Australia ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 641

  1. Australia ICOMOS New Membership Applications
  2. Call for Australia ICOMOS members to contribute to International Scientific Committees
  3. Engineering Heritage Australia Quarterly Magazine – now online
  4. LUXLAB Advanced Digital Imaging Workshops, UNSW
  5. Calls for EOIs for a position on the ACT Heritage Council
  6. History Council of Victoria Annual Lecture, State Library, 24 July
  7. Australia ICOMOS – Canberra Talk Series
  8. Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP) seminar, Melbourne
  9. NSW Government’s annual Green Globe Awards – call for nominations
  10. Port Arthur Talks, Tuesday 22 July 2014
  11. Future Anterior journal – call for submissions
  12. Australia ICOMOS / DOCOMOMO Sydney Talk Series, 31 July
  13. 2014 Victorian Museum Awards Ceremony, 7 August
  14. Female Factory lives recalled on playing cards – PAHSMA media release
  15. Course Announcement: SOIMA-LATAM 2014: Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections, November 2014, Mexico
  16. 19th International Conference on CHNT – programme online
  17. News from the Best in Heritage
  18. Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available
  19. “Intangible Cultural Heritage in the UK” conference 2014, UK, September 2014
  20. A walk down Science Road, University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus
  21. Draft Aboriginal Heritage Amendment Bill 2014 (WA) – public comment invited
  22. SITUATION VACANT Senior Team Leader – State Heritage Register, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage
  23. SITUATION VACANT Senior Heritage Consultant, AHMS, Sydney – application deadline extended

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1. Australia ICOMOS New Membership Applications

There are many benefits in joining ICOMOS – not only the fantastic people you will meet but Membership of Australia ICOMOS brings discounts at ICOMOS functions, at many conferences in Australia and internationally and on ICOMOS publications. The E-mail News provides a weekly bulletin board of information and events in Australia and overseas, including state based events, conferences and site visits, as well as information on heritage publications, funding and grant opportunities, course details and job offers. Members also receive a number of issues annually of the Australia ICOMOS refereed journal Historic Environment. Applications for members to join the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee (EC) are encouraged from all states and territories. For Young Professional and full Members, the International ICOMOS card gives free or reduced rate entry to many historic and cultural sites.

Australia ICOMOS welcomes new members and would like to encourage students and young cultural heritage graduates to apply for membership. There are various membership categories and applications can be made to the Secretariat:

  • Those who are interested in ICOMOS but who do not meet the requirements for full membership, or else do not have heritage conservation as their core focus, could apply to become Associates of ICOMOS
  • Those at the beginning of a career in architecture, archaeology, planning or history with 3 years experience and who are under 30 years of age may be eligible for Young Professional membership at reduced rates

For further information go to the Membership page of the Australia ICOMOS website, or download the Australia ICOMOS 2014_MEMBERSHIP Application Form.

Membership applications are only considered at meetings of the Executive Committee – in order for your application to be considered at the February 2014 Executive Committee meeting, please submit it to the Secretariat by COB Thursday 31 July 2014.

If further information is required, email the Membership Secretary, John Wadsley.

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2. Call for Australia ICOMOS members to contribute to International Scientific Committees

Australia ICOMOS is encouraging Full International ICOMOS Members to consider being involved on an International Scientific Committee (ISC). ISCs are vehicles through which ICOMOS brings together, develops and serves its worldwide membership according to fields of specialized interest. ISCs are expected to be at the heart of scientific inquiry and exchange in their domains and to share knowledge among them, in order to foster a multi-disciplinary approach to heritage protection and management. The ISCs are governed by the Eger-Xi’an Principles for The International [Scientific] Committees of ICOMOS. The Australia ICOMOS website has links to the various ISCs and also lists current Australian membership on the ISCs. See below. Australia ICOMOS is already well represented on several ISCs, however there are currently a number of ISCs with no or only a few Australian members. Some ISCs actively seek new members.

