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1. RE: CALL for PAPERS: Conservation and Care - a special issue of the Journal of the Institute of Conservation October 2025 2. Care of Collections Reading Group - 4 February 2025 16.00 GMT 3. RE: Looking for information about copies of book 'Aurora Australis' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.From: Jéssica Tarine de Lima Posted: Sunday December 22, 2024 1:05 PM Subject: RE: CALL for PAPERS: Conservation and Care - a special issue of the Journal of the Institute of Conservation October 2025 Message: Dear Dr. Kemp, I hope this message finds you well. I recently came across the Call for Papers for the "Conservation and Care" special issue of the Journal of the Institute of Conservation. I am very interested in contributing and wanted to check if it is still possible to submit an Expression of Interest or a proposal, as I realize the deadline is approaching. If submissions are still being accepted, could you kindly confirm the next steps or any specific guidelines? Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to your response. Best regards, ------------------------------ Dr. Jéssica Tarine Moitinho de Lima Professor Universidade Federal do Pará Pará - Brazil [email protected] ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Original Message: Sent: 12-18-2024 04:26 From: Jonathan Kemp Subject: CALL for PAPERS: Conservation and Care - a special issue of the Journal of the Institute of Conservation October 2025 Conservation and Care Call for Papers Journal of the Institute of Conservation Editor: Jonathan Kemp, Guest Editor: Hélia Marçal Conservation has long been tempered by medical metaphors, with terms such as condition, diagnosis, treatment, or preventive and remedial conservation prevalent in its discourse. However, nowadays we are witnessing a fresh reading of care concerning conservation, mainly through engagement with the bourgeoning field of care ethics. This Special Issue hopes to take stock of the entangling of conservation and care ethics to discuss the ways in which conservation is being or can be transformed or consolidated as a caring practice. Here we are considering conservation in the most capacious sense of the term, to include all forms of practice that contribute towards the conservation of cultural manifestations, such as collection management, community interventions, or policy-making, to mention a few. With this Call we start from the five phases of social and health care proposed by the feminist scholar Joan Tronto in Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice (New York University Press, 2013): caring about, or recognizing caring needs in the first place; caring for, or assuming responsibility for caring; care-giving, or the hands-on work of caring; (...) care-receiving, that is, being responsive to the ways in which the caring processes either have or have not met the initial needs (...), [and] caring with, or thinking about the effects of multiple care processes on trust and respect. (Tronto 2013, 148) Arguably conservation mirrors some, if not all these phases of care. After all, conservation is grounded in caring about cultural heritage and heavily invested in care-giving and care-receiving practices of various kinds. Caring-with is different in that it concerns the relational nature of care, which is bound to ethical-political processes, some of which are extremely hard to characterise or even discern. For Tronto, uncovering the relationships that support care is essential to make care more democratic and just: Charting the flow of caring through these processes is a first step toward making them more democratic (...). To what extent do practices of care permit caregivers and care receivers to understand the entire process? (Ibid.) At stake here are not only the complex ways different agents – including institutions - are involved in conservation-as-care and the impact of those dynamics in the ways in which physical, mental, emotional (and everything in-between) labour is recognised and distributed, but also how conservation performs and has performed in the politics of care and vice-versa. For this special issue of JIC, we seek submissions that rehearse the relationships conservation-care in their most expansive forms. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Community participation in conservation practices, Conservation between the communal and the individual, Conservation diplomacy in times of conflict, Conservation labour, Democratic decision-making in conservation, Ethics of restitution and repatriation, Gender and conservation, Heritage regimes and conservation, Historical perspectives on nation-building and conservation, Justice and conservation, Race and racialisation and conservation, Relationality in conservation practices, The impact of institutional dynamics in conservation work, The uses of the term care to define conservation work across historical periods, cultures, and specialisms, Wellbeing in conservation work. All those directly and indirectly involved in the preservation of cultural heritage and who identify as emerging professionals are encouraged to contribute to this special issue of the Journal. The Journal seeks to represent the diversity of views of those involved in the practice, theory, and politics of conservation and welcomes scholarly treatments, research