upcoming IPPHA course on Working with Indigenous Collections, July 2014
The Australian National University’s Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage and the Arts (IPPHA) is offering the following course this July.
- Working with Indigenous collections in Canberra’s national institutions: a behind the scenes look at their value, curation and use (click on hyperlink to view course program)
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Places are filling fast in this 5 day advanced professional development short course, convened by Howard Morphy and involving curators, exhibition developers and collections staff of the national cultural institutions.
To secure a place go to this page of the IPPHA website.
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4. ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2014 – registration open
ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2014 – The Future of Heritage
Hosted by: Canberra Archaeological Society, National Trust of Australia (ACT), Canberra and District Historical Society, Institute of Professional Practice in Heritage and the Arts & Significance International.
Date: Saturday 19 July 2014; 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 – registration details will be available shortly.
Download the ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2014 – Registration form.
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5. Latest news from Significance International
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to contribute to the final consultation on the draft Australian Heritage Strategy by Monday 9 June – two weeks away.
To access the relevant Australian Government documents and our take on them (including our submission) it might be most efficient to read our news item:
Other recent news items include:
- One-stop-shop for SI analysis
- Risk and significance publications now available
- Australia’s ‘Green Army’ gets going
Two earlier news item (January 2013) relating to the Australian Heritage Strategy consultation are:
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6. Draft Australian Heritage Strategy released for public consultation – PLEASE GET INVOLVED!
As previously noted, the Minister for the Environment has released the draft Australian Heritage Strategy for public consultation.
The closing date for submissions is 9 June 2014.
I strongly encourage all Australia ICOMOS members to respond to this draft. It is important for the Australian Government to hear from the heritage sector — that we all care passionately about Australia’s heritage. A high number of responses (positive or otherwise) will strengthen the view that heritage matters as an issue.
Members may also care to copy their submissions to the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat, as this will help shape the formal Australia ICOMOS submission.
For further information, visit the Department of the Environment website.
Elizabeth Vines OAM
President, Australia ICOMOS
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7. “Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage” conference, UK, July 2015 – call for papers
Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage: Heritage, Tourism and Traditions
13-16 July 2015
Liverpool, UK
Call for Papers
Trans-Atlantic dialogues on cultural heritage began as early as the voyages of Leif Ericson and Christopher Columbus and continue through the present day. Each side of the Atlantic offers its own geographical and historical specificities expressed and projected through material and immaterial heritage. However, in geopolitical terms and through everyday mobilities, people, objects and ideas flow backward and forward across the ocean, each shaping the heritage of the other, for better or worse, and each shaping the meanings and values that heritage conveys. Where, and in what ways are these trans-Atlantic heritages connected? Where, and in what ways are they not? What can we learn by reflecting on how the different societies and cultures on each side of the Atlantic Ocean produce, consume, mediate, filter, absorb, resist, and experience the heritage of the other?
This conference is brought to you by the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage (IIICH), University of Birmingham and the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (CHAMP), University of Illinois and offers a venue for exploring three critical interactions in this trans-Atlantic dialogue: heritage, tourism and traditions. North America and Europe fashioned two dominant cultural tropes from their powerful and influential intellectual traditions, which have been enacted in Central/South America and Africa, everywhere implicating indigenous cultures. These tropes are contested and linked through historical engagement and contemporary everyday connections. We ask: How do heritages travel? How is trans-Atlantic tourism shaped by heritage? To what extent have traditions crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic? How have heritage and tourism economies emerged based upon flows of peoples and popular imaginaries?
The goal of the conference is to be simultaneously open-ended and provocative. We welcome papers from academics across a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, archaeology, art history, architecture, business, communication, ethnology, heritage studies, history, geography, landscape architecture, literary studies, media studies, museum studies, popular culture, postcolonial studies, sociology, tourism, urban studies, etc. Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The heritage of trans-Atlantic encounters
- Travelling intangible heritages
- Heritage flows of popular culture
- Re-defining heritage beyond the postcolonial
- The heritage of Atlantic crossings
- World Heritage of the Atlantic periphery
- Rooting and routing heritage
- Community and Nation on display
- Visualising the Trans-Atlantic world
Abstracts of 300 words with full contact details should be sent by email as soon as possible but no later than 15 December 2014.
More information is available at the conference website.
