IIC Congress 2012 - Call for posters - deadline extended to 29th February!

Planning for the 2012 IIC Congress in Vienna continues apace. One of the attractions will be a number of evening events, which will allow delegates to meet fellow conservation professionals socially; these are as essential a part of IIC Congresses as the programme of papers and posters. In addition, excursions are being planned to venues of special conservation interest as well as sites of more general heritage interest so that those attending can put their conservation into context. There will also be a Trade Fair for those attending to browse and discuss matters with the leading suppliers in the field.

Below you will find the Call for Posters; the Congress papers are already under consideration by the Technical Committee (under the leadership of Sharon Cather) and will make for a series of important and informative presentations. The posters will augment these, allowing displays of ideas, research and work that will add to the value of the event.

We are also delighted to announce a Student Poster session, following on from the success of the first of these at the 2010 Istanbul Congress, which will give students and recent graduates the opportunity to communicate their projects in a special section of the congress poster display.
We will be opening booking in February 2012, and the full details of the Congress will be available from the Congress section of the IIC web-site as well as regular updates in News in Conservation. We very much look forward to seeing you there!

Call for posters

Poster presentation is particularly well suited to material with a strong visual impact. Posters are displayed prominently throughout the meeting and during the week there will be a dedicated session, giving delegates the opportunity to speak to poster authors. An extended abstract will be published in the conference papers to provide a permanent record and point of contact. A pdf-format file of your copyright-cleared poster would also be welcome at a later stage to enable display on the IIC website.

If you would like to present a poster, please use the poster abstract submission form. Please note that the deadline for electronic submission of proposals has been extended to 29th February 2012. The total character count is 1000. The choice of posters for display will be made in March 2012 and final texts and image will be required in April 2012. All poster proposals submitted to the IIC Congress via the IIC web-site's submission processes will be judged equally on their merits, whether to the older version of the web-site or the current version.

The Guidelines for poster submission may be downloaded below.