AIC 2011 - Philly!
A little Rocky reference and Philly reference.
I am planning on attending the AIC 2011 annual meeting in Philadelphia. I am arriving on Monday evening and leaving on Sunday afternoon, I was really intrigued by the Research and Technical Studies lectures, I think I will probably attend many of those talks. I am also attending meetings for the committees I am involved with - the Emerging Conservation Professionals Network (ECPN) and the Committee for Sustainable Conservation Practice.
This year my funding for attending this meeting was provided by the George Stout Grant. I am very happy that my proposal for this meeting was funded because it will allow me to continue my studies in preventive conservation and environmental systems by attending the one-day workshop ‘Saving energy in HVAC for conservation environments’. I have been continuing to refine the research I began in 2009 at Winterthur on sustainability and I have edited the final report for publication in the preventive conservation working group at the ICOM-CC 16th Triennial Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. While the paper has been completed, I would like the lecture to have the most up to date information possible to facilitate discussions amongst the preventive conservators who are present at the meeting.
Tuesday evening I will be at the ECPN informational meeting, 5:30-6:30PM in meeting room 406 on the 4th floor of the hotel. We welcome all who are interested in learning more about ECPN.
Wednesday I am looking forward to seeing Thomas M. Edmondson and Nancy Heugh receive the Sheldon and Caroline Keck award for conservation training, this is a great year for Tom Edmondson, he won the rubber chicken award at the 2010 MRCG meeting and now the Keck award at AIC. I interviewed Tom for the FAIC oral history archives a few weeks ago and it was great to hear him speak about the importance of mentoring and why he believes it is the duty of established conservators to be mentors. Speaking of mentoring, there is still a need for mentors for the ECPN mentoring program, and applications are available online and I will have a stack with me at the annual meeting to recruit new mentors. Wednesday I am attending the RATS talks on Microclimates.
Thursday I am attending the joint ASG/RATS session in the morning, but the afternoon is currently open, I think WAG and EMG both look good and the NCPTT study of rust converters looks really interesting, but I wonder if I could make the trek back and forth in the afternoon to each of these talks. Friday evening is the ECPN happy hour and dinner, and if you are still in town (and even if you are not an emerging conservator) we would like you to drop by.
As with most of the annual meetings, there are many talks I would like to hear in many different sessions and I won’t have time to be in both places at once. Rachael Perkins Arenstein is recruiting bloggers to cover all sessions and I hope I will be able to get an overview of the lectures I cannot attend by reading the AIC blog.
See you in Philly!