Although the Eger-Xi’an Principles allow prospective ISC members to nominate themselves or to be invited to join directly by an ISC, nomination by the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee as either expert or associate membership assists both the ISC and the candidate by providing an independent opinion on the standing and credit of nominees in the field of the ISC within their own country. In addition, within an ISC, each country is allocated one voting member and to be given this opportunity your membership on the ISC must be endorsed by the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee.

Australia ICOMOS expects those applying for nomination as expert members on an ISC to have: made a significant contribution to Australia ICOMOS in the area covered by the ISC (e.g. through the organisation of conferences, convening of specialist groups, etc); written and been published extensively on the area covered by the ISC; be recognised nationally or internationally as an expert in the area covered by the ISC; to have acted as a formal advisor to Australian Governments on the the area covered by the ISC; and/or to have completed significant and formally recognised consultancies on the subject/s covered by the ISC.

Nominees for Expert membership must be able to fund their own overseas travel to attend formal ISC meetings (usually held annually).

The criteria for Associate members of ISCs are less demanding (see the Eger-Xi’an Principles) and there is no expectation of personal attendance at meetings.

Australian members of ISCs are expected to report regularly to the general Australia ICOMOS membership on their ISC activities. Such reporting is particularly important for the Annual Report presented to the Australia ICOMOS Annual General Meeting each November. Other reports will be distributed through AICOMOS E-News.

If you have any queries please email the current AICOMOS coordinator Mary Knaggs.

Expressions of interest should be emailed to the Secretariat and the current AICOMOS ISC Coordinator (Mary Knaggs) by 5pm, Monday 28 July 2014.

Include a resume with particular reference to your credentials in the specific field of the ISC for which you seek nomination, and a statement on why you wish to be involved, and whether you seek to be nominated as an Expert or Associate member. The Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee will consider the EOIs at (and leading up to) its next quarterly meeting on the 16 and 17 August 2014, and responses will be sent the following week. The Executive Committee may seek advice from other experts in the relevant fields when considering the EOIs.

Please note that the endorsement of your nomination by Australia ICOMOS is no guarantee of your acceptance by the relevant ISC, and that the timing of the consideration of your membership will vary from committee to committee, according to their own rules and schedules. However some ISCs may hold meetings before or after the ICOMOS General Assembly in Florence (9-14 November 2014).

The ISCs are:

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3. Engineering Heritage Australia Quarterly Magazine – now online

Engineering Heritage Australia’s Quarterly Magazine can be downloaded from here.

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4. LUXLAB Advanced Digital Imaging Workshops, UNSW

For the first time in Australia, this professionals workshop focuses on practical understandings of new imaging technology for preservation, conservation and, visionary uses in exhibition. LUXLAB Workshop #1 draws on the experience and technologies of Kyoto University’s Advanced Imaging Lab that has scanned of over 8000 seminal artworks and national treasures throughout the world.

LUXLAB is a new initiative of the National Institute for Experimental Arts at UNSW Art & Design, bringing these technologies to the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) sector regionally while joining a network of laboratories located in the United Kingdom, Europe, Egypt, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and South Korea.

High-resolution optically resolved scanning is a process for scientific recording of cultural heritage, art and archival material which does not involve image interpolation. It is a vital for conservation and preservation, providing true-color, exceptional quality and very high resolution images. These images are the best possible resources for scientific analysis and colour science, but also provide cultural organisations with unparalleled opportunities for making their collections available for diverse public audiences. LUXLAB engages with the frontiers of imaging technologies, with 4K and 8K revolution in screen and tablets, in immersive environment design and web enabled streaming.

For more information registration please visit the website and select the workshop sessions of interest. 

Download the LUXLAB WORKSHOP GALLERIES UNSW brochure.

