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HERITAGE CONFERENCES Sixth Savannah Symposium: World Heritage in Perspective
The Department of Architectural History at the Savannah College of Art and Design invites papers for its Sixth Biennial Symposium, World Heritage in Perspective, on February 19-21, 2009. Papers are sought on the architectural and spatial elements of cultural properties on the World Heritage list and the many issues related to the creation, development and maintenance of the list itself. Paper sessions will focus on various topics related to heritage designations as a significant factor in furthering the study of the built environment globally and locally. Potential questions that papers might take as their focus include: How are the criteria for designation made manifest in a building, site or city? How have contemporary or past international politics bolstered or interfered with a given country’s or site’s application? How does World Heritage designation affect a site’s growth and change over time? What are the positive and negative consequences of World Heritage designation or other forms of heritage designation for the study and preservation of the built environment? How are the national rights of sovereign states balanced against those of the international community in the context of World Heritage sites, and how is this balance negotiated within the differing member states? What is the impact of global tourism on World Heritage?
The symposium will be highlighted by Zahi Hawass, renowned Egyptologist and Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, who will serve as one of the keynote speakers. Papers are invited from scholars and practitioners in, but not limited to, architecture, architectural history, urban history, planning, landscape design, art history, geography, archaeology, cultural history, sociology, political science and anthropology.
Send one-page abstracts and CV to Thomas Gensheimer (tgenshei@scad.edu) or Celeste Lovette Guichard (cguichar@scad.edu), Department of Architectural History, Savannah College of Art and Design, P.O. Box 3146, Savannah, GA 31402-3146. Deadline for submissions is June 30, 2008. Electronic submissions are preferred. Further details can be found at http://www.scad.edu/architectural-history/dept/events/symposiums.cfm
Looting the Cradle of Civilization - The Loss of History in Iraq
The looting of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad stunned the world in 2003. Much less well known is the ongoing looting of archaeological sites throughout Iraq, which poses an even greater threat to the history of the land that gave the world its earliest writing system, its first cities, and the concept of the rule of law. Mesopotamia — modern-day Iraq — is quite literally the cradle of civilization, making the disappearance of its cultural patrimony a loss for all humanity.
This symposium offers the unparalleled opportunity to examine the archaeological tragedy taking place in Iraq with scholars and experts who have experienced the situation first hand. Hear the latest information on the looting of the Iraq Museum, what has been lost and what has been recovered. See how illicit digging takes place at sites throughout Iraq, and the ways looted artifacts move from Iraq to art markets around the world. Discover how scholars are attempting to work with the United States military and the Iraqi government to protect Iraq’s threatened archaeological sites. Learn about the laws safeguarding cultural property during wartime and the challenges these laws are facing in Iraq.
Symposium presenters include
Donny George Former Director of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad
Patty Gerstenblith Professor, College of Law, DePaul University, Chicago,and Director of DePaul’s Program on Cultural Heritage Law
McGuire Gibson Professor of Mesopotamian Archaeology, University of Chicago
Abdulamir Hamdani Director of Antiquities, Nasiriya Province in Southern Iraq
John Russell Professor of Art, Massachusetts College, and former Deputy Advisor to the Iraqi Minister of Culture and the Coalition Provisional Authority
Elizabeth Stone Professor of Mesopotamian Archaeology, SUNY Stony Brook University, New York
Offered in conjunction with the special Oriental Institute exhibit Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq’s Past, this symposium also includes a viewing of the exhibit and the world-renowned collection of ancient art and artifacts on display in the Oriental Institute Museum’s Edgar and Deborah Jannotta Mesopotamian Gallery.
Fee: $65 for Oriental Institute members; $75 for non-members. Includes packet of materials, morning coffee, exhibit viewing, and closing reception. Pre-registration required. Optional box lunches available upon registration; see page 10. CPDUs: 6 Saturday, April 12, 2008 • 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
Reception follows
WHEN:
April 24, 2008
1:00pm - 1:30pm Check-in / Registration
1:30pm - 4:30pm Program
4:30pm - 5:30pm Reception
WHERE:
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Boardroom, 2nd floor
1785 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20036
COST:
No cost to attend, but space is limited and pre-registration is required.Now SOLD OUT, but you can join the waitlist.
Panel I - Looking Back: Lessons Learned from Past Conflicts Individual presentations, followed by questions.
- Lynn H. Nicholas, independent researcher of Nazi era social and cultural policy and author of "Rape of Europa," will discuss Nazi and World War II art looting, wartime preservation measures and post-War restitution.
