Australia ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 649

  1. Melbourne’s ‘Mini Australia ICOMOS Conference’, October 2014 – CALL FOR OFFERS OF ACCOMMODATION
  2. AICOMOS Symposium: ‘The Return to a New Age of Activism for Cultural Heritage?’ – REGISTRATION OPEN
  3. AICOMOS Symposium: ‘Grasping the intangible at heritage places’ – REGISTRATION OPEN
  4. IUCN World Parks Congress 2014, Sydney, 12-19 November
  5. Australia ICOMOS New Membership Applications
  6. Closure of Commonwealth Department of the Environment Library
  7. A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land book launch, Hobart
  8. Millers Point Spring Picnic, Sydney, 14 September
  9. Millers Point walk, Sunday 14 September
  10. Australia ICOMOS / DOCOMOMO Sydney Talk Series, 17 September
  11. Callan Park & The Great War, History Week talk, 14 September, Sydney
  12. First Call for Nominations for Australian Archaeological Association Awards
  13. Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP) seminar, Melbourne
  14. 18th ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Symposium – early bird registration extended
  15. Course announcement – CollAsia: Handling, Packing and Moving Collections, January 2015
  16. 2016 World Monuments Watch nominations – now open
  17. Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available
  18. International Symposium & Training Course on the Historic Urban Landscape, China, 7-10 December 2014
  19. Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage conference, July 2015, UK – call for papers
  20. Conservation Management Planning workshop, Canberra, 27 September
  21. SITUATIONS VACANT 2 x Program Assistants, Recovering Voices Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
  22. SITUATION VACANT Team Leader, Heritage Grants, Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW)
  23. SITUATIONS VACANT Heritage Architects (2 x temporary positions), NSW Heritage Division
  24. SITUATION VACANT Graduate Heritage Officer, QLD Department of Environment and Heritage Protection
  25. SITUATION VACANT Senior Project Specialist (Built/20th-century Heritage), Getty Conservation Institute

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1. Melbourne’s ‘Mini Australia ICOMOS Conference’, October 2014 – CALL FOR OFFERS OF ACCOMMODATION

On 17-18 October, Australia ICOMOS is holding two all-day symposia back-to-back, along with the Australia ICOMOS Annual General Meeting. The program is as follows:

  • Friday 17 October: The Return to a New Age of Activism for Cultural Heritage?
  • The Australia ICOMOS AGM will be held after the ‘Activism’ symposium
  • Saturday 18 October: Grasping the intangible at heritage places
  • The launch of the Intangible Cultural Heritage National Scientific Committee (NSC)

More information on each event is provided in the related items below.

Accommodation

It has come to the organisers’ attention that these events coincide with a very large international convention (as well as the Caulfield Cup!), and accommodation in the city is at a premium. Rooms are still available, particularly away from the CBD, and we would encourage members to look to different options such as Airbnb.

BUT!! This circumstance provides a great opportunity for AI members to connect by providing or seeking accommodation in the city over the course of the event, and we would like to facilitate the arrangement of accommodation within our membership for these dates:

  • Thursday 16 October
  • Friday 17 October
  • Saturday 18 October

For hosts

Accordingly, if you feel that you, or someone that you know, could offer accommodation to a visiting symposium-ite, please go to our online spreadsheet and provide details requested.

People seeking accommodation will then contact you.

When your offer has been taken up, please update the spreadsheet.

For visitors

If you require accommodation for some or all of these dates, please choose from the offers on the spreadsheet, contact the offering member/s and make arrangements.

Please email Abi Belfrage if you have any difficulties with the spreadsheet.

We look forward to hearing about Australia ICOMOS members working together to help make these events the great success they promise to be.

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2. AICOMOS Symposium: ‘The Return to a New Age of Activism for Cultural Heritage?’ – REGISTRATION OPEN

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

This ‘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.

Download the The Return to a New Age of Activism for Cultural Heritage flier.

REGISTRATION

Cost: registering for either symposium on its own – $65, registering for both symposia at the same time – $120

PLEASE NOTE: Australia ICOMOS is not able to pre-issue tax invoices for these events. A tax invoice will be sent by email upon the completion of the registration process via the links below.

