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17/10/2018 15:32

Opportunities and Challenges for Cultural Heritage Values

Organized by: Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies Southern Institute of Social Sciences Ho Chi Minh City University of Culture Cultural heritage is a valuable asset for every nation, its people and communities. The field of heritage conservation is broad and includes many perspectives, and this makes the protection and promotion of cultural values complex. In the general trend of integrating conservation at an international level, activities to protect and promote values have done much to highlight humanity’s achievements; however, various issues have also come to light in relation to viewpoints, perceptions, processes and implications.

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17/10/2018 15:25

8th ASEMUS General Conference in Kuching, Malaysia – Registration open!

The 8th General Conference of the Asia-Europe Museum Network (ASEMUS) titled “New Curatorial Perspectives for a Changed World”, will be hosted by the Sarawak Museum and held at the Waterfront Hotel in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, between 14 and 16 November 2018.

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09/10/2018 15:02

Learn How to Involve the Local Creative Community at your Museum in the next NEMO Webinar

On 30 October 2018 at 15:00 CET, Jenny Siung, Head of Education in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland, will facilitate a webinar on the topic of “Maker-in-Residence - How museum professionals can collaborate with local creative partners”. Make sure to register by 26 October 2018.

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01/10/2018 15:28

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR SESSIONS

The 3rd SEAMEO SPAFA International Conference on Southeast Asian Archaeology (#spafacon2019) will be held from 17-21 June 2019. The conference is jointly organized by the SEAMEO Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SEAMEO SPAFA) and the Fine Arts Department of the Ministry of Culture, Thailand. The conference will include paper presentations on 17-19 June, site visits (20 June) and optional workshops (21 June). We are currently inviting proposals for sessions until October 31. A general call for papers will be open from November.

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10/09/2018 23:49

OPEN CALL FIRST AID TO DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE UNDER THREAT

The first call for proposals in 2017 drew a resounding response. Now the Prince Claus Fund, through its Cultural Emergency Response (CER) programme and the Whiting Foundation announce a second round of the Open Call for First Aid to Documentary Heritage under Threat. We invite proposals for projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to safeguard documentary heritage that is acutely threatened by recent conflict or other disaster, whether natural or man-made

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10/07/2018 00:00

Course on Impact Assessments for Heritage

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has observed that many activities such as tourism, infrastructure development, new buildings, urban renewal and changes to the land use being undertaken in and around World Heritage sites may have negative impacts on the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV).

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13/06/2018 00:00

CollAsia - Conserving Photographic and Archival Collections

Photographic and Archival Collections cover historical, artistic and identity-building values transformation over time, recorded through a huge amount of documents. At the same time, they are very fragile, vulnerable to different hazards, and difficult to manage. In order to respond to the collection’s needs, the course programme addresses collections care practices and reviews living cultural practices with current conservation principles, assessing the benefits and the sustainability of local materials and techniques for conservation. It also stimulates professionals to develop and carry out applied research to solve specific conservation challenges in their institutions.

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23/05/2018 14:51

DNA Reflects History of Migrations in Southeast Asia

DNA Reflects History of Migrations in Southeast Asia CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS—Science Newsreports that a new genetic study supports archaeological and linguistic evidence for at least three major waves of migration into Southeast Asia over a period of 50,000 years. A team of researchers led by Mark Lipson of Harvard Medical School analyzed DNA from 18 individuals whose remains were unearthed at five different archaeological sites in Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia. The bones ranged from 4,100 to 1,700 years old.

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13/06/2017 23:49

SEE YOU IN PARIS AT THE 2017 ICOM ANNUAL MEETINGS!

The ICOM annual meetings, held every year in Paris, are a major event for the international museum community.

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31/05/2017 19:30

Japan’s oldest human skeleton found in Okinawan cave

NAHA, OKINAWA PREF. – A human skeleton thought to be the oldest in Japan has been found in a collapsed cave in Okinawa, a local museum said Friday, adding that it appears to be around 27,000 years old.

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