- Robert M. Edsel, author of the non-fiction book, "Rescuing Da Vinci," co-producer of the documentary film, "The Rape of Europa," and Founder and President of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, will discuss the role of the WWII Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives troops in protecting, preserving and restituting looted art.
- András J. Riedlmayer, Harvard University, will discuss the destruction of cultural property during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s.
- Hays Parks, U.S. Department of Defense, will discuss the history of and U.S. position toward the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.
- Panel Chair: Thomas R. Kline, Attorney, Andrews Kurth LLP and Assistant Professorial Lecturer, GWU, Museum Studies Program.
Panel II - Looking Forward: Applying the Lessons Learned.
Round table discussion, followed by questions to members of both panels.
- Corine Wegener, President, U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield; Associate Curator, Architecture, Design, Decorative Arts, Craft, and Sculpture at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Major (retired) in the U.S. Army Reserve, will discuss looting and destruction of cultural property at the Iraq National Museum and recovery efforts and also the role of the Blue Shield in protecting cultural property in future conflicts.
- John Russell, Professor, Massachusetts College of Art, and former Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Culture, Coalition Provisional Authority, will discuss damage done to cultural heritage during the Iraq War and efforts toward cooperation between the U.S. military and cultural heritage professionals of different nationalities.
- Richard Jackson, Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters and Army Colonel (Ret.), will discuss current attitudes of the U.S. military toward the Hague Convention and obligations to preserve cultural heritage during armed conflict.
- Panel Chair: Patty Gerstenblith, Professor, DePaul College of Law, and President, Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation.
The 12th Annual Salve Regina University
Conference on Cultural and Historic Preservation: Creating and Preserving the American Home, 1820-1920 October 23-25, 2008 Throughout the nineteenth century, designers, tastemakers, owners and occupants
began to explore the definition of the American home. During this period,
new house forms, innovative methods of construction and improvements in
technology provided alternative ways of conceptualizing and expressing what was
distinctly “American” about the home.
Early definitions of the American home stretched previous boundaries in various
ways. Writers and architects like Andrew Jackson Downing and Alexander
Jackson Davis turned to the American landscape as the antidote to urban and
rural conditions. Catherine Beecher and others projected new models of
household organization. Immigrants and newcomers established their own
understanding of the American home, often by blending Old World and New World
values. By the end of the nineteenth century, early preservation efforts
had embarked on a process of selection in an effort to codify the image of the
American home. The resulting American house thus represented a wide
spectrum of ideas that had meaning to various groups and classes of
individuals.
Salve Regina’s 12th Annual Conference on Cultural and Historic Preservation will
examine all aspects of the American home, its construction, its meaning, and its
preservation. Proposals for papers or panels may examine such subjects
as: the image of the American home; American landscape and the home;
upper, middle and lower-class communities; the early roots of suburbanization;
construction technology and mechanization within the home; immigrant
communities and corporate housing; houses on the American frontier; the role of
tastemakers and architects; nationalism and patriotism and the American Home;
the image and the reality of the home, and the roots of the preservation
movement. We welcome submissions from scholars of all academic disciplines, as well as
from younger scholars and graduate students. Proposals should include
250-word abstracts and CVs. Please send proposals by March 1, 2008,
to: Catherine Zipf
Salve Regina University
100 Ochre Point Ave.
Newport, RI 02840 Catherine.Zipf@salve.edu. DMACH2008 Digital Media and its Applications in Cultural Heritage Important Dates Deadline for abstracts: February 20, 2008
Full paper submission for review: March 30, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2008
Deadline for final papers: July 15, 2008
Submission and Relevant Information
Full paper submissions are required to be online at the conference website:
www.csaar-center.org/conference/DMACH2008.
Conference: Religion, ethnicity and contested nationhood in the former Ottoman space. Istanbul: 1-3 April 2008 Part of the process of building new nations out of the declining Ottoman empire was the writing of national histories. This process has coloured the historiography of the post-Ottoman countries through much of the 20th century. National histories, as they were constructed during the 18th to 20th centuries, emphasised the peculiarities, usually with a strong religious and/or ethnic dimensions, of country or people and played down or ignored the elements of commonality across the Ottoman space. The multicultural Ottoman empire metamorphosed into the oppression of the Turks. This is reflected in the sources used in such
history: local, dissident, ecclesiastical and, of course, the diplomatic archives of European capitals and the accounts and records of western travellers, merchants and missionaries. This preference was helped by the generally, until recently, poor state of Ottoman archives, both central and local, and for a long time the dearth of scholars and archivists who had the linguistic and other skills to exploit them.
