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November 2011
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General Conference admits
Palestine as UNESCO Member
State
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DIRECTION:
Isabel Tort Ausina
UNESCO’s General Conference today voted to admit Palestine as a Member
State of the Organization.
For its membership to take effect, Palestine must sign and ratify UNESCO’s
Constitution which is open for signature in the archives of the Government of the
United Kingdom in London.
Palestine’s entry will bring the number of UNESCO’s Member States to 195.
The vote was carried by 107 votes in favour of admission and 14 votes against, with
52 abstentions.
Admission to UNESCO for states that are not members of the United Nations requires
a recommendation by the Organization’s Executive Board and a two thirds majority
vote in favour by the General Conference of Member States present and voting (abstentions are not considered as votes).
The General Conference consists of the representatives of the States Members of
the Organization. It meets every two years, and is attended by Member States and
Associate Members, together with observers for non-Member States, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Each Member State
has one vote, irrespective of its size or the extent of its contribution to the budget.
The General Conference determines the policies and the main lines of work of the
Organization. Its duty is to set the programmes and the budget of UNESCO. It also
elects the Members of the Executive Board and appoints, every four years, the DirectorGeneral.
RELATED NEWS
31 October 2011
Palestine Vote: Statement by UNESCO Director-General
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002136/213660M.pdf
2 November 2011
Statement by the Director-General of UNESCO on Withholding of Funds
by the United States
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/statement_by_the_director_general_of_unesco_on_
withholding_of_funds_by_the_united_states/
VIDEO: UNESCO Director-General Statement on US funding cut
http://www.youtube.com/unesco#p/u/14/6UZTLAjfjjw
© UNESCO / Eric Bouttier
10 November 2011
Click online and donate to UNESCO
The Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova today launched an online site allowing Member
States, public institutions, foundations and citizens to donate to UNESCO.
This new site is one of the emergency measures announced today to fill the immediate $65m shortfall
in UNESCO’s budget arising from the US decision to with-hold dues owed to the Organization.
Donations can be made online at: http://www.unesco.org/donate
The United States announced the with-holding of their dues after the admission of Palestine as a
UNESCO Member State on 31 October. They were required to do so by national laws dating back
to the 1990s. The sum of $65m corresponds to the amount due to UNESCO by the United States for
2011.
This news provoked an unprecedented wave of support for UNESCO from citizens, associations and
private corporations from all corners of the globe.
“I see these expressions of support as clear recognition of the good that UNESCO does in the world.
These are very concrete indicators of success,” said the Director-General, during the closing session of
the UNESCO General Conference on 10 November.
“This is not simply another extra budgetary fund – it will be directed to supporting our core activities,
so that they are not affected by a difficult financial situation,” she said.
10 November 2011
UNESCO Director-General launches Emergency Fund at close of
General Conference
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/unesco_director_general_launches_emergency _
fund_at_close_of_general_conference/
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© UNESCO/D. Bijeljac - South Sudan, 194th Member State of UNESCO
South Sudan becomes UNESCO’s 194th Member
State
South Sudan has become UNESCO’s 194th Member State after completing procedures for the ratification UNESCO's Constitution on 27 October. The flag of South Sudan, now floats alongside those of
UNESCO’s other 193 Member States.
At a flag-raising ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters on 28 October, the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport
for South Sudan, Cirino Hiteng Ofuho, said “we appeal to UNESCO’s Member States to continue to support
our efforts so that our young nation can prepare its citizens to catch up with the rest of the world in the areas of
cultural heritage management, education and scientific research (…) The new Republic of South Sudan vows
to become an active member of UNESCO and the global family of nations.”
Welcoming its newest member to UNESCO, Director-General Irina Bokova pointed out that “the eight million
inhabitants of the Republic of South Sudan are facing immense challenges." She pledged that “UNESCO will
stand with the people of South Sudan to strengthen their education system and to support the training of teachers and education professionals.”
According to UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report, launched in Juba in June 2011, more
than one million children of primary-school age do not attend school. This represents almost half of the children in this age group. The country also has the lowest enrollment rate in the world for secondary education
and only eight percent of women know how to read and write.
UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) and UNICEF have been tasked by the Education Minister of South Sudan to help the new country draw up a plan to address its education needs.
On 14 July 2011, the UN General Assembly voted by acclamation to admit the Republic of South Sudan as a
Member State.
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UNESCO kicks off 40th anniversary celebration of
World Heritage Convention
The Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova
today launched the 40th anniversary celebrations
for the Convention Concerning the Protection of the
World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by
UNESCO’s Member States on 16 November 1972.
In her address, the Director-General called for a year
of renewal for World Heritage. “Heritage stands at the
crossroads of climate change, social transformations
and processes of reconciliation between peoples. Heritage carries high stakes – for the identity and belonging of peoples, for the sustainable economic and soUNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova addressing the General Ascial development of communities.”
sembly © UNESCO / Dou Matar Gueye Copyright Terms
Irina Bokova stressed that the Rio+20 United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012 would provide UNESCO a new opportunity to advocate linking culture and development. She argued that “heritage does not represent luxury; it is a capital
investment in the future. It is the sound foundation without which nothing lasting can be built. Disregarding
heritage, severing our root, will inevitably clip our wings.”
Speaking at the opening of the General Assembly of the Convention’s 187 States Parties, the Director-General
stressed the need to involve communities in heritage preservation. She recommended reflection, as well as
celebration, to involve all stakeholders in the anniversary whose theme is: World Heritage and Sustainable
Development the Role of Local Communities.
The General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention takes place every two years in Paris
and coincides with the sessions of UNESCO’s General Conference, the Organization’s highest ruling body.
The World Heritage Committee meets once a year. It is the independent body in charge of implementing the
World Heritage Convention and of maintaining UNESCO’s World Heritage List, which currently numbers 936
properties of outstanding universal value in 153 countries.
The opening ceremony of the 40th anniversary celebrations will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris
on 30 January 2012 with the participation of legendary jazz musician and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
Herbie Hancock. Events are being organized around the world throughout the year to mark the occasion. A
special event to close the year is being organised by the Government of Japan in Kyoto, from 6 to 8 November,
2012.
World Heritage Convention 40th anniversary
http://whc.unesco.org/en/activities/664/
Nine members elected to World Heritage Committee
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/811
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Archaeological Heritage
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Mexican archaeologists find Aztec temple platform at Mexico City's Templo Mayor
ruin - Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP).- Archaeologists found a round Aztec ceremonial platform studded with
stone carvings of serpent heads at Mexico City's Templo Mayor ruin, raising hopes in the
search for an emperor's tomb, authorities said Thursday.
No Aztec ruler's tomb has ever been located and researchers have been on a five-year quest
to find a royal tomb in the area of the Templo Mayor, a complex of two huge pyramids and
numerous smaller structures that contained the ceremonial and spiritual heart of the pre-
Hispanic Aztec empire.
Mexico's National Institute of History and Anthropology said the stone platform is about 15 yards (meters) in diameter and
probably built around A.D. 1469. The site lies in downtown Mexico City, which was built by Spanish conquerors atop the
Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
"The historical records say that the rulers were cremated at the foot of the Templo Mayor, and it is believed to be on this
same structure — the 'cuauhxicalco' — that the rulers were cremated," said archaeologist Raul Barrera.
+ info: http://artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=50959
Gobekli Tepe: The world's oldest temple under conservation by the Global Heritage
Fund (GHF)
The reenactors are busloads of tourists—usually Turkish, sometimes European. The buses
(white, air-conditioned, equipped with televisions) blunder over the winding, indifferently paved
road to the ridge and dock like dreadnoughts before a stone portal. Visitors flood out, fumbling
with water bottles and MP3 players. Guides call out instructions and explanations. Paying no
attention, the visitors straggle up the hill. When they reach the top, their mouths flop open with
amazement, making a line of perfect cartoon O's…
+ info: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/gobekli-tepe/mann-text
EXHIBITION - Eugène Atget. Select Works - James Hyman Photography
12 October - 12 November 2011 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: James Hyman Photography
Contact: [email protected]
+ info: http://www.jameshymanphotography.com/pages/exhibitionintro/1630.HTML
The World in Between: 5,000 years ago, a long-buried society in the Iranian desert
helped shape the first urban age
Even local archaeologists with the benefit of airconditioned cars and paved roads think twice
about crossing eastern Iran’s rugged terrain. “It’s a tough place,” says Mehdi Mortazavi from
the University of Sistan-Baluchistan in the far eastern end of Iran, near the Afghan border. At
the center of this region is the Dasht-e Lut, Persian for the “Empty Desert.” This treacherous
landscape, 300 miles long and 200 miles wide, is covered with sinkholes, steep ravines, and
sand dunes, some topping 1,000 feet. It also has the hottest average surface temperature of
any place on Earth. The forbidding territory in and around this desert seems like the last place to seek clues to the
emergence of the first cities and states 5,000 years ago.
+ info: http://www.archaeology.org/1111/features/dasht-e_lut_iran_shahr-i-sokta-shahad_tepe_yaha.html
National Archaeology Day Proclamation read into the United States Congressional
Record - USA
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Mr. CAPUANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support the designation of October 22, 2011, as
National Archaeology Day. Throughout the month of October, but particularly on the 22nd,
archaeological societies across the country will celebrate the thousands of years of history that
have been unlocked through artifacts and discoveries.
The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), headquartered at Boston University and
comprised of over 235,000 members, will lead 108 of its local societies in a host of public
educational activities to demonstrate the value of archaeological pursuits. AIA will also join
with the American Anthropological Association, Society for American Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, and
American Schools of Oriental Research in collaborative efforts to reach out to over 100 cities across the United States
through online events.
+ info: http://www.archaeological.org/news/aianews/6822
The Pre-Motor City: As Detroit paves a new economic road forward, an archaeologist
investigates its industrial beginnings - Detroit - Michigan - USA
On a Wednesday afternoon in early June, a white bus with the navy blue logo "Indian Trails"
emblazoned on its side turns off Michigan Avenue onto 16th Street and heads south. At Dalzelle
Street it takes a left and comes to a stop in front of the gutted husk of Michigan Central Station, the
former railway hub for Detroit, once the fourth largest city in the United States. A gaggle of tourists
hops out of the coach and gawks at the 230-foot-tall building, pointing cameras at it and capturing
what has come to be referred to as "ruin porn."
+ info: http://www.archaeology.org/1111/features/corktown_detroit_michigan_central_station.html
Does the Natural Gas Boom Endanger Archaeology? - Friedenshuetten - Pennsylvania - USA
On the North Branch of Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River, roughly an hour northwest of Scranton, sits
Friedenshuetten. Meaning "tents of peace," the village was an eighteenth-century utopia founded by a
Moravian missionary. There, both expats from what is now the eastern Czech Republic and Native
Americans of the Eastern Delaware Nation coexisted in log cabins and wigwams from 1763 until 1772
when simmering distrust dissolved the settlement.
Archaeologists from Kings College in Wilkes-Barre began excavating the site in 1972, finding pieces of
pipes, flints, and remains of a hearth, among other artifacts. The following year they uncovered the
village's main core.
+ info: http://www.archaeology.org/1111/trenches/natural_gas_fracking_pennsylvania.html
From the President: Eurozone Catch-22 - Archaeological Institute of America President Elizabeth Bartman
voices concern with archaeologically rich countries experiencing financial woes
For many months this year the sovereign debt crisis in Europe dominated the news. While we readers of ARCHAEOLOGY no
doubt share many of the concerns outlined in leading business publications, we have our own pressing concern: How will the
financial woes of archaeologically rich countries such as Greece and Italy affect their ability to maintain their cultural
patrimony? Reports from the field have not been encouraging.
+ info: http://www.archaeology.org/1111/departments/president.html
Australopithecus' Best Foot Forward - Laetoli - United Republic of Tanzania
The 3.6-million-year-old footprints at Laetoli, have fascinated archaeologists since they were discovered in 1976. These
prints preserve, in volcanic ash, that most characteristic of behaviors—the act of walking—among early humans.
Understanding how early humans moved is important because efficient, upright locomotion was one of the first evolutionary
traits that set them apart from other ape species. A team led by Robin Crompton of the University of Liverpool recently
published a study of the Laetoli footprints that used 3-D laser scans to show that whoever left them—perhaps
Australopithecus afarensis—had anatomically modern feet, approximately 2 million years before they were thought to have
evolved.
+ info: http://www.archaeology.org/1111/trenches/australopithecus_sediba_footprints_kenya.html
Mosaics from Where East Met West - Sofia - Bulgaria
Emergency excavation work in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, carried out for just over a year
before the construction of a new metro line, has uncovered a large section of the center of the
ancient Roman city of Ulpia Serdica. The discoveries include streets, a public bath with pools for
cold and heated water, sewage canals, and spacious residences, many of which are decorated
with colorful mosaics. Ulpia Serdica was strategically sited by the Romans in the first century A.
D. halfway between the Roman cities of Singidunum (modern-day Belgrade) and Constantinople,
and thus between Europe and Asia.
+ info: http://www.archaeology.org/1111/trenches/sofia_bulgaria_ulpia_serdica_mosaics.html
Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Celebrates 5th Annual Archaeology Fair Boston Museum of Science - Massachusetts - USA -( 7-8 October 2011)
Archaeology Month is underway in Massachusetts and for the 5th year in a row the AIA-MOS
Archaeology Fair filled the Boston Museum of Science with school groups, children, and families.
On October 7th and 8th fair attendees explored the exciting world of archaeology through a
variety of interactive activities and games.
About 20 archaeologists, museum specialists, and other experts were on hand to discuss various
aspects of their archaeological work with visitors. Presenters at this year’s fair engaged attendees
with live demonstrations of flintknapping, atlatl throwing, glassblowing, and the daily responsibilities of a Roman soldier.
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processing technologies, and much more! This annual fair provides a great opportunity for New England archaeology
enthusiasts of all ages to come together to discover, learn and share their passion for the past.
3-D Scanning on the Cheap - University of California - San Diego - California - USA
A technological marriage between archaeology and video gaming may beget crisp, 3-D virtual renderings
from ancient excavation sites that will one day help archaeologists better track the progression of digs,
record the locations of artifacts, and even beam images to remote researchers who can consult on
fieldwork.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), hacked a Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect to
create a low-cost 3-D scanner that can be used in the field. Ordinarily, the Kinect peripheral tracks the
motion of game players by following infrared dots it projects onto them, allowing online avatars in games
to be controlled by movement alone—no controller required. The UCSD team turned the device into a hand-held scanner
that, when passed over every inch of an area or object (researchers liken the process to spray painting), can collect depth,
surface texture, and color data. This information can then be combined to create a virtual representation of an artifact or a
dig site.
+ info: http://www.archaeology.org/1111/trenches/microsoft_xbox_360_kinect_3-d_scanning.html
Adequacy of Archaeological Site Structure - a3gm - 2007 - Clunia - Burgos - Spain
The interventions are part of the Master Plan developed by the scientific team that leads the
Archaeological Site and focus on two specific elements, the covering of the mosaic of the
“craterae” and the consolidation of the basement of the Temple of Jupiter.
It is also intended to evoke that next to the mosaic room was a garden-room and that these
two rooms were separated from the street by the house walls. A new enclosure, light and
partially opaque, now defines the outer wall of the house and leads the visitor to the entrance.
The material used for both structures and fencing to mark the routes, is laminated wood
treated according to the different levels of exposure. The covering is made with crimping copper plates. The wooden box,
light and permeable, transparent and capable of protecting, lets in natural light and ventilation as required by the
conservation and enhancement of these elements.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/176600
Ancient Etruscan childbirth image is first for western art - Mugello Valley Archaeological Project - Italy
An archaeological excavation at Poggio Colla, the site of a 2,700-year-old Etruscan settlement in Italy’s Mugello Valley, has
turned up a surprising and unique find: two images of a woman giving birth to a child.
Researchers from the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project, which oversees the Poggio Colla excavation site some 20 miles
northeast of Florence, discovered the images on a small fragment from a ceramic vessel that is more than 2,600 years old.
+ info: http://blog.smu.edu/research/2011/10/18/ancient-etruscan-childbirth-image-is-first-for-western-art/
Update from Ciudad Perdida Global Heritage Fund Field Mapping Mission (May / June,
2011) - Colombia
In late May and early June of 2011, a GHF team comprised of Santiago Giraldo, Adam Dunbar
and Dan Thompson conducted a field mapping mission to Ciudad Perdida, an ancient Tayrona
archaeological site deep in the jungles of northern Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
mountain range. In preparation for the drafting of a site Master Conservation Plan by the
Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH) for this GHF Current Project, the team
set out to map the archaeological sites that surround Ciudad Perdida in the Upper Buritaca River
Valley using precision Ashtech GPS units. Mapping these sites, some of which hadn't been visited since they were first
discovered over 30 years ago, was an essential endeavor in order to set up a long-term, sustainable heritage management
plan for the area. The team worked jointly with the ICANH conservation team at the site, led by Catalina Bateman,
discussing further conservation measures and protection needed for the site. The project is a joint enterprise with ICANH,
which has managed and preserved the site since 1976.
+ info: http://globalheritagenetwork.ning.com/group/ciudadperdidacolombia/forum/topics/
Google Earth's New Layer: Archaeological Sites in the United States and Canada
As part of the first National Archaeology Day celebration held on Saturday, October 22,
2011, the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), in partnership with Google Earth,
unveiled a new Google Earth layer displaying popular archaeological sites located
throughout the United States and Canada. The map includes an image and a brief
description for each site, and links to the featured site’s main website and the AIA website.
To create the map, AIA staff, contacted state archaeologists in all U.S. states and Canadian
provinces, and asked them for lists of the most popular, publicly-accessible archaeological
sites in their region. The response to the request was overwhelming, and the result is the map that we encourage you to
examine and use.
The project was envisioned as a two-stage process. The first stage was the creation of the map and unveiling it on National
Archaeology Day.
Restored citadel, dating back to the days of Alexander the Great, is symbol of hope
in Afghanistan
HERAT (AP).- In the 1970s, tourists traveled to western Afghanistan to climb on the ruins of
an ancient citadel, a fortress resembling a sandcastle that has stood overlooking the city of
Herat for thousands of years.
The citadel was crumbling then, but today the newly restored structure, dating back to the
days of Alexander the Great, is a hopeful sign of progress in a country beset by war.
Hundreds of Afghan craftsmen worked to restore the ruins' past glory with help from the Aga
Khan Trust for Culture and about $2.4 million from the U.S. and German governments.
The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, was among the tourists drawn to Herat decades ago, and on Sunday he
celebrated the citadel's restoration and the opening of a new museum of Afghan artifacts at the site.
Viking boat burial find is United Kingdom mainland first - Ardnamurchan Transitions
Project - Scotland - United Kingdom
The 5m-long grave contained the remains of a high status Viking, who was buried with an
axe, a sword with a beautifully decorated hilt, a spear, shield boss and bronze ring-pin.
The Viking had been buried in a ship, whose 200 or so metal rivets were also found by the
team.
The 1,000-year-old find, on the remote Ardnamurchan Peninsula, was made by the
Ardnamurchan Transitions Project (ATP) which is a team led by experts from the Universities
of Manchester, Leicester, CFA Archaeology Ltd and Archaeology Scotland
Funded this season by The University of Manchester, Newcastle University and The Leverhulme Trust, the project brings
together students and academics at what may be one of Britain’s most significant Viking sites.
+ info: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=7533
PRIZES - La remise du prix Clio 2011 pour la recherche archéologique - 4 November 2011
Fondé en 1997 pour encourager la recherche archéologique française à l’étranger le Prix Clio pour la recherche archéologique
est décerné chaque année par un jury d’universitaires indépendant. Il est ouvert à toutes les équipes françaises ou
francophones qui souhaitent présenter, pour concourir, les résultats de leurs travaux. Pour la treizième année, quatre
lauréats seront récompensés à l’occasion du Salon International du Patrimoine Culturel le jeudi 3 novembre à 15h.
+ info: http://www.patrimoineculturel.com/2011/telechargements_2011/Remises%20de%20prix%20SIPC%202011.pdf
A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave - South Africa
The conceptual ability to source, combine, and store substances that enhance technology or social practices represents a
benchmark in the evolution of complex human cognition. Excavations in 2008 at Blombos Cave, South Africa, revealed a
processing workshop where a liquefied ochre-rich mixture was produced and stored in two Haliotis midae (abalone) shells
100,000 years ago. Ochre, bone, charcoal, grindstones, and hammerstones form a composite part of this production toolkit.
The application of the mixture is unknown, but possibilities include decoration and skin protection.
+ info: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6053/219.abstract?sid=211713b8-fbcb-480c-9468-a094ae04867d
Göbekli Tepe Conservation Starts - Global Heritage Fund - Turkey
The site and its extant remains are threatened by looting, exposure and
insufficient management of the site and its resources. GHF’s goals at
Göbekli Tepe are to support the preparation of a comprehensive Site
Management and Conservation Plan, construction of a shelter over the
exposed archaeological features, training local community members in
guiding and conservation and aiding Turkish authorities in securing World
Heritage Site inscription.
+ info: http://globalheritagefund.org/gobekli_tepe_turkey
SCAVI POMPEI Dichiarazione del Ministro per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Giancarlo Galan - Pompei - Italy
"Ho più volte pubblicamente espresso - dichiara il Ministro per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Giancarlo Galan - tutta la mia
preoccupazione per gli effetti che avrebbero potuto provocare le prime violenti piogge su Pompei.
+ info: http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Comunicati/visualizza_asset.
html_983806242.html
African Archaeology Group (John Alexander Seminar Series) - 'The Archaeology of Ritual Context in Northern
Ghana' - Cambridge - United Kingdom
Prof Tim Insoll (University of Manchester) author of "The Archaeology of Islam", "Archaeology and World Religion" and
"Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion" will speak on "The Archaeology of Ritual Context in Northern
Ghana"
+ info: http://universidadypatrimonio.net/doc/Insoll_poster.pdf
Lowland-upland migration of sauropod dinosaurs during the Late Jurassic epoch
By Henry C. Fricke, Justin Hencecroth & Marie E. Hoerner
Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest vertebrates ever to walk the Earth, and as mega-herbivores they were important parts
of terrestrial ecosystems. In the Late Jurassic-aged Morrison depositional basin of western North America, these animals
occupied lowland river- floodplain settings characterized by a seasonally dry climate. Massive herbivores with high nutritional
and water needs could periodically experience nutritional and water stress under these conditions, and thus the common
occurrence of sauropods in this basin has remained a paradox. Energetic arguments and mammalian analogues have been
used to suggest that migration allowed sauropods access to food and water resources over a wide region or during times of
drought or both, but there has been no direct support for these hypotheses. Here we compare oxygen isotope ratios (δ18O)
of tooth-enamel carbonate from the sauropod Camarasaurus with those of ancient soil, lake and wetland (that is,
‘authigenic’) carbonates that formed in lowland settings. We demonstrate that certain populations of these animals did in
fact undertake seasonal migrations of several hundred kilometres from lowland to upland environments. This ability to
describe patterns of sauropod movement will help to elucidate the role that migration played in the ecology and evolution of
gigantism of these and associated dinosaurs.
+ info: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10570.html
Ein elfter Kronzeuge für die Abstammungslehre von Charles Darwin wird Deutsches
Kulturgut - An eleventh key witness for the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin becomes
German Cultural Heritage - Munich - Germany
Nur eine Woche nach dem Dinosaurierfund aus Kelheim und just im "Archaeopteryx-Jubiläumsjahr"
ist nun ein 11. noch unbekanntes Exemplar des berühmten Zeitzeugen der Evolution aufgetaucht und
von seinem Besitzer als Deutsches Kulturgut angemeldet worden. Experten sprechen bereits von
einer bedeutenden Signalwirkung innerhalb der Fossilien-Szene. Erstmals wird dieser neue
Archaeopteryx exklusiv neben dem Aufsehen erregenden Theropoden und den bedeutendsten
Original-Dinosaurierfunden Europas wie dem Europasaurus, Compsognatus und Balaur vereint auf der Munich Show Mineralientage München vom 28. bis zum 30. Oktober zu sehen sein.
+ info: http://mineralientage.de/en/the-munich-show/press/elfter-archaeopteryx/
Cambridge University's Personal Histories series - The Bone Room's Past: `Revolution' in palaeoeconomics Cambridge - United Kingdom - 2 November 2011
With Geoff Bailey, Graeme Barker, Iain Davidson, Robin Dennell, Andy Garrard, Annie Grant, Charles Higham, Tony Legge,
Derek Sturdy, Ruth Whitehouse speaking briefly either as a panellist or from the floor.
A seminar organised by Pamela Jane Smith. We are delighted to invite you to our new `mini' Personal Histories, an oral
history of The Bone Room's Past: `Revolution' in palaeoeconomics on the 2nd of November, a Wednesday, at 1pm in the
Biffen Lecture Theatre, Downing Site. No tickets but it might be wise to reserve a seat by sending an e- mail to
[email protected]
+ info: http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/personal-histories/bone-room.html
Archeologie - Universités des Pays de la Loire - France
Les Universités de Pays de la Loire vous invitent à découvrir la diversité des métiers et la richesse des parcours de formation
de lènseignement supérieur.
+ info: http://www.universite-metiers.org/
American Journal of Archaeology - e-Update - October 2011
The American Journal of Archaeology publishes quarterly open access book and museum reviews. These reviews are listed in
the table of contents of the respective printed issue of the Journal and are available for free download on the Journal's
website (www.ajaonline.org).
There is a list of book reviews published in tandem with their printed October 2011 issue (volume 115, number 4). See the
Current Table of Contents or click the link below to access the free PDFs. We hope you enjoy.
+ info: http://www.ajaonline.org/toc/1154
Egypte : le tombeau de Saqqara comme si vous y étiez - Une visite commentée
du site et l'évocation de la vie égyptienne voici 4 500 ans
En 1903, la chapelle décorée du tombeau du dignitaire égyptien Akhethétep était extraite
de son monument d’origine et transportée au Musée du Louvre.
Près d’un siècle plus tard, les fouilles conduites par le Département des antiquités
égyptiennes du Musée du Louvre à Saqqara permettent de mieux connaître ce monument
funéraire.
La superbe visite commentée en ligne propose des images de synthèse de l’architecture,
le panoramique de la chapelle avec son décor sculpté, une traduction interactive des hiéroglyphes, évocations vivantes et
émouvantes de la vie quotidienne des Égyptiens d’il y a 4500 ans.
+ info: http://cursus.edu/institutions-formations-ressources/formation/15054/egypte-tombeau-saqqara-comme-vous-etiez/
A suite of 40 Introductions to Heritage Assets are now available offering more detailed overviews of different
categories of archaeological asset - English Heritage - United Kingdom
The 40 Introductions to Heritage Assets are a range of guidance documents for archaeological assets. They provide a slightly
more detailed overview of archaeological assets and will complement the scheduling selection guides when these are
available.
Knowledge of England's rich and varied archaeological past - from rock art to early artillery fortifications - has developed
rapidly over the last 30 years. The illustrated Introductions to Heritage Assets set out our current understanding, and
describe the character, distribution and date, as well as current interpretations of use and function. A further reading list
provides guidance to the key literature of the subject.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/criteria-for-protection/IHAs/
The Dutch crazy about the Etruscans
An installation carried out by the Institut pour les Technologies Appliquées aux Biens Culturels du Conseil National des
Recherches (Itabc-Cnr) allows you to visit the Regolini Galassi tomb, as it was at the time of its discovery. The
reconstruction, supported by a European project, was presented in Amsterdam on the opening of the two exhibitions
devoted to the Etruscan culture.
+ info: http://www.bulletins-electroniques.com/actualites/68099.htm
A Ritual Bath (Miqve) dating to the Second Temple Period was Discovered near Kibbutz
Zor'a - Israel
A plastered building, probably a ritual bath (miqve), dating to the Second Temple period (first
century BCE-first century CE) was exposed in an archaeological excavation the Israel Antiquities
Authority conducted prior to the installation of a water line by the Mekorot Company at an
antiquities site, c. 2 kilometers north of Kibbutz Zor'a…
+ info: http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?
sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1875&module_id=#as
Découvertes archéologiques en Moravie - République Tchèque
Des scientifiques, parmi lesquels Filip Stehlik, de l'Institut de Géologie de l'Académie des Sciences de République tchèque,
s'intéressent à des troncs d'arbres âgés de plusieurs centaines de milliers d'années enfouis dans les sédiments de la rivière
morave Straznice. Les morceaux de bois et les grains de pollen qu'ils y ont découverts leur ont permis de dresser un tableau
des environs : il y a 7000 ans, la région ressemblait à la toundra sibérienne d'aujourd'hui. Plus tard, la toundra a été
remplacée par une taïga. A la fin de l'âge de glace se sont formés des lacs alpins. La rivière a ensuite subi des fluctuations
climatiques importantes, qui ont fortement influencé son évolution. Au XIIème siècle, on trouvait des chênes et des pins sur
ses rivages, et, au XVIème siècle, on a commencé à pratiquer la viticulture.
Pre-Clovis Mastodon Hunting 13,800 Years Ago at the Manis Site, Washington - Washington State (USA)
By Michael R. Waters, Thomas W. Stafford Jr., H. Gregory McDonald, Carl Gustafson, Morten Rasmussen, Enrico Cappellini,
Jesper V. Olsen, Damian Szklarczyk, Lars Juhl Jensen, M. Thomas P. Gilbert and Eske Willerslev
The tip of a projectile point made of mastodon bone is embedded in a rib of a single disarticulated mastodon at the Manis
site in the state of Washington. Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis show that the rib is associated with the other remains
and dates to 13,800 years ago. Thus, osseous projectile points, common to the Beringian Upper Paleolithic and Clovis, were
made and used during pre-Clovis times in North America. The Manis site, combined with evidence of mammoth hunting at
sites in Wisconsin, provides evidence that people were hunting proboscideans at least two millennia before Clovis.
+ info: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6054/351.abstract
Historic conservation project by Global Heritage Fund begins at "Machu Picchu of the North" Marcahuamachuco - Peru
Built on top of an isolated plateau 5 kilometers long and 500 meters wide with a vast view of its surroundings,
Marcahuamachuco contains several major compounds surrounded by curved stone walls as high as 12 meters, with inner
galleries, rooms and plazas which suggest administrative and ceremonial functions.
Global Heritage Fund is working with the Unidad Ejecutivo Marcahuamachuco (UEM) to prepare a program of planning,
conservation and community development to enable longterm site sustainability.
+ info: http://globalheritagefund.org/images/uploads/projects/ghf_marcahuamachuco_peru.pdf
Agenda
Heritage Research Group Autumn Seminars - University of Cambridge
13 October - 08 December 2011 Cambridge. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: University of Cambridge. Department of Archaeology
+ info: http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/heritage/heritagefair.html
EXHIBITION - In the kingdom of Alexander the Great - Ancient Macedonia - Le Louvre
13 October 2011 - 16 January 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Musée du Louvre and the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Culture
+ info: http://www.louvre.fr/llv/exposition/detail_exposition.jsp
EXHIBITION - Gaulois, une Expo Renversante - Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
19 October 2011 - 02 September 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
+ info: http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/expositions/gaulois/
Community Consultation on the Nan Madol Archaeological Site of Pohnpei
23 November - 26 November 2011 Ponhpei. Micronesia (Federated States of)
Organizers: UNESCO Apia
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4810&cHash=79e74bc4b4
STAGE DI ARCHEOLOGIA SPERIMENTALE SULLE TECNOLOGIE DELL'UOMO DELLA PREISTORIA
28 January - 29 January 2012 Prato. Italy
Organizers: L’associazione culturale “Archeologia Sperimentale”
+ info: http://www.archeologiasperimentale.it/corsi_preistoria.htm
1st International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: Archaeology
09 April - 13 April 2012 Menorca, Balearic Islands. Spain
Organizers: The Universidad Complutense de Madrid, together with the Consell Insular de Menorca
+ info: http://www.congresopatrimoniomundialmenorca.cime.es/
CALL FOR PAPERS - V Conference of Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica (JIA2012): 'Archaeology for the XXI
Century'
09 May - 11 May 2012 Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. Spain
Organizers: Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit)
DEADLINE: 1 dic 2011
+ info: https://sites.google.com/site/jia2012compostela/english-version
Publications
Report of the Committee appointed by the Philomathean Society of the University of
Pennsylvania to translate the inscription on the Rosetta Stone
John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress); Philomathean Society (University of Pennsylvania)
[Philadelphia: s.n., 1859]
Includes the hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek inscriptions, with translations of each text. An amazing
example of early American printing technology, "The Report" was one of the first books printed in America
using the chromolithographic colour printing process. Printed by Philadelphia lithographer Louis Rosenthal,
based on sumptuous designs by Henry Morton, the book is one of very few ever printed in America
entirely by lithography, ie. all text as well as illustration is lithographed rather than letter-pressed. The stones were
destroyed after the first edition of 400 was printed, and entirely new ones were made for the second edition in order to
correct pagination errors. Also of interest, Morton states at the end of the book that the pages were "folded into their
present form, not by human hands, as one would suppose they must be, but by the iron fingers of a machine, and that too
with a rapidity and accuracy which defies the most expert human manipulation." Fewer than 30 of these machines, recently
invented by Cyrus Chambers, were in use across the country at the time. Chromolithography, invented in 1796 but not seen
in America until 1840, was the first printing process able to mass-produce coloured art. Using a chemical process of grease
on limestone, the image was transferred to paper one colour at a time, sometimes passing through the press up to 25 times
to compose one print. Registration of the image was key, and in good quality images the colours line up perfectly, while in
lesser quality, mass produced items such as the greeting cards and advertisements which were so popular, the uneven
registration is visible around the edges.
+ info: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/03486/399A4C651D99BCDF498C41CD539683A4169FF3C4.html
Apollo's Island: A first look at a previously unknown Aegean sanctuary - Despotiko - Greece
© 2011 by the Archaeological Institute of America
The islands of the Aegean Sea, and particularly the Cyclades, are known not only for their exceptional
beauty, but also for the richness of their archaeological heritage. Despite its small size, the island of
Despotiko, which the ancient geographer Strabo called Prepesinthos, was well known because it had a
protected harbor that was a safe stop for ships trading between mainland Greece, the Mediterranean, and
North Africa. It also had an important Archaic period (ca. 700–480 B.C.) sanctuary dedicated to the god
Apollo and his sister Artemis.
+ info: http://www.archaeology.org/1111/features/aegean_sea_despotiko_apollo_sanctuary.html
Adapting to Conquest: The ruins of a sixteenth century Peruvian town reveal a
resilient native culture - Magdalena de Cao Viejo - Peru
The Spanish conquest of Peru remains one of the most dramatic examples, in history, of
civilizations colliding. In just a few years in the early sixteenth century, a few hundred Spanish
soldiers and their local allies toppled an empire of 16 million people covering an area one-fifth
the size of Europe. The result was a fusion of European and indigenous cultures that, with
some later input from Africa and Asia, makes up Peruvian society today…
+ info: http://www.archaeology.org/1111/features/magdalena_de_cao_viejo_el_brujo_peru.
html
Pompéi. Un art de vivre
Eva Cantarella, Luciana Jacobelli
Imprimerie Nationale/Actes Sud
Paris. 2011
Luciana Jacobelli, spécialiste des antiquités pompéiennes, et Eva Cantarella – professeur à l'université de
Milan, qui s'est plus spécialement penchée sur la famille antique et le droit dans les cités grecques et
romaines - se sont associées pour réaliser le texte de ce superbe ouvrage. Une invitation au voyage,
dont la somptueuse iconographie met en valeur aussi bien les monuments arrachés aux cendres du
Vésuve que les fresques conservées au Musée Archéologique de Naples ou les simples objets qui témoignent de ce qu'était la
vie quotidienne des Pompéiens à la veille de la catastrophe survenue en 79, sous le règne de l'empereur Titus…
+ info: http://www.clio.fr/BIBLIOTHEQUE/lecture/pompei_un_art_de_vivre.asp
Systematic blade production at late Lower Paleolithic (400-200 kyr) Qesem Cave, Israel
By Ron Shimelmitza, Ran Barkaia and Avi Gophera
Qesem Cave is assigned to the Acheulo-Yabrudian cultural complex of the late Lower Paleolithic period. The 7.5 m deep
stratigraphic sequence is dated to 400–200 ka (thousands of years ago). It is mostly attributed to the Amudian bladedominated industry, one of the earliest blade production technologies in the world. In this paper, we present the results of a
detailed study of five Amudian assemblages from Qesem Cave and suggest two trajectories for the production of blades at
the site. We argue that the reduction sequences of blades at Qesem Cave represent an innovative and straightforward
technology aimed at the systemic and serial production of predetermined blanks. We suggest that this predetermined blank
technology shows planning and intensity that is not significantly different from Middle Paleolithic Mousterian technological
systems. Furthermore, this well-organized serial manufacture of cutting implements mainly for butchering might indicates
that a significant change in human behavior had taken place by the late Lower Paleolithic period.
+ info: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248411001461
A Didactic Case Study of Jarash Archaeological Site, Jordan: Stakeholders and Heritage Values
in Site Management
By David Myers, Stacie Nicole Smith, and May Shaer
ISBN: 978-0-9827668-6-6 (online resource)
The Getty Conservation Institute
The publication has been designed as a didactic tool for use in academic programs, short courses, and
workshops in heritage conservation, management, and planning. It is also relevant to educational and
training programs in urban and regional planning, development studies, and dispute resolution…
+ info: http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/jarash_case_study.html
Environmental Archaeology: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Methods, from Sampling and
Recovery to Post-excavation - English Heritage
This document provides guidance for good practice in environmental archaeology. It gives practical advice
on the applications and methods of environmental archaeology within archaeological projects. It should not
replace advice given by specialists on specific projects, nor is it intended that these guidelines should inhibit
future development of methodologies or recommended procedures.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/environmental-archaeology-2nd/
A new species of Pachyrhinosaurus from the North Slope - (Prince Creek Formation: Maastrichtian) of Alaska USA
ANTHONY R. FIORILLO and RONALD S. TYKOSKI
The Cretaceous rocks of the Prince Creek Formation contain the richest record of polar dinosaurs found anywhere in the
world. Here we describe a new species of horned dinosaur, Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum that exhibits an apomorphic
character in the frill, as well as a unique combination of other characters. Phylogenetic analysis of 16 taxa of ceratopsians
failed to resolve relationships between P. perotorum and other Pachyrhinosaurus species (P. canadensis and P. lakustai). P.
perotorum shares characters with each of the previously known species that are not present in the other, including very
large nasal and supraorbital bosses that are nearly in contact and separated only by a narrow groove as in P. canadensis,
and a rostral comb formed by the nasals and premaxillae as in P. lakustai. P. perotorum is the youngest centrosaurine
known (70-69 Ma), and the locality that produced the taxon, the Kikak-Tegoseak Quarry, is close to the highest latitude for
recovery of ceratopsid remains.
+ info: http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app56/app20110033_acc.pdf
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Agenda
Publications
COMPETITION - Parks for the People: A Student Competition to Reimagine America's National Parks - Deadline
for proposals 1 November 2011
Parks for the People is a design competition that will reimagine America's most spectacular public places — its national parks
— by using design as a catalyst to creatively rethink their connections to people and their role as revered natural, social, and
cultural destinations.
As a culminating project of Designing the Parks — a partnership to promote well-designed public parks in America — Parks
for the People invites student and faculty teams to help build a common foundation of design principles for these
extraordinary sites as the U.S. National Park Service embarks upon a new century of park design.
Participating schools will work with park administrators to create model solutions for seven park sites in each geographic
region of the U.S., and use these design paradigms to create a stronger national identity for our open space ideals.
Throughout the competition, schools will have an opportunity to engage with the Park Service and its rich cultural and
historic assets, including access to park leadership, in-depth encounters with park sites, and the chance to build long-term
relationships with park staff and resources.
+ info: http://www.vanalen.org/parksforthepeople/
JOB OFFER - Expressions of Interest invited for appointment to Tasmanian Heritage Council - Tasmania Australia
Australia ICOMOS has been formally notified by Heritage Tasmania of a call for Expressions of Interest for appointments to
the Tasmanian Heritage Council. Fact Sheets and other further information are available from the Heritage Tasmania website.
We have been asked to encourage suitable, eligible Australia ICOMOS members to apply by supporting up to three
nominations for Heritage Council members.
Intending applicants must lodge their own Expression of Interest in accordance with the instructions on the heritage website
by 14 October 2011.
If you have an interest in Australia ICOMOS supporting your nomination, please email the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
([email protected]) by no later than 10 October with the details of your EOI. The AI Executive Committee will
appoint a small sub- committee to assess these EOIs, and must write a letter of recommendation before the 14 October
deadline.
Please note that all members of Heritage Council serve as individuals and that endorsement or support by Australia ICOMOS
does not imply representation of Australia ICOMOS.
+ info: http://www.heritage.tas.gov.au/
INTERNSHIPS - Graduate Internships with the Getty Foundation - Los Angeles California - USA - Deadline for applications: 1 December 2011
Getty Graduate Internships are offered in the four programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust—the J.
Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the
Getty Foundation—to students who intend to pursue careers in fields related to the visual arts.
Training and work experience are available in areas such as curatorial, education, conservation,
research, information management, public programs, and grantmaking.
+ info: http://www.getty.edu/foundation/funding/leaders/current/grad_internships.html
COMPETITIONS - Help the Financial Instrument for the Environment (LIFE) celebrate its
20th anniversary - Deadline 15 December 2011
The LIFE programme celebrates its 20th anniversary throughout May 2012 (the LIFE Regulation
passed into law on 21 May 1992, to be precise). To mark this important milestone in the history of the
EU's financial instrument for the environment, the LIFE units warmly invite all LIFE projects, past or
present , to organise an open day in May and to take part in not one but TWO special competitions.
LIFE project events: View details and upload information about your project's open day on the new
event page. View all events on the events page. LIFE Nature projects are no doubt aware that the
same date is also the 20th anniversary of the Habitats Directive and of the Natura 2000 network, and we hope that this
would feature in your open day as well.
The LIFE Photo Competition: View details and submit your photos on the submit photo page (closing date 15 December).
+ info: http://www.life20.eu/
AWARDS - Transboundary Protected Area Award 2011 - Krkonoše National Park
(Czech Republic) and Karkonosze National Park (Poland)
At the EUROPARC Conference 2011 two transboundary protected area complexes were
awarded their transboundary parks certificate after five years successful work with the
programme. Dr Arnold Boer member of the STEC (steering group of the transboundary
evaulation committee) very kindly conducted the award certificate with them being given my
new President Thomas Hansson.
Krkonoše National Park (CZ) and Karkonosze National Park (PL) were the first complex to be
rewarded the Transboudary “Following Natures design” certificate this year, after a successful re-revaluation of their
Transboundary co-operation. Both parks share a common commitment to visitor management across their fragile central
European mountain range, have shared planning and staff collaboration and exemplify the international cooperation upon
which the EUROPAR Federation was founded…
+ info: http://www.europarc.org/what-we-do/transboundary-parks/current-transboundar/
Third Prix Pictet commission, a series of over 30 photographs by Chris Jordans,
unveiled
LONDON.- The Commission, a series of over 30 photographs, documents Chris Jordan’s field
trip to Northern Kenya where Pictet & Cie is contributing to the establishment of the NakupratGotu Conservancy, a new community-led initiative, supported by the Tusk Trust and overseen
by the Northern Rangelands Trust.
Chris Jordan’s photographs draw attention to the issues that face the politically and socially
marginalised communities in the region: climate change; drought; conflict caused by
competition for scarce resources – livestock, pasture and water; and an increase in pressure from expanding human
populations – exemplifying the theme of this third cycle of the Prix Pictet: “Growth”. Violence between competing
communities in the area, known as “bandit country”, has had a disastrous impact on tourism. The area also suffers from
chronic game-meat and elephant poaching and a visceral group of images documenting the horror of elephant poaching lies
at the heart of the series.
Ushirikiano also illustrates a more hopeful future, with photographs portraying new security provision, water tanks,
biodiversity conservation, schools, women’s enterprise projects and the different tribes, Borana, Turkana and Samburu,
encouraged to live and work alongside each other in a spirit of collaboration. The Nakuprat-Gotu Conservancy aims to
improve human, habitat and wildlife security, and establish income-generating activities including tourism ventures and
livestock marketing, and so create a sustainable model for future economic development.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50901
COMPETITIONS - Third Annual National Cultural Heritage Law Moot Court Competition is now open - Deadline
for applications 11 November 2011
The Competition Board is pleased to announce that Judge Diane P. Wood of the United States Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit will be a member of the esteemed panel judging the final round of the Competition!
Registration for the Third Annual National Cultural Heritage Law Moot Court Competition is now open! The 2012 Moot Court
Competition problem will address two issues concerning the Theft of Major Artwork Act (18 U.S.C. § 668). The first focuses
on Congress’ Article I, Section 8 authority to regulate interstate commerce and the second on statutory interpretation of the
Act. Oral arguments for the 2012 Competition will be held on February 24th and 25th at the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S.
Courthouse in Chicago.
+ info: http://law.depaul.edu/chmoot/
AWARDS - Aleksander Brkić is the winner of the 2011 Cultural Policy Research Award Helsinki (Finland) 12 October 2011
Aleksandar Brkić (Serbian, aged 31, University of Arts in Belgrade) is the winner of the 2011
CPRA. Aleksander's project proposal is entitled "Cultural Policy Frameworks (Re)constructing
National and Supranational Identities: Balkans and European Union".
The final decision was announced on 12 October at the 2011 Cultural Policy Research Award
ceremony in Helsinki, Finland. The 2011 CPRA Ceremony took place in the framework of the 5th
Young Cultural Policy Researchers Forum and the ENCATC 2011 Annual Conference: "Culture
Forecast".
+ info: http://www.encatc.org/pages/index.php?id=22
AWARDS - Canada World Youth Leadership Awards - Nomination deadline 12 December 2011
The Canada World Youth (CWY) Leadership Awards recognize the outstanding achievements of young Canadians and youth
from around the world who are engaged in innovative initiatives that promote peace, intercultural understanding, and
community and international Development.
+ info: http://canadaworldyouth.cwy-jcm.com/programs/awards
COMPETITIONS - UNESCO / Concurso fotográfico "De donde viene uno" - Fecha Limite: 30
de Octubre de 2011 - Exposición: 30 de Noviembre - 31 de Diciembre de 2011
Como parte de la campaña Mucho Chile, promovida por distintas agencias de Naciones Unidas en este
país y liderada por la OREALC/UNESCO Santiago, se ha lanzado el concurso de fotografía “DE DONDE
VIENE UNO” para realzar los lazos que existen entre todas las comunidades presentes en Chile.
El concurso espera contribuir a que se reconozca la pluralidad de las etnias que dan origen al pueblo
chileno, valorándolas con respeto, así como generar un espacio de reflexión acerca de la realidad de
los pueblos originarios existentes en Chile, y su vínculo con la sociedad chilena en su conjunto.
+ info: http://portal.unesco.org/geography/es/ev.php-URL_ID=14764&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
AWARDS - Felicia A. Holton Book Award - Deadline for nominations 1 February 2012
The Felicia A. Holton Book Award will be given annually to a writer who, through a major work
of non-fiction, represented the importance and excitement of archaeology to the general
public. Submissions should focus on archaeology but may also delve into literary and historical
topics. The work must have been published in English and bear a date of publication within
three calendar years prior to (not including) the year of the Annual Meeting at which the
award is given. From time to time, the Holton Award may be given for lifetime achievement in
non- fiction popular writing. Books written by current members of the Governing Board of the
AIA or the CAA or by the Committee are not eligible.
+ info: http://www.archaeological.org/awards/feliciaholton
JOB OFFER - American Journal of Archaeology Editor in Chief - Review of application materials begins November
15, 2011, and continues until the position is filled
General Description: The Editor in Chief (EIC) of the American Journal of Archaeology is responsible for developing a vision
and soliciting manuscripts consonant with that vision. As the primary editor, he/she reads initial submissions, assigns peer
reviewers, and determines whether the final product is publishable in consultation with the Director of Publishing.
The EIC appoints review editors and members of the AJA Editorial Advisory Board, raises funds in support of the Journal, and
provides an annual written report on the status of the Journal.
The EIC serves at the pleasure of the Governing Board of the Archaeological Institute of America for a term of three years,
renewable. Compensation is normally in the form of release time from the EIC’s home institution; appropriate adjustments
will be made in the case of independent scholars.
+ info: http://www.ajaonline.org/job-opening
COMPETITIONS - Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Photo Contest Winners
Announced
In the AIA’s first online photo contest, nearly 100 photos were submitted in August and
September for a chance to win a year long AIA membership and placement on the cover of the
AIA 2012 calendar. Photos were divided into 8 categories: Calendar Cover Finalists, Archaeology
is Teamwork, Tools of the Trade, Fabulous Finds, Architecture, Archaeological Landscapes,
Sunsational, and Life of an Archaeologist.
In 10 days of voting over 12,000 votes were cast—the winner of each category will receive a
complimentary year’s membership to the AIA, which includes a subscription to Archaeology magazine. The AIA would like to
thank everyone that entered the contest and encourage everyone to keep taking great field photos—they could be next
year’s winners!
+ info: http://www.patrimoineculturel.com/2011/telechargements_2011/Remises2011.pdf
AWARDS - Call for Entries: 2012 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation - Deadline 31
March 2012
Entries are now being accepted for the 2012 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. The Awards
recognize the achievement of the private sector and public-private initiatives in successfully conserving or restoring
structures, places and properties of heritage value in the region. The deadline for receipt of materials is 31 March 2012.
Since the Awards were established in 2000, UNESCO has received 426 entries from 24 countries. A total of 140 projects
have received Awards for high achievement in conservation, while 5 projects have received the Jury Commendation for
Innovation.
The 2012 Awards cycle marks a milestone for the programme, after successful implementation over the first twelve years.
With support from the Macau Foundation, the Awards programme is now being enhanced to have even greater impact in
raising awareness about exemplary practices in conserving heritage sites around the region.
+ info: http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/culture/heritage_awards/2012_Entry/Call_for_Entries.pdf
AWARDS - Botanic Gardens Plan wins National Planning Excellence Award - City of Greater Bendigo - Victoria Australia
The City of Greater Bendigo’s Botanic Gardens Master Plan has taken out a national planning excellence award at the Parks
and Leisure Australia (PLA) National Awards in Fremantle. The City recently won the Victoria/Tasmania Region Awards in
Melbourne which put it in the running for the national award.
City of Greater Bendigo CEO Craig Niemann said he was delighted that the hard work and effort that has gone into producing
the Botanic Gardens Master Plan has been recognised.
+ info: http://www.bendigo.vic.gov.au/News_and_Information/Media_releases/Botanic_Gardens_Plan
FELLOWSHIPS - A 7000 Euro Grant For The Realization Of A Cultural Project Concerning The
Mediterranean World - Marc de Montalembert Foundation - Deadline for applications 31
December 2011
The Marc de Montalembert Foundation gives out every year :
- a grant to enable a person under 30 years of age, from a Mediterranean country, to implement an
original project intercultural by nature ; this project must correspond to his/her vocational choices ;
- a prize, in association with the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris, to a scholar from a
Mediterranean country for a research on the history of arts in the region.
Through its grant and its prize the Foundation provides support to projects which further the knowledge of the cultures of
the Mediterranean Region and develop a sense of their diversity and their richness. By way of example, grants have been
given in the following fields: writing, architecture, singing, photography, music, ethnography, art history.
+ info: http://www.fondationmdm.com/index.php/en/bourse
FELLOWSHIPS - Global Heritage Fund: Preservation Fellowship
Program - Proposal submission deadline 30 April 2012
The purpose of the Global Heritage Preservation Fellowship Program is to
support cultural heritage conservation and community development work
with the potential for significant contributions to the long-term
preservation of endangered cultural heritage sites in developing countries
by international and in-country scholars and students. We feel strongly
that by supporting this generation in their preservation efforts and
education we can help to secure endangered sites for future generations.
+ info: http://globalheritagefund.org/what_we_do/preservation_fellowship_program
FELLOWSHIPS - The Foundation of the
American Institute for Conservation (FAIC)
Grants and Scholarships
The Foundation of the American Institute for
Conservation (FAIC) offers several grants and
scholarships to individuals and organizations to
promote professional development, outreach to
the public, publications, and conservation
projects.
In addition, we have assembled several resources for outside funding.
+ info: http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.ViewPage&PageID=474
FELLOWSHIPS - The Clothworkers' Foundation supporting conservation Research Fellowship - United Kingdom Deadline 2 March 2012
A grant of up to 80,000 pounds is available to a UK public institution to enable an experienced conservator (employed by
that institution) to pursue a research project for two years. During the sabbatical the post will be covered by an externally
recrited junior conservator. The grant will meet teh salary and on-cost of the junir conservatir, and the project costs of the
work undertaken by the senir fellow.
+ info: http://www.clothworkers.co.uk/Files/Sam-s-Files/Misc/CPD-Fellowship-JPEG.aspx
FELLOWSHIPS - Research Fellowships in the Humanities - Harry Ransom Center - Austin - Texas
- USA - Deadline 1 February 2012
The Harry Ransom Center annually awards over 50 fellowships to support projects that require substantial
on-site use of its collections. The fellowships support research in all areas of the humanities, including
literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history.
The fellowships range from one to three months, with stipends of $3,000 per month. Also available are
$1,200 to $1,700 travel stipends and dissertation fellowships with a $1,500 stipend. The stipends are
funded by individual donors and organizations, including the Ransom Center, the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, the Hobby Family Foundation, the Dorot Foundation, the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The
University of Texas at Austin, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and The University of Texas at Austin
Office of Graduate Studies.
+ info: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fellowships/
PRIZES - UNESCO-IHE (Institute for Water Education) Rector awarded Prince Albert
II of Monaco Foundation Prize - Monte Carlo - Monaco - 7 October 2011
Prof. András Szöllösi-Nagy, Rector of UNESCO-IHE, was awarded the Water Prize of the Prince
Albert II of Monaco Foundation for his contribution to the Sciences and creating a better
understanding of the environment. Particularly for being instrumental in reforming the
teaching of multidisciplinary water resources for the benefit of developing countries. Over the
past 17 years, as Governor of the World Water Council, he drew attention to the issue of
water in the world and educated both the general public and policy makers on the subject.
The event took place at an official awarding ceremony in Monte Carlo on 7 October, in the presence of 1500 guests from all
over the world.
+ info: http://www.unesco-ihe.org/About/News/Rector-awarded-Prince-Albert-II-Monaco-Prize
PRIZES - PRIX DU PATRIMOINE CULTUREL IMMATERIEL - Maison des cultures du monde - Paris - France - (7-12
novembre 2011)
Devenu en 2008 Festival International du Film Ethnographique Jean Rouch, le Bilan du film ethnographique fêtera en 2011
les trente ans de son existence par l’organisation d’événements exceptionnels en province et à l’étranger, à la rencontre d’un
public toujours plus enthousiaste et curieux. La Maison des Cultures du Monde est heureuse de vous convier à ces
projections dans ses murs, en plein cœur de Paris dans le 6e arrondissement.
Cinq prix seront décernés par un jury international :
- Grand Prix Nanook - Jean Rouch (CNRS Images)
- Prix "Anthropologie et développement durable" (Suez Environnement)
- Prix Mario Ruspoli (Service du livre et de la lecture, Direction générale des médias et des industries culturelles, Ministère de
la Culture)
- Prix du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel (Département du pilotage de la recherche et de la politique scientifique, Direction
générale des patrimoines, Ministère de la Culture)
- Prix Bartok (Société française d’ethnomusicologie)
+ info: http://www.comite-film-ethno.net/festival-international-jean-rouch/2011/fijr-2011/programmation.html
JOB OFFERS - Director, Division for Cultural Expressions and Heritage - UNESCO - Paris - France - Deadline 15
November 2011
Under the authority of the Assistant Director-General for Culture (ADG/CLT), the incumbent shall be responsible for the
overall formulation, planning, execution and evaluation of the Division’s programme. He/she shall assist the ADG/CLT and
shall formulate guidelines on the programme, administration and staff issues.
+ info: https://recrutweb.unesco.org/pdf/CLT079.pdf
JOB OFFERS - CONCURSO para Professor ADJUNTO no Departamento de Políticas Públicas da UFRN
(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande del Norte) - Brazil - 7 November - 2 December 2011
Departamento de Políticas Públicas
Área: Políticas Territoriais e Ambientais
Classe/RT: Adjunto/DE
Requisitos: Graduação em Ciências Sociais ou em Economia ou em Geografia ou em Administração Pública ou em
Arquitetura e/ou Urbanismo e Doutorado
Inscrições: de 7 de novembro a 2 de dezembro
+ info: http://www.prh.ufrn.br/Legislacao_2009/Edital016_Efetivo_2011_retificado.pdf
AWARDS- THE WINNERS OF THE 2011 TROPHIES FOR RESPONSIBLE TOURISM
(SNCF – National society of French Railways)
A new identity, new categories, online voting: the 2011 edition is decidedly oriented towards
travellers. Our compromise? To be a true “travelling eye-opener” and to show the public that
responsible travelling is affordable, for all wishes and budgets.
This fifth edition, presided by the singer and actress Claire Keim, has been remarkable
because of the boom of candidacies received (50% more than in 2010). The success of online
voting (80,000 votes- 125,000 visitors in 6 weeks), an operation set up this year for the first
time to break the deadlock between the candidates of 5 categories, are a good sign of the enthusiasm of the French for
responsible tourism. This edition has also revealed that sustainable development is an innovation engine in the tourism
sector, with almost 50% of the candidate structure created less than 3 years ago.
+ info: http://voyage-responsable.voyages-sncf.com/trophees/les-laureats-2011.php?prex=T_D1P2_1110_232584_TTR
AWARDS - Charles Mervyn Ruggles Award & Emerging Conservator Award - Canadian
Association for Conservation (CAC) - Deadline for applications 14 February & 31 January 2012
This award commemorates the distinguished achievements of Charles Mervyn Ruggles (1912-2001) in the
development of the art conservation profession in Canada. As CAC’s first honorary member, it is
appropriate that our first award for outstanding contribution to the field carry his name. Recipients of this
award will be celebrated for their contribution and achievement in fine art conservation science,
treatment, training and/or education, for their development work in a field of fine art conservation in
Canada, and for promoting the ethics and ideals expressed in the CAC/CAPC Code of Ethics and Guidance
for Practice.
Goal: To encourage the pursuit of excellence in fine art conservation.
+ info: http://www.cac-accr.ca/awards
JOB OFFER - Launch of the first round of technical assistance missions of UNESCO UNESCO Montevideo (Uruguay)
UNESCO launches a new international call for applications for technical assistance missions in the
framework of a project funded by the European Union (EU), aiming to strengthen the system of
governance for culture in developing countries.