Best wishes,
Conference Convenors:
- Mike Robinson (University of Birmingham)
- Helaine Silverman (University of Illinois)
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8. 2014 ACT National Trust Heritage Awards
Nominations are invited for ACT Heritage projects undertaken in the last 3 years including building conservation, adaptation, large and small projects, reports, community projects, natural and indigenous heritage and intangible heritage.
Entries close 30 June 2014.
For further details and an application form, click here.
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9. Town Parks of New South Wales – fully revised, expanded and just printed
Members and other heritage colleagues may be interested to know that their Australia ICOMOS colleague Warwick Mayne-Wilson has printed off a fully revised and expanded version of his book Town Parks of New South Wales. It contains new material in several chapters, especially those dealing with market squares, town commons, and even pleasure grounds.
It also refers to recent publications that affect parks, thus bringing it up to date.
Several additional parks such as Victoria Park (adjacent to Sydney University), Bigge Park in Liverpool, Central Park in Armidale, and Boronia Park (carved out of the Field of Mars Common) are now in the final chapter.
Interested colleagues who may wish to purchase a copy could contact Warwick directly via email, in order to have the publication posted directly to them. The cost of the publication is $50.00; postage will vary according to the recipient’s location.
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10. News from ICCROM
To view the latest news from ICCROM, click here.
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11. Economic benefits of UNESCO World Heritage site status – talk, 11 June, Hawke Centre (Uni SA)
UNESCO World Heritage site status
With James Rebanks, UK
Wednesday 11 June, 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start
Allan Scott Auditorium, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building, 55 North Terrace
What is the socio-economic impact potential of UNESCO World Heritage status?
South Australia’s Mt Lofty Ranges World Heritage bid could invigorate the state’s tourism sector – offering visitors a unique and authentic cultural experience, as well as creating more jobs and boosting the economy.
James Rebanks (UK) examines World Heritage Sites across the world to discover how sites attract economic development. Rebanks’ presentation will highlight what implications his findings might have for the food, wine and tourism economy of the Mount Lofty Ranges.
The lecture will give weight to the Mt Lofty Ranges World Heritage bid, proposed by six South Australian councils. If the bid is successful, up to 150,000 hectares from the Fleurieu Peninsula to the Barossa Valley will be protected and promoted globally for their cultural and agricultural assets.
Co-presented with Mt Lofty Ranges World Heritage bid
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12. Royal Botanic Garden & Domain Master Plan released for public consultation, deadline 31 May 2014
The first Master Plan in the almost 200 year history of the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney and Domain has been released for community feedback.
This draft Master Plan details an approach for the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and Domain to be sympathetically and beautifully enhanced while protecting the rare and historic living plant collections within its gates.
Submissions close 31 May 2014.
For further information, click here.
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13. Review of Queensland Heritage Act 1992 – Discussion Paper available online
The Queensland Government Department of Environment and Heritage Protection is seeking feedback on a discussion paper Our heritage: A collaborative effort – a review of the Queensland Heritage Act 1992.
The paper and submission form are available at Our heritage: a collaborative effort.
The discussion paper proposes changes to Queensland Heritage Act which aim to:
- modernise the Heritage Act and clarify its intent
- reduce unnecessary regulatory burden, particularly on heritage property owners and proponents
- strengthen legislative protections for Queensland’s heritage places, while also promoting development
- reinforce the important role played by local government in local heritage protection
Consultation closes 20 June 2014.
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14. 18th ICOMOS General Assembly – information from ICOMOS Italy
18th ICOMOS General Assembly
10 – 14 November 2014
Florence, Italy
Click on the link below for information in relation to accommodation for the 18th ICOMOS General Assembly.
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15. News from CyArk
CYARK NEWSLETTER, VOLUME 5, ISSUE 5
- Only 3 Days Left! Support our Kickstarter and Save a National Treasure
We’re nearly 60% funded but we need your help! If everyone on our newsletter list gave just $1, we would far exceed our funding goals. Help the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation & Training digitally preserve a National Treasure being threatened with demolition: the futuristic New York State Pavilion from the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair. Our campaign ends this Saturday, May 31. Thank you for your support! Give today!»
