Subject: Bard Graduate Center Seminars - Call for Participation from
Early Stage Conservation Professionals
Bard Graduate Center, with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, invites applications from early stage conservation
professionals (“in the final year of a conservation program and up to 5
years after graduating with their terminal degree in conservation”) to
participate in a “wandering seminar” that will visit five New York-area
collections between September 2018 and January 2019. This seminar will
be led by our “Conservation as a Human Science” fellow, who will be
spending six months in New York based at the Bard Graduate Center, and
six months in Amsterdam, based in the Conservation & Scientific Research
Department of the Rijksmuseum.
In New York, the seminar members, along with the hosting conservator
(and curator, as appropriate) will gather around a problem object and
discuss it from the variety of perspectives represented in the room. The
members will discuss strategies for the research, treatment, display,
and interpretation of the work(s) and also contribute to broadening the
spectrum of issues to be discussed.
BGC will select up to five “Conservation as a Human Science Associates”
to join the wandering seminar next year. Applicants should submit a
cover letter, c.v., and names of two referees by 1 April 2018. The cover
letter should explain (a) why applicants wish to participate in this
initiative, (b) how they would wish the field to evolve in the next
decade and (c) reflect on how this might affect their understanding of a
problematic object they have come across thus far in their experience.
For additional information on the project please consult the Cultures of
Conservation website (
http://cultures-of-conservation.wikis.bgc.bard.edu/ ) or
[email protected].
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