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Melbourne’s ‘Mini Australia ICOMOS Conference’, October 2014 – advanced notice
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Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP) seminar, 27 August, Melbourne
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LUXLAB Advanced Digital Imaging Workshops, UNSW, September 2014
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Remembering Frontiers: Marking the 86th Anniversary of the Coniston Massacre (NT), Sydney, 28 August
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“Historic Gardens and Climate Change” conference, 4-6 September, Germany
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Conservation Management Planning workshop, Canberra, 27 September
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Calls for EOIs for a position on the ACT Heritage Council
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Convict Women’s Press book launch, 10 August 2014, Hobart
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QLD Government Everyone’s Environment heritage grants program – applications close 15 August
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18th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium – early bird registration closes 18 August
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“First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis: course, March-April 2015, Netherlands
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Heritage Victoria’s latest Inherit e-newsletter available online
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19th International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, Vienna, November 2014 – programme online
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Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) bulletin – available online
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1. Melbourne’s ‘Mini Australia ICOMOS Conference’, October 2014 – advanced notice
On 17-18 October, Australia ICOMOS is holding two all-day symposia back-to-back, along with the Australia ICOMOS Annual General Meeting.
On Friday 17 October, the Activism symposium asks whether we need to return to an age of activism to retain and build on what achieved in cultural heritage conservation since the 1970s. Featuring presentations from successful activists in social media, local government, planning community action, the natural environment and the arts it will offer us a chance to reflect and look forward. The AGM will be held after the Activism symposium.
Our Saturday 18 October symposium will focus on Intangible Cultural Heritage, and will include the launch of the Australia ICOMOS National Scientific Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage.
More information on each event is provided below.
Each event is expected to be around $60 for members to cover catering and venue with a discount for those signing up for both events. Bookings will open later in August.
The Return to a New Age of Activism for Cultural Heritage?
- Friday 17 October, 9.00am-4.00pm (followed by the Australia ICOMOS AGM at 4.30pm)
- Deakin University City Campus
550 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Serious threats seem to be developing across Australia to the framework for the conservation of cultural heritage that has been so successfully built up over the last four decades. Long established legal and administrative frameworks have been under threat while funding for the active conservation of cultural heritage is being greatly diminished.
Paradoxically these threats seem to be developing at a time when community appreciation and support for heritage buildings and landscapes has never been greater. Poling and surveys regularly indicate that hearts and minds have been truly won over. But it seems that governments and politicians need to be reminded of that support, as the attention they give to heritage issues appears to be seriously waning.
Does this mean a need for a return to the activism of the 70s and early 80s? Is this political indifference a result of the complacency of organisations supporting the conservation of cultural heritage places like the National Trust and Australia ICOMOS? Is this complacency a result of our very success demonstrated by these polls and surveys?
Other groups supporting environmental conservation, fair-minded town planning, and a more enlightened approach to transport, have a better record of continuous campaigning but yet are being equally thwarted, while those in the arts sense the need for a new approach in the face of more and more funding cuts.
This symposium seeks to learn from prominent activists operating outside the area of cultural heritage. We plan to have 6 key speakers in three sessions though the day with plenty of time for discussion at each session. A final fourth session will take the form of a panel discussion where the relevance of this wider experience for cultural heritage will be examined.
Speakers already confirmed are:
- Michael Poland: Director Climate Campaigns, Get Up!
- Jackie Fristackie: Mayor, Yarra City Council
- Corinne Fisher: Convener, Better Planning Network (NSW)
- Professor Peter Tregear: Head, School of Music ANU
Grasping the intangible at heritage places
- Saturday 18th October, 9.00am-5.30pm
- University College
40 College Crescent, Parkville VIC 3052
This symposium will examine ideas about intangible cultural heritage, looking at a series of case studies to help us understand the complexity and diversity of these perspectives on heritage, and linking theory and practice.
