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World Heritage UK has issued a press statement regarding the rumoured UK withdrawal from UNESCO, as follows (or can be accessed here).

Following newspaper reports concerning the UK’s continued membership of UNESCO, World Heritage UK are pleased to note the following reported clarification statement from the Department for International Development: “There has been no change to our funding commitment to Unesco. The UK is working closely with Unesco and other member states to ensure it makes crucial reforms to deliver the best results and value for taxpayers’ money.” (13 November 2018).   World Heritage UK understands that scrutiny of bodies such as UNESCO is a legitimate political duty, but we also have the utmost confidence that the economic, environmental and social benefit delivered by the UK’s 31 World Heritage Sites can be proven to withstand any such scrutiny. The UK is a world leader in terms of heritage management and the benefit that we gain from, and contribute to, delivery of the UNESCO Convention is substantial. The whole ethos of the Convention is one of global co-operation which is essential to tackle challenges to our unique cultural and natural heritage. Plastic in our oceans and international tourism pressures are examples of issues that nations cannot practically resolve alone.

The European Architectural History Network is delighted to announce its next biannual meeting at the University of Edinburgh, UK, 10th -13th June 2020.  In accordance with EAHN’s mission, the meeting aims to increase the visibility of the discipline of architectural history, to foster transnational, interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches to the study of the built environment, and to facilitate the exchange of research in the field.  EAHN is a European organisation, but its intellectual scope is global, and the meeting welcomes proposals on any architectural historical topic.  As well as topics on any aspect of the built environment, proposals on landscape and urban history are also very welcome, along with proposals dealing with the theories, methodologies and historiographies of architectural history.

Proposals are sought in two basic formats: (1) a Session, and (2) a Roundtable debate.  A Session should plan for 4-5 paper presentations, with a respondent, and time for dialogue and discussion at the end.  A Roundtable debate should be an organised discussion between panel members, and the format would suit topics of particular urgency, or contemporary relevance.  Roundtables should also aim to activate audience discussion as far as possible. Sessions and Roundtables may be chaired by more than one person. At this stage, only the proposals for Sessions and Roundtables are required. A separate call for papers (CFP) for successful Sessions and Roundtables will be issued in April 2019.

Anyone wishing to chair a Session or a Roundtable debate at EAHN2020 are invited to submit proposals by 31stDecember, 2018. Chairs should make clear whether their proposal is a Session, or a Roundtable.

Please note that EAHN is self-funding, and chairs are expected to provide all their conference expenses, including travel and accommodation.

DCMS has issued a paper on Principles of Selection for Listed Buildings, which can be found here.

In the name of the Federal Minister for the EU, Arts, Culture and Media Gernot Blümel, Burghauptmannschaft Österreich has the pleasure to invite you to the closing conference of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 #EuropeForCulture, to be held on 6/7 December 2018 in Vienna, Austria.

The main focus will be on the legacy of the European Year of Cultural Heritage and the question “What remains from the European Year?” with the aim of establishing ideas for an ongoing commitment to the aims of the Year and make use of synergies in the future cultural policies of Europe.

Please note that for organizational reasons separate registrations for Day 1 and Day 2 are required.

The program is available here.

For questions regarding the event, please contact the Federal Chancellery of Austria (contact@kulturerbe.at). All public information, news and press releases can be found on the official presidency website http://www.eu2018.at .

Lost Heritage has compiled a complete list of lost English Country Houses, the current total standing at 1,993.  See here for more details and the list.

In the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH), the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE) is organising on Friday 23 November in Leeuwarden (The Netherlands) a public conference on Adaptive Re-Use and Transition of the Built Heritage.

With the evolution of European societies, many places in our built environment (notably industrial, religious and military sites) have lost their original function. Through smart restoration, renovation or transformation these buildings and sites can find new, mixed or extended uses. As a result, their social, environmental and economic value can increase, while their cultural or historical significance is enhanced.

Responsibility for re-imagining our built environment and heritage is shared by many stakeholders: architects, town planners, public authorities, financial institutions, owners and other built and heritage professionals. This conference will be an opportunity to bring architects and stakeholders of the heritage sector together to discuss:

• the skills, knowledge and competences necessary for quality heritage interventions;
• the design challenges inherent to adaptive re-use and the relationships and dialogue between heritage elements and new architectural interventions;
• the importance of heritage in the definition of a territorial identity and its impacts on the attractiveness of places.

This event relates to the Commission’s initiative on Heritage in Transition which aims to promote good practice and smart ways to transform Europe’s industrial, religious and military heritage for new use(r)s.  The conference will also aims to bring together the partners of the initiative to take stock of the lessons learned over the EYCH and discuss how to build on the momentum generated by the Year for future actions in this area.

NOTE: We have 6 final spaces available, please contact: James Davies – James.Davies@ahrc.ukri.org

Outputs from the day will be made available on the AHRC website soon after the event.

As part of the Joint Programming Initiative in Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPICH) a free workshop on Re-use and continued use of historic buildings, urban centres and landscapes is to be held at the University of Leicester. We would like to invite you to join the discussion and provide valuable insights which will feed into the development of a long-term strategy for the JPICH.

The workshop will include presentations and discussion on the following research areas:

• Conservation and Planning
• Diversity and Communities
• Immersive, multi-sensory engagement and virtual reality
• Contested Heritage

See here to book your place.

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The network of Trainers Life Beyond Tourism consists of professors, researchers and professionals in the fields of development, heritage, architecture, urban planning, tourism and international relations, as well as public administrations’ and local authorities’ representatives from Angola, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cameroon, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Lithuania, Mauritania, Morocco, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia and Ukraine for the total of 20 countries and 26 institutions all over the world. Discover who has already joined the network of Trainers here.

The Training for Trainers Life Beyond Tourism aims at providing participants with the necessary tools to independently carry out their own training activities on the themes of Life Beyond Tourism, its ethics, its Model and its Movement. At the conclusion of the course, the participants obtain a certificate of attendance, present their personal implementation proposal for the development of Life Beyond Tourism at their institution and, upon the successful evaluation on behalf of the Institute, they become International Trainers  Life Beyond Tourism.
To register at the next edition of January 28 – February 1, 2019, visit the Intensive Courses Training for Trainers Life Beyond Tourism® web-page.

The 2nd International Conference on “Geomatics and Restoration” – GEORES 2019 will take place in Milan (Italy), May 8-10, 2019.

GEORES2019 is organized by: Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (DABC) & Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU).  Co-organizers: Università degli Studi Firenze (UNIFI) and Politecnico di Torino (POLITO).

The conference is organized as an ISPRS and ICOMOS-CIPA Heritage Documentation event.  The conference is also supported by ISPRS, ICOMOS-CIPA Heritage Documentation, AUTEC, SIRA, SIFET, ICOMOS, EU ERA Chair on DH, UNESCO CHAIR on Digital Cultural Heritage at CUT.

The conference is an occasion for the experts of the two worlds of Geomatics and Restoration of Cultural Heritage to meet, share, exchange and explore common needs and new approaches in domain of heritage management.

See here for more information including important dates.

The GEO Business team are seeking revolutionary and thought provoking abstracts for a cutting edge seminar programme that truly demonstrates the remarkable impact geospatial technologies and solutions are having on our global environment.

All interested parties are asked to submit an abstract online before the deadline of 21 January 2019 at: www.GeoBusinessShow.com.