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FEDERATION OF AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETIES INC

 

e-BULLETIN No. 121 – 16 February 2014

 

Hon Editor, Dr Ruth S. Kerr

 

 

1) Future of heritage forum, South Australia

 

2) Heritage Victoria offering HERMES training

 

3) Military Historical Society of Australia - Biennial Conference - Maryborough, Qld

 

4) Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage & the Arts - courses in 2014

 

5) Celebrating Heritage seminar - Albany, WA

 

6) Penrith City Library - Makings of a City history conference

 

 

1) Future of heritage forum, South Australia

 

20 FEBRUARY 2014

 

The National Trust of South Australia, in partnership with the Hawke Centre, University of South Australia, will be holding a public forum titled Future of heritage – Planning to protect Adelaide’s heritage on Thursday 20 February 2014 at 6.00pm.


Panellists include:

Location:
Bradley Forum, Hawke Building Level 5, UniSA City West campus, North Terrace, Adelaide

 

This is a free event, however registrations are essential. Please visit the website to register or for further information.

 

(Source: Australian ICOMOS Email News No. 618 – 31 January 2014)

 

 

2) Heritage Victoria offering HERMES training

 

Heritage Victoria is offering a training session on the online heritage database HERMES, a web delivered database customised to manage information for heritage places. HERMES is managed by Heritage Victoria and used by the Victorian government, the National Trust and local government to record heritage sites in the State.

 

HERMES is the ‘backend’ database holding information from the Victorian Heritage Register and Heritage Inventory, the National Trust and participating local governments which is publicly available through the Victorian Heritage Database and also on certain local government websites.

 

HERMES is widely used by heritage consultants to prepare heritage studies. Local councils commissioning heritage studies should require consultants use HERMES as outlined in the standard consultants brief, ‘Heritage Victoria’s Model Consultants Brief for Heritage Studies’ (2010). It is useful for historical societies and museums as commissioning bodies to be aware of the Hermes program being used by their consultants.

 

The training will also include a session on updating on entering/interpreting archaeological data.
Date: Friday 21 February 2014
Time: 9am -11am
Venue: IT Training Room, Level 15, 1 Spring Street, Melbourne
Bookings: Training is free but bookings are required and please cancel if you are unable to attend
RSVP: by email to Lisa Rogers by 14 February and include:

(Source: Australian ICOMOS Email News No. 618 – 31 January 2014)

 

 

3) Military Historical Society of Australia - Biennial Conference - Maryborough, Qld


Friday 18 - Monday 21 April 2014

 

Members and guests of the Military Historical Society of Australia (MHSA) are invited to attend the Society’s Biennial Conference, hosted by MHSA QLD Branch.


Conference Theme
2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War One. This year’s conference theme recognizes the impact 1914 had on Australia.


Location
The conference will be held at one of Australia’s finest private museums, the Maryborough Military & Colonial Museum, 106 Wharf Street, Maryborough Q 4650

 

Cost
The cost for the two day conference is $70 (or $40 per day). The Conference Dinner is an additional $40 per person. Registration includes morning and afternoon tea and lunch. Please advise us of special dietary requirements

 

Program and Speakers
The program is attached. For information on the speakers, please visit the MHSA website
www.mhsa.org.au

 

Conference Dinner
The Conference dinner is on Saturday 19 April located upstairs at the RSL Club, 165-173 Lennox Street, Maryborough. Dinner is at 6.30 for a 7.00 pm start. Mr Keith Payne VC OAM, honorary member of MHSA QLD, will be the guest speaker for the evening.

 

Further Enquiries
For further information about the conference please contact John Meyers on 07 4123 5900, 0418 796 740 or email mbhmus@bigpond.net.au

 

(Source: Email from Military History Society of Australia, Queensland Branch – 1 February 2014)

 

 

4) Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage & the Arts - courses in 2014

 

The Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage & the Arts (IPPHA) is once again offering their most popular courses at Kosciuszko National Park and Port Arthur – get in early if you want places in these award winning courses.

  • The Physical Conservation of Buildings and Structures

31 March – 5 April 2014 at Kosciuszko National Park
A 6 day field-based professional development short course covering a range of physical conservation issues and strategies for conserving buildings and structures in place and landscape.
Part of a program awarded the ANU’s 2010 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Education. See the
Advance Notice – Physical conservation of buildings and structures flier for more information.

3 – 9 August 2014 at Port Arthur, Tasmania
An Advanced Professional Development Short Course presented by leading industry trainers Professor Sharon Sullivan and Dr Michael Pearson.
Part of a program awarded the ANU’s 2010 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Education. See the Advance notice – Best Practice in Managing Heritage Places flier for more information.
To fill in an expression of interest form go to the IPPHA website.

 

(Source: Australian ICOMOS Email News No. 618 – 31 January 2014)

 

 

5) Celebrating Heritage seminar - Albany, WA

 

Presentations are invited for the Heritage Council of WA seminar on 20-21 March 2014 at the Albany Town Hall focusing on Celebrating Heritage.


For details or to register for the seminar, visit the
State Heritage website or contact the Local Government Services Team (LGST) at the State Heritage Office on (08) 6552 4000 or email the LGST.

 

(Source: Australian ICOMOS Email News No. 618 – 31 January 2014)

 

 

6) Penrith City Library - Makings of a City history conference

 

The Makings of a City: Building a Nation - From Cox to Campaigns

 

8 March 2014

 

The impact of the survey by George Evans, followed by the great road building feat by William Cox and his men 200 years ago, to the fatal shores of Gallipoli and the Western Front 100 years ago will be the focus for the conference, subtitled Building a Nation - From Cox to Campaigns.

The keynote speaker is Royal Australian Historical Society President, Dr Anne-Maree Whitaker, a Cox descendent who will be setting the scene for the local history in Building a Nation as well as providing guests with an understanding of William Cox, the man.

The event is to be held in the Bonynge Concert Hall in the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, 597 High St, Penrith between 8.30am and 4.00pm. The cost of the conference is $40 per person.

 

Contact:
Penrith City Library Phone:(02) 4732 7891

http://opac.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/opac-2/branches/penlib.html

 

(Source: RAHS eNewsletter January 2014 Issue 2, Royal Australian Historical Society [outreach@rahs.org.au])