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05.- Cultural Heritage
2008
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Languages
matter
“The first instrument of a people’s genius is its language,”
said the French writer Stendhal. Literacy, learning, social integration….Everything
transits through language, which embodies national, cultural and
sometimes religious identity for each person. It constitutes one
of the fundamental dimensions of a human being. Yet specialists
estimate that within only a few generations, more than half of the
7,000 languages spoken in the world face extinction, because they
are not represented in government, education and the media. For
this reason, the United Nations had declared 2008 the International
Year of Languages, to be launched by UNESCO on 21 February, International
Mother Language Day.
UNESCO. the UNESCO Courrier. 2008 - number
1
Open
House 2008 - KU LEUVEN
Scientific and research based 'master after master' program founded
in 1976 by Raymond Lemaire - 2 years english taught program: firts
year intensive courses in Leuven, second year thesis year at home
- international collaboration with World Heritage Centre / UNESCO,
Sharing our Heritage EU/Australia exchange program, English Heritage
- interdisciplinary and international staff and students - tuition
waivers.
Raymond Lemaire International Centre for
Conservation. Master in Conservation
Restoration
of the Chinese traditional habitat
Within the framework of a European program Asia Urbs, the city of
Qu Fu (province of Shnadong), native city of Confucius, has benefited
from the experience of experts from the cities of Rennes and Santiago
de Compostela with the purpose of valuing its urban and cultural
heritage. This program, provided with a fund of one million euros
for three years, has allowed to elaborate a methodology of valuation
of local heritage. Both cities have sent technicians to work with
the Chinese municipality during this time. Three thousand traditional
houses have been inventoried. At the same time, the partners have
wanted to make a rehabilitation pilot project. They have chosen
an old primary school in the center of the old district that has
been transformed into heritage center.
Ministère de l'Ecologie du Développement
et de l'Aménagement durables. France. Publicated: 20-2-2008
Streetwise
Asia Update - Conservation project now being undertaken in Laos
PDR
The first project being supported by the Streetwise Asia Fund has
now been confirmed, and works are in progress. The Fund will support
the re-roofing of the Community Library and Resource Centre at the
World Heritage Town of Champasak in Lao PDR. This follows the recommendation
of Anthony Coupe and Felicity Sando, who visited Laos PDR on behalf
of the Streetwise Asia Fund in October 2007. They provided a detailed
report on possible Streetwise Asia projects in Laos PDR...
ICOMOS. Australia. Streetwise Asia Fund.
Publicated: 22-2-2008
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New
title from Council of Europe Publishing – Integrated Management
Tools in South East Europe
As part of the Institutional Capacity Building Plan, which is the
first of the three components of the Regional Programme for Cultural
and Natural Heritage in South-East Europe launched in 2003, a "transnational
theme-based debate" was organised. The second step in this debate
stemmed from an assessment of requests from the countries/regions
participating in the Regional Programme: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo/ UNMIK, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and
"the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"... |
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Memoirs
of the VII Encounter for the Promotion and Dissemination of the Intangible
Heritage of Ibero-American countries have been published
The VIII Encounter for the Promotion and Dissemination of the
Intangible Heritage of Ibero-American countries, dedicated to Interethnic
and Intercultural Relations, took place in Santa Cruz de la Sierra,
Bolivia, on September 9 to 16, 2007. The meeting was organized by
the Corporation for the Promotion and Dissemination of Culture, with
the support of the government of the Republic of Bolivia and the local
government of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, as well as the Foundation Simón
Patiño and the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin
America and the Caribbean... |
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Workshop on Interculturality in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
On January 12, a participatory workshop organized by UNFPA was held
in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, focusing on the validation and definition
of the proposed joint program “Development and cultural diversity
for the reduction of poverty and for social inclusion,” to
be submitted for the consideration of the ODM Fund of the Spanish
Government...
