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1. Starting next week: Natureculture Lab: January 27-29, 2025, HKB Bern 2. Conservation and Heritage Science Technician, Historic England 3. Upcoming Webinars: MS3 Varnish (Feb 4th) & the Reformulating Beva 371 Project (Feb 24th) 4. RE: Looking for information about copies of book 'Aurora Australis' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.From: Hanna Holling Posted: Monday January 20, 2025 8:14 AM Subject: Starting next week: Natureculture Lab: January 27-29, 2025, HKB Bern Message: The Natureculture Lab workshop is happening next week: Join us from Monday, January 27, to Wednesday, January 29, 2025, at HKB Bern. 🔹 In-Person & online participation: The public part of the event is free of charge, and you can attend either in Bern or via Zoom. 🔹 Registration required: Please register <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/natureculture-lab-tickets-1100294102279?aff=oddtdtcreator> in advance to receive the Zoom link and a curated reading list before the event. 🔹 Updated program below: Check out the latest details on the schedule and speakers. We look forward to welcoming you! This international workshop aims to bring together in a hybrid format experts of conservation in two domains: on the one hand, art and cultural heritage conservation; and on the other hand, nature conservation. In both domains the "things", "items", "objects" or "sites" conservators and conservationists care for are increasingly recognized as natureculture hybrids. While art conservation, especially in its earlier guise of restoration, primarily considered artworks as the outcome of human-and especially the artist's-intentions, the field of art conservation has increasingly recognized that the materials of artworks undergo unintentional, and sometimes unexpected, changes and are subject to loss and decay well outside human control. At the other end, while inspired by ideas of pristine wilderness, nature conservation in its earliest instances was primarily geared towards the establishment of national parks and nature reserves fortified against human intervention, conservationists have come to value humans as inherent to the ecosystems they care for. Given that the "things" and "sites" for which (art) conservators and (nature) conservationists hold responsibility are interplays of human and non-human agencies and thus natureculture hybrids, both fields and communities consider ontologically similar objects, and should exchange views. The workshop will explore questions such as, How should conservation practices in both nature and art be redefined in light of the inevitable and sometimes desirable changes to the material make-up of objects, landscapes and environments? How can new conservation theories that embrace change and transformation, particularly those emerging from contemporary art, inform and reshape traditional conservation approaches that prioritize permanence and stability? Who gets to decide where and how conservation occurs, considering the historical silencing and displacement of human voices in both ecological restoration and cultural heritage conservation? How can the field of conservation expand beyond top-down expert models to embrace decolonizing community engagement, thereby raising questions about the future role of experts? CONTRIBUTORS: Ravi Agarwal, Lotte Arndt, Jacob Badcock, Marjolijn Bol, Sven Dupré, Josephine Ellis, Noémie Etienne, Rodney Harrison, Hanna B. Hölling, James Kuboja, Felicity Lunn, Emilie Magnin, Daniel Margoscy, Laura Martin, Julia Robles de La Pava, Christian Rosset, Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya, Friederike Schäfer, Anna Schäffler, Maartje Stols-Witlox, Aga Wielocha, Jerylee Wilkes Allemann and Glenn Wharton. ORGANIZATION: Natureculture Lab has been organized by Hanna B. Hölling (HKB Bern Academy of the Arts) and Sven Dupré (Utrecht University/University van Amsterdam) with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation Scientific Exchanges Grant, the Bern University of Applied Science Network Grant, the Institute Materiality in Art Culture at HKB Bern Academy of the Arts and the Center for Critical Conservation. Download the full program, including the abstracts and the speakers' short bios, at this link <http://www.hannahoelling.