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3. AICOMOS Symposium: ‘Grasping the intangible at heritage places’ – REGISTRATION OPEN

This Symposium presented by the Australia ICOMOS National Scientific Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage (NSC-ICH) will explore the connections between the intangible and the tangible aspects of heritage places and cultural heritage, drawing on a range of case studies.

Download the Grasping the Intangible Symposium flier.

Interested? Register via the NSC-ICH symposium website. To get updates click blue Follow button too.

Like to sponsor the Symposium? Look at the sponsorship options on our website and use the Contact page to make contact with the team.

And we’d love more volunteers to help out: Register using the form on the website’s Contact page.

REGISTRATION

Cost: registering for either symposium on its own – $65, registering for both symposia at the same time – $120

PLEASE NOTE: Australia ICOMOS is not able to pre-issue tax invoices for these events. A tax invoice will be sent by email upon the completion of the registration process via the links below.

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4. IUCN World Parks Congress 2014, Sydney, 12-19 November

IUCN World Parks Congress 2014
Sydney, Australia
12-19 November 2014

Steve Brown is developing a list of Australia ICOMOS (AI) members attending the IUCN World Parks Congress. The purpose of the list is to share information, and also to alert AI members to each others presentations. The Congress has an extensive program of parallel sessions and therefore being aware of each others presentations will enable AI members to be aware of and offer support to one another.

If you are attending the Congress, please email Steve and provide your name, email contact and information on presentation(s) that you may be giving (i.e., title of paper, title of session, time and date of session).

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Parks Congress 2014 is a landmark global forum on protected areas. The Congress will share knowledge and innovation, setting the agenda for protected areas conservation for the decade to come. Building on the theme “Parks, people, planet: inspiring solutions”, it will present, discuss and create original approaches for conservation and development, helping to address the gap in the conservation and sustainable development agenda.

For further information, visit the congress website.

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5. 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 Monday 29 September 2014.

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

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6. Closure of Commonwealth Department of the Environment Library

The Department has decided, for resourcing and priority reasons, to close its Central Library by then end of the year. The library contains the heritage collection/library that had its genesis in the Australian Heritage Commission Library, dating from 1975. It now contains over 5,000 items, including about 3,300 National Estate Grant Program reports, Regional Forest Agreement reports, and many other items of grey literature, and published heritage works, collected, nationally and internationally, in the pursuit of the Commonwealth Government’s national heritage activity over 40 years. Collectively, it might be seen as documentation of Australia’s national cultural identity.

This valuable resource records the development of the Australian Government’s approach to heritage and includes reports produced for statutory purposes whether they be thematic, methodological or type studies, or reports done by those obligated to provide their heritage-related development proposals to Commonwealth scrutiny. It has also been used extensively in the assessment of places for the various national statutory lists including the Register of the National Estate, and the National Heritage and Commonwealth Heritage List, and to some extent in the consideration and preparation of Australia’s nominations to the World Heritage List.

The material has been available to the public and has been used by students, heritage consultants and others through the online catalogue, in person until a few years ago, and now only by Inter Library Loan.

The heritage collection’s future is dispersal to various national and state institutions and disposal with some residual material retained, but with the future focus for the Department on a self-service and digital resource. This means, for instance, it will not be possible to do one search of a single national heritage documentary resource and be able to have a convenient, single result. Future researchers will need to search a number of locations across jurisdictions for this formerly nationally and centrally held material, without knowing which repository/ies may hold the relevant material if it hasn’t been disposed of.

As the Australia ICOMOS President, I and other heritage people have written to the Department and the Minister to protest this decision and the lack of transparency in the process.To date no response to this letter has been received.

Click here for the 25/8/14 2SER radio programme concerning this issue. (2SER is a community station run by Macquarie University and the University of Technology Sydney.) The programme was syndicated so it was aired nationally, or at least across capital cities. It contains interviews with myself, Dr Mike Pearson and Dr Carmen Lawrence.

