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19 March 2010	Heritage Day Russia On the 19th of March the Centre for International Heritage Activities (CIE) will organize, in cooperation with The Netherlands Institute for Heritage (Erfgoed Nederland) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA), a Heritage Day Russia. The day will take place at the Doelenzaal of the UvA at Singel 425 in Amsterdam. More information on the Heritage Days can be found in the partner countries section on this site. *Preannouncement download pdf*
17 February - 12 March 2010	Underwater cultural heritage training program South Africa The Centre for International Heritage Activities (CIE) is assisting the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) to coordinate and implement a training program on some of the requirements for implementing an underwater cultural heritage program. The program will take place on Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa from 17 February to 12 March 2010. *Read more*
16 October 2009	Launch Maritime Archaeology Development Programme South Africa The Maritime Archaeology Development Programme is officially launched on the 16th of October 2009 in Cape Town at a function hosted by South Africa’s Minister of Arts and Culture, Ms Lulama Xingwana. A special two days youth educational awareness programme, which is designed to interest youths from diverse backgrounds of South Africa in maritime archaeology, accompanied the launch (a.o. on Robben Island, Oct 15th & 16th). Read more
October - November	Double Lecture Series in Amsterdam and New York: ‘Dutch Manhattan 1609-2009’ In 1609, Henry Hudson, an Englishman in the service of the Dutch, arrived in New York Bay. His ‘discovery’ was the start of a special relationship between The Netherlands and the city of New York that continues to this day. Lecture Series I - held in Amsterdam: ‘Dutch Manhattan 1609-2009’ The Centre for International Heritage Activities organizes in cooperation with the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of the Golden Age (University of Amsterdam) a lecture series in Amsterdam. This Lecture Series celebrates the fourth centenary of Hudson’s arrival in New York. With a clear focus on Dutch Manhattan in the seventeenth century, international specialists from various academic and cultural fields will provide fresh insights into different aspects of the short-lived Dutch colony in the New World. Monday, October 26: Michiel van Groesen (University of Amsterdam) and Jaap Jacobs (independent scholar and writer) on the Dutch history in present-day New York. Monday, November 2: Janne Nijman (University of Amsterdam), ‘Hugo Grotius as a legal expert and the encounter with the Indians from a legal perspective.’ Monday, November 9: Martine Gosselink (Rijksmuseum), ‘The Dutch origins of Manhattan’. Monday, November 16: Frans Blom (University of Amsterdam), ‘Picturing of New Netherland and New York.’ Entrance: free Time: 20:00 Location: LIoyd Hotel - Cultural Emabassy, Amsterdam Language: English Register Because of the limited amount of seats available we would kindly request you to register at: f.cools@heritage-activities.nl and select the dates which you would like to attend. Lecture Series II – held in New York: ‘The European-Indian encounter at Dutch Manhattan’ Location USA: the National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian), New York City. The National Museum of American Indian will present, in cooperation with CIE, a lecture series on the Native encounter with Henry Hudson and the Dutch who followed him. Speakers will focus on the American Indian viewpoint, a perspective often ignored in the past, and will interact with representatives of the region’s tribes. They will also offer the fresh outlook of a younger generation of scholars, based both in New York and the Netherlands. Thursday, October 15: James Ring Adams, Senior Historian in the Research Unit, will give an overview of Hudson's encounters with North American Natives, both along the Mahicannatuck River (later the Hudson) and at first landfall in Maine. Thursday, October 22: Historian Shirley Dunn, author of four books on the Mahicans of the Hudson, will tell the story of the Nation which gave Hudson his friendliest welcome and allied itself with the Dutch. Thursday, November 12: Evan Haefeli of Columbia University will recreate what the Lenape were really thinking when they welcomed Hudson as a Manitou. Thursday, November 19: Michiel van Groesen of the University of Amsterdam will show how Contact with American Natives affected public opinion in the young Dutch Republic.
7 October	CIE Heritage Day Brazil On the 7th of October the Centre for International Heritage Activities (CIE) will organise, in cooperation with The Netherlands Institute for Heritage (Erfgoed Nederland) and theAtlantic World and the Dutch (AWAD), a Heritage Day Brazil. The day will take place at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. More information on the Heritage Days can be found in the partner countries section on this site. Invitation Programme Outlines of the workshops If you have any questions please contact: erfgoeddag@heritage-activities.nl +31 (0)71 5168895
10 September - 29 November 2009	NY400 Week: Vermeer's Masterpiece 'The Milkmaid' On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of henry Hudson's historic voyage to Manhattan from Amsterdam, that city's Rijksmuseum will send The Milkmaid, perhaps the moste admired painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer to the Metropolitan Museum.