These missions will be based on the needs and priorities of the beneficiary countries and will be
undertaken by top experts in the field of cultural policies. The missions will support the
beneficiary countries in their efforts to establish legal, regulatory and/or institutional frameworks
and/or introduce policies that address the role of culture in social and economic development, particularly through the
cultural industries.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/cultural-diversity/2005-convention/technical-assistance/
AWARDS - The 14th Annual L'ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards For Prof. Jill Farrant, South Africa
"For discovering how plants survive under dry conditions."
The L’ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science partnership announced today the five exceptional
women scientists from around the world who will receive the 2012 L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards in
Life Sciences.
An international network of nearly 1,000 scientists nominates the candidates for each year’s
Awards. The five Laureates are then selected by an independent, international Jury presided by
Professor Günter Blobel, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1999.
+ info: http://www.unescobkk.org/th/news/article/scientist-from-asia-pacific-to-receive-the-annual-loreal-unesco-awardsfor-women-in-science/
JOB OFFERS - APPEL D'OFFRES - Sélection de projets d'échanges de chercheurs entre l'Etat de São Paulo et la
France - 2012-2013 - Date limite de soumission: 16 décembre 2011
La FAPESP et le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) lancent un appel d'offres pour la sélection de projets
d'échanges de chercheurs entre l'Etat de São Paulo et la France qui auront lieu les deux prochaines années (2012-2013),
dans le cadre de l'accord de coopération scientifiques entre ces institutions…
Appel à projet pour la collaboration franco-suédoise pour la recherche climatique - Date limite de soumission:
1er février 2012
La collaboration franco-suédoise dans le domaine du climat se renforce. Un premier appel à projets a été lancé à la rentrée
et sera renouvelé l'année prochaine si les résultats sont satisfaisants. Les projets retenus seront d'une durée maximale de 3
ans avec un budget de 200.000 euros par an…
AWARDS - Victoria and Albert Museum Ceramics Study Galleries announced winner of
the display category at the Inside Awards - London - United Kingdom
On June 8, the British public can again visit the extraordinary, completely renovated and newly
installed ceramics galleries at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The London collection, one of the
premier collections in the world, is known not only for its quality, but also for its magnitude and
scientific importance. The collection has been off-view at the museum since 2004…
+ info: http://www.worldinteriorsdirectory.com/project.cfm?id=10176
ICE et LASERS, un projet ERC pour l’étude du climat et de l’atmosphère passés
Le projet ICE&LASERS porté par Jérôme Chappellaz, chercheur au Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique
de l’environnement (LGGE/OSUG, CNRS / UJF), a été sélectionné par le Conseil européen de la recherche
("European research council" ou ERC) pour bénéficier d’une bourse "Advanced Grant" d’un montant de 3
millions d'euros. Lancé pour cinq ans (2012-2017), ce projet vise à développer, en s’appuyant sur de
nouvelles technologies laser brevetées par le Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de physique (LIPhy, CNRS / UJF),
une nouvelle génération d’instruments d’analyse in situ et en laboratoire de la glace polaire ancienne pour
reconstruire l’évolution du climat et des gaz à effet de serre dans le passé.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/co/environnement/cryosphere/ice-et-lasers-un-projet-erc-pour-l-etude-du-climat-et-de-latmosphere-passe
COMPETITIONS - 18ème édition du concours "Les Rubans du patrimoine" - Date limite de soumission: 31
janvier 2012
Ce concours distingue et récompense, par des prix nationaux et départementaux, des communes ayant entrepris des
opérations de rénovation ou de mise en valeur de leur patrimoine bâti. Il est organisé en partenariat par la Fédération
Française du Bâtiment, l'Association des Maires de France, la Fondation du Patrimoine et Dexia. La Gazette des Communes a
souhaité s'associer à cette démarche en 2010.
+ info: http://associations-patrimoine.org/article.php?id=1768&dossier=15
COMPETITIONS - La Société pour la Protection des Paysages et de l'Esthétique de la France lance le 23ème
concours pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine.- Date limite de soumission: 31 décembre 2011
Ce concours national a pour objet d'encourager les initiatives locales qui ont contribué à garder le caractère particulier de
leur commune ou à assurer la mise en valeur du patrimoine dans toute sa diversité.
Restauration, réutilisation ou mise en valeur de votre patrimoine en respectant le caractère historique et architectural des
lieux, extension et restructuration en prenant en considération les bâtiments existants. Ces actions favoriseront
éventuellement l'animation, le tourisme, l'emploi, le maintien ou le renouveau du savoir-faire ancien dans le respect de
l'esprit des lieux.
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Discovery of a new plant species: Spigelia genuflexa – Brazil
Some scientists have found a new plant species in the region of Bahia from the Loganiaceae family and the genus Spigelia:
the Spigelia genuflexa. This plant has been described by a group of botanists and some molecular analyses in its fragments
ITS (highly polymorphic ribosomal DNA regions) have confirmed that it is indeed a new species.
A huge amardillo photographied in nature – Brazil
Thanks to some equipment installed in a forest (Pantanal region), a group of scientists have managed to take a picture of an
extremely rare huge armadillo.
The armadillo is a rare mammal which resembles prehistoric ones. The armadillo is easily identified because of the big shell
that covers its back and its four members which are hidden, to a great extent, under such shell. These mammals can be 1.5
m in length and weigh up to 50 kg. There are 20 species of armadillos. Active during night and quite solitary, it is a difficult
animal to study.
Qui sème des pissenlits récolte... du caoutchouc ! - République Tchèque
A l'Institut de Botanique de l'Académie des Sciences de République tchèque, localisé à Pruhonice, ont fleuri les premiers
spécimens de plusieurs espèces de pissenlits hybrides destinés à donner du caoutchouc. Les scientifiques espèrent que la
nouvelle plante sera à même de remplacer des arbres comme le gommier ou l'hévéa dans la production de ce matériau
naturel.
A l'heure actuelle, un partie très importante de la production mondiale de caoutchouc naturel provient de l'hévéa ou du
gommier, arbres principalement cultivés dans le Sud de l'Asie, en Amérique du Sud, et, dans une moindre mesure, en
Afrique. Les plantations sud-américaines ont subi l'attaque massive d'une maladie fongique, et, même si celles d'Asie du Sud
n'ont pour l'heure pas été touchées, le risque de propagation de l'infection est grand. Par ailleurs, l'exploitation de ces arbres
est en partie remplacée par d'autres cultures nécessaires à la fabrication de biocarburants, alors même que les économies
indienne et chinoise connaissent une augmentation de la demande en caoutchouc. En conséquence, une pénurie de
caoutchouc naturel aurait des conséquences sévères pour l'industrie.
Creating a new platform for biodiversity: Results of the 1st
Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
plenary - Nairobi - Kenya - 3-7 October 2011
In the face of its continuous and alarming erosion and unsustainable use, biodiversity
and ecosystem services are gaining increasing attention in the international arena,
including in the context of climate change, global food security, development and
poverty reduction, and the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD also
known as Rio+20) dialogue on the green economy.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/special-themes/biodiversity-initiative/news-single-view/news/
creating_a_new_platform_for_biodiversity_results_of_the_1st_ipbes_plenary/
Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil - Promoting the Growth and Use of Sustainable Palm Oil
NOTICE is hereby given that the 8th General Assembly (GA8) of members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
will be held at: Ballroom 2, Sutera Habour Resort, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Malaysia, on Thursday, 24 November 2011 at 15:00
hrs
+ info: http://www.rspo.org/
Biodiversity
A la découverte des crocodiles cavernicoles oranges au Gabon
L’Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) et la Fondation Liambissi
ont organisé, du 4 au 16 août, l’expédition Abanda 2011, dans les réseaux de
grottes gabonaises de la région d’Omboué. Une première mission, initiée en
2010, avait permis aux scientifiques de découvrir la présence exceptionnelle
d’une population de crocodiles nains, certains de couleur orange. Lors de cette
seconde mission, les chercheurs ont poursuivi leurs observations sur les plans
géologique, spéléologique, biologique et écologique.
+ info: http://www.ird.fr/toute-l-actualite/actualites/communiques-et-dossiers-de-presse/a-la-decouverte-des-crocodilescavernicoles-oranges-au-gabon
Conference: Planning for biodiversity - General Directorate for Environmental Protection, Ministry of the
Environment
07 November - 09 November 2011 Warsaw. Poland
Organizers: General Diractorate for Environmental Protection, Ministry of the Environment
Contact: [email protected] and [email protected]
+ info: http://prezydencja.gdos.gov.pl/News/view/383/Conference_Planning_for_biodiversity
Travellers would involuntarily alter the ecosystem of the Svalbard archipelago, Norway
Recent research studies have shown that travellers could involuntarily introduce exotic plant species in the Svalbard
archipelago. The global temperature rise and the activities from tourism would allow these species to develop in the fragile
ecosystem of the archipelago. This situation calls for a more detailed analysis of the policy of trips…
New York State Museum study suggest wolves migrating East - New York - New York
State - USA
KUNZELSAU.- The fascinations of the forest! Hardly another subject in art history can match
the forest for expressive potential and a concomitant multiplicity of meanings. As a favourite
setting for fairy tales, forests formed an essential projection screen during childhood. The
mostly young heroes and heroines went astray there, encountered unusual creatures, were
transformed, enchanted, or gobbled up, only to prevail in the end. The phantasmagorical ideas
of Romantic painters, writers, and composers still move us in the twenty-first century and
have become embedded in our feeling and thinking. Doesn't a stroll in the woods still hold the promise of time to think and
recuperate from humdrum life?
In the course of the nineteenth century, Romantic ideas spread so rapidly and widely that something known as the "scientific
forest aesthetic" emerged. Woods developed from "untamed wilderness" to sites for an enjoyment of nature and finally into
"suburban recreation areas" or even city parks designed to soothe the eye with subtle gradations of green, in foliage, water,
and mosses.
+ info: http://artdaily.org/index.asp
Global warming will reduce the population of plant eaters
According to a biologist from the Université de Colombie-Britannique in Vancouver (UBC), the rise in temperatures will lead
to a decrease in most of the populations of herbivores, including those fish that eat plants.
Rare Moss Collection Donated to Canadian Museum of Nature - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada
The Canadian Museum of Nature has received a donation of more than 1500 plant specimens that includes
rare and endangered species of mosses.
The additions to Canada's national plant collection come from Frank Cook, an amateur naturalist and retired
biology professor from the University of Western Ontario. Cook, aged 90, now lives in Barrie, Ontario. He
had amassed his collection over more than 35 years of fieldwork, starting around 1970.
+ info: http://nature.ca/en/about-us/museum-news/news/press-releases/rare-moss-collection-donatedcanadian-museum-nature
Changes in plant community composition lag behind climate warming in lowland forests
By Romain Bertrand, Jonathan Lenoir, Christian Piedallu, Gabriela Riofrío-Dillon, Patrice de Ruffray, Claude Vidal, JeanClaude Pierrat & Jean-Claude Gégout
Climate change is driving latitudinal and altitudinal shifts in species distribution worldwide, leading to novel species
assemblages. Lags between these biotic responses and contemporary climate changes have been reported for plants and
animals. Theoretically, the magnitude of these lags should be greatest in lowland areas, where the velocity of climate change
is expected to be much greater than that in highland areas. We compared temperature trends to temperatures reconstructed
from plant assemblages (observed in 76,634 surveys) over a 44-year period in France (1965–2008). Here we report that
forest plant communities had responded to 0.54 °C of the effective increase of 1.07 °C in highland areas (500–2,600 m above
sea level), while they had responded to only 0.02 °C of the 1.11 °C warming trend in lowland areas…
Statement by Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Minister Edna Molewa on rhino poaching after
engaging provinces - Republic of South Africa
A recently held meeting of the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs and the provincial MECs responsible for
environment (MINMEC) has recommended that a moratorium on hunting of rhinoceros be considered as a last resort after all
Biodiversity
options have been explored.
It should however be noted that , the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs reserves the right to institute a
moratorium if there is a clear abuse or absolute collapse in any of the provincial permitting systems.
+ info: http://www.info.gov.za/speech/DynamicAction?pageid=461&sid=22317&tid=45856
2011: Colloque des 20 ans de la conservation des ressources génétiques
forestières
En cette année internationale des forêts, la Commission des Ressources Génétiques
Forestières ou CRGF (1) fête ses 20 ans. Cette commission rassemble des représentants
des pouvoirs publics, de la recherche, de la gestion des forêts publiques et privées, des
associations environnementales et de conservation de la nature.
+ info: http://www.fne.asso.fr/fr/2011-colloque-des-20-ans-de-la-conservation-desressources-genetiques-forestieres.html?cmp_id=20&news_id=12446&vID=896&
New beetle species discovered in Palawan - Palawan - Philippines
By Hendrik Freitag & Michael Balke
Scientists have discovered a new species of beetle that dwells in the mountain rivers of Southern Palawan and said the find
indicated that the Philippines was the world's "centre of diversity" for beetles.
Dr. Henrick Freitag and and Dr. Michael Balke of the Senckenberg Museum of Zoology Dresden and the Bavarian State
Collections of Zoology in Munich described the new species of the Spider Water Beetles (Ancyronyx) as having "extremely
long legs, often accompanied by an eye-catching cross-like elytral colour pattern, so that they remind of spiders."
The discovery was disclosed in a news release posted on Oct. 18 by EurekAlert!, an online global news service operated by
the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an international non-profit organization dedicated to
advancing science around the world.
+ info: http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/2042/a-new-species-of-chucallis-tao-hemiptera-aphididaecalaphidinae-from-china
Leaving oil in the ground - Ecuador
In the heart of the Amazonian forest, oil companies, scientists, environmentalists and indigenous
communities are holding their breath. President Rafael Correa of Ecuador has made perhaps the
most ambitious proposal yet to fight climate change, conserve a biodiversity hotspot and protect
indigenous rights.
He is appealing to the international community to provide US$3.6 billion over 13 years in partial
compensation for the loss in revenue if Ecuador undertakes not to exploit just under 1 billion
barrels of oil lying beneath Yasuni Biosphere Reserve. The reserve is home to the Huaorani
people, as well as to the Tagaeri and the Taromenani who are both living in voluntary isolation.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/leaving_oil_in_the_ground/
A World of SCIENCE, Vol. 9, No. 4, October-December 2011
In this issue, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme,
whose first meeting in 1971 took place against a backdrop of Cold War tensions, a Cultural Revolution in
China and nation-building in Africa following independence from colonial powers…
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/resources/periodical/a-world-of-science/vol-9-n-4/
From bamboo to tea: sustainable development in biosphere reserves
Established in 1987, Wuyishan Biosphere Reserve is also a World Heritage site.
The site is exceptional for Mount Wuyi’s unique sub-tropical forests and the
mountain’s status as the birthplace of Confucianism.
In 1994, the biosphere reserve set up the Joint Protection Committee for Fujian
Wuyishan National Nature Reserve to involve all the villages in environmental
protection schemes. In parallel, it supported the development of alternative
livelihoods in the transition area like the planting of bamboo. In recent years,
beekeeping, eco-tourism, catering, transportation and other industries have also begun to bring good returns.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/
from_bamboo_to_tea_sustainable_development_in_biosphere_reserves/
La Liste rouge des espèces menacées en France
Depuis 2007, le Comité français de l’UICN et le Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle se sont associés pour
réaliser la Liste rouge des espèces menacées en France, en collaboration avec les organismes de référence
sur les espèces en métropole et en outre-mer.
+ info: http://www.uicn.fr/Liste-rouge-France.html
La France signe le protocole de Nagoya (22 septembre 2011)
La France a signé le 22 septembre 2011 le protocole de Nagoya, adopté l’année dernière lors de la 10ème conférence de la
Convention sur la Diversité Biologique. Ce protocole a pour but de réglementer l’accès aux ressources génétiques et de
promouvoir le partage juste et équitable des avantages issus de leur utilisation.
+ info: http://www.uicn.fr/protocole-Nagoya.html
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Ramsar Sign Memorandum of Cooperation
Biodiversity
Ramsar and WWT have signed a three-year Memorandum of Cooperation promoting the commitment
of both organisations to the conservation and wise use of wetlands. The purpose of this
Memorandum of Cooperation is to provide a flexible framework for collaboration between the Parties,
mobilizing WWT’s technical and capacity-building expertise for an improved implementation of the
Ramsar Convention.
+ info: http://www.ramsar.org/cda/en/ramsar-news-wildfowlwetlandstrustramsarmoc/main/
ramsar/1-26%5E25431_4000_0__
Indigenous and local communities meet with governments to discuss traditional knowledge and the
implementation of the global Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 - Montreal - Quebec - Canada
Representatives of indigenous and local communities from around the world are meeting side by side with delegates from
Governments for this week in Montreal to discuss ways to integrate traditional knowledge related to biodiversity protection
into the global Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 adopted by the Parties to the Convention in Nagoya, Japan, in
October last year.
The seventh meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Inter-Sessional Working Group on Article 8(j) of the Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD) opened yesterday with a greeting and prayer from leaders of the Mohawk, an indigenous people of
North America. “The Earth is your mother. . . and you will treat her in a good way”, they exhorted the over 400 participants
in the meeting.
+ info: http://www.cbd.int/doc/press/2011/pr-2011-11-01-8j-en.pdf
International Day for Biosphere Reserves - Man and Biosphere programme (MAB) and
the World Network of Biosphere Reserves - 3 November 2011
On the occasion of its 40th birthday, the Man and Biosphere programme (MAB) and the World
Network of Biosphere Reserves are happy to celebrate 3 November 2011 as the International
Day for Biosphere Reserves!
Many events are planned all over the world, including an art exhibition, a film projection and a
special session on “Messages for the sustainable futures” in UNESCO at 6 pm, in Room XII. A live
webcast of this event will be accessible on the website (see links below).
The MAB Programme has reached its age of maturity but it is still characterized as a young and dynamic programme that
constantly keeps pace with emerging environmental scientific and societal issues!
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ecological-sciences/single-view-eco/news/
international_day_for_biosphere_reserves/
The Ramsar 40th Anniversary Message for November 2011
Healthy wetlands mean healthy people. In contrast, wetlands degraded through human activities –
especially those that reduce water quality and availability – often have reduced capacity to deliver
ecosystem services, which can directly and indirectly affect human health with impacts such as the loss of
food production and local livelihoods. Degraded wetlands can also result in the emergence of infectious
diseases and the resurgence of water-related diseases, again compromising human health, and they may
reduce the availability of wetland plants and animals that have medicinal values of particular importance to
indigenous people and local communities…
+ info: http://www.ramsar.org/cda/en/ramsar-home/main/ramsar/1_4000_0__
31 octobre 2011 - Parc national de La Réunion - Des impacts multiples et graves après 5 jours d'incendie - La
Réunion - France
L’incendie qui ravage les hauts du massif de la côte ouest de l’île depuis le 25 octobre 2011 a gagné en intensité sur le Piton
des Orangers. Le feu, descendant le long des remparts du cirque de Mafate, peut destabiliser des roches. Une quarantaine
d’habitants des îlets de Roche Plate et des Orangers, dont les cases sont situées sous le rempart du Maïdo, ont du être
évacués. Le Parc national suit avec la plus grande attention la situation. Les médiateurs du Parc affectés dans le cirque de
Mafate assurent au mieux un relais avec la population. Ils les informent sur la situation des sentiers et recueillent toutes les
informations sur d’éventuelles chutes de pierre.
+ info: http://www.reunion-parcnational.fr/Des-impacts-multiples-et-graves.html
La Ville de Paris lance son plan biodiversité - Paris - France
En 2010, déclarée année internationale de la diversité biologique par l’ONU, la ville de Paris lance une démarche innovante,
avec les citadins, pour relever le défi de la préservation de la biodiversité.
Démarche innovante, le Plan Biodiversité sera élaboré en étroite collaboration avec les habitants, appelés à participer à un
inventaire de la faune et de la flore, en partenariat avec les chercheurs et les associations naturalistes.
+ info: http://crdp.ac-paris.fr/agenda21/wp-content/uploads/Plan_Biodiversite_Paris_2010%281%29.pdf
Des plantes d'autrefois remises au goût du jour - République Tchèque
Associer recherche scientifique, solidarité et développement durable : tel est l'objectif d'une équipe de la faculté d'agronomie
de l'Université Mendel de Brno [1], avec son projet de promotion des plantes comestibles traditionnelles en voie d'extinction.
Un répertoire de 1620 papillons en ligne - INPA- Instituto Nacional de recherche d'Amazonie - Institut national
de recherche d'Amazonie - Brésil
Au Musée National à Rio de Janeiro, une collection de papillons accessible en ligne intéresse les scientifiques. Elle a été
constituée par des naturalistes au cours d'une expédition au début du XXe siècle, dans la région de la rivière Juruá (Etat
d'Acre). Cette collection montre que la région de Juruá offre la plus grande biodiversité d'Amazonie. Une étude menée
Biodiversity
dirigée des chercheurs de cinq universités brésiliennes a permis de prouver son authenticité, mais aussi de découvrir qu'elle
ne représentait qu'une partie de la biodiversité de cette zone…
Le zoo de Prague oeuvre en faveur des chevaux de Przewalski- République Tchèque
Une étape importante vient d'être franchie envue de la réintroduction des chevaux de Przewalski dans leur habitat naturel.
Le zoo de Prague a envoyé en Mongolie quatre spécimens, nés et élevés en République tchèque. Les trois juments et l'entier
ont été intégrés à une horde protégée, afin d'enrichir son patrimoine génétique. Les chevaux, s'ils sont nés en captivité, ont
été élevés de façon à ne jamais être en contact direct avec les êtres humains ; l'établissement possède en effet, en plus des
quatre sujets présents dans son enceinte, onze femelles et huit mâles localisés à Dolni Dobrejov. Ils y vivent en autonomie
et dans un evironnement proche de celui existant en Mongolie…
Rhino horn demand leads to record poaching - World Wildlife Fund - Republic of
South Africa
More rhinos have been killed in South Africa in the past 10 months than were killed in all of
2010, new poaching numbers reveal. Statistics from South Africa National Parks show that
341 animals have been lost to poaching so far in 2011, compared to a record total of 333 last
year.
South Africa’s grim milestone comes on the heels of an announcement by WWF last week
that rhinos have gone extinct in Vietnam. The carcass of Vietnam’s last Javan rhino was
found with a gunshot wound and without its horn.
+ info: http://www.wwf.org.za/?4901/recordpoaching
Pêche illégale : une fois de plus, la justice donne raison aux associations
Lundi, le TGI de Marseille a rendu son délibéré dans deux affaires de pêche illégale de
thon rouge. La culpabilité des deux pêcheurs professionnels impliqués a été reconnue et
ils ont été condamnés respectivement à 5000 et 3000 euros d’amende. France Nature
Environnement et l’URVN-FNE PACA, sa fédération régionale en région PACA, parties
civiles dans ces deux affaires, sont satisfaites de constater que le juge ait retenu la
gravité des faits.
+ info: http://www.fne.asso.fr/fr/peche-illegale-une-fois-de-plus-la-justice-donne-raisonaux-associations.html?cmp_id=33&news_id=12532&vID=1485
Agenda
Joint Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) and Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Biennial
Conference - Valuing ecosystems: policy, economic and management interactions
03 April - 04 April 2012 Edinburgh. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: Joint Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) and Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
+ info: http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/INFD-8J9C5J
Publications
Species on the Edge of Survival – The ultimate guide to nature in need
Published by Collins
ISBN-10: 978-0-00-741914-2
ISBN-13: 978-0007419142
Why is the Javan Rhino one of the world’s most threatened large mammals? What efforts are underway
to help conserve the 47 remaining Floreana Mockingbirds of Ecuador? Why is there a dramatic decline in
the Globosa Mangrove? You can find answers to these and many more questions in a unique anthology,
Species on the Edge of Survival, published by Collins.
The book, inspired by IUCN’s Species of the Day initiative, features a selection of 365 plants, animals and fungi listed on The
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Each profile includes a description of the species, its conservation status,
geographical range and the conservation action that is needed to protect it. All of this is accompanied by a striking
photograph of the species, making the book a must-read for nature lovers, young and old. Environmental enthusiasts and
anyone who is concerned about the state of the world’s wildlife will find it a useful guide to our planet’s biodiversity, the
threats it faces and methods to conserve it.
+ info: http://www.iucn.org/knowledge/news/?8084/Species-on-the-Edge-of-Survival--The-ultimate-guide-to-nature-inneed&utm_campaign=1108849330&utm_content=1007533156807&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailvision
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) - Scaling Up: Global Business and
Biodiversity Programme. Annual Report 2010
Published by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 2011
Contributing authors: Deviah Aiama, Juan Marco Alvarez, Rachel Asante-Owusu, Maria Ana Borges, Giulia
Carbone, Evelyne Clarke, Dennis Hosack, Nadine McCormick and Deric Quaile.
Editing: Tiina Rajamets
Coordination: Rachel Asante-Owusu
This report reflects the progress made by BBP in 2010. The stories are selected to present a fair and
Biodiversity
balanced representation of BBP’s results in terms of delivering the planned programme activities. The current programme of
IUCN runs from 2009–2012.
Conserving biodiversity – stopping the extinction of animal and plant species, and stopping the destruction of natural places
– is the core of IUCN’s work. Profoundly linked to biodiversity are four of humankind’s greatest challenges: climate change,
energy, livelihoods and economic. The structure of the report reflects these five areas: (1) Conserving the Diversity of Life,
(2) Changing the Climate Forecast, (3) Naturally Energizing the Future, (4) Managing Ecosystems for Human Well-Being, and
(5) Greening the World Economy. Although BBP contributed to all the five key areas, the focus of the work has been on
Thematic Programme Areas (TPA) 3 and 5.
+ info: http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/bbp_2010_final2_.pdf
Transboundary Conservation Specialist Group eNews 4 - October 2011
Edited and prepared by IUCN WCPA Transboundary Conservation Specialist Group (TBC SG).
The TB eNEWS contains information on your activities related to enhancement of transboundary
conservation and cooperation.
You are welcome to send us news about relevant projects and initiatives, to review any past event on
transboundary conservation, and announce a future workshop, seminar, or a conference. We shall include
any new publications, websites or funding opportunities that you send us.
+ info: http://www.tbpa.net/newsletters/53_TBeNEWS-no4-2011_Final.pdf
EUROPARC 2011 Conference Report: Quality Counts - Benefits for Nature and People - Schwabian Alb Biosphere
Reserve - Bad Urach - Germany - 21-25 September 2011
EUROPARC General Assembly 2011
EUROPARC 2011 took place from 21st - 25th September in the Schwabian Alb Biosphere Reserve, Bad Urach, Germany.
During the four day conference participants had the chance to exchange their experiences and expand their networks with
European colleagues. They discussed and developed solutions for an effective protected area management throughout the
four day programme.
The conference was hosted by the German state of Baden-Württemberg and organised together with EUROPARC Germany.
320 international experts from across the field of nature conservation attended the conference under the motto Quality
counts - Benefits for Nature and People.
+ info: http://www.europarc.org/whats-on/annual-europarc-conf/europarc-2011/
Digital Version of the Central Asia Atlas of Natural Resources
This Atlas brings to readers a sense of the beauty and wealth of Central Asia's natural resources, some issues its peoples
face in using and conserving them, and the progress being made toward sustainable development.
The Atlas is an output of the Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land Management (CACILM) Program, a 10-year
partnership between the Central Asian countries and the international donor community that began in 2006. Its aim is to
restore, maintain, and improve the productive functions of land in Central Asia, leading to better economic and social wellbeing, while preserving the ecological functions of the land. The initiative has set in motion an integrated approach to
sustainable land management that will have local, national, and global benefits.
+ info: http://caatlas.org/index.php
La situation s’améliore pour une majorité d’oiseaux bénéficiant de mesures de protection, à la
différence des espèces communes
Commissariat general au developpement durable
Le point sur - Numéro 100 - Octobre 2011
ISSN 2100-1634
Les oiseaux utilisent une grande variété d’habitats naturels et sont directement affectés par les
perturbations des écosystèmes. Les effectifs d’un grand nombre d’espèces ont décliné tout au long du XXe
siècle ; plus du quart de celles nichant en France métropolitaine sont actuellement considérées comme
menacées. À partir de la fin des années 1980, les effectifs de certaines espèces bénéficiant de mesures de conservation et de
protection se sont améliorés. À l’inverse, un grand nombre d’espèces dites « communes » continuent de régresser.
+ info: http://www.statistiques.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/fileadmin/documents/Produits_editoriaux/Publications/
Le_Point_Sur/2011/LPSBD.pdf
Une première encyclopédie sur la biodiversité de Singapour publiée durant l'été 2011
La première encyclopédie sur la biodiversité et l'histoire naturelle de Singapour sur les 200 dernières années vient d'être
finalisée. L'étude s'intitule "Singapore Biodiversity - An Encyclopedia of the Natural Environment and Sustainable
Development" et a été conduite par le département de sciences biologiques de la National University of Singapore (NUS).
Ce livre met en évidence le travail de la cité-état pour conserver son héritage naturel riche malgré la faible taille de son
territoire et sa densité urbaine très forte. Ce travail a impliqué plus de 60 contributeurs du milieu académique, des agences
gouvernementales et de groupes environnementaux.
Evidence of cellulose metabolism by the giant panda gut microbiome
Lifeng Zhua, Qi Wua, Jiayin Daia, Shanning Zhangb and Fuwen Weia
The giant panda genome codes for all necessary enzymes associated with a carnivorous digestive system but lacks genes for
enzymes needed to digest cellulose, the principal component of their bamboo diet. It has been posited that this iconic
species must therefore possess microbial symbionts capable of metabolizing cellulose, but these symbionts have remained
undetected. Here we examined 5,522 prokaryotic ribosomal RNA gene sequences in wild and captive giant panda fecal
Biodiversity
samples. We found lower species richness of the panda microbiome than of mammalian microbiomes for herbivores and
nonherbivorous carnivores. We detected 13 operational taxonomic units closely related to Clostridium groups I and XIVa,
both of which contain taxa known to digest cellulose. Seven of these 13 operational taxonomic units were unique to pandas
compared with other mammals…
+ info: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/10/11/1017956108.abstract?sid=5827d801-a9a9-4093-adbf-7fd132fa257c
Review of the World Heritage Network: Biogeography, Habitats and Biodiversity
Author: Magin, C., Chape, S.
Date Published: January 2004
The aim of the World Heritage Convention is to ensure the protection for all time of the world’s natural and
cultural heritage of Outstanding Universal Value. In 1994, to assist in meeting this aim, the World Heritage
Committee adopted a Global Strategy for achieving a balanced, representative and credible World Heritage
List that reflects the world’s diverse heritage. Over the past 10 years a number of studies and consultations
have been carried out to develop and refine the Global Strategy. This review is an important addition to that
process, focusing on the inter-related elements of biogeography, habitats and biological diversity that underpin much of what
we consider ‘natural heritage’.
+ info: http://www.unep-wcmc.org/review-of-the-world-heritage-network-biogeography-habitats-and-biodiversity_190.html
Entreprises et biodiversité: Premiers résultats d'enquête - Commissariat Général au Développement Durable no.
72 Février 2011 - France
Le Ministère a mené en 2010 une enquête auprès de 3 600 entreprises afin de mesurer la prise de conscience de leurs
interactions avec les écosystèmes et l’intégration de la biodiversité dans leurs stratégies. Les entreprises interrogées se sont
déclarées très majoritairement (deux tiers) conscientes de leurs impacts négatifs sur la biodiversité et, dans une moindre
mesure (un tiers), de leur dépendance vis-à-vis des services fournis par les écosystèmes. Les principales pressions qu’elles
exercent portent sur la qualité de l’air, de l’eau et du sol, un important service écologique dont elles dépendent aussi. 40 %
des entreprises anticipent que la perte de biodiversité représente un risque pour leurs activités à l’avenir, contre 20 %
aujourd’hui. Les entreprises incluent encore peu la biodiversité dans leurs politiques environnementales. Les grandes sont
deux tiers à déclarer agir en faveur de la biodiversité ou envisager de le faire. Elles sont alors davantage motivées par la
gestion des risques financiers et réglementaires associés à la perte de biodiversité que par une intégration de la biodiversité
dans leurs stratégies et activités.
+ info: http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/LPS72.pdf
Entreprises et Biodiversité - EBEvie et Prix : deux actions phares pour sensibiliser et inciter à l'action Commissariat Général au Développement Durable no. 90 Juin 2011 - France
Afin de favoriser la prise en compte de la biodiversité par les entreprises, le ministère a mis en place un outil de
sensibilisation leur proposant des pistes d’actions en vue de limiter leurs impacts sur la biodiversité. Cet outil, baptisé
EBEvie, vise à aider les entreprises à comprendre les enjeux que la biodiversité représente pour elles. Il les guide pour
évaluer leurs impacts ainsi que leurs liens de dépendance vis-à-vis de la biodiversité. Il leur propose des actions pour mieux
intégrer la biodiversité dans leur stratégie de développement. Le ministère décerne aussi, depuis 2010, Année Internationale
de la Biodiversité, des prix récompensant les produits ou démarches particulièrement innovants en faveur de la biodiversité.
+ info: http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/LPS90b.pdf
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State's love for old bridges rekindled by storm - Vermont - USA
BARTONSVILLE (AP).- By the time Susan Hammond came downstairs at 9 a.m. the rain was
falling hard. Standing on the back deck with Sunday coffee in hand, she looked down the hill
and through the trees to where the usually lazy Williams River powered over rocks, loud
enough to compete with the din of Tropical Storm Irene's downpour.
Inside, Hammond pulled up a chair to her computer to check the water level at a gauge just
downriver: 4 1/2 feet, nearly doubled from the night before, but well below flood stage. For
peace of mind, though, Hammond reached for an umbrella and headed down the road to pay
her hamlet's 141-year-old covered bridge a call.
Even by Vermont standards, Bartonsville's bridge was out of the ordinary, a 159-foot expanse of brown boards weathered to
a distinguished gray, with rectangular windows revealing a thick skeleton of criss-cross latticework. Standing under
umbrellas just beyond the bridge's portal, Hammond and her neighbors traded talk of the storm, before she headed back to
the house.
Around 11, she checked the river gauge again: 8 feet. Flood stage. When she went down to check on the bridge, just a few
feet separated its boards from the water. And the distance between the two was narrowing fast.
780 Brewster - Lemay associés - 2007 - Montreal - Quebec - Canada
Erected at the beginning of the XXth century, 780 Brewster is a five-storey multi-tenant
industrial building with a total surface area of 12,000 sqm. This brick and timber building was
transformed into an office building housing, among others, the City of Montréal’s Southwest
Borough Hall as well as our firm’s offices.
Completed according to a “fast track” schedule, the structure meets the most rigorous
sustainable development standards and is certified LEED Silver. The main features of this
innovative green project are:
The reclamation of 75 % of an industrial heritage building’s structure (existing walls, floors et roofs);
Air conditioning and ventilation systems offering an energy efficiency rate that is 50 % greater than traditional new buildings;
Large windows that open, allowing occupants to benefit from natural light and ventilation;
The reuse of nearly 80 % of materials such as the metal plates and grillwork adorning the reception areas;
The use of new materials (adhesives, paints, carpeting, composites, plaster) and furnishings that contain recycled materials,
are recyclable, non-toxic and emit no volatile organic compound;
Building located near a metro station and bus stops and equipped with a secured bicycle hangar and locker rooms, allowing
users to take advantage of alternate means of transportation;
The recovery of recyclable and compostable materials;
Plumbing fixtures offering a 30 % reduction in water consumption;
Landscaping that does not require irrigation.
Happy Birthday Le Corbusier!
Today marks the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier’s birthday. Noted as one of the pioneers of
modern architecture, Le Corbusier’s architecture career spanned some five decades. Born in 1887, which
would make him 124 today, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier in the 1920s.
Known for both his architecture and furniture design you can visit the Galerie Anton Meier where some of Le
Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret furniture is currently on a special exhibit. More of ArchDaily’s coverage on Le
Corbusier, books, buildings, and articles can be found here.
Built Heritage
UNESCO to assess flood-affected Ayutthaya World Heritage site - Bangkok Thailand
UNESCO Bangkok has been requested by the Thai government to undertake a mission to the
Ancient City of Ayutthaya in Thailand to assess the impact to the World Heritage property
from heavy flooding.
The World Heritage property of Ayutthaya, which occupies the western half of the inner island
of Ayutthaya, has been flooded for more than a week. Monuments and temples on the outside
perimeter of the site (technically not part of the World Heritage property), such as Wat
Chaiwattanaram on the opposite bank of the river, have also been inundated.
+ info: http://www.unescobkk.org/news/article/unesco-to-assess-flood-affected-ayutthaya-world-heritage-site/
Museum Folkwang - David Chipperfield - Essen - Germany
“Ruhr.2010 – European Capital of Culture” is the name of the project with which Essen and the
Ruhr are confronting changing times. The “Pott”, as the area is affectionately known in Germany,
is shaking off its coal-and-steel-producing past and mutating into a “new-style polycentric cultural
metropolis”. A high-flying objective. But one that nevertheless appears to be achievable –
certainly as long as the route is paved with milestones like the new Museum Folkwang building
inaugurated at the beginning of 2010.
The source of this particular milestone is British star architect David Chipperfield, who has
achieved great familiarity – not only within the architectural world – with projects such as his recent restoration of the New
Museum in Berlin. His speciality: “feeling his way into” existing structures that invariably enjoy his deepest respect. He has
again been able to put this speciality through its paces with the new Folkwang Museum building. The period museum built in
1960, which is now linked to the new structure by means of two glass crossovers, was the point of departure for the entire
planning procedure; the extension built in 1983 and so unloved locally had to go.
Good News for 'Happy Retreat': Actor Richard Dreyfuss to Help Save Washington
Family Mansion - West Virginia - USA
Last month, following years of efforts to save the 1780 mansion where George Washington's
brother and his family once lived, Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss confirmed
that his Dreyfuss Initiative will help to protect the property known as Happy Retreat. At an
announcement Sept. 17, Dreyfuss committed to partnering with the Friends of Happy Retreat, a
nonprofit group formed in 2006, to purchase the house and 12.2 surrounding acres. His
initiative, a civics education program, will eventually occupy the top floor of the manor.
+ info: http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2011/story-of-the-day/happy-retreats-happy-news.html
VIDEO - Building the Moroccan Court in the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central
Asia, and Later South Asia - Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York - New York State - USA
The court was made possible by the Patti and Everett B. Birch Foundation.
+ info: http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/collections/curatorial-departments/isl/installations/building-themoroccan-court
VIDEO - Sacred Spaces: A celebration of the wonderfully varied architecture in Melbourne - Victoria - Australia
Melbourne's finest architects will be talking about thier favorite spots in the city. Their sacred spaces.
This season the emphasis is on women architects, designers and urban planners but not exclusively. The guys also get their
say!
+ info: http://www.c31.org.au/program/view/program/sacred-spaces/info/description
Planning Alerts: Find out for free what is being built and knocked down in your area and receive email alerts
when something new is planned - Open Australia Foundation Project
PlanningAlerts.org.au is a free service which searches as many planning authority websites as it can find and emails you
details of applications near you. The aim of this to enable shared scrutiny of what is being built (and knocked down) in
peoples' communities.
+ info: http://www.planningalerts.org.au/
Advanced Training Courses in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions (SAHC) - Erasmus
Mundus SAHC Master Course
For further information, please contact the Secretariat at [email protected].
The courses integrated in the Erasmus Mundus SAHC Master Course (www.msc-sahc.org) can now be attended separately,
without the need to enroll in the Master Course.
These courses are of interest to those interested in the conservation, repair and strengthening of the built heritage, be it
monuments, other cultural heritage buildings or existing buildings in general. This includes mainly civil engineers and
architects, but also, for some courses, art historians, archaeologists and other interested in cultural heritage buildings,
interested in complementing or updating their knowledge with the most recent professional and scientific approaches and
techniques. The attendants can be professionals such as consultants, employees in building contractors, building material
producers and suppliers, heritage authorities and others, as well as graduate students (MSc or PhD) enrolled in other
programs.
+ info: http://www.msc-sahc.org/upload/docs/Advanced_Training_Courses_SAHC.pdf
World Monuments Fund 2012 Endangered Monuments Watch includes two iconic New
Built Heritage
York buildings - New York State - USA
The World Monuments Fund calls for international awareness to the 2012 list of endangered
monuments. The watch encompasses 67 threatened cultural-heritage sites worldwide. These
influential landmarks include the iconic Manufacturers Trust Company Building in New York City
designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Paul Rudolph’s Orange County
Government Center in Goshen, New York.
The former 1950’s Manufactures Trust Bank exemplifies mid-century modern architecture situated on one of the busiest
streets of Manhattan. The glass and aluminum façade abandoned the traditional “fortress” approach and confidently
displayed the interiors of the bank, exposing the 30-ton steel vault serving as a metaphor for transparency in banking. In
1997, the building was designated a New York City landmark and in early 2011 received protection for the modern interiors
designed by Eleanor H. Le Maire. The current owners are adapting the building for reuse and altering the interior features,
endangering the iconic bond between the exterior and interior.
English Heritage Guidance Note: Theft of Metal from Church Buildings
This guidance note sets out English Heritage’s1 response to the epidemic of lead theft2 which is affecting historic buildings
and, in particular, parish churches3. We recognise that any theft brings frustration, expense and inconvenience to
congregations. Preventing future thefts is paramount, but dealing with the unfortunate aftermath in an appropriate way is
also very important.
This guidance is in two parts: the first outlines English Heritage’s approach and our advice for congregations on the
significance of lead, how to protect it, and how to respond to thefts; the second offers detailed practical information about
selecting the material to be used for historic church roofs and making it secure.
+ info: http://www.helm.org.uk/upload/pdf/theft-metal-church-buildings.pdf
Successful School Refurbishment Case Studies - English Heritage
Wider economic circumstances and reducing public sector budgets clearly have implications for capital investment in school
buildings. Together with the recommendations from the James review, this background is likely to mean that over the short
to medium term future local education authorities will need to focus on managing their existing school estate to ensure it
offers the best possible educational environment…
+ info: http://www.helm.org.uk/upload/pdf/Successful-school-refurbishment.pdf
Revised and illustrated versions of Selection guides for buildings and structures are now
available - United Kingdom
Selection guides for buildings and structures were first published in 2007 and are an important
step towards a more transparent designation system. They have proved themselves to be
essential tools in assessing candidates for designation. Revised and illustrated selection guides for
listing have now been published (May 2011) and build on the original documents without departing
from their essential messages.
The wide range of buildings and structures is divided into 20 categories ranging from Agricultural
Buildings to Utilities and Communications. In each guide, an historical introduction is followed by a consideration of
designation issues, together with sources of further information.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/criteria-for-protection/selection-guidelines/
Library of Congress Acquires American Institute of Architects and American Architectural Foundation Collection
of Rare Architectural Drawings, Photographs and Illustrated Publications - Washington, DC. - USA
The Library of Congress announced today the acquisition of the American Institute of Architects and American Architectural
Foundation Collection, consisting of rare and significant architectural drawings, photographs and illustrated publications. The
materials will be housed in the Library’s Prints and Photographs Division.
The new acquisition adds an estimated 160,000 drawings, 30,000 photographs and rare illustrated books to the Library’s rich
holdings of millions of architectural documents. Included in the acquisition are original works of art, detailed technical
materials, information-rich business files, ephemera and sourcebooks.
+ info: http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2011/11-210.html
COMPETITIONS - 18ème édition du concours "Les Rubans du patrimoine" - Date limite de soumission: 31
janvier 2012
Ce concours distingue et récompense, par des prix nationaux et départementaux, des communes ayant entrepris des
opérations de rénovation ou de mise en valeur de leur patrimoine bâti. Il est organisé en partenariat par la Fédération
Française du Bâtiment, l'Association des Maires de France, la Fondation du Patrimoine et Dexia. La Gazette des Communes a
souhaité s'associer à cette démarche en 2010.
President Obama Creates New National Monument at Fort Monroe - Hampton - Virginia
- USA
Written by Rob Nieweg
President Obama’s executive designation, pursuant to the Antiquities Act, honors Freedom’s
Fortress as one of our most important national treasures, on a par with the Statue of Liberty and
the Grand Canyon.
Located at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Fort Monroe is a principal landmark of African
American heritage. Old Point Comfort was the site of the 1619 First Landing of enslaved Africans
in the English-speaking New World, and in 1861 it became the unique birthplace of the Civil War-era freedom movement…
+ info: http://blog.preservationnation.org/2011/11/01/president-obama-creates-new-national-monument-at-fort-monroe/
Built Heritage
Agenda
EXHIBITION - Esprit(s) des Lieux - Du Trocadéro au palais de Chaillot - Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine
17 September 2011 - 17 January 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine/ musée des Monuments français en partenariat avec les Archives
nationales
+ info: http://www.citechaillot.fr/exposition/expositions_temporaires.php?id=186
EXHIBITION - L'Hôtel particulier, une ambition parisienne - Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine
05 October 2011 - 19 February 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine / musée des Monuments français, avec le concours de la Bibliothèque
nationale de France et du Musée Carnavalet.
EXHIBITION - Richard Meier: Retrospective - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO)
20 October 2011 - 08 January 2012 Nuevo León. Mexico
Organizers: The Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey and Richard Meier & Partners Architects
+ info: http://www.marco.org.mx/exhibitions/RichardMeier.htm
Journée de rencontre - "La restauration du patrimoine bâti"
18 November 2011 Salarbous, Hautes Pyrénées. France
Organizers: Association Patrimoine des Hautes-Pyrénées
Journée d'étude - Patrimoine bâti et maîtrise de l'énergie : le futur en construction
21 November 2011 Lyon, Rhône. France
Organizers: Patrimoine Rhônalpin en collaboration avec le Conseil régional Rhône-Alpes
Stage de formation financé par la Région Languedoc-Roussillon : maçon - restauration Patrimoine & Bâti ancien
28 November 2011 - 06 Jully 2012 Pézenas. France
Organizers: Lycée agricole
First International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design - Epoka University
19 April - 21 April 2012 Tirana. Albania
Organizers: Department of Architecture, Epoka University & Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Polytechnic
University of Tirana
DEADLINE: 15 ene 2012
+ info: http://www.icaud.epoka.edu.al/
International Congress: Frontpage Planning: Before and After Major Events, Disasters, and Social Unrest SCUPAD (Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning & Development)
05 May - 08 May 2012 Salzburg. Austria
Organizers: Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning & Development
Contact: events@)schloss-leopoldskron.com
+ info: http://www.scupad.org/web/content/congress-2012
Publications
Built Heritage
Interior of the mausoleum of Itimad-al-Daula, Agra 1800
Creator: Artist : Latif (fl..1820s)
Date: [1820] 1820 - 1822
Data provider: The British Library
Provider: The European Library
Watercolour of the interior of the mausoleum of I'timad al-Daula, Agra by Latif in c. 1820. I'timad
al-Daula (Emperor's Pillar) was the title bestowed upon Mirza Ghiyas Beg by Emperor Jehangir. Of
Persian descent, Mirza Ghiyas Beg became the first treasurer and then the prime minister (wazir)
under Emperor Jehangir. His daughter, Nur Jahan, later married the Emperor and commissioned the mausoleum to honour
the memory of her father upon his death in 1622.
+ info: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/92037/85D1C2F5A98F6D08288CACF00DC10C2F9F2C09B3.html
Site Seeing: A Dozen Historic Sites that Dazzle - USA
By Magazine Editors | From Preservation | November/December 2011
Each year, the editors of Preservation set off across the United States to explore extraordinary, surprising,
and evocative National Trust Historic Sites . In 2010, we chronicled 16 sites from New Mexico to New York.
This year, we visited 12 more—from the home of one of the Founding Fathers, to an adobe in a coastal
California town, to a Frank Lloyd Wright house that was saved from the wrecking ball. See what we
discovered. Read the stories of the women and men who cherished and saved these places. And plan your
own voyage of discovery, soon.
+ info: http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2011/november-december/site-seeing.html
ARCHITECTURE AND INNOVATION FOR HERITAGE - a cura di Giuseppe De Giovanni ed Emanuele
Walter Angelico
Giuseppe De Giovanni, Emanuele Walter Angelico
ISBN 978-88-548-3837-6
Gli articoli, raccolti in questo volume, si rivolgono essenzialmente a quell’aspetto del “senso del
passato” (sense of past) che tende alla valorizzazione e alla conservazione del Patrimonio Culturale
(Heritage), tramandato dalle civiltà e dalle culture del passato, attraverso l’attivazione di processi innovativi
per la sua salvaguardia, la sua protezione e fruizione e, infine, per la sua conoscenza. La collettività deve
considerare lo Heritage, la cui natura è materiale e immateriale, non come oggetto di culto ma come promotore di nuovi
artifici e di nuove attività, ovvero d’innovazione.
+ info: http://www.aracneeditrice.it/pdf/3837.pdf
Architetture e Paesaggi d'acqua. Strumenti retorici, immagine costruita
15 October - 28 October 2011 Reggio Emilia. Italy
+ info: http://www.emiliacentrale.it/progetti/cbec/sito/cbec.nsf/PUBB-TITLE/Architetture%20e%20paesaggi%20d%27acqua?
OpenDocument
Stopping the Rot: A Guide to Enforcement Action to Save Historic Buildings - English Heritage
Keeping historic buildings in good repair and, where possible, in use, is the key to their preservation.
Owners of listed buildings are under no statutory obligation to maintain their property in a good state of
repair, although it is in their interests to do so. Local authorities can, however, take action to secure repair
when it becomes evident that a building is being allowed to deteriorate.
Urgent Works Notices, Repairs Notices and Section 215 Notices can be very effective tools to help secure the
preservation of historic buildings.
This guidance, which supersedes the first edition published in 1999, is designed to help local authorities
make effective use of these powers. It provides step-by-step advice on the use of the main procedures and includes case
studies and a selection of specimen letters, notices, schedules and agreements.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/stoppingtherot/
Vacant Historic Buildings: An owner's guide to temporary uses, maintenance and mothballing English Heritage
English Heritage has produced this guidance to help owners to reduce the risks facing empty buildings, by
undertaking a range of precautionary measures and adopting an active management approach. It applies to
all types of heritage buildings, whether or not they have statutory protection.
It explains how to de-commission buildings that are about to be vacated, as well as how to look after
buildings that have already been vacant for some time. By adopting this approach, owners can prevent
unnecessary damage, dereliction and loss of significance to these buildings. They will also benefit by
maintaining the market value of their assets and increasing the chances of bringing them back into permanent use.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/vacanthistoricbuildings/
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Climate Change Impacts on Heritage
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Publications
Climate change is affecting the plants and animals from all the planet
Climate change entails risks for ecosystems in all continents. Recently, scientists from the Institut de recherche climatique
de Potsdam (PIK - Brandebourg) identified the implications of the risk for animals and plants thanks to the analyses carried
out worldwide. To do so, scientists have developed a new measurement system which systematically quantifies, for the first
time, the impact of temperature variations, precipitations and concentration of CO2 in the air on ecosystems. Current
predictions estimate a rise of 2º C. However, if the world average temperature rises more than 2º C, the impact on many
areas could be considerably greater.
Conférence tripartite Afrique-Brésil-France sur la lutte contre la désertification en Afrique
- Niamey - Niger (24-25 octobre 2011)
En dépit des progrès politiques réalisés en faveur du développement durable, les efforts dédiés à la
lutte contre le réchauffement climatique (pour en ralentir ses effets), et à son adaptation (pour en
atténuer les conséquences) restent insuffisants. Les conférences de Rio+20 (UNCDS) et du 6e Forum
de l’eau en 2012 constituent la meilleure opportunité pour saisir et renforcer l’intérêt de la
communauté internationale sur ce sujet et, pour ce qui concerne cette conférence, le développement
des zones arides…
+ info: http://www.ird.fr/toute-l-actualite/colloques-et-manifestations/congres/conference-tripartite-afrique-bresil-francesur-la-lutte-contre-la-desertification-en-afrique
Shrinking record for the Austrian glaciers in the summer of 2011
A study carried out by the Institut Central de Météorologie et de Géodynamique (ZAMG) has shown that glaciers have
spectacularly shrunk during the summer of 2011, so much more than in the summer of 2003, which was a record hot period.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Readies New Type Of Earth-Observing Satellite For
Launch - USA
NASA is planning an Oct. 27 launch of the first Earth-observing satellite to measure both global climate changes and key
weather variables.
The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) is the first mission
designed to collect critical data to improve weather forecasts in the short-term and increase our understanding of long-term
climate change. NPP continues observations of Earth from space that NASA has pioneered for more than 40 years.
NPP's five science instruments, including four new state-of-the-art sensors, will provide scientists with data to extend more
than 30 key long-term datasets. These records, which range from the ozone layer and land cover to atmospheric
temperatures and ice cover, are critical for global change science.
+ info: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/oct/HQ_11-345_NPP_PreLaunch.html
Coopération franco-allemande pour la recherche en Méditerranée
Le Cemagref, le CNRS, l'INRA et l'IRD, membres d'AllEnvi, l'UFZ et le FZJ, membres du groupe "terre et environnement" des
Helmholtz, conjuguent leurs efforts de coopération scientifique pour lutter contre le changement global en zone
Méditerranéenne
L'ensemble des pays du pourtour de la Méditerranée sera particulièrement concerné par les effets du changement global.
Associées aux développements politiques, démographiques et économiques qui interviennent dans la région, ces évolutions
vont induire des modifications importantes dans la gestion des territoires et l'exploitation des ressources naturelles. Les
transformations à venir ne seront pas sans incidence sur l'ensemble des pays européens et appellent à des avancées
collectives dans les connaissances scientifiques et les modèles de prévision, comme dans la décision et l'action.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/co/cooperation-franco-allemande-pour-la-recherche-en-mediterranee
7 milliards d'individus: il est grand temps d'agir - World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Selon les estimations de l’ONU, la Terre comptera 7 milliards d’habitants la semaine prochaine. L’impact sur l’environnement
évolue parallèlement à la population mondiale. Pourtant, la quantité de ressources utilisées en moyenne joue un rôle plus
important que le nombre d’individus sur la planète. En Suisse, cette valeur est bien trop élevée.
+ info: http://www.wwf.ch/fr/newsservice/Nouveautes/index.cfm?uNewsID=1479
Global warming will reduce the population of plant eaters
According to a biologist from the Université de Colombie-Britannique in Vancouver (UBC), the rise in temperatures will lead
to a decrease in most of the populations of herbivores, including those fish that eat plants.
Redrawing the Arctic map: The new north
Getting to grips with a changing polar landscape.
The Arctic covers around 5% of the planet's surface, but it is capturing a disproportionate amount of attention. With
temperatures rising at twice the global rate, the region's summer sea ice is shrinking rapidly, making access easier than ever
before. At the same time, countries are racing to claim parts of the Arctic's sea floor and the vast deposits of hydrocarbons
that lie beneath it.
+ info: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111012/full/478172a.html
EXHIBITION - Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya - Royal Geographical Society
Organizers: Royal Geographical Society with IBG
+ info: http://www.rgs.org/RGS-IBG-SITE/Templates/Level3.aspx
The Exploration of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth - Antarctica
More than one hundred and forty five subglacial lakes have been discovered beneath the Antarctic ice
sheet. These lakes have been isolated from the surface for considerable periods of time and each
represents a unique environment. Life in subglacial lakes must adapt to total darkness, low nutrient
levels, high water pressures and isolation from the atmosphere. Subglacial lakes thus represent unique
biological habitats…
+ info: http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/research/ellsworth/
Marine protection in the Arctic cannot wait
Global economics, not declining sea ice, is driving ships to the Arctic Ocean. Only international regulation will
protect the region, says Lawson Brigham.
Most people know that profound change is happening in the Arctic Ocean. Most people would say that this is
because the sea ice there is in retreat. But most people would be wrong. Changes in ice cover are only part
of a story that is, in fact, driven largely by economics and geopolitics. Despite the headlines, policy-makers,
planners and regulators need to look beyond the disappearing ice and understand the economic drivers to
grasp the urgent need for maritime regulations to address the booming development of the region.
Scientific challenges in the Arctic: Open water
As the ice melts, fresh obstacles confront Arctic researchers.
Last month, US researchers took a 4,000-tonne gamble when they steered the Marcus G. Langseth
through the Bering Strait and into the Arctic Ocean. The 72-metre research vessel was not built to plow
through ice, so it had never ventured that far poleward before.
But the rules are changing quickly in the new north. Managers at the US National Science Foundation
(NSF), which owns the ship, decided to send the Langseth into the Arctic after reviewing satellite images
that showed that the intended survey area in the Chukchi Sea had been largely clear of ice for four of
the past five summers…
Leaving oil in the ground - Ecuador
In the heart of the Amazonian forest, oil companies, scientists, environmentalists and indigenous
communities are holding their breath. President Rafael Correa of Ecuador has made perhaps the
most ambitious proposal yet to fight climate change, conserve a biodiversity hotspot and protect
indigenous rights.
He is appealing to the international community to provide US$3.6 billion over 13 years in partial
compensation for the loss in revenue if Ecuador undertakes not to exploit just under 1 billion
barrels of oil lying beneath Yasuni Biosphere Reserve. The reserve is home to the Huaorani people, as well as to the Tagaeri
and the Taromenani who are both living in voluntary isolation.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/leaving_oil_in_the_ground/
Conclusion of Pre-COP (Conference of Parties) Ministerial Meeting - Stellenbosch, Western Cape Province (South
Africa) 21 October 2011
… We just concluded the traditional Pre-COP Ministerial consultations, hosted here at Spier, Stellenbosch, on 20 and 21
October 2011. The meeting was attended by representatives from 42 countries.
Participants also included the Chair of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation, as well as the Chairs of the two Ad Hoc
Working Groups.
The Chairs made presentations on the status of the work under their responsibility and their assessment of what can be
achieved in Durban…
+ info: http://www.cop17-cmp7durban.com/en/news-centre/media-releases/index.html
ACCC (Adaptation aux Changements Climatiques et Côtiers en Afrique de l'Ouest)
Le projet Adaptation aux Changements Climatiques et Côtiers (ACCC) entend répondre au changement du litoral et à ses
dimensions humaines en Afrique de l'Ouest par le biais notamment de la gestion intégrée du littoral.
+ info: http://universidadypatrimonio.net/doc/ACCC2009-2011.pdf
Le SEI (Stockholm Environment Institute) lance un rapport sur la résilience de l'Arctique - Suède
En mai dernier, pendant la réunion ministérielle du Conseil Arctique à Nuuk (Groenland), la Présidence suédoise avait
proposé aux acteurs du Conseil concernés de se réunir en automne afin d'évaluer les besoins relatifs à une analyse
multicritères des changements affectant la région…
Appel à projet pour la collaboration franco-suédoise pour la recherche climatique - Date limite de soumission:
1er février 2012
La collaboration franco-suédoise dans le domaine du climat se renforce. Un premier appel à projets a été lancé à la rentrée
et sera renouvelé l'année prochaine si les résultats sont satisfaisants. Les projets retenus seront d'une durée maximale de 3
ans avec un budget de 200.000 euros par an…
Burning trees for energy puts Canadian forests and climate at risk: Greenpeace - Canada
Greenpeace released a science-based report today that highlights the dangers of the large-scale use of
wood and tree harvesting for heating, electricity generation or liquid biofuels. The report, entitled ‘Fuelling
a Biomess’, argues that burning woody biomass on an industrial scale could severely harm Canada’s public
forests and further contribute to the global climate crisis.