In the last couple of decades several changes have taken place in this picture. Firstly, Ottoman and Turkish language sources have had a major impact with the cataloguing and opening of archival sources and the expanded use of both central and local government and judicial documents. But there have also been significant local changes around the margins of the Ottoman space. In the Balkans, the Soviet empire collapsed. In the Levant the civil war in Lebanon and its post-Taif settlement suggested new parameters and constructs. A new generation of historians has begun to review and revise the historiography of their predecessors. Even in Egypt where the Ottoman influence had been minimised during the 19th century, a new trend in historiography has arisen, in which the persistent continuity well into the 20th century of the Ottoman tradition and its turcophone bureaucracy has begun to be acknowledged.
An experimental workshop, was held in Istanbul in May 2007, focusing on two examples from opposite ends of the Ottoman space, which might illustrate this process, namely Bulgaria and Lebanon. The workshop also explored whether a new generation of Turkish historians, working from similar sources, are beginning to break from a Turkish nationalist approach to Ottoman history and instead looking at its pluralistic character.
Following the success of the workshop, it was decided to hold this larger conference and to broaden the geographical coverage to include all the countries of the former Ottoman space from Egypt through the Levant and Mesopotamia to the Balkans and South East Europe. The workshop will involve the presentation of some 12-15 papers timetabled so as to get as much discussion time as possible. It is expected that there will be a total of about 20 participants. The seminar will, as far as possible, be held in English to avoid the loss of content arising from interpretation. But we may have to compromise on this to get the right people to take part. It is intended that the papers will be published once they have been revised in the light of discussions at the conference.
Papers are requested in the following fields:
- Changing priorities in national history writing during the 20th century.
- Issues of source materials and their use.
- Relations between historians and recent debates on national identity.
- Recent developments in historiography and their impact on history in schools.
- Use and abuse of history since 1945.
- Teaching of history and the training of historians.
The conference will be hosted by the Swedish Consulate-General, Istanbul and organised in cooperation with:
- Centre for European Islamic Thought, Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen.
- International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, Sofia.
- Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul.
- Danish Institute in Damascus, Damascus.
The workshop will be held at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul 1-3 April 2008 with arrival and departure being on 31 March and 4 April. All reasonable travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the organisers.
An agreement in principle has been reached to publish with a respected academic publisher.
Scholars wishing to be considered for inclusion should email a paper title, short abstract and short CV (maximum 400 words in total) to the address below by 15 January 2008. A small reference group of the organisers will consider these, and the formal invitations will be sent at the end of January 2008.
Jørgen S. Nielsen
Professor of Islamic Studies
Centre for European Islamic Thought
Faculty of Theology
University of Copenhagen
Købmagergade 46
1150 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Tel: +45 35 32 37 87
Fax: +45 35 32 36 39
Email: jsn@teol.ku.dk
Art History Symposium: New Museum, New Museology
The Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, GA
April 3-5, 2008 The Savannah College of Art and Design will host its second biennial Art History Symposium: New Museum, New Museology. This year’s event will explore the latest trends in museum studies.
The Inaugural Conference on the Inclusive Museum
June 9-11 2008
National Museum of Ethnology
Leiden, the Netherlands At this time of fundamental social change, what is the role of the museum, both as a creature of that
change, and perhaps also as an agent of change? The International Conference on the Inclusive
Museum is a place where museum practitioners, researchers, thinkers and teachers can engage in
discussion on the historic character and future shape of the museum. The key question of the
Conference is "How can the institution of the museum become more inclusive?" As well as an impressive line-up of international main speakers, the Conference will also include
numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers.
We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters
may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal
of the Inclusive Museum. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations
are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this
fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the Conference
proceedings. The deadline for the next round in the call-for-papers (a title and short abstract) is 8 November 2007.
Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including
an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website.
CSAAR 2008B
Responsibilities and Opportunities in Architectural Conservation: Theory, Education, and Practice
Organized by The Center for the Study of Achitecture in the Arab Region (CSAAR)
In collaboration with College of Architecture and Arts, Petra University
3-5 November, 2008
Petra University, Amman, Jordan Deadline for abstracts: February 01,2008
Full paper submission: March 30, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2008
Deadline for final papers: July 15, 2008 Abstracts should be emailed to conservation@csaar-center.org For full information about the conference including theme and research tracks please visit the conference's website at:
http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/champ/5247/www.csaar-center.org/conference/2008B
International Symposium on Baghdad, Madinat al-Salam, in Islamic
Civilization (November 2008) Important Deadlines:
January 30, 2008, deadline for submitting abstracts. Abstracts should
be no more than 200 words in either Turkish, Arabic, or English. March 1, 2008, the notification of accepted papers will be sent out.
