Call for papers--IIC Congress

Call for papers

"The Decorative: Conservation and the Applied Arts"
IIC Congress
Vienna
10-14 September 2012

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A capital of cultural heritage awaits you. Vienna lies at the heart
of Europe on the mighty River Danube at the cross-roads of centuries
of cultural traditions and of trade between East and West from Roman
times and earlier.   Well known for its grand Baroque buildings and
the later Jugendstil and Secession architecture,  Vienna displays a
wide and rich range of architectural styles and applied artistry, of
paintings, drawings, metalwork, photography, sculpture and
decorative artifacts in a variety of workshops and ateliers,
galleries and museums. The birthplace of Haydn and Mozart, Schubert
and Schonberg and the home of the Strauss waltz, the city is also
the heart of a more intangible heritage of music, dance theatre.
Vienna is situated near other important European cultural centres:
Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Cracow, this proximity reflecting
Vienna's importance as a centre of Europe's cultural network. The
beautiful Danube Valley, with its vineyards and castles, is a UNESCO
World Heritage Site.

The twenty-fourth IIC Congress will be held in conjunction with the
Universitat fur angewandte Kunst (the University of Applied Arts)
10-14 September 2012 and will focus on a topic that is uniquely
well-suited to Vienna's wealth and scope of decorative and applied
arts heritage.  Ornamentation and the decorative have been evident
in human endeavour since the beginning of recorded history, ranging
from the bold clarity of Ancient Egypt to the clean-lined, discreet
styles of the 1930s and the exuberant revivals of today. Whether
civilisations have grown in Europe, Asia, the Americas or
Australasia, many of their forms of cultural expression can be
considered 'decorative' or 'applied' arts.  The conservation of this
heritage, tangible or intangible, is thus the conservation of much
of human endeavour and as such is central to our cultural life.

The range of work that this IIC congress will cover is very broad:
architectural decoration and styling; ceramics from pottery to
porcelain; glassware, including painted and stained glass and studio
glass; furniture; hardstone carving, including pietra dura work and
engraved gems; metalwork in all its forms; jewellery; ivory and bone
carving; textiles including tapestries, embroideries and costume;
mosaics; painted decoration; wallpapers and wall coverings; work in
terracotta; plaster work; bookbinding and leatherwork.  This is by
no means an exclusive list.

Call for Papers

We now invite the submission of proposals for a paper at this event.
A requirement of submission is that one of the authors of each
selected paper must attend the congress to present that paper to the
audience.  Papers presented at an IIC Congress and published in the
preprints undergo a rigorous peer review process. To this end, IIC
Council appoints a Technical Committee of international experts who
will make selections from the proposals received and will then
invite draft papers. The drafts will be reviewed and the content of
the programme will be determined by the Technical Committee. Final
contributions will be edited for publication by the IIC Editorial
Committee.

Please remember that submissions should not have been presented
and/or published elsewhere before the date of the Congress.

IIC encourages you to submit your proposal for a paper early via the
web; go to

    <URL:http://www.iiconservation.org/

        conferences/vienna2012/send_abstract.php>

Further details may be found at the home page of the IIC web site:

    <URL:http://www.iiconservation.org>
    Just follow the link to Congress

A call for posters will be made later in 2011.

Deadline for receipt of summaries: 30 April 2011.

You will receive a response from the Technical Committee by the end
of June, 2011. Draft manuscripts will be required by 30 September
2011 and the Technical Committee will make their selection by the
end of November, 2011. Final manuscripts will be due on 15 January
2012.

We look forward to seeing you in Vienna.

Graham Voce
Executive Secretary
International Institute for Conservation
of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC)
6 Buckingham Street
London WC2N 6BA
UK
+44 20 7839 5975
Fax: +44 20 7976 1564


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