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Deadline: 1 May 2014

PER disseminates peer-reviewed scholarship relevant to historic environment education from fields such as historic preservation, heritage conservation, heritage studies, building and landscape conservation, urban conservation, and cultural patrimony. The National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE) launched PER in 2007 as part of its mission to exchange and disseminate information and ideas concerning historic environment education, current developments and innovations in conservation, and the improvement of historic environment education programs and endeavors in the United States and abroad.

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Deadline 1 February 2014.

William Blake famously hoped to see ‘Jerusalem builded here’, but he was not the first or the last creative mind to imagine a new utopian metropolis at the unique intersection between art, architecture and religion. Papers are welcome on all aspects of this theme as well as on cities and urban life in general, including architecture and multi-culturalism, medieval to Victorian cities, Biblical ideas of the city and contemporary art and film. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be emailed to Laura Moffatt by 1 February 2014.

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Deadline 31 January 2014.

Norwich has the highest number of surviving medieval churches of any city north of the Alps: thirty-one in total, of which eighteen are now redundant and in the care of NHCT. As part of a programme to raise the profile of the NHCT’s work, the Trustees have decided to initiate an annual conference to discuss the architecture, archaeology, history, liturgy, art history, sociology and post-redundancy use of the medieval churches of Norwich (papers can also be concerned with a wider canvas, but with a Norwich bias).

Proposals for 30-minute papers in English (maximum 300 words), with a short biography, are invited…

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This session will explore the contested politics of Neighbourhood Development Plans (NDPs), one of a raft of measures introduced under the Localism Act (2011) in England. With over 800 Neighbourhood Development Plans underway, and several already approved by popular referenda, the initiative is promoted as devolving power to communities and enabling popular engagement in local decisions, thereby bridging the divide between participatory and representative democracy, harmonising the competing priorities of the strategic and very local, and improving relationships between local authorities and local people.

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With the developing interest in the history of collecting, this one-day workshop to be held at the Wallace Collection on 2 July 2014, aims to bring out new research in the area of collecting and art markets in the early modern era (1700—1900). Speakers at this workshop are invited to examine the mutual interests of collectors and art patrons; the client relationships between dealers and collectors; the roles of advisers, museum curators and critics; and the importance of art publications.

Deadline 31 January 2014.

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Novel Technologies for the Safeguarding and
Transmission of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)

The International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Era (www.multi-science.co.uk/ijhde.htm) is already in its second year and has been accepted by the Cultural heritage community with great enthusiasm. A Special Issue is planned on the hot topic of Novel Technologies for the Safeguarding and Transmission of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Several overarching themes are planned including: multisensory technologies for capturing and analyzing different forms of ICH, novel multimodal data fusion techniques, semantic media analysis and interpretation approaches for the documentation of ICH, 3D visualization and game technologies, educational tools for enhancing teaching and learning process etc.

This special issue will focus on new and innovative solutions as well as on research projects in this particular area, which constitute real breakthroughs in this important scientific and interdisciplinary area. The deadline for the paper submission will be the 25th of April 2014, and a double blind review system will be applied. Authors will be notified of the review results and asked to provide the camera-ready manuscripts by the end of May 2014. The issue will be published latest in June 2014.

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With the AHRC website, now a year old, offering the possibility of presenting a wide range of rich, exciting and highly visual digital content – content that both promotes and is generated by the research community – the AHRC recently launched an Image Gallery to highlight the rich possibilities of the digital image and as a showcase for the work and talents of the arts and humanities research community. With small amounts of funding available to support this activity, this call offers opportunities for researchers in the arts and humanities to submit ideas for display or ‘virtual exhibitions’ on the new AHRC website of between 12 and 15 images, with a new display being added to the website each month and highlighted on the front page of the AHRC site.

Expressions of interest are invited from researchers from all disciplines within the arts and humanities to submit ideas for ‘virtual’ or online exhibitions in the Image Gallery of the AHRC website by the 29th of November, 2013. A total of £4,000 will be available to each successful applicant or group of applicants to prepare, make available and submit their images for exhibitions.

Deadline: 29/11/13

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“Highlighting how embracing new developments in technology can save money and deliver genuine benefits to businesses, cities & communities on-going.”

Now in our third year, The Eco Technology Show will have over 60 seminar and conference talks alongside our exhibition on 26th & 27th June 2014. We are currently researching potential topics and speakers for next year’s show.

If you would be interested in presenting, or could suggest a good topic or speaker, then please email Damian Tow at damian.t@ecotechnologyshow.co.uk by Friday 22nd November and we will be in touch.

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On behalf of ICOMOS Italy and the Scientific Committee for the Symposium, ICOMOS has the pleasure of launching the call for papers for the Scientific Symposium which will take place in Florence, Italy, on the occasion of the 18th ICOMOS General Assembly, from 10 to 14 November 2014, on the theme : “ Heritage and Landscape as Human Values” .

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2014

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2014 marks the fifty-year anniversary of one of the 20th century’s most influential texts – Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan not only introduced the media-as-the-message, it presented the world with the metaphor of the global village.

Half a century after the publication of this revolutionary text, The Mediated City – Los Angeles – Conference seeks to explore the multiple ways in which the city of today is experienced, perceived, represented and constructed as a ‘mediated’ phenomenon.

Key dates
15 Feb 2014 Deadline for abstracts
15 June 2014 Deadline for full papers / detailed proposals
01 Oct 2014 Conference – Los Angeles (Woodbury University)

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