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The organisation called Future for Religious Heritage Europe is organising a seminar on movable religious objects and interiors that will take place in Utrecht on 4 and 5 November 2013, in partnership with the Museum Catharijneconvent and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. This will address such questions as ‘what happens to the movable heritage when a building ceases to serve a religious function’ and ‘how do we protect against theft and displacement’? Abstracts of 5-minute mini-presentations are now being sought..

Deadline 8 September 2013

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The Construction History Society has announced that its first national congress will be held on 11 and 12 April 2014 in Queens’ College, Cambridge. The organisers are now calling for abstracts for papers on all aspects (both technical and non-technical) of construction history, including such topics as the history of construction materials and components, buildings, infrastructure, building form, construction processes and plant, funding, organisations, company history, labour, education and historical sources.

Deadline 15 August 2013

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The fourth conference on ‘New Insights into Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century British Architecture’ will be held on Saturday 25 January 2014, at the Society of Antiquaries in London. Proposals in the form of short abstracts (up to 250 words) are invited for papers of 30 minutes in length and should be sent to Paula Henderson or Claire Gapper by 15 August 2013.

While the emphasis remains on new developments in architecture, proposals are welcomed on related themes, such as decorative arts, gardens, sculpture and monuments. The final programme will be announced in September.

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Call for Papers

11-13 November 2013
Amsterdam

Deadline: 15 July 2013

For the first time, these two conferences will take place alongside each other bringing the world of 3D measurement together in its various forms: aerial, terrestrial, mobile, static, bathymetric, handheld, photogrammetry and more.

The events focus on technology advances in end-to-end 3D that can be used in diverse industries and disciplines including building and architecture, civil infrastructure, land management, environmental studies, industrial facilities, forensics and security, and digital cultural preservation.

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The newly established journal “Studies in History and Theory of Architecture”, of the Department of History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation in the University of Architecture and Urban Planning invites international submissions for the volume Printed in Red. Architectural Writings during Communism.

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22 – 26 September 2014
Hong Kong

IIC is delighted to announce that the 25th biennial IIC Congress.

Submission of proposals for posters to be presented at the 2014 Congress now invited. Poster presentation is particularly well suited to material with a strong visual impact. Posters are displayed prominently throughout the meeting and during the week there will be a dedicated session, giving delegates the opportunity to speak to poster authors. It is thus expected that one of the authors of each selected poster attends the Congress to be present at the poster session. An extended abstract will be published in the conference proceedings to provide a permanent record and point of contact. We are looking for new and original, unpublished work, relevant to the Congress theme and, importantly, relevant to conservation.

If you would like to present a poster, please submit your provisional title and a summary of the poster in English (maximum 5000 characters, including spaces and punctuation, which is very approximately 500 words) via the IIC website at www.iiconservation.org/node/add/abstract by 31st August 2013. To submit a proposal for your poster in Chinese (600–800 characters) please follow the link. Please do not include any illustrations with your proposal submission. If your proposal is selected, you will be invited to prepare a text of about 500 words in English or 800 characters in Chinese for publication; you will be given further information on this at a later date.

The choice of posters for display will be made in October 2013 and final texts for publication will be required by 1st December 2013. The call for Student posters will be made in late September or early October 2013.

Further details regarding IIC and its past congresses are available on the IIC web site – www.iiconservation.org – just follow the link to Conferences and you will see the congresses listed.

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In recent archaeological thinking, it is widely accepted that objects and artefacts are invested with agency, but this understanding is not commonly extended to landscapes; rather any notion of ‘agency of landscape’ is often regarded as synonymous with environmental determinism. This symposium seeks to redress the balance and investigate how landscape can be invested with agency without being environmentally deterministic.

While this one-day symposium is organised in the context of the English Landscapes and Identities (EngLaId) project, which investigates the development of English landscapes from the middle of the Bronze Age, when the first extensive field systems were laid out, to the Domesday period, when the foundations of the modern agricultural landscape were in place, contributions are encouraged from any archaeological, geographical or other relevant disciplinary perspectives. We also welcome contributions that consider different parts of the world and different time periods.

Abstracts for 20 min papers and poster presentations are invited that address this tension between cultural choices and the structuring influence of the landscape itself.
For more information or to register interest, please contact Dr Laura Morley: laura.morley@arch.ox.ac.uk (Wednesday to Friday).

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 3 MAY 2013.

For more information about the EngLaId project, see:
http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/englishlandscapes-introduction.html
http://englaid.wordpress.com
http://visualenglaid.wordpress.com

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The Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen jointly welcome abstracts for an international conference on their common research theme ‘Europe and its Worlds‘. At the core of this theme is the question of how Europe has always consisted of different worlds, how it differs from the rest of the world, and how it interacts with other worlds. This conference specifically addresses the many ways in which cultural mobility impacts on European culture, past and present. Scholars of various universities and scholarly backgrounds are invited to submit an abstract for one of the twelve panels listed on the conference site.

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You are young, interested in questions of urban sustainability and studying or working in a related field? You are interested in getting to know people from the same field in an intellectually challenging atmosphere, surrounded by the beautiful scenery of the Austrian mountain village Alpbach? You dare to step up in front of them and tell them about your own ideas and projects?

We invite you to take part in a Science Slam on “Sustainable Cities” at the Built Environment Symposium during this year’s European Forum Alpbach, from 29 to 30 August, 2013!

You get the chance to present your ideas on urban sustainability in Alpbach according to the Science Slam rules: You have 8 minutes for the presentation (a max. of 3 power point slides with only visual presentations is allowed, if needed) – be creative and give an interesting, entertaining and still substantial presentation! What counts is not only the topic but also the way you present it. The winner will be identified by the audience and be awarded by the European Forum Alpbach.

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Invitation to contribute to this themed issue, planned for 2014, of Urban Design and Planning, a journal published by the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Urban Design and Planning publishes refereed papers and short articles addressing the design and planning of the built environment, emphasizing the interfaces between urban policy, design, construction and management.

Topics covered: social, economic and environmental aspects of topics such as sustainable settlements, community regeneration, urban infrastructure and transport systems.

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