Application deadline: 1 July 2013 Dates: 28 February – 30 April 2014Place: Rome, Italy Background ICCROM is pleased to announce the fifth training course on Conservation of Built Heritage in Rome. ICCROM has been a pioneer in organizing courses in heritage conservation since 1965 including the Architectural Conservation Course (ARC) and many other regular courses…
Reblogged from Ekostories: Last entry on The Botany of Desire explored the social and natural histories of common everyday plants, revealing how they have shaped our values even as we altered them for our own purposes. It serves as a reminder that our connection with the non-human world is not a one-sided affair; it is…
Reblogged from alokchitra: Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, one of the bio-diversity hot-spot located in the Tinsukia district of Assam is home to a number of endangered flora and fauna. The national park is home to the critically endangered white winged wood duck, endangered black breasted parrotbill, the unique feral horses, vulnerable marsh babbler, swamp francolin, jerdon’s…
Reblogged from The Dirt: According to Professor Ikem Stanley Okoye, University of Delaware, “there has been no scholarly work that explores African landscapes that doesn’t somehow implicate the Europeans.” That statement may be less true given a recent conference on cultural landscapes in Sub-Saharan Africa at Dumbarton Oaks. Organized by John Beardsley, the head of…
As part of its 44th annual conference, the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) will conduct the Healthy Rhode Island Environmental Design Summit on Wednesday, May 29, at the Omni Providence hotel in Providence, R.I. Co-sponsored by the Rhode Island Department of Health, this seminal event brings together the expertise of researchers from around the…