Elizabeth Vines
President, Australia ICOMOS

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7. A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land book launch, Hobart

Text Publishing and Fullers Bookshop invite you to celebrate the publication of the following title, to be launched by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart:

A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land
by Simon Barnard

Date & Time: Saturday 27 September, 11.00am – 1.00pm

Venue: Penitentiary Chapel, Campbell St, Hobart

RSVP: to Stephanie Speight by Friday 19 September – RSVP to Stephanie by email or call (03) 8610 4512

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8. Millers Point Spring Picnic, Sydney, 14 September

Millers Point is so important to the heritage of NSW it is represented by two listings on the State Heritage Register: Millers Point conservation area and Millers Point and Dawes Point village precinct. The buildings are only part of the Millers Point story. It is listed as much for its social significance as for its physical qualities. ‘A proportion of the existing population is descended from previous generations of Millers Point locals, and has fostered a strong and loyal sense of community and solidarity.’ (Millers Point & Dawes Point village precinct assessment of significance)

As part of its current strategy of selling all the residential properties to the private sector [and moving long-term low-income residents out of the area] the government has publicised its intention to ensure the conservation of the heritage fabric of the area.

The Millers Point community is concerned about the government’s strategy, and so is holding the Millers Point Spring Picnic at Argyle Place from 10am – 4pm on Sunday 14 September.

ICOMOS members in NSW are invited to bring your family and friends along to join in this community celebration. You can visit the Australia ICOMOS booth while you’re there. We are sharing the booth with ex-Sydney City Historian Shirley Fitzgerald, the Australian Institute of Architects and the Association for Preservation Technology.

Particularly welcomed would be the involvement of architects with a working knowledge of Millers Point, to assist in manning the booth and answering questions from the public about the conservation of building fabric etc. If you’re interested in helping in this way, please contact Murray Brown by email.

Download the Millers Point Spring Picnic poster.

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9. Millers Point walk, Sunday 14 September

Take a walk through 20th Century Miller’s Point with David Burdon and Dr Roy Lumby

A place with a strong sense of identity, Millers Point was transformed from a self-contained nineteenth century village into a modern and efficient port facility.

Walk commences at 12.30pm from the raised grassed area at Argyle Place where it meets Lower Fort Street across from Garrison Church.

Download the Miller’s Point Fair walk flyer.

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10. Australia ICOMOS / DOCOMOMO Sydney Talk Series, 17 September

8/12 Heritage #Aboriginal: Aboriginal People/Aboriginal Places

Aboriginal Heritage management in NSW is changing. Communities are becoming more involved. Innovative approaches are encouraging better connections between people and places. New statues, guidelines, policies and codes of conduct mean how we understand, assess and interpret Aboriginal heritage is dynamic.

This will be a fast-paced informative evening where speakers from the Aboriginal heritage industry and Aboriginal community will share their experiences through a series of pictorial vignettes – 8 minutes/12 slides – which highlight the diversity of engagement with Aboriginal Heritage.

Speakers include members of the Aboriginal community, archaeologists and professional colleagues:

  • Michael Bennet, Native Title Services Corp on Aboriginal Place Trackers
  • Glenda Chalker, Tharawal elder and member of NSW Parks Service Advisory Council on the Aboriginal heritage reform process
  • Cheryl Lappin, Senior Strategic Planner, Shellharbour City on the Shellharbour Tool Kit
  • Gordon Morton, Darug Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Assessments on the Colobee Nurrangingy Land Grant
  • Dr. Tim Owen, Associate, GML on preserving Aboriginal landscape values at East Leppington
  • Dominic Steele, Principal, Dominic Steele Consulting Archaeology on ‘Parra-matters’

Members of the public are welcome!

Time & Date: Wednesday 17 September 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-Aust ICOMOS Sydney Talk 17 Sept 2014 flyer.

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11. Callan Park & The Great War, History Week talk, 14 September, Sydney

Avenues of trees were planted across Australia in the 1920s and 1930s as living, enduring memorials of wartime sacrifice. Learn about the memorial plantings which add to the significance of the cultural landscape of Callan Park.