+ info: http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/recent/Burning-trees-for-energy-puts-Canadian-forests-andclimate-at-risk-Greenpeace/
ICE et LASERS, un projet ERC pour l’étude du climat et de l’atmosphère passés
Le projet ICE&LASERS porté par Jérôme Chappellaz, chercheur au Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique
de l’environnement (LGGE/OSUG, CNRS / UJF), a été sélectionné par le Conseil européen de la recherche
("European research council" ou ERC) pour bénéficier d’une bourse "Advanced Grant" d’un montant de 3
millions d'euros. Lancé pour cinq ans (2012-2017), ce projet vise à développer, en s’appuyant sur de
nouvelles technologies laser brevetées par le Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de physique (LIPhy, CNRS / UJF),
une nouvelle génération d’instruments d’analyse in situ et en laboratoire de la glace polaire ancienne pour
reconstruire l’évolution du climat et des gaz à effet de serre dans le passé.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/co/environnement/cryosphere/ice-et-lasers-un-projet-erc-pour-l-etude-du-climat-et-de-latmosphere-passe
Agenda
COP17 (Conference of Parties) - UNFCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) - Working
Together - Saving Tomorrow Today
28 November - 09 December 2011 Durban. South Africa
Organizers: The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)
Contact: Bryan Ashe: [email protected]
+ info: http://www.cop17-cmp7durban.com/
Publications
Human dimensions of adaptive forest management and climate change: A review of international
experience
Anna Lawrence and Sarah Gillett
Forestry Commission: Edinburgh, 2011.
ISBN 978-0-85538-848-5
This is a review of the literature about the concept and application of adaptive management (AM), in forests
and other environments. It aims to understand the social and institutional requirements of adaptive forest
management (AFM), and identify areas that require further study in order to better understand its relevance
for forest management in Great Britain.
+ info: http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/FCRP016.pdf/$FILE/FCRP016.pdf
Museums and a common world: climate change, cosmopolitics, museum practice
Ben Dibley (University of Western Sydney)
In Museum and society, Jul 2011. 9(2) 154-165, 2011.
ISSN 1479-8360
At stake in this paper is the nature of the relationship between the institution of the museum and the common world. It is
contended that such relations are regularly asserted through cosmopolitan appeals, which are premised on the assumption
that a cosmos, a world, a universal, pre-exists its articulation, and, that it is the task of reason and of science to adjust the
citizen-subject to this already-present condition. This paper argues that this is a flawed position because it assumes, in fact,
what is required to be built: a world in common.
In defence of this proposition, two recent declarations of museum cosmopolitanism are explored: ICOM’s declaration on the
‘universal museum’, which focuses on the unity of the cultural heritage of humankind; and the Buffon Declaration, which
concerns institutions of natural history and the imperilment of humanity’s biospheric inheritance. Subsequently, the paper
turns to what might be called the empirics of the cosmopolitanism of the museum visitor.
This examines the qualitative investigation of banal or everyday cosmopolitanism, which is largely ignored by such museum
declarations.
These different museological articulations of a common world are, in turn, reviewed through the juxtaposition of two
sociologies: Ulrich Beck’s cosmopolitanism and Bruno Latour’s compositionism. It is in contrasting these various
mobilizations of the cosmopolitan – the museological, the empirical and the sociological – that the paper advances its
proposition:
namely, that these cosmopolitan claims are based on the assumption that a common world exists prior to its assemblage as
such.
+ info: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/dibley.pdf
Museums and science centres as sites for deliberative democracy on climate change
Fiona Cameron (University of Western Sydney); Ann Deslandes ( Sydney)
ISSN 1479-8360
This paper addresses the position of the museum sector in relation to public policy-making about climate change. It is
informed by the perspectives of museum and science centre visitors and leaders canvassed as part of the Australian
Research Council Linkage project, ‘Hot Science, Global Citizens: the agency of the museum sector in climate change
interventions’. We apply complexity theory to evaluate the claim that museums are a site for the enaction of deliberative
democracy. In doing so, we reveal a cultural opportunity for cultural institutions to play a more expansive and explicit role in
brokering social futures for communities confronted by climate change.
+ info: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/camerondeslandes.pdf
From mitigation to creativity: the agency of museums and science centres and the means to govern climate
change
Fiona Cameron (University of Western Sydney)
In Museum and society, Jul 2011. 9(2) 90-106, 2011
ISSN 1479-8360
Climate change as a complex, scientific, cultural, ideological, and transnational issue poses a new set of challenges for
museums and science centres as places to inform, and as information sources in debates and decision processes.
In this paper, I draw on quantitative and qualitative research from the Australian Research Council funded Linkage project,
Hot Science, Global Citizens: the agency of the museum sector in climate change interventions, to interrogate the
potentialities for institutions to operate meaningfully and in new ways in complex media ecologies and dense mediations of
political, social, scientific discourses, and expertize. In developing the concepts liquid governmentalities and liquid museums,
I pose new leverage points for institutions to operate within these pluralistic and complex governmental assemblages from
one of the production of science statements to reform behaviour, to systems of open peer review and as places for
facilitating complex reflexivity and creative dispositions for the future in the present.
+ info: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/cameron.pdf
The Mediations of climate change: museums as citizens’ media
Juan Francisco Salazar (University of Western Sydney)
ISSN 1479-8360
Social research underlines how the mass media frames and presents environmental change and risk in ways that become
contested cultural constructs embedded in deep ideological structures. While significant attention has concentrated on the
mass media, less consideration has been given to examining the role of museums and science centres in communicating the
science of climate change. The article looks at museums as cultural brokers in collaborative efforts around public
understandings of climate change.
Engaging with recent conceptualizations around citizens and public media practices, it proposes participatory design
mechanisms through which the museum sector can act as change-agents in fostering a new form of public pedagogy that
incorporates differing civic epistemologies around climate change education and action.
+ info: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/salazar.pdf
La economía del cambio climático en Centroamérica - Reporte técnico 2011
Copyright © Naciones Unidas, julio de 2011. Todos los derechos reservados
El cambio climático presenta una serie de desafíos que tienen que enfrentarse a través del aporte de
diversos actores, incluyendo el sector público, el sector privado, la ciudadanía y sus organizaciones civiles,
el sector académico, las instituciones de integración y la comunidad internacional. Para estos efectos, el
fortalecimiento de capacidades nacionales y regionales ha sido identificado como prioridad por los socios
del proyecto. El presente Reporte técnico tiene la finalidad de contribuir a las actividades de capacitación y
discusión técnica requeridas. Las instituciones socias del proyecto reiteran su compromiso de seguir
profundizando este trabajo conjunto para desarrollar el conocimiento y las capacidades necesarias para que todos los actores
puedan tomar decisiones más informadas para reducir vulnerabilidades, mejorar la adaptación al cambio climático y
encaminar las economías a sendas sostenibles y bajas en carbono.
+ info: http://www.sica.int/busqueda/busqueda_archivo.aspx?Archivo=libr_62496_1_29082011.pdf
What influences climate and glacier change in southwestern China?
By Teppei J Yasunari
The subject of climate change in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and Himalayas has taken on increasing importance because of the
availability of water resources from their mountain glaciers (Immerzeel et al 2010). Many of the glaciers over these regions
have been retreating, while some are advancing and stable (Yao et al 2004, Scherler et al 2011). Other studies report that
some glaciers in the Himalayas show acceleration of their shrinkage (e.g., Fujita and Nuimura 2011). However, the causes of
glacier melting are still difficult to grasp because of the complexity of climatic change and its influence on glacier issues.
Despite this, it is vital that we pursue further study to enable future predictions of glacier changes…
+ info: http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/4/041001
Nature Magazine : Special issue on the Arctic: After the ice
The Arctic is changing fast. In September 2011, the extent of summer sea ice was either a new
record low or tied with the low of 2007, depending on how you crunch the data. Ships are
plying the newly opened waters, oil companies are increasing their exploration, locals are
developing their mineable resources, and scientists are scrambling to study the changing
environment and promote its sustainable development. Nature investigates the state of science
at the new northern frontier.
Report - Keeping Track of our changing environment - From Rio to Rio + 20 (1992-2012)
UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)
This publication helps to tell the story of where the world was 20 years ago and where we collectively
stand today, and to show the direction in which we need to move in a post-Rio+20 world. It also
highlights the missing pieces in our knowledge about the state of environment— such as those related
to freshwater quality and quantity, ground water depletion, ecosystem services, loss of natural
habitat, land degradation, chemicals and waste—due to lack of regular monitoring, collection and
compilation of data. Scientifically-credible data for environmental monitoring remains inadequate and
the challenge of building in-country capacity to produce better policy-relevant data needs urgent attention.
+ info: http://www.unep.org/GEO/pdfs/Keeping_Track.pdf
YouthXchange guidebook series: climate change and lifestyles
Year of Publication: 2011
Author: UNEP
ISBN No: 978-92-807-3211-5
The UNEP/UNESCO YouthXchange Initiative, which aims to promote sustainable lifestyles among youth
(15-24 year-olds) around the world through education, dialogue, awareness-raising and capacity-building,
will release a publication in late August 2011 titled "YouthXchange guidebook on climate change and
lifestyles". This guidebook is geared directly to youth and educators, trainers and youth leaders, and it is
written in youth-friendly language; therefore, it is rather a toolkit for young people. This leaflet contains information about
the guidebook and the themes addressed.
+ info: http://www.unep.org/publications/contents/pub_details_search.asp?ID=6216
Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation ( SRREN) - Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN), agreed and released by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on May 9th in Abu Dhabi, assesses existing literature on the future
potential of renewable energy for the mitigation of climate change. It covers the six most important renewable energy
technologies, as well as their integration into present and future energy systems. It also takes into consideration the
environmental and social consequences associated with these technologies, the cost and strategies to overcome technical as
well as non-technical obstacles to their application and diffusion.
+ info: http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/
Human Development Report 2011 - Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All
The Report shows further how the world’s most disadvantaged people suffer the most from environmental
degradation, including in their immediate personal environment, and disproportionately lack political power,
making it all the harder for the world community to reach agreement on needed global policy changes. The
Report also outlines great potential for positive synergies in the quest for greater equality and
sustainability, especially at the national level. The Report further emphasizes the human right to a healthy
environment, the importance of integrating social equity into environmental policies, and the critical
importance of public participation and official accountability. The 2011 Report concludes with a call for bold
new approaches to global development financing and environmental controls, arguing that these measures are both essential
and feasible.
+ info: http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2011/
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State's love for old bridges rekindled by storm - Vermont - USA
BARTONSVILLE (AP).- By the time Susan Hammond came downstairs at 9 a.m. the rain was
falling hard. Standing on the back deck with Sunday coffee in hand, she looked down the hill
and through the trees to where the usually lazy Williams River powered over rocks, loud
enough to compete with the din of Tropical Storm Irene's downpour.
Inside, Hammond pulled up a chair to her computer to check the water level at a gauge just
downriver: 4 1/2 feet, nearly doubled from the night before, but well below flood stage. For
peace of mind, though, Hammond reached for an umbrella and headed down the road to pay
her hamlet's 141-year-old covered bridge a call.
Even by Vermont standards, Bartonsville's bridge was out of the ordinary, a 159-foot expanse of brown boards weathered to
a distinguished gray, with rectangular windows revealing a thick skeleton of criss-cross latticework. Standing under
umbrellas just beyond the bridge's portal, Hammond and her neighbors traded talk of the storm, before she headed back to
the house.
Around 11, she checked the river gauge again: 8 feet. Flood stage. When she went down to check on the bridge, just a few
feet separated its boards from the water. And the distance between the two was narrowing fast.
UNESCO convenes Libyan and international experts meeting for the safeguard of
Libya's cultural heritage - UNESCO Headquarters - Paris - France - 21 October 2011
UNESCO has invited experts from both inside and outside of Libya to urgently examine the
preservation of cultural heritage in the country, notably measures to safeguard cultural sites;
prevent illicit trafficking, protect museums and strengthen cultural institutions in the wake of civil
strife and the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime. The meeting - the first on protecting Libyan
cultural heritage after the fall of the regime - will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on
21 October.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/unesco_convenes_libyan
Corso di formazione "Il volontariato nella salvaguardia del patrimonio culturale dai rischi naturali - Beni mobili"
04 November - 20 November 2011 Aquila, Regione Abruzzo. Italy
Organizers: Legambiente Abruzzo Beni Culturali & Regione Abruzzo
+ info: http://www.legambienteabruzzo.it/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/brochure-corsi-formazione-br.pdf
ELAICH (Educational Linkage Approach in Cultural Heritage) - Workshop for Public Officials
07 November - 09 November 2011 Venice. Italy
Organizers: ELAICH Project - the Euromed 4 Cultural Heritage Programme (European Union) and Ca’ Foscari University of
Venice (Italia)
+ info: http://www.euromedheritage.net/intern.cfm?menuID=9&submenuID=7&idnews=611
PATRIMOINE ET PATRIMONIALISATION - Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris Val de eEine
08 November 2011 Paris. France
Organizers: Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris Val de eEine
+ info: http://www.crh.archi.fr/
Cultural Heritage
Lettre d'information de la Fondation du Patrimoine n° 16 | Le 17/10/2011 - France
La Fondation du Patrimoine a pour but essentiel de sauvegarder et de valoriser le patrimoine rural non protégé. Maisons,
églises, ponts, lavoirs, moulins, patrimoine industriel, mobilier, naturel… tous les types de patrimoine de proximité sont
éligibles à l'action de la Fondation. Aux côtés de l'Etat et des principaux acteurs du secteur, elle aide les propriétaires publics
et associatifs à financer leurs projets, permet aux propriétaires privés de défiscaliser tout ou partie de leurs travaux, et
mobilise le mécénat d’entreprise.
+ info: http://fondation-patrimoine.org/
COMPETITIONS - Third Annual National Cultural Heritage Law Moot Court Competition is now open - Deadline
for applications 11 November 2011
The Competition Board is pleased to announce that Judge Diane P. Wood of the United States Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit will be a member of the esteemed panel judging the final round of the Competition!
Registration for the Third Annual National Cultural Heritage Law Moot Court Competition is now open! The 2012 Moot Court
Competition problem will address two issues concerning the Theft of Major Artwork Act (18 U.S.C. § 668). The first focuses
on Congress’ Article I, Section 8 authority to regulate interstate commerce and the second on statutory interpretation of the
Act. Oral arguments for the 2012 Competition will be held on February 24th and 25th at the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S.
Courthouse in Chicago.
+ info: http://law.depaul.edu/chmoot/
Buffalo Unscripted: Documentary Project - Buffalo - New York State - USA
Filmed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Buffalo Unscripted is an interactive project dedicated to the Nickel City
and the historic places that define it. You can stream the documentary in its entirety on our Vimeo channel.
Buffalo is the City of No Illusions, but that doesn’t mean people know the truth about it. In the summer of 2011, a film crew
from the National Trust for Historic Preservation hit the streets of the Nickel City with one goal: Let Buffalonians tell the story
of their city, its past, and its future like only they can.
+ info: http://buffalounscripted.tumblr.com/
Premier Forum International de l'économie mauve - Paris - France - (11-13 octobre 2011)
Pour la première édition du forum international de l’économie mauve, Paris a accueilli du 11 au 13 octobre 2011 des témoins
venus d’horizons très variés pour s’exprimer sur la question d’un rapprochement entre culture, économie et développement
durable.
En reprenant les mots de Valérie Pécresse, prononcés à cette occasion, la culture souffre en France d’un cloisonnement par
rapport à l’économie, de même que pour l’enseignement et la recherche « on a trop "bunkerisé" les spécialités en ressources
humaines et sociales, on les a trop sorties du champ de l’économie et de la sphère de la science ». « Il faut refaire des
mariages », a poursuivi la ministre, venue apporter son entier soutien et celui du gouvernement français au concept
d’économie mauve. Du fait de la mondialisation notamment « dans toute notre recherche sur l’économie et l’innovation, a-telle précisé, l’investissement ne sera vraiment rentable que si nous mettons au coeur la question de la diversité culturelle ».
Au-delà des opportunités tirées de l’adaptation à la diversité, pour Valérie Pécresse « la culture est un élément clé sur lequel
on bâtit une grande économie ».
+ info: http://www.economie-mauve.org/docs/files/dossier_presse.pdf
A Background to the Armenian Heritage Centre - Valence - France
Since the 1920s, Valence and the surrounding area have welcomed an important population of Armenian origin, marked by
the tragic events of genocide and exile, as well as the difficulties of immigration. This exceptionally dynamic population has
integrated perfectly into the life of the town to which it has added its particularity thanks to the presence of a number of
associations and the maintain of strong traditions. The reference of identities, traditions and memories form the heritage of
the Armenians of Valence.
It is for this reason that the town of Valence created the Armenian Heritage Centre in 2005, included in the Valence Agglo
Sud Rhône-Alpes since January 1rst 2010.
+ info: http://www.patrimoinearmenien.org/background.htm
II National Meeting on Cultural Heritage in Colombia - Santa Marta - Colombia - (27-29
September 2011)
From 27 to 29 September 2011, the Heritage Division of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia is organizing in
Santa Marta (Colombia) the second National Meeting on Cultural Heritage, an ideal space to bridge gaps
towards the appropriation of cultural heritage by the common citizen, as well as all actors of the National
System of Cultural Heritage (SNPC) which gathers experts from the country and abroad.
Within this context, teh Culture Sector of the UNESCO Montevideo Office will contribute to promote SouthSouth cooperation through its participation and the contribution of a specialist from the Sector.
+ info: http://www.unesco.lacult.org/noticias/showitem.php?uid_ext=&getipr=MTcyLjI0LjEwLjMy&lg=2&id=3143
UNESCO/ Chile, Foro sobre pueblos originarios y redes de comunicación - Santiago de
Chile - Chile - 24 de Octubre de 2011
Como parte de las actividades de la Campaña “Mucho Chile”, encabezada por la UNESCO, le
invitamos cordialmente a acompañarnos en este foro. Conversaremos con destacados expertos
internacionales acerca de la importancia de las comunicaciones, y en especial de los nuevos
medios, en la preservación y difusión del legado cultural de nuestros Pueblos Originarios en
Latinoamérica.
+ info: http://portal.unesco.org/geography/es/ev.phpURL_ID=14769&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Cultural Heritage
(in Italian) Corso gratuito di dottorato “Virtual Cultural Heritage” - 3-5 November 2011
Il Corso di dottorato “Virtual Cultural Heritage. Strategie multi-canale per la comunicazione 3.0″ è erogato dal Politecnico di
Torino (SCUDO), presieduto dalla Prof.ssa Anna Marotta, con il supporto di MIMOS e del CNR-ITABC ed il patrocinio della
Direzione regionale per i beni culturali e paesaggistici del Piemonte-Soprintendenza dei Beni Archeologici del Piemonte e del
Museo Antichità Egizie.
Il corso continua la serie di incontri didattici sul tema del virtuale quale strumento della rappresentazione per le discipline
conformative e con figurative dello spazio ed in particolare per l’Architettura ed i Beni Culturali, che da qualche anno segna
puntualmente l’attività del gruppo di ricerca sulla Rappresentazione Digitale Interattiva dello stesso ateneo…
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2011/10/21/02-11-11-corso-gratuito-di-dottorato-virtual-cultural-heritage/
Expression sonore & Atelier de Description ASA (Atelier de sémiotique audiovisuelle)
Que sont ces sons? Quelles typologies ? Comment les décrire ? Comment les localiser et indexer pour leur réutilisation?
Existe-t-il une modélisation d’organisation de ces informations ?…
Ces problématiques sont au centre de notre projet de recherche. En effet, l’Atelier de description du Studio ASA, prévoit une
fonctionnalité pour la description des plans sonores des documents audiovisuels. Nous allons le démontrer par une
simulation de l’usage de cette fonctionnalité dans notre Atelier de Description.
En choisissant l’onglet « Plan acoustique », l’analyste accède à la fonctionnalité pour décrire ce type d’information à la fois au
niveau de la vidéo et au niveau des segments de vidéo (Illustration A).
+ info: http://asashs.hypotheses.org/746
Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (EPA): at the service of development - Porto Novo (Benin)
From its inception in 1998, Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (EPA) has sought to become a centre of reference and cultural
information at the service of institutions, heritage professionals, communities and cultural personnel throughout the African
continent. In the context of sustainable development, EPA has always been poised to regularly adapt its vision and mission
to the changing needs in the field. In its 13 years of activities, EPA has become a platform for consultation and a reference
point for people of culture and the African communities.
+ info: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2011_en/various_en/10_12_EPAbrochure_en.pdf
HERITAGE WITHOUT BORDERS - Sarajevo Press Release - Enterprising attempt to tackle international heritage
skills gap in the Balkans
In September 2011, Heritage Without Borders (HWB) will be running one of its first international projects in Sarajevo with
the cooperation of the well-established Swedish Non Governmental Organisation, Cultural Heritage Without Borders (CHwB –
http://www.chwb.org/). A team of 3 volunteers, led by one of HWB’s co-directors, Dominica D’Arcangelo will run a free oneweek course at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina to train museum professionals from across the Balkans in
the principles of preventive and basic remedial conservation. D’Arcangelo is a founding member of Conservators Without
Borders. The other 2 team members are conservation students gaining master’s qualifications in the Institute of
Archaeology, University College London (UCL). They are: Carmen Maria Vida and Nicola Harrison.
+ info: http://heritagewithoutborders.org/2011/07/sarajevo-press-release/
The Best in Heritage: Excellence Club - EXPONATEC
16 November - 18 November 2011 Cologne. Germany
Organizers: The Best in Heritage and Europa NOSTRA
+ info: http://thebestinheritage.com/excellence-club/programme/
Colloque - Ces patrimoines qui font territoire - Service Patrimoines et Inventaire de la Région Île-de-France
24 November - 25 November 2011 Paris. France
Organizers: Colloque organisé par le service Patrimoines et Inventaire de la Région Île-de-France
Merv Press Release - Heritage Without Borders' first project in Turkmenistan includes conservators from
Colchester, York and London
Stefanie White, a conservator at Colchester and Ipswich Museums will be one of three volunteer conservators working on
site at the Ancient City of Merv in Turkmenistan from 27 August to 17 September. Margrethe Felter, a conservator at The
York Archaeological Trust (YAT), will be leading the team. The third team member is Kelly Caldwell who works at the British
Museum. The project is co-ordinated by a new social enterprise called Heritage Without Borders (HWB – http://www.
heritagewithoutborders.org). It is HWB’s first international collaboration.
+ info: http://heritagewithoutborders.org/2011/07/merv-press-release/
Une histoire filmée des Noirs au Canada (video in English)
Dans cet entretien, réalisé à Paris en 2009 au cours du colloque "The Trudeau Foundation
Audiovisual Archives", la cinéaste Sylvia D. HAMILTON nous parle de sa passion pour l'histoire des
Noirs-Africains du Canada, passion grâce à laquelle elle a pu déjà réaliser de nombreux films. Le
dernier d'entre eux : "The little black schoolhouse" porte sur la ségrégation des élèves noirs dans
les écoles canadiennes à l’époque de son enfance. Elle raconte l'accueil du film au Canada, et
souligne qu'une des premières réactions des Canadiens est d'affirmer leur ignorance du
phénomène historique de ségrégation des Noirs au Canada. Son prochain projet : l'histoire des
femmes noires canadiennes qui militent pour les droits de tous.
+ info: http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/EN/Event.asp?id=2158&url=/2158/home.asp
Cultural Heritage
First International Purple Economy Forum held - Paris - France - (21 October 2011)
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre participated in a round table on “Attractiveness of
regional assets: The creation and regionalization of added value” at the world’s first
international forum of Purple Economy held in Paris, France, 11-13 October 2011 together
with Carlo Petrini (Founder and President of Slow Food) and Daniel Maximin (Commissioner of
the French Year on Overseas Territories). The event launched an inclusive international debate
on different approaches to economy placing culture in the centre of sustainable development,
in the six official languages of the United Nations. The Forum was also addressed by the
Assistant Director General for Culture, Francesco Bandarin on 11 October 2011.
+ info: http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/801
Après la mort de Kadhafi, l'UNESCO s'inquiète pour le patrimoine culturel
libyen
L’UNESCO a organisé une réunion le 21 octobre 2011 pour faire le point sur l’état du
patrimoine culturel libyen après huit mois de guerre civile. Plusieurs spécialistes
internationaux étaient présents, notamment les membres de la mission du Bouclier
bleu qui se sont rendus dans le pays fin septembre 2011. Si aucun dégât important n’a
été relevé sur les sites classés, les responsables de l’UNESCO ont mis en garde contre
les pillages, fréquents à la fin d’un conflit. Récemment, un important trésor a disparu à
Benghazi.
+ info: http://www.artclair.com/site/archives/docs_article/90912/apres-la-mort-de-kadhafi-l-unesco-s-inquiete-pour-lepatrimoine-culturel-libyen.php
Newsletter - Salon International du Patrimoine Culturel - Paris - France (3-6 novembre 2011)
Le 17ème Salon International du Patrimoine Culturel, qui a fermé ses portes ce dimanche 6 novembre 2011, a accueilli 260
exposants et plus de 20 000 visiteurs. Il note une nette augmentation de sa fréquentation.
Les professionnels et le grand public ont été conquis par les nouvelles orientations du salon : l’espace de démonstrations
“Métiers d’Art en scène” ainsi que l’exposition photographique sur les passages couverts d’Europe ont particulièrement attiré
l’attention.
+ info: http://ems6.net/a/?F=b9qpk2cvvxlqqjs8a28etkmqlgwl4b86deydcjkp23t6spcx275qaja-2691247
TERRITORI DELLA CULTURA - Newsletter - Centro Universitario Europeo per I Beni Culturali - Ravello - Italy
It's on line the fifth issue of the journal «Territori della Cultura», published by Centro Universitario Europeo per i Beni
Culturali and disseminated by «Quotidiano Arte, il Giornale del Patrimonio Culturale».
On the inside articles by A. Andria, P. Graziani, A. Filippelli & G. Cici, W. Dobrowolski, O. Niglio, M. Pistacchi, S. La Rocca, L.
De Siena, P. Pierotti, M.C. Sorrentino and G. Tilkin.
+ info: http://www.quotidianoarte.it/nl/quotidianoarte_file_18180.mn
Lettre d'information de la Fondation du Patrimoine n° 17 | - 2 novembre 2011
La Fondation du Patrimoine a pour but essentiel de sauvegarder et de valoriser le patrimoine rural non protégé. Maisons,
églises, ponts, lavoirs, moulins, patrimoine industriel, mobilier, naturel… tous les types de patrimoine de proximité sont
éligibles à l'action de la Fondation. Aux côtés de l'Etat et des principaux acteurs du secteur, elle aide les propriétaires publics
et associatifs à financer leurs projets, permet aux propriétaires privés de défiscaliser tout ou partie de leurs travaux, et
mobilise le mécénat d’entreprise.
+ info: http://fondation-patrimoine.org/
ISPAN NEWSLETTER (Institut de sauvegarde du patrimoine national) N. 29 - Haïti
The Institute for the Conservation of National Heritage (ISPAN) is a technical entity independent of the Ministry of Culture
and Communication. It has as its mission the inventory and classification of the sites, monuments and architectural
complexes of the Republic of Haiti, and it is also in charge of carrying out of projects for the protection, restoration and
performance of monuments, sites and historical complexes, of securing the direction and control of the performance of such
projects, of aiding the promotion and development of public or private activities aimed at preserving the national heritage,
and lastly, of gathering, organizing and spreading all the information and documents related to the architectural heritage and
the monuments, both at a national and international level. We would like to thank you for encouraging your friends to
subscribe to the ISPAN BULLETIN at the following address : [email protected]
+ info: universidadypatrimonio.net/doc/ISPAN_No29.pdf
BULLETIN DE L'ISPAN (Institut de sauvegarde du patrimoine national) # 29 - Haïti
Merci d'encourager vos ami(e)s à s'inscrire à l'abonnement du BULLETIN DE L'ISPAN à l'adresse suivante :ispan.
[email protected] L’Institut de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine National (ISPAN) est un organisme technique autonome du
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Il a pour mission de dresser l’inventaire et de procéder au classement des
monuments, de sites et d’ensembles historiques de la République d’Haïti, de réaliser des études de projets de protection, de
restauration et de mise en valeur de monuments, de sites et d’ensemble historiques, d’assurer la direction et le contrôle des
travaux d’exécution de tels projets, d’aider à la promotion et au développement d’activités publiques ou privées visant à
sauvegarder le Patrimoine National et, enfin, de recueillir, organiser et diffuser toutes informations et documentations
relatives au Patrimoine architectural et monumental, national et international.
Historic Environment Local Management (HELM) Local Authority Guidance Library - English Heritage (United
Cultural Heritage
Kingdom)
Guidance is listed alphabetically by TITLE. Please contact the relevant local authority to receive hard copies of their
guidance. We hope the guidance documents will provide a valuable resource, however English Heritage cannot accept
responsibility for their content.
You may also carry out a search for guidance by Local Authority and region.
+ info: http://www.helm.org.uk/server/show/nav.19704
Cultural Heritage and the Reconstruction of Identities after Conflict - Cambridge University - Cambridge (United
Kingdom)
Recent conflicts in Europe, as well as abroad, have brought the deliberate destruction of the heritage of others, as a means
of inflicting pain, to the foreground. With this has come the realisation that the processes involved and thus the long-term
consequences are poorly understood. Heritage reconstruction is not merely a matter of design and resources - at stake is the
re-visioning and reconstruction of people's identities! This project aims to investigate the ways the destruction and
subsequent selective reconstruction of the cultural heritage impact identity formation. The project seeks to illuminate both
the empirical and theoretical relationship between cultural heritage, conflict and identity…
+ info: http://www.cric.arch.cam.ac.uk/index.php?id=51
VIDEO - Cultural Heritage and the Reconstruction of Identities after Conflict: Case Studies - Cambridge
University. Cambridge (United Kingdom)
CRIC is a European research project directed from the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of
Cambridge studying the impact of the destruction and reconstruction of cultural heritage on societies after war. CRIC
( Cultural Heritage and the Reconstruction of Identities after Conflict) has case studies in Spain, Bosnia, France, Germany
and Cyprus. This four-year project is funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme.
+ info: http://www.youtube.com/user/CRICResearchProject
Appel à contribution : patrimoine et risques majeurs - Association nationale des architectes des bâtiments de
France (ANABF) - France
A l'occasion d'un partenariat passé avec le Ministère du Développement Durable (MEDDTL) à propos de la mémoire collective
des catastrophes majeures, l'Association nationale des architectes des bâtiments de France (ANABF) s'est engagée à
contribuer au projet de recensement des "marqueurs patrimoniaux sinistrés" organisé par la direction générale de la
prévention des risques.
Cette action a pour objet d'établir un recensement des sites sinistrés et des monuments "marqueurs" des catastrophes
naturelles et technologiques ou catastrophes majeures, qu'ils fassent déjà l'objet d'une procédure de protection ou non.
Bilan du 17ème Salon International du Patrimoine Culturel - 2011
Le Salon International du Patrimoine Culturel a fermé ses portes dimanche 6 novembre au soir après quatre jours
de rencontres et d'échanges fructueux sur le stand commun de Patrimoine-Environnement et de la Ligue Urbaine
et Rurale, sur le pôle associatif à l'entrée du Salon.
La Ligue Urbaine et Rurale et la Fédération Patrimoine-Environnement habituées à travailler en relation étroite
dans le cadre du G8 Patrimoine ont proposé cette année un stand plus vaste qui témoigne de leur volonté de
rapprochement…
+ info: http://www.associations-patrimoine.org/rubrique.php
Save Our Culture Launched: International collaborative project aims to save cultural heritage damaged by Great
East Japan Earthquake
The Foundation for Cultural Heritage and Art Research (Ueno, Taito Ward, Tokyo/ President: Ryohei Miyata) announced
today that a project entitled “Save Our Culture (SOC)” has been launched in international collaboration with World
Monuments Fund (NY, U.S.A/ President: Bonnie Burnham) and with cooperation from the Agency for Cultural Affairs and
Tokyo University of the Arts…
+ info: http://www.wmf.org/sites/default/files/press_releases/Save%20Our%20Culture.pdf
Agenda
Masters in Historic Environment - University of Cambridge - Institute of Continuing Education
Cambridge. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: University of Cambridge
DEADLINE: 30 mar 2012
+ info: http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/component/courses/?view=course&cid=3789
Heritage Research Group Autumn Seminars - University of Cambridge
13 October - 08 December 2011 Cambridge. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: University of Cambridge. Department of Archaeology
+ info: http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/heritage/heritagefair.html
Significance Assessment Workshop 2011 - Australian National University. Canberra - Australian Capital
Territory (Australia)
28 November - 29 November 2011 Canberra. Australia
Cultural Heritage
Organizers: Australian National University
+ info: http://www.significanceinternational.com/Events/SignificanceAssessmentWorkshop2011
Journées des acteurs culturels du Centre Ouest Bretagne
01 December - 03 December 2011 Le Saint et Rostrenen, Bretagne. France
Organizers: Centre Ouest Bretagne
Exhibition - Les récits peints, l'autre histoire - Ex Votos mexicains
09 December 2011 - 06 April 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: l’Instituto Cultural de México à Paris
+ info: http://mexiqueculture.org/cat/expositions/
Simposio Internazionale "Vasari e l'Arte del Rinascimento Italiano"
10 December 2011 Kyoto. Japan
Organizers: Museum Kyoto University
+ info: http://www.esempidiarchitettura.it/ebcms2.lm.php?mod=news&modAzione=scheda&o_nome=news&o_id=557_ITA
Registration for European Association of History Educators (EUROCLIO) Yad Vashem Partnership Seminar is
open now!
15 December - 18 December 2011 Jerusalem
Organizers: EUROCLIO and Yad Vashem Institute with the support of Adelson Family Foundation
Contact: Jonathan Even-Zohar ([email protected]), trainee Aysel Gojayeva ([email protected])
+ info: http://www.euroclio.eu/new/index.php/work/crossing-borders-transnational-projects-and-events/israel-2011--yadvashem-partnership-seminar
Colloque "AU-DELÀ DES TÉMOIGNAGES ET DES TRAUMATISMES: l'histoire orale au lendemain de la violence de
masse"
22 March 2012 - 25 March 2015 Montréal. Canada
Organizers: Centre d'histoire orale et de récits numérisés Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling Université Concordia
University
+ info: http://www.histoiresdeviemontreal.ca/
The International University Festival for Cultural Heritage and Folk Arts (2nd edition)
25 April - 28 April 2012 Agadir. Morocco
Organizers: Research Team at Ibn Zohr University
Contact: Dr. Abdelouahed OUMLIL - [email protected]
+ info: http://www.festival-patrimoine.com/
Publications
ICOMOS Documentation Centre e-news - 3 March 2011
Documentation Centre
ICOMOS. International Council on Monuments and Sites, 2011
Index
- Database – Online catalog
- What’s new in our collections?
- Publications
+ info: http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/E-News/E-NEWS_Doc_Centre_20110303.pdf
Exit Europe - New Geographies of Culture
International conference, 12-15 November 2009, Zagreb
Published by the Clubture Network, Zagreb
Katarina Pavić and Milica Pekić (eds.)
ISBN 978-953-95994-2-1
ISBN 978-86-84977-07-8
Exit Europe is an international conference focusing on European cultural polices, with
a particular emphasis on new cultural practices in the former Yugoslav countries and
a critical reassessment of the EU enlargement process from the perspective of emerging political and social geographies.
The aim of the conference is to provide critical reassessment of these developments and understanding how cultural and
foreign policies of the European Union can be steered to support emerging cultural practices and to enhance cooperation,
rather than to reinforce the barriers in the region.
+ info: http://exiteurope.net/
Cultural Heritage
Protecting and Safeguarding Cultural Heritage: Systems of Management of Cultural Heritage in
the Visegrad Countries
Heritage Forum of Central Europe (1º. International Cultural Centre, Krakow, Poland. 7-9 July, 2011)
Organizer: Visegrad Group; International Cultural Centre in Cracow
Praca zbiorowa; Jacek Purchla (red. naukowy)
ISBN 978-83-89273-87-1
The International Cultural Centre in Krakow organises the first Heritage Forum of Central Europe, bringing
together specialists from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia and other experts from the wider
region.
+ info: http://www.mck.krakow.pl/bookshop/protecting-andsafeguarding-cultural-heritage
Interior of the mausoleum of Itimad-al-Daula, Agra 1800
Creator: Artist : Latif (fl..1820s)
Date: [1820] 1820 - 1822
Data provider: The British Library
Provider: The European Library
Watercolour of the interior of the mausoleum of I'timad al-Daula, Agra by Latif in c. 1820. I'timad
al-Daula (Emperor's Pillar) was the title bestowed upon Mirza Ghiyas Beg by Emperor Jehangir. Of
Persian descent, Mirza Ghiyas Beg became the first treasurer and then the prime minister (wazir)
under Emperor Jehangir. His daughter, Nur Jahan, later married the Emperor and commissioned the mausoleum to honour
the memory of her father upon his death in 1622.
+ info: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/
"The Slave Route in Río de la Plata: Contributions for an Intercultural Dialogue"
Within the Córdoba Book Fair 2011 (Argentina) and the International Year for People of African Descent, on
Friday, September 2 at 18 hs was presented the book "The Slave Route in Río de la Plata: Contributions for an
Intercultural Dialogue", the memoirs of the seminar organized by the University Tres de Febrero and the
UNESCO Chair on Cultural Tourism, with the support of UNESCO Montevideo.
The presentation took place at the Concert Hall of the Córdoba City Hall and included a panel-debate on the
Argentine people of African descent. After the presentation there was a walking tour through “Black Córdoba”,
guided by specialist from the Municipality.
afrodescendientes
Fotografías de Roberto Chile
El destacado cineasta cubano Roberto Chile acaba de publicar su libro Afrodescendientes,
Guanabacoa-Cuba, material que recoge 40 fotos de su autoría, acompañadas de textos firmados
por el Sr. Herman van Hooff, Director de la Oficina Regional de Cultura para América Latina y el
Caribe de la UNESCO, el Dr. Eusebio Leal, Historiador de La Habana, el Sr. Juan Carlos Moya,
curador de la muestra, y el Sr. Gabriel Navarrete, Presidente de la Asociación Cultura y
Cooperación Internacional, de España.
Con una elegante edición, la obra revela a través de impactantes imágenes en blanco y negro "pequeñas historias de vida de
los habitantes de ese singular poblado habanero, otrora destino de negros esclavos en la isla y hoy asentamiento de
sucesivas generaciones de afrodescendientes que trabajan, estudian, aman, sufren y sueñan con pasión y denuedo en la
Cuba actual." Así la describió el Sr. van Hooff, quien también afirmó que es un "hermoso homenaje a la diversidad cultural,
regalo memorable de este gran artista cubano en este Año Internacional de los Afrodescendientes".
Le monde byzantin: Tome 3
Cécile Morrisson, Angeliki Laiou
Presses Universitaires de France - PUF
Paris. 2011
Ce sont les élèves de Paul Lemerle, disparu en 1989, qui ont mis en œuvre au cours de ces dernières années
le projet qu'avait imaginé le maître d'offrir aux spécialistes universitaires, en même temps qu'au grand
public cultivé, une synthèse de l'Histoire byzantine rendant compte des dernières avancées de la recherche.
Deux premiers volumes sont parus en 2004 et 2006, sous la direction de Jean-Claude Cheynet et c'est le
troisième et dernier que nous proposent aujourd'hui les Presses Universitaires de France, dans la ligne de ce que fut - dès
son origine, il y a un demi-siècle - une collection « Nouvelle Clio » combinant une information bibliographique très complète,
un exposé des événements et d'ambitieuses synthèses consacrées aux divers aspects de la vie économique et sociale, de
l'évolution religieuse ou des productions culturelles…
+ info: http://www.clio.fr/BIBLIOTHEQUE/lecture/le_monde_byzantin_tome_3.asp
Memorial functions: Intent, impact and the right to remember
By Dacia Viejo-Rose. University of Cambridge, UK
Studying memorial practice offers a revealing vantage point into changes in attitudes towards the past and with observers
referring to ‘memorial mania’ it is an opportune moment to do so. Two main lines of questioning regarding contemporary
memorial practices are addressed here. The first looks at memorial functions and intentions. The second examines some of
their social and political impacts. The final part of the article analyses some of the consequences of these impacts for
citizenship: notions of victimhood and silencing. The main case study is the evolution of memorial practice in Spain since the
Civil War (1936–39) this is set off against examples from other places. The conclusion that emerges is that predominant
memorial practices are far more despotic than democratic in their injunction to recall a specific narrative of events and trying
Cultural Heritage
to steer a paradigm shift towards democratic memorial practices raises questions about civic rights and duties towards the
past.
+ info: http://mss.sagepub.com/content/4/4/465.abstract
Zoos humains et exhibitions coloniales - Groupe de recherche Achac (13)
En amont de l'exposition Exhibitions. L'invention du sauvage qui se tiendra du 29 novembre 2011 au 3 juin
2012 au musée du quai Branly, parait l'ouvrage Zoos humains et exhibitions coloniales. 150 ans d'inventions
de l'Autre, véritable synthèse et ouvrage de référence sur la question, rassemblant les meilleurs spécialistes
internationaux, sous la direction de Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, Gilles Boëtsch, Eric Deroo et Sandrine
Lemaire aux éditions La Découverte. Cet ouvrage rassemble plus de 40 contributions.
Les « zoos humains », symboles oubliés de l’histoire contemporaine, ont été totalement refoulés de notre
mémoire collective. Ces exhibitions des « sauvages », aussi bien des « exotiques » que des « monstres », ont
pourtant été, en Europe, aux États-Unis et au Japon, une étape majeure du passage progressif d’un racisme scientifique à un
racisme populaire. Au carrefour du discours savant, des cultures de masse et de l’intérêt des puissances coloniales, ces
exhibitions ont touché plus d’un milliard quatre cent millions de visiteurs depuis l’exhibition en Europe de la Vénus
hottentote, au début du XIXe siècle. Ces exhibitions, peuplées d’êtres difformes et de personnes en provenance des espaces
coloniaux d’Afrique, d’Amérique, d’Océanie ou d’Asie, comme appartenant à un univers de l’anormalité, disparaîtront
progressivement avec les années 1930, mais elles avaient fait alors leur œuvre : bâtir deux humanités.
+ info: http://www.achac.com/
Heritage Counts 2011: the historic environment and Big Society - English Heritage (United Kingdom)
'Heritage Counts 2011' is the tenth annual survey of the state of England’s historic environment. Each year Heritage Counts
explores the role of the historic environment in wider social and economic agendas. This year the theme is the historic
environment and Big Society.
It is produced on behalf of the Historic Environment Forum.
+ info: http://hc.english-heritage.org.uk/What-Is-Heritage-Counts/
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Modern Masters Shine During What's Out There Weekend - San Francisco - California USA - 17-18 September 2011
More than 1,000 people explored San Francisco’s wealth of designed landscapes, particularly
Modernist ones, September 17-18 during What’s Out There Weekend. As with similar previous
events in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, the weekend provided visitors with free, expert- led
tours through 25 area parks, gardens, public plazas, and neighborhoods spanning over 100 years
of design, though the focus, in keeping with the weekend’s Mostly Modern theme, looked at
masterworks by Lawrence Halprin, Robert Royston and other practitioners…
+ info: http://tclf.org/news/tclf-news/modern-masters-shine-wotw-san-francisco
Severe damage to Philippine Rice Terraces by two typhoons - The Philippines
The Northern Luzon of the Philippines was severely affected by Typhoon Pedrin (International Name: Nesat) which crossed
the region on Tuesday 27 September. Its trajectory passed across the Ifugao Province and has, according to preliminary
reports, caused major mud and landslides within the area of the World Heritage property of the Rice Terraces in the
Philippine Cordilleras. A second typhoon crossed the area this past weekend.
While the communication in the area is still not fully functional and many roads remain blocked, the full extent of the
damage and possible loss of lives is still unknown. The Philippine authorities have informed UNESCO that they will be
applying for Emergency Assistance under the World Heritage Fund to respond to this situation. The conservation of the Rice
Terraces will require substantial and concerted efforts and the World Heritage Centre is exploring all possible means to
respond to this situation as quickly as possible.
Architetture e Paesaggi d'acqua. Strumenti retorici, immagine costruita
15 October - 28 October 2011 Reggio Emilia. Italy
+ info: http://www.emiliacentrale.it/progetti/cbec/sito/cbec.nsf/PUBB-TITLE/Architetture%20e%20paesaggi%20d%27acqua?
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Mostra_Gli "strumenti" di Emilio Sereni_Biblioteca Palatina : STORIA DEL PAESAGGIO AGRARIO ITALIANO
15 October - 13 November 2011 Parma. Italy
Organizers: Istituto Alcide Cervi - Biblioteca Archivio Emilio Sereni (Gattatico)
+ info: http://www.fratellicervi.it/content/view/400/#convegno
Historic University of Massachusetts Pond Landscape
Threatened by Construction - Amherst - Massachusetts - USA
In 1866 the Trustees of Massachusetts Agricultural College requested
that Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. provide recommendations for the
grounds of the newly formed institution. Olmsted, in his report
recommended that a village green be constructed at the center of the
farmland campus. Constructed in 1892, the Campus Pond and its
extensive surrounding lawns are an exemplar of the early use of
ecological principles in landscape architecture as well as a central gathering place and focal feature of the flagship Amherst
campus of the University of Massachusetts. Preservation of the landscape has been recommended by a series of nationally
known landscape planners, but the current administrators of the campus view it as “vacant” land and in need of “activation”
- a place for new buildings and bridges.
Cultural Landscapes
+ info: http://tclf.org/landslides/historic-umass-pond-landscape-threatened
L'observatoire photographique national du paysage - France
Le ministère chargé de l’écologie a engagé la création de l’Observatoire photographique du paysage en 1991. L’objectif de
cet observatoire est de constituer un fond de séries photographiques pour analyser les transformations des espaces ainsi que
le rôle des différents acteurs qui en sont la cause, de façon à orienter favorablement l’évolution du paysage. Ils peuvent être
initiés par les services services déconcentrés du ministère de l’écologie et de l’équipement,, mais aussi par les collectivités
territoriales (Conseil généraux et régionaux, les Parcs naturels régionaux, les communautés de communes…).
+ info: http://www.statistiques.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/lessentiel/ar/279/1129/lobservatoire-photographiquenational-paysage.html
Les chartes et les plans de paysage - France
Depuis la loi dite « paysage » du 08 janvier 1993 et la circulaire du 21 mars 1995, les groupements de communes sont
encouragés à élaborer des projets de gestion des paysages sous la forme de chartes paysagères et de plans de paysages. En
2005 une enquête commanditée par le ministère de l’écologie a recensé les plans et les chartes de paysage élaborés en
France. Au final, 167 plans de paysage ont pu être recensés. Cet outil a été utilisé dans 14 régions, mais l’Auvergne avec 66
plans et la Lorraine avec 18, sont les régions dans lesquelles ces outils sont les plus utilisés.
+ info: http://www.statistiques.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/lessentiel/ar/279/1129/chartes-plans-paysage.html
Sunnylands Center and Gardens - The Office of James Burnett, Frederick Fisher &
Partners - Rancho Mirage - California - USA
An extension of the 200-acre desert retreat of publisher, diplomat and philanthropist Walter
Annenberg, the Sunnylands Center and Gardens is an interpretive center that celebrates the
architectural and cultural legacy of the historic estate. Inspired by the Annenberg’s extensive
collection of impressionist artwork, the landscape architect painted a living landscape that
respects the character of the Sonoran Desert and demonstrates a new ecological aesthetic for
landscapes in the arid southwest.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/175257/sunnylands-center-and-gardens-the-office-of-james-burnett/
Celebrazioni Sereniane 2011 - Convegno Internazionale Biblioteca Emilio Sereni - Gattatico Reggio Emilia - Italy - 11-13 November 2011
E' con grande piacere che inviamo i materiali definitivi delle Celebrazioni sereniane 2011, a cinquant'anni
dall'uscita della Storia del paesaggio agrario italiano di Emilio Sereni (Bari 1961) L'invito alla partecipazione
è rivolto a tutti gli interessati.
Le celebrazioni sereniane, sotto l 'Alto Patronato della Presidenza della Repubblica, sono un'iniziativa
dell'Istituto Alcide Cervi di Gattatico (R.E.), che conserva l'importante e prestigiosa Biblioteca Archivio di
Emilio Sereni, e della Società Geografica Italiana.
+ info: http://www.fratellicervi.it/images/stories/cervi/Download/2011/iniziative_sereniane/Sereniane_2011.pdf
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Exhibition - William Delafield Cook. A Survey - Tarrawarra Museum of Art
15 October 2011 - 12 February 2012 Healesville, Victoria. Australia
Organizers: Tarrawarra Museum of Art
+ info: http://twma.com.au/exhibitions/event/william-delafield-cook-a-survey/
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Perception of Plants in Ancient Times and Their Use as Motifs Revealing Aspects of the Cultural
Landscape in Side, Turkey - Journal of Landscape Research
By Meryem Atik, Hacer Mutlu Danaci & Reyhan Erdoğan
Landscape can be defined as a complex of human and natural interactions through time. Therefore,
landscape identification requires a complete understanding of social, natural, economic, aesthetic and
cultural values. Contributing to the aesthetic-visual integrity of the landscape, plants are a valuable
indicator, recording the type and degree of the human – nature relationship over time. Our feelings,
imagination and perception often contribute to the cultural dimension of the landscape and the role of plants
in mythology can be used as a kind of linguistic code for helping to understand some aspects of cultural landscapes. The aim
of this study is to demonstrate how a number of key plants were perceived in ancient cultures using some examples from
the Mediterranean landscape and to use them to help to evaluate different dimensions of archaeological landscapes using the
case of the ancient city of Side in Turkey. Multi-dimensional approaches in landscape evaluation which use symbolic meaning
can generate valuable knowledge about cultural landscapes. This is precisely because cultural landscapes are the sum of
biological, physical and cultural components, while plants as natural elements have bridged the biological and cultural
dimensions.
+ info: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01426391003743579
The Setting of Heritage Assets: English Heritage Guidance
This document sets out English Heritage guidance on managing change within the settings of
heritage assets, including archaeological remains and historic buildings, sites, areas, and
landscapes.
Cultural Landscapes
It provides the basis for advice by English Heritage on the setting of heritage assets when we
respond to consultations and when we assess the implications of development proposals on the
historic estate that we manage. It is also intended to assist others involved with managing
development that may affect the setting of heritage assets.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/setting-heritage-assets/
Parks and Gardens Designation Criteria - Selection Guide - English Heritage
English Heritage registers only those sites which it considers to be of special historic interest.
As a guide to the level of historic interest required to make a site 'special' nine criteria have been drawn up to asses whether
to register a site. The application of these criteria, however, must be accompanied by expert and extensive knowledge of the
country's historic parks and gardens as a whole, to ensure that decisions are consistent.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/criteria-for-protection/pag-criteria/
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Cultural Routes & Itineraries, Linear Heritage (Routes, Canals,
Railways, Rivers, etc.)
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Preliminary plan for the Callowhill Reading Viaduct neighbourhood improvement district - Philadelphia Pennsylvania - USA
The mission is to transform the public space between Vine and Spring Garden Streets, 8th
Street and Broad Street (excluding properties fronting on Broad Street) into a cleaner,
safer, greener neighborhood.
+ info: http://legislation.phila.gov/attachments/11459.pdf
The UNESCO Silk Road Platform for Dialogue, Diversity and Development - UNESCO
Headquarters - Paris - France - 3 November 2011
Following its ten years project entitled “The integral study of the Silk Roads, Roads of Dialogue” and
following its consultation with member state, UNESCO is going to establish an on-line platform on
the Silk Road in order to promote the outcomes of the former project developed by UNESCO and its
network of partners.
The platform will assume the coordination between different academic, cultural and artistic
institutions that work on the Silk Road throughout the world for sharing their outcomes through this
platform and in view of promotion of intercultural dialogue as well. In this respect a draft of resolution with support of more
than 30 countries has been delivered to the 36th General Conference in order to integrate the platform’s project into the 36/
C5.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=5131&cHash=ac4094d514
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EXHIBITION - The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography - The Queen's Gallery
- Buckingham Palace
21 October 2011 - 15 April 2012 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: The Queen's Gallery
Contact: [email protected].
+ info: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/HOTGA/
International Conference "Tourist and Cultural Itineraries: From Memory to Development"
13 June - 15 June 2012 Quebec City, Quebec. Canada
Organizers: Université Laval, the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the
Center for Tourism and Cultural Change (Leeds University).
+ info: http://quebecunitwin.ggr.ulaval.ca/?lang=en
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Conférence tripartite Afrique-Brésil-France sur la lutte contre la désertification en Afrique
- Niamey - Niger (24-25 octobre 2011)
En dépit des progrès politiques réalisés en faveur du développement durable, les efforts dédiés à la
lutte contre le réchauffement climatique (pour en ralentir ses effets), et à son adaptation (pour en
atténuer les conséquences) restent insuffisants. Les conférences de Rio+20 (UNCDS) et du 6e Forum
de l’eau en 2012 constituent la meilleure opportunité pour saisir et renforcer l’intérêt de la
communauté internationale sur ce sujet et, pour ce qui concerne cette conférence, le développement
des zones arides…
+ info: http://www.ird.fr/toute-l-actualite/colloques-et-manifestations/congres/conference-tripartite-afrique-bresil-francesur-la-lutte-contre-la-desertification-en-afrique
Desertification: The next dust bowl
Which impact of anthropogenic global warming will harm the most people in the coming decades?
I believe that the answer is extended or permanent drought over large parts of currently habitable
or arable land — a drastic change in climate that will threaten food security and may be
irreversible over centuries.
A basic prediction of climate science is that many parts of the world will experience longer and
deeper droughts, thanks to the synergistic effects of drying, warming and the melting of snow and
ice…
+ info: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v478/n7370/full/478450a.html
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ONLINE EXHIBITION - Reading Europe: European Culture Through the Book - EUROPEANA
The "Reading Europe: European culture through the book" exhibition is brought to you by The European
Library and the national libraries of Europe. This online exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view some of
the hidden literary gems from the national libraries of Europe. Twenty-three countries have selected nearly a
thousand works for the public to peruse. Visitors can discover everything from 18th century English
bestsellers to the lost interiors of Russian palaces, all presented in an innovative and multilingual form.
+ info: http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition-reading-europe/
ONLINE EXHIBITION - Travelling Through History - EUROPEANA
"Travelling Through History" is your ticket to Europe's travel heritage. Join a 1930s car trip, journey to
the North Pole or explore diaries, maps and travel memorabilia dating back to the 12th century, as
selected by major European libraries. "Travelling Through History" is an exhibition featured by The
European Library
+ info: http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition-travel-history/
Archives of American Art Contributes Photo Collection to Wikimedia Commons - USA
The Archives of American Art has contributed 285 digitized photographs from the Federal Art Project's Photographic Division
Collection to Wikimedia Commons. Most of the photographs date between 1935 and 1942, the active years of the Federal Art
Project, which was part of the Work Progress Administration's Federal Project Number One. Digitized images from the
Federal Art Project's Photographic Division Collection have been made previously available on the Archives' website, but this
is the first time that high-resolution scans have been made available for unrestricted use by the public.
+ info: http://www.aaa.si.edu/news/Archives-of-American-Art-Contributes-Photo-Collection-to-Wikimedia-Commons
United States: Writers sue universities over digital books plan
By Alison Moodie
A controversial plan involving a host of prominent American universities to digitise thousands of copyrighted books, suffered
a setback last month as a number of organisations that represent authors sought to halt digitisation efforts and an 'orphan
works' initiative.
In a suit filed on 12 September the Authors Guild, a writers' advocacy group, and several individual authors accused the
universities - including Wisconsin, Michigan and the University of California system - of pooling unauthorised scans of an
estimated seven million books in an online repository called the Hathitrust, also a defendant in the case.
+ info: http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20111007130702494
New Look Europeana launches
Europeana, Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, today launches a redesign with new functionality. The new
interface has more visual appeal and has been adapted for iPads and Android touchscreens, bringing all the benefits of touch
to Europe’s online treasury.
Europeana’s makeover has been shaped by users, who have helped to create the services they wanted around their cultural
heritage. One request was made above all: the right to download for free and re-use the cultural highlights they find on the
site. For the first time, Europeana makes it possible to narrow searches ‘by copyright’ so that public domain – out of
copyright – content can be precisely targeted.
+ info: http://app.e2ma.net/app2/campaigns/archived/1403149/b9a3367e62a24e3d2e4540a55e891de5/
European Commissioners promote digitalisation of Europe's heritage at Informal Meeting of Ministers for
Culture and Audiovisual Affairs - Warsaw - Poland
’Making audiovisual resources accessible undoubtedly poses a huge challenge, but also an opportunity for a new
Renaissance,’said Bogusław Zdrojewski, Minister of Culture and National Heritage, in his opening address. The minister
stressed that digitalisation and bringing culture online can generate unprecedented benefits in the spheres of culture,
economy, and science.
+ info: http://www.mkidn.gov.pl/pages/posts/informal-meeting-of-ministers-for-culture-and-audiovisual-affairs-2283.php
Buffalo Unscripted: Documentary Project - Buffalo - New York State - USA
Filmed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Buffalo Unscripted is an interactive project dedicated to the Nickel City
and the historic places that define it. You can stream the documentary in its entirety on our Vimeo channel.
Buffalo is the City of No Illusions, but that doesn’t mean people know the truth about it. In the summer of 2011, a film crew
from the National Trust for Historic Preservation hit the streets of the Nickel City with one goal: Let Buffalonians tell the story
of their city, its past, and its future like only they can.
+ info: http://buffalounscripted.tumblr.com/
Menil, Whitney, and Harvard Art Museums launch artists documentation
program online archive - USA
Conservators of contemporary art face unique challenges. Unlike old masters,
contemporary works are often materially ephemeral, time-based, interactive, or
conceptual. In restoring these works, conservators rely heavily on documentation of an
artist’s materials, techniques, and intent, frequently needing to consult the artist
directly. When an artist is no longer living, the available information can become quite
scarce.
To address this problem, conservator Carol Mancusi-Ungaro conceived of the Artists Documentation Program (ADP), in which
conservators interview artists in the presence of their artworks, in order to understand their materials and techniques. The
ADP creates a lasting record of an artist’s attitudes toward restoration and exhibition of their works–a “living will” for their
work.
