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Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP) seminar, Melbourne – correction to date
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The Post-2014 General Assembly Florence wrap up
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Queensland Heritage on the Map
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Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage conference, Liverpool, 13-16 July 2015
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Port Arthur Talks, Tuesday 25 November 2014
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Call for South Australian Design Review Panel Members
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Architectural Design Competition for new Bamiyan Culture Centre, Afghanistan
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US/ICOMOS 2015 International Exchange Program – call for applicants and host organisations: ADVANCE NOTICE
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Coal Mines Community Day, Tuesday 25 November
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Oswald Brett talk at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 25 November
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2014 PHA NSW & ACT Public History Prize call for entries
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Heritage Council of WA’s eNewsletter out now
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Terra 2016: XIIth World Congress on Earthen Architectures, 11-14 July 2016, Lyon (France) – call for papers
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Engineering Heritage Victoria event, Thursday 27 November
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“Heritage diplomacy and networks of conservation knowledge” panel – call for papers
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CIPA2015 Symposium, Taipei, 31 August – 5 September 2015: call for papers
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Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available
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Heritage of Death: Landscapes, Sentiment and Practice – call for papers
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News from Réseau Art Nouveau Network
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2nd International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: People and Communities, Spain, April-May 2015 – abstract deadline extended
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SITUATION VACANT Manager, Finance and Administration, ICCROM, Rome
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1. Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP) seminar, Melbourne
The next CHCAP seminar at Deakin University will be a presentation by Susan Fayad, City of Ballarat (with Deakin Uni’s Prof. Andrea Witcomb as Chair) on “The Historic Urban Landscape Approach: Finding a better way to manage change in the regional historic city of Ballarat”.
Abstract
Urban Landscape (HUL) by the City of Ballarat. Said to be a new approach to urban conservation the HUL is, perhaps unsurprisingly, receiving mixed reviews. Challenging dominant understandings of urban heritage and confronting the challenge of change versus conservation head-on, the HUL is intended to be a much needed holistic and integrated landscape-based approach that responds to contemporary pressures confronting historic cities.
The regional city of Ballarat is renowned for its 19th century goldfields buildings and predominant historic streetscapes. With extensive planning protection and long-established community activism focused on built heritage conservation outcomes, Ballarat is representative of a dominant focus on the static built environment. Motivated by a need to adopt better and more inclusive processes as well as responding to projections of almost fifty percent population growth by 2031, the City of Ballarat began localising the HUL approach in 2012 and formally became part of an international pilot program to implement UNESCO’s HUL in 2013.
This is a first-hand account of the City of Ballarat’s journey to find better ways to conserve and manage Ballarat’s heritage. In a time of increasing decentralisation this journey is highlighting what could happen when you empower Local Government to take a lead role in delivering and developing innovative new local approaches to urban conservation.
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
Susan Fayad is the Coordinator Heritage Strategy at the City of Ballarat in regional Victoria and is managing the roll out of UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape pilot program through a Strategic Cooperation Agreement between the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for Asia and the Pacific (WHITRAP) in Shanghai, China and the City of Ballarat. She played an instrumental role in the development of the City of Ballarat’s Preserving Ballarat’s Heritage Strategy which addresses heritage management challenges using a preventive change management approach. The City of Ballarat’s strategy has been recognised with awards from the Heritage Council of Victoria and Planning Institute of Australia (Vic.) for its innovative approach.
Date: Thursday 27 November 2014
Time: 5.30pm
Venue: Theatre Room, Deakin Prime, City Campus, 3/550 Bourke Street, Melbourne
DINNER: The seminar will be followed by drinks to celebrate a year of very exciting seminars and participation!! Please RSVP to Yamini Narayanan by email for booking.
Email list: To be included in the CHCAP email newsletter distribution list, email Yamini Narayanan
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2. The Post-2014 General Assembly Florence wrap up
Thank you to all the Australians who attended the 18th General Assembly (GA) held in Florence. Australia ICOMOS was the second largest delegation (after the host nation Italians) and this was emphasised time and time again during the GA. Many of those attending are active in the various International Scientific Committees (ISCs) in a variety of ways and locations throughout the world. The active engagement of AICOMITES in both Australian and international heritage issues is notable, and showcases our skill sets to the rest of the world – likely not known by our State and Federal Australian governments.
Some key highlights and achievements for Australia were as follows:
- Congratulations to Peter Phillips on his election as the next Australian Vice President, a keenly sought after role – this is testimony to AI being a collaborative and supportive environment for the development of the necessary skills and experience to be elected into this important international position.
