Lecture on parchment

Workshop and Evening Lecture on Parchment
Corpus Christi College
Cambridge, UK
22-24 March 2016

The Icon Book and Paper Group Co-operative Training Register is
delighted to present its next training opportunity, showcasing
current conservation, preservation and scientific research on
historic parchment, generously hosted by Corpus Christi College
Cambridge and supported by the Claire Hampson Trust.

Beginning with a two-day knowledge based workshop for twenty five
participants, contributors from the fields of heritage science and
conservation will share their expertise through lectures, practical
demonstrations, and discussions in which participants are invited to
play an active role.  At the end of the first day there will be an
evening lecture by Jiri Vnoucek open to a larger audience.  The
third day will consist of a practical workshop, open to six
participants.

Please visit the events pages for further details and booking:

    Workshop:
    <URL:http://icon.org.uk/events/parchment-conservation-workshop>

    Evening Lecture:
    <URL:http://icon.org.uk/events/parchment-conservation-evening-lecture>

Contributors:

Dr Theresa Zammit Lupi holds a PhD in the conservation of
manuscripts from the University of the Arts London.  Theresa has
worked internationally as a conservator in Malta, the UK, Italy,
Switzerland and Egypt.  She is currently Head of Preservation at the
Notarial Archives in Valletta, Malta.  Theresa is the author of a
number of publications on book and paper conservation and is an
accredited member of the Institute of Conservation.

Dr David Mills completed a PhD in Laser-materials interactions in
2006 and since then has been working on new ways to understand and
apply new non-invasive imaging and analysis techniques to the
analysis of a wide variety of materials including paper and
parchment.

Angelica Bartoletti is a conservation scientist and PhD student at
UCL.  Her research interests include the evaluation of the impact of
traditional and innovative conservation treatment for
cellulose-based and collagen-based artefacts.  She also researches
the application of innovative tools in the field of Cultural
Heritage Science for the characterisation of materials and their
degradation behaviours at the nanoscale.

Jiri Vnoucek studied with Christopher Clarkson at West Dean College,
Sussex.  He undertook an MA in Conservation Science at the School of
Conservation of the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and has participated
on the IDAP EU project and other projects in the field of
conservation of parchment manuscripts.  His current research is
focused on the "Visual assessment of parchment in medieval
manuscripts", which forms part of his PhD at the University of York.

Fiona Brock is a lecturer in applied analytical techniques at
Cranfield Forensic Institute.  Fiona's degree, PhD, and subsequent
research were in chemistry and biogeochemistry, before she joined
the Research Laboratory for Archaeology at Oxford University as the
radiocarbon dating laboratory chemist in 2005.  For 10 years Fiona
was involved in developing and applying methods for dating a wide
range of materials, including parchments.

Edward Cheese is an accredited conservator of rare books and
manuscripts.  He trained at West Dean College in Sussex, during
which time he was awarded a Queen Elizabeth Craft Scholarship.  He
worked at the Cambridge Colleges' Conservation Consortium for eight
years, the last three as Conservation Manager, before moving to the
Fitzwilliam Museum in 2015 to take up the post of Conservator of
Manuscripts and Rare Books (Assistant Keeper).  He is particularly
interested in the history of bookbinding and the conservation of
medieval manuscript and early printed book bindings.

Lara Artemis has been an accredited book and paper conservator since
2003.  She is currently the Collections Care Manager responsible for
library and archive collections held at the Houses of Parliament,
UK.  She initially developed her specialist interest in parchment
conservation at The National Archives, where she worked as a
manuscript conservator between 1994 and 1998.  She held positions at
the British Library and at the Wellcome Trust, before joining her
present position.  Lara was an Institute of Conservation trustee for
three years (2011-2014) and is presently an editorial panel member
for the Journal of the Institute of Conservation.  She initiated the
20th Anniversary Vellum and Parchment edition of 2012.

Mariluz Beltran de Guevara has been an accredited book and paper
conservator since 2008 and is a specialist in the conservation of
parchment.  She graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 1996
and gained a Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation of Rare Books
and Manuscripts from West Dean College, Sussex University in 1997.
Following an internship at the Victoria and Albert Museum she worked
at the Dundee University Conservation Unit before joining the
British Library in 2001, where she currently holds the post of
Collection Care Monitoring Conservator.  During her many years at
the British Library, Mariluz has held the post of Parchment and
Vellum Specialist (2007-2010) and Conservation Team Leader
(2003-2007; 2010-2015).  She continues to work on parchment books
and manuscripts in her private conservation practice and has taught
parchment conservation courses in Patmos, Greece and on the
Preservation Studies programme in St. Gemini, Italy.


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