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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Snell, Samantha <SnellS@si.edu> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 15, 2021 1:47 PM<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Snell, Samantha <SnellS@si.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Updated Abstract due date - 8/9 - Safety and Cultural Heritage Summit<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="background:white;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">The Summit is Virtual in 2021! Now accepting Abstracts for the 2021 Safety and Cultural Heritage Summit:</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Preserving Our Heritage and Protecting Our Health Virtual Professional Development Seminar</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">The Potomac Section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the Washington Conservation Guild, the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Safety, Health
and Environmental Management, and the Smithsonian National Collections Program will once again collaborate with the Lunder Conservation Center to host a Safety and Cultural Heritage Summit.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">We are now accepting abstracts focusing on controlling health and safety risks from preparing, treating, managing, and exhibiting artistic, historic, and natural
science collections as well as abating structural hazards and responding to disasters impacting collections, including challenges of the pandemic. We welcome case studies and action plans, and we encourage joint presentations by conservators, collections care
professionals, AND health & safety professionals!</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Abstract and summit details, as well as a copy of last year's program, can be found in the attachments.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Please send your presentation abstracts to </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121"><a href="mailto:summit-abstracts@washingtonconservationguild.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#008272">summit-abstracts@washingtonconservationguild.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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