UNESCO. Quito. News. Publicated: 20-2-2008
UNESCO
supports the restoration of the Real Palace of general captains
of Old Guatemala
In October 2006, the UNESCO and the Government of Guatemala, through
the Ministry of Culture and Sports (MICUDE), signed an Agreement
of Co-operation for the implementation of the Project of conservation
and restoration of “Palacio Real de los Capitanes Generales”
in Old Guatemala. By their specialization in culture at national
and international level, the MICUDE invited the UNESCO to provide
technical support. The primary objective of the project is the restoration
of the "Royal Palace”, a building originally built in
1549, whose structures have been damaged by the different floods
and earthquakes that knocked down the old capital of Guatemala.
It has been reformed and expanded in several occasions…
UNESCO. Guatemala. News. Central America.
Publicated: 20-2-2008
First
Catalogue of the national indigenous languages
The National Institute of indigenous Languages (INALI) of Mexico
was responsible for the publication of the Catalogue of the national
indigenous languages: Linguistic variants of Mexico with unique
denominations and geostatistic references. The Catalogue, document
added to the efforts to preserve and to strengthen the indigenous
cultures in Mexico, is the second and last stage of the project
with which the INALI fulfilled the assignment to elaborate the "catalogue
of Mexican indigenous languages", as stated in article 20 of
the General Law of Linguistic Rights of the Indigenous peoples (LGDLPI)
of that nation.
INALI. News. Mexico. Publicated: 20-2-2008
Authorities
and leaders of the Sacred Valley exchange experiences on municipal
management and preservation of heritage with cities of Toledo-Spain
and Merida-Mexico
This activity is part of the Program of Municipal Qualification
of PROJECT VILCANOTA - MINCETUR, in charge of the HIGHER SCHOOL
OF MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT. Wednesday 20 and Thursday 28 of February,
municipal authorities and leaders of the Sacred Valley will be part
of a singular learning experience organized by the HIGHER SCHOOL
OF MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT and PROJECT VILCANOTA DEL MINCETUR as during
5 hours they will be interconnected in real time through TELECONFERENCINGS
with the cities of Toledo in Spain and Merida in Mexico…
Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism.
Presse. Peru. Publicated: 19-2-2008
Exhibition
and Publication: Building New Brunswick, June 21, 2008
Opening and book launch on at the Beaverbrok Art Gallery in Fredericton,
New Brunswick, Canada. The exhibition will encompass the entire
architectural history of the province, with a concentration on structures
from the post-1945 era. A concurrent publication by Goose Lane Editions
will be released at the same time. The event will also include several
exhibition tours and lectures on modern architecture in New Brunswick,
and its often underappreciated status in Eastern Canada. The exhibition
will run until the end of August 2008. Publication in this website:
http://www.gooselane.com/
Docomomo. Newsletter Nº 9. Canada-Atlantic
Provinces. France. Publicated: 18-2-2008
Docomomo
E-Newsletter 9 - 2008 Calendar of Events
2008 is the sixth year of Docomomo International in Paris. With
the opening of the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine
in September 2007, Docomomo was finally settled in its new office
space, located right next to the Cité’s library, thus
encouraging even tighter links between Docomomo and the Cité.
This also emphasized our main mission, which is to create the most
fruitful environment for scholarly research and conservation actions
to broaden knowledge and increase world awareness of modern heritage...
Docomomo. Newsletters. France. Publicated:
18-2-2008
Online
Journal of Military Architecture and Fortification (ARX) Issue V
2008
A PDF of the latest issue of ARX, the Online Journal of Military
Architecture and Fortification published by the Fortress Explorer
Society, can be requested by email at arxsp639@maltanet.net. Volumes
1 to 4 are available in HTML format on the website http://www.fortress-explorer.org/arx_issue_1.html.
Historians and researchers wishing to publish their studies in this
journal are invited to submit their articles in word format together
with illustrations (jpeg) to the Editor via e-mail at arxsp639@maltanet.net
Fortress Explorer Society. ARX.
Journal. Publicated: 15-2-2008
Landscape
Observatory of Catalonia: Web dossier on Dry Stone Landscapes
The Landscape Observatory of Catalonia has put a web dossier on
Dry Stone Landscapes online and is available in Catalan, Spanish,
English and French. The objective of the dossier is to inform about
the existence of dry stone landscapes and their diversity, as well
as to collect, classify, arrange and make available to the public
in a simple way initiatives, centres, institutions, news and books
on the subject of dry stone in Catalonia and on an international
scale. It is intended to become a point of reference on the subject
of dry stone on the Internet, for specialised professionals as well
as for the general public. It will be regularly updated and extended...
