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16.04.2018 - Two weeks left to submit your abstract to the ICAHM 2018 Annual Meeting
Abstract Submission Deadline 1 May

In the European Year of Cultural Heritage the 2018 ICAHM Annual Meeting will focus on the overriding need to develop a holistic and integrated approach to heritage management. The meeting will focus on six key themes that lie at the heart of current debates and concerns relating to different approaches and subjects all of which need to be mainstreamed into to archaeological heritage management:

Community Engagement
Climate Change
Tourism
Non-Invasive technologies
Archaeoastronomy
Continuing the Africa Initiative

Please see the Call for Papers and visit the conference page for more detailed information.

16.04.2018 -Call for Session Proposals - ''Sustainability: Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development'' - Deadline 30 April

The ICOMOS Annual General Assembly and Advisory Committee meetings (with all the associated parts) will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 4 to 8 December 2018, on the generous invitation of ICOMOS Argentina.

The meetings will be accompanied by a one-day Scientific Symposium on the theme of “Sustainability: Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development” organised by the Advisory Committee. The Symposium will take place on 7 December in La Plata (very close to Buenos Aires).

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20.12.2017 - New Executive Committee!

It is our pleasure to announce the results of our recent election. Congratulations and welcome to our new ICAHM executive members and Regional Vice Presidents:
John Peterson (USA) – President
Nelly Robles Garcia (Mexico) – Vice President
Adrian Olivier (UK) – Secretary General
Matthew Whincop (Australia) - Administrative Secretary
Yumiko Nakanashi (Japan) - Financial Secretary

Sam Makuvaza (Zimbabwe) VP Africa, Andrew Mason (Canada) VP America, Assaad Seif (Lebanon) VP Arab-States, Katsuyuki Okamura (Japan) VP Asia-Pacific, Alicia Castillo Mena (Spain) VP Europe.

We thank our outgoing executive members, Douglas Comer (President) and Ian Lilley (Secretary-General) for all their efforts, hard work, and contributions on our behalf.

16.12.2017

Salalah Guidelines For The Management Of Public Archaeological Sites , a product of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM), was just adopted as an ICOMOS Doctrinal Text at the ICOMOS General Assembly in New Delhi. Thank you to all the ICAHM members who contributed to the development of the guidelines over several years!