10 - 13 September	NY400 Week: Fleet of Traditional Dutch Barges 17 leeboard vessels - not much different from the ones Henry Hudson and his crew used in exploring New York Harbor - will be docked on Governors Island. Captains and crew are on hand to answer your questions about these historic ships.
6 August	1^e Data Coordination Workshop Dutch Relic Return On the 6^th of August 2009 an informal workshop is organised to share information and develop further collaboration with the Australian counterparts to develop a high quality online ANCODS collection database. The involved organizations also want to explore opportunities to establish a Netherlands-Australian online ANCODS database that includes also the other parts of the collection in the future. The main topics will be classification methods, international access, cooperation and most importantly, how to reach and prepare the physical and digital repatriation of the artefacts and content out of the database. More information about ANCODS can be found on the following ANCODS website .
23 June - 20 September 2009	Exhibition: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul. At the Metropolitan Museam of Art in New York. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={E876B517-DB7F-400A-9810-38DAE7BDB5CA}
12 June 2009	Workshop Mutual Heritage in Galle The Secretary of Cultural Affairs and National Heritage Sri Lanka and the director of CIE wish to invite you for the Mutual heritage Workshop to be held on 12^th June at 9.00 a.m. at the event hall of the Maritime Archaeology Museum in the World heritage city of Galle. The Workshop is jointly organized by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the Centre for International Heritage Activities (CIE) in collaboration with the Departments and institutions which come under the Ministry. The objective of the Workshop is to share the knowledge and experience gained in implementing the Mutual heritage projects and to built up a net work of heritage professionals in both countries Sri Lanka and Netherlands to enhance further co-operation in the field of Mutual heritage.
March - June 2009	The Gemeentemuseum and Filmhuis in The Hague have organized a cycle of independent Indian films on occasion of the exhibition ‘India Contemporary’. Shai Heredia, the director of the Experimenta Film Festival in Bangalore, has composed the programme. The Filmhuis will also show recent work of the Indian artist Amar Kanwar. The exhibition ‘India contemporary’ shows work of contemporary Indian artists, such as Jitish Kallat, Riyas Komu and Sudarshan Shetty. These three artists all work from Bombay and comment on socio-economic and political conditions in different ways, sometimes with humor and irony and often confronting. ‘India Contemporary’: GEM, 28 March – 21 June 2009
March 2009	International Heritage Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa On Friday the 6th of March the South African Heritage Resource Agency's (SAHRA), Western Cape Office and Underwater Cultural Heritage Unit, in cooperation with the Centre for International Heritage Activities (CIE), IZIKO and DAC, will organize an International Symposium on Heritage at Casteel de Goede Hoop, Cape Town. March 20 2009, Opening ‘Child on the Chain’ (‘Kind aan de Ketting’) exhibition NiNsee With this ‘Child on the Chain’ exhibition the National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee) wants to break the silence surrounding the subject of children in slavery. The exhibition tells the story of child slaves in former Dutch colonies, how they worked and lived, but also how they played and sang. But it also creates awareness of the fact that child slavery still exists. Besides an interesting, family-oriented exhibition which will be held in the building of the institute in Amsterdam, NiNsee also presents a website, and education programme, a children’s book and a scientific publication titled “Children in Slavery, Then and Now”. For more information on the exhibition please check the website www.kindaandeketting.nl (in Dutch), or check http://www.ninsee.nl/default.asp?pagina=84&pID=83 (in Dutch and English) for more information on this exhibition and other activities of NiNsee.
January 2009	Start New York 400 The official start of the celebrations of 400 years of friendship between the Netherlands and the United States will be 29 January. The year will be celebrated with all kinds of commemorative activities in New York and Amsterdam.
December 2008	9 december Expert Meeting Antillen On 9th December 2008 the Centre for International Heritage Activities (CIE) organizes in cooperation with the National Restoration Fund (NRF) an expert meeting concerning monument care, public housing and spatial planning on the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.
November 2008	CIE Heritage Day Sri Lanka On the 27th of November 2008 the Centre for International Heritage Activities organizes a CIE Heritage Day on Sri Lanka. It will take place at the Museum of Ethnology in Leiden. Workshop ‘Shared Heritage Surinam-Netherlands On Friday 14 November the workshop ‘Shared Heritage Surinam-Netherlands’, organized by the Directorate Culture Suriname in cooperation with the Centre for International Heritage Activities, takes place in Paramaribo.
