ICOMOS-UK Events
2013
ICOMOS-UK Summer Meeting and AGM 2013
6-7 June 2013, Creswell Crags
Our Summer Meeting and AGM this year will be held at Creswell Crags, which is on the Tentative List for World Heritage Site nomination. Further details, booking form and online payment are here.
Heritage Conservation and Tourism: Who Benefits? Who Pays?
21 June 2013, University of Brighton
10.45am - 4.00pm
This seminar, run by the ICOMOS-UK Cultural Tourism Committee, will look at the relationship between the conservation of historic environments and tourism in a challenging economic climate.
Ideally, tourism protects and invests in the historic environment from which it profits, including its conservation and associated interpretation. All too often, however, heritage is exploited as if it were a 'free' resource, with little regard to the pay-back. This seminar will review good practice and creative solutions at different scales: historic towns and quarters, sites and monuments, buildings and attractions.
The seminar is produced in association with the Historic Towns Forum and hosted by the University of Brighton.
Speakers include:
- Sue Millar, President of the International Scientific Committee on Cultural Tourism, ICOMOS
- Janita Bagshawe, Head of Museums and Director Royal Pavilion, Brighton and Hove
- Prof David Arnold, Cultural Informatics Research Group, University of Brighton
- Brian Human, Historic Towns Forum
- Tristan Bareham, Chief Executive, Sussex Archaeological Society
- Fred Gray, Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex
The cost is £55.00 per person for ICOMOS-UK and Historic Towns Forum members, and £70.00 for non-members. The registration fee includes a sandwich lunch and refreshments, and free optional heritage walks and visits on the evening of Friday 21 June and the morning of Saturday 22 June.
A full agenda and booking form are on the menu at the right hand side of the page.
Past events
2012
Christmas Lecture: Timbuktu Under Threat
Thursday 13 December 2012, 6.30pm - The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ
The 2012 ICOMOS-UK Christmas lecture explored the background behind the recent headlines on the destruction of the Timbuktu tombs that with the three great mosques of Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahia, recall the city’s golden age in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Professor Kevin MacDonald looked at the long history of Timbuktu, its involvement with the trans-Saharan gold trade, its role as a remarkable centre of learning, and the significant archive of hundreds of thousands of scholarly manuscripts produced between the 13th and 20th centuries. He showed just how much is at stake in terms of the way the city and its immovable and movable heritage contribute to our knowledge of the whole history of West Africa and to the development of scientific, historical and other ideas.
World Heritage for Tomorrow: International Conference to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention
Saturday 1 December 2012 at University College, London
This one day conference jointly organised by ICOMOS-UK, The Open University and University College, London's UCL Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies looked to the future to discuss the role of World Heritage in the coming decades and reflect on how the UK might contribute to broader international debate on the evolving role of World Heritage. Parts of this conference were filmed by The Open University, and we hope to be able to post edited versions of the sessions online.
Click here for full details of the conference.
The Slate Industry Landscapes of North Wales – Conference and Field Trips, 23 -25 July 2012
Venue: Snowdonia National Park Field Studies Centre, Plas Tan-y-bwlch, Gwynedd, North-West Wales
Organised in collaboration with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) with a reception hosted by Gwynedd Council. This meeting focussed on the spectacular sites and forthcoming nomination of the Slate Industry of Northern Wales for World Heritage status. During the conference we visited some of the vast quarries, mines and surviving settlements of what were the world’s largest slate quarries, discussed aspects of the management and conservation of such complex industrial sites and landscapes and travelled on the historic Ffestiniog Railway
We were joined by members of the Pan-European Atlanterra Inter-reg Partnership from France, Portugal and Spain, who gave presentations on slate industries in other parts of Europe, to put the Welsh industry in international context and led a discussion of ‘valorisation’ (gaining heritage value from the industrial heritage), which is a particular interest of this international group.
Working Internationally – The Role of ICOMOS International Scientific Committees
Venue: The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ
The many International Scientific Committees (ISCs) of ICOMOS allow members from around the world to form networks of expertise in specialist areas of cultural heritage. These form the backbone of ICOMOS’ international collaboration and exchange of ideas. These three lectures focussed on three out of the 28 active ISCs:
- International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) by Stephen Hughes, TICCIH/ICOMOS expert member (27 February 2012)
- International Committee on Earthen Architectural Heritage (ISCEAH) by John Hurd, President (29 March 2012)
- International Polar Heritage Committee (IHPC) by Michael Morrison, UK representative (26 April 2012)
2011
Evening Seminars on Working Internationally – April, May, June 2011
In association with the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London
These three seminars looked at the kinds of services that could be offered by UK consultants and practices wanting to work overseas. It also looked at winning and negotiating contracts, tax and insurance, standards and regulations, specifying and procuring local materials, working with and training local counterparts, and working, living and travelling abroad.
Flyer for Evening Seminars on Working Internationally 2011
Summer Outing and AGM – 3 June 2011
This was a visit to the World Heritage Site at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and included guided tours, walks and talks, in addition to the ICOMOS-UK Annual General Meeting.
Flyer for the Summer Outing and AGM 2011
Christmas Lecture on the Cultural Heritage of Libya – 15 December 2011
Dr Hafed Walda, Research Fellow at King’s College London, reviewed the cultural heritage of Libya, including its World Heritage sites and the many urban and desert sites that remain unprotected and undesignated. He offered his views on the needs facing Libya to raise awareness of this legacy and put in place structures to sustain their value.
Flyer for Christmas Lecture on Cultural Heritage of Libya
2010
Conference on Conservation Philosophies: Global or Local? – 3-5 June 2010
Organised by the Centre for Conservation Studies, Department of Archaeology, University of York
This conference included presentations on Japanese, Chinese, Indian and Algerian philosophies of conservation and heritage, as well as overviews of different aspects of UK cultural and world heritage.
Flyer for Conference on Conservation Philosophies: Global or Local?
Christmas Lecture on Mapping the Silk Roads – 9 December 2010
Tim Williams from the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London talked about the outcomes of a Thematic Study commissioned by ICOMOS to put individual sites on the Silk Roads into context. This is in relation to a UNESCO-ICOMOS Silk Roads project to support countries along the Silk Roads to identify and conserve potential sites as part of a serial nomination.