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ABSTRACTS-BIOS_Natureculture-Lab-C.pdf>. Direct your questions to [email protected] <[email protected]>. ------------------------------ Dr. Hanna B. Hölling, Research Professor Project Lead: SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge | SNSF Activating Fluxus Bern Academy of the Arts Research Division | Institute Materiality in Art and Culture, Fellerstrasse 11, 3027 Bern [email protected] https://performanceconservationmaterialityknowledge.com/ https://activatingfluxus.com/ ------------------------------ 2.From: Francesca Gherardi Posted: Monday January 20, 2025 8:14 AM Subject: Conservation and Heritage Science Technician, Historic England Message: Conservation and Heritage Science Technician Historic England, Fort Cumberland Laboratories, Portsmouth (UK) Permanent, Full time Salary £32,869 - £33,817 per annum, depending on skills and experience We have a very exciting opportunity for a Conservation and Heritage Science technician to develop external access to our laboratory facilities, provide analytical advice, training and support to visiting researchers, conduct analysis and imaging, and support our operations by managing laboratory equipment and resources, and building our client base for the analytical services we provide. Working primarily with our materials scientists and conservators, you will analyse a wide range of cultural materials, from archaeological and maritime sites, museum collections and historic buildings, including metals, ceramics, organics, stone and polymers. Training will be provided but experience of using chemical analysis, and at least one of the following (SEM-EDS, XRF, XRD, or FTIR spectroscopy), is essential. You will manage the operation of the laboratories, including overseeing maintenance contracts and routine calibration of equipment, as well as undertaking imaging, analyses, quality assurance and data management in support of Historic England projects and services. You will play a key role in the delivery of the AHRC Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) <https://www.riches.ukri.org/> programme funded project 'Creating a national integrated mobile and fixed lab for collections, historic buildings and sites <https://www.riches.ukri.org/funding/what-we-have-funded/tranche-1-facilities/creating-a-national-integrated-mobile-and-fixed-lab-for-collections-historic-buildings-and-sites/>' working closely with the Collections Access Manager, based at Fort Cumberland, and your counterpart in the English Heritage conservation science team based in Rangers House, London. The closing date is 2nd February 2025 and the provisional interview date is 11th February 2025. To apply, please visit: Conservation and Heritage Science Technician <https://app.beapplied.com/apply/lljpqb7ijf> Please share and feel free to contact me with any questions. ------------------------------ Francesca Gherardi Senior Materials Scientist Historic England Portsmouth, Southsea United Kingdom ------------------------------ 3.From: Fiona Rutka Posted: Monday January 20, 2025 3:11 PM Subject: Upcoming Webinars: MS3 Varnish (Feb 4th) & the Reformulating Beva 371 Project (Feb 24th) Message: The Paintings Specialty Group leadership committee is thrilled to share the news of upcoming webinars on MS3 Varnish and the Reformulating Beva 371 Project. These webinars are FREE for PSG and EPCN members. If you haven't yet renewed your PSG membership, now would be a great time as the $25 fee more than covers these events, as well as future webinars PSG leadership has planned. A Virtual Panel on MS3 Varnish will take place on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. EST The panelists include: · Carl Villis, Senior Conservator of Paintings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, who was involved in the development of MS3. · Jill Whitten and Robert Proctor, Whitten & Procter Fine Art Conservation, Houston, TX. · Peter Van de Moortel, Chief Conservator, and Shan Kuang, Conservator of Paintings, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX. · Michael Swicklik, Senior Conservator of Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. The panelists will share their experiences and preferred solvents, solutions, and techniques for using MS3 varnish. They'll discuss their decision-making processes when choosing to use MS3 and other varnishes available. Participants are invited to submit questions in advance of the webinar, and there will be the opportunity to ask questions at the end. Questions can be sent to [email protected] with the subject line "MS3 Virtual Panel Questions." We hope this virtual panel will offer a collegial setting to share and compare experiences, with a focus on practical applications, in the context of analytical information. Link to register for the Webinar: AIC & FAIC Learning: MS3 Varnish: A Virtual Panel Discussion <https://learning.culturalheritage.org/products/ms3-varnish-a-virtual-panel-discussion> Cost: FREE for PSG and EPCN members; $15 for all other AIC members; $20 for non-AIC members. An Update on the Reformulating Beva 371 Project will take place on Monday, February 24, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. EST This Virtual Panel will share results from the multi-year Reformulating Beva 371 Project, headed by Chris McGlinchey and supported by the Getty Foundation via their Conserving Canvas initiative. The Project is focused on working with Conservator's Products Company <https://www.conservators-products.com/> in the U.S. and Centro Trattamento Superfici <https://ctsconservation.com/en/> (aka CTS) in Europe to make the optimized formulation commercially available. The panelist will review the studies conducted on the traditional solvent-based version of the optimized formula, in comparison to the original and current blend. They will also introduce two solvent-free forms: pre-blended pellets and an open-weave non-woven fabric of (at least) two different densities. They hope to have sufficient time for questions. Participants can submit questions to Chris ([email protected] <[email protected]>) in advance of the webinar. Note: The panelists are not receiving remuneration from the companies that commercialize Beva 371. The purpose of this virtual presentation is to provide information on the new formulation and answer related questions to aid conservators in their decisions-making. Link to register for the Webinar: AIC & FAIC Learning: Update on the Reformulating Beva 371 Project: A Virtual Discussion <https://learning.culturalheritage.org/products/update-on-the-reformulating-beva-371-project-a-virtual-discussion> Cost: FREE for PSG and EPCN members; $15 for all other AIC members; $20 for non-AIC members. ------------------------------ Fiona Rutka Paintings Conservator Canadian Conservation Institute, Ottawa, Canada ------------------------------ 4.From: Laura Mirebeau Posted: Monday January 20, 2025 8:52 PM Subject: RE: Looking for information about copies of book 'Aurora Australis' Message: Kia ora Alice, As Jennifer said, happy to answer any questions you may have and provide you with photos of the copies we hold at the National Library of New Zealand. They're in rather good condition. My email is [email protected], feel free to contact me directly. All the best for your project, how wonderful! Nga mihi, Laura Mirebeau (she/her <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.publicservice.govt.nz%2Four-work%2Fdiversity-and-inclusion%2Fpronoun-use-in-email-signatures&data=04%7C01%7CLaura.Mirebeau%40dia.govt.nz%7C4e9cd8c030c1469f47db08d9f59d30c7%7Cf659ca5cfc474e96b24d14c95df13acb%7C0%7C0%7C637810877742882945%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=2KbXP5CzoyVYzu1CAFhLH5FtO1XU8dJmCDparLKCHT0%3D&reserved=0>), | Kaitauwhiro Pukapuka me ngā Pepa | Conservator, Books and Paper Alexander Turnbull Library | National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington PO Box 12349, Thorndon, Wellington 6144, New Zealand | http://natlib/govt.nz/ <http://natlib/govt.nz/> Alexander Turnbull Library is part of the Department of Internal Affairs ------------------------------ Laura Mirebeau Book and Paper Conservator National Library of New Zealand Wellington New Zealand ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Original Message: Sent: 12-19-2024 14:30 From: Jennifer Koerner Cauchi Subject: Looking for information about copies of book 'Aurora Australis' Kia ora Alice, The National Library of New Zealand holds 3 copies of the Aurora Australis and you can read a little bit about those copies in this blogpost: Antarctic wonder | National Library of New Zealand <https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/antarctic-wonder> . The post also mentions locations of some other known copies as well as referencing this website which maintains a list of known copies: Census of the Aurora Australis <http://www.antarctic-circle.org/aurora.census.htm>. There are also some links to digitised copies in Australia as well. Our book conservator Laura Mirebeau would be able to give you more detailed information on the NL copies, if you email her at [email protected] <[email protected]> or email me at [email protected] <[email protected]>. Jennifer ------------------------------ Jennifer Cauchi Senior Conservator Kaitauwhiro Matua National Library of New Zealand Wellington ------------------------------ 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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