Thomas King, a well-known author and critic of the cultural resource management system in the United States, has created a contest in which the best idea to replace the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) will win $1,000. I (along with other historic...
Call for papers/abstracts
Call for proposals: Voices of Place: Empower, Engage, Energize (EDRA 48 conference)
Voices of Place: Empower, Engage, Energize Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) 48th Annual Conference Call for Proposals EDRA’s mission is to advance and disseminate behavior, design, and conservation research toward improving understanding of the relationships between people and their environments. In its four decades of existence, its annual conference...
Call for papers and posters: Preserving Transcultural Heritage: Your Way or My Way?
I received the text, below, by email from the conference organizers. Preserving Transcultural Heritage: Your Way or My Way? CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS ARTIS | Institute of History of Art ‐ School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon Alameda da Universidade, 1600‐214 Lisbon ‐ Portugal...
Call for papers: Making the Past Less Foreign
CALL FOR PAPERS Making the Past Less Foreign Using Evidence Based on the Human Aspects of Heritage Conservation to Change Practice Editors: Dr. Jeremy C. Wells, Assistant Professor, Roger Williams University; jwells@rwu.edu Dr. Barry L. Stiefel, Associate Professor, College of Charleston/Clemson University; bstiefe@clemson.edu Instructions: Submit a 6,000-7,500-word paper (MS...
Call for Proposals: Putting Preservation on the Road: Protecting Our Overlooked Automotive Heritage in the Twenty-first Century
I typically post calls for papers that are directly relevant to the conservation/social sciences themes of this web site. While this call is a bit different, it still involves the potential for intangible heritage and the social sciences. In fact, the door is open here for some innovative thinking...
Call for Papers: Heritage Dogma: Policy and Practice – Searching for Missing Links
I received the text, below, by email from the conference organizers. Call for Papers: Heritage Dogma: Policy and Practice – Searching for Missing Links (WAC-8, Kyoto conference session) Kyoto, Japan, August 28 to September 2, 2016 Call for papers closes April 30 2016. Organizers: John Ugwuanyi, Harald Fredheim, Steve...
Call for abstracts: Nature & Culture: Heritage in Context
I received the text, below, by email from the conference organizers. 7th Annual Conference on Heritage Issues in Contemporary Society Nature & Culture: Heritage in Context Prague, Czech Republic, May 16 – 18, 2016 The dichotomy between nature and culture in heritage conservation has often seemed like an either/or...
Call for Papers for the Heritage Conservation Symposium in Ottawa on April 23, 2016
The text, below, has been copied verbatim from the conference organizers. Call for Papers for the Heritage Conservation Symposium in Ottawa on April 23, 2016 If you are interested in discussing unrepresented or underrepresented identities or voices in heritage conservation, perhaps you may be interested in submitting to the...
“Legitimating Tradition” conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE)
I received the text, below, from one of the conference organizers. Fifteenth biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) December 17-20, 2016 Kuwait City, Kuwait Call for abstracts due: February 15, 2016 http://iaste.berkeley.edu/conferences/2016-conference “Legitimating Tradition” is the theme of the fifteenth conference of...
Inheriting the City: Advancing Understandings of Urban Heritage
I received the text, below, from the conference organizers, which has been copied verbatim. Inheriting the City: Advancing Understandings of Urban Heritage 31 March – 4 April, 2016 Taipei, Taiwan Call for papers: 30 November 2015 www.inheritingthecity.wordpress.com In the context of rapid cultural and economic globalisation, over half of...