Conference for students and emerging conservators--addendum

"Conservation: Futures and Responsibilities"
A new international conference for students and emerging
    conservators
London
16-17 September 2011

Full details are now available for IIC's Student and Emerging
Conservator Conference, to be held at the Institute of Archaeology,
University College London, on 16-17 September 2011.

'Conservation: Futures and Responsibilities' will focus on the
relationship between conservation education and the actualities of
conservation in practice. Its aim is to facilitate communication
between student and emerging conservators and professionals active
in the field of conservation, in national institutions and museums
as well as in the private sector from an international perspective.
One of our main objectives is to enable dialogue and debate about
current needs in conservation, and the relationship between
expectations and reality in conservation education and work. The
themes discussed will be supported by visits to some of central
London's conservation studios, at both not-for-profit cultural
institutions and conservation businesses.

The presentations will be held in the form of live Web Broadcasts
from the Conference venue, in IIC's familiar Round Table format,
which will allow an international community of speakers and
participants to join the conference, either in person or on-line.
Participants, including those attending via the web, will be able to
ask questions and join in the debate.

Conservation professionals, active in the private sector as well as
in museums/galleries/training institutions, will discuss their
career paths and work experience and address the relationship
between their expectations at the outset of their careers and the
reality of where they are now and where they see themselves going.
Speakers will give their views on the future of the profession, and
the evolution of the conservators' responsibilities. Experienced
conservators will address the issues of getting started,
professional accreditation, and setting up one's own business, as
well as looking at conservation training.

Though held in London, this will be an international conference and
we hope the event will provide a useful platform for the exchange of
ideas among those studying conservation, archaeology, art history,
curatorship and related disciplines, people who are soon to share
the professional responsibility for a wide array of heritage-related
issues.

Full details of the conference can be found on

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

The conference has the support of the History of Art Department and
the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (UCL).

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


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