  • Chris Betteridge, heritage consultant and foundation member of the Australian Garden History Society, speaks about remembrance plantings after WW1, particularly at Callan Park.

Black Diggers was the play performed earlier this year: one of those Diggers was Douglas Grant. Come and hear about his extraordinary life, his Scottish brogue, his wartime experiences as a POW where his Aboriginality was of great interest to German anthropologists. Afterwards visit the Sydney Harbour Bridge war memorial he designed whilst a Repat patient at Callan Park touring through the gardens of Broughton Hall, converted to No13 Auxiliary Military Hospital in 1915.

  • Tony Griffiths’ publication about the extraordinary life of Mr Grant will be available for sale at the History Week talk.

Where: Callan Park @ Glover Street (between Perry & Church Streets), Lilyfield – see page 2 of the flyer

Date: Sunday 14 September 2014

Time: 2.00 – 5.00pm, Seminar and Tours (no tunnels)

Price: $20

Bookings ESSENTIAL: See the flyer for booking and payment details

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12. First Call for Nominations for Australian Archaeological Association Awards

Nominations are called for the following four Australian Archaeological Association Inc. Awards

Closing Date: 17 October 2014

1. RHYS JONES MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO AUSTRALIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

The Rhys Jones Medal is the highest award offered by the Australian Archaeological Association Inc. It was established in honour of Rhys Jones (1941-2001) to mark his enormous contribution to the development and promotion of archaeology in Australia. The Medal is presented annually to an individual who has made an outstanding and sustained contribution to the field. Established in 2002, previous winners include Isabel McBryde (2003), John Mulvaney (2004), Sharon Sullivan (2005), Mike Smith (2006), Harry Lourandos (2009), Iain Davidson (2010), Sue O’Connor (2011), Mike Morwood (2012) and Richard Wright (2013).

Nominations should consist of a one page statement outlining the nominee’s archaeological career and how this work has benefited Australian archaeology, as well as a full list of the nominee’s publications. Note that nominees do not need to be members of the Association; be an Australian citizen; or work exclusively in Australia or on Australian material.

2. JOHN MULVANEY BOOK AWARD

The Award was established in honour of John Mulvaney and his contribution and commitment to Australian archaeology over a lifetime of professional service. It acknowledges the significant contribution of individual or co-authored publications to the archaeology of the continent of Australia, the Pacific, Papua-New Guinea and South-East Asia, either as general knowledge or as specialist publications. Nominations are considered annually for books that cover both academic pursuits and public interest, reflecting the philosophy of John Mulvaney’s life work. Established in 2004, previous winners include Val Attenbrow for Sydney’s Aboriginal Past (2004), Rodney Harrison for Shared Landscapes: Archaeologies of Attachment and the Pastoral Industry in New South Wales (2006), Mike Morwood & Penny Van Oosterzee for The Discovery of the Hobbit: The Scientific Breakthrough that changed the Face of Human History” (2007), Peter Hiscock for “The Archaeology of Ancient Australia (2008), Denis Byrne for Surface Collection (2007), Jane Lydon for Fantastic Dreaming: The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission (2010) Annie Ross et al. for Indigenous Peoples and the Collaborative Stewardship of Nature (2011), and Mike Smith for The Archaeology of Australia’s Deserts (2013).

Nominations must be for books written by one or more authors, but not for edited books, published in the last three calendar years (i.e. 2012, 2013 or 2014). The nomination must be accompanied by at least two published book reviews. A short citation (no more than one page) on why the book should be considered must also be included.

3. THE BRUCE VEITCH AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN INDIGENOUS ENGAGEMENT

This Award celebrates the important contribution that Bruce Veitch (1957-2005) made to the practice and ethics of archaeology in Australia. In particular, the award honours Bruce’s close collaboration with Traditional Owners on whose country he worked. It is awarded annually to any individual or group who has had long-standing and sustained engagement with Indigenous communities during archaeological or cultural heritage projects which have produced significant outcomes for Indigenous interests. Established in 2005, previous winners include Richard Fullagar (2006), Bruno David (2007), Annie Ross (2008), Luke Godwin (2009), Peter Veth (2010), Ken Mulvaney (2011), Ian McNiven (2012), and Daryl Wesley (2013).

