Applications are now open for the ATHAR-MOSAIKON course on "conservation and management of mosaics on Archaeological sites", to be held in Tyre, Lebanon from 3 - 21 May 2010.
Application deadline: 30 November 2009
ICWCT 2010 - Wood Conservation Technology
6 July. Applications are now open for the IWCT 2009 course on 'wood conservation technology', to be held in Oslo, Norway from 24 May - 2 July 2010.
NEW e-PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE!
PDFs: ICCROM Conservation Studies series
22 August. We are pleased to announce that 9 volumes of the ICCROM Conservation Studies series (ICS) is now available in electronic NEWS
Events, grants, job opportunities, websites, etc.
Events
- Calendar of Events compiled by ICCROM
- International Congress: La Restauración en el Siglo XXI. Función, Estética e Imagen, Grupo Español del IIC, Spain
- Call for abstracts: The Sixth Islamic Manuscript Conference, Islamic Manuscript Association, United Kingdom
- International Congress: Chemistry for Cultural Heritage (ChemCH), Universitá di Bologna, Italy
- Call for abstracts: World Heritage and Tourism: Managing for the global and the local, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC)
- Call for papers: In situ technical imaging for art and archaeology: a symposium in conservation science, British Museum, United Kingdom
- Conference list 2009, European Foundation for Landscape Architecture
- 2009 Conferences/Workshops, Society of American Archivists (SAA), United States
Films and videos
- Video: Museum Lighting, Getty Conservation Institute, United States
Grants, fellowships, interships
- 2010 Grant for understanding the Mediterranean cultures, Fondation Marc de Montalembert, Paris, France
- Internships 2010, Heritage Conservation Centre (HCC), Singapore
- Internship, African World Heritage Fund (AWHF)
- PhD grants available, Department of Civil Engineering. University of Minho, Portugal
- UNESCO-Keizo Obuchi Fellowship
- Grants, fellowships and internships: The Getty, United States
- Fellowships: Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies (SCEMS), United States
- Internship: Saving the Stones programme
- Fellowships:National Gallery, United States
Jobs
- Conservator Photographic Materials, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Paintings Conservator, The New Orleans Conservation Guild, Inc., United States
- Archaeological Conservator, The Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP), United States
- Textiles Conservator, The Bowes Museum, United Kingdom
- Preservation Librarian, Northwestern University Library, United States
- Director, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Clemson University and The College of Charleston, United States
- Stone Conservator, ReCoop, Malta
Publications
- Getty Conservation Institute, United States
Training
- Preservation of photographs course, University of Melbourne, Australia
- AAM professional development programme in 2009-10, American Association of Museums (AAM)
- Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies 2010, The Campbell Center, United States
- Museum Leadership Institute 2010 Programmes, The Getty Leadership Institute, United States
- Upcoming courses and workshops 2010, Cultural Resource Management Program, School of Continuing Studies, University of Victoria, Canada
- 2009-10 programme: Professional development short courses and seminars, Institut National du Programme (INP), France
- Les sites mégalithiques : conservation et mise en valeur, un enjeu européen, Institut National du Programme (INP), France
- Master: Diagnostica avanzata per i beni culturali, Università di Bologna, Polo Scientifico Didattico di Ravenna and Fondazione Flaminia Ravenna, Italy
- Online courses: Continuing training, Hornemann Institute, Germany
- Lista de cursos de restauración de bienes culturales, ar.emagister.com
- MUSM7010: Vietnam Field School in Museums and Sustainable Heritage Development, Museum Studies Program, University of Queensland, Australia
- New graduate programme: Cultural and Environmental Heritage, Canberra
- Saving the Stones, International Conservation Centre, Old City of Acre, Israel
- Training: 2009 Courses ABER-SENAI (Associação Brasileira de Encadernação e Restauro), Brazil
- CENCREM: 2009 course programme, Cuba
- Talleres ILAM 2009, Costa Rica
- Society of American Archivists Continuing Professional Education in 2009, United Sates
- Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term Problems, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), United States
Websites, e-journals, e-publications
- Internet: UVic_CRMProgram is using Twitter!
- E-journal: The Essence of Human Creation threatened by Looting, UNESCO Culture Newsletter
- Website: Khmer archaeological sites, Cambodia
- Website: Prix Pictet 2009
- Website: Cultural heritage monuments, Wikipedia
- Website: Textile Conservation Centre (TCC) on line!
- Website: Documenting Spiral Jetty
To propose announcements, please feel free to contact us: webmaster@iccrom.org
News from ATHAR in Sharjah
23 October. The ATHAR course on Conservation of Stone and Earthen Structures is taking place in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
ICCROM hosts ICOM-CC
23 October. From 21 to 24 October 2009 ICCROM is hosting the combined meeting of the ICOM-CC Directory Board and Working Group Co-ordinators.
New Director-General of UNESCO elected
15 October. The Director-General of ICCROM, Mr Mounir Bouchenaki, and his staff would like to congratulate Mrs Irina Gueorguieva Bokova for her election by an overwhelming majority as 10th Director-General of UNESCO. As an institution created by UNESCO, ICCROM looks forward to further enhancing the historical ties with UNESCO aimed at preserving our cultural heritage worldwide.
Revitalizing L'Aquila after the earthquake
9 October. Since the devastating earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy in April 2009, ICCROM has been committed to helping protect and restore the area's fragile cultural, architectural and urban heritage.
ARIS 09 course concluded last week in Rome
7 October. This course is unique from other training courses, since it looks at the conservation of built heritage through the use of high technology documentation tools and easy to use techniques and research.
Reducing risks to collections in Beijing concluded
1 October. The final part of this three-week course focused on refining the risk descriptions and magnitudes calculated for the case study at the Sackler Museum in Beijing.
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