At every IIC Congress, a distinguished member of the conservation profession is invited to give the Forbes Prize lecture. The prize is named after Edward Waldo Forbes (1873 – 1969) who was Director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University from 1909 to 1944, and the first Honorary Fellow of IIC in 1958. The Forbes Prize lecture was established in 1958 by IIC’s Council to acknowledge an individual’s success and conspicuous service to conservation, and provides an opportunity to address the assembled Congress.
It is our pleasure to announce that IIC’s 2024 Forbes Prize lecture at the forthcoming 30th biennial Congress, 23-27 September 2024, hosted in Lima, Peru will be delivered by Prof. Dr Luiz A. C. Souza FIIC, Full Professor - Conservation Science - CECOR - Center for Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil on the opening day of the Congress.
The full announcement can be viewed here.