Nominees will have actively engaged with Indigenous communities to produce successful outcomes. The nature of nominations is flexible (e.g. video tape, audio tape, poster etc), considering the wide range of Indigenous collaborations and the remoteness of some communities. Nominators are strongly encouraged to include supporting statements from relevant Indigenous individuals or community organisations.

4. LIFE MEMBERSHIP FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE AUSTRALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC.

This award was established to recognise significant and sustained contribution to the objects and purposes of the Australian Archaeological Association Inc. Previous winners include John Mulvaney, Jack Golson, Betty Meehan (2002), Val Attenbrow (2002), J. Peter White (2003), Colin Pardoe (2007), Sean Ulm (2008), Annie Ross (2010), Lynley Wallis (2012) and Fiona Hook (2013).

Nominations should consist of a one page statement outlining the nominee’s contributions to the Australian Archaeological Association Inc. Note that nominees must be members of the Association.

NOMINATION PROCEDURE

Nominations for all Awards will be considered by the Executive of the Australian Archaeological Association Inc. with advice as appropriate from senior members of the discipline. The decision of the Executive is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Nominations should be addressed to the President:

Via email to the AAA President or via fax to (07) 3365 1544, marked private & confidential and for attention of A/Prof Annie Ross

The current President of AAA:

Fiona Hook
President
Australian Archaeological Association Inc.
email the AAA President

and sent to arrive no later than 17 OCTOBER 2014

Recipients of all awards will be announced at the Australian Archaeological Association Inc. Annual Conference.

Dates: 1-3 December 2014

Location: Cairns

Host: James Cook University Cairns Campus

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

The next CHCAP seminar at Deakin University will be a presentation by Prof Tim Winter, Deakin University on “Just wear more jewellery darling, big rings, up the arm, the heavier the better: Heritage Diplomacy and the crafting of international conservation policy”.

Abstract

This talks explores the idea of heritage diplomacy. At a time of shifting economic power and resurgent nationalism, both culture and nature are being rapidly propelled into today’s international political economy. Ample evidence for this can be found in the arena of World Heritage, both on the ground and across UNESCO’s management structures. In observing such trends, numerous commentators have expressed concern about a growing ‘crisis’, and the descent of world heritage into a quagmire of politicisation and geopolitics.

Building on recent studies of World Heritage Committee meetings, this presentation seeks to move beyond ideas of ‘politicisation’, towards a reading of those subtle and complex diplomatic entanglements that sit both within and beyond the system. Accordingly, it is suggested that world heritage provides a uniquely important forum for diplomatic gestures, cooperation and the active participation of smaller nations on the international stage. The funnelling of diplomatic expertise into world heritage is also yielding new and important forms of soft-diplomacy that rest upon long-standing structures of international cooperation.

Heritage diplomacy thus seeks to both complicate the picture and allow us to ask more fine-grained questions about the possible futures of World Heritage and the governance of culture and nature more generally.

Biography

Tim Winter is Research Professor at the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Deakin University, Melbourne. He has published widely on heritage, development, modernity, urban conservation, tourism and heritage diplomacy in Asia. He has been a consultant for the World Bank, Getty Conservation Institute, World Monuments Fund and Japanese Team for Safeguarding Angkor, and been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, The Getty and University College London, Qatar. His recent books include The Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia and Shanghai Expo: an international forum on the future of cities.

Date: Wednesday 24 September 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

NEXT CHCAP SEMINAR (29 October 2014): ‘Holocaust exhibitions and the ‘myth of silence’: The 1961 Warsaw Ghetto Commemoration Exhibition’, Dr. Steve Cooke, Deakin University

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14. 18th ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Symposium – early bird registration extended

18th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium
“Heritage and Landscape as Human Values”
Florence, Italy
9-14 November 2014

Visit the 18th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium website for all the practical information you need in what concerns registration; the programme, which includes a rich offer of related events, social occasions, tours and post-tours; and accommodation offers through the vivafirenze.it non-profit portal – Use the special reservation code ICOMOS14H to obtain exclusive rates with up to 20% discount for stays between 6 to 15 November 2014.

