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Glass and Ceramics Conservation 2010

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning (NY)
Starting date: 3 October 2010

The Corning Museum of Glass (www.cmog.org) in Corning, NY, with its internationally renowned collection offered the ICOM-CC WG ‘Glass & Ceramics’ to host its next Interim Meeting 2010, following the successful meeting in Nova Gorica 2007. The WG accepted this invitation for their International Conference on Glass and Ceramics Conservation during its meeting in New Delhi 2008 with delight.
The arrival day (3 Oct 2010) will be followed by 3 days with an intensive programme of lectures and tours.
Contributions may cover all aspects of the conservation of glass, ceramics and related materials, eg.
- conservation projects and practice
- conservation science
- materials science or history of objects as related to conservation
- conservation training
We are looking forward to submissions by all conservators, conservation scientists and curators in the field independent of their membership status.
The oral contributions will be published in Preprints. Therefore, strict adherence to the following timeline is mandatory:

- Please send abstracts (Title, authors’ names, address of corresponding author incl. e-mail, ca 300 words abstract text) until 15 September 2009 per e-mail to the Preprint Editor Hannelore Roemich (Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), e-mail: hannelore.roemich@nyu.edu
- Abstracts will then be reviewed by the programme committee consisting of the (assistant) coordinators of the WG and Stephen Koob (CMoG) as local organizer. Successful authors will get notified until 15 October 2010.
- Full papers (max. 4000 words, 8 figs.) are due until 4 January 2010 at the latest.

The Interim Meeting will be followed by an experts’ meeting on enamel on metals conservation at the Frick in New York City (www.frick.org) from Fri 8 October 2010 to Sat 9 October 2010. Papers with this topic should be delivered there, send abstracts to ENAMEL coordinator Agnés Gall-Ortlik, gallortlik@yahoo.fr.
When making your travel plans, please note that the Interim Meeting of the ICOM-CC WG ‘Metals’ will be held from 11 October to 15 October 2010 in Charleston, SC: Another reason for visiting the US East Coast in October 2010.

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