Location

UNSW Galleries
Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd
Paddington NSW

Contact

Rachael Kiang
Program Manager (NIEA & UNSW Galleries)
Executive Officer (NIEA)

Tel +61 (0) 2 8936 0619
Mob +61 (0) 421 773 683e

email Rachael

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5. Calls for EOIs for a position on the ACT Heritage Council

The Minister for Planning is inviting expressions of interest from persons in the ACT Region who may be interested in being considered for appointment to the ACT Heritage Council (the ‘Council’).

The Council is an independent body established under the Heritage Act 2004. The Council’s role includes, among other functions, identification and assessment of nominations to the ACT Heritage Register and providing advice on appropriate conservation of cultural, natural and Aboriginal heritage places and objects in the ACT.

The Council meets at least six times a year to consider a range of matters related to its functions. In addition, Council members serve on various taskforces comprising small numbers of Council members. The taskforces relate to the Council’s functions, and meet or communicate regularly to consider matters in detail outside of Council meetings.

Expressions of interest for four vacancies on the Council are invited from people with experience in Aboriginal culture, Aboriginal history, architecture, landscape architecture, town planning and urban design. Expressions of interest are also sought for positions representing the community and the Aboriginal community in the ACT. These positions will commence on 1 March 2015.

The application period opens on Friday 18 July 2014, when application forms and further information will be available from the ACT Heritage website. A completed application form, current CV and brief letter outlining suitability for appointment are required to be provided.

The application period closes on Friday 15 August 2014.

Applications will be kept on a register for three years and should vacancies occur, the Minister may use this register to appoint new members.

Further information about the Council is available by clicking here. 

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6. History Council of Victoria Annual Lecture, State Library, 24 July

The History Council of Victoria is pleased to announce its annual lecture for 2014.

Title: Worlds Apart: A Comparative History of Responses to AIDS in Australia and the United States

Lecturer: Dr Paul Sendziuk, University of Adelaide

In contrast to many countries, Australia quickly developed a range of pragmatic and innovative measures to prevent the spread of HIV. The United States largely failed to heed Australia’s example. This illustrated lecture outlines how two countries, facing similar epidemics, came to adopt such different approaches to AIDS control, and suggests the consequences.

This lecture is held in conjunction with AIDS 2014: 20th International AIDS Conference and is part of the Making Public Histories seminar series, organised in collaboration with the State Library of Victoria and the Institute of Public History (Monash University).

The presenter, Dr Paul Sendziuk, is the author of Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS and is an Associate Professor in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide.

Date: Thursday 24 July 2014

Time: 6.00 -7.00 p.m.

Location: State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatre, 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne (Entry via La Trobe Street)

Tickets: $9.00 (includes booking fee)

Bookings: click here to book online

Website: click here 

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7. Australia ICOMOS – Canberra Talk Series

Mexican Time: Heritage and Community Continuity
presented by Marilyn Truscott

Mexican talk

This talk will present the speaker’s recent journeys through time and place in Mexico, seeing how heritage programs are sustaining or reconnecting communities with their heritage from pre-Hispanic cultures to the first colonial settlements in the Americas in 1519. Examples are Xochimilco, Mexico City: the Aztec canal system that continues today; and El Tajín: a major Totonac, Mesoamerican city – both world heritage sites, as well as Veracruz state examples of the federal government’s ‘Pueblos Mágicos’ program for early colonial heritage towns.

Marilyn Truscott is a heritage consultant, who has recently been in Mexico to talk to colleagues about their tangible and intangible heritage and how it can be kept together.

Members and the public are welcome. This is part of a series of talks organised by Australia ICOMOS.

Refreshments available appropriate to the talk’s topic! [without too many chillies or too much tequila!] (A $5.00 donation is appreciated)

Date & Time: 5.00-7.00pm, Thursday 24 July 2014 – 5.30pm start for talk
Venue: Menzies Room, National Archives of Australia, East Block, Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes (enter from Kings Avenue side)
RSVP: To Marilyn Truscott via email

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

The next CHCAP seminar at Deakin University will be a presentation by Prof. Lynn Meskell, (Stanford University, USA & Thinker-in-Residence, Deakin University) on the topic “States of Conservation: Protection, Politics and Pacting within UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee”.