A call for case study presentations will be in the next Australia ICOMOS newsletter.
The symposium will conclude with the launch of the Australia ICOMOS National Scientific Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage along with some delightful expressions of some cultural intangibles!
One of the aims of the symposium is to build a network of people in heritage and related disciplines who have an interest and experience in intangible cultural heritage, and to invite membership to the Intangible Heritage National Scientific Committee (NSC).
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2. Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP) seminar, 27 August, Melbourne
The next CHCAP seminar at Deakin University will be a presentation by Jenny Moles, Senior Member, Planning Panels Victoria on “Recent approaches to consideration of heritage amendments and planning permits”.
Abstract
Jenny will address the approach traditionally taken by Planning Panels to assessing new heritage controls and policies and how it has changed in response to recent amendments to the Planning and Environment Act 1987. The nature of social and economic matters which are relevant considerations will be discussed as well as the role of building condition. Jenny will also outline and comment on the most recent VCAT and Supreme Court cases concerning the assessment of planning permission under the Heritage Overlay and where integrated decision-making applies.
Biography
Jenny Moles is a Senior Member with Planning Panels Victoria where she has chaired numerous panels dealing with proposed heritage controls. She has a varied planning background, principally with State Government. She is a former Member of the Historic Buildings Council and chaired the Advisory Committee Review of Heritage Provisions in Planning Schemes.
Date: Wednesday 27 August 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 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
NEXT CHCAP SEMINAR (24 September 2014):
- ‘Heritage diplomacy, and moving beyond the UNESCOization of heritage studies’
Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University
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3. LUXLAB Advanced Digital Imaging Workshops, UNSW, September 2014
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
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4. Remembering Frontiers: Marking the 86th Anniversary of the Coniston Massacre (NT), Sydney, 28 August
This event will feature artists, activists and academics as well as the screening of the award-winning documentary “Coniston”.
Date & time: Thursday 28 August, 9.30am
Venue: University of Technology Sydney
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Conference Room
Level 3, Mary Ann House, 645 Harris St
For further information, download the Remembering Frontiers flier.
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5. “Historic Gardens and Climate Change” conference, 4-6 September, Germany
“Historic Gardens and Climate Change – Recommendations for Preservation”
Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, Germany
4-6 September 2014
Die Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, SPSG) Berlin-Brandenburg invites you to the international conference “Historic Gardens and Climate Change – Recommendations for Preservation”
The consequences of global climate change are also clearly apparent in the Berlin-Brandenburg region: extreme weather events with storms and cloudbursts, and increasingly frequent droughts, are new environmental phenomena that affect the conservation and care of the gardens in the World Heritage Site, ‘Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin’ and other historic gardens, too. In which way the discipline of garden conservation should react to these challenges up to now has been discussed only in its beginnings.
Concern for the survival of the cultural heritage entrusted to them has led the Prussian Palaces and Gardens in Berlin and Brandenburg Foundation (SPSG), which cares for gardens covering some 750 hectares, to address the issues of climate change at an early stage and with a view to the future. After having organized two preparatory symposiums the international conference ‘Historic Gardens and Climate Change’ brings together and discusses multi-disciplinary research findings and proposals for their preservation, aiming to produce practical guidelines for action.
The conference will take place at the Nikolaisaal, Potsdam and the park of Sanssouci palace. It will be funded by the German Environmental Foundation (DBU) geförderte and organized in cooperation with the German UNESCO Committee and ICOMOS-IFLA.
For further information, download the ‘Historic Gardens and Climate Change’ conference information.
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6. Conservation Management Planning workshop, Canberra, 27 September
Conservation Management Planning:
the What, Why and How for Historic Gardens, Landscapes and Buildings
A workshop organised by the Australian Garden History Society, ACT Monaro Riverina Branch
Date & Time: 8.45am to 2pm, Saturday 27 September 2014 – this date is during Floriade so it may suit people from outside the region to combine the workshop with a visit to Canberra.
