Commission on Crystallography in Art and Cultural Heritage

Workshops

  

The 9th CrysAC Workshop, Padova, Italy, 17 September2024

Topic: "Bio-Apatite, humans, archeology and environment"

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.

Please complete the registration form before attending the workshop. There are no registration fees.

The 8th CrysAC Workshop, Padova, Italy, 24 August 2024

Topic: “Ancient and historical glass: order or chaos?”

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.

The 7th CrysAC Workshop, Bratislava, Slovakia, 1 July, 2024

Topic: “Provenance in Art and Cultural Heritage”

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.

Sixth CrysAC Workshop, Paris, France, 23 August 2022

Topic: Micro- and nano-diffraction for cultural heritage

This workshop invites scientists from research institutions, museums, and conservation bodies, to illustrate state-of-the-art applications of diffraction techniques with sub-micron spatial resolution.

Fifth CrysAC workshop, Vienna, Austria, 17 August 2019

Topic: Crystallography of ancient metals and metal corrosion

This workshop invited scientists from research institutions, museums, and conservation bodies, to illustrate state-of-the-art applications of materials science in the field of archaeometallurgy, diagnostics and conservation of metals, authentication, corrosion processes, and other themes related to ancient metals and metallurgy.

Fourth CrysAC Workshop, Pucon, Chile, 8-9 November 2018

Topic: Characterization of Cultural Heritage and Forensic Materials

The purpose of this workshop was to strengthen the activity that takes place in the Latin American region in the field of characterization of Cultural Heritage and Forensic Science materials. Although the theme of the workshop was centred on the use of X-ray diffraction and fluorescence techniques, applications of other techniques were presented as well.

Third CrysAC Workshop, Mérida, Mexico, 20 May 2018

Topic:  Recent advances in the investigation of ancient mortars and binders

Second CrysAC Workshop, Brno, Czech Republic, 2 June 2017

Topic: Applied crystallography in the study of pigment degradation

The Commission held a Workshop focused on pigment degradation during the 6th interdisciplinary ALMA conference, Painting as a Story, focused on research, technology, history and conservation/restoration of  fine art.

 

First CrysAC Workshop, Krakow, Poland, 18 May 2016

Topic: Cultural heritage authentication and forensic science

The Commission held a Workshop focused on Cultural heritage authentication and forensic science immediately before the 6th meeting on X-ray and other techniques in investigations of the objects of cultural heritage.

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