Abstract

The title, States of Conservation, deliberately references the two ‘states’ that today occupy critical yet oppositional nodes within UNESCO’s 1972 Convention and its conservation agenda. It recalls the State of Conservation reports commissioned by the World Heritage Center in conjunction with its Advisory Bodies that relay the condition of World Heritage properties to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. But more critically, ‘states’ here also refers to the most powerful, emergent players in World Heritage site inscription and protection processes — the States Parties or member states of the 1972 Convention. In this talk I contend that as the rush for World Heritage inscription increases and economic and geo-political pacting between nations intensifies, the resources, concerns and commitments for conservation of sites already inscribed dramatically declines. I trace the national economic interests, international political pacting, and voting blocs through which particular countries increasingly set the World Heritage agenda and recast UNESCO as an agency for global branding rather than global conservation.

Biography

Lynn Meskell is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Archaeology Center at Stanford University. She received her BA (Hons) First Class and the University Medal from the University of Sydney in 1994. For her PhD in Archaeology (1994-1997), she was awarded the Kings College scholarship from Cambridge University. She held the Salvesen Junior Research Fellowship at New College, Oxford University (1997-1999) before accepting a position at Columbia University in New York City where she became Professor in 2005. From that time onwards she has been Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University and Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. In 1999 she founded the Journal of Social Archaeology, for which she serves as Editor. She has been awarded grants and fellowships including those from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Australian Research Council, the American Academy in Rome, the School of American Research and Deakin University. Some of her recent books and edited collections include Embedding Ethics (2005, Berg) and Cosmopolitan Archaeologies (2009, Duke UP) and The Nature of Culture: The New South Africa (2012, Blackwells). Her new research focuses on the role of UNESCO in terms of heritage rights, sovereignty and international politics.

Date: Wednesday 30 July 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 pm at Bar Humbug. 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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9. NSW Government’s annual Green Globe Awards – call for nominations

The NSW Government’s 15th annual Green Globe Awards are the leading environment awards in NSW, showcasing environmental innovation, leadership and performance. The awards will be hosted by the Hon Rob Stokes, Minister for the Environment on Thursday 30 October at NSW Parliament House.

They provide a great opportunity to showcase and highlight the fantastic work and environmental projects that is being done throughout NSW.

There are 16 award categories and one category specifically for – Heritage Buildings (see details below).

HERITAGE BUILDINGS AWARD – CATEGORY

This award honours heritage-listed buildings in NSW that have successfully developed and integrated environmental management and sustainable practices into the buildings fabrics and management. This category rewards innovative actions taken to improve the efficiency and general environmental performance of the building, whilst retaining the asset’s heritage values.

Eligibility: project must relate to a Heritage Buildings listed on the World Heritage List, National Heritage List, NSW State Heritage Register, State Agency Heritage Register and/or Local Environmental Plan. Entrants must provide details of the statutory Heritage listing, supply a Heritage Impact Statement for any building modification work, along with relevant plans and photos.

To get started:

Entries close 5.00pm Monday 21 July 2014 and for all details on nominations and the Green Globe Awards visit the Green Glode Awards website.

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10. Port Arthur Talks, Tuesday 22 July 2014

Was convict transportation good for the health of convicts and their descendants?
presented by Dr Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

This talk will use data for both transported convicts and Tasmanians born in the second half of the 19th century to explore the impact of transportation on convict health, family formation and colonial child development. In particular it will look at the extent to which the sins of their parents disadvantaged the children of convicts.

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart teaches history at the University of Tasmania where he is an Associate Professor. He has authored a number of books and articles including Closing Hell’s Gates (2008), and is currently collaborating with an international team of researchers to explore the long-term impacts of transportation on health and offending.

