IIC Dialogues for the New Century Series

"Rising Tide/Melting Ice: The preservation of world archaeological
    heritage in a time of climate change"
Room 106, Roberts Engineering Building
University College London
Torrington Place
London WC1E 7JE, UK
Wednesday 18 January 2012
7 pm

After the formal business of IIC's 2012 Annual General Meeting is
concluded, at 7 pm, IIC will be opening the doors to the public for
the AGM Talk, which will be the latest in IIC's Dialogues for the
new century series, and will be held in partnership with the
University College London Centre for Sustainable Heritage.

Global weather patterns are changing and with these changes come
significant threats to the preservation of world archaeological
heritage. An increasing number of coastal sites are vulnerable to
inundation and ruin by rising sea levels. And as temperatures rise
in some parts of the world those archaeological remains which have
laid frozen in the permafrost, in a state of spectacular
preservation, are beginning to thaw and rot. The need to raise
awareness of how global climate change is affecting archaeological
heritage is clear and the timeframe left to us to address this
challenge is growing ever shorter. From Easter Island to the Altai
Mountains, archaeological sites are increasingly at risk due to
changing" weather patterns and climate shifts.

Following from the IIC 2008 Dialogue on Climate Change and
Conservation, this panel discussion will focus on specific case
studies and their relationship to the broader challenges being faced
by the preservation community in a world of shifting climates.

Panel members:

    Andrew Curry is a contributing editor at ARCHAEOLOGY and has
    written extensively on the effect climate change is having on
    cultural heritage. He has written and edited for Archaeology
    Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Discover Magazine,
    National Geographic, The New Republic, Science, Smithsonian
    Magazine, The Washington Post, Wired and Wired News among other
    periodicals. Andrew Curry was a Fullbright Journalism Fellow; he
    received the Arthur F. Burns Journalism Prize in 2008; the 21st
    Century Trust Fellow, Rostock, Germany in 2007; and was named a
    Fulbright Guest Lecturer, University of Leipzig in 2006.

    Wouter Gheyle studied archaeology at Ghent University where he
    received his Master's degree in 2002 and his PhD in 2009. He has
    been working as a scientific researcher at Ghent University
    since 2003. His main interest is in the archaeology of the
    nomadic cultures of the Eurasian steppes, with a focus on the
    Altay Mountains. His research from 2003 - 2009 was with a
    UNESCO/Flanders Funds-in-Trust project concerning the
    Preservation of the Frozen Tombs of the Altay Mountains.
    Currently he is working on a project that involves the in-depth
    study of the Iron-Age population in Altay.

    May Cassar is Professor of Sustainable Heritage at UCL and
    Director of the Centre for Sustainable Heritage, which she set
    up at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies (BSGS) in 2001
    when she joined UCL. She leads the Heritage Research Group
    within the Complex Built Environment Systems research area at
    BSGS and has overall responsibility for research, teaching and
    consultancy in sustainable heritage. May has a national role as
    a member of the Science and Research Advisory Committee of the
    Department of Culture, Media and Sport and as the Director of
    the AHRC/EPSRC Science and Heritage Research Programme, and has
    an international role as a member of the European Union External
    Advisory Group for the RTD Theme, Environment (including Climate
    Change) and as a member of the Executive Board of the EU Joint
    Programming Initiative on 'Cultural Heritage and Global Change'

Graham Voce
Executive Secretary
International Institute for Conservation
of Historic and Artistic Works
3, Birdcage Walk
London SW1H 9JJ UK
+44 20 7799 5500
Fax: +44 20 7799 4961


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