- Congratulations to Kristal Buckley for her honorary life membership of ICOMOS International – We are all so grateful for the work that Kristal has done in the role of VP over the last 9 years. Many at the GA remarked how Kristal will be missed, and what big shoes Peter will be filling. At the Advisory Committee meeting held before the GA, Kristal gave an impressive presentation about the Asia Pacific regional meeting which summarised all other regional reports, and demonstrated how collaboratively the Asia Pacific Region national committees and their delegates work together.
- Sheridan Burke gave a very inspiring and forward-looking introduction to the Opening Plenary of the Scientific Symposium, introducing the scope of Theme 5 ‘ Emerging Tools for Conservation Practice’. As one of the co-chairs appointed by ICOMOS to steer this work, it has been several years of collaborative work, including the coordination of the review of hundreds of submitted abstracts. Susan McIntyre-Tamwoy also participated in the international Scientific Committee for the Symposium (member, Theme 3 ‘Sustainability through Traditional Knowledge’). Marilyn Truscott assisted with the organisation of Theme 4 (‘Community-driven Conservation and Local Empowerment’), and 47 Abstracts were submitted by one or more Australian author(s), and 9 were selected for oral presentation (plus quite a few that chose to present their work in poster format).
- Thank you to Helen Wilson for finding then organising a venue a wonderful Australian dinner held in an elegant Florentine restaurant – there were over 60 of us there, and it was a great night. Given that we were not the only ones in the restaurant, thanks to all AICOMites for the newly adopted Aussie way of saying “thank you” in a busy restaurant – shaking both raised arms high into the air!! This new tradition now must continue!
- Congratulations to Steve Brown – newly elected at the GA as international President of ISC Cultural Landscapes.
And congratulations to all those who made such interesting contributions with their paper and poster presentations. The debate in all sessions was very stimulating and lively – and gave us all such a wonderful opportunity to network and meet new contacts in areas we are interested in.
This was only the second General Assembly that I have attended, and it was an extraordinary experience. I highly recommend it – it is now only 3 years until the next one, so put it in your diaries!!!
Elizabeth Vines,
President, Australia ICOMOS
(with thanks to Sue Jackson Stepowski for providing notes for this summary!!)
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3. Queensland Heritage on the Map
On Monday 24 November 2014, the State Library of Queensland hosts Queensland Heritage on the Map, a symposium about heritage tourism in the state. Facilitated by journalist and broadcaster Jillian Whiting, this forum will bring together groups from all parts of the heritage tourism sector to discuss strategies and share practical examples of the role heritage experiences play in promoting communities to tourists and visitors. Participants will include historians and heritage practitioners; representatives of public libraries and local government; staff of galleries, archives and museums; tourism operators, and business strategists.
The symposium is free; please register to attend. It will also be live streamed. For further information, email the Queensland Memory team.
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4. Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage conference, Liverpool, 13-16 July 2015
Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage: Heritage, Tourism and Traditions
Liverpool, UK
13-16 July 2015
Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage: Heritage, Tourism and Traditions is brought to you by the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham and the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy, University of Illinois.
This conference 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.
For more information, visit the conference website.
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5. Port Arthur Talks, Tuesday 25 November 2014
Murphy’s signals of Hobart Town
presented by Mark Risby
Edward Murphy, a convict prison guard in the 99th Regt of Foot in Van Diemen’s Land during the 1840s and 1850s, produced eleven unique maritime charts. Containing the various types of signalling used by the maritime and penal systems, the charts display the only known diagrams of the individual merchant ships identification flags for use only in Hobart Town.
His lavishly illustrated charts show in fine detail 250 different flags and over 300 telegraphic semaphore signals and their decodes. This presentation will provide an insight into the man and his unique artwork.
Mark Risby is a seventh generation Tasmanian who held various positions for 22 years in his long established family business of sawmilling, timber production and retailing. After retraining he was the risk management consultant at Shadforths Ltd for over 14 years, a financial planning and stockbroking firm in Hobart. With interests including vexillology (the study of flags), sailing, bushwalking, ornithology, topiary, family, marine and military history, he is also an ex-Royal Australian naval reservist, and member of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania and the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania.
ALL WELCOME!
When: Tuesday 25 November 2014 at 5.30pm
Where: Junior Medical Officer’s Conference Room
Download the ‘Murphy’s signals of Hobart Town’ flier.
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6. Call for South Australian Design Review Panel Members
The South Australian Design Review Program is seeking new members for its Design Review Panel.
South Australia’s Design Review Program is going from strength to strength with changes to the planning system in 2012 bringing design to the forefront of the planning assessment process in the City of Adelaide, and further changes in 2013 affecting the Inner Metro areas.