ALL WELCOME!

When: Tuesday 22 July 2014 at 5.30pm

Where: Junior Medical Officer’s Conference Room

Download the Convict Transportation talk flier.

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11. Future Anterior journal – call for submissions

COPIES, COPYRIGHT and PRESERVATION
Special Issue co-edited by Ines Weizman and Jorge Otero-Pailos

CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: 15 September 2014

Future Anterior invites essays that explore the relationship between copyright and preservation from a historical, theoretical and critical perspective. Both copyright and preservation laws are aimed at protecting unique human achievements, but they point to different, even opposing threats. Whereas copyright is meant to protect private interests from public encroachments, preservation mostly aims to safeguard the public interest against private forces. But as the categories of private and public are redrawn under the pressures of globalization, what challenges and opportunities lay ahead for preservation?

Both preservation and copyright law attempt to answer a basic question: Who has the right to make a copy? This question has a long but unexplored history within preservation. Carlo Fea, the Italian neo-classical jurist and preservationist, passed laws to forbid overzealous collectors form taking original sculptures from churches and using poor replacement copies as payments for cash-strapped priests. But as copying techniques improved, it became common to place copies outdoors and to move original works of architecture and sculpture inside museums (think of the copies that replaced the original capitals of the Doge’s Palace, or the replica of Michelangelo’s David in Piazza della Signoria). These days, preservation and copyright are both challenged by new modes of digital production, which put new pressure on the notion of absolute authorship and ownership.

What makes mechanical architectural copies so interesting is that, even though they emerge at the same time as reproductions in other fields, they escaped the same association as representative phenomena of modernity. Yet, just like the print, the photograph, the film or the digital file, architectural copies are a product of architecture and a media form in themselves, part of an endless series of ‘aura-less’ multiplications. Legal scholar Bernard Edelman has shown how in nineteenth-century France photographs were at first considered to be mere mechanical reproductions of reality, and hence in the public domain. It was only when photography became accepted as an artistic practice that it received legal protection and ‘the real as object in law [became] susceptible to appropriation, sale and contracts’. To what degree does contemporary art still serve as the measure and instrument for the regulation of copies? Can copyright law help explain the opposition to consider preservationists as artists, or even authors? Essays may investigate these questions, as well as critically analyze modes and practices of appropriation in preservation as they compare to other fields.

As the production of architectural copies is becoming more digital, networked and diffused, we are witnessing more aggressive legal attempts to control the right to reproduce architecture. As Winnie Won Yin Wong wrote (Future Anterior 9.1) recent legal attempts to define “trade dress” signal an attempt to regulate, not just architectural form, but also ambiance and atmosphere as property. From the perspective of preservation, which relies heavily on design guidelines to implement legally binding decisions, what is the future of aesthetic regulation? We welcome essays that explore how objects (and specifically architectural interiors, buildings and cities) have been and are today presented, discussed and contested (in court, or other legal debates) as a dispute over authorial, private or public property.

In preservation, intellectual copyright is hard to define and regulate – harder than in most other arts. Its potential scope is also overwhelming, implying that almost every gesture in the construction of space would have to be protected. What sorts of architectural and urban copies are subject to copyright? If copyright is the right to copy, replicate, duplicate and receive the financial benefits of this act, could one argue copyright law in fact enabled architecture to be copied, replicated, mass produced and exported across the world? How did the circulation of copies help or undermine the idea of preservation in-situ? How could the history of national and international copyright laws inform that of modern preservation?

Future Anterior invites papers from scholars in preservation and its allied fields (juridical studies, architectural history, art history, anthropology, archeology, geography, political science, urban studies, and planning) that explore these and related questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Future Anterior is a peer-reviewed journal that approaches the field of historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry. A comparatively recent field of professional study, preservation often escapes direct academic challenges of its motives, goals, forms of practice and results. Future Anterior invites contributions that ask these difficult questions from philosophical, theoretical, and practical perspectives.