Observatori del Paisatge de Catalunya.
Dossiers. Spain. Publicated: 15-2-2008
The
heritage in the East and the responsibility of the archaeologist
This paper, published in the Revue Archéologique 2000-1,
pp. 122-133, has been reproduced with the kind authorization of
Mr. Pierre Leriche, Director of research of the CNRS, in charge
of the group "AURORHE" (Urban Archaeology of the Helenic
East).. .
France diplomatie. France Actions. Archaeology.
Publicated: 15-2-2008
«
Social groups and social categorisation in Medieval dâr al
islâm (7th-15th centuries CE) » Call for papers for
the Annales Islamologiques (n° 42, late 2008)
This thematic volume of Annales Islamologiques sets out to look
for the image of the groups that formed the society of the medieval
dâr al-islâm and that were developed and implemented
by the members of these societies. Here, the dâr al-islâm
includes all territories governed by a power claiming to belong
to any of the Islamic branches, and covering the period from from
the establishment of a Muslim Empire in the middle of the 7th century
to the defeat of the Mamluk dynasty in 1517. Authors are asked to
base their analysis on medieval texts (Arabic, Persian, or Syriac,
etc.) linked to specific social contexts, concentrating on one or
several of the following research themes: 1) Questions related to
the perception and the description of social categories; 2) Self
defined groups and implicit categorisations; 3) The theoretical
endeavours of social categorisation and their historical pertinence.
IFAO. News. Call for papers. Publicated: 15-2-2008
ICOMOS
International Scientific Committee of Vernacular Architecture (CIAV)
Newsletter n°8
Contents:
- Quebec 2008
- Red River Terrace
- 2008/US International Exchange in Historic Preservation
- CIAV New Members
- Bangkok Documentation Camp
ICOMOS. CIAV. Newsletters. Publicated:
15-2-2008 |
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Proceedings
of the 16th International Symposium of the IIWC, Florence, Venice
and Vicenza, Italy, 11th - 16th November 2007
The Symposium of the 16th ICOMOS Wood International Committee,
toned to 40th ICOMOS Anniversary celebrated with the Exhibition in
Milan, February 2007, on the theme “From Restoration to Conservation”,
was planned to mark the passage from the studies on the materials
to the more general ones on the structural systems; the aim was to
convey experiences and studies on this topic, improve the ethodologies
on the appraisal of the ancient timber structures and to document,
in the Countries of the Members, single case studies. This can lead
to an international paradigmatic knowledge on the matter to be used
to recognise, in the practice, the different kinds of failure also
allowing to start a first hypothetical assessment of the causes. this
way encouraging the elaboration of methodologies on the appraisal
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Year of Languages to be launched at UNESCO
International Mother Language Day, celebrated on 21 February every
year since 2000, will also mark this year the start of the International
Year of Languages proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly,
which has entrusted its coordination to UNESCO.
UNESCO. Media Advisory N°2008-10. UNESCOPRESS.
Publicated: 07-02-2008
Religious
heritage and sacred places. 18 April 2008 - The International Day
for Monuments and Sites
The International Day for Monuments and Sites was created on 18th
April, 1982, by ICOMOS and later approved at the 22nd UNESCO General
Conference in 1983. This special day offers an opportunity to raise
public awareness concerning the diversity of the world’s heritage
and the efforts that are required to protect and conserve it, as
well as to draw attention to its vulnerability...
