Call for papers and workshop proposals--AIC and CAC-ACCR Annual Meeting

Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals

AIC and CAC-ACCR Annual Meeting
Montreal
May 13-17, 2016

The theme for AIC's 44th Annual Meeting, held jointly with the 42nd
Annual CAC-ACCR Conference, in Montreal, Canada, May 13-17, 2016,
will be Preparing for Disasters and Confronting the Unexpected in
Conservation.

Colleagues are invited to submit abstracts that address in a
broad-based way the impact of past, present, and future disasters on
the protection of cultural property.  In addition, papers that
address confronting the unexpected in conservation whether it occurs
during the treatment of an artifact or during a natural disaster are
requested.

The topic can be expanded to address immediate reactions, such as
the application of crowd-mapping technology to aid response efforts,
or longer term developments stemming from disasters, such as the
adoption of simple strategies.  These strategies might include:
"Fail to Plan - Plan to Fail", effective risk assessment
methodologies, the rapid transformation of damaged artifacts into
objects of veneration, or--thanks to social media today--the
repercussions of instantaneous visibility of destruction.  In
addition to situations caused by natural disasters, accidents,
terrorist activities, and climate change, even well-intended but
misguided interventions can elicit global amusement and/or outrage.
The unexpected may include surprises encountered along the way in
any treatment and can be expanded to include all stakeholders, even
future ones, who are affected by a disaster.  Communities affected
can cross geographic boundaries, social and economic populations,
cultural and historical perspectives, and inter-disciplinary
expertise.

The Collection Care Network (CCN) of the American Institute for
Conservation seeks abstracts that explore the partnerships crucial
to successful emergency management for their session.  The CCN
promotes collaboration, standards and best practices, training and
other projects to advance preventive conservation in institutions of
all types and sizes.  Papers may speak to any emergency management
phase, be it preparedness, response, recovery, or mitigation. Topics
might include collaborations between cultural and emergency managers
in training, architectural modifications to prepare museum
structures for climate change, modeling sea rise, health and safety
issues in remediation of cultural heritage structures, and many
other topics.  We are especially interested in submissions from
colleagues in related professions such as facility administrators,
collection managers, security personnel, HVAC and structural
engineers, framers, art handlers, librarians, archivists, and others
who have collection-wide responsibilities.

The review committees will be looking for abstracts related to the
general theme, however other topics will be reviewed as well. Please
refer to the full Call for Papers on our website for more details.
To see the full call for papers, visit

    <URL:http://www.conservation-us.org/abstracts>

For guidelines for developing a workshop and application forms or to
submit a proposal for a workshop, visit

    <URL:http://www.conservation-us.org/workshops>

Submission deadline for both papers and workshops is Monday,
September 14, 2015.  Poster abstract submissions are due Thursday,
October 1, 2015.

If you have any questions or if you would like to submit an
abstract, please contact Ruth Seyler <rseyler<-at->conservation-us<.>org>.

American Institute for Conservation
1156 15th St. NW
Suite 320
Washington DC 20005


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