Articles submitted for peer review should be no more than 4000 words, with five to seven illustrations. Text must be formatted in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition. All articles must be submitted in English, and spelling should follow American convention. All submissions must be submitted electronically. Text should be saved as Microsoft Word or RTF format, while accompanying images should be sent as TIFF files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi at 8” by 9” print size. Figures should be numbered and called out clearly between paragraphs in the text. Image captions and credits must be included with submissions. It is the responsibility of the author to secure permissions for image use and pay any reproduction fees. A brief author biography (around 100 words) must accompany the text.

Click for further manuscript guidelines.

Acceptance or rejection of submissions is at the discretion of the editors.

Please do not send original materials, as submissions will not be returned.

Please email all submissions to Furure Anterior

Or by mail to:

  • Future Anterior
    400 Avery Hall
    Graduate Program in Historic Preservation
    Columbia University
    New York, NY 10027

Questions about submissions can be mailed to the above address or addressed to:

Jorge Otero-Pailos by email

Jorge Otero-Pailos, Founder and Editor, Future Anterior
Associate Professor of Historic Preservation
Columbia University

or

Ines Weizman by email

Ines Weizman, Professor of Architectural Theory
Bauhaus University Weimar

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12. Australia ICOMOS / DOCOMOMO Sydney Talk Series, 31 July

Ann Warr in her talk “Shanghai and Modernity”, will be presenting on the architecture of Shanghai at the ICOMOS talk on the 31 July 2014. It should be very interesting. Ann has lived and worked in Shanghai and has a particular interest in modern buildings. You may have seen her guide book, Shanghai Architecture, published by Watermark Press.

Anne 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.

Everyone is very welcome to attend.

Time & Date: Thursday 31 July 2014, 5.30pm for 6pm start
Cost: Members $10, non-members $15 payable at the door
Venue: GML Heritage, 78 George Street, Redfern
RSVP: email Jane Vernon or call (02) 9319 4811. RSVP is essential as places are limited.

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13. 2014 Victorian Museum Awards Ceremony, 7 August

Join friends and colleagues for the presentation of the 2014 Victorian Museum Awards.

The Victorian Museum Awards highlight the wonderful achievements of the Victorian museum and gallery sector, and the Awards Ceremony is always a great opportunity to catch up with the people whose passion and work build a strong Victorian museum and gallery community.

Enjoy a viewing of the First Peoples exhibition in Bunjilaka after the Ceremony. Includes drinks and canapés. Group discounts available.

Special guests include:

  • The Hon. Heidi Victoria MP, Minister for the Arts
  • Dr. J. Patrick Greene, CEO, Melbourne Museum
  • Hosted by Adam Ford, Archaeologist and Director at DIG International, and Presenter, Who’s Been Sleeping in My House? (ABC TV)

Date: Thursday 7 August

Time: 6:00pm – 8:30pm

Venue: Bunjilaka, Melbourne Museum

Cost: Members $45, Group Discount $35, Non Members $90

Book now to secure your place

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14. Female Factory lives recalled on playing cards – PAHSMA media release

Australia ICOMOS is committed to the dissemination of relevant cultural heritage information. In line with this commitment we are circulating the following media release from the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority (PAHSMA), dated 17 July 2014.

The little-known stories of Tasmania’s convict women are being recalled from the past in a new publication launched at the Cascades Female Factory Historic Site in South Hobart.

Pack of Thieves? 52 Female Factory Lives comprises a pack of playing cards providing a visual interpretation of 52 women and staff who were incarcerated or worked at the Cascades Female Factory, with an accompanying book recounting their life stories.

Their stories are all based on information gleaned from their records following research by some of Tasmania’s most noted historians, including Dr Alison Alexander, Professor Lucy Frost, Collette McAlpine and Dr Dianne Snowden, as well as staff from the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority (PAHSMA), which has published the Pack of Thieves? and which manages the Cascades Female Factory. The illustrations have been created, again, based on historical records, by Tasmanian-born artist Simon Barnard.