Early-bird registration

Early-bird registration is now open until 18 September 2014, and invite you to take advantage of the lower registration fee.

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15. Course announcement – CollAsia: Handling, Packing and Moving Collections, January 2015

 The CollAsia programme aims at conserving Heritage Collections in Southeast Asia, through conservation training and research activities to shape sound and sustainable conservation actions for the Asia-Pacific Region. The course objective is to enhance the preservation of moveable heritage, to encourage the well-informed use of materials and skills, helping those who care for moveable collections to make effective and wise choices in selecting materials for handling, packing, and transporting objects and collections. The course will integrate/encourage learning from both living cultural practices and scientific principles.

Dates: 12-30 January 2015

Venue: Kuching, Malaysia

Application deadline: 26 September 2014

For further information, click here.

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16. 2016 World Monuments Watch nominations – now open

2016 World Monuments Watch nominations are now being accepted. Deadline for nominations is 1 March 2015.

Every two years, World Monuments Fund (WMF) accepts new nominations to the World Monuments Watch. The World Monuments Watch calls international attention to cultural heritage around the world that is at risk from the forces of nature and the impact of social, political, and economic change. From archaeological sites to iconic architecture, cultural landscapes to historic urban centers, the Watch identifies places of significance in need of timely action.

Nearly 700 sites on all seven continents have been included in the ten Watch cycles since 1996. Watch listing provides an opportunity for sites and their nominators to raise public awareness, foster local participation, advance innovation and collaboration, and demonstrate effective solutions. The 2014 Watch has been covered by more than 1000 news outlets in over 80 countries, with circulation to over 500 million people worldwide. By capitalizing on the attention raised by Watch listing, local entities have leveraged support for Watch sites totaling over $200 million. WMF has contributed an additional $100 million toward projects at Watch sites in more than 80 countries.

Nominating a site to the Watch is a two-part process. Please submit an initial inquiry, after which a username and password will be provided to access the secure Online Nomination Form.

Information about the 2016 World Monuments Watch can be found at the World Monuments Fund website.

Questions about the nomination process should be directed via email to World Monuments Fund.

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17. Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available

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

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18. International Symposium & Training Course on the Historic Urban Landscape, China, 7-10 December 2014

International Symposium & Training Course on the Historic Urban Landscape
Shanghai, China
7–10 December 2014

Application deadline: 25 September 2014

The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) is an updated heritage management approach based on the recognition and identification of a layering and interconnection of values – natural and cultural, tangible and intangible, international as well as local – present in any city. It is also based on the need to integrate the different disciplines for the analysis and planning of the urban conservation process, in order not to separate it from the planning and development of the contemporary city. The Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape, an international policy instrument adopted by UNESCO’s General Conference on 10 November 2011.

The International Symposium will be preceded by a concise Training Course open to international professionals. The course programme aims to update professionals on the what, why & how of HUL with the latest developments in the field. It will last 2½ days, which will include 2 days of in total 8 training lectures (of 2½ hours each, divided between a lecture and a group discussion) and a half day site visit to one of the HUL project sites in China, i.e. the Hongkou district in downtown Shanghai. Participants in the training course will automatically register for the international Symposium, which is offered by WHITRAP as a package, in order to benefit directly from the training by enabling to follow the international projects and debates.

Visit the website

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19. Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage conference, July 2015, UK – call for papers

The organisers of the International Conference: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage: Heritage, Tourism and Traditions, 13-16 July 2015, Liverpool, UK are calling for papers – deadline: 15 December 2014

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?

For further information, download the Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage – call for papers and visit the conference website.

Abstracts of 300 words with full contact details should be sent by email as soon as possible but no later than 15 December 2014.

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20. 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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21. SITUATIONS VACANT 2 x Program Assistants, Recovering Voices Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Recovering Voices is looking to hire two non-federal, four-year, trust-funded full time Program Assistant positions ($42,209 salary).