+ info: http://adp.menil.org/
Become a 'Certified Londoner': Unlock our capital's turbulent past with a new HiddenCity
mobile phone trail through the colourful galleries of the Museum of London - London United Kingdom
For the first time ever, families will be able to explore a museum in the UK with an interactive text
message trail.
The Museum of London Discovery trail - a trail of clues by text message exploring the museum’s
galleries - launches on Thursday 20 October 2011, just in time for the autumn half-term school
holiday. The trail has been created by HiddenCity, the trails-by-text company, for families, or anyone
game for an indoor adventure.
The Discovery Trail takes families on a journey of exploration through London’s turbulent history. Using text messages and a
map of the museum, players are guided through a trail of clues, each leading them to a new location within the Museum
where they use their ingenuity to deduce answers from their surroundings. Players who successfully complete the trail win a
coveted ‘Certified Londoner’ badge by showing the Museum hosts their final congratulatory text message.
+ info: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Corporate/Press-media/Press-releases/Museum+of+London+Discovery+Trail.
htm
Nobel Prize-Winning Writer J. M. Coetzee's Archive Acquired By Harry Ransom Center - The University of Texas
at Austin - Texas - USA
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the
archive of Nobel Prize-winning writer and University of Texas at Austin alumnus J. M. Coetzee. Spanning more than 50 years,
the archive traces the author's life and career from 1956 through the present.
"My association with The University of Texas goes back almost half a century," said Coetzee. "It is very satisfying to me to
know that my papers will find a home at the Ransom Center, one of the world's great research collections."
+ info: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releases/2011/coetzee.html
Powerful search tool now includes books
By Jacquie Withers
Thomson Reuters last week launched a Book Citation Index, a new resource that includes scholarly books within the Web of
Knowledge search and discovery platform and will enable academic libraries to increase the visibility of their book collections,
the company says. Starting with 25,000 books, the number will double by the end of 2013.
The book index will complete the research picture for scientists and researchers, enabling users to navigate the links in
citations across peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings - and now also books.
New sites added to the Victorian Heritage Register - Victoria - Australia
The Victorian Heritage Register lists the State’s most significant heritage places and objects. These can be searched on the
Victorian Heritage Database.
Note that the Victorian Heritage Database includes places which are not on the Victorian Heritage Register but are classified
by the National Trust, are included in the Victorian War Heritage inventory or are covered by a local government Heritage
Overlay. (This HO information is only available for areas where the local council has made this information available through
the VHD.) The right- hand column in the results defines the Listing Authority.
+ info: http://www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/heritage/victorian-heritage-register
George Eastman House taps Clickworker for iconic global crowdsourcing project - Rochester - New York State USA
Clickworker utilizes its workforce in the cloud to catalog and tag more than 400,000 photos — bringing to life yet-unseen
collections from the world’s oldest photography museum
George Eastman House the world’s oldest photography museum founded in 1947 on the estate of Kodak founder George
Eastman, and Clickworker, an innovator in the global crowdsourcing and workforce solutions space, announce the kick-off of
a large-scale, iconic crowdsourcing project. The project involves photo-tagging of more than 400,000 images from George
Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.
+ info: http://www.eastmanhouse.org/tools/pressroom/view/global-crowdsourcing-project
Apostles edition of the Saint John's Bible gifted to The Morgan Library & Museum - New York New York State - USA
In 1998 Saint John’s University commissioned the calligrapher Donald Jackson to produce fully illuminated
luxury manuscript of the Bible, a monumental task completed in May 2011. The University has documented
this achievement by publishing several facsimiles of the manuscript, the most elaborate of which is the
Apostles Edition, issued in twelve copies. The full set will comprise seven double folio volumes in designer
bindings by Lester Capon accompanied by original artwork by Jackson. Set no. 1 is at the Vatican; this is
set no. 2.
+ info: http://blog.themorgan.org/the-saint-johns-bible.aspx
65 new manuscripts added to e-codices online resource - Switzerland
The goal of the e-codices project is to provide access to all medieval and selected early modern manuscripts held in
Switzerland via a virtual library
At the moment, the virtual library contains 833 manuscripts from 34 different libraries. The virtual library will be
continuously updated and extended.
+ info: http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/all/LastUpdate
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
The theme for this year's celebration of the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2011 is "Audivisual Heritage:
See, Hear, and Learn."
Sound recordings and moving images are extremely vulnerable as they can be quickly and deliberately
destroyed. Essentially emblematic of the 20th century, audiovisual heritage can be irretrievably lost as a
result of neglect, natural decay and technological obsolescence. Public consciousness of the importance of
preservation of these recordings must be engaged and the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is intended to
be the platform for building global awareness.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/archives/world-day-foraudiovisual-heritage/world-day-for-audiovisual-heritage-2011/
Publisher, Author and Artist Fleur Cowles's Archive Donated to Harry Ransom Center The University of Texas - Austin - Texas - USA
The personal archive of publisher, author and artist Fleur Cowles has been donated to the Harry
Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.
In 1950, Cowles published Flair magazine, a work known for its provocative design, enlightened
articles and sophisticated advertising layouts. Published from February 1950 to January 1951, the
magazine's one-year run left an indelible mark on publishing history…
+ info: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releases/2011/cowles.html
EXHIBITION - Eugène Atget. Select Works - James Hyman Photography
Organizers: James Hyman Photography
+ info: http://www.jameshymanphotography.com/pages/exhibitionintro/1630.HTML
Symposium: Challenges and future of documenting Nepal's musical heritage - Kathmandu - Nepal - 28
November 2011
A symposium will be held on the occasion of International Folk Music Film Festival in Kathmandu. The symposium aims at
discussing the existing challenges and future of documenting the Nepal's rich musical heritage.
The symposium will gather international senior ethnomusicologists, Nepalese experts in safeguarding the folk musical
tradition, culture experts, emerging talents in traditional music and relevant government representatives. It aims to tackle
present issues, both national and international, related to the music heritage documentation and find solutions on how this
rich Nepal’s folk musical traditions can be better safeguarded and transmitted.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/
Université de Sherbrooke - Services des bibliothèques et archives (Canada) Services pour mobiles (iPod Touch,
iPhone, BlackBerry, etc.)
Catalogue Crésus, Banques de données et Sites pour mobiles.
+ info: http://www.usherbrooke.ca/biblio/trouver/autres/services-pour-mobiles/
Agenda
EXHIBITION - Le Peuple de Paris au XIXe Siècle: Des guinguettes aux barricades - Musée Carnavalet
Organizers: Musée Carnavalet
+ info: http://carnavalet.paris.fr/fr/expositions/le-peuple-de-paris-au-xixe-siecle
EXHIBITION - Adapting the Eye: An Archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 - Yale Center for British Art
11 October - 31 December 2011 Connecticut. United States of America
Organizers: Yale Center for British Art, organized to complement the Center’s major exhibition on Johan Zoffany
+ info: http://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions/adapting-eye-archive-british-india-1770-1830
EXHIBITION - Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories - National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution
14 October 2011 - 22 February 2012 New York. United States of America
Organizers: National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution
+ info: http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/stein/index.html
EXHIBITION - Shadow and Substance: African American Images from The Burns Archive - New York State
Museum
15 October 2011 - 31 March 2012 New York. United States of America
Organizers: New York State Museum
+ info: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/exhibits/special/shadowandsubstance.cfm
EXHIBITION - The Three Graces - The Art Institute of Chicago
29 October 2011 - 22 February 2012 Illinois. United States of America
Organizers: The Art Institute of Chicago and is supported by the Saul and Devorah Sherman Foundation
+ info: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/Three-Graces/index
EXHIBITION - Magnum Contact Sheets - Magnum Print Room
09 November 2011 - 27 January 2012 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: Magnum Print Room
+ info: http://events.magnumphotos.com/exhibition/magnum-contact-sheets
Exhibition: Casanova, la passion de la liberté - Bibliothèque nationale de France
15 November 2011 - 19 February 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Bibliothèque nationale de France, en partenariat avec Le Monde, Le Point, Le Magazine littéraire , France 5 et
France Culture.
+ info: http://www.bnf.fr/fr/evenements_et_culture/anx_expositions/f.casanova.html
Conference - Le patrimoine cartographique à l'heure du géoweb : usages et réactivation
Organizers: BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France
+ info: http://www.bnf.fr/fr/evenements_et_culture/auditoriums/f.rencontres_labo.html?seance=1223906458034
Symposium: Challenges and future of documenting Nepal's musical heritage
28 November 2011 Lalitpur. Nepal
Organizers: On the occasion of International Folk Music Film Festival in Kathmandu
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4771&cHash=1a81ea9014
Exhibition - « La Mongolie, entre deux ères. 1912-1913 » - Musée Albert-Kahn
29 November 2011 - 16 September 2012 Boulogne-Billancourt. France
Organizers: Musée Albert-Kahn et le Conseil général des Hauts-de-Seine
Contact: http://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.net/musee/actualites/exposition-en-cours/
+ info: [email protected]
COLLOQUIUM - Les archives audiovisuelles - nouveaux usages, nouveaux enjeux pour la recherche et
l'éducation - L'Atelier de Sémiotique Audiovisuelle
05 December - 06 December 2011 Paris. France
Organizers: L'Atelier de Sémiotique Audiovisuelle
+ info: http://www.asa-shs.fr/
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) International Newspaper
Conference 2012
11 April - 13 April 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Bibliothèque nationale de France
+ info: http://www.ifla.org/en/events/ifla-international-newspaper-conference-2012
CALL FOR PAPERS - Second Annual International Heritage Conference - HIGH-TECH HERITAGE: How are Digital
Technologies Changing Our Views of the Past? - The University of Massachusetts
02 May - 04 May 2012 Amherst, Massachusetts. United States of America
Organizers: The University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Heritage and Society
Contact: Angela Labrador ([email protected])
+ info: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/hightechheritage/
Publications
Culture, knowledge and understanding: great museums and libraries for everyone
Arts Council England, September 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7287-1504-2
A companion to our 10-year strategic framework for the arts Achieving great art for everyone, this
publication is our first attempt to integrate museums and libraries into this framework. It is designed to
provide certainty as to the programmes the Arts Council will run from 2011-15 while soliciting further debate
about the directions we should take in the longer term.
+ info: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/media/uploads/pdf/culture_knowledge_and_understanding.pdf
Archives Audiovisuelles de la Recherche
Par Elisabeth de PABLO
ISBN : 978-2-7-462-3219-8
Ce livre propose une introduction méthodologique, pratique et technique à l’analyse de corpus audiovisuels
dans le cadre d’un projet de numérisation/diffusion d’un patrimoine de connaissances. Il présente, plus
particulièrement un environnement de travail composé d’une part d’outils informatiques pour la
segmentation, la description/indexation et la publication en ligne de corpus audiovisuels et d’autre part, un
métalangage (une ontologie de domaine) pour segmenter, décrire et publier des ressources audiovisuelles.
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Taller sobre conservación de arquitectura de tierra
02 December - 04 December 2011 Villa de Leyva, Boyacá. Colombia
Organizers: Fundación Habit Tierra - Fundación para el fomento e investigación del Patrimonio Cultural Barichara Colombia
+ info: http://universidadypatrimonio.net/doc/TallerVillaLeyva2011.pdf
IV Taller de construcción y conservación de arquitectura de tierra
07 December - 09 December 2011 Colima. Mexico
Organizers: Facultad de Arquitectua y Diseño
+ info: http://www.ucol.mx/boletines/noticia.php?id=10077
International Conference on Rammed Earth Conservation
21 June - 23 June 2012 Valencia. Spain
Organizers: Universitat Politécnica de València and the Insituto Universitario de Restauración del Patrimonio
DEADLINE: 15 nov 2011
+ info: http://www.restapia2012.es/
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IBEROAMERICA: Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) - Portal of journals goes online
By María Elena Hurtado
A portal that boasts nearly a million scientific articles journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal will
now be available online for free. The service, which will provide access to full texts, was launched at the Autonomous
University of Mexico (UNAM) on Tuesday.
Coopération scientifique et technologique de l'Allemagne avec le Mexique
Le Ministère fédéral de l'enseignement et de la recherche (BMBF) a récemment annoncé les dernières directives visant à
promouvoir la coopération scientifique et technologique avec le Mexique. C'est dans le cadre de la stratégie du
gouvernement fédéral pour l'internationalisation de la science et des politiques de recherche que le BMBF a fait la promotion
de cette coopération.
Le programme vise à développer de nouvelles collaborations, par exemple stimuler le lancement de projets conjoints dans le
cadre des programmes de financement nationaux. L'initiative vise à faciliter la coopération bilatérale entre les scientifiques
au Mexique et en Allemagne à travers des projets de recherche bilatéraux, des ateliers de travail, des séminaires, des visites
et des échanges de scientifiques, de délégations scientifiques voir même industrielles.
The USP (University of Sao Paulo) goes up 84 positions in the ranking and reaches number 169 among the best
universities of the world – Brazil
The QS World University Rankings 2011/2012 was published in September 5, 2011. The QS ranking for best universities of
the world places the University of Cambridge on the first place again, followed by Harvard and MIT on the second and third
places of the ranking. The University of Sao Paulo (USP) has gone up 84 positions in the ranking since last year.. Two other
Brazilian universities are among the best 400 universities: the Universidad Federal de Campinas (UNICAMP) in the position
235 and the Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in the 318 position of the ranking.
Seleção 2011 - Mestrado em Estudos Urbanos e Regionais da UFRN (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do
Norte)
26 September - 18 November 2011 Natal, Estado del Rio Grande do Norte. Brazil
Organizers: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
+ info: http://www.sigaa.ufrn.br/sigaa/public/programa/portal.jsf
Corso di formazione "Il volontariato nella salvaguardia del patrimonio culturale dai rischi naturali - Beni mobili"
04 November - 20 November 2011 Aquila, Regione Abruzzo. Italy
Organizers: Legambiente Abruzzo Beni Culturali & Regione Abruzzo
+ info: http://www.legambienteabruzzo.it/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/brochure-corsi-formazione-br.pdf
CONFERENCE - Association REMPART: Des chantiers de bénévoles pour la restauration du patrimoine urbain en
Chine et en Israël
Organizers: l’Union REMPART
+ info: http://www.rempart.com/
De la géocache sur le campus de l'Université Laval - Québec - Canada
À l’occasion des Journées de la culture, le public est invité à participer à deux activités
piétonnières sur le thème de la découverte de l’art public sur le campus
Les 30 septembre, 1er et 2 octobre, à l’occasion des Journées de la culture, le public est invité
à participer à deux activités piétonnières sur le thème de la découverte de l’art public sur le
campus de l’Université. Inspiré du géocaching, la chasse au trésor du 21e siècle, le
GéoParcours est un rallye réalisé à l’aide de GPS où les participants partiront à la recherche de
caches dissimulées sur le campus. Plus traditionnel est le Parcours, un rallye pédestre.
+ info: http://www.aufil.ulaval.ca/articles/geocache-sur-campus-33013.html
Volunteer management in European Parks - GRUNDTVIG Lifelong
Learning Partnership
Protected areas need their local communities and stakeholders to get more
involved in their management. Volunteering is a great way to do this. This
project provides an invaluable opportunity to advance existing approaches to
Lifelong Learning through conservation volunteering at a European level and
to find means of consolidating these as integrative parts of protected areas'
volunteer management.
The level of volunteer management in European park, varies depending on countries and parks. Therefore, the project
partners intend to disseminate innovation and good practice in the field of vm and collectively develop innovative measures
that upgrade learning opportunities in the context of volunteering.
+ info: http://www.europarc.org/what-we-do/volunteer-management
United States: Writers sue universities over digital books plan
By Alison Moodie
A controversial plan involving a host of prominent American universities to digitise thousands of copyrighted books, suffered
a setback last month as a number of organisations that represent authors sought to halt digitisation efforts and an 'orphan
works' initiative.
In a suit filed on 12 September the Authors Guild, a writers' advocacy group, and several individual authors accused the
universities - including Wisconsin, Michigan and the University of California system - of pooling unauthorised scans of an
estimated seven million books in an online repository called the Hathitrust, also a defendant in the case.
Children's play - Mission Explore - It's Adventure But Not As You Know It!
MISSION:EXPLORE is a new book, website and free iPhone app that are packed with challenges to complete. Are you ready
to make an Earth sandwich, cross a wood without touching the ground or create a performance for a CCTV controller?
Visit the MISSION:EXPLORE website to discover and attempt missions.
+ info: http://www.missionexplore.net/
ELAICH (Educational Linkage Approach in Cultural Heritage) - Workshop for Public Officials
07 November - 09 November 2011 Venice. Italy
Organizers: ELAICH Project - the Euromed 4 Cultural Heritage Programme (European Union) and Ca’ Foscari University of
Venice (Italia)
+ info: http://www.euromedheritage.net/intern.cfm?menuID=9&submenuID=7&idnews=611
Corso “Strategie di Fund Raising per la cultura”
24 November - 25 November 2011 Forli. Italy
+ info: http://www.fundraisingschool.it/
Shelburne Museum Announces Center for Art and Education - Shelburne - Vermont USA
Shelburne Museum Chairman James Pizzagalli announced plans for a new center for art and
education at Shelburne Museum that will expand the museum’s educational programs, bring
new and exciting exhibits to visitors and, for the first time, open the museum year- round.
The announcement opens the public phase of the Campaign for Shelburne Museum, a $14
million capital campaign with the center for art and education as its centerpiece. To date the
campaign has raised $10.75 million.
+ info: http://shelburnemuseum.org/pressroom/shelburne-museum-announces-center-for-art-and-education/
Canada World Youth celebrates it's 40th anniversary - 19 October 2011
Founded in 1971 by the late Honourable Jacques Hébert (1923-2007), Canada World Youth’s mission has
remained constant: to increase the ability of people, and especially youth, to participate actively in the
development of just, harmonious, and sustainable societies. Our action- oriented and innovative approach has
allowed CWY to remain an influential organisation in youth leadership development. Over the years, 34,000
young volunteers have participated in CWY programs, hosted by 11,000 host families located in more than 600
Canadian communities as well as in 67 countries around the world.
+ info: http://canadaworldyouth.cwy-jcm.com/news/40th-anniversary
MÁSTER en Espacios Naturales Protegidos, título propio, Edición 2012 - Fundación Interuniversitaria Fernando
Gonzalez Bernaldez - España
* Tres universidades españolas con amplia experiencia en el campo medioambiental convocan conjuntamente, a través de la
Fundación F. G. Bernáldez y en colaboración con EUROPARC-España, el MÁSTER EN ESPACIOS NATURALES PROTEGIDOS.
* Único programa de máster dedicado monográficamente a los espacios protegidos, está dirigido a profesionales y gestores
que quieran completar su formación específica, así como a jóvenes titulados interesados en trabajar en este ámbito.
* Duodécima edición de un programa propio de posgrado, iniciado en 2001, que se estructura en módulos temáticos
impartidos de enero a diciembre de 2011, en un horario concentrado hacia el fin de semana, y que incluyen clases teóricas,
talleres, un viaje de estudios y un trabajo práctico individual.
* Profesorado formado por especialistas universitarios, investigadores, consultores y gestores de reconocido prestigio,
procedentes de los distintos ámbitos profesionales relacionados con los espacios protegidos.
* Los alumnos obtendrán el título de Máster en Espacios Naturales Protegidos por las universidades Autónoma de Madrid,
Complutense y de Alcalá.
+ info: http://www.uam.es/otros/fungobe/master.htm
"How Youth Drive Change" - UNESCO Youth Forum 2011 - UNESCO - Paris - France - 17-20
October 2011
Share your opinions and experiences regarding gender balance in the teaching profession, gender equality in
education and the role of teachers.
This e-forum open to all, will contribute to the World Teachers' Day debates on 5 October at UNESCO
headquarters in Paris, one of numerous events organized worldwide to honour teachers on World Teachers’
Day 2011 whose theme is “teachers for gender equality”.
how_youth_drive_change_unesco_youth_forum_2011/
AWARDS - Canada World Youth Leadership Awards - Nomination deadline 12 December 2011
The Canada World Youth (CWY) Leadership Awards recognize the outstanding achievements of young Canadians and youth
from around the world who are engaged in innovative initiatives that promote peace, intercultural understanding, and
community and international Development.
+ info: http://canadaworldyouth.cwy-jcm.com/programs/awards
Magíster en Arte y Patrimonio - Universidad de Concepción - Concepción - Chile
Contactos: Prof. Javier Ramírez Hinrichsen. Director Magíster en Arte y Patrimonio - [email protected]
El Programa de Magíster en Arte y Patrimonio tiene por objetivo entregar una visión integral entre arte y patrimonio. El logro
y la visión propuesta se basa en la definición del patrimonio cultural contemporáneo integrado en la Convención de
Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO de 1972, específicamente de los criterios de implementación de la convención ocupados
desde la década de 1990, donde se establece que el hombre produce en la sociedad, por medio de las interacciones
humanas, bienes culturales, espirituales y de expresión creativa. El desarrollo del objetivo y la visión del programa de
Magíster en Arte y Patrimonio de la Facultad de Humanidades y Arte se estructura sobre la base de una malla curricular que
integra áreas de investigación, tales como: Artes Visuales, Historia, Antropología, Estética, Literatura, Geografía y
Arquitectura. La integración de las áreas mencionadas tiene por finalidad permitir un campo de estudio donde lo tangible e
intangible del patrimonio cultural se analice en conjunto. Consecuentemente, se definen dos grandes líneas de investigación:
a) patrimonio urbano y arte contemporáneo y b) patrimonio inmaterial y prácticas artísticas.
+ info: http://icomoschile.blogspot.com/2011/06/magister-en-arte-y-patrimonio.html
Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Celebrates 5th Annual Archaeology Fair Boston Museum of Science - Massachusetts - USA -( 7-8 October 2011)
Archaeology Month is underway in Massachusetts and for the 5th year in a row the AIA-MOS
Archaeology Fair filled the Boston Museum of Science with school groups, children, and families.
On October 7th and 8th fair attendees explored the exciting world of archaeology through a
variety of interactive activities and games.
About 20 archaeologists, museum specialists, and other experts were on hand to discuss various
aspects of their archaeological work with visitors. Presenters at this year’s fair engaged attendees
with live demonstrations of flintknapping, atlatl throwing, glassblowing, and the daily responsibilities of a Roman soldier.
Visitors were able to try their hand at cuneiform writing, mock-digs, simulated underwater excavations, ancient grainprocessing technologies, and much more! This annual fair provides a great opportunity for New England archaeology
enthusiasts of all ages to come together to discover, learn and share their passion for the past.
Progetto "Salva la spongada" - Valle Camonica - Italy
Siamo partiti con questo progetto qualche mese fa con l’intenzione di far conoscere il nostro territorio e avvicinare le persone
ad un prodotto buono, tradizionale e simpatico!
+ info: http://www.laspongada.com/la-spongada-vola/
(in Italian) Corso gratuito di dottorato “Virtual Cultural Heritage” - 3-5 November 2011
Il Corso di dottorato “Virtual Cultural Heritage. Strategie multi-canale per la comunicazione 3.0″ è erogato dal Politecnico di
Torino (SCUDO), presieduto dalla Prof.ssa Anna Marotta, con il supporto di MIMOS e del CNR-ITABC ed il patrocinio della
Direzione regionale per i beni culturali e paesaggistici del Piemonte-Soprintendenza dei Beni Archeologici del Piemonte e del
Museo Antichità Egizie.
Il corso continua la serie di incontri didattici sul tema del virtuale quale strumento della rappresentazione per le discipline
conformative e con figurative dello spazio ed in particolare per l’Architettura ed i Beni Culturali, che da qualche anno segna
puntualmente l’attività del gruppo di ricerca sulla Rappresentazione Digitale Interattiva dello stesso ateneo…
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2011/10/21/02-11-11-corso-gratuito-di-dottorato-virtual-cultural-heritage/
Training in marine spatial planning of World Heritage marine sites in Mexico - Baja
California - Mexico
The Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino site has been inscribed on the World Heritage List since
1993. It is the only calving and nursery area for the Eastern Pacific gray whale population,
which traditionally travels there each season from the Bering and Chukchi seas in the Arctic, a
voyage of thousands of miles. Among all gray whales in the world, this is the last population
that is still in healthy condition.
The objective of the ecosystem-based management training was to assist the site with the
development of an overview of the baseline conditions for these species and their habitat, as specified in the Outstanding
Universal Value (OUV) of the site. This will lay the foundation for a comprehensive management plan which addresses
species of the site.
Accord tripartite entre l'UMONS (Belgique) et les universités d'Amiens et de Reims (France)
L'UMONS vient de signer des nouvelles conventions de coopération avec des institutions universitaires situées de l'autre côté
de la frontière, dans les régions de la Champagne et de la Picardie.
Dans les locaux de l'Ambassade de France, à Bruxelles, ce mardi 11 octobre 2011, l'UMONS s'est liée jusqu'au 31 décembre
2017 avec deux universités françaises : l'Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens) et l'Université de Reims ChampagneArdenne. Ensemble, les trois nouveaux partenaires coopéreront dans les domaines de l'enseignement et la formation
continue, la recherche, les services à la communauté et la culture.
Encouraging higher education modernisation: Erasmus, Eurydice and EU (European
Union) policy join forces
The modernisation of higher education is a burning issue in many European countries,
particularly in the current economic climate. The Erasmus programme, best known for
providing grants to students, also plays an important role in higher education reform by
financing transnational projects that support the modernisation of educational systems.
+ info: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/tools/e-focus_newsletter/2011/october/
europe_delivers_en.php
Advanced Training Courses in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions (SAHC) - Erasmus
Mundus SAHC Master Course
For further information, please contact the Secretariat at [email protected].
The courses integrated in the Erasmus Mundus SAHC Master Course (www.msc-sahc.org) can now be attended separately,
without the need to enroll in the Master Course.
These courses are of interest to those interested in the conservation, repair and strengthening of the built heritage, be it
monuments, other cultural heritage buildings or existing buildings in general. This includes mainly civil engineers and
architects, but also, for some courses, art historians, archaeologists and other interested in cultural heritage buildings,
interested in complementing or updating their knowledge with the most recent professional and scientific approaches and
techniques. The attendants can be professionals such as consultants, employees in building contractors, building material
producers and suppliers, heritage authorities and others, as well as graduate students (MSc or PhD) enrolled in other
programs.
+ info: http://www.msc-sahc.org/upload/docs/Advanced_Training_Courses_SAHC.pdf
Triche et plagiat à l'université : Le Cameroun aussi
Le phénomène du plagiat, courant en littérature, a atteint l'Enseignement supérieur. Dans tous les pays, il sévit et fait l'objet
de sanctions sévères. Dans les pays du Sud, il s'amplifie à l'Université où quelques enseignants s'approprient le travail de
leurs étudiants. L'installation d'outils anti-plagiat électronique, associée à une véritable formation de tous, profs et étudiants,
à la culture de la recherche, pourraient stopper cette épidémie.
+ info: http://cursus.edu/dossiers-articles/articles/17666/triche-plagiat-universite-cameroun-aussi/
Comment utiliser un logiciel anti-plagiat ?
Anne Hamel est responsable marketing et communication chez Compilatio, la société qui édite le logiciel anti-plagiat du
même nom. Cet outil est utilisé dans de nombreuses écoles et universités de plusieurs pays. Anne Hamel nous explique
comment fonctionne Compilatio, et comment il est utilisé pour décourager les pratiques de plagiat chez les étudiants.
+ info: http://cursus.edu/dossiers-articles/articles/17669/comment-utiliser-logiciel-anti-plagiat/
Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (EPA): at the service of development - Porto Novo (Benin)
From its inception in 1998, Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (EPA) has sought to become a centre of reference and cultural
information at the service of institutions, heritage professionals, communities and cultural personnel throughout the African
continent. In the context of sustainable development, EPA has always been poised to regularly adapt its vision and mission
to the changing needs in the field. In its 13 years of activities, EPA has become a platform for consultation and a reference
point for people of culture and the African communities.
+ info: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2011_en/various_en/10_12_EPAbrochure_en.pdf
Discover Eurypedia - a new easy to use online tool providing
information on education in Europe
Eurypedia is a new Eurydice product and aims at presenting the
most accurate picture of national education systems across Europe.
Whether you are looking for understanding a specific education
system or for analysing an education issue at European level,
Eurypedia will provide you with the most exhaustive information on
38 school and university systems.
This first version is currently under completion. All articles will be finalised in December 2011. Please let us know what you
think by sending an email to the Eurypedia team. We are very interested in your feedback.
+ info: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/eurydice/index.php?title=Home
3era edición: Día Internacional de Limpieza de Costas 2011 - Uruguay - 12 de Noviembre de 2011
Bolsas de supermercado… colillas de cigarro… papeles de caramelos. No caen del cielo, caen de nuestras manos. Y lo que el
mar arrastra a la costa es solamente una fracción de lo que termina en el agua, amenazando la vida marina y dañando los
ecosistemas, día a día, todos los días.
El Día Internacional de Limpieza de Costas es un evento que se realiza desde 1986 que tiene lugar en más de cien países
alrededor del mundo. Cada año, cientos de miles de voluntarios pasan un día recolectando basura en sus playas locales
como una demostración de su compromiso con la limpieza de la línea de costa y océano adyacente. El Programa EcoPlata
trae por tercer año consecutivo este evento a Uruguay, sirviendo como coordinador nacional para el Día Internacional de
Limpieza de Costas.
+ info: http://www.ecoplata.org/gobernanza-y-gestion-participativa/voluntariado-ambiental/dia-internacional-de-la-limpiezade-playas/
HERITAGE WITHOUT BORDERS - Sarajevo Press Release - Enterprising attempt to tackle international heritage
skills gap in the Balkans
In September 2011, Heritage Without Borders (HWB) will be running one of its first international projects in Sarajevo with
the cooperation of the well-established Swedish Non Governmental Organisation, Cultural Heritage Without Borders (CHwB –
http://www.chwb.org/). A team of 3 volunteers, led by one of HWB’s co-directors, Dominica D’Arcangelo will run a free oneweek course at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina to train museum professionals from across the Balkans in
the principles of preventive and basic remedial conservation. D’Arcangelo is a founding member of Conservators Without
Borders. The other 2 team members are conservation students gaining master’s qualifications in the Institute of
Archaeology, University College London (UCL). They are: Carmen Maria Vida and Nicola Harrison.
+ info: http://heritagewithoutborders.org/2011/07/sarajevo-press-release/
Merv Press Release - Heritage Without Borders' first project in Turkmenistan includes conservators from
Colchester, York and London
Stefanie White, a conservator at Colchester and Ipswich Museums will be one of three volunteer conservators working on
site at the Ancient City of Merv in Turkmenistan from 27 August to 17 September. Margrethe Felter, a conservator at The
York Archaeological Trust (YAT), will be leading the team. The third team member is Kelly Caldwell who works at the British
Museum. The project is co-ordinated by a new social enterprise called Heritage Without Borders (HWB – http://www.
heritagewithoutborders.org). It is HWB’s first international collaboration.
+ info: http://heritagewithoutborders.org/2011/07/merv-press-release/
Calls for quotas for foreign students - The Netherlands
By Jan Petter Myklebust and Robert Visscher
A 54% increase in foreign students in Dutch higher education over the past four years has prompted calls from political
parties on the right and left for the introduction of quotas, and specifically for the allocation of places through a government
lottery.
The number of foreign students has risen by 19,000 since 2006 to 54,500. Over the same period, the share of allotted
lottery places in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine going to foreign students rose from 9.3% to 18.3%.
Latin America could become 'next educational champion'
By Paul Rigg
Latin America could become the world's "next educational champion", experts predict, given rapid economic growth in
countries like Brazil, an increase in private universities, expansion of research and the massification of demand for higher
education across the region.
So said leading academics and higher education professionals from Brazil, Mexico, the UK and Spain at the 2nd international
"Reinventing Higher Education: The role of the university in a global society" conference held on 17-18 October in Madrid.
The co-hosts were IE University and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Médiateur du patrimoine - Universités des Pays de Loire - FRance
Archeologie - Universités des Pays de la Loire - France
Régisseur de collections - Universités des Pays de la Loire (France)
EDUCATION & SUSTAINABILITY - Research - Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Regional Environmental Education Programme
In 1993, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Environment and Land Management
Sector (ELMS) initiated a programme to support environmental education processes in the southern
African region. The initial phase of this programme included a series of workshops involving environmental
education practitioners in the region. The first workshop was held in Windhoek, Namibia in 1994 and the
second in Howick, South Africa in 1996. These workshops were complemented by other research
processes designed to assess the state of environmental education in the region. Based on information
gathered during this initial phase a formal programme document was developed and submitted to the SADC Council of
Ministers for approval.
Although research has been an integral part of the SADC REEP, as a cross-cutting activity across the programme's activities,
its significant role in informing the practice led to the decision that it becomes a stand alone component.
+ info: http://www.sadc-reep.org.za/
Education & Sustainability - Networking - Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Regional Environmental Education Programme (REEP)
The objective of this component is to support environmental education processes through enabling
decentralised networking of environmental education practitioners within the SADC region.
The SADC Regional Environmental Education Programme has established a broad decentralised regional
environmental education network which consists of the SADC Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources
directorate, National EE Network Representatives, the Regional EE Centre and other environmental
education practitioners in the region. Many SADC countries are establishing or have established national
environmental education committees with a co-ordinating role at a national level (e.g. Botswana, Namibia and Zambia). The
SADC REEP is also supporting development of environmental education networks in the SADC region.
+ info: http://www.sadc-reep.org.za/index.php/networking.htm
VIDEO - ELAICH: Educational Toolkit for Cultural Heritage - YouTube
ELAICH is an EU-funded project aimed at contributing to raising awareness of cultural heritage. This video presents the
ELAICH set of modern and innovative tools for teaching its essence to the general public, especially youth.
+ info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7j8kH21wmM
Programme Fulbright : les financements étrangers au secours d'un avenir budgétaire incertain ? - Etats-Unis
d'Amérique
Dans un monde incertain qui sortait tout juste de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, "le programme Fulbright", affirmait son
promoteur éponyme, "a pour but [...] que les nations apprennent enfin à vivre en paix et avec amitié". Doit-on conclure que
la baisse, deux ans de suite, du budget américain de ce programme d'échanges de chercheurs et d'étudiants est le signe que
le monde a enfin appris à vivre en paix ? Rien n'est moins sûr.
Exhibition at the International Heritage Show - Students Travel to learn Arts & Crafts
Students who participated in the programme “Travel to learn Arts and Crafts” in 2010-2011 present the results of this
initiative.
This programme organized by UNESCO and the Foundation for Culture & Diversity, allows students of Arts and Crafts majors
with a scholarship and/or from a modest background to complete an internship with an expert artisan abroad. One of the
goals of the program is to allow students to present their work at international fairs and exhibitions in order to facilitate their
access to the professional market.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4651&cHash=d6ae37f394
Vers un nouveau système de bourses pour les étudiants étrangers en Suède
Depuis le 1er juillet 2011, les étudiants étrangers doivent payer des frais de scolarité pour effectuer leurs études en Suède.
Le gouvernement suédois souhaite augmenter la qualité des programmes en évitant de proposer des formations gratuites
pour les étudiants étrangers…
L'inertie intellectuelle menace la recherche et l'innovation en Suède
Deux professeurs d'Université ont lancé un débat sur l'état de la recherche en Suède dans l'édition du Dagens Nyheter du 28
août 2011. Mats Alvesson, professeur en économie d'entreprise à l'Université de Lund et Bo Rothstein, professeur de science
politique à l'Université de Göteborg, remettent en cause les structures actuelles de la recherche en Suède…
Agenda
Proposer un projet à Les Offices de jeunesse internationaux du Québec (LOJIQ)
Québec. Canada
Organizers: LOJIQ - Les Offices jeunesse internationaux du Québec
+ info: http://www.lojiq.org/participer/proposer/
Cours publics de l'Ecole de Chaillot sur le patrimoine industriel
2011-2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Fédération Patrimoine-Environnement (FNASSEM)
Lifelong Learning Program Call for Proposals 2012 - Deadlines in February & March 2012
This page provides access to all the documentation needed to make an application under the Lifelong Learning Programme
(LLP) actions listed above. Applicants who would like to be notified of updates to the documentation for this Call should
register for News feeds (RSS) at the foot of this page.
Organizers: Executive Agency - Education, Audiovisual & Culture (EACEA)
+ info: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/funding/2012/call_lifelong_learning_2012.php
Masters in Historic Environment - University of Cambridge - Institute of Continuing Education
Cambridge. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
+ info: http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/component/courses/?view=course&cid=3789
MACLANDS Master of Cultural Landscapes 2012-2014 - Erasmus Mundus
Organizers: Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne
+ info: http://www.maclands.fr/gb/24_erasmus_mundus_maclands.html
Master specialistico in Museologia Europea - IULM Libera Universita di Lingue e Communicazione
Milano. Italy
Organizers: Università IULM
+ info: http://www.iulm.it/wps/wcm/connect/iulmit/iulm-it/studiare-alla-iulm/master/master-specialistico-in-museologiaeuropea
Curso de Formação: Serviços Educativos em Organizações Culturais
21 November - 29 November 2011 Almada. Portugal
Organizers: CultIdeias - Desenvolvimento, Cultura, Cidadania
+ info: http://www.cultideias.com/formacao.php?page=cursos&id=33
Stage de formation financé par la Région Languedoc-Roussillon : maçon - restauration Patrimoine & Bâti ancien
28 November 2011 - 06 Jully 2012 Pézenas. France
Organizers: Lycée agricole
UCTE 2011- UNESCO INTERREGIONAL ENGINEERING CONFERENCE IN TECHNOLOGY & EDUCATION
08 December - 10 December 2011 KRAKOW. Poland
Organizers: AGH University of Science and Technology Krakow and UNESCO Chair for Science, Technology and Engineering
Education at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
+ info: http://www.ucte2011.agh.edu.pl/
STAGE DI ARCHEOLOGIA SPERIMENTALE SULLE TECNOLOGIE DELL'UOMO DELLA PREISTORIA
28 January - 29 January 2012 Prato. Italy
Organizers: L’associazione culturale “Archeologia Sperimentale”
+ info: http://www.archeologiasperimentale.it/corsi_preistoria.htm
Questionnaire 2012: Looking at History through a Variety of Lenses - 19th European Association of History
Educators (EUROCLIO) Annual Conference Professional Training and Development Course
01 April - 07 April 2012 Antalya. Turkey
Organizers: EUROCLIO - European Association Of History Educators in cooperation with Association of History Educators in
Turkey
+ info: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFlQOHA5dDNWZ0U4QzJvRlYycV9Wc0E6MQ
Publications
Playing with fire: struggling with ‘experience’ and ‘play’ in war tourism
Mads Daugbjerg
In Museum and society, Mar 2011. 9(1) 17-33 © 2011.
ISSN 1479-8360
This paper takes up the ambiguities of embracing ‘experiential’ and ‘playful’ ways of learning at war sites. It takes as its
point of departure the widespread tendencies in the heritage industry to align communication to new emotional and playful
ways of learning about the past and goes on to demonstrate and discuss how these assert themselves at a specific Danish
war site. The links between the concepts of heritage, experience, romanticism and nationalism are investigated with
historical reference to the Scandinavian open air museology and theoretical inspiration drawn from Scott Lash and his notion
of a ‘second’ modernity. It is argued that the current obsession with ‘experience’ in the heritage sector displays a range of
neo-romantic traits. At the Danish centre, staff and visitors are shown to negotiate and struggle to ‘balance off’ their playful
and romantic engagements
against more distanced, non-involved stances towards the war past.
+ info: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/daugbjerg-1.pdf
Optimising Learning, Education and Publishing in Africa: The Language Factor - A Review and
Analysis of Theory and Practice in Mother-Tongue and Bilingual Education in sub-Saharan Africa
Edited by Adama Ouane and Christine Glanz
© June 2011 UIL/ADEA
ISBN 978-92-820-1170-6
This publication presents the results of comprehensive research that assesses the experiences of mothertongue and bilingual education programmes in 25 sub-Saharan African countries in recent years.1 Its overall
conclusion is encapsulated in the statement Language is not everything in education, but without language,
everything is nothing in education (Wolff, Chapter 1).
+ info: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002126/212602e.pdf
Archives Audiovisuelles de la Recherche
Par Elisabeth de PABLO
ISBN : 978-2-7-462-3219-8
Ce livre propose une introduction méthodologique, pratique et technique à l’analyse de corpus audiovisuels
dans le cadre d’un projet de numérisation/diffusion d’un patrimoine de connaissances. Il présente, plus
particulièrement un environnement de travail composé d’une part d’outils informatiques pour la
segmentation, la description/indexation et la publication en ligne de corpus audiovisuels et d’autre part, un
métalangage (une ontologie de domaine) pour segmenter, décrire et publier des ressources audiovisuelles.
Heritage Counts 2011: the historic environment and Big Society - English Heritage (United Kingdom)
'Heritage Counts 2011' is the tenth annual survey of the state of England’s historic environment. Each year Heritage Counts
explores the role of the historic environment in wider social and economic agendas. This year the theme is the historic
environment and Big Society.
It is produced on behalf of the Historic Environment Forum.
+ info: http://hc.english-heritage.org.uk/What-Is-Heritage-Counts/
YouthXchange guidebook series: climate change and lifestyles
Year of Publication: 2011
Author: UNEP
ISBN No: 978-92-807-3211-5
The UNEP/UNESCO YouthXchange Initiative, which aims to promote sustainable lifestyles among youth
(15-24 year-olds) around the world through education, dialogue, awareness-raising and capacity-building,
will release a publication in late August 2011 titled "YouthXchange guidebook on climate change and
lifestyles". This guidebook is geared directly to youth and educators, trainers and youth leaders, and it is
written in youth-friendly language; therefore, it is rather a toolkit for young people. This leaflet contains information about
the guidebook and the themes addressed.
+ info: http://www.unep.org/publications/contents/pub_details_search.asp?ID=6216
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Ouverture des journées internationales de la forêt à Bonn - Allemagne - (6 octobre 2011)
"La forêt a la capacité d'apporter, par une gestion durable adequate, une diversité inimaginable en termes de produits et de
services, non seulement en Allemagne, mais aussi plus largement dans le monde entier. Les forêts ne sont pas de simples
fournisseurs de matière première, elles contribuent également de manière essentielle à la protection du climat et de
l'environnement, elles sont d'une grande importance pour la chasse et l'alimentation et sont notamment pour la population
d'une grande valeur récréative et un bien culturel significatif".
Woodland for Water: Woodland measures for meeting Water Framework Directive
objectives - The Forestry Commission - United Kingdom
The Water Framework Directive 2000 (WFD) is a European Directive that seeks to protect,
enhance and restore the condition of all water in the natural environment: including rivers,
lochs, estuaries and coastal waters, as well as water under the ground.
It provides a common framework for addressing human activities that exert “pressures” on
the water environment and has set an objective that all “water bodies” should be restored to
“good status” by 2015.
The majority of water bodies in the UK and in other EU countries currently fail to meet this target status due to a range of
pressures such as diffuse pollution and water abstraction.
+ info: http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/woodlandforwater
Assessing the cultural and spiritual values of European forests - The Forestry Commission - United
Kingdom
The Social and Economic Research Group at Forest Research was invited to contribute to the 2011 State of
Europe’s Forests report by preparing a data collection protocol, and analysing and reporting on Indicator 6.11
‘Cultural and spiritual values’, one of 35 Pan-European Indicators of sustainable forest management.
A range of cultural and spiritual values are associated with forested landscapes in Europe, although many are
intangible and difficult to define and assess. Indicator 6.11 seeks to quantify one aspect of these diverse
benefits by reporting the number of sites within forest and other wooded land that are officially recognised
for their cultural or spiritual values. In total, around one million sites were reported across 45 countries, of which around
three-quarters were classed as ‘Cultural heritage’.
+ info: http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/INFD-8LYBFP
Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil - Promoting the Growth and Use of Sustainable Palm Oil
NOTICE is hereby given that the 8th General Assembly (GA8) of members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
will be held at: Ballroom 2, Sutera Habour Resort, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Malaysia, on Thursday, 24 November 2011 at 15:00
hrs
+ info: http://www.rspo.org/
Reforestación de manglar en áreas críticas del corredor del Mangle Golfo de Fonseca
- El Salvador
Dos jornadas participativas de reforestación de bosque de manglar en áreas críticas
prioritarias para el desarrollo de acciones de conservación y recuperación de esos ecosistemas
en el Golfo de Fonseca se han realizado recientemente. Estas áreas son parte de los
ecosistemas prioritarios El Icacal y Bahía La Unión, El Salvador, en las cuales se desarrollaron
las jornadas.
Estas actividades han sido propiciadas por el Proyecto Trinacional Corredor del Mangle Golfo de
Forests
Fonseca de la Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD), órgano ambiental del Sistema de la Integración
Centroamericana (SICA), ejecutado con el auspicio financiero del Fondo España-SICA (FES).
+ info: http://www.sica.int/busqueda/Noticias.aspx?IDItem=63636&IDCat=3&IdEnt=2&Idm=1&IdmStyle=1
New research program Europe-South America on the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest
Deforestation on the Amazon rainforest has gone down in the last six years, but it seems that the current trend this year
won’t be that of a decrease. Besides deforestation, the Amazon rainforests are also susceptible to climate change. However,
rainforests play a key role in climate regulation, pluviometry and water supply in South America. Are the Amazon rainforests,
their waters, climate and peoples under the threat of a decline in their situation for the next decades due to global climate
change and regional deforestation?...
FORESTRY IN A TREELESS LAND - ICELAND
by Throstur Eysteinsson, division chief
Among the first things that visitors to Iceland usually notice are that it is not as warm as where they came from and there is
a lack of forests in the landscape. Logically, they connect these two facts and come to the conclusion that Iceland is too cold
for forests. This impression is often reinforced when they see the “forests” of low-growing and crooked native birch.
However, over a century of forestry activity has proven that this is not the case, that it is past land-use and not climate that
explains the treeless landscape. In fact, forests grow as well in Iceland as they do in parts of the world where forestry is a
major industry.
+ info: http://www.skogur.is/english/forestry-in-a-treeless-land/
Venez discuter de l'avenir de la forêt bourguignonne - Bourgogne - France - 6 November 2011
La Confédération des Associations pour l'Environnement et la Nature en Saône-et-Loire (CAPEN 71) organise le 6 novembre
les Assises Régionales pour l'Environnement en Bourgogne. A l'occasion de l'année internationale des forêts, cette rencontre
permettra d'échanger sur l'avenir de la forêt dans la région. Thierry Grosjean, président de la CAPEN 71, nous présente cette
journée.
+ info: http://www.fne.asso.fr/fr/venez-discuter-de-l-avenir-de-la-foret-bourguignonne.html?
cmp_id=167&news_id=12499&vID=865
Comment concilier les activités humaines avec la protection des forêts de montagne en Haute-Garonne?
L'année internationale des forêts est l'occasion de mettre en lumière ceux qui agissent au quotidien pour la gestion durable
et la conservation des forêts. Guillaume Castaing, président de Nature Comminges, nous présente les actions de son
association pour préserver la diversité biologique remarquable des forêts haut-garonnaises.
+ info: http://www.fne.asso.fr/fr/comment-concilier-les-activites-humaines-avec-la-protection-des-forets-de-montagne-enhaute-garonne.html?cmp_id=167&news_id=12518&vID=865
Etat des lieux des politiques forestières européennes
Le Parlement Européen a voté le 9 mai 2011 la mise en place de critères juridiquement contraignants pour la gestion des
forêts au niveau de l'Union Européenne. La suite à donner à ces propositions est désormais entre les mains de la
Commission Européenne. Lors de sa participation à la réunion du 5 octobre du groupe consultatif de la Commission
Européenne " forêt et liège " à Bruxelles, FNE a pu en savoir plus. Ce groupe a en effet été mis en place afin d'orienter les
politiques forestières de l'Union Européenne. Explications.
+ info: http://www.fne.asso.fr/fr/etat-des-lieux-des-politiques-forestieres-europeennes.html?
cmp_id=167&news_id=12522&vID=1037
Reconnaître les droits de la Nature : un nouvel outil législatif pour les forêts
tropicales d'Equateur
En matière de législation forestière, peu voire aucun texte juridiquement contraignant ne
protège les forêts en tant que telles en dehors des aires protégées, que ce soit au niveau
des Etats ou au niveau international. L’Etat de l’Equateur est précurseur en matière de
législation forestière en proposant des droits constitutionnels de la nature. Hugo
Echeverría, avocat environnementaliste en Equateur et correspondant de FNE œuvre pour
la préservation des forêts tropicales humides de l’Equateur. Pour ce mois d’octobre de
l’année internationale des forêts, FNE a demandé à Hugo Echeverria de présenter les avancées de l’Equateur en matière de
droit de la nature et préservation des forêts tropicales humides.
+ info: http://www.fne.asso.fr/fr/reconnaitre-les-droits-de-la-nature-un-nouvel-outil-legislatif-pour-les-forets-tropicales-dequateur.html?cmp_id=37&news_id=12521&vID=1464
Forests
2011: Colloque des 20 ans de la conservation des ressources génétiques
forestières
En cette année internationale des forêts, la Commission des Ressources Génétiques
Forestières ou CRGF (1) fête ses 20 ans. Cette commission rassemble des représentants
des pouvoirs publics, de la recherche, de la gestion des forêts publiques et privées, des
associations environnementales et de conservation de la nature.
+ info: http://www.fne.asso.fr/fr/2011-colloque-des-20-ans-de-la-conservation-desressources-genetiques-forestieres.html?cmp_id=20&news_id=12446&vID=896&
Burning trees for energy puts Canadian forests and climate at risk: Greenpeace - Canada
Greenpeace released a science-based report today that highlights the dangers of the large-scale use of
wood and tree harvesting for heating, electricity generation or liquid biofuels. The report, entitled ‘Fuelling
a Biomess’, argues that burning woody biomass on an industrial scale could severely harm Canada’s public
forests and further contribute to the global climate crisis.
+ info: http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/recent/Burning-trees-for-energy-puts-Canadian-forests-andclimate-at-risk-Greenpeace/
Un simulateur de propagation à grande échelle des feux de
forêt
Des chercheurs du Laboratoire d’aérologie (LA/OMP, CNRS /
Université Paul Sabatier) et du laboratoire Sciences pour
l'environnement (SPE, CNRS / Université de Corte) se sont associés
pour développer le premier simulateur européen de propagation à
grande échelle des feux de forêt dont ils souhaitent qu’il puisse à
terme être utilisé pour la prévision de l’évolution des feux. Ce
simulateur tient notamment compte des effets induits par les feux sur l’atmosphère et de l’impact en retour de ces effets sur
la propagation des feux.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/co/environnement/sols-hydrosphere-et-biosphere-continentales/un-simulateur-depropagation-a-grande-eche
Agenda
Joint Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) and Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Biennial
Conference - Valuing ecosystems: policy, economic and management interactions
03 April - 04 April 2012 Edinburgh. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: Joint Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) and Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
+ info: http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/INFD-8J9C5J
Publications
Human dimensions of adaptive forest management and climate change: A review of international
experience
Anna Lawrence and Sarah Gillett
Forestry Commission: Edinburgh, 2011.
ISBN 978-0-85538-848-5
This is a review of the literature about the concept and application of adaptive management (AM), in forests
and other environments. It aims to understand the social and institutional requirements of adaptive forest
management (AFM), and identify areas that require further study in order to better understand its relevance
for forest management in Great Britain.
+ info: http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/FCRP016.pdf/$FILE/FCRP016.pdf
'The forgotten forest’. The story of Whitelee Forest in the 20th century
Ruth Tittensor
Published by Forestry Commission Scotland, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85538-798-3
This is the story of forestry in and around Whitelee Forest, based on the memory of
those who lived and work in forestry, knitted together from personal recollections.
This is the fourth book in the series of Touchwood History publications.
The other three are: ‘Smell of the rosin noise of the saw’; The story of forestry in Mid-Argyll in the 20th century, ‘The forest
is a beautiful place to be’; The story of forestry in the Great Glen in the 20th century and ‘No rivalry but different’; Glenmore
and Rothiemurchus in the 20th century.
+ info: http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/FCMS118.pdf/$FILE/FCMS118.pdf
Adapting to change: the state of conservation of World Heritage forests in 2011
Publisher: UNESCO - World Heritage Centre
Number Edition: 30
Beyond providing an overview of the state of conservation of World Heritage forests in general, this
Forests
publication attempts to provide some welcome thoughts on the relationship between World Heritage forests
and their surrounding landscapes, and on mechanisms that could be applied to ensure that this relationship
is mutually beneficial alongside social, economic and environmental criteria. I am convinced that the World
Heritage Convention can be effectively leveraged to bring about such positive contributions, and I look
forward to seeing tangible results on the ground.
United Kingdom - India Forest Landscape Restoration
Edited by Mike Smith and Sandeep Tripathi
Published by Forest Researc, September 2011
This summary report shows how Forest Landscape Restoration can safeguard biodiversity by taking a
landscape approach using appropriate technologies and practical applications and produce real benefi ts for
communities by working in partnership with them. This project has resulted in India becoming more
engaged in the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration.
+ info: http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/UK-India-FLR-09-11.pdf/$FILE/UK-India-FLR-09-11.pdf
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Des cristaux qui augmentent de l'épaisseur d'un cheveu tous les cents ans
Une étude internationale dirigée par le Centre Supérieur de la Recherche Scientifique espagnol (CSIC) a permis de
déterminer la vitesse de croissance des cristaux géants de Naica, dans l'état mexicain de Chihuahua. La croissance de ces
formations est tellement lente qu'elle était presque impossible à mesurer. C'est grâce à un microscope spécial, mis au point
par les espagnols en coopération avec un groupe de recherche de l'université de Sendai au Japon qu'il a été possible
d'estimer que certains cristaux de la grotte se sont formés durant plus d'un million d'années. Ce qui revient à conclure que
ces cristaux de gypse ont grandi au rythme le plus lent jamais connu, soit l'épaisseur d'un cheveu tous les cents ans. Cette
recherche a fait la première page du dernier numéro de la revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)…
Projet WOVOdat à NTU : accès au comportement des volcans au niveau mondial
C'est un projet ambitieux que celui de WOVOdat. Le but : regrouper dans une base de données mondiale et publique les
mesures de surveillance passées et présentes des volcans de la planète. Imaginez un volcan qui montre un regain d'activité :
comment prédire son évolution ? Une réponse précise se base en partie sur les éruptions similaires antérieures. WOVOdat se
propose de mettre à disposition les informations pertinentes concernant des volcans dont les mesures sont similaires.
Actuellement, si un volcan semble menaçant, il faut chercher dans la littérature pour trouver les informations nécessaires.
Souvent ce travail se révèle trop lent et complexe de part la disparité de l'information et des formats de mesures.
Un chercheur de l'université de Liège a découvert deux fossiles de plantes - Liège - Belgique
Le bois a pris un coup de vieux. Philippe Gerrienne, chercheur en paléobotanique à l'Université de Liège, a découvert deux
fossiles de plantes datant respectivement de 407 et 397 millions d'années et contenant des traces de bois. Les plus
anciennes jamais mises à jour ! Cette découverte fait ainsi reculer l'apparition du bois sur Terre d'une dizaine de millions
d'années. Elle permet également de confirmer une hypothèse : le bois n'aurait pas été fabriqué par les plantes afin
d'augmenter leur résistance et devenir des arbres, mais d'abord pour permettre une meilleure circulation de la sève. Les
résultats de cette recherche ont été publiés dans la revue Science.
“Snow ball Earth”: a hypothesis to reconsider
The hypothesis that the Earth was completely covered in ice 635 millions of years ago has just been turned
upside down. The atmospheric concentration of CO2 during this period was much lower than previously
thought, that is what a team of French researchers from the Institute de Physique du Glob in Paris (IPGP/
CNRS/University Paris Diderot) have just revealed working in collaboration with Brazilian and American
scientists. Their work, published in the journal Nature from October 6, 2011 challenges part of the so-called
‘Snow Ball’ Earth hypothesis and rekindles the debate about the origins of the deglaciation mechanism.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/co/terre-solide/origine-evolution-histoire/la-terre-boule-de-neige-unehypothese-a-revoir
Birthplace for primitive life on Earth?
The mud volcanoes at Isua, in south-east Greenland have been identified as a possible
birthplace for primitive life on Earth by an international team headed by researchers from the
Geology Laboratory of Lyon: Earth, planets and the environment (CNRS / Université Claude
Bernard Lyon/ENS Lyon). Almost four billion years ago, these volcanoes released chemical
elements indispensable to the formation of the first biomolecules, under conditions favorable
to life. It is the first time that such an environment, meeting all the requirements for the
emergence of life, has been identified by scientists in 3.8 billion year- old formations. This
Geological Heritage
work is published this week in the PNAS.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/co/terre-solide/terre-et-vie/un-berceau-de-la-vie-primitive-sur-terre
Geologist claims discovering water in desert on the Egyptian-Libyan border
By Ashraf Khaled
Egyptian geologist Khaled Ouda has announced the discovery of a "sea of underground water" in the vast Western desert on
the Egyptian-Libyan border. Apparently inspired by the popular uprising that ousted long-standing president Hosni Mubarak
earlier this year, he named some of the claimed oases after Tahrir Square, the 'revolution' and 'martyrs'.
"This reservoir of fresh water is enough to reclaim and irrigate around 3.7 million acres," Ouda, a professor of geology at the
state-owned Assiut University in southern Egypt, told a press conference in Cairo last week.
Il Parco Geominerario Storico e Ambientale della Sardegna: un'occasione perduta? Italy
La storia del Parco Geominerario Storico e Ambientale della Sardegna è lunga e travagliata.
Tutto ebbe inizio nel lontano 1996, quando il progetto prese forma, ma dopo il riconoscimento
dell’UNESCO e l’introduzione del sito nella Rete dei Geoparchi, a quindici anni di distanza,
l’ente si trova ora sotto commissionamento e rischia di perdere il suo titolo. La cittadinanza
però non intende rinunciare al suo Parco…
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2011/10/26/il-parco-geominerario-storico-e-ambientale-dellasardegna-un%E2%80%99occasione-perduta/
Lowland-upland migration of sauropod dinosaurs during the Late Jurassic epoch
By Henry C. Fricke, Justin Hencecroth & Marie E. Hoerner
Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest vertebrates ever to walk the Earth, and as mega-herbivores they were important parts
of terrestrial ecosystems. In the Late Jurassic-aged Morrison depositional basin of western North America, these animals
occupied lowland river- floodplain settings characterized by a seasonally dry climate. Massive herbivores with high nutritional
and water needs could periodically experience nutritional and water stress under these conditions, and thus the common
occurrence of sauropods in this basin has remained a paradox. Energetic arguments and mammalian analogues have been
used to suggest that migration allowed sauropods access to food and water resources over a wide region or during times of
drought or both, but there has been no direct support for these hypotheses. Here we compare oxygen isotope ratios (δ18O)
of tooth-enamel carbonate from the sauropod Camarasaurus with those of ancient soil, lake and wetland (that is,
‘authigenic’) carbonates that formed in lowland settings. We demonstrate that certain populations of these animals did in
fact undertake seasonal migrations of several hundred kilometres from lowland to upland environments. This ability to
describe patterns of sauropod movement will help to elucidate the role that migration played in the ecology and evolution of
gigantism of these and associated dinosaurs.
