Due to the rapidly evolving situation regarding Covid-19, many event details are changing. We are updating these listings as we receive new information, but readers should contact event organisers directly for the most up-to-date information on specific events, conferences, workshops, etc.
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Would you like to be more sustainable in your job, but don't know where to begin? Ki Culture's Sustainability Ambassador Program will show you how and is now open for registration!
Ki Culture is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing solutions for cultural institutions and tools to educate the public on all issues connected with sustainability.
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Plastic has infiltrated the web of life. We eat from it, drink from it and even wear it. For many Conservators plastic has an incredible array of useful applications – from providing a lightweight and versatile packaging material for the transportation of art works to being worn as PPE gear in conservation labs.
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SUPSI - Istituto svizzero di Roma
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October 1st from 5:00-6:30 pm on Zoom
Social time 5:00-5:30
Meeting 5:30-6:30 pm
Location: RSVP to receive the Zoom link.
The Washington Conservation Guild invites you to a panel discussion on the ethics of preserving Confederate monuments and the obligations of preservation professionals in addressing the needs of various community stakeholders.
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Registration Now Open!
Embroidery has changed dramatically over the centuries as designs and techniques have gone in and out of fashion. Winterthur presents a series of lectures and workshops exploring the many ways that embroiderers have been inspired by the past to create, and re-create, beautiful needlework today.
The lectures are available during the month of October with a series of live, interactive conversations and fun activities on October 2 and 3.
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The overarching theme for the GA2020 Scientific Symposium is ‘Shared Cultures – Shared Heritage – Shared Responsibility’. The theme recognises that globalisation, transnationalism, digital connectivity, and the willing or forced movement of people have contributed to the making (and unmaking) of hybrid, pluralist places, practices, and collections. In this sense, places, practices, objects, and collections are frequently connected with and valued by multiple and diverse groups and communities.
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The Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC) is pleased to announce TechFocus IV: Caring for 3D Printed Art, October 5-6, 2020 at SFMOMA in San Francisco, CA.
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The newly established AIC Imaging Working Group (IWG) seeks participants interested in helping to further the Working Group's goals of:
• supporting the conservation community in imaging-related topics and endeavors by increasing communication and encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration;
• identifying and addressing, through sustainable collaboration, the challenges that conservators encounter related to imaging resources, practices and objectives; and
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Topics: Archaeometry, Computing Technology, Conservation and Restoration
Special session: Artificial Intelligence in Cultural Heritage
The Symposium focuses on the use of New Technologies in the Archaeological Research (Archaeometry, Computing Technology, Conservation and Restoration) notably with the presentation of interdisciplinary approaches, special case studies and research on archaeological material and assemblages.
Your participation and contribution are most welcome!
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Registration Now Open
The Beltway and Beyond: Neoclassical Furniture of Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and the Coastal Mid-Atlantic
