Call for Papers
Conservation: Principles, dilemmas and uncomfortable truths
Royal Academy of Arts, London
September 24-25, 2009
The Royal Academy of Arts is organizing a two-day symposium following the
publication in Summer 2009 of the book Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas
and Uncomfortable Truths, edited by Alison Richmond and Dr. Alison Bracker.
The symposium seeks to re-examine conservation principles, theories,
and taboos regarding art, artefacts, buildings, monuments and sites,
human remains, natural history, the arts and antiquities markets,
and cultural heritage institutions within the context of the
changing global economic and environmental climate of the early 21st
century. The purpose of the symposium is to bring up-to-date and
diverse thinking to bear on such potential topics as:
The artist's voice reconsidered
Principles and the management of resources within a changing
climate
Conservation ethics, the art market, and/or the antiquities
trade
Conservation, sustainability, and climate change
The tangible and the intangible
Originating communities' rights and involvement reconsidered
Conservation and open knowledge systems
How can conservation negotiate spiritual value and significance?
Conservation values and society
We invite abstracts for papers that cover these and other relevant
themes from a variety of disciplines, periods, and approaches, as
well as specific case studies. The dissemination of selected
symposium contents is likely to be web-based. Please send abstracts
of no more than 500 words by 31 March 2009 to:
Alison Richmond
a.richmond [at] vam__ac__uk
Dr. Alison Bracker
alison.bracker [at] royalacademy__org__uk
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