- New Bilingual Lesson Plans for El Camino Real
Three new lesson plans for CyArk’s Digital El Camino Real theme are now live in English and Spanish on CyArk.org and the IBM platform, Teachers Try Science. With the generous support of IBM, CyArk worked with local school teachers to develop three new lesson plans based on the Digital El Camino Real theme. We are excited to launch this new tool for teaching about the California Missions, and we’re grateful to our volunteer translators for helping us make these lessons available to a wider audience! Read more»
- CyArk Featured at TEDxWellesleyCollege
Former CyArk intern and recent Wellesley graduate, Makenna Murray, spoke about CyArk’s mission and the potential of digital preservation at a TED-affiliated event put on by Wellesley students. The TEDx program offers the opportunity for anyone with “ideas worth spreading” to organize their own event based on the TED model. Makenna earned the distinction of being the only student chosen to speak among a diverse field of Boston-based professionals. Read more»
- Attending HxGN Live?
Be sure to connect with CyArk and learn about our new program for service providers!
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16. EOIs requested to attend a focus group on the drivers of built heritage management in Australia
Johari Amar is a PHD student in the Faculty of Society and Design at Bond University. Johari is holding a focus group with around 8 stakeholders to assist his research at the State Library of NSW in late July 2014 (date to be confirmed). Johari is looking for a range heritage professionals to express an interest in attending the focus group session of about 90 minutes duration. An explanatory statement from Bond University is attached.
Please contact Johari by email if you would like to attend or if you require further information.
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17. ICOM-CC 17th Triennial Conference, Melbourne – Group & Poster Sessions announced
ICOM-CC 17th Triennial Conference
15-19 September 2014
Melbourne, Australia
Theme: Building Strong Culture through Conservation
The ICOM-CC Conference committee are excited to announce that the Working Group Papers and Posters are now available for viewing on the Conference website.
- To view the Working Group Sessions, click here
- To view the Working Group Poster Sessions, click here
Register before 4 July 2014 to take advantage of the early-bird rates – for registration rates and other conference information, visit the conference website.
Not an ICOM member?
To join ICOM, apply through your National Committee. Students and retired professionals can join ICOM at reduced rates!
Australians: click here to become a member with ICOM Australia.
Become a Friend
Click here for information on becoming an ICOM-CC Friend.
Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities at the Conference
Take the opportunity to review the Sponsorship & Exhibition opportunities at the ICOM 2014 conference.
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18. Link to Heritage Tasmania’s E-newsletter
To download the latest issue of Heritage Tasmania’s E-newsletter, click here.
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19. News from The Best in Heritage
A brief overview of the Best in Heritage conference programme, with eCult Dialogue Day and Global Heritage Forum. There are twenty-four museum, heritage and conservation projects taking part, coming from all sides of the globe and spanning throughout different segments of public memory sector; from Military Museum to Art Galleries, from National Library to Digital Archive, Conservation projects to Audio-Visual centre.. All are national or international laureates from the past year thereby ensuring a wide and in-depth study into current, best practices. Join us to meet these advocates of professional excellence as they share their visions and experiences. Register online here
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Global Heritage Forum meets again. Leaders of heritage organisations will gather for their annual meeting in Dubrovnik – coinciding with the Best in Heritage. Following the success of the inaugural Forum in 2013, the need to determine shared strategies for the benefit of all global heritage networks is even more urgent. Coordinating heritage voices, sharing experiences, identifying action plans – essential steps following a year of challenge. We face serious issues: economic stringency; uncaring government policy; destruction from conflict; loss from natural calamities. The focus is “Constructive responses to unacceptable challenges.” Read More
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May has been very dynamic when it comes to celebrating the best among museums and heritage achievements. We congratulate all the winners of the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award 2014, which were held in Vienna, and also laureates of European Museum Forum Award’s, including European Museum of the Year Award 2014 and Council of Europe Museum Prize, taking place in Tallinn, together with eCult Dialogue Day event. International Museum Day held around May 18th under patronage of ICOM, with the theme Museum collections make connections, proved as a huge success, with more than 35,000 museums celebrating the event world-wide.
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Whether it is design, technology, preservation and restoration, information management, accessibility, transport or logistics, EXPONATEC COLOGNE covers all facets of museum and exhibition work. In addition of confirming its position in 2013 as Europe’s leading trade fair for museums, preservation and cultural heritage, Exponatec has impressed with a high quality supporting programme. “The Best in Heritage Excellence Club” will be featured in Cologne in 2015, from 18 to 20 November, for the sixth time and present the best formal projects presented at 2014 and 2015 conferences.
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20. Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available
To read the latest Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin, click on the following link.
