IIC 2010 Congress - booking now open

Registration is now open for IIC’s twenty-third international Congress, which will take place in Istanbul on the 29th to the 24th of September 2010. Full details are available at the Congress pages of this web-site.

The 2010 IIC Congress will take place in conjunction with the Sakıp Sabancı Museum and the many Congress events will focus on the conservation of moveable and immovable heritage in or from the Eastern Mediterranean. This will include material held in collections around the world: the care and conservation of artifacts, of sites, and the preservation of extraordinary architecture, reflecting the influences that have made the region one of the world’s richest centres of heritage. The conference will bring together the international professional community to present and exchange ideas, to debate conservation practices and cutting edge research, to consider exciting new developments and thought provoking challenges, and to make new connections between this region and all corners of the world.

The Congress will take place from the 20th to 24th September 2010 and will include four days of papers and a day of excursions in and around Istanbul. It is also hoped to arrange excursions during the weekend after the Congress. The languages of the Congress will be English and Turkish, with simultaneous translation. The preprints will be published in English with abstracts in Turkish.

We look forward to seeing you there! Book now at the Congress pages: www.iiconservation.org/congress.

News in Conservation, February 2010

The February 2010 issue of News in Conservation has been published, and is available as a free PDF for members.

This issue includes an important article on conserving Australian Aboriginal culture and the issues of cultural and spiritual considerations that this raises, and the NiC interview focuses on the use and growth of Social Networking within conservation – an interview that links into the debate on this web-site, plus full members' news and much more.

News in Conservation was launched in 2007. PDFs of back issues are available to members. If you are not a member you can download a limited number of past editions.

Before the unthinkable ...happens again

A full transcript of the second in IIC's groundbreaking series of Round Tables 'Dialogues for the New Century: Round Table discussions on the conservation of cultural heritage in a changing world' is available for download here (PDF; 735KB). More information about the event can be found in the IIC newsblog.