ICOMOS. News. France. Publicated: 13-2-2008 |
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The
Soviet Heritage and European Modernism. Heritage at Risk - Special
Edition
Edited by Jörg Haspel, Michael Petzet, Anke
Zalivako and John Ziesemer
Year: 2006
ISBN 978-3-930388-50-9
This new issue of the ICOMOS World Report on Monuments and Sites
in Danger (Heritage at Risk) focuses on a special topic. Whereas the
earlier annual or bi-annual reports which have come out since the
year 2000 have had a global approach in that they discussed monuments
world-wide and from all periods of time, this volume is concentrating
on the architectural heritage of the 20th century, especially in Russia
and the former Soviet Republics. For the most part the articles and
case studies are based on papers presented at the Moscow conference
“Heritage at Risk. Preservation of 20th-Century Architecture
and World Heritage”. This conference took place in Moscow in
April 2006 on the occasion of the International Day for Monuments
and Sites and was co-organised by ICOMOS. |
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Follow
the archaeological reconstruction of the Savonnières 'scute'
The reconstruction of a mediaeval flat-bottomed boat known as a
'scute' in Savonnières is a project of cultural and heritage
significance. The work calls on the knowledge and skills of both
the archaeologist and the carpenter, to identify the rules by which
it was made and the traditional techniques used. The site of this
long-term project is open on the first and third Saturdays of the
month to give everyone the chance to learn more about this heritage
craft. Instigated by the Boatmen of the Cher and François
Beaudoin, a specialist archaeologist of river craft, the project
is supported by the Banque Populaire Foundation and local authorities.
Val de Loire Mission. Projects in the Loire.
News. France. Publicated: 5-2-2008
Cultural
heritage Europe in Three-dimensional construction
The University of Louvain (Belgium) has launched the creation of
a European digital library. A group of PhD students from the university
use a scanner with the shape of a cupola with the purpose of producing
digital images that can be used by scholars…
ENCATC. Newsletter. Issue 1-2008. Page
10. Poland. Publicated: 1-2-2008
ARQUEOTUR.
Archaeological tourism Website
The website Arqueotur, dedicated to Archaeological Tourism was awarded
by Yahoo Iberia with the “revelación” prize in
the travel category, voted by yahoo users. This website is developed
by our colleagues Jordi Tresserras and Lluís Bonet and aims
to bring to the general audience the activities related to the archaeology
and make public the museums with archaeological collections, thematic
routes, festivities and offer of specialized firms in this sector.
In its first year, arqueotur.org received 500 visits daily. Congratulations
to our colleagues for this interesting project!!
ENCATC. Newsletter. Issue 1-2008. Page
10. Poland. Publicated: 1-2-2008
ENAME
– Session at the World Archaeological Congress. “Toward
International Principles in Heritage Interpretation: Ideological
Imposition or Tools for Intercultural Communication?”
Interpretation of the meaning of cultural heritage sites is
a central component of public participation in historical reflection
and collective memory. It is also inherently important to the conservation
process and plays an important role in promoting resource stewardship.
Agencies and institutions in Australia, North America, and Europe
have promulgated standards and policies that are aimed at facilitating
social, conservation and stewardship principles...
6th World Archaeological Congress. Programme.
Sessions. Irlanda. Publicated: 1-2-2008
New
webpage on the archaeology of Morocco
Entitled "Neolithic and protohistory of Morocco", it presents
all the new research carried out in different regions of Morocco:
Oued Laou, Jbala-Ghomara, Oued Beht, Plateaux de Zemmour, Oued Noun,
Anti-Atlas, Souss-Tekna, Oued drâa, Tafilalet, as well as
synthesis works on current topics time like paleo-metallurgy, campaniform,
calcolithic, bronze age, libic substrate or paleo-amazigh, origins
of the urban habitat, funeral rites, etc.
Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie
et du Patrimoine. News. Maroc. Publicated: 31-01-2008
UNESCO
organized Expert Advisory Group on Water and Cultural Diversity
The first meeting of the expert advisory group for Water and Cultural
Diversity took place in Paris on 7 - 8 January 2008. The group is
composed of experts representing a variety of disciplines working
on water—anthropology, geography, philosophy, ecology, engineering,
hydrology—as well as NGO activists and an artist. Representatives
of institutional partners such as UNU-IAS and RIHN (Research Institute
for Humanity and Nature, Japan) also participated in the meeting.
UNESCO. Water Portal. Newsletter Nº
198. Publicated: 28-01-2008 |
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