The women depicted include convicts as well as staff of the Female Factory, which was Tasmania’s major women’s prison from 1828-1856 and is now on UNESCO’s World Heritage list along with Port Arthur and the Coal Mines Historic Sites as part of the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage property.

“We know from visitor feedback that it is the human stories that inspire an appreciation of the lives of such people during this period,” said Dr Jody Steele, Heritage Programs Manager for PAHSMA.

“Individual and often inspiring cases of hardship, resistance, and family connections including births, deaths and marriages often resonate with the lives of those living today.

Visitation of the Cascades Female Factory has grown dramatically since the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority assumed management of it in early 2012, with visitor numbers doubling over the past two years to around 22,000 in the twelve months to the end of June.

The publication forms a companion piece to the Pack of Thieves? 52 Port Arthur Lives playing cards and booklet that relates the stories of male convicts at Port Arthur and which is now in its 6th reprint. Both will be available at the Port Arthur and Cascades Female Factory Historic Sites as well as selected bookshops and gift shops around Tasmania.

The project has been funded by a grant under the Sharing Community Heritage Stories sub-program of the Your Community Heritage Grants Program, 2012-2013, nationally funded through the Commonwealth Department of Environment.

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15. Course Announcement: SOIMA-LATAM 2014: Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections, November 2014, Mexico

SOIMA-LATAM 2014: Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections

Dates: 3 – 14 November 2014
Place: Mexico City, Mexico

View the announcement online here

Application deadline extended to 18 July 2014.

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16. 19th International Conference on CHNT – programme online

The 19th International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) will take place from 3-5 November, 2014 in the City Hall of Vienna, Austria.

Urban Archaeology and Processing….Analysing the data

The conference programme is now online.

Early bird registration is open until 3 October 2014. Registration for the Training Workshops and Social Events is also open.

For further information visit the conference website.

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17. News from the Best in Heritage

It is not only about inspirational presentations held in beautiful setting, it is about meeting colleagues from all over the sector to share ideas, experiences, and about establishing network of professional contacts that span the world. The featured laureates are the main stars but the programme is open and well suited to all who want to engage in discussions and contribute to the advancement of the widening profession. Follow these links to register online and to make your travel and accommodation arrangements soon. See you in Dubrovnik, UNESCO World heritage site, in September!

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European Museum Forum, eCultObservatory and Best in Heritage invite you to the One-Stop Shop for Museums and ICT Providers: eCultValue Dialogue Day. This unique, free of charge opportunity is available to all registered participants on Sept. 25th, in Visia 5D Multimedia Museum in Dubrovnik. Aim of this programme is to identify the technological requirements of museums and cultural heritage owners and present existing technology solutions addressing such needs. Panels and the audience will discuss approaches and processes in a participative way. Workshop is ideal for cultural heritage professionals and technology providers, to discuss feasible solutions to enhance the accessibility and experience of cultural collections.

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18. Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available

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

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19. “Intangible Cultural Heritage in the UK” conference 2014, UK, September 2014

Intangible Cultural Heritage in the UK: promoting and safeguarding our diverse living cultures

An ICOMOS-UK Conference – Saturday 20 September 2014
At The Museum of London Docklands, No.1 Warehouse West India Quay, London E14 4AL

ICOMOS-UK Members: £65.00 / Non-members: £75.00 (includes light refreshments and sandwich lunch)

Storytelling, performing arts, social practices, rituals and festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe, and traditional crafts knowledge and skills are a key part of the UK’s traditions and cultural heritage. They have also provided us with a means of living and a way of life, while informing us of our history and shaping our identities.

These intangible cultural practices are not static, like buildings and artefacts—instead they continue to evolve as they are passed down from one generation to the next. This brings with it a risk that some may not survive, raising questions of what we value in our intangible cultural heritage, and whether and how we should take steps to document and safeguard it.

