The Preservation Studies Program trains students for careers working in historic preservation and the stewardship of cultural resources and heritage.
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Sharing this fabulous opportunity to get further into the vast field of Historic Preservation - for more information click on the link below through the National Trust!
Are you seeking a change in your career? Explore current job openings at the National Trust including full-time, part-time, internships, and remote positions. #SavingPlaces #JobOpenings
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For anyone in the BU Preservation Community, interested in the environment (both natural & built), this is your chance to follow along with the Historic New England Summit - Happening now!
Rise and shine, Summit attendees. Today is the day! The chairs are set, and the mics have been tested. We are SO ready to get the conversation started. Are you? Got FOMO? Tune into our livestream → shorturl.at/8uavZ
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Sharing this informative Preservation event through the Fort Point Channel Landmark District Commission happening tonight at 6pm. More information below!
The Fort Point Channel Landmark District Commission will hold its next public hearing virtually on Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 6pm. Details: boston.gov/public-notices/16…
Highlighting an amazing upcoming event of interest to the Preservation Community of BU! This film screening and discussion deals with a community effort in Bangkok to save a local shrine from destruction as the nearby university looks to expand. To RSVP: bu.edu/ioc/2024/09/26/the-la…
Sharing the anniversary of this recent historic event - One that the program cohort recently visited on their field trip along the Freedom Trail!🔔
On Saturday, September 28th, on a pleasant early fall day, students and faculty of the program walked the majority of the Freedom Trail, led by Rachel Burdette. For a detailed description, see below: bu.edu/preservation/2024/10/…
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The Fort Point Channel Landmarks District Commission will hold its virtual monthly public hearing on Thursday, October, 10, 2024, at 6 p.m. Agenda & Public Notice: boston.gov/public-notices/16…
The Friends of Fairsted organize their 2024 Summer Lecture on June 17 as a free Zoom seminar, on "A Path Forward: Identifying Accessibility Challenges and Solutions for Historic Landscapes." For more info, see: mailchi.mp/6573568b5edc/frie…
The National Trust for Historic Preservation posted their 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in America, 2024. Including Minute Man National Historical Park & Walden & nearby Landmarks. For concerns over the proposed expansion of Hanscom Field Airport. savingplaces.org/stories/11-…
ICCROM is conducting a new survey on Urban Heritage Management & global challenges.
Join our survey on the sustainable development of urban heritage. This initiative seeks to gather insights and perspectives from individuals passionate about cultural heritage to inform evidence-based strategies for sustainable urban development.
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Congratulations! The program related to our MA Preservation Studies receives 1$M to fund PhD students’ public humanities internships/research a.o. Since the ’70s our MA Pres. Studies places mostly unfunded students in public humanities internships/research & knows the huge needs.
We are so excited to share this news! 🎉🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏👏⬇️ Read BU Today's article on the gift here: bu.edu/articles/2024/anonymo…
With our BU Preservation Studies Program on the doorstep of one of the great Olmsted park systems, this is nice read.
How many of the nation's Olmsted-designed parks do you know? This visually rich guide - bit.ly/3JCLE4W – has more than 325. Happy Birthday to the father of landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. Explore now: bit.ly/3JCLE4W
The Mary L. Cornille Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architectur will take place April 19–20 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and explore Preserving & Interpreting the Past; Exhibitions; and Historical Legacies. bu.edu/haa/news-events/the-s…
On Friday, June 7, 2024, the Roger Williams University Public Humanities and Arts Collaborative (The Co-Lab) will host (Re)Telling: Crafting New Stories of Race and Place in Southern New England at the Providence Public Library in Providence, R.I. rwu.edu/academics/co-lab-rwu…
For those interested in efforts to preserve Modern architecture, the Docomomo US National Symposium takes place May 29–June 1, in Miami and Coral Gables, Florida: docomomo-us.org/news/five-re…
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Join the #PCR2024 and make a difference! Apply now to learn about value assessment, situation analysis, and recovery tools 👉bit.ly/3wJNbmw
Deadline: 27 May 2024
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ALT Recognizing the urgent need for action, ICCROM and Fondazione Santagata for the Economics of Culture, with the generous support of the ALIPH Foundation, have responded by aligning their mission to protect and restore cultural heritage — particularly in conflict and disaster-affected areas.
We visited the Liberty Hotel in Boston, the former Suffolk County Jail (Charles St. Jail), constructed 1848–51 to plans by Gridley J.F. Bryant (d.1899) and closed in 1990. A fine example of redesign and adapted reuse. [1852 image: from H. McIntyre's "Map of the City of Boston."]
ALT Detail from Henry McIntyre's "Map of the City of Boston and Immediate Neighborhood", 1852. Boston Public Library.
Our Spring 2024 Preservation Studies Field Trip took us on a guided walk of the Fort Point Channel Landmark District, Boston. Check out some impressions at bu.edu/preservation/2024/03/…
The BU Preservation Studies Program joined the New England Chapter of the Vernacular Architecture Forum in Providence, RI, April 2024. Thank you for the excellent speakers and guided tours, around the conference theme of "New Narratives in Vernacular Architecture."
Study Day "Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West", Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Jan Haenraets shared at the study day his reflections on the Kashmir cultural and natural landscape in the work of Raqib Shaw. bu.edu/preservation/2024/03/…