The 7th CrystAC Workshop on "Provenance in Art and Cultural Heritage" on the occasion of the ChemCH in Bratislava, Slovakia

Date: 1 July 2024, Bratislava, Slovakia

Place: Slovak National Gallery, Riečna 1, Bratislava, Slovakia

Organisers: Silvie Švarcová (svarcova@ii.cas.cz)

There is no fee for participants but because of limited capacity the registration is required. Please register by e-mail to the organizer Dr. Silvie Svarcova (svarcova@iic.cas.cz).

In keeping with the terms of reference of the Commission, the CrysAC workshop on “Provenance Studies in Art and Cultural Heritage” is within the series of one-day workshops organized by the IUCr Commission on Crystallography in Art and Cultural Heritage, aimed to stimulate knowledge exchange between crystallographers, researchers and other experts interested in Cultural Heritage investigations. Different communities are invited to present reviews of established research, recent results and envisaged trends in key areas of Archaeometry and Conservation Science. The present workshop, organised as a satellite meeting of the 7th International Congress Chemistry for Cultural heritage (CHemCH 2024, Bratislava, Slovakia), will invite scientists from research institutions, museums, and conservation bodies, in order to illustrate state-of-the-art studies focusing on determining origin of materials (manufacturing method or natural sources) and provenance of art objects (whether in the sense of regional, workshop, or period) using methods of advanced materials analysis. Although only invited contributions are planned, all interested people are invited to exchange ideas and discuss the presented topics. Programme in preparation.

The next CrysAC Workshop “Ancient and historical glass: order or chaos?” on the occasion of ECM34 in Padova

Date: 24 August 2024, Padova, Italy

Place: University of Padova, Department of Geosciences (Geoscienze Catullo)

Organisers: Koen Janssens (koen.janssens@ua.ac.be), Ivana Angelini (ivana.angelini@unipd.it)

The CrysAC workshop on “X-ray based characterization of Archaeological and Historical Glass and Glazed artifacts” is within the series of one-day workshops organized by the IUCr Commission on Crystallography in Art and Cultural Heritage, aimed to stimulate knowledge exchange between crystallographers and researchers interested in cultural heritage investigations. The upcoming CrysAC workshop is planned as a satellite meeting of the 34th European Crystallographic Meeting, Padova, Italy.

Different communities are invited to present reviews of established research, recent results and envisaged trends in key areas of Archaeometry and Conservation Science of Glass, Glazed Artifacts and other Vitreous Materials. This can encompass a wide range of cultural heritage artifacts ranging, for example, from ancient archaeological finds of decorative artwork such as medieval stained-glass windows and majolica tiles to 17-18th century drinking vessels. The present workshop will invite scientists from research institutions, museums and conservation bodies to illustrate state-of-the-art applications of X-ray methods such as diffraction, fluorescence, absorption and tomography for the characterization of the above-mentioned artifacts. Papers on recent instrumental and methodological advances, opening novel fields of research on cultural heritage materials to understand chemico-physical processes and structural transformations, as well as isotopic and trace elements analysis, are also welcome. The program will consist of invited and contributed lectures; all interested are invited to exchange ideas and discuss the presented topics.

9th CrysAC workshop on “Bio-Apatite, humans, archaeology and environment”

Date: 17 September, 2024, Padova, Italy

Place: Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Via G. Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, Italy

Organising Committee: Gregorio Dal Sasso (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR-IGG), Yotam Asscher (University of Haifa), Lior Regev (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Programme:

We are happy to inform you that the CrysAC Workhop on “Bio-Apatite, humans, archaeology and environment” planned for last autumn and posptponed due to the war in Israel will take place on September 17, 2024 at the Department of Geosciences of University of Padova. It will be followed the next day by a short workshop on carbonates. This workshop invites scientists from research institutions, museums, and conservation bodies, to look at apatite from various points of view from mineralogy, structure, anthropology, archaeometry or possible nano-technology.

Symposium AC02 - Combining characterization techniques to understand and restore Cultural Heritage objects and sites at the 2024 Brazilian Materials Society Meeting

Date: 29 September, 2024

Place: Santos, Brazil

Organisers: Luiz Antônio Cruz Souza (EBA - UFMG - Brasil), Karla Balzuweit (DF- ICEx -UFMG - Brasil), Marcia de Almeida Rizzutto (IF - USP - Brasil) and Miguel Delgado (Univ. of the Andes, Venezuela, CrysAC member)

The Symposium on “Combining characterization techniques to understand and restore Cultural Heritage objects and sites” is planned at the 2024 Brazilian Materials Society Meeting. Cultural heritage is an extremely broad, inter and multidisciplinary area. It congregates very different professionals and students of all knowledge areas from humanities to hard sciences. The variety of problems, objects and sites is also very broad. But the objectives are mainly an understanding of the objects and buildings, how they were made or built, which might shed light on the artists and builders and also help in the conservation procedures. A huge variety of techniques is being used, from a simple photographic register to sophisticated 3-D scanning techniques and also from conventional optical microscopy to fluorescence microscopy, microanalysis, electron microscopy, synchrotron radiation, XRF and XRD up to macro XRF and macro-XRD and also several mobile instruments which can be used inside museums and historic and pre-historical sites. The objective of the symposium is to provide a space for researchers to present and discuss their work and show some of the state of the art. The invited lectures will be provided by Prof. Koen Janssens (Univ. of Antwerp, CrysAC chair) and Dr. Maria Filomena Guerra (CNRS).

Abstracts will be solicited in (but not limited to) the following areas

• Characterization for restoration of cultural heritage objects and sites
• Analytical and spectroscopic characterization tools
• Image characterization tools
• Mobile characterization tools
• Provenance studies