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Deadline June 30, 2014

Hill-top towns are typical in most of Europe in an historical phase that starts from VIIIth cent. until XVth. cent. AD. Prior to the Xth cent. fortification of towns, called by historians “incastellamento”,  several settlements seem to reoccupy archaic sites, moving from the valleys to the hill-tops and modifying the social structure of former villages. Many of these settlements today need to be preserved but also to be developed, so the study of their formation process is useful also for the contemporary development.

Which models were adopted in the ancient design process, do some of the models derive from larger settlements ?

Is the small urban hill-top/hill-side settlement phenomena general through Europe ?

The journal editors invite participation by interested academics and professionals. Proposals for papers should be in English and should preferably not exceed 20000 characters with an English abstract in less than 1000 characters and up to five keywords.

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1st International Conferences on Concrete Repair, Maintenance and Conservation of Modern Architecture and Landscapes.

3-4 April 2014. Chandigarh, India

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION EXTENDED: 25 February 2014

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This conference will take place between 30 October and 1 November 2014 at the Paul Mellon Centre and the British Museum. It will explore the ways in which artists and patrons in Britain devised and introduced new or distinctive imagery, styles and techniques, as well as novel approaches to bringing different media together. It is concerned with the mechanisms of innovation, with inventive and imaginative processes, and with the relations between conventions and individual expression. The conference will also address the notions of sameness and difference in medieval art and architecture, and how these may be evaluated and explained historically.

Topics for discussion can include authorship, creativity, experimentation, envisaging, representation, and regulation by guilds or patrons, as well as case studies of particular objects, buildings, commissions or practices. Papers should be of twenty minutes’ duration. Proposals/abstracts of 500 words should be submitted to Ella Fleming by 25 March 2014.

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Youth in Conservation of Cultural Heritage YOCOCU on 28-30 May 2014 in Azerbaijan. There young professionals, students and researchers are called to increase and strengthen their consciousness and TO DEVELOP NEW WAYS AND METHODS OF KNOWLDGE. The senior professionals are strongly invited to participate to this process and to exchange your idea and experience with young professionals.

Abstracts can only be submitted via email to:info@yoccou.com.

ABSTRACT DEADLINE : FEBRUARY 16, 2014
AUTHOR NOTIFICATION: APRIL 05, 2014
PAPER SUBMISSION: JULY 31, 2014

Topics: 1-Metal, 2-Stone. 3-Glass and Ceramics, 4-Pigments and Paintings, 5-Organic materials and Textiles 6-Cultural and Educational Experiences, 7-Archaeology and Integrated studies

Website: http://www.yococu.com/

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Preventive and Planned Conservation Conference 2014 (5-9 May 2014, Monza and Mantua. Italy)

DEADLINE: 15 February

PPC 2014 seeks a diverse and comprehensive program covering more areas of Preventive and Planned Conservation of Built Cultural Heritage. This conference is one of the communication and dissemination actions implemented within Cultural Districts “Monza and Brianza” and “Le Regge dei Gonzaga”.

“Cultural Districts” project, started in Lombardy Region in 2010, gives the opportunity for testing innovative approaches and tools and for rethinking the roles played by Built Cultural Heritage for local development.

You are invited to share your experience and your papers with academicians, researchers, public officers and professionals.

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​Call for submissions for Science in Culture Theme Ignite 2014

Present your interdisciplinary research at the Natural History Museum

We are inviting proposals for an AHRC Science in Culture Theme Ignite event which will take place in the afternoon of 26th March 2014 at the Natural History Museum in London. The event will showcase the best of current interdisciplinary research across the Arts, Humanities and Science. The event will provide an opportunity to demonstrate the excitement of cutting edge research that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. It is a chance to show the viability of reciprocal research collaborations under the Science in Culture Theme.

Deadline: 17th February 2014.

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For over four centuries, as a primary gateway to North America, Quebec City and the Saint Lawrence Valley have provided a meeting place for encounters and exchanges between the French and British colonial nations, the First Nations, and generations of European immigrants. …

Métissage first came about as an imperfect translation of these foreign influences into original and often unexpected mixtures of plan, program, construction techniques and materials. Architectural métissage was influenced by cultural references, and shaped by site constraints, construction materials and the savoir-faire of both the local and immigrant builders. It spoke to the social concerns and technical means of the population. Métissage can be seen at all scales of intervention: landscapes, urban environments, buildings, interiors.

Abstracts are to be submitted by March 1, 2014.

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Community-based work in heritage conservation is well-established, involving local people in historic area planning and urban regeneration, in local campaigning to save heritage assets and local heritage trusts to look after them. But how effective are attempts at wider public engagement with what heritage conservation aims to achieve for public benefit? How are local people instrumental in shaping and carrying out conservation projects?

Engaging Conservation will consider what the shift towards participative practice and public engagement in heritage conservation means and how far it is being achieved. As ICOMOS International Training Committee finalises its new Principles for Capacity Building through Education and Training in Conservation of the Cultural Heritage, it will also be timely to share experience and wider thinking at an international level.

Abstracts of 300 words, together with a title and contributor’s details, should be sent to gill.chitty@york.ac.uk no later than 10 March 2014.

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The Construction History Society is delighted to announce that its first National Conference will be held on the 11th and 12th of April 2014 in Queens’ College, Cambridge. Papers on all aspects of the construction history are welcome. Abstracts should be submitted before 15 August 2013, with finished papers submitted by 1 December 2013. The proceedings of this conference will be published as a book to accompany the conference.

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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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