Call for Papers     TEXTILE SYMPOSIUM '97
                         Fabric of an Exhibition: An Interdisciplinary Approach

     You are invited to submit an abstract for the first North American Textile
     Conservation Conference which will be held in Ottawa, Canada September 22
     to 25, 1997. This symposium will be hosted by the Canadian Conservation
     Institute, Department of Canadian Heritage. Subsequent symposia, with
     varying themes, will be hosted by major institutions in North America on a
     biennial basis. Curators, designers, conservators and other museum
     professionals will address issues related to the successful exhibition of
     textiles. Topics to be covered could include:

     - travelling exhibitions
     - safe or unsafe exhibition materials and methods
     - lighting
     - balancing preservation and accessibility of collections
     - display and mounting solutions
     - exhibit considerations for both large and small institutions
     - limitations of conservation treatment for exhibitions

     Papers, which should be of 30 minutes duration, INCLUDING time for
     introduction and questions, will be published as preprints. The official
     languages of the symposium will be English and French.

     Call for Posters
     In addition to formal presentations, submissions for poster sessions are
     also welcome. A cash prize of $300 (CDN) is graciously being offered by the
     Textile Conservation Newsletter for the best poster submitted by a student
     enrolled in a museum/conservation programme. The student posters will be
     juried and the award made, provided the poster is of sufficient merit.

     Call for Demonstrations and Videos
     Submission for demonstrations and videos are also encouraged. The length of
     time for demonstrations is flexible, but should be no longer than one hour.

     Edited abstracts of posters, demonstrations and videos will also be
     published in the preprints.

     Abstracts (300-400 words) for formal presentations, poster sessions,
     demonstrations and videos should be submitted by 1 August, 1996. Edited
     abstracts will be published in both languages. All submissions will be
     reviewed by the Steering Committee who will make the selection of papers,
     posters, demonstrations and videos.

     Authors will be notified of acceptance by early October, 1996 and will be
     sent a guideline for text, poster, demonstration or video. Final texts of
     papers for the preprints will be required by 30 January, 1997.

     All submissions should consist of the speaker's name, address, Internet or
     e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers, a short one paragraph biography,
     the title of the submission and a 300-400 word abstract.

     Please send your submission to:

     Symposium '97
     Canadian Conservation Institute
     Department of Canadian Heritage
     1030 Innes Road
     Ottawa, Canada  K1A 0M5
     Tel: (613) 998-3721
     Fax: (613) 998-4721
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