Save the Date! A one-day conference on "Sustainable Cultural Heritage" will be held on May 11, 2009 in Washington, D.C. Free, no registration required, and open to anyone interested.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and Italy’s Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) will host "Sustainable Cultural Heritage" on May 11, 2009, in Washington, D.C., at the NEH, in the Old Post Office Building. The meeting will focus on preventive conservation and explore stewardship strategies that are economically sustainable and environmentally sensitive. Among the topics to be addressed are environmental standards for museum, library, and archival collections and emergency preparedness and response.

Speakers from the U.S. will include Michael C. Henry, Principal Engineer/Architect with Watson & Henry Associates and Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania; Debra Hess Norris, Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education and Chairperson, Art Conservation Department at the University of Delaware; Jerry Podany, Senior Conservator for Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum and President of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works; and James Reilly, Director of the Image Permanence Institute and Professor in the Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of Imaging Arts & Sciences. Speakers from Italy will be announced in mid-April when we send out the agenda for the conference.

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