Newsletter: call for contributions
The ICOM-CC Ethnographic Conservation Newsletter publishes news, articles, reports, conference and workshop information, conference and book reviews and miscellaneous information. It is published in electronic format on an annual or semi-annual basis.
Newsletter 31 was published in February 2010. Submissions are currently being accepted for Number 32, expected out in January 2011. Deadline: December 31, 2010. Please send to the editor, Assistant Coordinator Kim Cullen-Cobb.
Past issues of the Newsletter are accessible in the Documents section of this website.
Activities
- The 2008-2011 Triennial Programme of research topics and main activities has been approved by the Board of Directors (April 2009).
- Submissions are welcome on an ongoing basis for posting on the Biocides in Collections web-page.
- There is currently a discussion going on within the membership concerning whether to change the name of this Working Group; an update was provided in Newsletter 30. For further info or to send input on this question, contact the Coordinator.
- The e-Proceedings of the Forum on the Conservation of Thangkas which was held during the ICOM-CC Conference in New Delhi, are now published.
- The ICOM-CC Working Group on Ethnographic Collections held its Working Group Session and Business Meeting during the ICOM-CC Conference in New Delhi, India, September 22-26, 2008. Ten talks and 4 posters were presented. As well, 2 papers originating from our Working Group were presented during the Plenary Session. These papers are available within the ICOM-CC Triennial Preprints; abstracts are posted here.
- a Session of talks and a Workshop on Pesticides Issues was held within Symposium 2007 - Preserving Aboriginal Heritage: Technical and Traditional Issues, September 24-28, 2007 in Ottawa, Canada. Full papers are now available on the Biocides web-page on this website.
- Members can send messages or announcements to each other or to a wider circle of interested colleagues by emailing the Coordinator Carole Dignard.