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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