For further information, click here.

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20. A walk down Science Road, University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus

Science Road is a significant heritage place. Acknowledged for its architecture, the story of its historic landscape development however is lesser known. Particularly the design hand of Professor E.G. Waterhouse, evident in the gardens, trees, lawns and courtyards associated with the aesthetics of today’s Science Road streetscape, is still being recaptured.

Date & Time: Sunday 27 July, 2pm – 4pm

Where: On site, University of Sydney (more details on booking)

Cost: Members: $20, Guests: $30, includes light refreshments

Speaker: Christine Hay

For further information, including booking details, download the A walk down Science Road flier.

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21. Draft Aboriginal Heritage Amendment Bill 2014 (WA) – public comment invited

The Western Australian Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 is an important piece of legislation and was designed to protect our unique Aboriginal heritage.

The Hon Peter Collier MLC, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, has released the draft Aboriginal Heritage Amendment Bill 2014 for public comment.

The public comment period closes on 6 August 2014.

For further information, visit the the WA Department of Aboriginal Affairs website.

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22. SITUATION VACANT Senior Team Leader – State Heritage Register, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage

Senior Team Leader, State Heritage Register
Office of Environment and Heritage

Location: Parramatta
Job Grade/Classification: Environment Officer Class 12
Employment Status: Ongoing Full-Time
Vacancy Ref: OEH 165-14

Lead a team to develop and implement the Heritage Council’s NSW Heritage Listing Program and work collaboratively with the Listings Teams in the Regions to deliver the outcomes.

Selection Criteria

  1. Experience in the successful delivery of heritage programs
  2. Experience in the assessment of heritage significance with knowledge of the needs, issues and problems relating to heritage conservation and familiarity with current best practices, guidelines and policies
  3. Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSW heritage legislation
  4. High level expertise in the analysis of complex concepts, problems and issues, and developing and applying creative and practical solutions with ability to negotiate effectively, while exercising sound judgement and appropriate discretion
  5. Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to manage people to consistently deliver against agreed performance standards
  6. Demonstrated stakeholder management skills, including developing effective working relationships to facilitate the achievement of heritage programs
  7. Superior negotiation, verbal and written communication skills and business acumen including experience in developing advice and complex reports, submissions and briefing documents
  8. Thorough understanding of the ”machinery” of government including protocols, policies, processes and procedures

For further information and to download the information pack, click here. (If this this link doesn’t work, go to the Jobs NSW website and use the keywords “State Heritage Register” to search for the role).

Applications close Monday 21 July 2014.

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23. SITUATION VACANT Senior Heritage Consultant, AHMS, Sydney – application deadline extended

SENIOR HERITAGE CONSULTANT – TEMPORARY FULL-TIME POSITION
(Part-time arrangement may be considered)

AHMS is a leading heritage and archaeological consultancy servicing Australia and the Asia Pacific since 1998. We specialize in provision of archaeological and heritage management services to a diverse range of private and public sector clients. Our team of archaeologists and heritage specialists have over 25 years experience in providing quality archaeological and heritage advice to clients.

AHMS has an opportunity for someone new to join our team in a senior project management and team leadership role. The position has primary focus on historic heritage and project management but we are always keen to discover professionals with the flexibility of strengths across both historic and Indigenous heritage and / or in other specialist areas such as social value and cultural landscape assessment. The position is offered as a 12 month contract subject to a 3 months probationary review period. On completion of the contract there may be an opportunity to renew for a further period to be determined subject to performance and our operational and workload requirements. This position will suit a highly motivated professional, with project management experience and well-developed report and proposal writing skills who enjoys working in a close-knit supportive team environment, and who is keen to demonstrate their leadership skills.

For further information, download the Senior Heritage Consultant, AHMS position description.

Applications NOW close Monday 21 July 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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