IIC is delighted to present the 24th biennial IIC Congress, and IIC’s second such event in Vienna, the first having taken place over thirty years ago in 1980. This new event will be held at the new campus of the University of Vienna, situated in the heart of the city ...
Congress
Opening reception at the KHM Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Monday, 10 September 2012 at 6.30 pm – 8 pm
The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in its magnificent building on the Ringstraße was opened in 1891 by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary. It houses the large Habsburg art collection with works from seven millennia – from Ancient Egypt to the late 18th century – and will provide an impressive venue for the opening reception of the Congress.
Deadline:
Friday, 7 September, 2012
Hotel arrangements
For your hotel arrangements please follow the link to Columbus Travel Agency who have arranged a comprehensive range of rooms at hotels and hostels across central Vienna and not far from the conference venue.
You are of course free to make your own hotel arrangements.
Book here: Hotels and hostels in Vienna via Columbus
In the centre of Vienna, the new campus of the University of Vienna is a superb venue for this IIC Congress. The main presentations will be in the new lecture theatres, the Hörsaalzentrum, with linked rooms hosting other meetings and the trade fair. The campus itself is a fascinating example of the re-use of an historic building complex; the site is the eighteenth-century former General Hospital of Vienna.
Student participation in IIC has always been welcomed, and we are delighted to continue to offer a new ways for this to take place.
Registration is now open
If you are an IIC member all you need to do is log into your account and then use the links on the right hand side of this page make your booking.
If you are not a member of IIC you will first need to create an account on the IIC site, which you can do in one easy step: go to http://www.iiconservation.org/user/register - you can then make your congress booking at this page using the options on the right hand side of this page.
You will find below the outline of the Congress week, and then the Provisional Technical Programme, giving the papers that are to be presented and then the list of posters to be displayed at the Congress.
Below this you will find the details of the Grand Dinner to be held on the Thursday, the Excursions, the Round Table Event and the post-Congress tours.
Every two years an award is offered to the individual or group who, in the opinion of IIC Council, has done most to further the public appreciation of the work of the conservation profession. The award consists of a certificate and a cash prize of £1000, presented at the biennial IIC Congress. Details of previous award winners can be found on this website.
Deadline:
Saturday, 31 March, 2012
Posters are displayed prominently throughout the meeting and there will be a programmed session giving participants the opportunity of speaking to poster authors. An extended abstract of each poster is published in the conference preprints to provide a permanent record and point of contact.
The list of poster topics and presenters, plus that of the separate Student poster session, will be here soon.
Congress Organising Committee
- Gabriela Krist / Chair. University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
- Alexander Aichinger / Austrian State Archives
- Wolfgang Baatz / Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
- Maria Gruber / University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
- Christa Hofmann / Austrian National Library
- Petr Justa / University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
- Marta Kissne-Bendefy / Hungarian National Museum
- Katarina Kosova / Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic
Excursions on Wednesday, 12 September 2012
On Wednesday we are arranging some exciting outings to venues in Vienna as well as to the Abbey of Klosterneuburg, just outside Vienna.
Up to 500 experts in the field of cultural heritage preservation are expected to take part in the Vienna IIC Congress – conservators, art historians, conservation scientists, as well as conservation students from museums, universities, collections and other scientific or cultural institutions. These delegates with different interests and responsibilities will come from all over the world, particularly from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The Congress will address a broad variety of topics related to the decorative arts and crafts.
Thanks to the generosity of the Getty Foundation IIC is able to offer a limited number of grants to enable practising conservators from developing countries to attend the IIC 2012 Congress in Vienna.
More details may be found on the Congress pages of this web-site: http://www.iiconservation.org/congress/2012vienna/students/grants
Deadline:
Monday, 30 April, 2012