and case studies that encompass themes relevant to the special issue. We will support you to develop your article through the peer review process and mentorship opportunities will be available to first-time authors. Consideration will also be given to articles that take the form of a conversation or an opinion piece. Potential authors are invited to submit a short (100-250 word) Expression of Interest/synopsis for consideration by the Editorial Panel to [email protected] <[email protected]> by the 15th of January 2024. Selected authors will be informed in early March 2025. Full articles are expected by July 2025. Many thanks! Dr Jonathan Kemp FIIC Editor, Journal of the Institute of Conservation https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcon20/current <https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcon20/current> Please note that I work on a flexible basis across a number of time zones so there can be a delay in my response to your enquiry This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual(s) to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient and have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete the email. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message and attachments that do not relate to the official business of The Institute of Conservation are neither given nor endorsed by it. 2.From: Meagen Smith Posted: Sunday December 22, 2024 1:06 PM Subject: Care of Collections Reading Group - 4 February 2025 16.00 GMT Message: The Care of Collections Reading Group explores and discusses open access articles covering preservation, collection care and collection wide conservation such as environmental monitoring, risk management, collection moves, etc. This activity provides an accountability partner for reading through the new or established research as a method of keeping our awareness high. The group meets the first Tuesday, every two months for an hour of discussion 16.00 GMT. All are welcome to attend –though if you haven't read the book/journal/article, you won't miss any spoilers: degradation, embrittlement, climate change! Second session: 4 February, 2025 via Zoom. Second session reading choice - please indicate one of the three when signing up: Jernæs, N. K., & Fjellgaard Mikalsen, R. (2023). In the Heat of the Moment: Testing Fire-Protective Covers for Mitigating Damage to Large Historic Inventories. Studies in Conservation, 69(8), 662–673. https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2023.2275098 Christel Pesme, Presentation of Tools Helping to Set a Preservation Target for Displaying Light Sensitive Collection items, Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos [En ligne], Colloques, mis en ligne le 07 juillet 2016, consulté le 22 décembre 2024. https://doi.org/10.4000/nuevomundo.69241 Bastholm, Camilla & Andersen, Birgitte & Frisvad, Jens & Østergaard, Stine & Nielsen, Jeppe & Madsen, Anne & Richter, Jane. (2024). A novel contaminant in museums? A cross-sectional study on xerophilic Aspergillus growth in climate-controlled repositories. The Science of the total environment. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173880 To sign up and indicate your preferred text: https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/7f5d0498-0843-4ef9-b3ee-6c23e744f6c2/select ------------------------------ Meagen Smith Library and archive conservator Lambeth Palace Library ------------------------------ 3.From: Barry Knight Posted: Sunday December 22, 2024 1:07 PM Subject: RE: Looking for information about copies of book 'Aurora Australis' Message: Dear Alice, There are certainly copies in the British Library, Cambridge University Library, The Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, and Christ's College Cambridge. Also the National Library of Scotland. Regards, ------------------------------ Barry Knight Conservation Scientist St Albans UK ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Original Message: Sent: 12-21-2024 09:41 From: Philippa Räder Subject: Looking for information about copies of book 'Aurora Australis' Hi Alice, Royal Collection Trust has a copy in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (where I used to work). https://www.rct.uk/collection/1121970/aurora-australis-1908-09 <https://www.rct.uk/collection/1121970/aurora-australis-1908-09> I will send you a message privately about this. If you are able to share your findings eventually, that would be fantastic! ------------------------------ Philippa Räder Dragon Press Bindery [email protected] <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Original Message: Sent: 12-18-2024 02:54 From: Alice Evans Subject: Looking for information about copies of book 'Aurora Australis' Dear all, In preparation for working on the Bodleian's copy of 'Aurora Australis', the book printed and bound on Shackleton's journey to Antarctica in 1908, I am hoping to find out a bit more about the location and condition of other copies (it's estimated between 70 and 100 were made), and in particular if/how they have been conserved and digitised. Any information about other copies would be gratefully received. Best wishes, Alice Alice Evans Book Conservator Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford You are subscribed to "Global Conservation Forum (ConsDistList)" as [email protected]. 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