October 2008	New Adress On October 1st the CIE will relocate to: Steenstraat 1 Postbus 11125 2301 EC Leiden
August 2008	Lecture on the country houses of Curaçao by Marjon Wegman The 15th of August 2008 the ‘Antillean Network’ organizes a lecture on country houses on Curaçao. During this meeting Marjon Wegman will talk about the architecture, the construction and the history of the country houses on Curaçao. The last couple of years a lot of attention and money went into restoration of these country houses. As a result the buildings are preserved from further decay. These country houses are built in colonial style and are usually former plantation houses. The houses are monuments in the Curacao’s landscape and play an important roll in the history of Curaçao. Location: NH Amsterdam Centre Hotel Address: Stadhouderskade 7 (near the Leidseplein) 1054 ES Amsterdam Doors open: 19:00 Start program: 20:00 Entree: members free, non-members 10 euro p.p. The amount of available places is limited. You can register by sending an e-mail to info@antilliaansnetwerk.nl with your surname and your last name. You can become a member of the Antillean Network on the evening by paying € 60,- in cash. For more information: www.antilliaansnetwerk.nl/agenda
July 2008	WAC-6 From 29th June to 4th July 2008 the World Archaeological Congress will be held in Dublin, Ireland. The campus of University College Dublin close to the city centre will be the main venue for WAC-6. For more information you can visit the WAC webiste.
June 2008	South Africa Heritage Day, 5 June The Centre for International Heritage Activities is organizing the South Africa Heritage Day , which will be hosted by the National Service for Archaeology, Cultural landscape and Built Heritage (RACM) in Zeist. The program will start in the Hernhutter Church of the Evangelic Brother community. This community has a direct link with Genadendal in South Africa. Speakers will be Ena jansen (UvA), Job Roos (TU Delft), Trilce Naverrete (UvA), Robert Parthesius (CIE).
March 2008	Culture and Development Meeting in Rotterdam On the 31st of March the meeting ‘Grenzeloze nieuwsgierigheid – naar een werkelijk internationaal cultuurbeleid –’ on international cultural policy takes place in Rotterdam. The aim of this meeting is to create more awareness for Culture and Development and to increase political attention on this subject. Click here for the complete programme
2008	In 2008 we are working on various projects with many different stakeholders in Afghanistan, Suriname, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, New York, South Africa, Japan, Australia and Russia.The projects vary from capacity building initiatives (training of museum staff in Kabul and Sri Lanka) to the organisation of expertmeetings, and from projects in maritime archaeology to the development of an international database for cultural heritage projects. We'll keep you updated through this website
December 2007	Afghanistan Expert Meeting, 21 December A meeting on the restoration and refurbishing of the National Museum in Kabul, Afghanistan. The CIE is working on a large project -funded by the Dutch government- in Kabul and the project will enter a new phase. A recent visit to Kabul resulted in new -international- initiatives for the National Museum. The expert meeting will take place in The Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. For more information, please contact Alexandra van Dijk- van der Moolen: a.vandijk@heritage-activities.nl
November 2007	Avondster Book Presentation, 28 November The Excavation Report & the Artefact Catalogue of the VOC-ship Avondster(1659) will be presented to Mrs. Pamela J. Deen, the Ambassador of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and Mr. Jan C. Henneman, Netherlands’ Ambassador for International Cultural Cooperation. Click here for the Avondster-project website
September 2007	Culture & Development diner The Centre for International Heritage Activities held a ‘Diner Pensant’ on September the 5th. This diner was about the future of Culture & Development and in the context of the signing of the ‘Schokland agreement’ between seventeen Dutch cultural institutions and the Dutch Minister of Development Cooperation. The main theme was the position of cultural heritage in development work. Guests from all different sectors (museum, administration, development funds, science and commerce) contributed to a fruitful discussion and a successful evening. Read more Suriname Heritage Day, 27 September The Centre for International Heritage Activities is organizing the Surinam Heritage Day in cooperation with AWAD and ICOMOS-NL which will take place on, Thursday, September the 27th at the National Archives in The Hague. You can download the Dutch invitation here. Speakers will be Erik Schilp, Zuiderzeemuseum, Paul Meurs, TU Delft, Jules Rijssen, Stichting ROS and Frans van Dijk, Nationaal Archief. To confirm your participation and for more information, please e-mail to: erfgoeddag@heritage-activities.nl
June 2007	Indonesia Heritage Day, 28 June The CIE Indonesian Heritage Day at Volkenkunde Museum in Leiden held on June 28th was very successful. More than 85 participants listened to presentations on the Fort Identification Project of PAC, the Cemetery of Peneleh, archival cooperation between Indonesia and the National Archives and the museum projects in Jakarta from the Royal Tropical Institute. There were discussions on the cooperation with museums, archives and built heritage in Indonesia and the mutuality of mutual heritage. The conclusions of these discussions will be presented to the involved Dutch Ministries in October.
April 2007	Tashqurghan exhibition open The exhibition ‘Tashqurghan. An Afghan heritage lost?’ opened at the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul last April. This is a first step in our rehabilitation program for the National Museum. The exhibition gives a photo impression of the historic bazaar of Tashqurghan. The Russians destroyed the bazaar of this North Afghan city in the 1980’s.