The Design Review Panel assists the Government Architect in delivering independent design advice to the Development Assessment Commission, informed by all aspects of best practice urban design and the principles of good design.
Detail on these positions will be advertised in media outlets (The Weekend Australian and The Advertiser on Saturday 21 November 2014) and on the Tenders SA website with the Job title ‘Provision for consultancy services for Design Review Panel’. It is anticipated that the tender notice will appear from 20 November 2014 until 11 December 2014.
If you have any further questions about these roles please contact Andreea Jeleascu, Design Advisor at the Office for Design and Architecture SA on telephone (08) 8402 1988.
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7. Architectural Design Competition for new Bamiyan Culture Centre, Afghanistan
Together with Afghan government, UNESCO Kabul office is now organizing an international architectural design competition for the new Bamiyan Culture Centre at the Bamiyan World Heritage site, Afghanistan. The competition will generate interest in the project and ensure that the winning design is both iconic and also commensurate with the worldwide significance of the site itself. Proposals are welcome from qualified and experienced applicants with a vision for sharing the importance of cultural identity of Afghanistan from the past, present and into the future.
For more information, click here.
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8. US/ICOMOS 2015 International Exchange Program – call for applicants and host organisations: ADVANCE NOTICE
US/ICOMOS expects to support a number of internships overseas and within the United States in historic preservation during the course of 2015. This program provides unparalleled opportunities for preservationists early in their careers to gain hands-on experience in a country other than their own. The program is geared toward those nearing the end of graduate school or with 1-3 years of professional experience. Placements are made by matching the skills/experience of each applicant with the needs of each host organization.
Prospective Interns
Applications from prospective interns are due 31 January 2015. Application procedures can be found on the Intern section of the US/ICOMOS website.
Prospective Host Organisations
US/ICOMOS also seeks host organisations, such as non-profits, government agencies, and private firms, who are potentially interested in hosting a US/ICOMOS intern, whether in the United States or overseas. Information on hosting US/ICOMOS interns and a letter of interest form can be found on the Host section of the US/ICOMOS website.
2015 Program Schedule
The schedule for the 2015 program has not been finalised as yet. Usually, most internships take place during the summer months but some internships occur during the fall as well. US/ICOMOS is willing to work with host organizations to accommodate different schedules and durations of internships where necessary.
The program schedule for 2014 was as follows, and can be used as a guide to the likely schedule for 2015.
- January 31: Applications due (this date applies to 2014)
- March 1: Applicants notified of “shortlist” selection
- April 1: Selected applicants notified of placement with sponsor
- May 27 – May 30: Intern orientation
- May 31: Interns travel to their host locations
- June 2 – August 11: Internship with host organization
- August 12-14: Summer Interns return to Washington, DC for final program and reception; Fall interns arrive for orientation
- August 16: Summer Interns return home
- After August 16: Fall interns travel to their host locations
Program Overview
Since the US/ICOMOS International Exchange Program was created in 1984, more than 600 young preservation professionals and over 70 countries have participated. The aim of the program is to promote an understanding of international preservation policies, methods, and techniques and to enable interns to make professional contacts and form personal friendships that will ensure a continuing dialogue between countries.
The program began with a one-time exchange between US/ICOMOS and ICOMOS United Kingdom. It since has expanded to involve between 10 and 20 preservation professionals annually depending on the level of funding available. US/ICOMOS is always looking for preservation organizations both in the U.S. and abroad to host interns and participate in this exciting program of cultural exchange. The program is made possible through generous grants from many U.S. foundations, government agencies and individual contributors, and ICOMOS National Committees of participating.
For more information, click here or email Donald Jones, PhD, Director of Programs.
PROSPECTIVE APPLICANTS FROM AUSTRALIA PLEASE NOTE:
Applications must be made by nomination through Australia ICOMOS. Nominations will be confirmed by 15 January 2015. We regret the awkward timing of the call and US ICOMOS is aware of the problem.
Applicants must be financial members of Australia ICOMOS – please note that both Full and Associate members of Australia ICOMOS can apply to this program – and have adequate experience and the clear opportunity to travel in the middle of the year.
Applications should be emailed to the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat by COB Thursday 11 December 2014.
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9. Coal Mines Community Day, Tuesday 25 November
A community day will be held at the Coal Mines Historic Site on Tuesday 25 November from 10.30am until 12.30pm (see Coal Mines Community Day invitation). It’s a bit of a get together for everyone to have a look at what’s been achieved by the volunteer programme in the past year.
ECOtas will give a talk on what they’ve found on their natural values survey, David Roe is going to talk about the LIDAR survey that was carried out and there’ll be a BBQ (or similar) so no one will go hungry.
