[NHCOLL-L:4264] Sustainable Cultural Heritage Conference

[CAHawks at aol.com]

Save the Date! A one-day conference on "Sustainable  Cultural Heritage" will 
be held on May 11, 2009 in Washington, D.C. Free, no  registration required, 
and open to anyone interested.  
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and  Italy’s Consiglio 
Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) will host "Sustainable Cultural  Heritage" on May 11, 
2009, in Washington, D.C., at the NEH, in the Old Post  Office Building. The 
meeting will focus on preventive conservation and explore  stewardship 
strategies that are economically sustainable and environmentally  sensitive. Among 
the topics to be addressed are environmental standards for  museum, library, and 
archival collections and emergency preparedness and  response.  
Speakers from the U.S. will 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 for Antiquities 
at the J. Paul Getty Museum and President of the  International Institute for 
Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works; and  James Reilly, Director of 
the Image Permanence Institute and Professor in the  Rochester Institute of 
Technology’s College of Imaging Arts & Sciences.  Speakers from Italy will be 
announced in mid-April when we send out the agenda  for the conference.  
Laura J. Word 
Senior Program Officer 
Division of Preservation and Access  
National Endowment for the  Humanities 
1100 Pennsylvania  Avenue, N.W. Room 411 
Washington, D.C.  20506 
202/606-8570  
_lword at neh.gov_ (mailto:lword at neh.gov)  


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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