Roman gold mines and the power of protests: exceptional example of local initiative by Katarzyna Jarosz (International University of Logistics and Transport, Wrocław, Poland)

The town of Roșia Montană (Romania) has one of the longest networks of Roman gold mines in the world. A Canadian firm, ‘Rosia Montana Gold Corporation’ plans to create Europe's largest open-cast gold mine in the village. However, the environmental and social impact of the project would be high. It will involve, for example, the dislocation of hundreds of families, the destruction of the oldest mines and archaeological sites, and the contamination of a local lake. The poster analyzes the origin, history and impact of the protests the project as well as the role played by civil engagement and society in protecting cultural heritage.

This is the abstract of a poster to be presented at 'The impact of cross-disciplinary conservation on social development', the UCL Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference 2014. 
The conference will be held Friday and Saturday, 16 & 17 May 2014, at the UCL Institute of Archaeology in Lecture Theatre G6 from 8:30 to 18:00.  Conference posters will be on display all day Friday in room 612.
You can book your tickets here!

Training local Thangkas restorers for the Matho Museum Project by Nelly Rieuf & Melany Wan

The Matho Museum Project involves restoring a vast number of Thangkas from the collection of the Matho Monastery in the Himalaya Ladakh region in India. The amount of Thangkas in need of conservation means that it is impossible to solely rely on volunteers from foreign countries that have received formal conservation training. For this reason eight local girls from the Matho Village have been recruited to be trained as Thangka restorers. The poster will explain the training process of the Thangkas restoration team and outline some of the challenges that the Project has faced.

This is the abstract of a poster to be presented at 'The impact of cross-disciplinary conservation on social development', the UCL Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference 2014. 
The conference will be held Friday and Saturday, 16 & 17 May 2014, at the UCL Institute of Archaeology in Lecture Theatre G6 from 8:30 to 18:00.  Conference posters will be on display all day Friday in room 612.
You can book your tickets here!

Museum, migrants and socio-economic human rights by Sophia Labadi (University of Kent, UK)

Labadi suggests that the practice of museum conservation can promote the wellbeing and economic prosperity of recent adult migrants and foster social cohesion. She discusses how these practices of conservation and interpretation have changed the relationships that migrants have with their host countries, but also their countries of origins. The poster provides in-depth analyses of pioneer programmes developed to promote social and economic human rights (specifically the right to education and the right to decent work) of recent migrants at Manchester Museum and the National Gallery of Denmark (Copenhagen).


This is the abstract of a poster to be presented at 'The impact of cross-disciplinary conservation on social development', the UCL Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference 2014. 
The conference will be held Friday and Saturday, 16 & 17 May 2014, at the UCL Institute of Archaeology in Lecture Theatre G6 from 8:30 to 18:00.  Conference posters will be on display all day Friday in room 612.
You can book your tickets here!