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Melbourne Journal of Technical Studies in Art: Call for papers
School welcomes Professor Ana Labrador, social anthropologist and curator, as a Visiting Scholar<
Melbourne Journal of Technical Studies in Art: Call for papers
30 July 2008
Volume III - Supports
The Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation and the Editorial Committee of the Melbourne Journal of Technical Studies in Art are delighted to announce the call for papers for the third volume of the journal which will focus on Supports. Submissions for papers may come from individuals or collaborators. Proposals should include the title, an abstract of 300 words maximum and the author’s biographical details. Full contact details must be included with all proposals.
The paper proposal deadline is 15th September 2008. Please email abstracts to jcgreene@unimelb.edu.au. Confirmation of acceptance or rejection will be emailed to all abstract proposers no later than 15th October 2008.
Final papers are to be received no later than 20th December 2008.
Please refer to the style guide (pdf 145kb) when preparing your abstract.
School welcomes Professor Ana Labrador, social anthropologist and curator, as a Visiting Scholar
13 February 2008
The School of Historical Studies welcomes the Professor Ana Maria Theresa Labrador, 2008 Visiting Scholar Award at the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation.
Dr Ana Maria Theresa Labrador is a social anthropologist and lecturer on Non-Western Aesthetics and Museum Studies and a lecturer in Anthropology and Cultural Heritage Management at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. She was previously the head of University of the Philippines’ Vargas Museum, and is a member of a team of experts’ for CollAsia 2010 program in Southeast Asia. She completed her DPhil at the University of Cambridge in 1998.
Professor Labrador is researching the inclusion of traditional approaches in preventive conservation training. One of the fundamental concerns is the concept of tradition in the European-North American sense that is different from the generally accepted notions in Southeast Asia. In the region, constructions of past and present are not separate but part of continuous cycles that have significant implications in terms of teaching preventive conservation and its scientific methods.
She will undertake two main research programs at the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (CCMC) examining indigenous conservation practice and the materials and techniques of Twentieth Century Art in the Asia Pacific.
Dr Labrador will be a resident from 15 February to 24 May 2008.