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	Conferences and Symposia St. Mark's Historic Landmark Fund's Fifth Annual St. Mark's Day Lecture Date: May 19, 2009 WMF VP John Stubbs, panelist: ”Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Preservation Pioneer James Marston Fitch & the work of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation” Florida Southern College Frank Lloyd Wright Textile Block Conservation Meeting Date: April 29-May 1, 2009 Organized by the World Monuments Fund and attended by Amy Freitag, Director of US Programs, who participated in panel discussions with the other conservators, engineers, architects, and historians. The 2009 Newport Symposium Great Escapes: Villas, Country Places, and Pleasure Pavilions Date: April 27-29, 2009 WMF VP Henry Ng presented "The Tranquility and Longevity Palace Garden, an 18th Century Retreat within The Forbidden City" Jewish Heritage Seminar: Care, Conservation and Maintenance of Historic Jewish Property Date: March 17-20, 2009 Mark Weber, WMF Technical Director, and representative for Eastern and Central Europe, served as panelist. Preservation Matters Date: January 31, 2009 Erica Avrami, Director of Research and Education, was a panelist at this symposium on the future of preservation education at New Orleans's Tulane University. The daylong event examined the contemporary role of preservation in a rebuilding city. US/ICOMOS Conference Date: May 2008 Norma Barbacci, WMF Program Director for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, presented: “Capacity Building Program for the Conservation, Management, and Sustainable Development of the Jesuit Guarani Missions of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay" Washington DC. International Symposium on Conservation and Sustainable Development of Italian Tuff Towns Date: May 2008 WMF, in collaboration with the Northwest Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in Italy (NIAUSI), convened an international symposium at Civita di Bagnoregio, Pitigliano, and Orvieto to develop effective conservation strategies for the tuff towns, the legendary hilltop towns of Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio. Participants include geotechnical engineers, conservators, local government officials, as well as experts in regional planning, cultural tourism, and sustainable economic development.Fact sheet. Terra 2008 Conference Date: February 2008 "Sustaining an Ancient Tradition: WMF and the Conservation of Earthen Architecture" presented by Gaetano Palumbo (co-authored with Bonnie Burnham, Norma Barbacci, Mark Weber). Bamako, Mali. Vanguard Lost and Found The Peril and Preservation of Soviet Modernist Architecture Date: September 28 and 29, 2007 Co-sponsored by the World Monuments Fund, the Architectural League of New York, and the Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition featured images of several Russian Modernist sites on the World Monuments Watch, including the Narkomfin Building, Melnikov's House Studio in Moscow, and St. Petersburg's Mendeleev Tower. ICOMOS International Symposium Date: April 2007 Lecture by WMF's John Stubbs: "Angkor Wat, Fifteen years of Conservation, Interpretation and Heritage Tourism" (with Tim Winter and Simon Warrack). Archaeology in Conflict Conference Date: November 2006 "GCI-WMF Iraq Cultural Heritage Conservation Initiative" presented by Gaetano Palumbo (with Neville Agnew and David Myers). University College London. Heritage at Risk: Preservation of 20th Century Architecture and World Heritage Date: April 2006 Sponsored by WMF and other organizations. WMF VP of Field Projects John Stubbs on mobilizing support for conserving 20th-century architecture. Moscow. Phnom Bakheng Workshop on Public Interpretation Date: December 2005 Under the auspices of APSARA (Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor). Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia. New Alliances for Past, Present, and Future Date: July 2004 Press release, abstracts, proceedings, executive summary, participants (requires Acrobat). In collaboration with ICOMOS/Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Future of Jewish Heritage in Europe Date: April 2004 WMF and co-sponsors. John Stubbs presented. Prague, Czech Republic.