Ein elfter Kronzeuge für die Abstammungslehre von Charles Darwin wird Deutsches
Kulturgut - An eleventh key witness for the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin becomes
German Cultural Heritage - Munich - Germany
Nur eine Woche nach dem Dinosaurierfund aus Kelheim und just im "Archaeopteryx-Jubiläumsjahr"
ist nun ein 11. noch unbekanntes Exemplar des berühmten Zeitzeugen der Evolution aufgetaucht und
von seinem Besitzer als Deutsches Kulturgut angemeldet worden. Experten sprechen bereits von
einer bedeutenden Signalwirkung innerhalb der Fossilien-Szene. Erstmals wird dieser neue
Archaeopteryx exklusiv neben dem Aufsehen erregenden Theropoden und den bedeutendsten
Original-Dinosaurierfunden Europas wie dem Europasaurus, Compsognatus und Balaur vereint auf der Munich Show Mineralientage München vom 28. bis zum 30. Oktober zu sehen sein.
+ info: http://mineralientage.de/en/the-munich-show/press/elfter-archaeopteryx/
Pourquoi la terre tremble ? Un module interactif sur les séismes, par Curiosphere.
tv
Curiosphère.tv propose un module intitulé "Pourquoi la terre tremble ?", composé
d'animations commentées et interactives.
Le module comprend 4 chapitres :
La dérive des continents;
Au coeur du globe;
Mouvements et failles;
Séismes et tsunamis.
+ info: http://cursus.edu/institutions-formations-ressources/formation/17720/pourquoi-terre-tremble/
Origine des mammifères placentaires : de nouvelles découvertes de fossiles en Inde posent de
nouvelles questions
Une équipe internationale de paléontologues1, dont Emmanuel Gheerbrant du Centre de recherche sur la
paléobiodiversité et les paléoenvironnements (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle/CNRS/UPMC), vient
de découvrir en Inde de nouveaux restes d’adapisoriculidés datant de la fin du Crétacé (entre - 70 et - 65
millions d’années). Jusqu’alors, ces mammifères arboricoles énigmatiques n’étaient connus qu’au début
du Tertiaire (entre - 65 et - 55 millions d'années) en Afrique et en Europe. Récemment, leurs traits
arboricoles avaient conduit les scientifiques à les rapprocher d’un grand groupe de mammifères actuels2
comprenant les primates, ce qui en faisait les seuls placentaires modernes connus avant le Tertiaire. Mais suite à une
analyse phylogénétique, les scientifiques viennent de montrer que les adapisoriculidés ne sont pas des mammifères
Geological Heritage
placentaires modernes mais appartiennent à une branche primitive bien antérieure à la naissance de ceux-ci.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/co/terre-solide/terre-et-vie/origine-des-mammiferes-placentaires-de-nouvelles-decouvertesde-fossiles-e
Pre-Clovis Mastodon Hunting 13,800 Years Ago at the Manis Site, Washington - Washington State (USA)
By Michael R. Waters, Thomas W. Stafford Jr., H. Gregory McDonald, Carl Gustafson, Morten Rasmussen, Enrico Cappellini,
Jesper V. Olsen, Damian Szklarczyk, Lars Juhl Jensen, M. Thomas P. Gilbert and Eske Willerslev
The tip of a projectile point made of mastodon bone is embedded in a rib of a single disarticulated mastodon at the Manis
site in the state of Washington. Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis show that the rib is associated with the other remains
and dates to 13,800 years ago. Thus, osseous projectile points, common to the Beringian Upper Paleolithic and Clovis, were
made and used during pre-Clovis times in North America. The Manis site, combined with evidence of mammoth hunting at
sites in Wisconsin, provides evidence that people were hunting proboscideans at least two millennia before Clovis.
+ info: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6054/351.abstract
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ARDITO DESIO E LE SCIENZE DELLA TERRA A DIECI ANNI DALLA SCOMPARSA
02 December 2011 Milan. Italy
Organizers: UNIVERSITÁ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO - FACOLTÀ DI SCIENZE MATEMATICHE FISICHE E NATURALI DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE DELLA TERRA “ARDITO DESIO”
+ info: http://www.reteellis.it/offerte/DESIO_2_dic_11.pdf
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Les géosciences au service de l'Homme - Comprendre l'avenir
Auteurs: Jean-Claude Samama , Bernard Marty , Jean Dercourt, Collectif
Editeur : Hirlé (Editions)
ISBN : 978-2-914729-55-0
Cet ouvrage est édité à l'occasion de l'Année Internationale de la Planète Terre et du centenaire de la
création de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie de Nancy.
II aborde des sujets de société dans les domaines relatifs aux matières premières minérales et énergétiques,
aux ressources en eau, au génie civil et à l'aménagement du territoire.Jean-Paul Tisot
+ info: http://cursus.edu/institutions-formations-ressources/formation/17722/les-geosciences-service-homme-comprendreavenir/
Géopedia : les sciences de la terre à la portée de tous - Une splendide encyclopédie francophone des
géosciences
Les géologues, le vulcanologues, voire les géographes d’Afrique et du Tiers-monde disposant de connexions Internet
n’auront plus à se déplacer pour consulter à très fort prix les données indispensables pour leurs recherches. Un site
exceptionnel apporte une solution toute faite pour faciliter la recherche.
Geopedia est en effet une Encyclopédie des sciences de la terre et du monde souterrain. Elle concerne plusieurs disciplines
annexes traitées dans des articles simples et très clairs.
+ info: http://cursus.edu/institutions-formations-ressources/formation/12848/geopedia-les-sciences-terre-portee-tous/
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Heritage Legislation (National & International), Conventions,
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Sustainable tourism and protected areas: a successful partnership - European
Charter for Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas
The network of protected areas participating in the European Charter for Sustainable
Tourism in Protected Areas continues to grow at a dramatic rate. Today 89 protected
areas across nine different countries are actively involved in the Charter process.
During the EUROPARC 2011 Conference this year in Bad Urach, 12 protected areas from
Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK received the European Charter for
Sustainable Tourism after a positive evaluation. In addition five parks were re-evaluated
this year after their first five years of work with the Charter.
The large number of new areas applying for the Charter each year clearly shows the growing interest from protected areas
across the whole Europe for the Charter process. Furthermore almost all the awarded parks are applying for a re- evaluation
after the first five years of implementation, and continue to recognise the strategic function of the Charter for the
management and development of sustainable tourism strategies and actions within protected areas.
+ info: http://www.european-charter.org/news-and-events/news/sustainable-tourism-and-protec/
Raiders of the Lost Art - Fighting Illicit Traffic
In the wake of the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Protection of Underwater
Cultural Heritage (2001) important events have animated the world of underwater archaeology.
Learning tools
On the one hand UNESCO has prepared a new high- level tutorial on the Rules concerning
Activities directed at Underwater Cultural Heritage. Its 14 chapters explain the Annex of the
Convention addressing site managers and national authorities. It will be available in a printed
version as well as online. Its supplement, containing practical learning tools and film material, is in preparation. On the other
hand the diving public will especially appreciate the newly adopted and published UNESCO Code of Ethics for Diving on
Submerged Archaeological Sites, which shall ensure the respect for submerged heritage by each individual diver worldwide.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/single-view/news/awareness_raising_communication
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement returns painting stolen during World War I USA
A painting stolen more than 90 years ago is finally on its way home to France. U.S. officials
repatriated "Une Fille de Pêcheur" (A Fisherman's Daughter) to French Ambassador François
Delattre.
Officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); the U.S. Attorney's Office for the
Southern District of New York (SDNY); and Interpol Washington, U.S. National Central Bureau,
attended a ceremony on Oct. 13 to return the stolen painting.
+ info: http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1110/111013washingtondc.htm
21 October.
Celebración del 10° aniversario de la Declaración Universal sobre la Diversidad Cultural en Argentina y Uruguay
(Octubre de 2011)
El Sector de Cultura de la Oficina de la UNESCO en Montevideo conmemora el décimo aniversario de la adopción de la
Declaración Universal de la UNESCO sobre la Diversidad Cultural, la cual representó un punto de inflexión en el modo en el
que la comunidad internacional piensa la cultura, la cooperación y el desarrollo, refutando la teoría del choque de
civilizaciones, y proponiendo una visión alternativa que percibe la diversidad como una fortaleza positiva.
Esta Declaración ha sentado las bases conceptuales para el desarrollo de diversos instrumentos normativos como la
Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (2003) y la Convención para la Protección y Promoción
de la Diversidad de Expresiones Culturales (2005).
+ info: http://universidadypatrimonio.net/doc/montevideo.pdf
Statement by Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Minister Edna Molewa on rhino poaching after
engaging provinces - Republic of South Africa
A recently held meeting of the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs and the provincial MECs responsible for
environment (MINMEC) has recommended that a moratorium on hunting of rhinoceros be considered as a last resort after all
options have been explored.
It should however be noted that , the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs reserves the right to institute a
moratorium if there is a clear abuse or absolute collapse in any of the provincial permitting systems.
+ info: http://www.info.gov.za/speech/DynamicAction?pageid=461&sid=22317&tid=45856
Ratification of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR)
carbon capture and storage measures
At its meeting this week, the strategic Coordination Group of the OSPAR Commission welcomed further progress towards the
legal storage of carbon dioxide in subsea geological formations.
Amendments to the OSPAR Convention for this purpose, agreed in 2007, have been ratified and entered into force for those
Contracting Parties to the OSPAR Convention which have ratified (Norway, Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, European
Union, Luxembourg and Denmark) on 23 July 2011. Today the amendments also entered into force for The Netherlands and
additional Contracting Parties to the OSPAR Convention will continue the process of ratification, acceptance or approval
through their official national channels.
Following up the conclusions and recommendations of the Quality Status Report 2010, the OSPAR Commission is giving
further consideration to how to take forward the development of monitoring and assessment capacities for climate change
and ocean acidification at the regional scale, including tools to assess the rate of change.
+ info: http://www.ospar.org/html_documents/ospar/news/ospar_pr_11_ratification_of_ccs_measure_en.pdf
La France signe le protocole de Nagoya (22 septembre 2011)
La France a signé le 22 septembre 2011 le protocole de Nagoya, adopté l’année dernière lors de la 10ème conférence de la
Convention sur la Diversité Biologique. Ce protocole a pour but de réglementer l’accès aux ressources génétiques et de
promouvoir le partage juste et équitable des avantages issus de leur utilisation.
+ info: http://www.uicn.fr/protocole-Nagoya.html
English Heritage and the National Planning Policy Framework - United Kingdom
English Heritage believes that if a small number of changes and additions to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
are introduced, the protection of the historic environment can be maintained at the existing level, which is the stated aim of
Government.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/news/eh-responds/national-planning-policy-framework/
English Heritage report progress on the implementation of the National Heritage
Protection Plan (NHPP) - United Kingdom
The documents on this page provide details of why and how English Heritage is implementing
the National Heritage Protection Plan (NHPP), and report on progress.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/protection/national-heritageprotection-plan/plan/
Ramsar Convention.
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Alliance to Reduce Crime Against Heritage Newsletter - English Heritage - United
Kingdom
The Alliance to Reduce Crime against Heritage (ARCH) is a new voluntary national network
which will take forward initiatives to tackle heritage crime and galvanise local action as
part of the Heritage Crime Initiative. The overriding objective of the group is to reduce the
amount of crime that causes damage to or interferes with the enjoyment of heritage
assets in England.
+ info: http://www.helm.org.uk/upload/pdf/5138%20Arch%20Newsletter%20Tag.pdf
Rhino horn demand leads to record poaching - World Wildlife Fund - Republic of
South Africa
More rhinos have been killed in South Africa in the past 10 months than were killed in all of
2010, new poaching numbers reveal. Statistics from South Africa National Parks show that
341 animals have been lost to poaching so far in 2011, compared to a record total of 333 last
year.
South Africa’s grim milestone comes on the heels of an announcement by WWF last week
that rhinos have gone extinct in Vietnam. The carcass of Vietnam’s last Javan rhino was
found with a gunshot wound and without its horn.
+ info: http://www.wwf.org.za/?4901/recordpoaching
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Review of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 - Review Submission
Review Submission Victoria. Australia
Organizers: State Government of Victoria
+ info: http://www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/indigenous/aboriginal-cultural-heritage/review-of-the-aboriginal-heritage-act-2006
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Consultation Document on Enabling Legislation for National Parks. August 2011
DOE. Department of Environment
Northern Ireland - United Kingdom
In October 2004, the Department published a consultation paper about national parks and other protected landscape areas.
The debate has moved on since then, and the political landscape has changed with the restoration of devolution and a locallyelected Assembly.
In March 2011, the Department published a White Paper as a first step towards bringing forward enabling legislation to allow
for the creation of national parks in Northern Ireland. At the time the Department said that further material would be
published for consideration during the consultation period.
Accordingly, a new consultation document has now been published. This looks in more detail at the governance options for a
national park and seek answers to a number of specific questions on national park issues with a view to developing policy
proposals for enabling legislation to be brought before the Assembly. For ease of reference, the White Paper has been
included as an appendix.
The consultation document and accompanying letter to consultees are available below. This new document subsumes the
consultation on the White Paper, and the consultation period has been extended to reflect this. Responses are invited by
31st October 2011
+ info: http://www.doeni.gov.uk/consultation_enabling_legislation_for_parks.pdf
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Architecture City Guide: Tel Aviv - Israel
This week our Architecture City Guide is headed to Tel Aviv. Justin Kliger, a local urban
planner and designer and friend of ArchDaily, graciously put together the material for this
week’s guide. As the founder of Architec.tour.a, an architecture tour company in Tel Aviv ,
Kliger offered us great insights into the architecture of his city. “Tel Aviv is covered by a
UNESCO world heritage listing as the ‘White City’, the single largest collection of
International Style buildings in one city. In addition, there is a vast amount of
development and construction going on in Tel Aviv. There are a range of interesting
buildings, including many examples of Brutalist buildings, post modernist structures and new cutting edge designs,” says
Kliger. The 12 buildings we feature here only scratch the surface of what Tel Aviv has to offer. We will be adding to the list in
the near future so leave more suggestions in the comment section below.
To check out other cities visit our world map or our Architecture City Guide page.
The Architecture City Guide: Tel Aviv list and corresponding map after the break.
Seleção 2011 - Mestrado em Estudos Urbanos e Regionais da UFRN (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do
Norte)
26 September - 18 November 2011 Natal, Estado del Rio Grande do Norte. Brazil
Organizers: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
+ info: http://www.sigaa.ufrn.br/sigaa/public/programa/portal.jsf
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The Pre-Motor City: As Detroit paves a new economic road forward, an archaeologist
investigates its industrial beginnings - Detroit - Michigan - USA
On a Wednesday afternoon in early June, a white bus with the navy blue logo "Indian Trails"
emblazoned on its side turns off Michigan Avenue onto 16th Street and heads south. At Dalzelle
Street it takes a left and comes to a stop in front of the gutted husk of Michigan Central Station, the
former railway hub for Detroit, once the fourth largest city in the United States. A gaggle of tourists
hops out of the coach and gawks at the 230-foot-tall building, pointing cameras at it and capturing
what has come to be referred to as "ruin porn."
+ info: http://www.archaeology.org/1111/features/corktown_detroit_michigan_central_station.html
Update from Pingyao, China: Global Heritage Fund Senior Advisory Board
Chair Tracks Progress at Pingyao
Authentic preservation at Pingyao reflects definition of sustainable development:
development that provides equally for current and future generations in economic,
social and environmental terms.
In 1997, UNESCO added Pinyao to its World Heritage list, calling it “an exceptionally
well-preserved example of a traditional Han Chinese city.” Ten years later, GHF began
working there to preserve the vernacular architecture, revitalize and stimulate
traditional arts, and establish special historic areas…
+ info: http://globalheritagefund.org/what_we_do/updates/current_projects/pingyao_china
'Il patrimonio delle cascine di milano' - Milan - Italy (23-24 October 2011)
Siamo lieti di invitarvi alle manifestazioni in corso relative, fra l'altro, alle due iniziative di presentazione e restituzione del
progetto Il patrimonio rurale immateriale delle cascine di Milano, un archivio aperto e partecipato della memoria della vita
delle cascine, che raccoglie le video- testimonianze degli agricoltori e degli abitanti delle cascine milanesi, prodotto da
Comitato Cascine Milano 2015, Storie Digitali srl, UNIMI Facoltà di Agraria–DI.P.S.A, in collaborazione col Distretto Agricolo
Milanese e con il contributo di Regione Lombardia, Direzione Cultura- R.E.I.L..
+ info: http://www.memoriadiffusa.it/il-patrimonio-delle-cascine-di-milano.php
VIDEO - Sacred Spaces: A celebration of the wonderfully varied architecture in Melbourne - Victoria - Australia
Melbourne's finest architects will be talking about thier favorite spots in the city. Their sacred spaces.
This season the emphasis is on women architects, designers and urban planners but not exclusively. The guys also get their
say!
+ info: http://www.c31.org.au/program/view/program/sacred-spaces/info/description
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1ère diffusion du film de la série Cités culturelles "CONFLUENCES : LE REVE METROPOLITAIN"
03 November 2011 Lyon. France
Organizers: Musée Gadagne
+ info: http://www.gadagne.musees.lyon.fr/
EXHIBITION - Morceau de Ville: Le Grand Lyon - Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine
09 November 2011 - 08 January 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine / Ifa et la Communauté urbaine du Grand Lyon
Atelier - Patrimoine & Urbanisme
02 December - 03 December 2011 Vivonne. France
International Congress - "THE HERITAGE OF THE CITY - Europe's Future, New Opportunities through Integrated
Urban Development"
08 December - 09 December 2011 Berlin. Germany
+ info: http://www.kongress-erbe-der-stadt.de/?lang=en
First International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design - Epoka University
19 April - 21 April 2012 Tirana. Albania
Organizers: Department of Architecture, Epoka University & Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Polytechnic
University of Tirana
+ info: http://www.icaud.epoka.edu.al/
International Congress: Frontpage Planning: Before and After Major Events, Disasters, and Social Unrest SCUPAD (Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning & Development)
05 May - 08 May 2012 Salzburg. Austria
Organizers: Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning & Development
Contact: events@)schloss-leopoldskron.com
+ info: http://www.scupad.org/web/content/congress-2012
Publications
World Heritage Papers No. 27: Managing Historic Cities
World Heritage Centre
Paris, UNESCO, 2010
World heritage series: papers (N. 27)
English, French
243 p., illus., plans
ISBN 978-92-3-004175-5
This publication contains a selection of papers written for the regional expert meetings organized in the
context of UNESCO's initiative on the conservation of the Historic Urban Landscape. They contain forward-looking ideas and
some propose innovative strategies for inclusion into urban conservation practice, while others promote specific tools for
particular issues arising from historic urban landscape management.
+ info: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001896/189607m.pdf
Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future
Author: Matt Hern
ISBN: 9781849350105
Publisher: AK Pres
If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it. And cities
are the best chance we have left for a sustainable future ... but only if they remain vibrant, dynamic spaces
that are unfolded by millions of people working together—and not by master plans and planners. What will it
take to make our cities truly sustainable?
+ info: http://www.akpress.org/2009/items/commongroundinaliquidcity
landscapes.
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World's oldest known underground carriage to be restored - Heritage Lottery Fund United Kingdom
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded just over £422,000* to restore the world’s oldest
surviving known example of an underground carriage – Metropolitan Railway Carriage Number
353.
The project will mark the 150th anniversary of London’s Underground – the oldest metro
system in the world – and enable London Transport Museum to restore the carriage to full
working order to become a key feature of the anniversary celebrations in 2013. The restoration
of the historic carriage has been awarded to the Ffestiniog Railway, who are specialists in heritage railway carriage
restorations. HLF will also help fund an apprentice to gain an NVQ Level 2 in Carpentry as part of the project, and a further
159 participants will be offered the opportunity to work towards a heritage and transport qualification via the National Open
College Network.
+ info: http://www.hlf.org.uk/news/Pages/Worldsoldestknownundergroundcarriagetoberestored.aspx
National Medical Museum opens in Silver Spring - Maryland - USA
After more than 30 years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the District of Columbia, the National Museum of Health
and Medicine has completed its relocation to its new home at the Fort Detrick -- Forest Glen Annex in Silver Spring, Md. The
Museum will open its initial temporary exhibitions to the public on September 15, 2011.
+ info: http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/news/temporary_exhibits_2011.html
Rénovation du Musée de l'Air & de l'Espace: partenariat avec le Ministère
de la Défense et le Groupement des Industries Françaises Aéronautiques
et Spatiales (GIFAS) - Le Bourget - France
Le 27 septembre 2011, Gérard Longuet, ministre de la Défense, Jean-Paul
Herteman, président du GIFAS (Groupement des Industries Françaises
Aéronautiques et Spatiales) et Catherine Maunoury, directrice du musée de l’Air et
de l’Espace, ont signé un accord portant sur un mécénat global de 26,5 millions
d’euros.
Dans le cadre de la politique de rénovation, de préservation des collections et de mise en valeur de l’industrie aéronautique
française, le ministère de la Défense et des anciens combattants contribue de façon exceptionnelle à la rénovation du musée
à hauteur de 21,5 millions d’euros. Les entreprises aéronautiques du GIFAS s’engagent quant à elles à verser sur l’année
2011 une contribution d’un montant de 5 millions d’euros.
+ info: http://www.museeairespace.fr/newsletter-b/renovation-du-musee-partenariat-avec-le-ministere-de-la-defense-et-legifas.html
Bouncing Back to Life: Restoring the Florida laboratory where Thomas Edison sought
a substitute for rubber - Fort Myers - Florida - USA
In the final years of his life, Thomas Edison searched for an alternative source of rubber with
the same burning intensity he'd demonstrated in pursuit of a reliable light bulb. The locus of his
efforts was a site he called his "jungle," a lush waterfront corner of southwest Florida where he
wintered with his wife, Mina, and eventually grew thousands of plants that played a crucial role
in his experiments.
+ info: http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2011/november-december/bouncing-back.
html
Large numbers of visitors flocked to view Murtoa Stick Shed - Victoria - Australia - 2
October 2011
With a huge restoration project all but complete, the Shed drew a huge crowd during the Murtoa
Big Weekend. More than 1250 people visited the Stick Shed on 2 October with visitors coming from
across Victoria and even interstate to view this unusual structure.
Dubbed the 'Cathedral of the Wimmera', the 1941 Murtoa Stick Shed spans the length of five
Olympic swimming pools. It is the last remaining of the sheds constructed in Australia as a solution
for grain storage during the World War II wheat glut.
+ info: http://www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/heritage/news-and-events/news/stick-shed-open
150 years of the completion of the transcontinental telegraph, a primitive Internet
united the USA
LOS ANGELES (AP).- Long before there was an Internet or an iPad, before people were social
networking and instant messaging, Americans had already gotten wired.
Monday marks the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental telegraph.
From sea to sea, it electronically knitted together a nation that was simultaneously tearing
itself apart, North and South, in the Civil War.
Americans soon saw that a breakthrough in the spread of technology could enhance national
identity and, just as today, that it could vastly change lives.
"It was huge," says Amy Fischer, archivist for Western Union, which strung the line across mountains, canyons and tribal
lands to make the final connection. "... With the Civil War just a few months old, the idea that California, the growing cities
of California, could talk to Washington and the East Coast in real time was huge. It's hard to overstate the impact of that."
On Oct. 24, 1861, with the push of a button, California's chief justice, Stephen J. Field, wired a message from San Francisco
to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, congratulating him on the transcontinental telegraph's completion that day. He
added the wish that it would be a "means of strengthening the attachment which binds both the East and the West to the
Union."
The Curie Museum, where history and memory meet - Institut Curie - Paris - France
The Curie Museum is on the ground floor of the Curie Pavilion, in one of the oldest buildings of
the Institut Curie. This laboratory, erected a few streets away from the “shed” where the
Curies discovered polonium and radium in 1898, was specially built for Marie Curie by the
University of Paris and the Institut Pasteur between 1911 and 1914.
Here she pursued her work for nigh on twenty years, and here too her daughter and son-inlaw Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie discovered artificial radioactivity, for which they received
the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935.
+ info: http://www.curie.fr/en/Curie-museum
English Heritage launches Industrial Heritage at Risk project - United Kingdom
Listed industrial buildings are more at risk than almost any other kind of heritage, according to a major
research project carried out by English Heritage. You can find out more about the threats to our
industrial heritage in this section, as well as how to get involved in rescuing it, re- using it and caring
for it. So, whether you are an owner or a developer, whether you are involved in a local trust or
whether you just want to find out about industrial buildings with a connection to your family, we hope
you find something relevant and inspiring.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/heritage-at-risk/industrial-heritage-at-risk/
The “Sunstone”, the secret of the Vikings to guide their ships
The legendary “sunstone” which would have allowed the Vikings to orient themselves even with a cloudy
sky, according to the Nordic sagas, is not just a legend, as the researchers from a study published today
have stated.
The Vikings were well known as consummate travellers capable of travelling miles of kilometres at sea
towards Island and Greenland. They even sailed to America without a doubt around the year 1000, much
before Cristobal Colón. But their ability to navigate such long distances without a compass and even in
extremely adverse climate conditions (polar night, snow, etc) still remains a mystery.
+ info: http://www.maxisciences.com/orientation/la-pierre-de-soleil-le-secret-des-vikings-pour-orienter-leurnavire_art18224.html
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Cours publics de l'Ecole de Chaillot sur le patrimoine industriel
2011-2012 Paris. France
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Regional capacity-building workshop on the role of NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) in implementing
the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) - Quito - Ecuador - 19-21
October 2011
The workshop objectives are as follows:
1. Provide participants with technical knowledge regarding the role of NGOs in implementing the Convention for the
Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at both the national and international levels.
2. Create a space for debate and exchange of experiences, good practices and challenges regarding the contribution of NGOs
to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, including raising awareness about its importance in the respective countries.
3. Reinforce dialogue and cooperation among NGOs at the regional level so that they can mutually support each other in
their efforts to promote the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/?tx_browser_pi1%5BshowUid%
5D=4732&cHash=e3221cb03d
INTERREG PROJECT - VALORI E SAPORI DELLE PRODUZIONI TRADIZIONALI ALPINE - Convegno "UNA
MONTAGNA DI BENESSERE - Piante officinali e termalismo"- Universita Degli Studi di Milano - Edolo - Premia
(VB) - Italy 28 ottobre 2011
Un settore che localmente vede protagonisti insieme al centro termale antigoriano il Consorzio di produttori locali di erbe
officinali Erba Bona, che attraverso questo progetto ha ottenuto finanziamenti per l'acquisto di attrezzature al servizio del
proprio laboratorio di Verampio.
Tra gli interventi del convegno di venerdì 28 a Premia quelli di Roberto Maffei Facino della Facoltà di Farmacia dell'Università
degli Studi di Milano su 'Oli essenziali e termalismo', del Presidente delle Unità di Endocrinochirurgia Italiane Rinaldo
Lampugnani su 'termalismo e flebologia moderna', del dermatologo dell'ASL San Martino di Genova Alberto Cavalchini su
'fangoterapia e termalismo e di Silvia Alberti Violetti del dipartimento di dermatologia dell'Università degli Studi di Milano
sull'efficacia delle acque termali, segnatamente quelle di Premia, nella cura della psoriasi.
+ info: http://www.univco.it/cms/news/192/169/CONVEGNO-UNA-MONTAGNA-DI-BENESSERE---VENERDI-28-OTTOBRE2011---TERME-di-PREMIA.html
Seminar for presentation of the Mexican Traditional Cuisine - Montevideo Uruguay - (5-6 September 2011)
On 5 and 6 September 2011 took place in Montevideo, Uruguay, the Seminar to
present the Mexican Traditional Cuisine, proclaimed by UNESCO in 2010 as Intangible
Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
With sponsorship of the Culture Sector of the UNESCO Office in Montevideo, the event
held at the Restaurant "Rara Avis" of the Theatre Solis Cultural Centre and the School
of Gastronomy Hospitality and Tourism of the UTU.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org.uy/cultura/fileadmin/cultura/2011/Triptico_CTM__1_.pdf
Argentina: Presentation of "Identity and Cultural Diversity in Music" - Buenos Aires - Argentina
- (15 September 2011)
"The Voice of Those Who Don’t Have a Voice" a joint project of UNESCO and the BA in Musicology of the
School of Psychology of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) made a special program under the title
"Identity and Cultural Diversity in Music".
The program was presented on 15 September from 9 to 12 am in the Auditorio Independencia of the
School of Psychology at UBA.
+ info: http://www.unesco.lacult.org/noticias/showitem.php?
uid_ext=&getipr=MTcyLjI0LjEwLjMy&lg=2&id=3147
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Segundo Taller UNESCO sobre Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial - Santiago de Chile Chile - 2 - 3 de noviembre de 2011
Enfatizar la relación con las comunidades locales y compartir técnicas para el rescate,
recopilación, reapropiación y usos del patrimonio cultural inmaterial (PCI), fueron algunos de
los principales temas discutidos en el segundo taller de la UNESCO sobre este tema realizado
en Santiago de Chile el 2 y 3 de noviembre de 2011.
En el evento participaron estudiantes de diversas áreas, investigadores y académicos,
representantes gubernamentales y recopiladores de tradiciones orales, quienes tuvieron como
norte de su discusión la puesta en marcha de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial,
aprobada por la Conferencia General de la UNESCO en 2003 y que busca salvaguardar este patrimonio; respetar este
herencia de comunidades, grupos e individuos, sensibilizar sobre su importancia en el plano local, nacional e internacional y
ayudar en la cooperación y asistencia internacionales en este tópico.
+ info: http://portal.unesco.org/geography/es/ev.php-URL_ID=14894&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Les savoir-faire d'excellence au cours du Salon International du Patrimoine Culturel
Organizers: Carrousel du Louvre. Musée du Luvre
+ info: http://www.patrimoineculturel.com/2011/accueil.html
European Day of Languages 2011: 10th Anniversary - Brussels (Belgium) 25-26 September
2011
On 25 and 26 September 2011, the Executive Agency and DG Education and Culture of the European
Commission celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the European Day of Languages with coordinators of
languages projects funded under the Lifelong Learning Programme and the former Lingua action . The
event has given the opportunity to look at 10 years of achievements in languages projects funded at
European level and to assess the challenges ahead. Over 100 people from 19 countries participated
from projects as far as the year 2001. During the event the Director General Jan Truszczyński
awarded the Piccolingo campaign price to Monmouth Municipality for the Children’s Language Festival held in the town in July
2011.
+ info: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/events/2011/european_day_languages.php
PRIZES - PRIX DU PATRIMOINE CULTUREL IMMATERIEL - Maison des cultures du monde - Paris - France - (7-12
novembre 2011)
Devenu en 2008 Festival International du Film Ethnographique Jean Rouch, le Bilan du film ethnographique fêtera en 2011
les trente ans de son existence par l’organisation d’événements exceptionnels en province et à l’étranger, à la rencontre d’un
public toujours plus enthousiaste et curieux. La Maison des Cultures du Monde est heureuse de vous convier à ces
projections dans ses murs, en plein cœur de Paris dans le 6e arrondissement.
Cinq prix seront décernés par un jury international :
- Grand Prix Nanook - Jean Rouch (CNRS Images)
- Prix "Anthropologie et développement durable" (Suez Environnement)
- Prix Mario Ruspoli (Service du livre et de la lecture, Direction générale des médias et des industries culturelles, Ministère de
la Culture)
- Prix du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel (Département du pilotage de la recherche et de la politique scientifique, Direction
générale des patrimoines, Ministère de la Culture)
- Prix Bartok (Société française d’ethnomusicologie)
+ info: http://www.comite-film-ethno.net/festival-international-jean-rouch/2011/fijr-2011/programmation.html
Newsletter Issue 13, Centre for the Safeguard of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Latin America – CRESPIAL (in
Spanish)
CRESPIAL was created on February 2006, after the signing of the agreement of Constitution in Paris between UNESCO and
the Peruvian government with the aim of promoting and supporting actions for the safeguard and protection of the vast
cultural intangible heritage of the peoples of Latin America. It is a category II centre, under the auspices of the UNESCO.
CRESPIAL mainly aims to contribute to the creation of public policies in the countries of the region, starting from the
identification, valuing and the spreading of its culture, actions which will result in the enrichment of the cultural diversity of
Latin America, and which abide by the spirit of the Convention for the Safeguard of Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003).
+ info: http://www.crespial.org/boletin/boletin_13.php
ICHCAP (Intangible Cultural Heritage Centre of Asia & the Pacific): ICH (Intangible Cultural
Heritage) Courier Vol.9 - The Republic of Korea
Intangible Heritage
The ninth issue of the ICH Courier opens with a recap of the July 2011 Expert Meeting for establishing an
ICH safeguarding system in Lao DPR that was held in Seoul, Korea. This meeting resulted in a joint project
agreement between ICHCAP and the Ministry of Information and Culture of the Lao People’s Democratic
Republic. According to the agreement, the two parties will work in tandem to establish an ICH safeguarding
system in Laos.
+ info: http://www.ichcap.org/en/publications/publicationList.jsp?bbs_name=BOARD_ICH1_ENG
CALL FOR PAPERS: Oráfrica JOURNAL: deadline December 31, 2011
The Centre d'études internationales de biologie et d'anthropologie (CEIBA), specialized in the oral culture of Guinea
Equatorial, Cameroon and Santo Tomé y Principe, invites researchers and those interested in writing an article or a
bibliographical review on any aspect of the oral African culture. The idea is that these texts enrich the content of the journal
Oráfrica, which is published by the entity in Barcelona with the same name. Contributions should be sent by email before
December 31, 2011. Texts and enquiries on the layout of the presentation should be sent to [email protected].
+ info: http://www.ceiba.cat/conveni_ceiba_cerdotola.pdf
Symposium: Challenges and future of documenting Nepal's musical heritage - Kathmandu - Nepal - 28
November 2011
A symposium will be held on the occasion of International Folk Music Film Festival in Kathmandu. The symposium aims at
discussing the existing challenges and future of documenting the Nepal's rich musical heritage.
The symposium will gather international senior ethnomusicologists, Nepalese experts in safeguarding the folk musical
tradition, culture experts, emerging talents in traditional music and relevant government representatives. It aims to tackle
present issues, both national and international, related to the music heritage documentation and find solutions on how this
rich Nepal’s folk musical traditions can be better safeguarded and transmitted.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4771&cHash=1a81ea9014
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VIe Festival Larachi Flamenca - Maison des Cultures du Monde
Organizers: Maison des Cultures du Monde
+ info: http://www.mcm.asso.fr/site02/larachi.htm
Symposium: Challenges and future of documenting Nepal's musical heritage
28 November 2011 Lalitpur. Nepal
Organizers: On the occasion of International Folk Music Film Festival in Kathmandu
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4771&cHash=1a81ea9014
Lecture: The Last Words: Documenting Endangered Languages of the Andaman Islands - CRASSH (The Centre
for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities)
01 December 2011 Cambridge. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: CRASSH (The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) and Jawaharlal Nehru University
Contact: Catherine Hurley: [email protected]
+ info: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1818/
CALL FOR PAPERS - Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges - The Centre for Research in
the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
06 June 2012 Cambridge. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
CRASSH (The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) Charting Vanishing Voices: A
Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures
29 June - 30 June 2012 Cambridge. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: CRASSH (The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities)
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Intangible Heritage
50 Aniversario: Casa de las Américas - Cuba
Por la Casa de las Américas han pasado, como concursantes o jurados, importantes personalidades de nuestras letras en
español, portugués, inglés, francés, créole, quechua, aymara, guaraní, y otras lenguas que ilustran la diversidad cultural de
la región, dentro de su unidad geográfica e histórica, y su común destino promisorio. Desde mediados de la década del 70, la
atención a la presencia e influencia latinas en los Estados Unidos, también ha encontrado nuevos cauces para su expresión y
divulgación en los diferentes espacios de la Casa.
+ info: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001883/188354s.pdf#212753
ORALIDAD - Revista para el Rescate de la Tradición Oral de América Latina y el Caribe
La revista Oralidad, publicada desde 1988 por la Oficina Regional de Cultura para América Latina y el Caribe
de la UNESCO, está dedicada a la promoción y la salvaguardia de la tradición oral de América Latina y el
Caribe como vehículo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la región.
+ info: http://www.lacult.org/inmaterial/indice_oralidad.php
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UNESCO supports Congress Voices and Images of Endangered Languages - Quito
- Ecuador - (7-9 September 2011)
The UNESCO Office in Quito has provided support to the School of Languages and
Linguistics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Ecuador and the Foundation for
Endangered Languages in the organizationof the Congress Voices and Images of
Endangered languages held on September 7-9, 2011 in the Cultural Center of the
Pontificia Universidad Católica of Ecuador (Quito).
The Congress included academic activities such as master lectures, papers, presentations
and round tables facilitated by international experts.
Dire, Ne pas dire - L'Académie française - Paris - France
Voici la suite de cette nouvelle rubrique, Dire, Ne pas dire, qui donne le sentiment de l’Académie française sur les fautes, les
tics de langage et les ridicules qui s’observent le plus fréquemment dans le français contemporain.
+ info: http://www.academie-francaise.fr/actualites/index.html
European Day of Languages 2011: 10th Anniversary - Brussels (Belgium) 25-26 September
2011
On 25 and 26 September 2011, the Executive Agency and DG Education and Culture of the European
Commission celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the European Day of Languages with coordinators of
languages projects funded under the Lifelong Learning Programme and the former Lingua action . The
event has given the opportunity to look at 10 years of achievements in languages projects funded at
European level and to assess the challenges ahead. Over 100 people from 19 countries participated
from projects as far as the year 2001. During the event the Director General Jan Truszczyński
awarded the Piccolingo campaign price to Monmouth Municipality for the Children’s Language Festival held in the town in July
2011.
+ info: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/events/2011/european_day_languages.php
Agenda
Lecture: The Last Words: Documenting Endangered Languages of the Andaman Islands - CRASSH (The Centre
for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities)
01 December 2011 Cambridge. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: CRASSH (The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) and Jawaharlal Nehru University
Contact: Catherine Hurley: [email protected]
CALL FOR PAPERS - Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges - The Centre for Research in
the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
06 June 2012 Cambridge. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
CRASSH (The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) Charting Vanishing Voices: A
Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures
29 June - 30 June 2012 Cambridge. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: CRASSH (The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities)
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Optimising Learning, Education and Publishing in Africa: The Language Factor - A Review and
Analysis of Theory and Practice in Mother-Tongue and Bilingual Education in sub-Saharan Africa
Edited by Adama Ouane and Christine Glanz
© June 2011 UIL/ADEA
ISBN 978-92-820-1170-6
This publication presents the results of comprehensive research that assesses the experiences of mothertongue and bilingual education programmes in 25 sub-Saharan African countries in recent years.1 Its overall
conclusion is encapsulated in the statement Language is not everything in education, but without language,
everything is nothing in education (Wolff, Chapter 1).
+ info: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002126/212602e.pdf
50 Aniversario: Casa de las Américas - Cuba
Por la Casa de las Américas han pasado, como concursantes o jurados, importantes personalidades de nuestras letras en
español, portugués, inglés, francés, créole, quechua, aymara, guaraní, y otras lenguas que ilustran la diversidad cultural de
la región, dentro de su unidad geográfica e histórica, y su común destino promisorio. Desde mediados de la década del 70, la
atención a la presencia e influencia latinas en los Estados Unidos, también ha encontrado nuevos cauces para su expresión y
divulgación en los diferentes espacios de la Casa.
+ info: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001883/188354s.pdf#212753
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LES ÉQUIPES DU WWF NOUVELLE ZÉLANDE SE RENDENT À TAURANGA
POUR APPORTER LEUR SOUTIEN FACE À LA "PIRE CATASTROPHE
MARITIME" DE L'HISTOIRE DU PAYS
Alors que les nappes de carburant échappées d'un porte-conteneurs libérien
échoué dans une des baies les plus réputées de Nouvelle-Zélande ont atteint
lundi la côte, les équipes du WWF Nouvelle-Zélande sont arrivés ce matin à
Tauranga pour offrir leur soutien avant l'arrivée annoncée d'une tempête.
+ info: http://www.wwf.fr/s-informer/actualites/les-equipes-du-wwf-nouvellezelande-se-rendent-a-tauranga-pour-apporter-leur-soutien-face-a-la-pire-catastrophe-maritime-de-l-histoire-du-pays
More investment key to protecting Coral Triangle - World Wildlife Federation (WWF)
Innovative incentives and increased investment from the private sector are crucial for the long-term health of the Coral
Triangle region and the millions of people that depend on the marine environment for their livelihoods, says WWF.
The remarks came during the Coral Triangle Initiative Regional Business Forum 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, which closed on 11
October after 2 days of deliberations over how the private and public sectors can work together to protect the world’s most
diverse marine ecosystem.
+ info: http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?201977/More-investment-key-to-protecting-Coral-Triangle
New Zealand oil spill reaches shore - Bay of Plenty - New Zealand
Members of the public have been out helping with the beach clean up. People who want to
help are urged to go through the official volunteer programme. There are now more than
6,000 registered volunteers.
Locals have also been offering support in other ways. National On Scene Commander Nick
Quinn said members of the local community had been delivering baking and food to hardworking clean-up crews on the beach.
+ info: http://www.maritimenz.govt.nz/news/media-releases-2011/20111010d.asp
Décret portant création du parc naturel marin du golfe du Lion - France
Le décret crée et délimite à l'est des départements des Pyrénées-Orientales et de l'Aude le parc naturel marin dénommé «
parc naturel marin du golfe du Lion ». Cet espace maritime comprend le sol, le sous-sol et la masse d'eau qui les recouvre.
Le décret fixe la composition du conseil de gestion du parc qui comprend principalement des représentants de l'Etat, des
collectivités territoriales, des professionnels, des usagers, des associations de protection de l'environnement et des
personnalités qualifiées. Il détermine les orientations de gestion du parc que doivent respecter l'Etat, les collectivités
territoriales et les organismes qui s'associent à la gestion du parc naturel marin.
+ info: http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000024662974&dateTexte=&categorieLien=id
Tara Oceans: Interview with Etienne Bourgois
After more than 2 years, how is Tara Oceans faring?
We have reached the furthest point of the expedition. From now on we’re on our way home,
starting to head back to Lorient, in Brittany.
This extremely professional expedition was organized in collaboration with scientists from the
Oceans consortium. People following our voyage may have a feeling of routine, but that’s what
we hope for on an oceanographic mission!
I’m always very happy when I speak with the scientists who are all amazed by the Tara
Oceans adventure. A great majority of the ‘treasure’ now belongs to them, and they have a huge amount of work to bring
out the results.
We are encouraged by the general public’s desire to know more, and their willingness to learn from the scientists. I take this
opportunity to thank the crew who have been working non-stop for more than 2 years, and also the scientists on land and
aboard Tara.
…
+ info: http://oceans.taraexpeditions.org/en/interview/interview-with-etienne-bourgois-october-2011.php?id_page=822
Study of shark risk on Reunion island– France
A campaign of shark marking has just taken off on the Reunion island. The event takes place under the
framework of the proyect “CHARC- Knowledge of Ecology and the habitat of two species of coastal sharks on
the eastern cost of Reunion island”.
The project aims to study the ecology of two species of coastal sharks on Reunion island, the Tiger and the
Bulldog shark (which are probably among the most abundant species) by using electronic markers in order to
outline the characteristics of their respective habitats (microhabitats) as well as their spatial and temporal
distribution of such micro-habitats.
+ info: http://www.ird.fr/toute-l-actualite/actualites/etude-du-risque-requins-a-l-ile-de-la-reunion
Nouvelle campagne de mesure : la mer de Barents serait propre et riche
Les dernières données environnementales mesurées dans la Mer de Barents montrent que ses eaux seraient riches et
relativement peu polluées.
La campagne de mesure de cette année a été conduite par un groupe de surveillance environnementale composé d'experts
et dirigé par l'IMR (institut de recherche marine). Les résultats sont diffusés par miljøstatus (portail gouvernemental de
diffusion de l'information environnementale). Des campagnes de mesure de la pollution sont menées dans la mer de Norvège
et la mer de Barents depuis plus de 30 ans. "Nous suivons de près l'évolution des éléments polluants dans la mer de
Barents. Certains restent très longtemps dans l'écosystème et peuvent ainsi s'accumuler dans la chaîne alimentaire et
remonter jusqu'aux grands animaux et à l'être humain. Nous travaillons pour une règlementation internationale plus
stricte.", explique Ellen Hambro, directrice de KLIF (agence norvégienne de contrôle du climat et de la pollution).
Conférence internationale "Abysses, Voyage dans un monde méconnu" - Institut
océanographique - Paris - France (13octobre 2011)
Depuis la découverte des premiers nodules polymétalliques en 1868 dans la mer de Kara ou celle du
premier oasis sous-marin en 1977 sur la crête de la dorsale des Galápagos, les scientifiques n'ont
cessé de faire avancer les connaissances sur les grands fonds marins. Grâce aux campagnes
d'exploration, tel le recensement de la vie marine « Census of Marine Life », puis aux prospections
menées ces dernières décennies, les avancées scientifiques et technologiques laissent entrevoir la
diversité de la vie et tout le potentiel des ressources biologiques, minérales ou énergétiques du fond
des océans.
+ info: http://wwz.ifremer.fr/institut/L-institut/Actualites/Scientifique/Conference-Abysses
Oceana proposes 28 atlantic marine habitats for protection under the Convention for the Protection of the
marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR)
Oceana yesterday presented findings from its expeditions to a group of scientists and experts from Norway, the UK, France,
Sweden, Germany and Spain gathered in Norway under the framework of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine
Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR). The images and data demonstrate the existence of 28 marine habitats in
the Atlantic waters of Spain and Portugal as well as in the Kattegat (Baltic) that should be protected under OSPAR. The
workshop was set up to discuss the development of more precise and clearer definitions of marine habitats, so as to ensure
the protection of those that are in danger of disappearing or are in serious decline…
+ info: http://eu.oceana.org/en/eu/media-reports/press-releases/oceana-proposes-28-atlantic-marine-habitats-forprotection-under-ospar
Deep water coral found in unexplored canyons off the South West continental shelf of
Europe
A team of Irish and UK Marine scientists discovered the cold water coral, Lophelia pertusa, in
unexplored deep sea canyons 400km south of Cork on the edge of the European continental shelf
during a recent MESH (Mapping European Seabed Habitats) survey on the Irish national RV Celtic
Explorer. Deep water camera equipment was used to capture images of the seafloor in water up to
1km deep, where pressure is 100 times greater than surface pressure. Cameras also captured
evidence of the impact of fishing on the mound forming coral, as trawl marks in the seabed and
discarded fishing nets and ropes were encountered on a number of occasions.
+ info: http://www.marine.ie/home/aboutus/newsroom/pressreleases/Deepwater_coral_discovered.htm
California - Mexico
Maud Fontenoy Foundation launches new kit on ocean biodiversity - Cité des sciences et de
l'industrie - Paris - France
The kit was developed by the Maud Fontenoy Foundation in partnership with the International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and will be distributed to 8,000 middle schools to focus on environmental
issues in science classes. The students will also have the option of participating in a biodiversity projects
contest.
The speakers, during this event, include Dr. Mitrasen Bhikajee, Deputy Executive Secretary of the
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC/UNESCO), Foundation sponsor Marion Cotillard and
Universcience president Claudie Haigneré.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/maud_fontenoy_foundation
3era edición: Día Internacional de Limpieza de Costas 2011 - Uruguay - 12 de Noviembre de 2011
Bolsas de supermercado… colillas de cigarro… papeles de caramelos. No caen del cielo, caen de nuestras manos. Y lo que el
mar arrastra a la costa es solamente una fracción de lo que termina en el agua, amenazando la vida marina y dañando los
ecosistemas, día a día, todos los días.
El Día Internacional de Limpieza de Costas es un evento que se realiza desde 1986 que tiene lugar en más de cien países
alrededor del mundo. Cada año, cientos de miles de voluntarios pasan un día recolectando basura en sus playas locales
como una demostración de su compromiso con la limpieza de la línea de costa y océano adyacente. El Programa EcoPlata
trae por tercer año consecutivo este evento a Uruguay, sirviendo como coordinador nacional para el Día Internacional de
Limpieza de Costas.
+ info: http://www.ecoplata.org/gobernanza-y-gestion-participativa/voluntariado-ambiental/dia-internacional-de-la-limpiezade-playas/
The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) Commission ENewsletter Issue 6
The OSPAR Convention entered into force on 25 March 1998. It replaces the Oslo and Paris Conventions but Decisions,
Recommendations and all other agreements adopted under those Conventions will continue to be applicable, unaltered in
their legal nature, unless they are terminated by new measures adopted under the 1992 OSPAR Convention. Working
languages of the Convention are English and French.
+ info: http://www.ospar.org/content/content.asp?menu=01350732000000_000000_000000
Four United Nations agencies launch ocean preservation plan
Overfishing, degradation of coastal areas, pollution and declining biodiversity are seriously affecting the
health of the ocean. To address these problems, four United Nations agencies have prepared a plan to
improve the governance of oceans and limit their degradation. The Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal
Sustainability will be presented on 1 November at an event devoted to the oceans at UNESCO Headquarters
(1 to 3 p.m., Room IX).
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Ratification of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR)
carbon capture and storage measures
At its meeting this week, the strategic Coordination Group of the OSPAR Commission welcomed further progress towards the
legal storage of carbon dioxide in subsea geological formations.
Amendments to the OSPAR Convention for this purpose, agreed in 2007, have been ratified and entered into force for those
Contracting Parties to the OSPAR Convention which have ratified (Norway, Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, European
Union, Luxembourg and Denmark) on 23 July 2011. Today the amendments also entered into force for The Netherlands and
additional Contracting Parties to the OSPAR Convention will continue the process of ratification, acceptance or approval
through their official national channels.
Following up the conclusions and recommendations of the Quality Status Report 2010, the OSPAR Commission is giving
further consideration to how to take forward the development of monitoring and assessment capacities for climate change
and ocean acidification at the regional scale, including tools to assess the rate of change.
+ info: http://www.ospar.org/html_documents/ospar/news/ospar_pr_11_ratification_of_ccs_measure_en.pdf
United Nations Agencies unveil ten proposals to safeguard the ocean
The Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability sounds the alarm about the health of the ocean, and
explains how it influences our everyday life by regulating the climate, providing highly-nutritious food and
by sustaining livelihoods and economies. It recalls that although the ocean accounts for 70 percent of the
surface of our planet, only one percent of it is protected.
Presented at UNESCO Headquarters during the 36th session of the General Conference, the Blueprint was
prepared for consideration by the UN conference on sustainable development (Rio+20, June 2012).
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/un_agencies_unveil_ten_proposals
Rio+20 : A Change for Marine Biodiversity
The next Earth Summit Rio+20—officially named the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development—will be held
from 4 to 6 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This summit is a new attempt by the United Nations in this new millennium
to advance the commitment of States and the world community in the major transitions of the twenty-first century. It takes
place twenty years after the first historic summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and ten years after the 2002 Johannesburg
summit.
+ info: www.fne.asso.fr/pdf/rio20plaidoyer/synthese-oceans-english-vff.pdf
La mission Tara Océans passe à la phase scientifique
Après deux ans de collecte de toutes sortes de micro-organismes peuplant les mers et les océans de la
Terre, l’expédition Tara Océans passe maintenant à la phase scientifique. Selon les chercheurs,
l’exploitation de toutes les données rapportées prendra plusieurs années.
La goélette Tara aura passé 630 jours en mer, depuis septembre 2009, à prélever des micro-organismes
dans 133 zones des océans du monde, sélectionnées grâce à des informations satellitaires qui ont
répertoriées les zones de brassage d'eaux chaudes et froides et d’autres sites d'intérêt en fonction de la
salinité ou de la température des océans.
+ info: http://www.maxisciences.com/tara-oc%e9ans/la-mission-tara-oceans-passe-a-la-phase-scientifique_art18520.html
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Dresden's Museum of Military History redesigned by Architect Daniel Libeskind Bundeswehr - Dresden - Germany
Seit dem 15. Oktober 2011 ist die neu konzipierte Dauerausstellung des Militärhistorischen
Museums der Bundeswehr (MHM) für ihre Besucher geöffnet.
Über zwei Zugänge wird das MHM seinen Besucherinnen und Besuchern sowohl inhaltlich als auch
architektonisch neu präsentiert. Thematische Querschnitte zur Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte von
Militär und Gewalt sind im von Daniel Libeskind entworfenen Neubau ausgestellt. Im sanierten
Altbau führt ein chronologischer Rundgang durch die Epochen der Militärgeschichte vom
Spätmittelalter bis zur Gegenwart.
+ info: http://www.streitkraeftebasis.de/portal/a/streitkraeftebasis/dienst/portraits/mhm
Museum of the Fromelles Fight - SERERO Architectes - Fromelles - Nord - France
The architecture of the Museum of Fromelles, designed by SERERO Architectes, is aiming
at establishing a link between sky and earth, between visitors and the “burial” of soldiers.
This is a building with a low profile, which is half-sunk on its northeast facade. The work
on natural topography has helped to improve the natural slope of the site and cover,
partially, the technical space of the museum. More images and architects’ description after
the break.
Only the volume containing the exhibition spaces emerges from the landscape, indicating
the trace of a burial. This emergence is in concrete, which evokes the stacking of successive geological stratifications and
different types of soil in the basement. The museum is gradually revealed to people accessing the site, with its low profile,
which is respectful of the presence of the adjacent cemetery.
Le Minahouet et l'association Voiles d'Iroise vous accueillent - Pont-Aven - Bretagne France
A l'occasion des Journées européennes du Patrimoine, les 17 et 18 septembre, le Minahouet sera
amarré à Pont Aven.
Des visites commentées du navire, unes exposition photos et des films sur son histoire et sa
restauration vous seront présentés.
Un stand de Barbe à Papa, une animation de dessin et de maquillage su rle thème de "Naviguer
sur la mer" pour les enfants sont organisé.
Nous souhaitons vous voir nombreaux pour découvrir ce pur joyau des mers.
Des articles parus dans "Le Pèlerin" et "Télé-Loisirs" de la semaine à venir sont à votre disposition dans la presse publique.
+ info: http://www.voiles-d-iroise.fr/crbst_20.html
Nearly four decades after, landmark Hanoi Hotel unearths Vietnam War bunker
HANOI (AP).- The siren's wail at the historic Metropole Hotel sent American folk singer Joan
Baez and other guests scampering across a garden and into an underground bunker. Even
through five feet of concrete, they could still hear the roar of American bombs raining on parts
of Hanoi.
Nearly four decades have passed since the so-called Christmas Bombings rocked parts of
Vietnam's capital in December 1972. After the war ended three years later, the bunker was
sealed and all but forgotten.
Its exact location remained a mystery until this summer, when a worker's drill pierced its thick concrete roof during
renovations of a poolside bar. Since then, workers have been excavating the flooded and low-ceilinged space. Not much has
been found in the seven rooms: a wine bottle, a rusty paint can and a light bulb still in a socket. But a few tales remain,
some involving famous guests.
"If these walls could talk, they would tell a lot of stories," says hotel general manager Kai Speth, while giving The Associated
Press an exclusive first glimpse. The bomb shelter "needs to be brought back into the life of the hotel as a reminder of what
this hotel and this town went through."
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51209
Viking boat burial find is United Kingdom mainland first - Ardnamurchan Transitions
Project - Scotland - United Kingdom
The 5m-long grave contained the remains of a high status Viking, who was buried with an
axe, a sword with a beautifully decorated hilt, a spear, shield boss and bronze ring-pin.
The Viking had been buried in a ship, whose 200 or so metal rivets were also found by the
team.
The 1,000-year-old find, on the remote Ardnamurchan Peninsula, was made by the
Ardnamurchan Transitions Project (ATP) which is a team led by experts from the Universities
of Manchester, Leicester, CFA Archaeology Ltd and Archaeology Scotland
Funded this season by The University of Manchester, Newcastle University and The Leverhulme Trust, the project brings
together students and academics at what may be one of Britain’s most significant Viking sites.
+ info: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=7533
Maritime Experiential Museum & Aquarium Opens - Resorts World Sentosa - Singapore
Embark on an exciting journey to discover Southeast Asia’s maritime trade history during 9th to 19th century. Featuring
more than 400 rare objects, the Maritime Experiential Museum and Aquarium is the first and only museum to showcase the
Asian maritime history.
Marvel at Admiral Zheng He's massive Treasure Ship (Bao Chuan) and learn about his epic voyages from China to the
‘Western Ocean’. Check out the ports of call, the exotic bazaars (Souks) and cultural emporium which Admiral Zheng He and
other Asian explorers visited along the Maritime Silk Route.
+ info: http://www.rwsentosa.com/language/en-US/Attractions/MaritimeExperientialMuseumAquarium
Réouverture du Musée de la marine d'Amsterdam - Pays-Bas
Le musée maritime d'Amsterdam vient de rouvrir ses portes le 1er octobre après plus de 4 ans de travaux.
Situé à l'est de la ville dans le quartier de l'Oosterdok dans un ancien entrepôt datant de 1656 de la Compagnie néerlandaise
des Indes orientales, le musée a été rénové de fond en comble : le design des nouveaux espaces est tout particulièrement
réussi. La cour intérieure notamment, conçue par le Luxembourgeois Laurent Ney, a été recouverte d'un châssis en acier
léger, représentant une rose des vents, sur lequel reposent 1200 pièces de verre. Le musée a également été équipé
d'installations dernier cri. Le visiteur y découvrira cinq siècles d'histoire et de découvertes maritimes néerlandaises. On
signalera tout particulièrement les treize époustouflantes expositions interactives.
VIDEO - Cultural Heritage and the Reconstruction of Identities after Conflict: Case Studies - Cambridge
University. Cambridge (United Kingdom)
CRIC is a European research project directed from the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of
Cambridge studying the impact of the destruction and reconstruction of cultural heritage on societies after war. CRIC
( Cultural Heritage and the Reconstruction of Identities after Conflict) has case studies in Spain, Bosnia, France, Germany
and Cyprus. This four-year project is funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme.
+ info: http://www.youtube.com/user/CRICResearchProject
President Obama Creates New National Monument at Fort Monroe - Hampton - Virginia
- USA
Written by Rob Nieweg
President Obama’s executive designation, pursuant to the Antiquities Act, honors Freedom’s
Fortress as one of our most important national treasures, on a par with the Statue of Liberty and
the Grand Canyon.
