The Asian Academy for Heritage Management warmly invites you to Manila, The Philippines for the Inaugural Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage from November 8 to 12 2011.

The conference will take place at the National Museum of the Philippines.

The preliminary programme of the conference is now available. For more information go to: http://www.whydoesthepastmatter.org/

Why Does the Past Matter? is organised by The UMass Amherst Center for Heritage and Society.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Heritage and Society is organising the international conference 'WHY DOES THE PAST MATTER? Changing Visions, Media, and Rationales in the 21st Century' to be held May 4-7, 2011 at the UMass Amherst Campus.

On 21 and 22 October last, representatives of 7 European countries met in Deinze (Belgium) to debate the how and why of commemorating massacres and other war crimes against civilians in Europe during the Second World War.

A significant part of the world's heritage is currently endangered and on the verge of permanent destruction due to the effects of a rapidly changing world. Poverty and looting, conflicts as well as uncontrolled mass tourism or unprecedented economic and social evolutions in many parts of the world, are amongst the most immanent dangers threatening some of the most significant archaeological and cultural heritage sites in the world.

The Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation started to bring Francia Media to the attention of the European institutions in 2008.

The Celts continue to stir our imagination, but far too often we seem to be having a rather stereotypical representation of what they looked like. Archaeologists in Europe have now discovered quite a few new elements, especially related to the period around the fifth century Before our Common Era. These findings could readjust our mental picture, e.g. about the way the Celts dressed.

Ghent University, Belgium, and the Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation, Belgium, are working on a research project dealing with the potentials (and the threats) of the use of new information and communication technologies for the interpretation of heritage sites.

The documentary 'Project Casus Belli: Oudenaarde 1708' will be shown at the 9th 'CINARCHEA Internationales Archäologie-Film-Festival', to be held in Kiel (Germany) from 22 to 24 April 2010.

On March 9th 2010 the European Commission has proposed to establish the 'European Heritage Label' as an EU-wide initiative. The Commission's proposal builds on a 2006 intergovernmental project that awarded this label for the first time to a number of sites, including the archaeological park of Ename.