Activitities: Meetings and Workshops

National and International Meetings and Workshops

American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works
AIC will hold the 34th AIC Annual Meeting, Using Artifacts: Is Conservation Compromised?
during 16-19 June, 2006 in Providence, Rhode Island. The AIC publishes The Journal
of the American Institute for Conservation (JAIC).
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International Institute for Conservation
The IIC will hold the 21st IIC International Triennial Congress, The Object in Context:
Crossing Conservation Boundaries, 3-8 September 2006 in Munich, Germany. The IIC
publishes the journal, Studies in Conservation.
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ICOM-CC
The International Committee on Museum- Conservation Committee aims to promote the conservation, investigation and analysis of culturally and historically significant works and to further the goals of the conservation profession. See the link for the Working Group for Scientific Methods of Examination of Works of Art. The 14th Triennial Meeting will be held from 12 - 16 September 2005 in The Hague (The Netherlands). The Theme will be: Our cultural past - Your future!
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Society for American Archaeology
The SAA will hold the 71st Annual meeting from 26-30 April, 2006, in San Juan, Puerto
Rico. The SAA publishes two journals, American Antiquity and Latin American Antiquity.
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The Materials Research Society
The MRS held meetings in France (June 2004 and 2005), in Mexico (August 2005), and
the US annual meeting in Boston (Dec. 2004). The European MRS meeting was published in Applied Physics A (2005). The Boston meeting is in press as MRS Symposium Proceedings volume 858 and the Mexican MRS will be published in 2006. The MRS is currently sponsoring an exhibit, Strange Matter, that is touring the U.S. and Canada.
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The Eastern Analytical Symposium
EAS is an annual four-day international professional meeting on analytical chemistry.
The New York Conservation Foundation (NYCF) coordinates and co-supports the
Conservation Science Annual sessions, part of annual EAS technical and exposition
programs. The 12th EAS / NYCF Conservation Science Annual at the Eastern
Analytical Symposium (EAS) will be held 14-17 November, 2005 in Somerset, New Jersey.
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Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies
The Campbell Center offers continuing education in historic preservation, museum
studies, preventive collections care, and conservation.
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Modern Paints Uncovered: A Symposium at the Tate Modern, London, May 16-19, 2006
co-organized by the Getty Conservation Institute, the National Gallery of Art,
Washington D.C., and the Tate
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Infrared and Raman Users Group 7th Biennial meeting
This meeting will take place March 28-31st, 2006, at the Museum of Modern Art
in New York.
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Local Meetings and Workshops

The Annual Arizona Statewide Historic Preservation Partnership Conference organized
by the Center for Desert Archaeology met in June 2005 in Tucson. The 4th Annual
Meeting will be held in the spring of 2006. This meeting entitles registration in
interesting sessions with outstanding speakers, and the chance to meet peers from
around the state.

Archaeological Institute of America – Tucson Society
The local society has a lecture program and has sponsored the construction and firing
of a replica Greek kiln. The 107th Annual Meeting will be in Montreal, Quebec,
January 5-8, 2006. The society produces three publications, American Journal of
Archaeology, Archaeology magazine and Dig for children.
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The Arizona State Museum
The Arizona State Museum (ASM) is on the University of Arizona campus and exhibits
material culture from Arizona and also has special exhibits, such as the jewelry of
Ben Nighthorse, former U.S. senator from Colorado.
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The Center for Creative Photography
This Center is at the University of Arizona and exhibits, archives and documents
photographs as an art form and cultural record.
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The University of Arizona Museum of Art
This museum exhibits a collection of panel paintings by the Spanish artist
Gallego (ca. 1488), Greek and other Mediterranean pottery, and the sculpture of
Jacques Lipschitz, among others.
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Conservation Training Programs and Programs in the Preservation of Art and
Archaeological Heritage
- Winterthur Museum and Sculpture Gardens and University of Delaware Program
- Conservation Program at Buffalo State
- New York University Institute of Fine Arts
- Queen's University, Canada, Graduate Program in Art Conservation
- Kilgarlin Center for the Preservation of the Cultural Record
- UCLA / Getty Program in Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation
- Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania
Historic Preservation at Columbia University, New York
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