Venue: St John’s Anglican Church precinct, 45 Constitution Avenue, Reid
The term Conservation Management Plan (CMP) is frequently used in the “heritage business” but is foreign to most of us. Just what are CMPs? How do they work? Why do we need to know about them?
The ACT Monaro Riverina Branch of the AGHS has put together a workshop to help answer some of these questions. Appropriately, the workshop will be at St John’s Reid, one of Canberra’s most historic sites.
For further information, including the program and registration form, download the Conservation Management Planning registration brochure.
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7. 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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8. Convict Women’s Press book launch, 10 August 2014, Hobart
We are pleased to advise that the Convict Women’s Press Inc. is about to publish another significant book on the lives of convict women in a female factory in Van Diemen’s Land. Our latest book focuses on George Town in the north of the island.
Convict Lives at the George Town Female Factory will be launched by the Hon. Elise Archer MP, at 11.00am on Sunday 10 August 2014 in Yard 1 at the Cascades Female Factory, 16 Degraves Street, South Hobart.
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9. QLD Government Everyone’s Environment heritage grants program – applications close 15 August
The Queensland Government through the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (DEHP) has launched a grants program to conserve and promote Queensland’s heritage listed places and historic shipwrecks – the Everyone’s Environment heritage grant program.
The Queensland Government’s Everyone’s Environment heritage grants program provides grant of up to $40,000 to support community groups and heritage owners to undertake projects that facilitate the conservation and interpretation, access and community engagement with Queensland’s heritage-listed places and historic shipwrecks located in Queensland’s waters. More information about the program can be found here.
Closing date for applications is 15 August 2014.
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10. 18th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium – early bird registration closes 18 August
18th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium – Don’t miss early-bird registration!
Don’t forget that the early-bird registration fee for the 18th ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Symposium “Heritage and Landscape as Human Values” (9-14 November 2014, Florence, Italy) ends on 18 August.
Make the most of the reduction offered and register via the special 18th General Assembly website where you will find all additional information you need.
Accommodation in Florence
Participants of the ICOMOS General Assembly are encouraged to reserve their accommodation in Florence through our dedicated partner Vivafirenze.it
Use the special reservation code ICOMOS14H to obtain exclusive rates with up to 20% discount for stays between 6 to 15 November 2014.
Tours and Post-Tours
We are pleased to inform you that additional information on Tours and post-Tours available during and after the event is now available on the special General Assembly website.
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11. “First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis: course, March-April 2015, Netherlands
First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis
- Dates: 30 March – 24 April 2015; Four week course
- Application deadline: 22 September, 2014
According to the Emergency Events database EM-DAT , from 2000-2012, around 2.9 billion people were adversely affected by disasters caused by natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes, floods, storms etc.). Another 1.5 billion people are living in countries afflicted with civil strife and violent conflicts, states the World Development Report of 2011 . The resultant damage and losses to life and property including those to cultural heritage are rising.
For communities ripped apart by such catastrophes, cultural heritage has the potential to bridge communal divides and provide sense of continuity as well as identity during an unfolding humanitarian crisis. Yet, is it possible to safeguard cultural heritage while humanitarian aid and security operations are underway? When is the right time to intervene? How could we ensure that cultural recovery becomes a force for stabilization and building back better?
“First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis” aims to equip participants with necessary skills and knowledge to provide timely response in emergency situations. The training identifies areas of joint programming between culture and humanitarian sectors to make certain that the affected communities participate in their own recovery. Developing cost effective strategies for risk reduction and disaster preparedness of cultural heritage forms a core component of the training.
For further information, visit the ICCROM website.
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12. Heritage Victoria’s latest Inherit e-newsletter available online
To download the latest issue of Inherit, click here.
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13. 19th International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, Vienna, November 2014 – 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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14. Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) bulletin – available online
To view the latest issue of the GCI bulletin, click here.
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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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