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<div class="gmail-s-content-block gmail-s-content-block--small" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;color:rgb(81,82,85);font-family:"Work Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-m-page-title" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px"><h1 style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Libre Baskerville",serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;color:inherit;font-size:2rem;line-height:1.3125">Call for Submissions: Heritage BC Conference 2019</h1></div></div><div class="gmail-s-content-block gmail-s-content-block--small" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:20px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;color:rgb(81,82,85);font-family:"Work Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-m-intro gmail-m-wysiwyg" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px"><h4 style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-family:"Libre Baskerville",serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;color:inherit;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.625">Call for Submissions<br style="box-sizing:inherit">Heritage BC Conference<br style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0px">Nanaimo, May 9 through 11, 2019</h4><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:1.88235;color:rgb(88,108,102);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",serif">Proposals are now being accepted for speakers and presentations at the 2019 Heritage BC conference:<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-weight:600;margin-bottom:0px">Interpreting Heritage: Identity, Culture, Environment.</strong></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:1.88235;color:rgb(88,108,102);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",serif">Heritage can mean many things to many people. Interpretations of and interactions with place, space, and practices can be endless, each experience individualized through personal knowledge, memories and relationships.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:1.88235;color:rgb(88,108,102);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",serif">As interpreters and custodians, we draw finer definitions, placing stories, history and heritage into more detailed contexts and revealing relationships. As we conserve and curate, we are compelled to reflect on meaning and intention, building interpretations that connect past with a contemporary context.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:1.88235;color:rgb(88,108,102);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",serif">Heritage BC’s 2019 conference focusses on three broad, yet key areas of interpretation: identity, culture, and environment. Complex and compelling, these themes require us to explore time, place and space in ways that identify and characterize history and heritage, describing beliefs and expressions, cultures and diversities.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:1.88235;color:rgb(88,108,102);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",serif">Whether stated through an architectural statement, a modest impression on the land, or through language, our interpretations and preservation of history and heritage cannot escape the influences of identity, culture, and environment.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:1.88235;color:rgb(88,108,102);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",serif">Heritage BC invites proposals from individuals interested in speaking at the 2019 conference. Sessions will explore our themes of interpretation, identity, culture, and environment, and all sessions will be:</p><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px 1.25rem;padding:0px;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.6;list-style-type:disc"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Future-focused: not reporting on the past, but considering future directions and priorities</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Participatory: delegates are involved in the conversations/presentation</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Actionable: delegates leave with ideas that are practical, useful and usable</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:1.88235;color:rgb(88,108,102);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",serif">Presentations should also be inclusive so that people feel the conference reflects and respects their different experiences, backgrounds, and cultures.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:1.88235;color:rgb(88,108,102);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",serif">The deadline for submissions is November 9, 2018. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of December.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:1.88235;color:rgb(88,108,102);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",serif">Presenters have a unique opportunity to share knowledge and experience with professionals and avid volunteers in the heritage, museum and historic sites communities. Presenters will receive a special discounted registration rate when they register for the conference prior to the early-bird deadline. Presenters are responsible for their own transportation, accommodation, and meals. Speaker fees and/or honorariums are not provided. Further details to follow.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:1.88235;outline:0px;color:rgb(88,108,102);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",serif">By completing the following form, you indicate your expectation to attend the conference. If you change your mind about attending the conference or you wish to amend your submission, please contact Paul at<span> </span><a href="mailto:pgravett@heritagebc.ca" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(101,150,35);margin-bottom:0px">pgravett@heritagebc.ca</a><span> </span>by November 16.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:1.88235;color:rgb(88,108,102);font-family:"Libre Baskerville",serif">Key dates:</p><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 15px 1.25rem;padding:0px;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.6;list-style-type:disc"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Submission deadline: November 9</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Changes to materials: November 16</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Announcements: by December 31</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Submission of presentation materials: by April 19</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit">Conference: May 9 through 11</li></ul></div></div>
<div><font size="4">For more information and to fill out a submission form, please <a href="https://heritagebc.ca/call-for-submissions-heritage-bc-conference-2019/">click here</a>.</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><i>Jennifer Dunkerson</i></b><div style="font-size:12.8px">Heritage Planner, Columbia Basin Region</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Heritage BC</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">cell: <a href="tel:(250)%20814-9170" value="+12508149170" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">250-814-9170</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Columbia Basin Trust office: <a href="tel:(250)%20304-1667" value="+12503041667" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">250-304-1667</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Toll-free: 1-800-505-8998</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B4B97Pjo0XnkdzZTMGxZbWttYm8&export=download"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.heritagebc.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">www.heritagebc.ca</a><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Heritage-BC/191841050874008" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Facebook: Heritage BC</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://twitter.com/heritagebcanada" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Twitter: @HeritageBCanada</a></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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