Please RSVP to John Hueston (contact on invite) for catering purposes.
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10. Oswald Brett talk at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 25 November
Noted marine artist Oswald Brett will be speaking at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Oswald, who is now well into his nineties, was brought up in Sydney and now lives in New York. His Hobart talk is part of a tour of Australia in connection with his recently released book Ships and the Sea: the Art and Life of Oswald Brett.
The talk will take place on Tuesday 25 November from 12.00-1.00pm in the Royal Society Rooms, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (enter through the Davey Street admin. entrance).
Download the Oswald Brett 25 November 2014 flier.
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11. 2014 PHA NSW & ACT Public History Prize call for entries
Submit your student research paper and win a $500 prize!
The Public History Prize is an annual award offered by the Professional Historians Association (PHA) of NSW & ACT. The Award is open to third and fourth year university students in NSW and the ACT who are studying history (both Australian and international) and whose research paper or project engages with the field and practice of professional and public history.
Entries close on 5 December 2014.
For more information and to submit your entry visit the PHA NSW & ACT website.
Like the Public History Prize facebook page.
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12. Heritage Council of WA’s eNewsletter out now
Read the latest edition of the Heritage Council’s eNewsletter, Heritage Matters.
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13. Terra 2016: XIIth World Congress on Earthen Architectures, 11-14 July 2016, Lyon (France) – call for papers
Terra 2016 is the twelfth in a series of international events organised since 1972, bringing together academics, professionals and experts, and a broad audience gathering around earthen architectures. The congress is organised under the aegis of the ISCEAH Committee of ICOMOS international, in the framework of the UNESCO World Heritage Earthen Architecture Programme (WHEAP). The 2016 edition will focus mainly on issues dealing with sustainable development, particularly in urban areas. This event will gather more than 800 participants from the fields of heritage conservation, archeology, architecture and urban planning, engineering, social sciences, as well as fields related to local sustainable development and crisis intervention.
THEMES
- Heritage inventories and studies
- Heritage conservation and management
- Local culture and development
- Research, experimentation, innovation
- New dynamics
- Knowledge transfer and capacity building
KEY DATES AND DEADLINE
- Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10 February 2015
- Deadline for submission of papers: 10 October 2015
- Deadline to benefit from reduced rates: 10 March 2016
- Deadline for registration of authors (communications / posters): 10 June 2016
For further information, visit the congress website.
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14. Engineering Heritage Victoria event, Thursday 27 November
Engineers Australia, Engineering Heritage Victoria and the Department of State Development, Business and Innovation cordially invite you to join us in recognising the significance of the Duke & Orr Dry Dock Pump House on Thursday 27 November 2014.
In the second half of the nineteenth century the Port of Melbourne was growing fast and becoming increasingly important to the import and export of goods. The Victorian Gold Rush had fuelled great prosperity and trade boomed.
Part of the port infrastructure required was dry docks to repair and service visiting ships. From 1868 several dry docks were built at South Wharf. The latest and largest of these operated until 1975; privately owned and operated, providing services ranging from hull cleaning, painting, repair to propellers and rudders and sometimes repair of severe damage from groundings and collisions.
The operation of dry docks required machinery to pump the water out of the dock after a vessel has been floated into it. In the nineteenth century this was invariably carried out with steam pumping plant.
Only the Duke & Orr dry dock remains, now housing the Barque Polly Woodside. This dock was rebuilt to take large ships in 1904 and at that time a new Pump House with a very large steam pumping engine was built. This Pump House remains remarkably intact and it is this relic of the age of steam which we are celebrating.
CLICK HERE to register for this event.
Engineers Australia Convention 2014
This event is being held as part of Convention 2014 from 24 – 28 November. To find out more about the largest engineering event ever held in the southern hemisphere, click here>>.
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15. “Heritage diplomacy and networks of conservation knowledge” panel – call for papers
Call for Papers
Panel: Heritage diplomacy and networks of conservation knowledge
Conference: Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchanges, CHAM International Conference, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 15-18 July 2015
Deadline: 19 December 2014
Convener: Tim Winter, Deakin University
This panel explores how historically and politically fashioned networks of expert knowledge have come to shape international heritage conservation in the modern era.
An important but under-researched theme of the story of internationalism and globalization over the course of the 19th-20th centuries has been the history of institutions associated with conservation and the governance of culture and nature. Indeed, the fields of international relations and diplomacy studies have paid little attention to the material and physical world as a constituent of international cooperation, engagement and knowledge transfer.
