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Conference Announcement: The First Regional Conference on Cultural Property Protection

The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) in partnership with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) and the US Department of State initiated a series of regional workshops. This initiative will bring together Ministry representatives and other officials from the region to discuss case studies, best practices, and expand their professional networks in the area of cultural property protection.

• Venue: Online
• Dates: 10/08/21–12/08/21

National Trust Awards $3 Million in Grants to 40 Sites to Help Preserve Black History

On July 15, 2021, the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced more than $3 million in grants to 40 sites and organizations through its African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.

CULTURE IN CRISIS: GLOBAL HERITAGE PERSPECTIVES WEBINAR SERIES: CULTURE HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY VALUE

Join us for the next session in our Global Heritage Perspectives Series.

• Venue: Zoom
• Date: 19/07/21
• Time: 4:00pm–5:00pm

Call for Papers: ‘Heritage for the future/Science for heritage, a European adventure for research and innovation’

Under the French presidency of the Council of the European Union, which will take place during the first semester 2022, the Foundation for Heritage Science (FSP) will organise with the European Commission, and in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), a conference dedicated to heritage science: ‘Heritage for the future/Science for heritage, a European adventure for research and innovation’. It will be held on 15 and 16 March 2022, in Paris.

Symposium Announcement: UNESCO: Strengthening the resilience of memory institutions in Africa in the face of COVID-19 and beyond

We are pleased to invite you to join the UNESCO symposium on "Strengthening the resilience of memory institutions in Africa in the face of COVID-19 and beyond" scheduled for 7 September at 10:00 am CET via Zoom.

• Venue: Zoom
• Dates: 07/09/21–08/09/21

WEBINAR SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT: ‘CULTURE IN CRISIS: GLOBAL HERITAGE PERSPECTIVES’

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the British Council and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Culture in Crisis Programme are thrilled to announce a renewed partnership to produce their second interactive series of webinar events, slated to commence in July 2021, focusing on ‘Culture in Crisis: Global Heritage Perspectives’.

• Venue: Online
• Dates: 05/07/21–30/08/21

The Nicosia Convention presented at UN Workshop on the Protection of Cultural Heritage

On 14-15 June 2021, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) organised an online Intersessional Workshop on Cultural Rights and the Protection of Cultural Heritage.

Call for Papers: Invisible Reconstruction

Invisible Reconstruction is an initiative to change current thinking on disaster preparedness and recovery. In the 10th anniversary year of the Great East Japan Earthquake and in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Invisible Reconstruction conference seeks papers that promote best practices to reinforce and repair the intangible threads that create societies.

INTERPOL launches app to better protect cultural heritage

ID-Art app will empower fight against stolen works of art, cultural heritage crimes

SHUBBAK FESTIVAL 2021

Ten years after the Arab Spring Shubbak, London’s biennial festival of contemporary Arab culture, returns with an ambitious programme reflecting on people, connections and ideas in a fundamentally unsettled world.

• Venue: UK
• Dates: 20/06/21–17/07/21