Ink Corrosion Conference - ICC Call for Papers

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Thursday, 24 October, 2019 to Friday, 25 October, 2019
Deadline: 
Thursday, 31 January, 2019 - 00:00
Place: 
Krems

European Resaerch Centre for Book and Paper Conservation Restoration
Zentrum fur Kulturguterschutz
Department Bauen und Umwelt
University for continuing Education Krems
Dr. Karl Dorrekstr. 30
3500 Krems, Austria

The conference aims to bring together experts from all fields who do research in ink corrosion who are responsible for a collection where ink corrosion poses a severe problem and are in need of an appropriate treatment of texts and graphic art on corroded carriers.

This call for papers aims to summarize the status quo from the perspective of a certain group of professionals including
conservators, scientists, archivists, librarians, etc., and introduce the latest research results in the treatment of texts or drawings suffering from ink corrosion, and describe particular problems in the context of ink corrosion and its mitigation that have been overlooked so far.

Deadline for submitting abstracts (about 500 words in English) is 31st January 2019.
Please send abstracts to patricia.engel@donau-uni.ac.at
The articles will be published.