Upcoming Historic Preservation Conferences

Many thanks to the Preservation League of New York State and The Attic blog (the "virtual home of the Department of Museum Studies' research students, University of Leicester, UK") for bringing these conferences to our attention.

2007 ANNUAL WORKSHOP & BARN TOUR
April 19-21
Albany, New York

If you're interested in barns and other rural vernacular architecture then this conference is for you! A variety of topics will be discussed, including:

• barn stabilization and restoration techniques

• conducting barn surveys

• forming a local or statewide barn preservation group

• historic barn types, especially those in the Hudson River Valley

• protecting the endangered American barn & other farm buildings.

AGENDA:

• Friday, April 20: NBA Annual Business Meeting – OPEN to all. Find out what other states are doing and talk about the future of the NBA. Dinner: Talk by noted barn historian Bob Sherman.

• Saturday, April 21: NBA Annual Workshop - The latest information from nationally-known timber framers, barn historians & barn organizations. Dinner: Talk by timber framer Rudy Christian on the history of the tradesman.
  

• Sunday, April 22: Barn Tour - We will visit 4 barns in the Albany area, stopping for lunch along the way and returning to the hotel by mid-afternoon.
  

Registration Fees:
Friday & Saturday $225 (Students: $100)
Saturday Only $125
Barn Tour $ 50
Location: Best Western Albany Airport Inn, 200 Wolf Road, Albany
518-458-1000 / www.bestwestern.com
A block of rooms has been reserved at $79/night.

For Registration Materials contact Katie at Woodford Brothers, 800-653-2276


OPEN SOURCE HISTORY - MAKING HISTORY PUBLIC CONFERENCE
April 19-21, 2007
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Join the American Association for History and Computing (AAHC) and Brown University's Public Humanities Program for an innovative look at how technology allows increased dialogue between historians and a broad public audience. This conference will be of interest to anyone concerned with bringing history to a general audience, including museum professionals, archivists, librarians, historic preservationists, filmmakers, as well as academic historians.

The conference will explore:

• The role of technology in breaking down the barriers between historians and the public

• Ways that historians have used technology to communicate with diverse audiences

• How the practice of "academic history" changes when made public

• New forms of collaboration between historians, archivists, librarians, historic preservationists, teachers and students

• New forms of display and historical representation

If you are an historian (academic, public, secondary education, graduate student), or engage history through a related discipline (librarian, archivist, publisher, editor, etc.), this conference will provide a chance to meet other professionals to discuss technology's use in history.

Special Events:

• Brewster Kahle, Director and Co-founder, The Internet Archive, presents the keynote address: "Universal Access to Human Knowledge (Or Public Access to Digital Materials)" - Mark Tribe, professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown, and founder of Rhizome.org, on The Port Huron Project
  

• Workshops on digital libraries, video in historic preservation, 3-D laser scanning, text encoding, Zotero, and GIS!

• Papers on on-line history, using geographic information systems in historical and historic preservation work, preserving digital collections, archives, and more!

For more information: http://theaahc.org/cfp.htm