The selection of papers will be based on the quality and relevance of
the topic to the themes of the symposium. September 1, 2008, deadline for full paper submission. Unfortunately,
participants who fail to send the full paper by the deadline will not be
included in the program. Baghdad, founded in the 8th century as the capital of the Abbasid
caliphate, soon became a vibrant city crowded by people from different
races, colors, and creeds. Soon after its founding, it became a major
center of not only commercial activities but also scholarship, culture,
and civilization. The city produced countless scholars in many areas of
knowledge, thinkers of all sorts, poets, artists, and diverse models of
piety through many of its educational and pious institutions,
booksellers, and libraries, in which groundbreaking literary and
scholarly studies were carried out. The Nizamiya and Mustansiriyya
madrasas pioneered the madrasa system in the Islamic world in both
program and architectural style, thus playing a fundamental role in the
history of culture and science in the Islamic world. Baghdad was the
center of the Hanafi and Hanbali schools of jurisprudence, and Sufi and
philosophical thoughts. It also contributed greatly to broader human
culture and knowledge as the center of the transmission (and expansion)
of ancient sciences and scholarship east and west into Arabic, much of
which would be later translated into Hebrew and Latin. After its
destruction by the Mongol conquests, Baghdad regained much of its
previous vitality and importance under successive dynasties, including
the Ottomans. Numerous celebrated thinkers in the field of philosophy,
jurisprudence, historiography, and literature flocked to Baghdad for
patronage.Given its glorious history, Baghdad today is a cause for sadness and
apprehension among the Muslims and scholarly communities around the
world.The collapse of order and the ongoing destruction in Baghdad means
much more than the necessary cost of reshaping the Middle East, as generally
advocated in the media. It has far-reaching impact on human historical
consciousness and far greater significance for the history, intellectual and
political legacy of not only the Islamic world but the history of human
civilization in general. Amid this transformative moment in the history of Baghdad, the
University of Marmara, the Faculty of Divinity, the Department of
Islamic History and Arts, Umraniye Municipality, and the Research Centre
for Islamic History, Art and Culture of the Islamic Conference (IRCICA)
are organizing a symposium on Baghdad to be held in mid-November 2008.
(The exact date will be announced later). We cordially invite you to contribute to the symposium on any of the
topics dealing with politics, economy, science and education, religious
movements, social and religious life, non-Muslims, architecture, art,
and literature in Baghdad during the following periods: - Baghdad from its establishment to the Mongol conquests,
- From the Mongol conquests to the Ottoman Period,
- Baghdad during the Ottoman Period,
- Baghdad after the Ottoman Period.
Travel and Accommodation:
The participants from abroad will receive economy airfare to and from
Istanbul and three-day accommodation in the symposium hotel in Istanbul. Submission and Relevant Information:
1. Full paper should be in either Turkish, Arabic, or English.
2. The full paper must be an original submission, not published
elsewhere.
3. Both abstracts and full papers must be submitted as a MS Word by
e-mail.
4. Papers should be of 20 pages maximum, double spaced, 12 font for
text, 10 font for footnotes. For transliteration and footnoting style,
please use the format used in IJMES.
6. Each presenter will have 20 minutes for a summary delivery of the
paper in the symposium.
7. The papers in full will be published in a volume after the symposium
8. The author should indicate his/her personal full contact details and
include his/her brief CV with the paper. Also, a digital photograph
would be useful (for publicity purposes).
9- Please send your abstract by 30 January 2008 by e-mail to:
Dr. Nuh Arslantas, Secretary, E-mail: bagdadsymp@gmail.com Coordinator:
Doç. Dr. Ismail Safa Ustun, Marmara Universitesi Ilahiyat Fakültesi
e-mail:isafaustun@hotmail.com <isafaustun@hotmail.com> Secretaries:
Dr. Gülgûn Uyar: gulgunuyar@hotmail.com
Dr. Nuh Arslantas: narslantas@marmara.edu.tr
Dr. Halil Ibrahim Kacar: halilreyhani@yahoo.com Correspondence Address:
Bagdad Sempozyumu, Marmara Universitesi Ilahiyat Fakültesi, Mahir Iz
Cad.
No: 2
Baglarbas. Usküdar 34662 ISTANBUL-TURKIYE
e-mail: bagdadsymp@gmail.com
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