The 9th US/ICOMOS International Symposium
Newport, Rhode Island, April 19-22, 2006
US/ICOMOS - the United States Committee for the International Council on Monuments and Sites
The 9th Sympsoium is co-sponsored and hosted by the Newport World Heritage Committee.

The long conversation between the American preservation experience and international programs has had a huge influence on the protective and management standards established in the World Heritage Operational Guidelines, something that continues to this day. In the international back-and-forth exchange of ideas contributions are adapted and transformed in ways that often improve them beyond recognition. When these return to our shores, along with fresh innovations from abroad, they find new applications as entirely new solutions to our own domestic challenges.

It is in this spirit of learning from each other that the 9th US/ICOMOS International Symposium will convene on 20 to 22 April, 2006, in historic Newport, Rhode Island, to look once again at the World Heritage Convention and its List as a rich source of models to improve the protection and management of the vast heritage of the United States, as well as to share with others some of our more recent national, state and local initiatives and approaches that may be applicable to World Heritage sites, with a particular focus on World Heritage cities, but not to the exclusion of other categories of sites.

As in years before, US/ICOMOS is issuing this universal call for abstracts that relate innovative experiences, preferably related to World Heritage sites, that deal with the full range of challenges associated with historic urban centers and towns, in accordance with the following sub-themes:

1. Different perceptions of historic cities and sites and consequences on their protection and management.
2. Lesson from World Heritage cities or sites in creating broader sustainable protection strategies.
3. Examples of World Heritage sites in building public awareness and support.

US/ICOMOS will accept electronic (Microsoft Word or Adobe pdf. files only), or hard copy abstracts with a maximum text of 250 words, in English. Abstracts must be received in US/ICOMOS by 31 October 2005. The page with the abstracts must contain the title of the propose paper, the name of the author(s) and the contact information. Abstracts may be accompanied by one (1) illustration only.

A committee of distinguished preservationists will evaluate all abstracts. Authors selected for presentation will be notified by 1 January 2006 at the latest.

Non-complying abstracts will not be considered.

Please, send your abstracts by e-mail to:

symposium@usicomos.org
or by fax to: 1-202-842-1861
or by courier / regular air mail (please, no return mail signature requests nor registered mail):

US/ICOMOS
Attn: 9th Symposium Abstracts
401 F Street NW, Room 331
Washington DC 20001-2728