Located at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Fort Monroe is a principal landmark of African
American heritage. Old Point Comfort was the site of the 1619 First Landing of enslaved Africans
in the English-speaking New World, and in 1861 it became the unique birthplace of the Civil War-era freedom movement…
+ info: http://blog.preservationnation.org/2011/11/01/president-obama-creates-new-national-monument-at-fort-monroe/
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EXHIBITION - Admiral Cochrane, The Real Master and Commander - National Museum Scotland
07 October 2011 - 12 February 2012 Edinburgh. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: National Museum Scotland and is delivered in partnership with National Records of Scotland
+ info: http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/national_museum/exhibitions/admiral_cochrane/about_the_exhibition.aspx
EXHIBITION - Arctic Convoys 1941-45 - National Maritime Museum
21 October 2011 - 28 February 2012 Greenwich. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: National Maritime Museum
+ info: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/arctic-convoys/
EXHIBITION - War Horse: Fact & Fiction - National Army Museum
Until August 2012 16 November 2011 - 01 August 2012 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: National Army Museum
+ info: http://www.nam.ac.uk/microsites/war-horse/
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Letter from Bermuda: Secrets of a Civil War Shipwreck
by James P. Delgado
Bermuda is an island nation famous for its shipwrecks. Discovered in 1505 by Spanish mariner
Juan de Bermudez, the tiny territory is made up of 181 small islands ringed by reefs that have
claimed hundreds of vessels. It was a shipwreck, in fact, that led to the settlement of the islands.
Today, Bermuda is home to more than 62,000 people, and some 150 to 300 wrecks are said to
be submerged off its beaches and in its maze of reefs…
+ info: http://www.archaeology.org/1111/letter/mary_celestia_bermuda_civil_war_noaa.html
Registered Battlefields Designation - Selection Guide - English Heritage
The English Heritage Register of Historic Battlefields identifies 43 important English battlefields. Its purpose is to offer them
protection and to promote a better understanding of their significance.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/battlefields/
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Happy Birthday Le Corbusier!
Today marks the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier’s birthday. Noted as one of the pioneers of
modern architecture, Le Corbusier’s architecture career spanned some five decades. Born in 1887, which
would make him 124 today, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier in the 1920s.
Known for both his architecture and furniture design you can visit the Galerie Anton Meier where some of Le
Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret furniture is currently on a special exhibit. More of ArchDaily’s coverage on Le
Corbusier, books, buildings, and articles can be found here.
White Cube announces the opening of a third major space in London - United Kingdom
White Cube announces the opening of a third major space in London. The building, located on Bermondsey Street in south
London, will open to the public during Frieze on 12 October 2011. This will be the largest of the gallery’s three London sites,
providing more than 5440 m 2 (58,000 sq ft) of interior space on a site of 1.7 acres (74,300 sq ft). The building dates from
the 1970s and was primarily used as a warehouse before the current refurbishment.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51030
Modern Masters Shine During What's Out There Weekend - San Francisco - California USA - 17-18 September 2011
More than 1,000 people explored San Francisco’s wealth of designed landscapes, particularly
Modernist ones, September 17-18 during What’s Out There Weekend. As with similar previous
events in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, the weekend provided visitors with free, expert- led
tours through 25 area parks, gardens, public plazas, and neighborhoods spanning over 100 years
of design, though the focus, in keeping with the weekend’s Mostly Modern theme, looked at
masterworks by Lawrence Halprin, Robert Royston and other practitioners…
+ info: http://tclf.org/news/tclf-news/modern-masters-shine-wotw-san-francisco
Sunnylands Center and Gardens - The Office of James Burnett, Frederick Fisher &
Partners - Rancho Mirage - California - USA
An extension of the 200-acre desert retreat of publisher, diplomat and philanthropist Walter
Annenberg, the Sunnylands Center and Gardens is an interpretive center that celebrates the
architectural and cultural legacy of the historic estate. Inspired by the Annenberg’s extensive
collection of impressionist artwork, the landscape architect painted a living landscape that
respects the character of the Sonoran Desert and demonstrates a new ecological aesthetic for
landscapes in the arid southwest.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/175257/sunnylands-center-and-gardens-the-office-of-james-burnett/
World Monuments Fund 2012 Endangered Monuments Watch includes two iconic New
York buildings - New York State - USA
The World Monuments Fund calls for international awareness to the 2012 list of endangered
monuments. The watch encompasses 67 threatened cultural-heritage sites worldwide. These
influential landmarks include the iconic Manufacturers Trust Company Building in New York City
designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Paul Rudolph’s Orange County
Government Center in Goshen, New York.
The former 1950’s Manufactures Trust Bank exemplifies mid-century modern architecture
situated on one of the busiest streets of Manhattan. The glass and aluminum façade abandoned the traditional “fortress”
approach and confidently displayed the interiors of the bank, exposing the 30-ton steel vault serving as a metaphor for
transparency in banking. In 1997, the building was designated a New York City landmark and in early 2011 received
protection for the modern interiors designed by Eleanor H. Le Maire. The current owners are adapting the building for reuse
and altering the interior features, endangering the iconic bond between the exterior and interior.
Le cabanon Le Corbusier - Roquebrune - France
Réalisé en 1952 le Cabanon occupe une place à part dans l’œuvre de Le Corbusier. Une historiographie classique en a
rarement fait état, ou très succinctement. Et bien qu’il soit devenu une sorte de lieu de pèlerinage, régulièrement fréquenté
par quelques admirateurs du Maître, ses caractéristiques demeurent méconnues.
Sans doute, cela tient-il à la modestie du projet. C’est une petite baraque, dont le bardage en croûte de pin fait davantage
penser aux représentations de la ”cabane au Canada” qu’à une approche moderne du projet architectural. L’intérieur
regroupe quand à lui, dans une quinzaine de mètres carrés, deux lits, une table, quelques rangements, un lavabo et un WC.
Par l’une des deux fenêtres on aperçoit la plage où Le Corbusier se noya au mois d’août 1965.
+ info: http://www.athenaeum.ch/corbpm43.htm
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EXHIBITION - From Start to Finish: De Wain Valentine's Gray Column - J. Paul Getty Museum
13 September 2011 - 11 March 2012 Los Angeles, California. United States of America
Organizers: The Getty Conservation Institute in collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Museum.
+ info: http://www.getty.edu/pacificstandardtime/exhibitions-and-events/from-start-to-finish/
12th International Docomomo Conference - THE SURVIVAL OF MODERN, FROM COFFEE CUP TO GENERAL PLAN
07 August - 10 August 2012 Espoo. Finland
Organizers: Docomomo Suomi/Finland and Espoo City Museum
+ info: http://www.docomomo-fi.com/conference2012/
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EXHIBITION - Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya - Royal Geographical Society
Organizers: Royal Geographical Society with IBG
+ info: http://www.rgs.org/RGS-IBG-SITE/Templates/Level3.aspx
INTERREG PROJECT - VALORI E SAPORI DELLE PRODUZIONI TRADIZIONALI ALPINE - Convegno "UNA
MONTAGNA DI BENESSERE - Piante officinali e termalismo"- Universita Degli Studi di Milano - Edolo - Premia
(VB) - Italy 28 ottobre 2011
Un settore che localmente vede protagonisti insieme al centro termale antigoriano il Consorzio di produttori locali di erbe
officinali Erba Bona, che attraverso questo progetto ha ottenuto finanziamenti per l'acquisto di attrezzature al servizio del
proprio laboratorio di Verampio.
Tra gli interventi del convegno di venerdì 28 a Premia quelli di Roberto Maffei Facino della Facoltà di Farmacia dell'Università
degli Studi di Milano su 'Oli essenziali e termalismo', del Presidente delle Unità di Endocrinochirurgia Italiane Rinaldo
Lampugnani su 'termalismo e flebologia moderna', del dermatologo dell'ASL San Martino di Genova Alberto Cavalchini su
'fangoterapia e termalismo e di Silvia Alberti Violetti del dipartimento di dermatologia dell'Università degli Studi di Milano
sull'efficacia delle acque termali, segnatamente quelle di Premia, nella cura della psoriasi.
+ info: http://www.univco.it/cms/news/192/169/CONVEGNO-UNA-MONTAGNA-DI-BENESSERE---VENERDI-28-OTTOBRE2011---TERME-di-PREMIA.html
Seminario "Il dissesto idrogeologico: dinamiche fluviali e movimenti franosi nelle valli alpine" - Edolo - Italy (26 ottobre 2011 )
Mercoledì 26 ottobre 2011 dalle ore 13.30 alle ore 17.30, presso l’Aula Magna della Facoltà di Agraria Sede di Edolo (BS), si
terrà il seminario “IL DISSESTO IDROGEOLOGICO: DINAMICHE FLUVIALI E MOVIMENTI FRANOSI NELLE VALLI ALPINE”
tenuto dal dott. Enrico Casati (Pedologo)
Nel corso del seminario si tratteranno le principali dinamiche morfogenetiche dei corsi d’acqua e dei movimenti di massa
lungo i versanti con particolare riferimento agli eventi che maggiormente modificano il paesaggio (alluvioni, frane, erosione
Mountains
del suolo).
Alcuni esempi consentiranno di evidenziare le relazioni di causa effetto con le attività antropiche e apprezzare il rischio ad
esse connesso.
La partecipazione è libera e gratuita.
Il seminario è accreditabile per il riconoscimento dei Crediti Formativi Professionali.
+ info: http://www.valmont.unimi.it/italiano/studenti/calendario.html
Shrinking record for the Austrian glaciers in the summer of 2011
A study carried out by the Institut Central de Météorologie et de Géodynamique (ZAMG) has shown that glaciers have
spectacularly shrunk during the summer of 2011, so much more than in the summer of 2003, which was a record hot period.
Seminar in English "A practical approach to the development of tourism in the mountainous areas of Italy" Edolo - Italy - 27 October 2011
Ricordiamo che giovedì 27 ottobre 2011 alle ore 15.30, presso l’Aula Magna della Facoltà di Agraria Sede di Edolo, si terrà il
seminario “A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM IN THE MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF ITALY” tenuto
da Alexander Reed.
Il seminario sarà tenuto in lingua inglese.
Tutti gli interessati sono invitati. La partecipazione è libera e gratuita.
Comment concilier les activités humaines avec la protection des forêts de montagne en Haute-Garonne?
L'année internationale des forêts est l'occasion de mettre en lumière ceux qui agissent au quotidien pour la gestion durable
et la conservation des forêts. Guillaume Castaing, président de Nature Comminges, nous présente les actions de son
association pour préserver la diversité biologique remarquable des forêts haut-garonnaises.
+ info: http://www.fne.asso.fr/fr/comment-concilier-les-activites-humaines-avec-la-protection-des-forets-de-montagne-enhaute-garonne.html?cmp_id=167&news_id=12518&vID=865
Agenda
International Mountain Day 2011
11 December 2011
Organizers: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
+ info: http://www.fao.org/mnts/en/
Publications
What influences climate and glacier change in southwestern China?
By Teppei J Yasunari
The subject of climate change in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and Himalayas has taken on increasing importance because of the
availability of water resources from their mountain glaciers (Immerzeel et al 2010). Many of the glaciers over these regions
have been retreating, while some are advancing and stable (Yao et al 2004, Scherler et al 2011). Other studies report that
some glaciers in the Himalayas show acceleration of their shrinkage (e.g., Fujita and Nuimura 2011). However, the causes of
glacier melting are still difficult to grasp because of the complexity of climatic change and its influence on glacier issues.
Despite this, it is vital that we pursue further study to enable future predictions of glacier changes…
+ info: http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/4/041001
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Publications
Launch of the Heritage Portal of Gatineau in collaboration with the program of
Cybermuseology of the UQO (University of Quebec in Ouataouais) Canada
Under the framework of the Conference on Culture, the Heritage Network of Gatineau (RPG) launched
the Heritage Portal of Gatineau. The creation of this common platform to present and exhibit the local
heritage is the result of the joint collaboration between the RPG, the city of Gatineau and the University
of Quebec in Outaouais (UQO).
Under the direction of professor Eric Langlois, from the UQO, three students of Cybermuseology France
Boudria, Fauve Laforest and Jessica Leblond participated in this project. This communicative and
unifying cyberplaform contains information about the net members (RPG), news on heritage and publications online. A
cyberexhibition entitled The treasures of heritage introduces us into the still unknown heritage. Interactive options allow web
surfers to participate in exchanges and debates about questions related to heritage.
+ info: http://uqo.ca/nouvelles/2011/10/03/lancement-du-portail-du-patrimoine-gatinois-realise-en-partenariat-avec-leprog
White Cube announces the opening of a third major space in London - United Kingdom
White Cube announces the opening of a third major space in London. The building, located on Bermondsey Street in south
London, will open to the public during Frieze on 12 October 2011. This will be the largest of the gallery’s three London sites,
providing more than 5440 m 2 (58,000 sq ft) of interior space on a site of 1.7 acres (74,300 sq ft). The building dates from
the 1970s and was primarily used as a warehouse before the current refurbishment.
ONLINE EXHIBITION - Travelling Through History - EUROPEANA
"Travelling Through History" is your ticket to Europe's travel heritage. Join a 1930s car trip, journey to
the North Pole or explore diaries, maps and travel memorabilia dating back to the 12th century, as
selected by major European libraries. "Travelling Through History" is an exhibition featured by The
European Library
+ info: http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition-travel-history/
Johnson Museum New Wing - Pei Cobb Freed & Partners - 2011 - Cornell University - Ithaca New York - USA
Perched atop a slope overlooking Cayuga Lake in Ithaca, New York, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,
designed by I.M. Pei in 1973, is a landmark of modern architecture as well as an iconic presence on the
campus of Cornell University. On October 15, 2011, the museum unveils a sympathetic expansion and
renovation program designed to more comprehensively showcase the museum’s permanent collection,
which has grown nearly four-fold since the early ‘70s, and accommodate further growth.
+ info: www.archdaily.com/174418/johnson-museum-new-wing-pei-cobb-freed-partners/
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia The Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York - New York State - USA - Opening 1 November 2011
More than one thousand works from the preeminent collection of the Museum's Department of Islamic Art—
one of the most comprehensive gatherings of this material in the world—have returned to view in a
completely renovated, expanded, and reinstalled suite of fifteen galleries. The organization of the galleries
by geographical area emphasizes the rich diversity of the Islamic world, over a span of thirteen hundred
years, by underscoring the many distinct cultures within its fold.
+ info: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2011/new-galleries-for-the-art-of-the-arab-landsturkey-iran-central-asia-and-later-south-asia
ONLINE EXHIBITION - Reading Europe: European Culture Through the Book - EUROPEANA
The "Reading Europe: European culture through the book" exhibition is brought to you by The European
Library and the national libraries of Europe. This online exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view some of
the hidden literary gems from the national libraries of Europe. Twenty-three countries have selected nearly a
thousand works for the public to peruse. Visitors can discover everything from 18th century English
bestsellers to the lost interiors of Russian palaces, all presented in an innovative and multilingual form.
+ info: http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition-reading-europe/
Raiders of the Lost Art - Fighting Illicit Traffic
In the wake of the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Protection of Underwater
Cultural Heritage (2001) important events have animated the world of underwater archaeology.
Learning tools
On the one hand UNESCO has prepared a new high- level tutorial on the Rules concerning
Activities directed at Underwater Cultural Heritage. Its 14 chapters explain the Annex of the
Convention addressing site managers and national authorities. It will be available in a printed
version as well as online. Its supplement, containing practical learning tools and film material, is in preparation. On the other
hand the diving public will especially appreciate the newly adopted and published UNESCO Code of Ethics for Diving on
Submerged Archaeological Sites, which shall ensure the respect for submerged heritage by each individual diver worldwide.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/single-view/news/awareness_raising_communication
Update: Museum der Kulturen Basel - Herzog & de Meuron - 2011 - Basel - Switzerland
In early September we reported that the Museum der Kulturen Basel reopened its doors after two years
of reconstruction, refurbishment and expansion. Now we are providing you with some more images of
this exciting design.
Among the updates was a Herzog & de Meuron design described as a ‘stunning crown for the historical
walls: the beautiful rooftop of irregular folds fits harmoniously into the rooftops surrounding the
cathedral’.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/174782/update-museum-der-kulturen-basel-herzog-de-meuron
Dresden's Museum of Military History redesigned by Architect Daniel Libeskind Bundeswehr - Dresden - Germany
Seit dem 15. Oktober 2011 ist die neu konzipierte Dauerausstellung des Militärhistorischen
Museums der Bundeswehr (MHM) für ihre Besucher geöffnet.
Über zwei Zugänge wird das MHM seinen Besucherinnen und Besuchern sowohl inhaltlich als auch
architektonisch neu präsentiert. Thematische Querschnitte zur Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte von
Militär und Gewalt sind im von Daniel Libeskind entworfenen Neubau ausgestellt. Im sanierten
Altbau führt ein chronologischer Rundgang durch die Epochen der Militärgeschichte vom
Spätmittelalter bis zur Gegenwart.
+ info: http://www.streitkraeftebasis.de/portal/a/streitkraeftebasis/dienst/portraits/mhm
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement returns painting stolen during World War I USA
A painting stolen more than 90 years ago is finally on its way home to France. U.S. officials
repatriated "Une Fille de Pêcheur" (A Fisherman's Daughter) to French Ambassador François
Delattre.
Officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); the U.S. Attorney's Office for the
Southern District of New York (SDNY); and Interpol Washington, U.S. National Central Bureau,
attended a ceremony on Oct. 13 to return the stolen painting.
+ info: http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1110/111013washingtondc.htm
Lisbon Design and Fashion Museum - Ricardo Carvalho & Joana Vilhena Arquitectos Lisbon - Portugal
The project for the Design and Fashion Museum provisional premises provides an intervention
in the old Banco Nacional Ultramarino building on Rua Augusta, situated at the heart of
Lisbon’s historic city center.
The building was designed by the architect Cristino da Silva (initiated in 1952) and was
characterised by a ground floor, entirely dedicated to client service with a strong urban
relationship to the streets surrounding the building and, most importantly, an atmosphere
distinguished by the solid nature of the materials used and the sophistication of the construction undertaken. This was the
most Viennese of Lisbon banks, with a stone counter capable of defining the design of the entire space in itself and an
interrupted interior that reveals the proportions of the building block from the inside.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/176468/lisbon-design-and-fashion-museum-ricardo-carvalho-joana-vilhena-arquitectos/
21 October.
Workshop on Management, Exhibition and Storage for the UNESCO/Norway FIT (Funds-InTrust) Project in the Open Air Museum of Georgia - Tbilisi - Georgia - 6-12 October 2011
Following the successful workshop on Preventive Conservation of textiles, which took place in May 2011,
UNESCO organizes another workshop in the Georgian National Museum in close cooperation with Maihaugen
Museum of Lillehammer, Norway, on issues concerning museum management, preventive conservation of
wooden objects and training on security and storage management, in addition to the preparation for the
permanent exhibition in the Giorgi Chitaia Open Air Museum’s traditional vernacular buildings.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/?tx_browser_pi1%5BshowUid%
5D=4795&cHash=94992717f7
Shelburne Museum Announces Center for Art and Education - Shelburne - Vermont USA
Shelburne Museum Chairman James Pizzagalli announced plans for a new center for art and
education at Shelburne Museum that will expand the museum’s educational programs, bring
new and exciting exhibits to visitors and, for the first time, open the museum year- round.
The announcement opens the public phase of the Campaign for Shelburne Museum, a $14
million capital campaign with the center for art and education as its centerpiece. To date the
campaign has raised $10.75 million.
+ info: http://shelburnemuseum.org/pressroom/shelburne-museum-announces-center-for-art-and-education/
Museum of the Fromelles Fight - SERERO Architectes - Fromelles - Nord - France
The architecture of the Museum of Fromelles, designed by SERERO Architectes, is aiming
at establishing a link between sky and earth, between visitors and the “burial” of soldiers.
This is a building with a low profile, which is half-sunk on its northeast facade. The work
on natural topography has helped to improve the natural slope of the site and cover,
partially, the technical space of the museum. More images and architects’ description after
the break.
Only the volume containing the exhibition spaces emerges from the landscape, indicating
the trace of a burial. This emergence is in concrete, which evokes the stacking of successive geological stratifications and
different types of soil in the basement. The museum is gradually revealed to people accessing the site, with its low profile,
which is respectful of the presence of the adjacent cemetery.
ISMOF - International School Museum of Flamenco - Made Up Space (MUS)
Architects - Andalusia - Spain
Movements and gestures of dancers are full of expression and tension. Dancers
bring the fascinated viewer into an internal world of experience and emotion
through the swinging movement of their hips, decorative arrangement of their
fingers and smooth vibration of the ornamental frills. Rhythmic and dynamic music
transmits the spectator into a world of incredible aesthetic feelings awakening all
senses and inflaming the imagination. This is how architecture dedicated to the
culture of feisty flamenco should look like as demonstrated in the proposal by MUS Architects. More images and architects’
description after the break.
Site management and building form reflect the flamenco spirit. Interior and exterior spaces of ISMOF building were created
through the sculptural interpretation of the theme. Building solid responds to diverse height of the terrain – it rises and falls
like a sinusoidal diagram of dynamic sound waves. On the ground floor which is canopied by sails vaults an extensive square
is located – a foreground for internal building program. Space areas are divided only by glass sheets. As a result internal and
external spaces penetrate themselves flowing under vaults of expressive canopies.
Dallas Museum of Art Reunites a Pair of Vernet Masterpieces After 200 Years - Dallas - Texas - USA
Two landscape paintings by eighteenth-century French master Claude-Joseph Vernet have been reunited for the first time in
more than 200 years at the Dallas Museum of Art. Commissioned in 1774 at the height of Vernet’s career by famous English
collector Lord Lansdowne, the two large-scale paintings depict the complementary scenes of unruly rustic landscape and
tranquil seaport. The duo, A Mountain Landscape with an Approaching Storm and A Grand View of the Sea Shore, hung
together in the collector’s home, Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, London, until his death, when the paintings were sold
to separate private collections in 1806.
+ info: http://dallasmuseumofart.org/PressRoom/dma_410956
Argentina: Exhibition "People of African Descent / Legacies and Identities" by
Ricardo Preve at the Museum of Alta Gracia - Córdoba - Argentina (23
September - 23 October 2011)
From 23 September to 23 October 2011, the National Museum Estancia Jesuítica de Alta
Gracia (Cordoba, Argentina), will show the exhibition "People of African Descent /
Legacies and Identities" by Argentine photographer Ricardo Preve, organized within the
International Year for People of Afri9can Descent.
The exhibition, sponsored and supported by the UNESCO Montevideo Culture Sector, shows photographs of Iemanjá in
Brazil, Cuba, Haiti and Uruguay and images of the Carnival of Artigas as well as the Parade of Calls in Uruguay. The
exhibition is a small part of the huge legacy and impact left by Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean. This legacy is
the result of a dialogue that was forced 500 years ago with the Trans Atlantic slave trade whose interactions and
contributions found the unique culture of the present.
The exhibit was also shown in August and September in Villa Ocampo (San Isidro-Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Museum Folkwang - David Chipperfield - Essen - Germany
“Ruhr.2010 – European Capital of Culture” is the name of the project with which Essen and the
Ruhr are confronting changing times. The “Pott”, as the area is affectionately known in Germany,
is shaking off its coal-and-steel-producing past and mutating into a “new-style polycentric cultural
metropolis”. A high-flying objective. But one that nevertheless appears to be achievable –
certainly as long as the route is paved with milestones like the new Museum Folkwang building
inaugurated at the beginning of 2010.
The source of this particular milestone is British star architect David Chipperfield, who has
achieved great familiarity – not only within the architectural world – with projects such as his recent restoration of the New
Museum in Berlin. His speciality: “feeling his way into” existing structures that invariably enjoy his deepest respect. He has
again been able to put this speciality through its paces with the new Folkwang Museum building. The period museum built in
1960, which is now linked to the new structure by means of two glass crossovers, was the point of departure for the entire
planning procedure; the extension built in 1983 and so unloved locally had to go.
Histoire du Musée Schœlcher - Pointe-à-Pitre - Guadeloupe - France
En 1883, Victor Schœlcher, désireux de promouvoir la culture sous toutes ses formes auprès d’une
population libérée 40 ans plus tôt de l’esclavage, offre à la Guadeloupe une collection hétéroclite
regroupant des originaux et des copies d’œuvres d’art célèbres de l’Antiquité au XIXe siècle, des objets
personnels et des souvenirs de voyage.
+ info: http://www.cg971.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1576&Itemid=100012
New York State Museum study suggest wolves migrating East - New York - New York
State - USA
KUNZELSAU.- The fascinations of the forest! Hardly another subject in art history can match
the forest for expressive potential and a concomitant multiplicity of meanings. As a favourite
setting for fairy tales, forests formed an essential projection screen during childhood. The
mostly young heroes and heroines went astray there, encountered unusual creatures, were
transformed, enchanted, or gobbled up, only to prevail in the end. The phantasmagorical ideas
of Romantic painters, writers, and composers still move us in the twenty-first century and
have become embedded in our feeling and thinking. Doesn't a stroll in the woods still hold the promise of time to think and
recuperate from humdrum life?
In the course of the nineteenth century, Romantic ideas spread so rapidly and widely that something known as the "scientific
forest aesthetic" emerged. Woods developed from "untamed wilderness" to sites for an enjoyment of nature and finally into
"suburban recreation areas" or even city parks designed to soothe the eye with subtle gradations of green, in foliage, water,
and mosses.
+ info: http://artdaily.org/index.asp
Art Gallery of South Australia to host major Turner exhibition in 2013 - Adelaide - South Australia - Australia
The Hon Mike Rann MP today announced that the Art Gallery of South Australia will host a significant exhibition of the work
of iconic British artist J. M. W. Turner. The exhibition, scheduled for February 2013, is being jointly curated by Tate and the
Art Gallery of South Australia and includes many of the artist’s most familiar oil paintings and watercolours as well as works
that have never been previously exhibited.
Turner – the Makings of a Master draws from the finest and most comprehensive collection of the artist’s work - the Turner
Bequest. There is arguably no greater insight into the working techniques of a great artist than this unique collection,
bequeathed to the people of Britain after Turner’s death in 1851 and held by the Tate.
Art Gallery of South Australia Director, Nick Mitzevich said “This spectacular exhibition reveals why Turner is regarded as one
of the greatest landscape painters of all time.”
+ info: http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Media/docs/Current_media_releases/FINAL.pdf
Museum to Conserve Rare Alutiiq Warrior Kayak in Gallery Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - Harvard
University - Massachusetts - USA
For the first time, Peabody Museum visitors will be able to see
conservators at work in a specially prepared gallery space.
America's only known Alutiiq warrior kayak is the centerpiece of a new
conservation effort. Peabody Museum curators and conservators will be
collaborating with Alaska’s Alutiiq Museum and Alfred Naumoff, the last
traditionally trained Kodiak Alutiiq kayak maker, in the study and conservation of the collections over the next two years.
+ info: http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/742
Rénovation du Musée de l'Air & de l'Espace: partenariat avec le Ministère
de la Défense et le Groupement des Industries Françaises Aéronautiques
et Spatiales (GIFAS) - Le Bourget - France
Le 27 septembre 2011, Gérard Longuet, ministre de la Défense, Jean-Paul
Herteman, président du GIFAS (Groupement des Industries Françaises
Aéronautiques et Spatiales) et Catherine Maunoury, directrice du musée de l’Air et
de l’Espace, ont signé un accord portant sur un mécénat global de 26,5 millions
d’euros.
Dans le cadre de la politique de rénovation, de préservation des collections et de mise en valeur de l’industrie aéronautique
française, le ministère de la Défense et des anciens combattants contribue de façon exceptionnelle à la rénovation du musée
à hauteur de 21,5 millions d’euros. Les entreprises aéronautiques du GIFAS s’engagent quant à elles à verser sur l’année
2011 une contribution d’un montant de 5 millions d’euros.
+ info: http://www.museeairespace.fr/newsletter-b/renovation-du-musee-partenariat-avec-le-ministere-de-la-defense-et-legifas.html
VIDEO - Building the Moroccan Court in the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central
Asia, and Later South Asia - Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York - New York State - USA
The court was made possible by the Patti and Everett B. Birch Foundation.
+ info: http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/collections/curatorial-departments/isl/installations/building-themoroccan-court
A Background to the Armenian Heritage Centre - Valence - France
Since the 1920s, Valence and the surrounding area have welcomed an important population of Armenian origin, marked by
the tragic events of genocide and exile, as well as the difficulties of immigration. This exceptionally dynamic population has
integrated perfectly into the life of the town to which it has added its particularity thanks to the presence of a number of
associations and the maintain of strong traditions. The reference of identities, traditions and memories form the heritage of
the Armenians of Valence.
It is for this reason that the town of Valence created the Armenian Heritage Centre in 2005, included in the Valence Agglo
Sud Rhône-Alpes since January 1rst 2010.
+ info: http://www.patrimoinearmenien.org/background.htm
Become a 'Certified Londoner': Unlock our capital's turbulent past with a new HiddenCity
mobile phone trail through the colourful galleries of the Museum of London - London United Kingdom
For the first time ever, families will be able to explore a museum in the UK with an interactive text
message trail.
The Museum of London Discovery trail - a trail of clues by text message exploring the museum’s
galleries - launches on Thursday 20 October 2011, just in time for the autumn half-term school
holiday. The trail has been created by HiddenCity, the trails-by-text company, for families, or anyone
game for an indoor adventure.
The Discovery Trail takes families on a journey of exploration through London’s turbulent history. Using text messages and a
map of the museum, players are guided through a trail of clues, each leading them to a new location within the Museum
where they use their ingenuity to deduce answers from their surroundings. Players who successfully complete the trail win a
coveted ‘Certified Londoner’ badge by showing the Museum hosts their final congratulatory text message.
+ info: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Corporate/Press-media/Press-releases/Museum+of+London+Discovery+Trail.
htm
Pierre de Cortone frescos at Quirinal Palace - Rome - Italy - November 2011 - March 2012
The sumptuous baroque frescos from Quirinal Palace in Rome, were restored after a long and patient process. Thus,
Alexander III Gallery’s visitors will be able to admire the baroque frescos by Pierre de Cortone (1596-1669). These frescos
had been discovered during electricity works ten years ago.
In these frescos there were 18 biblical scenes represented, such as The creation of Adam or the Adoration of the Magi,
painted columns emerged in the garden of luxurious vegetation. These original restoration of these frescos’, painted between
1655 – 56, was possible due to a generous €500,000 sponsorship.
+ info: http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/29720/pierre-de-cortone-frescos-at-quirinal-palace/
Picasso on Display in Shanghai - Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall - China
The largest-ever exhibition in Asia of artworks by Pablo Picasso is now open in Shanghai.
The large collection of artworks by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) now on display in Shanghai -- a total of 265 prints -- is
miniscule compared with his prolific output during his long career as one of the world's most famous artists.
As part of the Year of France in China, all the works in the exhibition are on loan from the France-based Picasso Foundation.
+ info: http://china.org.cn/english/culture/119524.htm
National Gallery of Art to Reopen Newly Renovated 19th-Century French Galleries in
West Building on January 29, 2012 - Washington D.C. - USA
Following a two-year renovation, the galleries devoted to impressionism and post-impressionism in
the West Building of the National Gallery of Art will reopen to the public on January 29, 2012.
Among the greatest collections in the world of paintings by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van
Gogh, and Gauguin, the Gallery's later 19th-century French paintings will return to public view in a
freshly conceived installation design.
+ info: http://www.nga.gov/press/2011/french_reopen.shtm
New Cassatt Painting on View - Amon Carter Museum of American Art - Fort Worth - Texas - USA
Today a new masterpiece is hanging in our galleries—Woman Standing, Holding a Fan by Mary Cassatt. The
work, created in 1878–79, is one of only two known canvases painted by the artist almost entirely in the
medium of distemper and represents a key moment in her transformation into an Impressionist.
+ info: http://www.cartermuseum.org/interact/for-immediate-release/new-cassatt-painting-on-view
Abu Dhabi firm backtracks on Guggenheim contract, raising questions
about the future - United Arab Emirates
DUBAI (AP).- The Abu Dhabi company building a branch of the Guggenheim
museum in the Emirati capital said Sunday it has temporarily dropped plans to
award a major construction contract, raising questions about the future of the
high profile project.
The state-run Tourism Development and Investment Co. said it recalled the
tender for concrete work on the Frank Gehry-designed museum because it is
reviewing its strategy for handing out jobs to contractors. It didn't say when it would again seek bids.
The Guggenheim is one of the showcase museums TDIC is building on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island, a planned cultural
district overlooking the Persian Gulf. The island is also slated to contain a national museum, performing arts center and a
branch of the Louvre.
A spokeswoman insisted Sunday that the Guggenheim project is still moving ahead, but didn't provide details.
Apostles edition of the Saint John's Bible gifted to The Morgan Library & Museum - New York New York State - USA
In 1998 Saint John’s University commissioned the calligrapher Donald Jackson to produce fully illuminated
luxury manuscript of the Bible, a monumental task completed in May 2011. The University has documented
this achievement by publishing several facsimiles of the manuscript, the most elaborate of which is the
Apostles Edition, issued in twelve copies. The full set will comprise seven double folio volumes in designer
bindings by Lester Capon accompanied by original artwork by Jackson. Set no. 1 is at the Vatican; this is
set no. 2.
+ info: http://blog.themorgan.org/the-saint-johns-bible.aspx
Philadelphia Museum of Art Acquires Exceptionally Rare Early 19th Century Portrait of an African-American by
Charles Willson Peale - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - USA
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has acquired the painting Yarrow Mamout, 1819, an exceptionally rare portrait of an AfricanAmerican by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), one of the most renowned American artists of the late 18th and early 19th
centuries. Depicting an aged man who had been born in Guinea in western Africa, taken into slavery in the American
colonies and later manumitted, or freed by his owner, it is one of the very earliest known works to depict a freed slave in the
United States and the earliest known painting of a Muslim in America. Upon its completion, Yarrow Mamout was exhibited at
Peale’s Museum, in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where it could be seen alongside other works by the artist and his son
Rembrandt that represented George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Lewis and Clark, David Rittenhouse,
and many other accomplished individuals. Measuring 24 x 20 inches, this new acquisition has today been placed on view at
the Philadelphia Museum of Art, just off the Great Stair Hall in the first gallery toward the American Wing. It has been
purchased from the Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent.
+ info: http://www.philamuseum.org/press/releases/2011/893.html
Frick acquires unique Sevres porcelain vase and an important Renaissance drawing - The Frick
Collection - New York - New York State - USA
The Frick’s Board of Trustees announces the acquisition of two objects that will enhance the museum’s
holdings in areas that interested founder Henry Clay Frick at the end of his life: eighteenth-century French
porcelain and Italian Renaissance drawings. A rare and beautiful vase created at the Royal Manufactory of
Sèvres has been acquired in honor of Anne L. Poulet, who retired at the end of September after serving as
Director for eight years. The vase, a partial purchase by the Frick and a partial gift from Alexis and Nicolas
Kugel, is the first piece of hard-paste porcelain from the Royal Manufactory of Sèvres to enter the
Collection.
+ info: http://www.frick.org/assets/PDFs/Press_2011/NewAcquisitions.pdf
Rare Moss Collection Donated to Canadian Museum of Nature - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada
The Canadian Museum of Nature has received a donation of more than 1500 plant specimens that includes
rare and endangered species of mosses.
The additions to Canada's national plant collection come from Frank Cook, an amateur naturalist and retired
biology professor from the University of Western Ontario. Cook, aged 90, now lives in Barrie, Ontario. He
had amassed his collection over more than 35 years of fieldwork, starting around 1970.
+ info: http://nature.ca/en/about-us/museum-news/news/press-releases/rare-moss-collection-donatedcanadian-museum-nature
The Yuendumu School Doors on Display at the South Australian Museum - Adelaide - South Australia - Australia
Rediscover the newly reopened gallery today and explore this amazing wealth of boomerangs, bark paintings, shields, maps,
early recordings, photographs, field notebooks, and the return of the Yuendumu School Doors. These magnificent Doors
represent one of the earliest examples of Aboriginal artists successfully transferring their ancient ground paintings to a largescale modern medium.
+ info: http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/whatson/whattosee/permanent/aacg
Museum of Liverpool to open more galleries in December 2011 as it announces record visitor figures - Liverpool
- United Kingdom
The new Museum of Liverpool will open even more galleries and an entire new floor before the end of the year.
The news comes as it is announced that it has received a record half a million visitors in the first three months since opening
in July.
Galleries including The Great Port and much awaited Liverpool Overhead Railway will open on Friday 2 December, along with
a 38 metre time traveller’s timeline, and a gallery dedicated to Liverpool’s King’s Regiment.
+ info: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mediacentre/displayrelease.aspx?id=970
Maritime Experiential Museum & Aquarium Opens - Resorts World Sentosa - Singapore
Embark on an exciting journey to discover Southeast Asia’s maritime trade history during 9th to 19th century. Featuring
more than 400 rare objects, the Maritime Experiential Museum and Aquarium is the first and only museum to showcase the
Asian maritime history.
Marvel at Admiral Zheng He's massive Treasure Ship (Bao Chuan) and learn about his epic voyages from China to the
‘Western Ocean’. Check out the ports of call, the exotic bazaars (Souks) and cultural emporium which Admiral Zheng He and
other Asian explorers visited along the Maritime Silk Route.
+ info: http://www.rwsentosa.com/language/en-US/Attractions/MaritimeExperientialMuseumAquarium
“VAL.TE.MO. ad ARTE” visita alla mostra di dipinti “Dai volti all'anima" - Edolo - Italy - 10 novembre 2011
In occasione del 10° anniversario della sua costituzione, l’Associazione Val.Te.Mo., in collaborazione con il Museo Mu.S.A. di
Edolo organizza “VAL.TE.MO. ad ARTE”.
L'iniziativa si svolgerà giovedì 10 novembre 2011 alle 17.30 e prevede la visita alla mostra di dipinti “DAI VOLTI ALL’ANIMA”
allestita presso l’Oratorio dei Disciplini di Edolo.
La partecipazione è gratuita.
+ info: http://www.musaedolo.it/index.php/eventi/anteprima-2011/
Abu Dhabi developer vows to open Louvre Museum branch designed by Jean Nouvel
in late 2013 - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
DUBAI (AP).- The Abu Dhabi developer building a vast cultural district in the Emirati capital
said Monday a branch of the famed Louvre museum will open there in late 2013, despite
questions about the timetable for another part of the project.
The Tourism Development and Investment Co. told The Associated Press that a branch of the
Parisian art institution will be the first museum to open in the Saadiyat Island cultural district,
a year behind schedule. Plans originally called for a 2012 opening date.
TDIC's comments came a day after the state-run developer disclosed it had dropped a tender seeking bids for major
construction work on a branch of the Guggenheim Museum, raising questions about that project's future.
The developer insisted that all projects on the island will be completed, however.
"TDIC continuously monitors the delivery of its projects to ensure they remain on schedule, within budget and that TDIC's
high standards are upheld throughout the process. TDIC is moving forward as planned with all of its announced projects
including all the projects on Saadiyat," the company said in response to questions from the AP.
TDIC said work on the Louvre is "progressing as planned," with initial ground preparation and design work already complete.
Officials at the Louvre in Paris referred questions about the project to the Agence France- Museums, or the French Museums
Agency, which was set up to coordinate to coordinate France's involvement with the project. No one there could be reached
for comment.
Réouverture du Musée de la marine d'Amsterdam - Pays-Bas
Le musée maritime d'Amsterdam vient de rouvrir ses portes le 1er octobre après plus de 4 ans de travaux.
Situé à l'est de la ville dans le quartier de l'Oosterdok dans un ancien entrepôt datant de 1656 de la Compagnie néerlandaise
des Indes orientales, le musée a été rénové de fond en comble : le design des nouveaux espaces est tout particulièrement
réussi. La cour intérieure notamment, conçue par le Luxembourgeois Laurent Ney, a été recouverte d'un châssis en acier
léger, représentant une rose des vents, sur lequel reposent 1200 pièces de verre. Le musée a également été équipé
d'installations dernier cri. Le visiteur y découvrira cinq siècles d'histoire et de découvertes maritimes néerlandaises. On
signalera tout particulièrement les treize époustouflantes expositions interactives.
Philips sheds new light on Night Watch - Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam - The Netherlands
Starting on October 26, one of the world’s most renowned paintings will be bathed in a new light.
Philips, Founder of the renovated Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, presents Rembrandt van Rijn’s Night
Watch in innovative LED light, bringing out the best of the painting’s color palette while offering
increased sustainability and energy efficiency. Through the project, the two Masters of Light are
reinforcing their intensive collaboration aimed at joint innovation in the area of LED lighting, setting
the new standard for museum lighting.
+ info: http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nieuwsenagenda/nieuw-licht-nachtwacht-philips?lang=en
Musée Marcel Proust-Maison de Tante Léonie - Illiers Combray - France
Marcel Proust, enfant et futur écrivain, passa ses vacances, dans cette maison au charme provincial, agrémenté d'une
touche orientaliste. Le musée rassemble tous les souvenirs liés à l'écrivain : Portrait du professeur Adrien Proust par Jules
Lecomte du Noüy, Portrait de Madame Adrien Proust par Anaïs Beauvais, mobilier Proust-Weil du boulevard Haussmann,
photographies, correspondances, manuscrits et documents familiaux. Deux émouvantes vitrines, l'une dédiée à Céleste
Albaret, l'autre à la famille Amiot complètent l'ensemble.
+ info: http://www.musees.regioncentre.fr/Les-musees.php?
navID=&lang=FRA&preprod=0&idcat=C&idmusee=AABF&idarticle=AABFA
The Curie Museum, where history and memory meet - Institut Curie - Paris - France
The Curie Museum is on the ground floor of the Curie Pavilion, in one of the oldest buildings of
the Institut Curie. This laboratory, erected a few streets away from the “shed” where the
Curies discovered polonium and radium in 1898, was specially built for Marie Curie by the
University of Paris and the Institut Pasteur between 1911 and 1914.
Here she pursued her work for nigh on twenty years, and here too her daughter and son-inlaw Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie discovered artificial radioactivity, for which they received
the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935.
+ info: http://www.curie.fr/en/Curie-museum
Musée Escoffier de l'art culinaire à Villeneuve-Loubet - Alpes Maritimes - France
Trente-sept ans après sa création, le musée avait besoin d’une sérieuse remise aux normes.Le
Conseil d‘Administration y a vu l’occasion de rajeunir le musée et de mettre en valeur ses
collections. Le cabinet Remion-Magnan, aux ramifications niçoises et parisiennes, a été chargé de
l’ensemble du chantier.
En raison de l’importance des sommes nécessaires, plusieurs tranches de travaux ont été
programmées. Le Conseil Général et le Conseil Régional ont été partenaires.
+ info: http://fondation-escoffier.org/le_musee.html
The J. Paul Getty Museum Announces Acquisition of Rare Bronze Sculpture by
Francesco Primaticcio - Los Angeles - California - USA
The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a rare bronze female double head attributed to
Francesco Primaticcio (Bologna, 1504–Paris, 1570). Created in France in about 1543,
Double Head is closely related to the head of the so-called Cesi Juno, one of the most
famous antique marble statues in 16th-century Rome, a work that Michelangelo
considered the most beautiful object in Rome.
+ info: http://news.getty.edu/article_display.cfm?article_id=5599
New acquisition: An armchair, table, and candelabra from the Paris Exhibition of 1925 Nationalmuseum - Stockholm (Sweden)
The Nationalmuseum’s collection of applied art and modern design has gained an armchair, a table
and candelabra from the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in Paris in
1925. The Swedish pavilion was designed by Carl Bergsten and furnished with objects that can be
categorised as “Art Deco”, a style that took its name from the event’s French title Exposition
internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes. The exhibition was instrumental in
launching Swedish art and design onto the international stage.
+ info: http://www.nationalmuseum.se/sv/English-startpage/Collections/Applied-art-and-modern-design/20th-century/Newacquisition-an-armchair-table-and-candelabra-from-the-Paris-Exhibition-of-1925-/
La construction du musée Guggenheim d’Abu Dhabi est suspendue - Emirats arabes
unis (EAU)
L’Abu Dhabi Tourism Devlopment & Investment Company (TDIC) a annulé son appel à
construction pour le musée Guggenheim d’Abu Dhabi. Il a néanmoins promis que cette
décision ne remettait pas en cause le projet de l’architecte Frank Gehry. L’achèvement du
bâtiment, prévu initialement en 2013 en même temps que l’annexe du Louvre, est repoussé
en 2015.
+ info: http://www.artclair.com/site/archives/docs_article/90922/la-construction-du-museeguggenheim-d-abu-dhabi-est-suspendue.php
Spain's Prado Museum will open every day of the week - Madrid (Spain)
Spain's Prado Museum will open every day of the week to help guarantee its commitment to
cover 60 percent of its budget through self-financing.
The country's top art museum said Thursday said it will no longer close on Mondays. It said the
decision would also help expand its cultural activities.
The new timetable will begin Nov. 8 in the museum's temporary exhibition center with the start of
"The Hermitage in the Prado" show featuring works from the Russian gallery. It will be extended
to the rest of the museum Jan. 16.
The Prado will only close three days a year; Jan. 1, May 1 and Dec. 25.
+ info: http://www.artclair.com/site/archives/docs_article/91560/le-musee-du-prado-ouvert-7-jours-sur-7.php
The Worlds First Pop-Up Scent Museum Opens in New York City - New
York State - USA
Production and design firm, The Department of the 4th Dimension (The D4D),
created the world’s first pop-up scent museum for Sephora & Firmenich. The
Sensorium: Lucid Dreams from the Sensory World is an interactive exhibition
exploring the emotions and instincts behind scent.
For more information, continue reading after the break.
The Sensorium features two interconnected installations, First Scent and Lucid
Dreams.
First Scent surrounds visitors by motion picture media, stimulating emotion and memory with images of cutting the grass
and a summer vacation on the beach. Lucid Dreams features interactive, high tech flower sculptures that transform
suspended images based on the unique sound transmitted by an individuals sniff. All imagery and digital media is inspired by
the custom fragrances and master perfumers of Firmenich.
Médiateur du patrimoine - Universités des Pays de Loire - FRance
Régisseur de collections - Universités des Pays de la Loire (France)
l’attention.
Shelburne Museum - Ann Beha Architects - Shelburne - Vermont - USA
Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont is one of North America’s finest, most diverse
and unconventional museums of art, design and Americana. Over 150,000 works are
exhibited in a remarkable setting of 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and
were relocated to the Museum grounds.
Ann Beha Architects’ design for Shelburne’s new center for art and education establishes
a striking presence along Vermont’s Route 7. This project is part of the Museum’s $14M
capital campaign. Construction is tentatively planned to start next year with the center
opening in 2013.
Branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim Museums at Abu Dhabi Island hit by more
delays - United Arab Emirates
DUBAI (AP).- Branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim art museums being built as part of an
ambitious cultural district in Abu Dhabi could now open at least a year later than planned, the
developer and an official with knowledge of the projects said Saturday.
Questions about the future of the Saadiyat Island cultural district have swirled among
contractors in the Gulf for months. They came into sharper focus this week when the project's
government-backed developer disclosed that it was temporarily dropping plans to award a
major construction contract.
Ashmolean Museum Acquires Terracotta Model By Clodion - Ashmolean Museum of Art and
Archaeology - University of Oxford - Oxford - United Kingdom
The Ashmolean is delighted to announce the acquisition of a terracotta model, designed by the French
sculptor, Clodion (Claude Michel, 1738-1814). The Crucifixion With The Virgin Mary And St John was
submitted by Clodion to the Chapter of Rouen Cathedral in August 1785, as part of a large-scale
commission designed for the choir screen.
+ info: http://www.ashmolean.org/news/?id=165
WORKSHOP - Revitalising World Heritage site museums in Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic and Viet
Nam - Hanoi - Viet Nam - 14 November - 3 December 2011
Following the brainstorming session held in July in Siem Reap, Cambodia, the first experimental workshop will be organised
at the Thang Long Citadel Site Museum in Hanoi, Viet Nam, with the participation of 9 museums relating to cultural sites of
the three countries. This project is funded by the UNESCO/Japanese Funds-in-Trust for the Preservation of World’s Cultural
Heritage
The First Workshop will deal with five distinct but interconnected fields of study and produce mini exhibits as a practice for
the future joint project, which will be developed in 2012 and 2013. The team of trainers is composed of leading specialists of
heritage conservation, museums, history of Southeast Asia, and participatory cultural industry.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=5125&cHash=488ccdc3e6
Egypte : le tombeau de Saqqara comme si vous y étiez - Une visite commentée
du site et l'évocation de la vie égyptienne voici 4 500 ans
En 1903, la chapelle décorée du tombeau du dignitaire égyptien Akhethétep était extraite
de son monument d’origine et transportée au Musée du Louvre.
Près d’un siècle plus tard, les fouilles conduites par le Département des antiquités
égyptiennes du Musée du Louvre à Saqqara permettent de mieux connaître ce monument
funéraire.
La superbe visite commentée en ligne propose des images de synthèse de l’architecture,
le panoramique de la chapelle avec son décor sculpté, une traduction interactive des hiéroglyphes, évocations vivantes et
émouvantes de la vie quotidienne des Égyptiens d’il y a 4500 ans.
+ info: http://cursus.edu/institutions-formations-ressources/formation/15054/egypte-tombeau-saqqara-comme-vous-etiez/
La renaissance du Musée Picasso - Paris (France)
Fermé en août 2009, le Musée Picasso, à Paris, prépare sa renaissance. Le chantier a pris du
retard, son budget a plus que doublé, aussi la réouverture a-t-elle été repoussée au 1er mai
2013. Outre le réaménagement de l’hôtel Salé, une nouvelle aile est projetée dans le parc du
musée pour l’automne 2013.
+ info: http://www.artclair.com/jda/archives/docs_article/91610/la-renaissance-du-museepicasso.php?xtor=EPR-151
New Scottish and French Acquisitions for the Scottish National Gallery - Edinburgh - Scotland - United Kingdom
The Scottish National Gallery is delighted to announce two important acquisitions to the national collection. Entrance to the
Cuiraing, Skye (1873) by Waller Hugh Paton (1828-1895) has been purchased for the collection by the Patrons of the
National Galleries of Scotland and Portrait of Jean-François Regnault (1815) by Jean-Baptiste, baron Regnault (1754-1829)
has been acquired for the nation thanks to the generosity of a private donor.
Michael Clarke, Director of the Scottish National Gallery, said; ‘It is vitally important that we continue to add significant
works, both Scottish and European, to this wonderful and very distinctive collection.
Paton’s landscape is our first Scottish landscape of the world-famous Isle of Skye,and Regnault’s portrait of his son is our
first ‘Romantic’ French portrait. We are deeply grateful to our Patrons and to a private donor for their magnificent support.”
+ info: http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/files/paton_regnault_final_press_release.pdf
AWARDS - Victoria and Albert Museum Ceramics Study Galleries announced winner of
the display category at the Inside Awards - London - United Kingdom
On June 8, the British public can again visit the extraordinary, completely renovated and newly
installed ceramics galleries at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The London collection, one of the
premier collections in the world, is known not only for its quality, but also for its magnitude and
scientific importance. The collection has been off-view at the museum since 2004…
+ info: http://www.worldinteriorsdirectory.com/project.cfm?id=10176
In Progress: Tate Modern Expansion - Herzog & de Meuron - London - United
Kingdom
Currently under construction, it has been announced that the Herzog & de Meuron designed
first phase of the new development of Tate Modern will open in the summer of 2012. The
launch will be part of the London 2012 Festival which will be the culmination of the Cultural
Olympiad…
+ info: www.archdaily.com/180640/in-progress-tate-modern-herzog-de-meuron/
New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) Celebrates 100th Anniversary with 110 New
Acquisitions - New Orleans - Louisiana - USA
On November 12th the New Orleans Museum of Art will celebrate its 100th anniversary with the
Centennial Odyssey Ball, 2011... A NOMA Odyssey, generously underwritten by the Lupin
Foundation and Peoples Health.
Since 1911, the Museum has expanded a world-class collection, the facility, and gained
recognition as the finest art museum in the mid-South. This year's Odyssey Ball, co-chaired by
Brenda and Michael Moffitt, will mark the opening of NOMA 100: Gifts for the Second Century, an
exhibition of extraordinary additions to NOMA's permanent collection, given in celebration of the Museum's first century and
the commencement of the Museum's future.
+ info: http://noma.org/news/detail/99/NOMA-Celebrates-100th-Anniversary-with-110-New-Acquisitions-and-CentennialOdyssey-Ball-2011-A-NOMA-Odyssey
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opens 11 November
2011 - Bentonville - Arkansas - USA
Whether you are a first-time Museum guest or a Member of Crystal
Bridges Museum of American Art, welcome and thank you for visiting. We
invite guests of all ages to explore the Museum galleries and grounds,
socialize, relax and enjoy all that Crystal Bridges has to offer.
Admission to Crystal Bridges is sponsored by Walmart. There is no cost to
apply for temporary exhibitions.
+ info: http://crystalbridges.org/Plan-Your-Visit
view Museum permanent collections. Admission fees may occasionally
Tel Aviv Museum of Art doubles size with addition by Preston Scott Cohen - Tel Aviv Israel
Forty years after the architectural competition that preceded the construction of the present
abode of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Museum announced, in 2002, a competition for the
planning of a new building of about 19,000 m2, enabled by a donation from Herta and Paul Amir,
Los Angeles.
Preston Scott Cohen's horizontal "radiator" model came a long way since its first presentation to
the judges of the competition. The need to orchestrate programmatic necessities with the site
brought Cohen to create an object combined of a complex array of spaces…
+ info: http://www.tamuseum.com/new-building
Le Musée Jean Cocteau Collection Séverin Wunderman Ouvre ses Portes à Menton - Menton France
Grâce à l’exceptionnelle donation de Séverin Wunderman, et trois ans après la pose de la première pierre, le
Musée Jean Cocteau Collection Séverin Wunderman, projet culturel d’envergure porté par la ville de Menton,
sera inauguré cet automne.
Le futur musée deviendra ainsi la première et la plus importante ressource publique mondiale de l’œuvre de
Jean Cocteau.
+ info: http://www.menton.fr/L-actualite/Tous-les-articles/L-actualite-culturelle/Ouverture-du-Musee-JeanCocteau-collection-Severin-Wunderman
Center for Chinese Studies at University of Michigan rediscovers rare Chinese art
collection - Ann Arbor - Michigan - USA
Propaganda pieces produced in China four decades ago during the Cultural Revolution have
been unearthed in a storage room at the University of Michigan — a rare find in either the U.S.
or its country of origin, experts said.
The rediscovery of the 15 poster-sized papercut images illustrating the political upheaval of
the era is a pleasant surprise to scholars studying a society that was largely closed off from
the West. The images are cut out of red paper in the same way that artists customarily create
decorations for Chinese New Year celebrations and other festivities. They include glowing portrayals of late Chinese leader
Mao Zedong and Red Guards burning books and trampling on a Buddhist statute.
Police recover 2 stolen paintings by Dutch masters and return them to Hofje van
Mevrouw van Aerden museum - Leerdam - The Netherlands
Police recovered two stolen paintings by Dutch masters and handed them back Thursday to
the provincial museum they were stolen from five months ago. Three suspects are in custody,
police said.
The 17th-century paintings, a depiction of two laughing boys by Frans Hals and a forest
landscape by Jacob van Ruisdael, were snatched from the Hofje van Mevrouw van Aerden
museum in the central town of Leerdam in late May.
The thieves triggered a burglar alarm, but had fled the building before police arrived. A search of the area immediately after
the theft turned up only the frame of one of the paintings that had been dumped in a hedge.
A new tip about the paintings' whereabouts led to their discovery on Oct. 28, police said in a statement. A fourth suspect is
on the run, police said.
Police have not estimated the value of the paintings, but called them valuable parts of the country's "cultural heritage."
Dialogo sul sistema dell'arte italiano con Ivan Quaroni, Critico d'Arte - Italy
Le gallerie d’arte contemporanea in Italia. Come vengono gestite? Quali le loro principali attività e,
soprattutto, quali i consigli per chi si appresta ad avviare l’attività di gallerista? Tafter propone, in
compagnia di Lorenzo Madaro, una mappatura degli spazi espositivi italiani intervistando i loro fondatori,
curatori, direttori, alla ricerca di linee comuni o di strategie opposte di gestione…
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2011/10/28/dialogo-sul-sistema-dell%E2%80%99arte-italiano-con-ivanquaroni-con-ivan-quaroni/
Agenda
Exposition - « L'Âge roman, au temps des comtes-ducs d'Aquitaine » - Le roman de l'art roman pictavien Musée Sainte Croix
- 16 January 2012 Poitiers. France
Organizers: Musée Sainte Croix, résulte d’un projet collectif
+ info: http://www.musees-poitiers.org/ExpositionAgeroman.html
Master specialistico in Museologia Europea - IULM Libera Universita di Lingue e Communicazione
Milano. Italy
Organizers: Università IULM
+ info: http://www.iulm.it/wps/wcm/connect/iulmit/iulm-it/studiare-alla-iulm/master/master-specialistico-in-museologiaeuropea
EXHIBITION - Emakimono and Bayeux Tapestry "animated cartoons from the middle ages" - The Bayeux
Tapestry Museum
31 March - 30 December 2011 Bayeux, Normandy. France
Organizers: The Bayeux Tapestry Museum In collaboration with the Ghibli Studio and the Idemitsu Museum, Tokyo.
