[NHCOLL-L:4305] Sustainable Heritage Conf.

[CAHawks at aol.com]

A conference on "Sustainable  Cultural Heritage" will be held on May 11, 
2009, 9:00am to 4:45pm, in Room M-09  of the National Endowment for the 
Humanities, in the Old Post Office Pavilion at  12th  Street and Pennsylvania 
Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.  No registration is required for this free 
conference. Public entrances to  the Old Post Office Pavilion are located on the 
south and east sides of the  building, and after 9am, on Pennsylvania Avenue. 
Follow this link for  the conference agenda:  
_http://www.neh.gov/projects/Conference_09May/NEH-CNR_Conference.htm_ 
(http://www.neh.gov/projects/Conference_09May/NEH-CNR_Conference.htm)  
Sponsored  by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Consiglio 
Nazionale delle  Ricerche (CNR) of Italy, this conference brings  together 
Italian and American experts to explore sustainable strategies for the  care 
of tangible cultural heritage. Speakers will discuss the impact of climate  
change on cultural heritage, methodologies for assessing the condition of  
collections and monuments, and strategic approaches to managing collection  
environments.  Speakers from the  U.S. include Michael C. Henry, Principal 
Engineer/Architect with Watson &  Henry Associates and Adjunct Professor of 
Architecture at the University of  Pennsylvania; Debra Hess Norris, Vice 
Provost for Graduate and Professional  Education and Chairperson, Art Conservation 
Department at the University of  Delaware; Jerry Podany, Senior Conservator 
of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty  Museum and President of the 
International Institute for Conservation of Historic  and Artistic Works; and James M. 
Reilly, Director of the Image Permanence  Institute and Professor in the 
Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of  Imaging Arts & Sciences. 
Speakers from Italy’s CNR include Adriana Bernardi and Cristina  Sabbioni of the 
Institute of Atmospheric  Sciences and Climate, Mara Camaiti of the 
Institute  for the Conservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage, and Luciano 
Cessari of  the Institute for Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage.  



Catharine Hawks
Conservator
2419 Barbour Road
Falls Church  VA 22043-3026 USA
t/f 703.876.9272
mobile  703.200.4370
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