WMF Lectern
The Future of Babylon
Dates
July 19-24, 2010
Time
TBD
Location
WOCMES Barcelona 2010
World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies
Barcelona, Spain
Speaker/Topic
Dr. Alessandra Peruzzetto presents on “Future of Babylon” at WOCMES Barcelona 2010, World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, in Barcelona, Spain. Over 2500 researchers and experts on the Middle East, coming from a large number of universities, research centers and other organizations from all over the world, will gather in Barcelona in 2010 at the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES). For full details, please visit WOCMES.
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The Future of Babylon
WMF and Lednice-Valtice in the Czech Republic
Date
May 28, 2010
Time
10:00 AM
Location
Lednice Horticultural School
Speaker/Topic
John Stubbs, Vice President, Field Projects, World Monuments Fund, gives a slide presentation of World Monuments Fund’s roles in the re-activation and conservation of the famous former Liechtenstein estates of Lednice and Valtice located in Southern Moravia, Czech Republic.
For more information contact Suzanna Halsey, Friends of Czech Greenways, info@pragueviennagreenways.org tel: 1-718-258-5468.
Related Projects
Lednice And Valtice Cultural Landscape
Saving Our Past: A Global Tour of the World Monuments Fund’s Work in Architectural Conservation
Date
May 10, 2010
Time
6:30 PM
Location
The Counting House at the New Orleans Collection
533 Royal Street
New Orleans
Speaker/Topic
John Stubbs, Vice President, Field Projects, World Monuments Fund, presents Saving Our Past at the 29th annual Martha Robinson Lecture event of the Louisiana Landmarks Society.
For more information contact Suzanna Halsey, Friends of Czech Greenways, info@pragueviennagreenways.org tel: 1-718-258-5468
Headfort House: A Case Study
Date
April 24, 2010
Location
Historic Preservation Conference in Little Compton and Tiverton, Rhode Island
Speaker/Topic
David Gundry, Projects Director, World Monuments Fund, Britain, presents “Headfort House: A case study” at the 25th annual statewide Historic Preservation Conference in Little Compton and Tiverton, Rhode Island
Related Projects
Headfort House, Kells, Co. Meath
The Future of Babylon Project: Management Planning at Babylon, Iraq
Date
April 6-10, 2010
Location
Vienna International Center, UN-City, Vienna, Austria
Speaker/Topic
Alessandra Peruzzetto, Jeff Allen, Gina Haney, and present “The Future of Babylon Project: Management Planning at Babylon, Iraq,” at the international conference Archaeology in Conflict at the Vienna International Center, UN-City, Vienna, Austria.
Related Projects
The Future of Babylon
World Monuments Fund & Disaster Recovery in Italy: Venice, Assisi and Abruzzo
Date
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Time
6:30 PM
Location
Italian Cultural Institute in London, England
Speaker/Topic
Almost a year after the earthquake that struck the Abruzzo Region and devastated buildings and churches in the historical centre of L’Aquila, Lisa Ackerman, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer at the World Monuments Fund, funding the restoration of the Abbey of St. Clemente in Casauria, will speak of the World Monuments Fund & Disaster Recovery in Italy: Venice, Assisi and Abruzzo.
Modernism at Risk, Modern Solutions for Saving Modern Landmarks
Date
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Times
Press preview: 10:00 AM -12:00 PM
Public opening: 6:00 PM
Location
AIA New York Center for Architecture
Speakers/Topic
Lisa Ackerman, WMF Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, and Amy Freitag, WMF Program Director for the U.S., will be speaking on WMF’s Modernism at Risk initiative. For more information, please see our press release.
Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting
Date
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Time
2:45 - 5:45 PM
Location
Anaheim, California
Speaker/Topic
John Stubbs, WMF Vice President, Field Projects, discusses Pitfalls in Archaeological Site Conservation Planning and Implementation, a special topics roundtable at the annual AIA meeting. For more information, please visit the AIA web site.
ICCROM, Rome
Date
Friday, December 4, 2009
Location
Via di San Michele, 13
Rome, Italy
Speaker/Topic
John Stubbs, WMF Vice President, Field Projects, discusses his latest publication Time Honored: A Global View of Architectural Conservation
Archaeological Institute of America — Westchester Society
Date
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Location
Greenburgh Library
300 Tarrytown Road, Elmsford, NY
Speaker/Topic
Lisa Ackerman, WMF Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Saving Babylon