The goal of the conference is bring higher education leaders in historic environment programs (e.g., historic preservation/heritage conservation) together from across the globe to present their research, discuss important questions, and begin to offer answers that will produce better historic environment specialists and further define educators’ roles and responsibilities in the greater professional and public arena.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a paper for further review and possible inclusion in a conference proceedings that will be published by the University Press of New England. (Submission of a paper is not required to present at the conference.)

The keynote speaker will be Dr. Silvio Mendes Zancheti, Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Integrated Conservation (CECI) and Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Brazil. At UFPE, Dr. Zancheti helped develop a curriculum based on integrated urban heritage conservation -- a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to conserving built heritage.

Please visit the conference web site at http://rwu.edu/go/pec for details on submission guidelines, the conference venue, registration, lodging, and transportation.