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1. Call for Papers: Lights On! Sustaining Light-Based Art: Upcoming Symposium at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart 2. RE: Care of Collections Reading Group - 5 August 16.00 BST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.From: Carolin Bohlmann Posted: Saturday July 5, 2025 9:36 PM Subject: Call for Papers: Lights On! Sustaining Light-Based Art: Upcoming Symposium at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Message: Please see the attached Publication Attachments for symposium details and submission guidelines. Prof. Dr. Carolin Bohlmann Institutsleitung Institute for Conservation-Restoration | modern & contemporary art Institut für Konservierung-Restaurierung | moderne & zeitgenössische Kunst T +43 (0) 664 808878800/ 00491777477135 [email protected] Augasse 2-6 I Kern N I A-1090 Wien 2.From: Casey Mallinckrodt Posted: Saturday July 5, 2025 9:37 PM Subject: RE: Care of Collections Reading Group - 5 August 16.00 BST Message: What a great idea! I'd love to join in! ------------------------------ Casey Mallinckrodt Head Conservator Denver Museum of Nature & Science Denver United States ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Original Message: Sent: 07-04-2025 16:15 From: Meagen Smith Subject: Care of Collections Reading Group - 5 August 16.00 BST Care of Collections Reading Group - 5 August, 2025 via Zoom. Fifth session reading choice is: Wickens, J. D. J. (2024). Preventive Conservation: Continuously Defining Itself at the Crossroads of Theory and Practice. Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, 1–13. 10.1080/01971360.2024.2348924 Background: The group meets the first Tuesday, every two months for an hour of discussion 16.00 BST. 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! To sign up: https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/7eddc1b9-1c70-4517-bd65-593a00803148/select A reminder email with Zoom details will be sent 1 week and 1 day before the session. Hope to see you in August. ------------------------------ Meagen Smith Library and archive conservator Lambeth Palace Library ------------------------------ Original Message: Sent: 06-07-2025 09:08 From: Meagen Smith Subject: Care of Collections Reading Group - 5 August 16.00 BST The Icon 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 BST. 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! To sign up and vote for your choice of texts: https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/7eddc1b9-1c70-4517-bd65-593a00803148/select <https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/7eddc1b9-1c70-4517-bd65-593a00803148/select> **Fifth session: 5 August, 2025 via Zoom. The link will be emailed closer to the date. **Fifth session reading choices are: *** Angelova, L.V., Nawaz, S., Kafadaroğlu, B. et al. The use of 'poisonous insecticidal solutions' in bookbinding: coping with historic pesticide treatments in the archive. Herit Sci 11, 51 (2023). doi 10.1186/s40494-023-00866-y *** Conserving Transparent Plastics: Bringing Research into Practice Through the Treatment of the Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Sculpture Giraffa Artificiale doi 10.1080/00393630.2025.2450980 *** Wickens, J. D. J. (2024). Preventive Conservation: Continuously Defining Itself at the Crossroads of Theory and Practice. Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, 1–13. 10.1080/01971360.2024.2348924 Votes will be checked early July and the preferred the text communicated by email and a follow up post. ------------------------------ Meagen Smith Library and archive conservator Lambeth Palace Library ------------------------------ You are subscribed to "Global Conservation Forum (ConsDistList)" as [email protected]. To change your subscriptions, go to http://community.culturalheritage.org/preferences?section=Subscriptions. To unsubscribe from this community discussion, go to https://community.culturalheritage.org/HigherLogic/eGroups/Unsubscribe.aspx?UserKey=d16eaa87-0f69-494b-9f2f-303dbc1222e1&sKey=fab9aa4f27a04c5d876e&GroupKey=757a8f16-505f-4323-8e74-e376757aa9f7.