+ info: http://www.tapisserie-bayeux.fr/index.php?id=345&L=1
EXHIBITION - Par Avion : Destination Outre-Mer - Le Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace
20 June - 31 December 2011 Le Bourget. France
Organizers: Le Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace en collaboration avec Air France-KLM et l’amicale UTA
+ info: http://www.museeairespace.fr/agenda/destination-outre-mer.html
Exhibition - Le musée Nobel de Stockholm inaugure l'exposition 'Marie Sklodowska / Madame Curie' Suède
17 September 2011 - 01 January 2012 Stockholm. Sweden
Organizers: Le musée Nobel de Stockholm
EXHIBITION - Magnificent Vision: Two Centuries of European Masterworks from the Speed Art Museum Philbrook Museum of Art
18 September - 18 December 2011 Oklahoma. United States of America
Organizers: Philbrook Museum of Art and The Speed Art Museum in Louisville
+ info: http://philbrook.org/exhibitions/current/exhibition.cfm?id=58
EXHIBITION - 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade - San Antonio Museum of Art
01 October 2011 - 19 February 2012 Texas. United States of America
Organizers: San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA)
+ info: http://www.samuseum.org/jade
EXHIBITION - Les Halles de Baltard, Métiers du Jour et de la Nuit
+ info: http://carnavalet.paris.fr/fr/expositions/les-halles-de-baltard-metiers-du-jour-et-de-la-nuit
EXHIBITION - Le Peuple de Paris au XIXe Siècle: Des guinguettes aux barricades - Musée Carnavalet
+ info: http://carnavalet.paris.fr/fr/expositions/le-peuple-de-paris-au-xixe-siecle
EXHIBITION - Admiral Cochrane, The Real Master and Commander - National Museum Scotland
07 October 2011 - 12 February 2012 Edinburgh. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: National Museum Scotland and is delivered in partnership with National Records of Scotland
+ info: http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/national_museum/exhibitions/admiral_cochrane/about_the_exhibition.aspx
EXHIBITION - To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum - Frist Center for the Visual Arts
07 October 2011 - 08 January 2012 Nashville, Tennessee. United States of America
Organizers: Brooklyn Museum
+ info: http://fristcenter.org/calendar-exhibitions/detail/to-live-forever1
EXHIBITION - Recently unpacked: How art ages - MARTa Herford
08 October 2011 - 08 January 2012 Herford. Germany
Organizers: MARTa Herford
+ info: http://marta-herford.info/?lang=en
Exhibition - Europe and the Spirit World or the Fascination with the Occult - 1750-1950
08 October 2011 - 12 February 2012 Strasbourg. France
Organizers: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, National University Library of Strasbourg (BNU) and the Garden of
Science at the University of Strasbourg,
+ info: http://www.musees.strasbourg.eu/sites_expos/europe-des-esprits/en/index.php
EXHIBITION - Daumier: Art for the Masses - Birmingham Museum of Art
09 October - 31 December 2011 Alabama. United States of America
Organizers: Birmingham Museum of Art.
+ info: http://www.artsbma.org/exhibitions/daumier-art-for-the-masses
EXHIBITION - Degas and the Nude - Museum of Fine Arts
09 October 2011 - 05 February 2012 Boston, Massachusetts. United States of America
Organizers: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris
+ info: http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/degas-and-nude
EXHIBITION - Adapting the Eye: An Archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 - Yale Center for British Art
11 October - 31 December 2011 Connecticut. United States of America
Organizers: Yale Center for British Art, organized to complement the Center’s major exhibition on Johan Zoffany
+ info: http://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions/adapting-eye-archive-british-india-1770-1830
EXHIBITION - In the kingdom of Alexander the Great - Ancient Macedonia - Le Louvre
13 October 2011 - 16 January 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Musée du Louvre and the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Culture
+ info: http://www.louvre.fr/llv/exposition/detail_exposition.jsp
EXHIBITION - Luminous: The Art of Asia - Seattle Art Museum
13 October 2011 - 08 January 2012 Seattle, Washington State. United States of America
Organizers: Seattle Art Museum
+ info: http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibit/exhibitDetail.asp?eventID=21081
EXHIBITION - The Spanish Line: Drawings from Ribera to Picasso - The Courtauld Institute
13 October 2011 - 15 January 2012 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: IMAF Centre for Drawings at The Courtauld Gallery. The Courtauld Institute of Art. Somerset House
+ info: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions/2011/spanish-line/index.shtml
EXHIBITION - Pietro Perugino: Raphael's Master - Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
13 October 2011 - 15 January 2012 Munich. Germany
Organizers: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek. The exhibition is being funded by the Ernst von
Siemens Kunststiftung..
+ info: http://www.pinakothek.de/en/kalender/2011-10-13/10613/perugino-raphaels-master
EXHIBITION - Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories - National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution
14 October 2011 - 22 February 2012 New York. United States of America
Organizers: National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution
+ info: http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/stein/index.html
EXHIBITION - Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper - Milwaukee Art Museum
14 October 2011 - 08 January 2012 Wisconsin. United States of America
Organizers: Milwaukee Art Museum and in conjunction with the Albertina in Vienna,
+ info: http://mam.org/impressionism/
Exhibition - William Delafield Cook. A Survey - Tarrawarra Museum of Art
15 October 2011 - 12 February 2012 Healesville, Victoria. Australia
Organizers: Tarrawarra Museum of Art
+ info: http://twma.com.au/exhibitions/event/william-delafield-cook-a-survey/
EXHIBITION - Shadow and Substance: African American Images from The Burns Archive - New York State
Museum
15 October 2011 - 31 March 2012 New York. United States of America
Organizers: New York State Museum
+ info: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/exhibits/special/shadowandsubstance.cfm
EXHIBITION - Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium - University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology
15 October 2011 - 12 February 2012 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. United States of America
Organizers: Penn Museum. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and with generous support
from Sarah Zimmerman, the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Ancient Studies, and the Turkish Cultural Foundation
+ info: http://penn.museum/upcoming-exhibits/980-vaults-of-heaven-visions-of-byzantium.html
EXHIBITION - Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes - The Walters Art Museum
16 October 2011 - 01 January 2012 Baltimore, Maryland. United States of America
Organizers: The Walters Art Museum and the generously supported by an anonymous donor and by leadership gifts from the
Selz Foundation and the Stockman Family Foundation.
+ info: http://thewalters.org/exhibitions/archimedes/
EXHIBITION - Caravaggio and his Followers in Rome - Kimbell Art Museum
16 October 2011 - 08 January 2012 Fort Worth, Texas. United States of America
Organizers: Kimbell Art Museum
+ info: http://caravaggio.kimbellart.org/exhibit
EXHIBITION - American Portraits: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum
16 October - 27 November 2011 Southampton, New York State. United States of America
Organizers: Parrish Art Museum, by Alicia G. Longwell, Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education, and
will bring together some 45 works from the museum’s collection.
+ info: http://www.parrishart.org/upcoming.asp?id=381
EXHIBITION - Delacroix (1798-1863) - CaixaForum
19 October 2011 - 15 January 2012 Madrid. Spain
Organizers: ”La Caixa” Welfare Projects and the Louvre Museum
+ info: http://press.lacaixa.es/socialprojects/exhibition-delacroix-caixaforum-madrid-eng__816-c-15045__.html
EXHIBITION - Gaulois, une Expo Renversante - Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
19 October 2011 - 02 September 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
+ info: http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/expositions/gaulois/
EXHIBITION - The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons - The National Portrait Gallery
20 October 2011 - 08 January 2012 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: The National Portrait Gallery
+ info: http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/the-first-actresses/first_actresses_exhibition.php
EXHIBITION - Panopticon - The Secret Treasures of the Wallraf - Wallraf das Museum
21 October 2011 - 22 January 2012 Cologne. Germany
Organizers: Wallraf das Museum
+ info: http://www.wallraf.museum/index.php?id=326&L=1
EXHIBITION - Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan - The Morgan Library and Museum
21 October 2011 - 29 January 2012 New York. United States of America
Organizers: By William Voelkle, curator and head of the Department of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, of the Morgan
Library and Museum
+ info: http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=50
EXHIBITION - Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection
21 October 2011 - 18 March 2012 Houston, Texas. United States of America
Organizers: The Menil Collection. Fayez Sarofim, the John P. McGovern Foundation, The Levant Foundation, the Linbeck
Family Charitable Trust, an anonymous donor, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., and the City of Houston
+ info: http://www.menil.org/exhibitions/ImprintingtheDivine.php
EXHIBITION - The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography - The Queen's Gallery
- Buckingham Palace
Organizers: The Queen's Gallery
+ info: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/HOTGA/
EXHIBITION - Maharaja: The Splendor of India's Royal Courts - Asian Art Museum
21 October 2011 - 08 April 2012 San Francisco, California. United States of America
Organizers: Asian Art Museum in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
+ info: http://www.asianart.org/maharaja/
EXHIBITION - Caravaggio: Behold the Man! The Impact of a Revolutionary Realist - Columbus Museum of Art
21 October 2011 - 05 February 2012 Columbus, Ohio. United States of America
Organizers: Columbus Museum of Art
+ info: http://columbusmuseum.org/exhibitions/in-depth-views/caravaggio.php
EXHIBITION - Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
21 October 2011 - 18 March 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
+ info: http://fondation.cartier.com/?_lang=en&small=0
EXHIBITION - Arctic Convoys 1941-45 - National Maritime Museum
21 October 2011 - 28 February 2012 Greenwich. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: National Maritime Museum
+ info: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/arctic-convoys/
EXHIBITION - Crowdsourcing a Collection: The Concord Museum's 125th Anniversary Exhibition - The Concord
Museum
22 October 2011 - 18 March 2012 Concord, Massachusetts. United States of America
Organizers: The Concord Museum
+ info: http://www.concordmuseum.org/explore/current_exhibitions.html
EXHIBITION - The Art of Collecting - The Royal Ontario Museum
22 October 2011 - 03 September 2012 Toronto, Ontario. Canada
Organizers: The Royal Ontario Museum and the many generous donors
+ info: http://www.rom.on.ca/exhibitions/special/art_collecting.php
EXHIBITION - Visions of the American West: Masterworks from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center - Cheekwood
Botanical Garden and Museum of Art
22 October 2011 - 04 March 2012 Nashville, Tennessee. United States of America
Organizers: Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art
+ info: http://www.bbhc.org/explore/beyond-our-walls/
EXHIBITION - Pissarro's People - Legion of Honor
22 October 2011 - 22 January 2012 San Francisco, California. United States of America
Organizers: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
+ info: http://legionofhonor.famsf.org/legion/exhibitions/pissarros-people
EXHIBITION - Charles Dickens: Life & Legacy - National Portrait Gallery
Organizers: National Portrait Gallery
+ info: http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/display/2011/charles-dickens-life-legacy.php
EXHIBITION - The Renaissance in Rome: A Token to Michelangelo and Raphael - Fondazione Roma
25 October 2011 - 12 February 2012 Roma. Italy
Organizers: Fondazione Roma Museo
+ info: http://www.fondazioneromamuseo.it/en/738.html
EXHIBITION - El Greco to Rippl-Rónai: Marcell Nemes, Art Patron and Collector - Museum of Fine Arts
26 October 2011 - 19 February 2012 Budapest. Hungary
Organizers: Museum of Fine Arts
+ info: http://www.szepmuveszeti.hu/web/guest/articleview?mi_article_id=964
EXHIBITION - Dreams and Reality: Masterpieces of Painting, Drawing and Photography from the Musée d'Orsay,
Paris - National Museum of Singapore
26 October 2011 - 05 February 2012 Singapore
Organizers: Musée d'Orsay, Paris and the National Museum of Singapore
+ info: http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/ExhibitionDetail.aspx?id=65&cat=2#INTRO
EXHIBITION - The Dutch Golden Age-The Kremer Collection - Pinacothèque de Paris
27 October 2011 - 25 March 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Pinacothèque de Paris
+ info: http://www.pinacotheque.com/en/home/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/the-dutch-golden-age-the-kremer-collection.
html?no_cache=1
EXHIBITION - Johan Zoffany RA (Royal Academician): Society Observed - Yale Center for British Art
27 October 2011 - 12 February 2012 Connecticut. United States of America
Organizers: Yale Center for British Art and the Royal Academy of Arts, London
+ info: http://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions/johan-zoffany-ra-society-observed
EXHIBITION - Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection - Portland Museum of Art
27 October 2011 - 05 February 2012 Portland, Maine. United States of America
Organizers: Portland Museum of Art, Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA and toured by International Arts & Artists,
Washington, D.C. Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts
+ info: http://www.portlandmuseum.org/exhibitions-collections/current.shtml
EXHIBITION - First Decade Celebration: Tenth Anniversary of the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center - Joel
and Lila Harnett Museum of Art - University of Richmond
28 October - 09 December 2011 Virginia. United States of America
Organizers: University of Richmond Museum
+ info: http://museums.richmond.edu/exhibitions/museum-of-art/harnett-10th.html
EXHIBITION - Spirit of jang-in: Treasures of Korean metal craft - Powerhouse Museum
28 October 2011 - 12 February 2012 Sydney, New South Wales. Australia
Organizers: Powerhouse Museum and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea, the Australian
Government through the Australia-Korea Foundation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the National
Museum of Korea
+ info: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/jangin/
EXHIBITION - The Three Graces - The Art Institute of Chicago
29 October 2011 - 22 February 2012 Illinois. United States of America
Organizers: The Art Institute of Chicago and is supported by the Saul and Devorah Sherman Foundation
+ info: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/Three-Graces/index
EXHIBITION - Divided Light and Color: American Impressionist Landscapes - Bruce Museum
29 October 2011 - 29 January 2012 Greenwich, Connecticut. United States of America
Organizers: Bruce Museum and others sponsors
+ info: http://brucemuseum.org/site/exhibitions_detail/divided_light_and_color_american_impressionist_landscapes/
EXHIBITION - A Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Cultures - National Museum of the
American Indian
29 October 2011 - 07 January 2012 Washington, DC. United States of America
Organizers: National Museum of the American Indian
+ info: http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/horsenation/
EXHIBITION - Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art From the Audain Collection - Vancouver Art Gallery
29 October 2011 - 29 January 2012 British Columbia. Canada
Organizers: Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Ian Thom, senior curator-historical, and Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of
British Columbia Art.
+ info: http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_audain_collection.html
EXHIBITION - Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism - Akron Art Museum
29 October 2011 - 05 February 2012 Akron, Ohio. United States of America
Organizers: The Brooklyn Museum. Its presentation in Akron is made possible by a major gift from The Lehner Family
Foundation.
+ info: http://akronartmuseum.org/exhibitions/details.php?unid=2111
EXHIBITION - Rembrandt in America - North Carolina Museum of Art
30 October 2011 - 22 February 2012 Raleigh, North Carolina. United States of America
Organizers: North Carolina Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
+ info: http://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/rembrandt/
XHIBITION - Threads of Heaven: Silken Legacy of China's Last Dynasty - Denver Art Museum
30 October 2011 - 29 January 2012 Denver, Colorado. United States of America
Organizers: Denver Art Museum
+ info: http://www.denverartmuseum.org/explore_art/temporaryExhibitionDetails/exhibitionId--208711/exhibitionType-Upcoming
EXHIBITION - Ivory & Painting: Indian Goods for the Luxury Market - Francesca Galloway
03 November - 08 December 2011 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: Francesca Galloway Ltd
+ info: http://www.francescagalloway.com/gallery.php?id=999
EXHIBITION - The Flamboyant Mr Chinnery (1774-1852): An English Artist in India and China 04 November 2011 - 21 January 2012 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: Asia House
+ info: http://www.asiahouse.org/net/Exhibitions.aspx
EXHIBITION - Alice in Wonderland - Tate Liverpool
04 November 2011 - 29 January 2012 Liverpool. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: Tate Liverpool
+ info: http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/aliceinwonderland/default.shtm
EXHIBITION - The Lanckoroński Collection: Rembrandt's Paintings - The Royal Castle
04 November 2011 Warsaw. Poland
Organizers: The Royal Castle in Warsaw - A Monument of Polish History and Culture
+ info: http://www.zamek-krolewski.pl/?page=3072
EXHIBITION - George Inness: Private Treasures - Montclair Art Museum
06 November 2011 - 01 April 2012 New Jersey. United States of America
Organizers: Montclair Art Museum
+ info: http://www.montclairartmuseum.org/innesstreasures/
EXHIBITION - Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes - National Gallery of Art
06 November 2011 - 08 April 2012 Washington D.C.. United States of America
Organizers: National Gallery of Art
+ info: http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/anticoinfo.shtm
EXHIBITION - Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum's Collections
08 November 2011 - 05 February 2012 New York, New York State. United States of America
Organizers: Metropolitan Museum of Art
+ info: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2011/renaissance-venice
EXHIBITION - Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan - The National Gallery
09 November 2011 - 05 February 2012 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: The National Gallery
+ info: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/leonardo-da-vinci-painter-at-the-court-of-milan
Exhibition: Casanova, la passion de la liberté - Bibliothèque nationale de France
15 November 2011 - 19 February 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Bibliothèque nationale de France, en partenariat avec Le Monde, Le Point, Le Magazine littéraire , France 5 et
France Culture.
+ info: http://www.bnf.fr/fr/evenements_et_culture/anx_expositions/f.casanova.html
EXHIBITION - War Horse: Fact & Fiction - National Army Museum
Until August 2012 16 November 2011 - 01 August 2012 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: National Army Museum
+ info: http://www.nam.ac.uk/microsites/war-horse/
EXHIBITION - Lisbon's Hebrew Bible: Medieval Jewish Art in Context
22 November 2011 - 16 January 2012 New York, New York State. United States of America
Organizers: Metropolitan Museum of Art
+ info: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2011/cervera-bible
Significance Assessment Workshop 2011 - Australian National University. Canberra - Australian Capital
Territory (Australia)
28 November - 29 November 2011 Canberra. Australia
+ info: http://www.significanceinternational.com/Events/SignificanceAssessmentWorkshop2011
Exhibition The Uffizi by Giorgio Vasari moves to Yokohama, Kyoto and Osaka
08 December 2011 - 05 February 2012 Yokohama. Japan
Organizers: Italian Institute of Culture Tokyo with Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Embassy of Italy in Japan.
+ info: http://www.esempidiarchitettura.it/ebcms2.lm.php?mod=news&modAzione=scheda&o_nome=news&o_id=549_ITA
Exhibition - Les récits peints, l'autre histoire - Ex Votos mexicains
09 December 2011 - 06 April 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: l’Instituto Cultural de México à Paris
+ info: http://mexiqueculture.org/cat/expositions/
Risk Management for Collecting Organisations Workshop 2012. Australian National University - Canberra Australian Capital Territory (Australia)
09 February - 10 February 2012 Canberra. Australia
+ info: http://www.significanceinternational.com/Events/RiskManagementforCollectingOrganisations2012
EXHIBITION - Gauguin & Polynesia - Seattle Art Museum
09 February - 29 April 2012 Seattle, Washington State. United States of America
Organizers: Seattle Art Museum (SAM)
+ info: http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/gauguin/
"New Spaces for Negotiating Art (and) History in African Cities" International Workshop
Papers can be given in English or French. 14 March - 17 March 2012 Bamako. Mali
Organizers: Free University Berlin & University of Cologne
Contact: [email protected] and [email protected].
+ info: http://arthist.net/archive/1841
10th Biennial International Conference of the Infrared and Raman Users' Group (IRUG)
28 March - 31 March 2012 Barcelona. Spain
Organizers: The Infrared and Raman Users' Group (IRUG)
+ info: http://www.ub.edu/IRUG10BCN/
CALL FOR PAPERS - MuseumNext: Europe's big Conference on the digital side of museums
23 May - 25 May 2012 Barcelona. Spain
Organizers: MuseumNext, in partnership with three of Spain's leading museums, Centre de Cultura Contemporánea de
Barcelona (CCCB), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and Museu Picasso de Barcelona.
+ info: http://www.museumnext.org/conference/call_for_papers.html
Publications
Museum and Society - University of Leicester - United Kingdom - Volume 9 - March 2011
Here is the latest issue of Museum & Society. Museum and Society is an interdisciplinary journal with a wide ranging interest
in all issues associated with museums and other places of public culture concerned with collecting, exhibiting and display.
The journal is a successor to the series New Research in Museum Studies which was published by Athlone Press from 1990
to 1997.
+ info: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/volumes/volume-9-2011/
The Mediations of climate change: museums as citizens’ media
Juan Francisco Salazar (University of Western Sydney)
ISSN 1479-8360
Social research underlines how the mass media frames and presents environmental change and risk in ways that become
contested cultural constructs embedded in deep ideological structures. While significant attention has concentrated on the
mass media, less consideration has been given to examining the role of museums and science centres in communicating the
science of climate change. The article looks at museums as cultural brokers in collaborative efforts around public
understandings of climate change.
Engaging with recent conceptualizations around citizens and public media practices, it proposes participatory design
mechanisms through which the museum sector can act as change-agents in fostering a new form of public pedagogy that
incorporates differing civic epistemologies around climate change education and action.
+ info: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/salazar.pdf
New Report: Arts Philanthropy Not Doing Enough to Reach Poor and Minority Populations
Fusing Arts, Culture & Social Change
By Holly Sidford
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy: October, 2011
America’s dynamic arts and culture landscape continues to evolve along with the changing needs and
demographics of our communities. Yet, findings from a new report show that a majority of U.S. foundations
that provide financial support to arts and cultural institutions have largely ignored these changes in their
giving, according to the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP)
+ info: http://www.ncrp.org/files/publications/Fusing_Arts_Culture_and_Social_Change.pdf
Museums and science centres as sites for deliberative democracy on climate change
Fiona Cameron (University of Western Sydney); Ann Deslandes ( Sydney)
ISSN 1479-8360
This paper addresses the position of the museum sector in relation to public policy-making about climate change. It is
informed by the perspectives of museum and science centre visitors and leaders canvassed as part of the Australian
Research Council Linkage project, ‘Hot Science, Global Citizens: the agency of the museum sector in climate change
interventions’. We apply complexity theory to evaluate the claim that museums are a site for the enaction of deliberative
democracy. In doing so, we reveal a cultural opportunity for cultural institutions to play a more expansive and explicit role in
brokering social futures for communities confronted by climate change.
+ info: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/camerondeslandes.pdf
Museums and attacks from cyberspace: Non-linear communication in a postmodern world
Bob Hodge (University of Western Sydney)
ISSN 1479-8360
This article examines a single virtual incident, a hostile review by climatechange sceptic journalist Andrew Bolt of an
Australian Museum exhibition on climate change, to explore its implications for contemporary museums curating
controversial topics. It takes both topic and attack as aspects of new conditions which science and museums alike must cope
with, which include new concepts of science and society, and new communication technologies. It uses the concept of the
‘postmodern condition’ as a framework for understanding some crucial features of these new conditions. It sees traditional
linear models of communication as dangerously limited ways for museums to operate effectively in this new highly complex
and unpredictable environment. It finds that some aspects of this Exhibition had an underlying linearity that left it especially
open to the attack it received, while other aspects incorporated an effective complexity that better fulfilled its aims. Yet the
analysis does not offer complete safety against such attacks. On the contrary, part of the danger
exposed in this analysis comes from new ‘postmodern’ levels of irrationality and lack of respect for science legitimated by the
claims of these critics to be defenders of reason and science.
+ info: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/hodge.pdf
From mitigation to creativity: the agency of museums and science centres and the means to govern climate
change
Fiona Cameron (University of Western Sydney)
ISSN 1479-8360
Climate change as a complex, scientific, cultural, ideological, and transnational issue poses a new set of challenges for
museums and science centres as places to inform, and as information sources in debates and decision processes.
In this paper, I draw on quantitative and qualitative research from the Australian Research Council funded Linkage project,
Hot Science, Global Citizens: the agency of the museum sector in climate change interventions, to interrogate the
potentialities for institutions to operate meaningfully and in new ways in complex media ecologies and dense mediations of
political, social, scientific discourses, and expertize. In developing the concepts liquid governmentalities and liquid museums,
I pose new leverage points for institutions to operate within these pluralistic and complex governmental assemblages from
one of the production of science statements to reform behaviour, to systems of open peer review and as places for
facilitating complex reflexivity and creative dispositions for the future in the present.
+ info: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/cameron.pdf
Looking from above: saying and doing in the history museums of Latin America
Marisa González de Oleaga (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain); María Silvia Di Liscia (Universidad
Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina); Ernesto Bohoslavsky (Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento, Argentina)
In Museum and society, Mar 2011. 9(1) 49-76 © 2011
ISSN 1479-8360
What functions might the history museum fulfill in the twenty-first century? How could this powerful ideological device, so
closely linked in its origins to the nationstate and neo-colonial expansion, be changed into an instrument of multicultural
citizenship? In some Latin American museums, new historical subjects and audio-visual media have been incorporated into
the exhibits. But, is that enough?
We do not believe so, because things are said in a museum, but things are also done while speaking: reality is ordered,
evaluated and hierarchized, so that a certain way of conceiving and being in the world is conveyed. Therefore, making the
museum suitable to the new needs of the community demands changes not only in what is said, but also in the way it is
said. It serves little to incorporate new social subjects (the native peoples of Latin America, for example) if this inclusion
results from a pejorative conception of these communities, which is just what happens in the Museum of America in Madrid,
where the Spanish appear as masters of the word while the indigenous people are represented by ceramic vessels. If, in the
accounts of the museums, the part continues to be taken for the whole by essentializing and naturalizing the difference, then
those other social subjects must appear to be merely a historical afterthought. It seems to us that the performative
dimension of the discourse in the museum is a very important aspect at the moment its function in the new global society is
evaluated. We propose two objectives for new museums: serving the purposes of multicultural coexistence, and being
spaces where the subjects may examine their social situation. In order to do this, we have analyzed the setup of three
museums: a
colonial museum (the Museum of America in Madrid), a national museum (the National Historical Museum in Buenos Aires),
and an ethnic museum (the Mennonite Jacob Unger Museum in the Paraguayan Chaco).
+ info: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/oleaga-1.pdf
Miniatures of the nation: ethnic minority figurines, mannequins and dioramas in Chinese museums
By Marzia Varutti
In Museum and society, Mar 2011. 9(1) 1-16 © 2011
ISSN 1479-836
This paper uses Chinese ethnic minority museums as case study to reflect on the significance of the use of figurines,
mannequins and dioramas as modes of representation of individuals and collectivities in museums. By proposing the concept
of miniature and exploring its diverse facets and conceptual implications in the context of specific examples of museum
displays of Chinese ethnic minorities, the analysis reveals how specific museological practices and display supports – such as
mannequins, dioramas, figurines and maps – enable the reduction and containment of cultural difference.
+ info: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/varutti-1.pdf
Museums and a common world: climate change, cosmopolitics, museum practice
Ben Dibley (University of Western Sydney)
ISSN 1479-8360
At stake in this paper is the nature of the relationship between the institution of the museum and the common world. It is
contended that such relations are regularly asserted through cosmopolitan appeals, which are premised on the assumption
that a cosmos, a world, a universal, pre-exists its articulation, and, that it is the task of reason and of science to adjust the
citizen-subject to this already-present condition. This paper argues that this is a flawed position because it assumes, in fact,
what is required to be built: a world in common.
In defence of this proposition, two recent declarations of museum cosmopolitanism are explored: ICOM’s declaration on the
‘universal museum’, which focuses on the unity of the cultural heritage of humankind; and the Buffon Declaration, which
concerns institutions of natural history and the imperilment of humanity’s biospheric inheritance. Subsequently, the paper
turns to what might be called the empirics of the cosmopolitanism of the museum visitor.
This examines the qualitative investigation of banal or everyday cosmopolitanism, which is largely ignored by such museum
declarations.
These different museological articulations of a common world are, in turn, reviewed through the juxtaposition of two
sociologies: Ulrich Beck’s cosmopolitanism and Bruno Latour’s compositionism. It is in contrasting these various
mobilizations of the cosmopolitan – the museological, the empirical and the sociological – that the paper advances its
proposition:
namely, that these cosmopolitan claims are based on the assumption that a common world exists prior to its assemblage as
such.
+ info: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/dibley.pdf
Culture, knowledge and understanding: great museums and libraries for everyone
Arts Council England, September 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7287-1504-2
A companion to our 10-year strategic framework for the arts Achieving great art for everyone, this
publication is our first attempt to integrate museums and libraries into this framework. It is designed to
provide certainty as to the programmes the Arts Council will run from 2011-15 while soliciting further debate
about the directions we should take in the longer term.
+ info: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/media/uploads/pdf/culture_knowledge_and_understanding.pdf
Musées et développement durable - La Documentation française
Par SERGE CHAUMIER, AUDE PORCEDDA
Musées-Mondes
ISBN : 978-2-11-008335-7
Musées et développement durable : comment s'emparer de cette problématique ? Quelles sont ses actions
dans ce domaine ? A quels niveaux se situent-elles ?
Issu d'une collaboration entre la France et le Québec, ouvert sur l'international, cet ouvrage rassemble des
études de cas et les soumet aux analyses croisées de professionnels des musées et de chercheurs en
muséologie. Il aborde de manière pragmatique les questions d'architecture et de conception des expositions, au travers de
l'ecodesign ; il interroge les modes de sensibilisation des publics et les dispositifs de médiation ; il tire les conséquences de
l'application du développement durable aux modes de gestion des établissements. En situant les initiatives contemporaines
dans une généalogie des actions passées, ce recueil rend compte des démarches entreprises en la matière, et fournit des
clefs pour (ré)inventer les pratiques muséales à l'aune du développement durable. Photos et schémas viennent illustrer ces
développements.
+ info: http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/catalogue/9782110083357/
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) & UNESCO
International Survey on Museum Storage 2011: Summary of results
This survey provides a snapshot of the situation in 1490 museums worldwide. As a little over 25% of the replies came from
North America, these results were analyzed individually and compared to the rest of the world. There was found to be no
significant difference in the numbers. This confirms that the results shown here represent the situation of the museums
surveyed in all countries.
+ info: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2011_en/various_en/10_21StorageSurveyResults_en.pdf
Ce que le parc fait au musée : ambivalence des formes de l'exposition
Auteurs : Serge CHAUMIER
ISBN : 978-2-351-20034-6
Editeur : Paris : Complicités
Ce recueil de points de vue théoriques pour mieux comprendre les spécificités du musée traite également de
façon pragmatique du choix qu’un professionnel peut effectuer entre musée et parc d’attraction. Approche
marketing, techniques de mises en espaces, prestataires, pratiques des publics, industrialisation culturelle
des musées : autant de similarités qui peuvent «justifier» un amalgame entre musées et parcs.
+ info: http://www.formation-museographie-museologie.com/2011/07/expoland-du-musee-au-parc-dattractions.html
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Ecological and local pesticides – Czech Republic
A great number of plants can bear certain nuisances without the need to use repellents. This capacity is the base for a
project carried out by Czech chemists and botanists. Although there are already in the market pesticides elaborated with
plant extracts, they are generally made from tropical plants. The Czech scientists aim to develop products obtained from
plants that thrive in their latitudes. “The kohlrabis need the help that lavender can give them, peppers that of the savory”.
A daydream polar city
The project of a unique city in the Far East has been designed by Russian architects. The climate is artificial and a closed
circuit system should recycle all the necessary elements for life as if it were a space station. The use of advanced
technologies will allow the building of this magnificent city in any solid surface, including the Moon.
The polar city has received the name of Oumka, which is the translation from chukchi for “a white bear”. It was especially
designed for the living of researchers, explorers of the Poles and to work in extreme conditions in the Arctic. This city will
have a strategic importance as a Russian advance party in the North.
Volunteer management in European Parks - GRUNDTVIG Lifelong
Learning Partnership
Protected areas need their local communities and stakeholders to get more
involved in their management. Volunteering is a great way to do this. This
project provides an invaluable opportunity to advance existing approaches to
Lifelong Learning through conservation volunteering at a European level and
to find means of consolidating these as integrative parts of protected areas'
volunteer management.
The level of volunteer management in European park, varies depending on countries and parks. Therefore, the project
partners intend to disseminate innovation and good practice in the field of vm and collectively develop innovative measures
that upgrade learning opportunities in the context of volunteering.
+ info: http://www.europarc.org/what-we-do/volunteer-management
AWARDS - Hans Biebelriether wins the Alfred Toepfer Medal 2011
The Alfred Toepfer Medal, named after the founder of the EUROPARC Federation, Dr h.c. Alfred Toepfer
(1894-1993) is awarded annually in recognition of a particular individual who has made a significant
contribution to nature protection in Europe. The medal is presented at the annual EUROPARC conference.
This is a great opportunity to honour those who work in our protected areas, who have a European vision yet
make a difference in their home country or region! Nominations will be considered by the EUROPARC Council
and the winner announced at the annual EUROPARC conference in September.
+ info: http://www.europarc.org/what-we-do/alfred-toepfer-medal
Eurosite & EUROPARC European Efficiency & Innovation Seminar: Integrated Site Management
16 November - 17 November 2011 Hertfordshire. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: Eurosite, EUROPARC and Landmarc
DEADLINE: 31 oct 2011
+ info: http://www.eurosite.org/
Sustainable tourism and protected areas: a
successful partnership - European Charter for
Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas
The network of protected areas participating in the
European Charter for Sustainable Tourism in
Protected Areas continues to grow at a dramatic rate.
Today 89 protected areas across nine different
countries are actively involved in the Charter process.
During the EUROPARC 2011 Conference this year in Bad Urach, 12 protected areas from Finland, France, Germany, Italy,
Spain and UK received the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism after a positive evaluation. In addition five parks were
re-evaluated this year after their first five years of work with the Charter.
Introducing Europe's Protected Natural Areas - German-Luxemburgian Nature Park Luxemburg/Germany
In this section we give you a more in depth look at our members and how they manage Europe's natural
heritage. Each month we will upload information about a different EUROPARC member. This month
(November 2011) we take a closer look at Il- Majjistral Nature and History Park/Malta. Information on
protected areas who have previously been featured on this page can be downloaded below.
+ info: http://www.europarc.org/who-we-are/introducing-europe
COMPETITION - Parks for the People: A Student Competition to Reimagine America's National Parks - Deadline
for proposals 1 November 2011
Parks for the People is a design competition that will reimagine America's most spectacular public places — its national parks
— by using design as a catalyst to creatively rethink their connections to people and their role as revered natural, social, and
cultural destinations.
As a culminating project of Designing the Parks — a partnership to promote well-designed public parks in America — Parks
for the People invites student and faculty teams to help build a common foundation of design principles for these
extraordinary sites as the U.S. National Park Service embarks upon a new century of park design.
Participating schools will work with park administrators to create model solutions for seven park sites in each geographic
region of the U.S., and use these design paradigms to create a stronger national identity for our open space ideals.
Throughout the competition, schools will have an opportunity to engage with the Park Service and its rich cultural and
historic assets, including access to park leadership, in-depth encounters with park sites, and the chance to build long-term
relationships with park staff and resources.
+ info: http://www.vanalen.org/parksforthepeople/
Pose de la première pierre du Pôle des Espaces Naturels du Marais poitevin - France
La commune de Saint-Denis-du-Payré, la communauté de communes du Pays né de la mer, la Ligue pour la Protection des
Oiseaux (LPO) et l'Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage (ONCFS) se sont fédérés autour du Parc interrégional
du Marais poitevin pour créer le Pôle des Espaces Naturels.
En ce mardi 11 octobre 2011, Yann Hélary, Président du Parc, Jean Etienne, Maire de Saint-Denis-du-Payré, Hugues
Fourage, Maire de Fontenay-le-Comte, Dominique Souchet, Vice-président du Conseil général de la Vendée et Michel Métais,
Directeur national de la Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux ont posé la première pierre.
+ info: http://www.parc-marais-poitevin.fr/index.php/Les-actualites-du-territoire/Les-actualites-du-Parc/Pose-de-lapremiere-pierre-du-Pole-des-Espaces-Naturels-du-Marais-poitevin
Témoignages de Louis-Marie Papin, Ulysse Gaignet et du père Gabriel Ribreau- Parc naturel
régional du Marais Poitevin (France)
Un nouveau montage sonore est disponible dans la rubrique "Sur un coin de table".
A travers ces différents témoignages, on en apprend un peu plus sur les plainots (gens de la plaine) et sur
la Jeunesse Agricole Catholique.
Au Gué-de-Velluire et à Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm, trois témoins racontent : Louis-Marie Papin, Ulysse Gaignet
(son beau-frère) et le père Gabriel Ribreau.
+ info: http://www.parc-marais-poitevin.fr/index.php/Les-actualites-du-territoire/Les-actualites-du-Parc/Temoignages-deLouis-Marie-Papin-Ulysse-Gaignet-et-du-pere-Gabriel-Ribreau
Parc national des Calanques : L'enquête publique est lancée : donnez votre avis ! - France
C’est une immense satisfaction pour moi et pour tous ceux qui m’accompagnent depuis près de douze années, de voir
s’ouvrir pour un mois l’enquête publique pour le Parc national des Calanques.
Cette séquence déterminante est le point d’orgue d’une procédure de création certes complexe et longue, mais nécessaire,
puisque garante d’une réelle démocratie de proximité, d’une transparence constante et du souci de l’intérêt général.
+ info: http://www.gipcalanques.fr/racine/accueil/le_mot_du_president/edito_enquete_publique
MÁSTER en Espacios Naturales Protegidos, título propio, Edición 2012 - Fundación Interuniversitaria Fernando
Gonzalez Bernaldez - España
* Tres universidades españolas con amplia experiencia en el campo medioambiental convocan conjuntamente, a través de la
Fundación F. G. Bernáldez y en colaboración con EUROPARC-España, el MÁSTER EN ESPACIOS NATURALES PROTEGIDOS.
* Único programa de máster dedicado monográficamente a los espacios protegidos, está dirigido a profesionales y gestores
que quieran completar su formación específica, así como a jóvenes titulados interesados en trabajar en este ámbito.
* Duodécima edición de un programa propio de posgrado, iniciado en 2001, que se estructura en módulos temáticos
impartidos de enero a diciembre de 2011, en un horario concentrado hacia el fin de semana, y que incluyen clases teóricas,
talleres, un viaje de estudios y un trabajo práctico individual.
* Profesorado formado por especialistas universitarios, investigadores, consultores y gestores de reconocido prestigio,
procedentes de los distintos ámbitos profesionales relacionados con los espacios protegidos.
* Los alumnos obtendrán el título de Máster en Espacios Naturales Protegidos por las universidades Autónoma de Madrid,
Complutense y de Alcalá.
+ info: http://www.uam.es/otros/fungobe/master.htm
Misurare e comunicare il valore dei parchi, ottimo successo del seminario di Federparchi a Pisa (14-16
September 2011)
Oggi, ancor più che in passato, è sempre più pressante la necessità di rendere il lavoro dei parchi tanto più possibile
trasparente sul piano politico e amministrativo quanto misurabile secondo criteri uniformi di efficacia gestionale.
Sull’importanza di ribadire non solo il valore delle aree naturali protette, ma avere anche le capacità per comunicarlo in modo
efficace, si è basato il seminario dal titolo “Misurare e comunicare il valore prodotto dal Sistema parchi in Italia” organizzato
da Federparchi – Europarc Italia con la collaborazione di Refe – Strategie di sviluppo responsabile, che si è tenuto dal 14 al
16 settembre 2011, presso il Centro Studi Valerio Giacomini nel parco regionale Migliarino San Rossore Massaciuccoli (Pisa)…
+ info: http://www.parks.it/federparchi/newsletter_anteprima.php?id=581
Projet (d'ordonnance) portant clarification et simplification des dispositions relatives aux réserves naturelles France (11 octobre 2011)
Le projet d'ordonnance portant clarification et simplification des dispositions relatives aux réserves naturelles est en
consultation publique sur le site du ministère de l'Ecologie jusqu'au 3 novembre 2011.
Ce texte vise à clarifier les dispositions législatives du Code de l'environnement relatives aux réserves naturelles. En
revanche, il ne touche pas les dispositions pénales propres à ces réserves dont la modification est prévue dans le projet
d'ordonnance portant simplification et harmonisation des polices de l'environnement, qui est en cours d'élaboration.
+ info: http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Projet_d_ordonnance-2.pdf
Eight new nature parks in Switzerland
The first national park in the Alps was established in the Engadine in 1914. Since then there
have been very few efforts in Switzerland to create other protected areas.
But following the establishment in 2007 of a legal basis for the creation of new parks, the
Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) recognised eight regional nature parks at the
beginning of September.
Switzerland now has all together twelve parks of national significance as well as the Swiss
National Park on the border with Italy. Five other nature parks are now being set up. While
the parks satisfy the requirements for a nature park in terms of natural territory and landscape, local residents still need to
give their approval. There is also a project for a new national park in Ticino. The Parco nazionale del Locarnese has been
recognised as a candidate by the FOEN.
+ info: http://www.cipra.org/en/alpmedia/news-en/4480/?set_language=en
Cape Floral Region Protected Areas get Conservation Boost from World Heritage
Centre Partner - South Africa
Fauna and Flora International (FFI) a longtime partner of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre,
launched a global appeal this week with the objective of helping protect over 50,000 hectares
of the globally unique “fynbos” ecosystem in the Cape Floral region of South Africa.The
targeted lands are in the World Heritage site’s buffer areas, contributing to the long term
integrity of the Cape Floral Region Protected Areas World Heritage property.
The plant biodiversity of the fynbos is greater than that of the Amazon. Sadly, according to
IUCN’s Red List of endangered species, the fynbos biome also contains the highest number of endangered plants in the
world, making the conservation of this area vitally important.
Análisis preliminares de las Inundaciones en El Salvador y Guatemala
El Sistema Regional de Visualización y Monitoreo (SERVIR), implementado conjunto con la Agencia para el Desarrollo
Internacional de Estados Unidos (USAID) y la Agencia Espacial de los Estados Unidos (NASA), ha trabajado análisis
preliminares de las recientes inundaciones en El Salvador y Guatemala.
La imagen satelital utilizada para este análisis cubre la mayoría de 3 Departamentos en El Salvador y 8 Departamentos en
Guatemala, la superficie de área que cubre la imagen equivale a 41,000 km2 y fue capturada el día de ayer 17 de octubre
del 2011 por el satélite RADARSAT-2, los resultados del análisis de estas imágenes indican que el área afectada por
inundaciones es de aproximadamente 169.5 km2.
+ info: http://www.sica.int/busqueda/Noticias.aspx?IDItem=63637&IDCat=3&IdEnt=2&Idm=1&IdmStyle=1
Geologist claims discovering water in desert on the Egyptian-Libyan border
By Ashraf Khaled
Egyptian geologist Khaled Ouda has announced the discovery of a "sea of underground water" in the vast Western desert on
the Egyptian-Libyan border. Apparently inspired by the popular uprising that ousted long-standing president Hosni Mubarak
earlier this year, he named some of the claimed oases after Tahrir Square, the 'revolution' and 'martyrs'.
"This reservoir of fresh water is enough to reclaim and irrigate around 3.7 million acres," Ouda, a professor of geology at the
state-owned Assiut University in southern Egypt, told a press conference in Cairo last week.
Coopération franco-allemande pour la recherche en Méditerranée
Le Cemagref, le CNRS, l'INRA et l'IRD, membres d'AllEnvi, l'UFZ et le FZJ, membres du groupe "terre et environnement" des
Helmholtz, conjuguent leurs efforts de coopération scientifique pour lutter contre le changement global en zone
Méditerranéenne
L'ensemble des pays du pourtour de la Méditerranée sera particulièrement concerné par les effets du changement global.
Associées aux développements politiques, démographiques et économiques qui interviennent dans la région, ces évolutions
vont induire des modifications importantes dans la gestion des territoires et l'exploitation des ressources naturelles. Les
transformations à venir ne seront pas sans incidence sur l'ensemble des pays européens et appellent à des avancées
collectives dans les connaissances scientifiques et les modèles de prévision, comme dans la décision et l'action.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/co/cooperation-franco-allemande-pour-la-recherche-en-mediterranee
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Global Forum on Environment: Making Water
Reform Happen - Paris - France - 25-26 October 2011
The objective of the Global Forum on Water is to gather a broad range of senior policy makers and leaders in the water
sector to debate and discuss the key messages emerging from the recent OECD work on water. This work focuses on the
policy issues related to pricing and financing, multilevel governance, public-private partnerships, and managing water
resources in agriculture.
The focus on “Making Water Reform Happen” will provide an opportunity to share experiences and explore how countries can
overcome the challenges in implementing water policy reform.
The Forum's discussions will help to shape the OECD’s key messages for the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille on 12-17
March 2012.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/water/water_events/Detailed/2261.shtml
Gobierno e indígenas del oriente lograron acuerdos en los 16 puntos de las
demandas - La Paz - Bolivia
El presidente Evo Morales y las dirigencias de los pueblos indígenas del oriente lograron
acuerdos sobre los 16 puntos de las demandas tras dialogar este domingo más de 16 horas en
el palacio de Gobierno.
El ministro de Comunicación, Iván Canelas, manifestó que "han sido resueltos los 16 puntos
del pliego de demandas de la VIII marcha de los pueblos indígenas del oriente".
Dijo que los acuerdos se lograron en una "reunión cordial y dinámica".
+ info: http://www.presidencia.gob.bo/noticia2.php?cod=717
Agricultural success from Africa: the case of fertilizer tree systems in southern Africa (Malawi,
United Republic of Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe)
In response to the declining soil fertility in southern Africa and the negative effects that this leads to, such
as food insecurity besides other developmental challenges, fertilizer tree systems (FTS) were developed as
technological innovation to help smallholder farmers to build soil organic matter and fertility in a sustainable
manner. In this paper, we trace the historical background and highlight the developmental phases and
outcomes of the technology. The synthesis shows that FTS are inexpensive technologies that significantly
raise crop yields, reduce food insecurity and enhance environmental services and resilience of agroecologies. Many of the achievements recorded with FTS can be traced to some key factors: the availability of a suite of
technological options that are appropriate in a range of different household and ecological circumstances, partnership
between multiple institutions and disciplines in the development of the technology, active encouragement of farmer
innovations in the adaptation process and proactive engagement of several consortia of partner institutions to scale up the
technology in farming communities. It is recommended that smallholder farmers would benefit if rural development planners
emphasize the merits of different fertility replenishment approaches and taking advantage of the synergy between FTS and
mineral fertilizers rather than focusing on `organic vs. inorganic' debates.
+ info: http://earthscan.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/earthscan/ijas/2011/00000009/00000001/art00015
Conclusion of Pre-COP (Conference of Parties) Ministerial Meeting - Stellenbosch, Western Cape Province (South
Africa) 21 October 2011
… We just concluded the traditional Pre-COP Ministerial consultations, hosted here at Spier, Stellenbosch, on 20 and 21
October 2011. The meeting was attended by representatives from 42 countries.
Participants also included the Chair of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation, as well as the Chairs of the two Ad Hoc
Working Groups.
The Chairs made presentations on the status of the work under their responsibility and their assessment of what can be
achieved in Durban…
+ info: http://www.cop17-cmp7durban.com/en/news-centre/media-releases/index.html
Petites initiatives, tout un programme ! - UICN (Union internationale pour la conservation de la
nature) France
L’UICN France assure la gestion du Programme de Petites Initiatives du Fonds Français pour l’Environnement
Mondial (FFEM) dont l’objectif est de contribuer à renforcer les capacités de la société civile africaine sur les
enjeux environnementaux.
+ info: http://www.uicn.fr/Programme-Petites-Intiatives.html
Les espaces protégés français : un réseau crucial pour la sauvegarde de nos richesses naturelles
- France
A l’occasion de l’année internationale de la biodiversité, le Comité français de l’UICN édite une nouvelle
brochure de présentation des espaces protégés français, réalisée en collaboration avec l’ensemble des
réseaux gestionnaires d’aires protégées et le soutien du Ministère de l’écologie.
+ info: http://www.uicn.fr/Les-espaces-proteges-francais-un.html
Hundreds Occupy Belo Monte Dam Site in Brazilian
Amazon - Altamira - Brazil
Yesterday the Belo Monte Dam construction site was occupied
by 400 indigenous people, fishermen and riverine community
members who oppose the project due to its severe
environmental impacts and human rights violations. The
occupation was a collective decision from 700 representatives
from local communities who attended a seminar against the
Belo Monte Dam held this week in Altamira, and proved an important step forward in the continuing struggle to halt the
project.
+ info: http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/2011-11-1/hundreds-occupy-belo-monte-dam-site-brazilian-amazon
Ramsar Convention.
ramsar/1-26%5E25431_4000_0__
Réunion - France
Settimana UNESCO di Educazione allo Sviluppo Sostenibile - A Come Acqua -Club UNESCO Caserta - Castel
Volturno - Italy - 7-13 November 2011
“A come Acqua”: questo il titolo della sesta edizione della Settimana di Educazione allo Sviluppo Sostenibile, che si terrà dal
7 al 13 novembre 2011 sotto l’egida della Commissione Nazionale Italiana per l’UNESCO.
Centinaia di iniziative animeranno le piazze, le scuole, i teatri, i parchi di tutta Italia per ricordare la più importante fonte di
vita e di benessere del pianeta e i fattori che la minacciano, dai cambiamenti climatici ai modelli di consumo, dagli sprechi
alla cattiva gestione.
Anche quest’anno gli enti, le scuole e le organizzazioni interessate ai temi della sostenibilità sono invitate a partecipare e a
organizzare iniziative.
L’iniziativa centrale si tiene a Firenze sabato 12 novembre in sinergia con la premiazione "Eco & the city" della Fondazione
Giovanni Spadolini Nuova Antologia ed Energeo Magazine.
La Settimana UNESCO di Educazione allo Sviluppo Sostenibile 2011 si svolge sotto l’Alto Patronato del Presidente della
Repubblica.
+ info: http://www.unescodess.it/comunicati/2011/acqua_protagonista_settimana_sviluppo_sostenibile_unesco_2011
AWARDS - The 14th Annual L'ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards For Prof. Jill Farrant, South Africa
"For discovering how plants survive under dry conditions."
The L’ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science partnership announced today the five exceptional
women scientists from around the world who will receive the 2012 L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards in
Life Sciences.
An international network of nearly 1,000 scientists nominates the candidates for each year’s
Awards. The five Laureates are then selected by an independent, international Jury presided by
Professor Günter Blobel, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1999.
+ info: http://www.unescobkk.org/th/news/article/scientist-from-asia-pacific-to-receive-the-annual-loreal-unesco-awardsfor-women-in-science/
Watching the Birth of an Iceberg - NASA (National American Space Agency)
IceBridge - Antarctica
After discovering an emerging crack that cuts across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island
Glacier in Antarctica, NASA's Operation IceBridge has flown a follow-up mission and made the
first-ever detailed airborne measurements of a major iceberg calving in progress.
NASA's Operation Ice Bridge, the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown, is in
the midst of its third field campaign from Punta Arenas, Chile. The six-year mission will yield
an unprecedented three-dimensional view of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves and
sea ice.
+ info: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/news/fall11/pig-break.html
Agenda
2ème FORUM DU GRENELLE DE L'ESTUAIRE - L'Estuaire et la Vallée de la Seine
01 December 2011 Deauville. France
Organizers: Agence d’Urbanisme de la Région du Havre et de l’Estuaire de la Seine
+ info: http://www.forum-grenelle-estuaire.fr
Colloque ' Chimie et Nature'
25 January 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Fondation internationale de la Maison de la Chimie
+ info: http://actions.maisondelachimie.com/index-p-colloque-i-19.html
Publications
The business case for sustainability: Evidence that tourism businesses in protected areas perform
best when they also implement sustainability actions
EUROPARC Federation, September 2011
This publication is financed under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) which
aims to encourage the competitiveness of European enterprises
+ info: http://xavierfont.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/the-business-case-for-sustainability1.pdf
Consultation Document on Enabling Legislation for National Parks. August 2011
DOE. Department of Environment
Northern Ireland - United Kingdom
In October 2004, the Department published a consultation paper about national parks and other protected landscape areas.
The debate has moved on since then, and the political landscape has changed with the restoration of devolution and a locallyelected Assembly.
In March 2011, the Department published a White Paper as a first step towards bringing forward enabling legislation to allow
for the creation of national parks in Northern Ireland. At the time the Department said that further material would be
published for consideration during the consultation period.
Accordingly, a new consultation document has now been published. This looks in more detail at the governance options for a
national park and seek answers to a number of specific questions on national park issues with a view to developing policy
proposals for enabling legislation to be brought before the Assembly. For ease of reference, the White Paper has been
included as an appendix.
The consultation document and accompanying letter to consultees are available below. This new document subsumes the
consultation on the White Paper, and the consultation period has been extended to reflect this. Responses are invited by
31st October 2011
+ info: http://www.doeni.gov.uk/consultation_enabling_legislation_for_parks.pdf
Landscape fragmentation in Europe - European Environment Agency (EEA) report
European Environment Agency (EEA) / Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), 2011. - 92 p. (EEA
Report, 2/2011)
ISBN 978-92-9213-215-6
ISSN 1725-9177
This report is the result of a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and
the European Environment Agency (EEA). Switzerland became a member of the European Environment
Agency in 2006, and this report is one of the first publications from the collaboration. The Swiss FOEN
provided funding for the work on this report, with contributions from the EEA. The report takes the method of fragmentation
analysis that has previously been applied to Switzerland, where the results are used
in various monitoring systems, and applies it to 28 countries in Europe.
This report was prepared by Jochen A. G. Jaeger (Concordia University Montreal), Tomáš
Soukup (EEA/European Topic Centre on Spatial Information and Analysis), Luis F. Madriñán
(Concordia University Montreal), Christian Schwick (Die Geographen), and Felix Kienast
(Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape).
+ info: http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/landscape-fragmentation-in-europe/at_download/file
Best LIFE (The Financial Instrument for the Environment) Environment: Projects 2010
Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2011.
32p.
ISBN 978-92-79-21086-0
ISSN 1725-5619
LIFE (“The Financial Instrument for the Environment”) is a programme launched by the European
Commission and coordinated by the Environment Directorate-General (LIFE Units - E.3. and E.4.).
The contents of the publication “Best LIFE Environment Projects 2010” do not necessarily reflect the opinions
of the institutions of the European Union.
+ info: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/publications/lifepublications/bestprojects/documents/bestenv10.pdf
Transboundary Conservation Specialist Group eNews 4 - October 2011
Edited and prepared by IUCN WCPA Transboundary Conservation Specialist Group (TBC SG).
The TB eNEWS contains information on your activities related to enhancement of transboundary
conservation and cooperation.
You are welcome to send us news about relevant projects and initiatives, to review any past event on
transboundary conservation, and announce a future workshop, seminar, or a conference. We shall include
any new publications, websites or funding opportunities that you send us.
+ info: http://www.tbpa.net/newsletters/53_TBeNEWS-no4-2011_Final.pdf
EUROPARC 2011 Conference Report: Quality Counts - Benefits for Nature and People - Schwabian Alb Biosphere
Reserve - Bad Urach - Germany - 21-25 September 2011
EUROPARC General Assembly 2011
EUROPARC 2011 took place from 21st - 25th September in the Schwabian Alb Biosphere Reserve, Bad Urach, Germany.
During the four day conference participants had the chance to exchange their experiences and expand their networks with
European colleagues. They discussed and developed solutions for an effective protected area management throughout the
four day programme.
The conference was hosted by the German state of Baden-Württemberg and organised together with EUROPARC Germany.
320 international experts from across the field of nature conservation attended the conference under the motto Quality
counts - Benefits for Nature and People.
+ info: http://www.europarc.org/whats-on/annual-europarc-conf/europarc-2011/
Digital Version of the Central Asia Atlas of Natural Resources
This Atlas brings to readers a sense of the beauty and wealth of Central Asia's natural resources, some issues its peoples
face in using and conserving them, and the progress being made toward sustainable development.
The Atlas is an output of the Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land Management (CACILM) Program, a 10-year
partnership between the Central Asian countries and the international donor community that began in 2006. Its aim is to
restore, maintain, and improve the productive functions of land in Central Asia, leading to better economic and social wellbeing, while preserving the ecological functions of the land. The initiative has set in motion an integrated approach to
sustainable land management that will have local, national, and global benefits.
+ info: http://caatlas.org/index.php
Guide des vertébrés envahissants en outre-mer - Comité français de l'UICN (Union internationale
pour la conservation de la nature)
En raison de leurs impacts écologiques et socio-économiques multiples, ces espèces posent des problèmes
majeurs à tous ceux qui en outre-mer ont en charge la préservation d’un patrimoine naturel unique :
associations, établissements publics, services de l’Etat et des collectivités locales. Cet ouvrage leur est
destiné, ainsi qu’au grand public intéressé par ce sujet.
Son objectif est de sensibiliser et d’informer sur les vertébrés exotiques envahissants et leurs impacts.
Trente neuf espèces introduites parmi les plus envahissantes ou potentiellement envahissantes font l’objet
d’une monographie résumant leur écologie, leur distribution dans l’outre-mer français, leurs impacts avérés ou potentiels, la
réglementation les concernant, etc.
+ info: http://www.uicn.fr/Guide-vertebres-envahissants-OM.html
Entreprises et Biodiversité - EBEvie et Prix : deux actions phares pour sensibiliser et inciter à l'action Commissariat Général au Développement Durable no. 90 Juin 2011 - France
Afin de favoriser la prise en compte de la biodiversité par les entreprises, le ministère a mis en place un outil de
sensibilisation leur proposant des pistes d’actions en vue de limiter leurs impacts sur la biodiversité. Cet outil, baptisé
EBEvie, vise à aider les entreprises à comprendre les enjeux que la biodiversité représente pour elles. Il les guide pour
évaluer leurs impacts ainsi que leurs liens de dépendance vis-à-vis de la biodiversité. Il leur propose des actions pour mieux
intégrer la biodiversité dans leur stratégie de développement. Le ministère décerne aussi, depuis 2010, Année Internationale
de la Biodiversité, des prix récompensant les produits ou démarches particulièrement innovants en faveur de la biodiversité.
+ info: http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/LPS90b.pdf
Entreprises et biodiversité: Premiers résultats d'enquête - Commissariat Général au Développement Durable no.
72 Février 2011 - France
Le Ministère a mené en 2010 une enquête auprès de 3 600 entreprises afin de mesurer la prise de conscience de leurs
interactions avec les écosystèmes et l’intégration de la biodiversité dans leurs stratégies. Les entreprises interrogées se sont
déclarées très majoritairement (deux tiers) conscientes de leurs impacts négatifs sur la biodiversité et, dans une moindre
mesure (un tiers), de leur dépendance vis-à-vis des services fournis par les écosystèmes. Les principales pressions qu’elles
exercent portent sur la qualité de l’air, de l’eau et du sol, un important service écologique dont elles dépendent aussi. 40 %
des entreprises anticipent que la perte de biodiversité représente un risque pour leurs activités à l’avenir, contre 20 %
aujourd’hui. Les entreprises incluent encore peu la biodiversité dans leurs politiques environnementales. Les grandes sont
deux tiers à déclarer agir en faveur de la biodiversité ou envisager de le faire. Elles sont alors davantage motivées par la
gestion des risques financiers et réglementaires associés à la perte de biodiversité que par une intégration de la biodiversité
dans leurs stratégies et activités.
+ info: http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/LPS72.pdf
Report - Keeping Track of our changing environment - From Rio to Rio + 20 (1992-2012)
UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)
This publication helps to tell the story of where the world was 20 years ago and where we collectively
stand today, and to show the direction in which we need to move in a post-Rio+20 world. It also
highlights the missing pieces in our knowledge about the state of environment— such as those related
to freshwater quality and quantity, ground water depletion, ecosystem services, loss of natural
habitat, land degradation, chemicals and waste—due to lack of regular monitoring, collection and
compilation of data. Scientifically-credible data for environmental monitoring remains inadequate and
the challenge of building in-country capacity to produce better policy-relevant data needs urgent attention.
+ info: http://www.unep.org/GEO/pdfs/Keeping_Track.pdf
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Ecological and local pesticides – Czech Republic
A great number of plants can bear certain nuisances without the need to use repellents. This capacity is the base for a
project carried out by Czech chemists and botanists. Although there are already in the market pesticides elaborated with
plant extracts, they are generally made from tropical plants. The Czech scientists aim to develop products obtained from
plants that thrive in their latitudes. “The kohlrabis need the help that lavender can give them, peppers that of the savory”.