Papers are welcome that reframe the history of modern heritage conservation in ways that foreground the internationalization of expert knowledge under conditions of European colonialism, decolonisation and the shifting hierarchies of ‘East-West’ relations. The aim of the panel is to understand how and why certain flows of expert knowledge transfer have formed between countries and regions on the back of empire, African nationalism, Cold War relations, conflict recovery, science diplomacy, and so forth. Critical attention will be given to how networks of heritage diplomacy formed around the world since World War II, and the ways in which various state-based and inter-governmental agencies have maintained the ongoing dance between nationalism and internationalism.
For more information on this panel, click here.
Any questions or queries can be directed to Tim Winter by email.
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16. CIPA2015 Symposium, Taipei, 31 August – 5 September 2015: call for papers
CIPA2015 Symposium – Filling the Gaps—Towards a Globalization Era
31 August – 5 September 2015
Taipei, Taiwan
For a long time, CIPA (the International Committee for Documentation of Cultural Heritage) has been making great efforts integrating technology with cultural heritage conservation. The education and dissemination of acquired knowledge is also its major concern. CIPA holds an International symposium every two years presenting the latest scientific research and providing a forum for specialists in conservation and technology to communicate and exchange their ideas.
After examining the properties inscribed on the World Heritage list and those on the tentative list in the past, identified a problem with imbalanced representation of the territories and themes. Thus, The World Heritage List: Filling the Gaps – an Action Plan for the Future was published in 2004. It particularly addresses the importance of diversity that mankind as a whole needs, and how the diversity can bear witness to the cultural heritage that exists in the course of human history. It is also hoped that the imbalanced representation on the World Heritage List can be resolved. In the era of globalization, the development of digitization instruments and methods should closely correspond with the evolution of the concept in cultural heritage conservation and the application of technology. Yet with restriction of the territorial extension, cultural differences and instrumental limitation, there have been gaps between the application of digitization instruments and conservation concepts. In view of this, a platform set up for continuous communication and integration is eminently required.
For further information, visit the symposium website and download the Call for papers.
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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. Heritage of Death: Landscapes, Sentiment and Practice – call for papers
Heritage of Death: Landscapes, Sentiment and Practice
10-11 September 2015
Stockholm, Sweden
An international conference organized by Department of Ethnology – Stockholm University, CHAMP/Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy – University of Illinois
Keynote Speaker
Mike Robinson (Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, UK)
Call for papers
Death. We all face it. It is the greatest of the life crises and since time immemorial all human societies have devised ways to cope with and explain death. Around the world death is being reconceptualized as heritage, replete with material markers and intangible performances. These heritages of death are personal, national, international and global. They are vernacular as well as official, sanctioned and alternative. The heritage of death has religious, political, economic, cultural, and aesthetic aspects as well. This conference explores the many dimensions of death as heritage.
The highlight of the conference (in addition to Stockholm itself) is a guided study tour of Skogskyrkogården, Stockholm’s Woodland Cemetery, designed by Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz in 1917-1920, which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994.
For more information, click here and view the call for papers.
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19. News from Réseau Art Nouveau Network
To read the latest news from the Réseau Art Nouveau Network, click here.
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20. 2nd International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: People and Communities, Spain, April-May 2015 – abstract deadline extended
2nd International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: People and Communities
29 April – 2 May 2015
Menorca, Spain
The deadline for submission of abstract proposals for the 2nd International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: People and Communities has been extended to 30 November 2014
The event will be a meeting point for professionals and experts having the possibility to discuss issues related to World Heritage and its relation with people and communities.
You can find more detailed information at the conference website.
A crowdfunding platform to support the attendance of people from developing countries with fellowships for the trip has been established. Visit the crowdfunding webpage for more information.
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21. SITUATION VACANT Manager, Finance and Administration, ICCROM, Rome
Manager, Finance and Administration
ICCROM, Rome
Grade Level: P-4
ICCROM (the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) intends to appoint a Manager, Finance and Administration, who will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of ICCROM as they relate to finance, administration and human resources. This is a key management position, reporting to the Director-General.
For more information about this role, click here.
Final date for receipt of applications is 5 January 2015.
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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in the Australia ICOMOS Email News are not necessarily those of Australia ICOMOS Inc. or its Executive Committee. The text of Australia ICOMOS Email news is drawn from various sources including organizations other than Australia ICOMOS Inc. The Australia ICOMOS Email news serves solely as an information source and aims to present a wide range of opinions which may be of interest to readers. Articles submitted for inclusion may be edited.
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Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
Georgia Meros, Secretariat Officer
Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood VIC 3125
Telephone: (03) 9251 7131
Facsimile: (03) 9251 7158
Email: austicomos@deakin.edu.au
http://www.icomos.org/australia
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