Both positions will be integral to helping further the work of the Recovering Voices Program at the National Museum of Natural History

Click on the links below for further information about these two positions.

Application deadline: 17 September 2014

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22. SITUATION VACANT Team Leader, Heritage Grants, Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW)

Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW)
Team Leader, Heritage Grants
Environment Officer Class 10
Parramatta
Ongoing Full-Time
Vacancy Ref: OEH 271-14

Total remuneration package to $124,237 pa including salary $101,631 pa – $112,077 pa

Lead the Heritage Grants team in the successful development, implementation and delivery of heritage grant initiatives, programs and projects to support state significant heritage places and values for future generation use.

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: 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. Applicants must have permanent Australian Residency to apply for this position.

New employment legislation now applies to the NSW public sector from 24th 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: Kylie Seretis (02) 9873 8570

Information Packages contact: (02) 9873 8570 or Jobs NSW website (use “Heritage Grants” as the keyword when searching).

Applications are to be lodged online at the Jobs NSW website. If you experience difficulties applying online please contact (02) 9585 6018 during business hours for assistance.

Closing Date: Sunday 14 September 2014

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23. SITUATIONS VACANT Heritage Architects (2 x temporary positions), NSW Heritage Division

The NSW Heritage Division is looking for two heritage architects to assist with increased workload for a period of six months. There may be an opportunity to extend this period by another six months. Download the Heritage Architect – epo 9 position description.

Salary is around $94,000.

The work mostly involves assessment of applications for proposed alterations and additions to Heritage Items listed on the State Heritage Register. So ability to understand drawings, construction details, heritage issues, negotiate acceptable outcomes with applicants and a good understanding of the Heritage Act is essential.

This could also be a great opportunity for conservation practices to send their staff to give them an insight into the workings of the Heritage Division.

Those who are interested should apply by 15 September 2014. Please do not wait for the last day as the Heritage Division wants to fill these positions as soon as possible. The application should include:

  • one paragraph response to each of the selection criteria
  • a copy of your CV
  • names of two referees

Please send your applications via email to:

Rajeev Maini
Acting Senior Team Leader
Heritage Asset Revitalisation Program

Email Rajeev

If more suitable people are identified, the Heritage Division intends to keep their names on an eligibility list for six months so they can be approached for other opportunities in future.

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24. SITUATION VACANT Graduate Heritage Officer, QLD Department of Environment and Heritage Protection

The Graduate Heritage Officer role is suitable for graduates with a tertiary qualification in Architecture, Urban Design, Town Planning, Modern History, Historical Archaeology and/or Cultural Heritage with a demonstrated special interest in historical cultural heritage.

About the department

The Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (EHP) is responsible for managing the health of the environment to protect Queensland’s unique ecosystems, including its landscapes and waterways, as well as its native plants and animals and biodiversity.

The department’s role is to act as a strong environmental regulator which supports sustainable long-term economic development of Queensland. It does this by administering a range of environmental regulations and laws, providing timely approval authorities and ensuring compliance with them.

In addition to Queensland’s natural environment, the department is also responsible for identifying and conserving places of historical cultural heritage significance.

For further information on this opportunity, click here.

Applications close Monday 15 September.

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25. SITUATION VACANT Senior Project Specialist (Built/20th-century Heritage), Getty Conservation Institute

The Getty Conservation Institute is seeking a conservation practitioner to fill the position of Senior Project Specialist (Built/20th-century Heritage).

The Senior Project Specialist (Built/20th-century Heritage) will lead the Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative (CMAI), a comprehensive, long-term, and international program of the GCI. The goal of the CMAI is to advance the practice of conserving twentieth-century heritage, with a focus on modern architecture, through research and investigation, the development of practical conservation solutions, and the creation and distribution of information through training programs and publications. The CMAI works with international and local partners, including professional and organizational networks focused on modern architecture conservation, to expand the existing knowledge base.

For further information about this opportunity, download the Senior Project Specialist (Built/20th-century Heritage) position description.

Applications close 10 October 2014.

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