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10th Biennial International Conference of the Infrared and Raman Users' Group (IRUG)
28 March - 31 March 2012 Barcelona. Spain
Organizers: The Infrared and Raman Users' Group (IRUG)
+ info: http://www.ub.edu/IRUG10BCN/
French Bronzes: history, materials and techniques of bronze sculpture in France (16th - 18th C.) Symposium
09 June - 12 June 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Musée du Louvre and Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF), Paris, France.
+ info: http://frenchbronze.net/
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780 Brewster - Lemay associés - 2007 - Montreal - Quebec - Canada
Erected at the beginning of the XXth century, 780 Brewster is a five-storey multi-tenant
industrial building with a total surface area of 12,000 sqm. This brick and timber building was
transformed into an office building housing, among others, the City of Montréal’s Southwest
Borough Hall as well as our firm’s offices.
Completed according to a “fast track” schedule, the structure meets the most rigorous
sustainable development standards and is certified LEED Silver. The main features of this
innovative green project are:
The reclamation of 75 % of an industrial heritage building’s structure (existing walls, floors et roofs);
Air conditioning and ventilation systems offering an energy efficiency rate that is 50 % greater than traditional new buildings;
Large windows that open, allowing occupants to benefit from natural light and ventilation;
The reuse of nearly 80 % of materials such as the metal plates and grillwork adorning the reception areas;
The use of new materials (adhesives, paints, carpeting, composites, plaster) and furnishings that contain recycled materials,
are recyclable, non-toxic and emit no volatile organic compound;
Building located near a metro station and bus stops and equipped with a secured bicycle hangar and locker rooms, allowing
users to take advantage of alternate means of transportation;
The recovery of recyclable and compostable materials;
Plumbing fixtures offering a 30 % reduction in water consumption;
Landscaping that does not require irrigation.
Launch of the second phase of the rehabilitation works in the brick factory of La Grèvesur-Mignon – France
This Monday, October 17, 2011 with a brilliant sun, 80 people went to the site of the ancient
brick factory of La Grève-sur-Mignon to inaugurate the end of the rehabilitation works of the
buildings, before the opening of the site to the public.
All the funding partners were invited to this important event for the village and the inter-regional
park of the Marais Poitevin that always accompanied it on this adventure…
+ info: http://www.parc-marais-poitevin.fr/index.php/Les-actualites-du-territoire/Les-actualitesdu-Parc/Inauguration-de-la-fin-des-travaux-de-restauration-des-batiments-de-la-briqueterie-de-La-Greve-sur-Mignon-17
World's oldest known underground carriage to be restored - Heritage Lottery Fund United Kingdom
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded just over £422,000* to restore the world’s oldest
surviving known example of an underground carriage – Metropolitan Railway Carriage Number
353.
The project will mark the 150th anniversary of London’s Underground – the oldest metro
system in the world – and enable London Transport Museum to restore the carriage to full
working order to become a key feature of the anniversary celebrations in 2013. The restoration
of the historic carriage has been awarded to the Ffestiniog Railway, who are specialists in heritage railway carriage
restorations. HLF will also help fund an apprentice to gain an NVQ Level 2 in Carpentry as part of the project, and a further
159 participants will be offered the opportunity to work towards a heritage and transport qualification via the National Open
College Network.
+ info: http://www.hlf.org.uk/news/Pages/Worldsoldestknownundergroundcarriagetoberestored.aspx
Good News for 'Happy Retreat': Actor Richard Dreyfuss to Help Save Washington
Family Mansion - West Virginia - USA
Last month, following years of efforts to save the 1780 mansion where George Washington's
brother and his family once lived, Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss confirmed
that his Dreyfuss Initiative will help to protect the property known as Happy Retreat. At an
announcement Sept. 17, Dreyfuss committed to partnering with the Friends of Happy Retreat, a
nonprofit group formed in 2006, to purchase the house and 12.2 surrounding acres. His
initiative, a civics education program, will eventually occupy the top floor of the manor.
+ info: http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2011/story-of-the-day/happy-retreats-happy-news.html
Museum to Conserve Rare Alutiiq Warrior Kayak in Gallery Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - Harvard
University - Massachusetts - USA
For the first time, Peabody Museum visitors will be able to see
conservators at work in a specially prepared gallery space.
America's only known Alutiiq warrior kayak is the centerpiece of a new
conservation effort. Peabody Museum curators and conservators will be
collaborating with Alaska’s Alutiiq Museum and Alfred Naumoff, the last
traditionally trained Kodiak Alutiiq kayak maker, in the study and conservation of the collections over the next two years.
+ info: http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/742
Bouncing Back to Life: Restoring the Florida laboratory where Thomas Edison sought
a substitute for rubber - Fort Myers - Florida - USA
In the final years of his life, Thomas Edison searched for an alternative source of rubber with
the same burning intensity he'd demonstrated in pursuit of a reliable light bulb. The locus of his
efforts was a site he called his "jungle," a lush waterfront corner of southwest Florida where he
wintered with his wife, Mina, and eventually grew thousands of plants that played a crucial role
in his experiments.
+ info: http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2011/november-december/bouncing-back.
html
Göbekli Tepe Conservation Starts - Global Heritage Fund - Turkey
The site and its extant remains are threatened by looting, exposure and
insufficient management of the site and its resources. GHF’s goals at
Göbekli Tepe are to support the preparation of a comprehensive Site
Management and Conservation Plan, construction of a shelter over the
exposed archaeological features, training local community members in
guiding and conservation and aiding Turkish authorities in securing World
Heritage Site inscription.
+ info: http://globalheritagefund.org/gobekli_tepe_turkey
Large numbers of visitors flocked to view Murtoa Stick Shed - Victoria - Australia - 2
October 2011
With a huge restoration project all but complete, the Shed drew a huge crowd during the Murtoa
Big Weekend. More than 1250 people visited the Stick Shed on 2 October with visitors coming from
across Victoria and even interstate to view this unusual structure.
Dubbed the 'Cathedral of the Wimmera', the 1941 Murtoa Stick Shed spans the length of five
Olympic swimming pools. It is the last remaining of the sheds constructed in Australia as a solution
for grain storage during the World War II wheat glut.
+ info: http://www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/heritage/news-and-events/news/stick-shed-open
Restored citadel, dating back to the days of Alexander the Great, is symbol of hope
in Afghanistan
HERAT (AP).- In the 1970s, tourists traveled to western Afghanistan to climb on the ruins of
an ancient citadel, a fortress resembling a sandcastle that has stood overlooking the city of
Herat for thousands of years.
The citadel was crumbling then, but today the newly restored structure, dating back to the
days of Alexander the Great, is a hopeful sign of progress in a country beset by war.
Hundreds of Afghan craftsmen worked to restore the ruins' past glory with help from the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and
about $2.4 million from the U.S. and German governments.
The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, was among the tourists drawn to Herat decades ago, and on Sunday he
celebrated the citadel's restoration and the opening of a new museum of Afghan artifacts at the site.
Update from Ciudad Perdida Global Heritage Fund Field Mapping Mission (May / June,
2011) - Colombia
In late May and early June of 2011, a GHF team comprised of Santiago Giraldo, Adam Dunbar
and Dan Thompson conducted a field mapping mission to Ciudad Perdida, an ancient Tayrona
archaeological site deep in the jungles of northern Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
mountain range. In preparation for the drafting of a site Master Conservation Plan by the
Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH) for this GHF Current Project, the team
set out to map the archaeological sites that surround Ciudad Perdida in the Upper Buritaca River
Valley using precision Ashtech GPS units. Mapping these sites, some of which hadn't been visited since they were first
discovered over 30 years ago, was an essential endeavor in order to set up a long-term, sustainable heritage management
plan for the area. The team worked jointly with the ICANH conservation team at the site, led by Catalina Bateman,
discussing further conservation measures and protection needed for the site. The project is a joint enterprise with ICANH,
which has managed and preserved the site since 1976.
+ info: http://globalheritagenetwork.ning.com/group/ciudadperdidacolombia/forum/topics/ghf-field-mapping-mission-mayAWARDS - Call for Entries: 2012 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation - Deadline 31
March 2012
Entries are now being accepted for the 2012 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. The Awards
recognize the achievement of the private sector and public-private initiatives in successfully conserving or restoring
structures, places and properties of heritage value in the region. The deadline for receipt of materials is 31 March 2012.
Since the Awards were established in 2000, UNESCO has received 426 entries from 24 countries. A total of 140 projects
have received Awards for high achievement in conservation, while 5 projects have received the Jury Commendation for
Innovation.
The 2012 Awards cycle marks a milestone for the programme, after successful implementation over the first twelve years.
With support from the Macau Foundation, the Awards programme is now being enhanced to have even greater impact in
raising awareness about exemplary practices in conserving heritage sites around the region.
+ info: http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/culture/heritage_awards/Call_for_Entries.pdf
FELLOWSHIPS - The Foundation of the
American Institute for Conservation (FAIC)
Grants and Scholarships
The Foundation of the American Institute for
Conservation (FAIC) offers several grants and
scholarships to individuals and organizations to
promote professional development, outreach to
the public, publications, and conservation
projects.
In addition, we have assembled several resources for outside funding.
+ info: http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.ViewPage&PageID=474
FELLOWSHIPS - The Clothworkers' Foundation supporting conservation Research Fellowship - United Kingdom Deadline 2 March 2012
A grant of up to 80,000 pounds is available to a UK public institution to enable an experienced conservator (employed by
that institution) to pursue a research project for two years. During the sabbatical the post will be covered by an externally
recrited junior conservator. The grant will meet teh salary and on-cost of the junir conservatir, and the project costs of the
work undertaken by the senir fellow.
+ info: http://www.clothworkers.co.uk/Files/Sam-s-Files/Misc/CPD-Fellowship-JPEG.aspx
Patrimonio y Desarrollo, Boletín Digital No. 10 - 2011 - Centro Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y
Museología (CENCREM) - Cuba
El Centro Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museología (CENCREM), fundado en 1980, y ubicado en el antiguo
Convento de Santa Clara de Asís, es una institución especializada, dirigida al desarrollo científico–técnico y docente–
metodológico de los especialistas que laboran en la Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural Tangible, mueble e inmueble, y del
Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, adscripta desde 1995 al Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural de Cuba (CNPC).
El CENCREM es Centro Autorizado para Impartir Estudios de Postgrado desde su propia fundación, ratificándose como tal en
el año 1989, cuando pasó a formar parte del Sistema de Superación para la Cultura en el campo del Patrimonio Cultural,
como miembro pleno del Consejo Asesor del Centro Nacional de Superación para la Cultura (CNSC) y como institución
docente.
+ info: http://www.cencrem.co.cu/images/documents/revista_digital_10_11_2011.pdf
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Philips sheds new light on Night Watch - Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam - The Netherlands
Starting on October 26, one of the world’s most renowned paintings will be bathed in a new light.
Philips, Founder of the renovated Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, presents Rembrandt van Rijn’s Night
Watch in innovative LED light, bringing out the best of the painting’s color palette while offering
increased sustainability and energy efficiency. Through the project, the two Masters of Light are
reinforcing their intensive collaboration aimed at joint innovation in the area of LED lighting, setting
the new standard for museum lighting.
+ info: http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nieuwsenagenda/nieuw-licht-nachtwacht-philips?lang=en
Russia's Bolshoi reopens after reconstruction - Moscow - Russian Federation
Russia's Bolshoi Theater reopened Friday after a massive reconstruction effort that restored it
to its original imperial splendor.
The $700 million, six-year effort meticulously recreated the opulent 19th-century decor, many
elements of which had been simplified or removed during communist rule. The renovation also
added state-of-the art stage gear and created an additional underground hall.
l’attention.
BULLETIN DE L'ISPAN (Institut de sauvegarde du patrimoine national) # 29 - Haïti
Merci d'encourager vos ami(e)s à s'inscrire à l'abonnement du BULLETIN DE L'ISPAN à l'adresse suivante :ispan.
[email protected] L’Institut de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine National (ISPAN) est un organisme technique autonome du
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Il a pour mission de dresser l’inventaire et de procéder au classement des
monuments, de sites et d’ensembles historiques de la République d’Haïti, de réaliser des études de projets de protection, de
restauration et de mise en valeur de monuments, de sites et d’ensemble historiques, d’assurer la direction et le contrôle des
travaux d’exécution de tels projets, d’aider à la promotion et au développement d’activités publiques ou privées visant à
sauvegarder le Patrimoine National et, enfin, de recueillir, organiser et diffuser toutes informations et documentations
relatives au Patrimoine architectural et monumental, national et international.
English Heritage Guidance Note: Theft of Metal from Church Buildings
This guidance note sets out English Heritage’s1 response to the epidemic of lead theft2 which is affecting historic buildings
and, in particular, parish churches3. We recognise that any theft brings frustration, expense and inconvenience to
congregations. Preventing future thefts is paramount, but dealing with the unfortunate aftermath in an appropriate way is
also very important.
This guidance is in two parts: the first outlines English Heritage’s approach and our advice for congregations on the
significance of lead, how to protect it, and how to respond to thefts; the second offers detailed practical information about
selecting the material to be used for historic church roofs and making it secure.
+ info: http://www.helm.org.uk/upload/pdf/theft-metal-church-buildings.pdf
Successful School Refurbishment Case Studies - English Heritage
Wider economic circumstances and reducing public sector budgets clearly have implications for capital investment in school
buildings. Together with the recommendations from the James review, this background is likely to mean that over the short
to medium term future local education authorities will need to focus on managing their existing school estate to ensure it
offers the best possible educational environment…
+ info: http://www.helm.org.uk/upload/pdf/Successful-school-refurbishment.pdf
ISPAN NEWSLETTER (Institut de sauvegarde du patrimoine national) N. 29 - Haïti
The Institute for the Conservation of National Heritage (ISPAN) is a technical entity independent of the Ministry of Culture
and Communication. It has as its mission the inventory and classification of the sites, monuments and architectural
complexes of the Republic of Haiti, and it is also in charge of carrying out of projects for the protection, restoration and
performance of monuments, sites and historical complexes, of securing the direction and control of the performance of such
projects, of aiding the promotion and development of public or private activities aimed at preserving the national heritage,
and lastly, of gathering, organizing and spreading all the information and documents related to the architectural heritage and
the monuments, both at a national and international level. We would like to thank you for encouraging your friends to
subscribe to the ISPAN BULLETIN at the following address : [email protected]
AWARDS - Charles Mervyn Ruggles Award & Emerging Conservator Award - Canadian
Association for Conservation (CAC) - Deadline for applications 14 February & 31 January 2012
This award commemorates the distinguished achievements of Charles Mervyn Ruggles (1912-2001) in the
development of the art conservation profession in Canada. As CAC’s first honorary member, it is
appropriate that our first award for outstanding contribution to the field carry his name. Recipients of this
award will be celebrated for their contribution and achievement in fine art conservation science,
treatment, training and/or education, for their development work in a field of fine art conservation in
Canada, and for promoting the ethics and ideals expressed in the CAC/CAPC Code of Ethics and Guidance
for Practice.
Goal: To encourage the pursuit of excellence in fine art conservation.
+ info: http://www.cac-accr.ca/awards
The American Institute for Conservation Offers New Conservation Resources for
Collecting Institutions - Washington, DC. - USA
The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) has published the
long-awaited second edition of the AIC Guide to Digital Photography and Conservation
Documentation. This book is a comprehensive guide to digital photographic equipment,
software, and processing tailored to the needs of conservation professionals. The book was
created to further educate conservators in the use of digital photographic equipment for
conservation documentation, while also addressing concerns about long-term accessibility and
preservation of electronic records. It is an essential reference for all collecting institutions in the digital age.
+ info: http://www.cac-accr.ca/news/the-american-institute-for-conservation-offers-new-conservation-resources-forcollecting-institutions/3
In Progress: Tate Modern Expansion - Herzog & de Meuron - London - United
Kingdom
Currently under construction, it has been announced that the Herzog & de Meuron designed
first phase of the new development of Tate Modern will open in the summer of 2012. The
launch will be part of the London 2012 Festival which will be the culmination of the Cultural
Olympiad…
+ info: www.archdaily.com/180640/in-progress-tate-modern-herzog-de-meuron/
Residential Complex Le Lorrain - MDW Architecture - Brussels - Belgium
This project is the renovation of the former Brumétal dealer of old iron into a social housing complex
composed of a 4-flat building connected by a large common open space to 3 maisonettes at the rear of the
site.
This residential beacon project for the district contract « Maritime » consists in clearing and opening up the
interior of the plot that was entirely built and making this portion of the street “breathe” thanks to a wide
opening. It aims at giving the neighborhood a new spring through a both strong and suitable contemporary
architectural and urban intervention that benefits the community, while keeping a trace of the industrial past
of the neighborhood.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/181207/residential-complex-le-lorrain-mdw-architecture/
Save Our Culture Launched: International collaborative project aims to save cultural heritage damaged by Great
East Japan Earthquake
The Foundation for Cultural Heritage and Art Research (Ueno, Taito Ward, Tokyo/ President: Ryohei Miyata) announced
today that a project entitled “Save Our Culture (SOC)” has been launched in international collaboration with World
Monuments Fund (NY, U.S.A/ President: Bonnie Burnham) and with cooperation from the Agency for Cultural Affairs and
Tokyo University of the Arts…
+ info: http://www.wmf.org/sites/default/files/press_releases/Save%20Our%20Culture.pdf
Historic conservation project by Global Heritage Fund begins at "Machu Picchu of the North" Marcahuamachuco - Peru
Built on top of an isolated plateau 5 kilometers long and 500 meters wide with a vast view of its surroundings,
Marcahuamachuco contains several major compounds surrounded by curved stone walls as high as 12 meters, with inner
galleries, rooms and plazas which suggest administrative and ceremonial functions.
Global Heritage Fund is working with the Unidad Ejecutivo Marcahuamachuco (UEM) to prepare a program of planning,
conservation and community development to enable longterm site sustainability.
+ info: http://globalheritagefund.org/images/uploads/projects/ghf_marcahuamachuco_peru.pdf
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EXHIBITION - Recently unpacked: How art ages - MARTa Herford
08 October 2011 - 08 January 2012 Herford. Germany
Organizers: MARTa Herford
+ info: http://marta-herford.info/?lang=en
French Bronzes: history, materials and techniques of bronze sculpture in France (16th - 18th C.) Symposium
09 June - 12 June 2012 Paris. France
Organizers: Musée du Louvre and Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF), Paris, France.
+ info: http://frenchbronze.net/
Publications
Facing the Challenges of Panel Painting Conservation: Trends, Treatments and Training:
Proceedings of a Symposium at the Getty Center, May 2009
Edited by Alan Phenix and Sue Ann Chui
Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2011
ISBN 978-0-9834922-2-1 (online resource)
On May 17-18, 2009 the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, and the J. Paul Getty Museum
hosted the symposium "Facing the Challenges of Panel Painting Conservation: Trends, Treatments and
Training" at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. The symposium highlighted recent developments in panel
paintings research and conservation and included panel discussions in which speakers reflected on their own formative
experiences as panel conservators, and discussed training possibilities for the next generation of conservators.
+ info: http://www.getty.edu/conservation/our_projects/education/panelpaintings/panelpaintings_publications.html
Protecting and Safeguarding Cultural Heritage: Systems of Management of Cultural Heritage in
the Visegrad Countries
Heritage Forum of Central Europe (1º. International Cultural Centre, Krakow, Poland. 7-9 July, 2011)
Organizer: Visegrad Group; International Cultural Centre in Cracow
Praca zbiorowa; Jacek Purchla (red. naukowy)
ISBN 978-83-89273-87-1
The International Cultural Centre in Krakow organises the first Heritage Forum of Central Europe, bringing
together specialists from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia and other experts from the wider
region.
+ info: http://www.mck.krakow.pl/bookshop/protecting-andsafeguarding-cultural-heritage
A Didactic Case Study of Jarash Archaeological Site, Jordan: Stakeholders and Heritage Values
in Site Management
By David Myers, Stacie Nicole Smith, and May Shaer
ISBN: 978-0-9827668-6-6 (online resource)
The Getty Conservation Institute
The publication has been designed as a didactic tool for use in academic programs, short courses, and
workshops in heritage conservation, management, and planning. It is also relevant to educational and
training programs in urban and regional planning, development studies, and dispute resolution…
+ info: http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/jarash_case_study.html
The Maintenance and Repair of Traditional Farm Buildings: A Guide to Good Practice - English
Heritage
This publication gives practical advice to farmers, land managers and others involved with the maintenance
and repair of traditional farm buildings.
The guidance is primarily directed to buildings in active farming related uses. However, it is also relevant for
buildings that have uncertain futures or need urgent works to prevent further deterioration of their structure
and fabric.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/maintenance-repair-trad-farm-buildings/
Number Edition: 30
Vacant Historic Buildings: An owner's guide to temporary uses, maintenance and mothballing English Heritage
English Heritage has produced this guidance to help owners to reduce the risks facing empty buildings, by
undertaking a range of precautionary measures and adopting an active management approach. It applies to
all types of heritage buildings, whether or not they have statutory protection.
It explains how to de-commission buildings that are about to be vacated, as well as how to look after
buildings that have already been vacant for some time. By adopting this approach, owners can prevent
unnecessary damage, dereliction and loss of significance to these buildings. They will also benefit by
maintaining the market value of their assets and increasing the chances of bringing them back into permanent use.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/vacanthistoricbuildings/
landscapes.
United Kingdom - India Forest Landscape Restoration
Edited by Mike Smith and Sandeep Tripathi
Published by Forest Researc, September 2011
This summary report shows how Forest Landscape Restoration can safeguard biodiversity by taking a
landscape approach using appropriate technologies and practical applications and produce real benefi ts for
communities by working in partnership with them. This project has resulted in India becoming more
engaged in the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration.
+ info: http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/UK-India-FLR-09-11.pdf/$FILE/UK-India-FLR-09-11.pdf
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Rock-Art
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Publications
News
La Cour européenne des droits de l'homme déboute les anciens propriétaires des
terrains au-dessus de la grotte Chauvet - France
La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (CEDH) a déclaré irrecevable, le 24 octobre
2011, la requête des anciens propriétaires de la grotte Chauvet. Expropriés de leurs terrains
de Vallon-Pont-d’Arc en 1995, après la découverte du site rupestre, ils demandaient
davantage d’indemnités de la part de l’Etat français. La CEDH a jugé que les 767 065 euros
qu’ils avaient déjà reçus étaient suffisants, au regard du préjudice qu’ils avaient subi.
+ info: http://www.artclair.com/site/archives/docs_article/90921/la-cour-europeenne-desdroits-de-l-homme-deboute-les-anciens-proprietaires-des-terrains-au-dessus-de-la-grotte-chauvet.php
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Publications
Human Evolution: Adaptations, Dispersals and Social Developments (HEADS). World Heritage
Thematic Programme
Nuria Sanz and Penelope Keenan (eds.)
UNESCO World Heritage Centre, 2011
World Heritage papers (N. 29, 2011)
The World Heritage Thematic Programme ‘Human Evolution: Adaptations, Dispersals and Social
Developments’ (HEADS) comes at a pertinent time in the history of the World Heritage Convention, when
there is a call for a broader, more multidimensional concept of heritage. These challenges, which the World
Heritage Committee has underlined in recent years, bring to the forefront the significant steps to be taken in the future
evolution of the Convention. The HEADS Programme was launched in the context of the Global Strategy for a
Representative, Balanced and Credible World Heritage List, initiated by the World Heritage Committee in 1994 to broaden
the definition of World Heritage as well as the framework and implementation of the Convention.
This publication offers an overview of the developments of the HEADS Programme since its inception in 2008,
substantiated by scientific contributions from experts in the related fields of study: human evolution and sites related to
early human origins, early archaeological sites and the beginning of cultural diversity, and rock art.
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Comment intégrer le tourisme dans les plans de gestion des sites du patrimoine mondial ?
Dans le cadre de la journée d’étude « Villes françaises du patrimoine mondial et tourisme : protection, gestion, valorisation »
organisée par la Chaire UNESCO « culture, tourisme et développement », l’IREST, Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne, la
Convention France UNESCO et ICOMOS France le 27 mai 2010 à l’UNESCO.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/UNITWIN/pdf/Doc_annexes/UNITWINvillesPM14.pdf
South Africa's New Minimum Standard for Responsible Tourism
Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk conﬁrmed at the launch – on a ferry boat outside the southern Cape town of
Knysna on 12 September – that responsible tourism has been a guiding principle for the industry in South Africa since an
important policy paper on the subject was published in 1996.
However, he said, 'One of the key challenges that we faced was that South Africa did not have a single, unified national
responsible tourism standard and accreditation system.'
+ info: http://www.responsibletravelreport.com/regional-news/africa/2546-south-africas-new-minimum-standard-forresponsible-tourism
Sustainable tourism and protected areas: a successful partnership - European
Charter for Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas
The network of protected areas participating in the European Charter for Sustainable
Tourism in Protected Areas continues to grow at a dramatic rate. Today 89 protected
areas across nine different countries are actively involved in the Charter process.
During the EUROPARC 2011 Conference this year in Bad Urach, 12 protected areas from
Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK received the European Charter for
Sustainable Tourism after a positive evaluation. In addition five parks were re-evaluated
this year after their first five years of work with the Charter.
Can Eco-Tourism Help Underdeveloped Countries?
Article from Mother Nature Network. By Josh Lew.
Tourism might not be the ultimate answer to poverty and economic woes, but it is a
major boon for places around the world that suffer from a lack of natural resources or
industry. For instance, tourism is a hugely important industry in the Caribbean. Without
flocks of resort- goers, nations in this part of the world would have to rely more heavily
on agriculture, leaving their economies at the mercy of the fluctuating prices of
commodities like coffee, sugar and bananas.
There are plenty of valid concerns about the environmental impact of hotel construction, excessive tourist traffic and cruise
ships, but it isn't fair to leave the positive economic impact out of the mass-tourism discussion. Large resorts employ
hundreds of local people, and local entrepreneurs, from taxi drivers to guides to souvenir shop owners, benefit from the
tourism trade.
+ info: http://www.responsibletravelreport.com/trade-news/spotlight/trade-news/2538-can-eco-tourism-helpunderdeveloped-countries
Transparency & Accountability: UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization) Raises Industry
Standards to New Level
The UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) ended its 19th biennial General Assembly in Seoul last week by setting new
standards of transparency and accountability for the global travel industry as well as its many membership-based
associations, both public and private.
Fulfilling one of the key pledges made by the Secretary-General Dr Taleb Rifai (a former tourism minister of Jordan) upon his
election to the post two years ago, the UNWTO posted its entire set of meeting documents online. The public now has
unrestricted access to complete information on the world’s apex tourism body, including its detailed finances, membership
status, projects, activities, staffing structure and much more.
+ info: http://www.travel-impact-newswire.com/2011/10/transparency-accountability-unwto-raises-industry-standards-tonew-level/
Voyageur responsable : plateforme de la SNCF (Société nationale des chemins de
fer français) pour un tourisme éthique - France
L'attrait du voyage est inné chez l'humain qui a toujours été un grand nomade. Ce désir
perpétuel de mouvement fait peut-être du bien à une industrie touristique milliardaire,
mais peut faire mal à l'environnement et aux populations locales qui souvent ne voient
pas la lueur des profits économiques du tourisme.
C'est pourquoi, de plus en plus, la tendance est au voyage responsable où l’on tente de
minimiser l'empreinte écologique et d'encourager les populations locales.
+ info: http://cursus.edu/institutions-formations-ressources/formation/15956/voyageur-responsable-informations-pratiquesjeux/
New Online Platform to Spur Sustainable Tourism Development
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism, a recently-founded United Nations- backed
membership organization, announced today the launch of a new website (http://www.
GlobalSustainableTourism.com).
This partnership has the mission of transforming tourism around the world by integrating the concepts
of resource efficiency and sustainable consumption and production, biodiversity, cultural preservation
and socio-economic fairness into the development and operations of the tourism sector.
+ info: http://www.responsibletravelreport.com/component/content/article/2544-new-online-platformto-spur-sustainable-tourism-development
Travellers would involuntarily alter the ecosystem of the Svalbard archipelago, Norway
Recent research studies have shown that travellers could involuntarily introduce exotic plant species in the Svalbard
archipelago. The global temperature rise and the activities from tourism would allow these species to develop in the fragile
ecosystem of the archipelago. This situation calls for a more detailed analysis of the policy of trips…
Leti 360 - Studio Mumbai - 2007 - Leti - Uttaranchal - India
Located at 2350 m (7700 ft.) above sea level, Leti 360 resort is perched on a promontory in
the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. The site is a two hour walk [9 km] from the nearest
motorable road and is accessed by a narrow footpath carved into the mountainside, part of a
network of trails used by local villagers for daily travel and transport. The trail culminates at
the central dining structure built on a plateau, around which four guest dwellings are
discreetly set into existing agricultural terraces. Hiramony glacier and the peak of Nanda Kot
(6,861 m / 22510 ft.) are visible to the north; the peaks of Nepal line the eastern horizon;
and to the south, the Ram Ganga River carves its way through steep terraced valleys and mountain passes.
The design of the resort was influenced by the inherent constraints of building in the area, concerns of environmental impact
and cultural sensitivity, and careful observation of indigenous materials, climate and landscape. The architecture is both
timeless and contemporary.
+ info: http://www.patrimoineculturel.com/2011/telechargements_2011/Remises%20de%20prix%20SIPC%202011.pdf
Seminar in English "A practical approach to the development of tourism in the mountainous areas of Italy" Edolo - Italy - 27 October 2011
Ricordiamo che giovedì 27 ottobre 2011 alle ore 15.30, presso l’Aula Magna della Facoltà di Agraria Sede di Edolo, si terrà il
seminario “A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM IN THE MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF ITALY” tenuto
da Alexander Reed.
Il seminario sarà tenuto in lingua inglese.
Tutti gli interessati sono invitati. La partecipazione è libera e gratuita.
Il Parco Geominerario Storico e Ambientale della Sardegna: un'occasione perduta? Italy
La storia del Parco Geominerario Storico e Ambientale della Sardegna è lunga e travagliata.
Tutto ebbe inizio nel lontano 1996, quando il progetto prese forma, ma dopo il riconoscimento
dell’UNESCO e l’introduzione del sito nella Rete dei Geoparchi, a quindici anni di distanza,
l’ente si trova ora sotto commissionamento e rischia di perdere il suo titolo. La cittadinanza
però non intende rinunciare al suo Parco…
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2011/10/26/il-parco-geominerario-storico-e-ambientale-dellasardegna-un%E2%80%99occasione-perduta/
WORKSHOP - Tourism as Colonial Policy?: The History of Heritage Tourism in British Mandate Palestine and
Transjordan - University College London Institute of Jewish Studies. London, United Kingdom - (9 November
2011)
This one day workshop, free and open to the public, will feature presentations by scholars and archivists on the history of
heritage tourism in British Mandate Palestine and Transjordan. Papers will cover guidebooks and tours, archaeological sites,
museums and hotels to reveal stories behind the public consumption of the past in the Holy Land in the early 20th century.
The workshop is funded by a UCL Grand Challenges Collaborative Pioneer Award. Followed by a reception in the Petrie
Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.
+ info: http://harngroup.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/tourism-poster.pdf
World Heritage Centre and Turismo de Portugal cooperate on Tourism Management at
World Heritage sites
In June 2011 UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre and Turismo de Portugal, the Portuguese Tourism
Authority, signed an agreement engaging in a cooperation project on capacity-building for
tourism management in World Heritage sites of Portuguese origin. This project is an integral part
of the continuous cooperation that is being carried out by the World Heritage Centre and
Portugal, represented in this project by its National Commission.
AWARDS- THE WINNERS OF THE 2011 TROPHIES FOR RESPONSIBLE TOURISM
(SNCF – National society of French Railways)
A new identity, new categories, online voting: the 2011 edition is decidedly oriented towards
travellers. Our compromise? To be a true “travelling eye-opener” and to show the public that
responsible travelling is affordable, for all wishes and budgets.
This fifth edition, presided by the singer and actress Claire Keim, has been remarkable
because of the boom of candidacies received (50% more than in 2010). The success of online
voting (80,000 votes- 125,000 visitors in 6 weeks), an operation set up this year for the first
time to break the deadlock between the candidates of 5 categories, are a good sign of the enthusiasm of the French for
responsible tourism. This edition has also revealed that sustainable development is an innovation engine in the tourism
sector, with almost 50% of the candidate structure created less than 3 years ago.
+ info: http://voyage-responsable.voyages-sncf.com/trophees/les-laureats-2011.php?prex=T_D1P2_1110_232584_TTR
ICTP (International Council of Tourism Partners) - Quality destinations committed to green growth
The International Council of Tourism Partners (ICTP) is a new grassroots travel & tourism coalition of global destinations
committed to Quality Service & Green Growth
The ICTP logo represents the strength in collaboration (the block) of many small communities (the lines) committed to
sustainable oceans (blue) and land (green)
ICTP helps member destinations and their stakeholders share quality an green opportunities including tools and resources,
access to funding, education and marketing support
+ info: http://www.tourismpartners.org/
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Workshop - World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism
05 December - 09 December 2011 Maun. Botswana
Organizers: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
+ info: http://www.awhf.net/documents/Heritage%20Sites%20and%20%20Sustainable%20Tourism%20Workshop%20(2).
docx
International Conference "Tourist and Cultural Itineraries: From Memory to Development"
13 June - 15 June 2012 Quebec City, Quebec. Canada
Organizers: Université Laval, the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the
Center for Tourism and Cultural Change (Leeds University).
+ info: http://quebecunitwin.ggr.ulaval.ca/?lang=en
Call for Papers - International Conference "The Influence of Tourism on Global Activity: Central or Peripheral?"
27 June - 29 June 2012 Putteridge Bury, Luton. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: Institute for Tourism Research (INTOUR) and the Division of Tourism and Leisure, University of Bedfordshire
+ info: http://www.beds.ac.uk/intour2012
Publications
The business case for sustainability: Evidence that tourism businesses in protected areas perform
best when they also implement sustainability actions
EUROPARC Federation, September 2011
This publication is financed under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) which
aims to encourage the competitiveness of European enterprises
+ info: http://xavierfont.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/the-business-case-for-sustainability1.pdf
Mads Daugbjerg
ISSN 1479-8360
Le Routard, un voyageur responsable
Posté par L'équipe voyageur-responsable le Mardi 29 mars, 2011
Voyager responsable est accessible à tous, c’est ce que démontre une nouvelle fois la quatrième édition du
guide du Routard du Tourisme responsable, réalisé comme toujours en partenariat avec Voyages-sncf.com et
le Comité 21. Cette nouvelle version propose encore plus d’adresses en France, dans toutes les régions et pour
tous les budgets.
Les initiatives sélectionnées par Le guide du Routard du Tourisme responsable sont retenues pour leur
orientation en faveur d’un tourisme responsable, ainsi que pour leur volonté de partager leur engagement en
faveur de notre planète. Sa rédaction a été coordonnée par Pascal Languillon qui dirige l’Association française d’écotourisme.
Sillonnant la France depuis plusieurs années en quête de propositions exemplaires et innovantes, il a considéré l’originalité et
la qualité des offres, couvert toutes les gammes de confort et veillé à une répartition géographique équilibrée.
+ info: http://www.voyageur-responsable.com/2011/03/le-routard-un-voyageur-responsable
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Underwater Cultural Heritage/Archaeology
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"Secrets Under the Waves" - Montevideo - Uruguay - (26-30 September 2011 )
On September 26 – 30, 2011 will be held in Maldonado and Punta del Este, Uruguay, the Ibero-American Meeting “Heritage
in Movement”. Within this framework, on 28 September will open the second photographic and audiovisual exhibit "Secrets
Under the Waves" (Underwater Cultural Heritage) that will remain open to the public at the Casa de la Cultura in Maldonado.
As part of the agenda of the event, which is open to the general public, representatives from the National Uruguayan
Commission for Cultural Heritage with the support of the Culture Sector of the UNESCO Montevideo Office will dictate the
lecture "Testimonies of Men and Maritime Borders: Underwater Cultural Heritage in Uruguay".
International Seminar Building local capacities for the research and management of
the Underwater Cultural Heritage - Universidad de Los Andes - Bogota - Colombia (79 September 2011)
The Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH), together with the UNESCO
Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean and with the support of the
Universidad de los Andes and the Fundación Terra Firme is organized this Seminar as part of
the actions to promote mechanisms of integration and national and international support for
the research and protection of the underwater archaeological heritage in the Latin American
and Caribbean region. The Seminar, which was held thanks to the financial support from Spain, will have the participation of
representatives from well-known academic and research institutions on underwater archaeology, such as the University of
Flinders in Australia, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) of the University of Texas A&M in the United States, the
University of South Denmark and the National Museum of Underwater Archaeology of Spain (ARQUA). Experts from Chile,
Argentina and Mexico and from the British NGO Nautical Archaeological Society (NAS) will also participate.
Sunken Guinness Ship Revealed Off the Coast of Dublin - Ireland
HIGH RESOLUTION images of a merchant ship which was sunk ninety-four years ago today
(October 12th) off the coast of Dublin have been revealed by the INFOMAR (INtegrated Mapping
FOr the Sustainable Development of Ireland’s MARine Resource) Programme. The images were
obtained during a mission on the national research vessel the RV Celtic Voyager earlier this year
which surveyed the wreck of the first Guinness merchant vessel, the W.M. Barkley.
The detailed seabed images, which include deck features and complex sand wave structures, were
recorded by towed sidescan sonar provided by the Moore Marine Group, and give a visual insight
into the defensively armed ship that was sunk by a German torpedo in 1917, seven miles east of the Kish Bank off Dublin.
+ info: http://www.marine.ie/home/aboutus/newsroom/pressreleases/SunkenGuinnessShipRevealed.htm
UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage celebrates
its 10th Anniversary - Paris - France - 2 November 2011
There is an incredible wealth of historical information on submerged archaeological sites that
remains to be discovered. While some sites are already well-known, the majority of them must
still be researched. To ensure that they are well-protected and publicly recognized, UNESCO
adopted the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage on 2 November
2001. Over the 10 years of its existence, this treaty has become the foremost international legal
instrument for the protection of the world's submerged cultural heritage. Underwater
archaeologists worldwide have declared their fervent support for it, and 40 States have already officially become party to it.
Treasure-hunting has therefore become increasingly stigmatized in the eyes of not only professionals, but also of the public.
Thanks to this Convention, submerged heritage will be protected to the same degree as land-based heritage.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/single-view/news/unesco_convention
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CONFERENCE - Fin de Semana ARQUA - El Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática
03 December - 04 December 2011 Cartagena, Murcia. Spain
Organizers: Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática
+ info: http://museoarqua.mcu.es/actividades/laboratorio_arqueologico/fin_de_semana/index.html
Publications
ARQUA: Available - Bibliography about the Spanish Bibliography of nautical and Underwater Archaeology
It is available on ARQUA Website the Spanish Bibliography of nautical and Underwater Archaeology.
The spanish bibliography presented here, is always growing and open to any suggestions and improvements that users
provide. We will welcome your cooperation to correct any error and to complete the list.
+ info: http://en.museoarqua.mcu.es/actividades/laboratorio_arqueologico/bibliografia_es/index.html
Letter from Bermuda: Secrets of a Civil War Shipwreck
by James P. Delgado
Bermuda is an island nation famous for its shipwrecks. Discovered in 1505 by Spanish mariner
Juan de Bermudez, the tiny territory is made up of 181 small islands ringed by reefs that have
claimed hundreds of vessels. It was a shipwreck, in fact, that led to the settlement of the islands.
Today, Bermuda is home to more than 62,000 people, and some 150 to 300 wrecks are said to
be submerged off its beaches and in its maze of reefs…
+ info: http://www.archaeology.org/1111/letter/mary_celestia_bermuda_civil_war_noaa.html
Protected Wreck Sites designation - Selection Guidelines - English Heritage
If you would like this document in a different format, please contact our Customer Services department: Email: [email protected]
Leaflet describing the Protected Wreck Sites and its function with a selection of case studies.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/protected-wreck-sites/
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UNESCO Director-General's activities in the field of cultural and natural
heritage
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World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
The theme for this year's celebration of the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2011 is "Audivisual
Heritage: See, Hear, and Learn."
Sound recordings and moving images are extremely vulnerable as they can be quickly and deliberately
destroyed. Essentially emblematic of the 20th century, audiovisual heritage can be irretrievably lost as a
result of neglect, natural decay and technological obsolescence. Public consciousness of the importance of
preservation of these recordings must be engaged and the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is intended
to be the platform for building global awareness.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/archives/world-day-foraudiovisual-heritage/world-day-for-audiovisual-heritage-2011/
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Vernacular Heritage
Vernacular Heritage
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'Il patrimonio delle cascine di milano' - Milan - Italy (23-24 October 2011)
Siamo lieti di invitarvi alle manifestazioni in corso relative, fra l'altro, alle due iniziative di presentazione e restituzione del
progetto Il patrimonio rurale immateriale delle cascine di Milano, un archivio aperto e partecipato della memoria della vita
delle cascine, che raccoglie le video- testimonianze degli agricoltori e degli abitanti delle cascine milanesi, prodotto da
Comitato Cascine Milano 2015, Storie Digitali srl, UNIMI Facoltà di Agraria–DI.P.S.A, in collaborazione col Distretto Agricolo
Milanese e con il contributo di Regione Lombardia, Direzione Cultura- R.E.I.L..
+ info: http://www.memoriadiffusa.it/il-patrimonio-delle-cascine-di-milano.php
New Website on Rural Vernacular Heritage - Registro delle Eredità Immateriali della Lombardia - Lombardy Italy
Progetto prodotto da Comitato Cascine Milano 2015, Storie Digitali e Università degli Studi di Milano Di.P.S.A-Facoltà di
Agraria promosso da Regione Lombardia all’interno del “Registro delle Eredità Immateriali della Lombardia – R.E.I.L.“. Con la
collaborazione del Distretto Agricolo Milanese.
Riportiamo qui alcune panoramiche in esterno realizzate nel 2011 tratte dal progetto di raccolta della memoria della vita
delle cascine grazie alle testimonianze dei protagonisti che restituiscono al territorio la storia locale di questi insediamenti e
la rete di relazioni – sociali, culturali, produttive, ambientali – che intorno ad essi si sono sviluppate.
Le cascine di Milano sono il deposito di memorie e tradizioni che esprimono l’evoluzione della storia e della cultura agricola
del nostro territorio. Un patrimonio fatto di persone, luoghi, riti e modi di produrre, trasformare i prodotti e costruire gli
ambienti e le relazioni di lavoro e di vita. Riscoprire oggi il valore e la complessità di questo patrimonio può servire a
ripensare in modi nuovi e dinamici le relazioni tra vita rurale e vita urbana.
+ info: http://www.storiedigitali.net/index.php?option=com_vsplaylist&task=view&id=56
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Taller sobre conservación de arquitectura de tierra
02 December - 04 December 2011 Villa de Leyva, Boyacá. Colombia
Organizers: Fundación Habit Tierra - Fundación para el fomento e investigación del Patrimonio Cultural Barichara Colombia
+ info: http://universidadypatrimonio.net/doc/TallerVillaLeyva2011.pdf
Publications
Vernacular Heritage
Agricultural Buildings Designation - Selection Guide - English Heritage
A guide to outline the selection criteria used when designating agricultural buildings.
This is one of a series of guides which set out some of our approaches to designating buildings. Covering
twenty broad categories of building types, they including historical overviews and special considerations for
listing, plus select bibliographies. They are primarily intended to develop understanding of designated
buildings and structures, and to offer insight into designation decision making.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/dlsg-agricultural-buildings/
Domestic 1: Vernacular Houses - Selection Guide - English Heritage
A guide to outline the selection criteria used when designating vernacular houses.
This is one of a series of guides which set out some of our approaches to designating buildings. Covering
twenty broad categories of building types, they including historical overviews and special considerations for
listing, plus select bibliographies. They are primarily intended to develop understanding of designated
buildings and structures, and to offer insight into designation decision making.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/dlsg-vernacular-houses/
The Maintenance and Repair of Traditional Farm Buildings: A Guide to Good Practice - English
Heritage
This publication gives practical advice to farmers, land managers and others involved with the maintenance
and repair of traditional farm buildings.
The guidance is primarily directed to buildings in active farming related uses. However, it is also relevant for
buildings that have uncertain futures or need urgent works to prevent further deterioration of their structure
and fabric.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/maintenance-repair-trad-farm-buildings/
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Comment intégrer le tourisme dans les plans de gestion des sites du patrimoine mondial ?
Dans le cadre de la journée d’étude « Villes françaises du patrimoine mondial et tourisme : protection, gestion, valorisation »
organisée par la Chaire UNESCO « culture, tourisme et développement », l’IREST, Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne, la
Convention France UNESCO et ICOMOS France le 27 mai 2010 à l’UNESCO.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/UNITWIN/pdf/Doc_annexes/UNITWINvillesPM14.pdf
Severe damage to Philippine Rice Terraces by two typhoons - The Philippines
The Northern Luzon of the Philippines was severely affected by Typhoon Pedrin (International Name: Nesat) which crossed
the region on Tuesday 27 September. Its trajectory passed across the Ifugao Province and has, according to preliminary
reports, caused major mud and landslides within the area of the World Heritage property of the Rice Terraces in the
Philippine Cordilleras. A second typhoon crossed the area this past weekend.
While the communication in the area is still not fully functional and many roads remain blocked, the full extent of the
damage and possible loss of lives is still unknown. The Philippine authorities have informed UNESCO that they will be
applying for Emergency Assistance under the World Heritage Fund to respond to this situation. The conservation of the Rice
Terraces will require substantial and concerted efforts and the World Heritage Centre is exploring all possible means to
respond to this situation as quickly as possible.
UNESCO to assess flood-affected Ayutthaya World Heritage site - Bangkok Thailand
UNESCO Bangkok has been requested by the Thai government to undertake a mission to the
Ancient City of Ayutthaya in Thailand to assess the impact to the World Heritage property
from heavy flooding.
The World Heritage property of Ayutthaya, which occupies the western half of the inner island
of Ayutthaya, has been flooded for more than a week. Monuments and temples on the outside
perimeter of the site (technically not part of the World Heritage property), such as Wat
Chaiwattanaram on the opposite bank of the river, have also been inundated.
+ info: http://www.unescobkk.org/news/article/unesco-to-assess-flood-affected-ayutthaya-world-heritage-site/
21 October.
World Heritage
18th session of the General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention and presentation of
candidates for election of Committee members
Organizers: UNESCO Headquarters
+ info: http://whc.unesco.org/en/events/778
California - Mexico
Four new galleries added to the Our Place World Heritage collection
- Sydney Opera House, Australia
- Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
- Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculanum and Torre Annunziata, Italia
- Caserta Royal Palace, Italia
+ info: http://www.ourplaceworldheritage.com/custom.cfm?&action=listsites
Cape Floral Region Protected Areas get Conservation Boost from World Heritage
Centre Partner - South Africa
Fauna and Flora International (FFI) a longtime partner of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre,
launched a global appeal this week with the objective of helping protect over 50,000 hectares
of the globally unique “fynbos” ecosystem in the Cape Floral region of South Africa.The
targeted lands are in the World Heritage site’s buffer areas, contributing to the long term
integrity of the Cape Floral Region Protected Areas World Heritage property.
The plant biodiversity of the fynbos is greater than that of the Amazon. Sadly, according to
IUCN’s Red List of endangered species, the fynbos biome also contains the highest number of endangered plants in the
world, making the conservation of this area vitally important.
SCAVI POMPEI Dichiarazione del Ministro per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Giancarlo Galan - Pompei - Italy
"Ho più volte pubblicamente espresso - dichiara il Ministro per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Giancarlo Galan - tutta la mia
preoccupazione per gli effetti che avrebbero potuto provocare le prime violenti piogge su Pompei.
+ info: http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Comunicati/visualizza_asset.
html_983806242.html
World Heritage
Google Street View photographs World Heritage Sites
As part of their partnership with UNESCO to provide virtual tours of the designated World
Heritage Sites, Google sent one of their Street View trikes to ride the Rhaetian Railway in
Switzerland to capture its stunning views of the Swiss Alps.
+ info: http://gizmodo.com/5851657/how-google-street-view-rides-the-rails/gallery/1
World Heritage Centre and Turismo de Portugal cooperate on Tourism Management at
World Heritage sites
In June 2011 UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre and Turismo de Portugal, the Portuguese Tourism
Authority, signed an agreement engaging in a cooperation project on capacity-building for
tourism management in World Heritage sites of Portuguese origin. This project is an integral part
of the continuous cooperation that is being carried out by the World Heritage Centre and
Portugal, represented in this project by its National Commission.
Flooding in Thailand
Severe flooding in Thailand since mid July has this week inundated the World Heritage
property of the Historic City of Ayutthaya, founded in ca. 1350 as the second capital of the
Kingdom of Siam after Sukhothai. Located on an island on the Chao Praya river, the protective
embankments could no longer withstand the increasing height of the floods.
UNESCO Bangkok Office and the World Heritage Centre are following the development closely
and are ready to support the authorities with Emergency Assistance under the World Heritage
Fund to respond to and mitigate the possible damages caused to this World Heritage property.
L'Union européenne apporte son soutien financier à la restauration de Pompéi
L’Union européenne consacrera 105 millions d’euros à la restauration de Pompéi. C’est ce
qu’a déclaré son commissaire pour la politique régionale quelques jours après qu’un mur
du site se soit écroulé. Preuve supplémentaire de l’urgente nécessité d’une intervention,
un nouvel effondrement s’est produit dès le lendemain de cette annonce.
+ info: http://www.artclair.com/site/archives/docs_article/91555/l-union-europeenneapporte-son-soutien-financier-a-la-restauration-de-pompei.php
Statue of Liberty marks 125th anniversary - New York - New York State - USA 28 October 2011
October 28, 1886, dawned shrouded in fog and rain, but the weather didn't dampen the
spirits of those who had come to celebrate the dedication of France's gift of friendship to
the people of the United States, an enormous statue of a woman entitled "Liberty
Enlightening the World." New York City welcomed her with its first ticker-tape parade,
and a flotilla of nearly 300 vessels sailed to Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) to greet
her. The Statue of Liberty, as she quickly became known, was soon an international
beacon of freedom; and she remains so today.
+ info: http://www.nps.gov/stli/parknews/statue-of-liberty-125th-celebration.htm
WORKSHOP - Revitalising World Heritage site museums in Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic and Viet
Nam - Hanoi - Viet Nam - 14 November - 3 December 2011
Following the brainstorming session held in July in Siem Reap, Cambodia, the first experimental workshop will be organised
at the Thang Long Citadel Site Museum in Hanoi, Viet Nam, with the participation of 9 museums relating to cultural sites of
the three countries. This project is funded by the UNESCO/Japanese Funds-in-Trust for the Preservation of World’s Cultural
Heritage
The First Workshop will deal with five distinct but interconnected fields of study and produce mini exhibits as a practice for
the future joint project, which will be developed in 2012 and 2013. The team of trainers is composed of leading specialists of
heritage conservation, museums, history of Southeast Asia, and participatory cultural industry.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=5125&cHash=488ccdc3e6
Réunion - France
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World Heritage
Workshop - World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism
05 December - 09 December 2011 Maun. Botswana
Organizers: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
+ info: http://www.awhf.net/documents/Heritage.docx
1st International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: Archaeology
09 April - 13 April 2012 Menorca, Balearic Islands. Spain
Organizers: The Universidad Complutense de Madrid, together with the Consell Insular de Menorca
+ info: http://www.congresopatrimoniomundialmenorca.cime.es/
International Day for Monuments and Sites: "World Heritage and Sustainable Development: the Role of Local
Communities"
18 April 2012 Worldwide
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/e-news/australia-icomos-e-mail-news-no-506/#6.
CALL FOR PAPERS - V Conference of Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica (JIA2012): 'Archaeology for the XXI
Century'
09 May - 11 May 2012 Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. Spain
Organizers: Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit)
+ info: https://sites.google.com/site/jia2012compostela/english-version
Publications
ICOMOS Documentation Centre e-news - 3 March 2011
Documentation Centre
ICOMOS. International Council on Monuments and Sites, 2011
Index
- Database – Online catalog
- What’s new in our collections?
- Publications
+ info: http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/E-News/E-NEWS_Doc_Centre_20110303.pdf
World Heritage Papers No. 27: Managing Historic Cities
World Heritage Centre
Paris, UNESCO, 2010
World heritage series: papers (N. 27)
English, French
243 p., illus., plans
ISBN 978-92-3-004175-5
This publication contains a selection of papers written for the regional expert meetings organized in the
context of UNESCO's initiative on the conservation of the Historic Urban Landscape. They contain forward-looking ideas and
some propose innovative strategies for inclusion into urban conservation practice, while others promote specific tools for
particular issues arising from historic urban landscape management.
The Treasures of Kotayk Marz in Armenia in the UNESCO World Heritage List
M. Grigoryan (coord.)
Ministry of Economy of RA, 2011, 32 p.
This brouchure was published within the framework of the UNESCO Project "Roads of Cuture and Tourism for
Development and Dialogue in Armenia", implemented by the Ministry of Ministry of Economy of RA and the
National Commission of the RA for UNESCO in Abovyan Region of Kotayk Marz, where UNESCO World
Heritage Sites - the monastery complex of Geghard and Upper Azat Valley are situated. The Project was
aimed at involving the local population in activities of conservation, restoration and delegation of historical
and cultural heritage.
This brouchure is a source of information about tourism attractions in Kotayk Marz and particularly in Abovyan Region of
Kotayk Marz.
+ info: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002110/211082eb.pdf
Management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Poland and Norway
Praca zbiorowa, prof. Jacek Purchla (red.)
Date of issue: 2011
ISBN: 978-83-89273-82-6
The publication is the result of two-year-long (2009–2011) research project entitled "Management of
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Poland and Norway” intended as a platform enabling exchange of
World Heritage
experience between Polish and Norwegian experts working in the field of heritage management. The
project also created an opportunity to initiate direct cooperation between relevant teams and institutions from both countries.
The Norwegian partner of the International Cultural Centre in this project is Riksantikvaren, Directorat for Culture Heritage in
Oslo.
The following criteria have been used in the selection of sites: substantial similarities between the given Polish and
Norwegian sites (as defined in the UNESCO Heritage List in both countries) and similar preservation challenges and issues
faced by selected representatives. The primary objective of the project was to compare analogous places in Poland and
Norway in four thematic groups: 1) urban layouts of big cities, 2) post-industrial heritage: case studies of mining towns, 3)
wooden churches, 4) cultural landscapes.
The publication boasts rich illustrative materials.
+ info: http://www.mck.krakow.pl/bookshop/management-of-unesco-world-heritage-sites-in-poland-and-norway
Human Evolution: Adaptations, Dispersals and Social Developments (HEADS). World Heritage
Thematic Programme
Nuria Sanz and Penelope Keenan (eds.)
UNESCO World Heritage Centre, 2011
World Heritage papers (N. 29, 2011)
The World Heritage Thematic Programme ‘Human Evolution: Adaptations, Dispersals and Social
Developments’ (HEADS) comes at a pertinent time in the history of the World Heritage Convention, when
there is a call for a broader, more multidimensional concept of heritage. These challenges, which the World
Heritage Committee has underlined in recent years, bring to the forefront the significant steps to be taken in the future
evolution of the Convention. The HEADS Programme was launched in the context of the Global Strategy for a
Representative, Balanced and Credible World Heritage List, initiated by the World Heritage Committee in 1994 to broaden
the definition of World Heritage as well as the framework and implementation of the Convention.
This publication offers an overview of the developments of the HEADS Programme since its inception in 2008, substantiated
by scientific contributions from experts in the related fields of study: human evolution and sites related to early human
origins, early archaeological sites and the beginning of cultural diversity, and rock art.
Pompéi. Un art de vivre
Eva Cantarella, Luciana Jacobelli
Imprimerie Nationale/Actes Sud
Paris. 2011
Luciana Jacobelli, spécialiste des antiquités pompéiennes, et Eva Cantarella – professeur à l'université de
Milan, qui s'est plus spécialement penchée sur la famille antique et le droit dans les cités grecques et
romaines - se sont associées pour réaliser le texte de ce superbe ouvrage. Une invitation au voyage,
dont la somptueuse iconographie met en valeur aussi bien les monuments arrachés aux cendres du
Vésuve que les fresques conservées au Musée Archéologique de Naples ou les simples objets qui témoignent de ce qu'était la
vie quotidienne des Pompéiens à la veille de la catastrophe survenue en 79, sous le règne de l'empereur Titus…
+ info: http://www.clio.fr/BIBLIOTHEQUE/lecture/pompei_un_art_de_vivre.asp
Review of the World Heritage Network: Biogeography, Habitats and Biodiversity
Author: Magin, C., Chape, S.
Date Published: January 2004
The aim of the World Heritage Convention is to ensure the protection for all time of the world’s natural and
cultural heritage of Outstanding Universal Value. In 1994, to assist in meeting this aim, the World Heritage
Committee adopted a Global Strategy for achieving a balanced, representative and credible World Heritage
List that reflects the world’s diverse heritage. Over the past 10 years a number of studies and consultations
have been carried out to develop and refine the Global Strategy. This review is an important addition to that
process, focusing on the inter-related elements of biogeography, habitats and biological diversity that underpin much of what
we consider ‘natural heritage’.
+ info: http://www.unep-wcmc.org/review-of-the-world-heritage-network-biogeography-habitats-and-biodiversity_190.html
World Heritage Magazine and 2012 Desk Diary
UNESCO Publishing
World Heritage series
2011, 978-92-3-004208-0
The UNESCO World Heritage Desk Diary 2012 features a helpful week-at-a-glance design. It is
illustrated with 86 colour photos of World Heritage sites, each accompanied by a short caption.
The diary also introduces the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural
Heritage: its objectives, the selection criteria, the institutions which ensure its implementation, as well
as a list of sites and states that are party to the Convention.
+ info: http://publishing.unesco.org/details.aspx?Code_Livre=4871
Number Edition: 30
World Heritage
Endangered heritage seen from space - From Space to Place, An Image Atlas of World
Heritage Sites on the "In Danger" List of UNESCO
The Atlas was produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with
UNESCO. It presents detailed satellite photos of the 31 sites on the List of World Heritage in
Danger. These sites face a range of threats from pillaging to natural disasters, pollution, mass
tourism, and armed conflict.
Satellite imaging has become an important tool for World Heritage site managers, providing
invaluable information about the development of sites, evolution of wildlife habitats, human
encroachment and agricultural activity, as well as damages caused by climate change.
To help developing countries share the benefits of space technology, UNESCO has established partnerships with leading
space agencies including NASA (U.S.A.), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the space agencies of France and Germany,
all of which help UNESCO preserve World Heritage.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/endangered_heritage_seen_from_space/
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