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World Heritage for TomorrowKeynote address: Baroness Andrews, Chair, English Heritage  This one day conference is jointly organised by ICOMOS-UK, The Open University, and University College London. It marks the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention by looking to the future of World Heritage in the UK and beyond.

This one day conference is jointly organised by ICOMOS-UK, The Open University, and University College London. It marks the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention by looking to the future of World Heritage in the UK and beyond. Programme Keynote address: Baroness Andrews, Chair, English Heritage http://www.openartsarchive.org/oaa/content/world-heritage-tomorrow-conference Session 1: World Heritage Sustaining which the world values, Chair: Rodney Harrison, UCL

Melanie Smith is one of Mexico's most celebrated contemporary artists. Her first UK survey exhibition will include a major new film, Fordlandia (2013), produced in the Brazilian Amazon in an abandoned city and rubber plantation built in the 1920s by Henry Ford; and the films Spiral City (2003) and Xilitla (2010), featuring Edward James’ architectural follies in the Mexican jungle. Melanie Smith In Conversation with Professor Dawn Ades is a rare opportunity to hear current exhibitor Melanie discuss her practice with writer, curator and lecturer, Professor Dawn Ades.

Marsha Meskimmon, 'The Precarious Ecologies of Cosmopolitanism'  The Open Arts Journal hosted a research seminar and reception at the OU Camden, London to mark the Journal’s launch this summer. Professor Marsha Meskimmon (Loughborough University), spoke about her article published in Issue 1, 'The Precarious Ecologies of Cosmopolitanism'. The presentation was followed by a panel discussion including: Professor Berthold Schoene and Dr Ellie Byrne (guest editors of our inaugural issue, and both at Manchester Metropolitan University) together with Open Arts Journal editor-in-chief Dr Leon Wainwright (OU Art History), and Q&A.

Berthold Schoene, Ellie Byrne and Leon Wainwright, panel discussion  The Open Arts Journal hosted a research seminar and reception at the OU Camden, London to mark the Journal’s launch this summer. Professor Marsha Meskimmon (Loughborough University), spoke about her article published in Issue 1, 'The Precarious Ecologies of Cosmopolitanism'. The presentation was followed by a panel discussion including: Professor Berthold Schoene and Dr Ellie Byrne (guest editors of our inaugural issue, and both at Manchester Metropolitan University) together with Open Arts Journal editor-in-chief Dr Leon Wainwright (OU Art History), and Q&A.

Diana Newall, 'Interactions on Rural Crete in the 14th century'  The workshop provided the Leverhulme Project team with an introduction to the context and issues associated to Crete, for the topic of their research. Speakers presented on a range of themes including social, economic, cultural, artistic and architectural aspects of Crete in the late medieval and early modern period.

Charalambos Gasparis, 'A Brief outline of the History of Crete during the first centuries of the Venetian rule'  The workshop provided the Leverhulme Project team with an introduction to the context and issues associated to Crete, for the topic of their research. Speakers presented on a range of themes including social, economic, cultural, artistic and architectural aspects of Crete in the late medieval and early modern period.

The workshop provided the Leverhulme Project team with an introduction to the context and issues associated to Crete, for the topic of their research. Speakers presented on a range of themes including social, economic, cultural, artistic and architectural aspects of Crete in the late medieval and early modern period.

Second Conference

This is the second conference for the ‘Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean’ project, which is taking place at the Institute for International Visual Arts (Iniva, London) on 3rd and 4th December, 2013. ‘Sustainable Art Communities’ is a two-year international research project led by Dr Leon Wainwright (The Open University, UK), with Co-Investigator Professor Dr Kitty Zijlmans (Leiden University), funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK).

Panel discussion, chairs: Leon Wainwright, Tirzo Martha, Kitty Zijlmans, Alex van Stipriaan  ​On 5-6 February 2013, the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute) hosted the project conference ‘Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean’.

Workshop Two: Networks and Infrastructure, chaired by Kitty Zijlmans and Leon Wainwright  On 5-6 February 2013, the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute) hosted the project conference ‘Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean’.

Leon Wainwright and Kitty Zijlmans, Workshop One: What is the basis for a Caribbean community and what role may art play?  On 5-6 February 2013, the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute) hosted the project conference ‘Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean’.

Leon Wainwright, Roundtable discussion  Chair: Leon Wainwright Tropenmuseum The Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute) On 5-6 February 2013, the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute) hosted the project conference ‘Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean’.

The Open Arts Journal hosted a research seminar and reception at the OU Camden, London to mark the Journal’s launch this summer. Professor Marsha Meskimmon (Loughborough University), spoke about her article published in Issue 1, 'The Precarious Ecologies of Cosmopolitanism'. The presentation was followed by a panel discussion including: Professor Berthold Schoene and Dr Ellie Byrne (guest editors of our inaugural issue, and both at Manchester Metropolitan University) together with Open Arts Journal editor-in-chief Dr Leon Wainwright (OU Art History), and Q&A.

Alex van Stipriaan, Remy’s and Marcel’s community/ties  This presentation will be focused on two artists – Remy Jungerman (1959) and Marcel Pinas (1971) – who were both born in or around the small mining town of Moengo, Suriname. Although no more than twelve years apart in age, they seem to belong to different generations in their respective careers. Nevertheless, these career paths cross with increasing frequency, and Moengo is their meeting and workplace, as well as a point of reference.

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