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21. Australia ICOMOS / DOCOMOMO Sydney Talk Series, 3 July
St Vincent’s Redfern: Erasing History
presented by Dr Catherine De Lorenzo
St Vincent’s Roman Catholic Church Group, including the Church, the old presbytery (now Jarjum School), and the old Patrician Bros school then Mercy convent (now the principal site for the Aboriginal Medical Service), is listed on the Local Environmental Plan, number 11348, and was last updated on 14 December 2012. It’s architectural history (Sheerin and Hennessy, 1886, plus 1930s additions) remains modest. It’s cultural history, however, is disproportionately significant to its architectural status, thanks to the fundamental transformations that took place in and around the building from the early 1970s when Ted Kennedy and 2 other priests arrived. Before long, Aboriginal people found themselves welcomed by the new priests, who in turn worked with people like Bob and Sol Bellear, Shirley Smith and Naomi Mayers to encourage the Whitlam government to realise landrights and self-determination via real projects. Supporting black leaders to establish The Block, the AMS, ALS, Black Theatre was complemented by the daily commitment to offering hospitality, friendship and practical support to those in need. When times were tough the church served as home, labour ward and mortuary. Yet its bare floorboards and peeling walls provided a setting for much creativity some of which took the form of temporary and permanent art works. All the artists, whether well-known or not, had a connection of some sort with the community and valued its palpable commitment to social justice, inclusiveness across gender, age and faith, and creativity in and around the ceremonies. Everyone was made welcome, and the place was packed.
Evidence of this history is now under threat. Over the last ten years a succession of deeply conformist priests appointed by archbishop Pell have shown little interest in the church’s history and blocked many activities. Recent maintenance works have seen the heritage fabric compromised, with Australian cedar and kauri pine fittings painted over, chandeliers and strip lighting installed, and a kitchen erected at the back of the church. Now, many of the unique art works installed during the 1970s, such as the Tom Bass altar, mural, trachyte font and tabernacle, are at risk of being removed and replaced.
Catherine will elaborate on this architectural, cultural and interior history and will ask what can be done to forestall the destruction of material evidence of that history, especially as its significance, she believes, reaches beyond the Catholic Church and remains something of a beacon across the nation. Does the church have wider significance than just at a local level?
SPEAKER
Dr Catherine De Lorenzo is an art historian, formerly in Architecture, Built Environment UNSW, now Adjunct A/Professor at COFA, UNSW and Monash. In 2005 she won the Marion Mahony Griffin Prize for her cross-disciplinary strengths. She is a CI on an ARC Linkage project co-examining curated art exhibitions and art history, and is on several editorial boards. She has been associated with the parish since the early 1970s.
Members of the public are welcome!
Time & Date: Thursday 3 July 2014, 5.30 for 6.00pm start
Cost: Members $10, non-members $15 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_Catherine De Lorenzo talk flyer.
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22. SITUATIONS VACANT Manager, Heritage Places Team & Senior Specialist (Interpretation), Heritage Places Team (2 Positions), GML Heritage, Sydney
GML Heritage is a leading Australian heritage consultancy. Our multi-disciplinary in-house team has expertise in built heritage, conservation planning, archaeology, Aboriginal heritage, history and interpretation. We are seeking to appoint two experienced and creative heritage practitioners to join our Heritage Places team.
GML Heritage is the heritage consultant of choice for many of Australia’s most important government and private organizations engaged with the management and development of heritage assets. Our unique position within the industry means that GML heritage specialists have the opportunity to work on some of the most interesting heritage conservation projects across Australia. We are also increasingly engaged in international conservation projects.
Manager, Heritage Places Team
The Manager of the Heritage Places team is a new senior leadership position within GML Heritage. The key requirement of the position is to lead and manage our team of architectural, planning, history and interpretation specialists to deliver a broad range of projects. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with at least ten years’ experience working in the heritage field to join our senior management team, and also to contribute to the strategic direction of the firm. A strategic focus, and experience in managing project teams within time and budget constraints will be essential for the role.
The Manager will be responsive, client-focused, self-directed and forward thinking in the delivery of projects and management of clients and staff. You will have had extensive experience working in the built heritage field, and have developed a reputation amongst your heritage peers and the development industry for delivering high quality outcomes for projects involving heritage buildings and cultural landscapes. Experience working on large projects in multidisciplinary teams, and the ability to operate in a commercial environment are essential. You will also possess an excellent knowledge of relevant heritage legislation and guidelines. A degree in architecture, registration as an architect, full membership of Australia ICOMOS and experience in Land and Environment appeals are all desirable.
Senior Specialist (Interpretation), Heritage Places Team
The Senior Specialist (Interpretation) is a new senior position in the Heritage Places team at GML Heritage. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with at least five years’ experience working in the heritage field, preferably including the development of interpretation plans and other initiatives to communicate the values of heritage places. The position will also include leading and managing a small team that may include architectural, planning, history and interpretation specialists to deliver a broad range of projects. A creative thinking focus and experience in managing project teams within time and budget constraints will be essential for the role.
The Senior Specialist will be responsive, client-focused, self-directed and forward thinking in the delivery of projects and management of clients and staff. You will have had extensive experience working in the built heritage and interpretation field, experience working on large projects in multidisciplinary teams, and the ability to operate in a commercial environment. You will also possess an excellent knowledge of relevant heritage legislation and guidelines. A degree in a relevant heritage conservation discipline, full membership of Australia ICOMOS and/or Interpretation Australia are all desirable.
Working at GML Heritage
These are both full time position based in our Redfern office. We also have an office in Canberra. An attractive salary package and conditions will be negotiated. The successful candidates will be provided with excellent opportunities for professional advancement and promotion within the firm.
GML has a friendly, supportive and flexible working environment with a strong team culture. We offer an exciting range of local, interstate and international projects. You will work alongside colleagues who are leading experts in their fields.
For inquiries regarding the above roles, please call Peter Romey on (02) 9319 4811. Send your application to Peter Romey via email.
Applications close COB Friday 6 June.
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23. SITUATION VACANT Senior Manager, Policy and Strategy, Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW)
Senior Manager, Policy and Strategy
Senior Officer Grade 1
Temporary Full-Time
Vacancy Ref: OEH 148-14
Total remuneration package to $170,713 p.a. including salary $143,247 p.a. – $154,352 p.a.
Lead the development of strategic heritage policy including developing strategies and legislative or regulatory reforms, and the use of research, contextual scanning and internal and external stakeholder engagement. Provide high quality, strategic and timely heritage policy advice
Selection Criteria: To apply for this position applicants must obtain the information pack which contains selection criteria that must be addressed in your application.
Notes: This is a temporary full-time position for up to 2 Years. This is a readvertised position; previous applications will be carried forward to this process Applicants must address the selection criteria and apply online. Please do not submit copies of qualifications online. If you are invited to attend an interview you will be required to produce relevant documentation then. Electronic applications must be MS Office 2003 compatible. Late applications will not be accepted. Overseas applicants must have a current working visa to apply for this position.
New employment legislation now applies to the NSW public sector from 24 February 2014. All current and new employees will be employed at a classification level and assigned to a role rather than appointed to a position. Employees may be re-assigned to other roles at the same classification over time, in line with organisation priorities and/or personal development plans.
Inquiries: Marija Zelic, (02) 9585 6675
Information Packages contact: (02) 9585 6675 or online
Applications are to be lodged online. If you experience difficulties applying online please contact (02) 9585 6018 during business hours for assistance.
Closing Date: Sunday 1 June 2014
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24. SITUATIONS VACANT Director, Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (EPA)
The Council of the Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (EPA) announces the vacancy of the position of Director of the school, beginning in September 2014. EPA is situated in Porto Novo, Benin and was created jointly by the University of Abomey-Calavi and ICCROM at the end of the PREMA programme (PREvention in Museums in Africa).
EPA is a postgraduate university institution recognized in Benin as an international organization that trains primarily African professionals from the 26 French, Portuguese and Spanish speaking sub-Saharan African countries. EPA specializes in the preservation and promotion of African cultural heritage (museums, archives, libraries, movable, immovable, intangible and natural heritage).
To apply, please refer to the Vacancy Notice, the Job Description and the CV/Application Form.
Please note that applications must be sent in French before 30 June 2014.
(Please note that most of the information about this role is only available in French).
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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in the Australia ICOMOS Email News are not necessarily those of Australia ICOMOS Inc. or its Executive Committee. The text of Australia ICOMOS Email news is drawn from various sources including organizations other than Australia ICOMOS Inc. The Australia ICOMOS Email news serves solely as an information source and aims to present a wide range of opinions which may be of interest to readers. Articles submitted for inclusion may be edited.
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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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