4th – 8th July – CHEMCH – 6th International Congress Chemistry for Cultural Heritage 2022

4th – 8th July – CHEMCH – 6th International Congress Chemistry for Cultural Heritage 2022

REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR IN-PRESENCE ATTENDEES: JUNE, 25th

Announcement and agenda here.

All the information.

LOCATION:

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – University of Bologna, Ravenna
Palazzo dei Congressi, 48121 Ravenna (ITALY)
and ONLINE: (online platform to be defined)

DATE: 
4-8 July 2022

ABSTRACT:

The 6TH International Congress on Chemistry for Cultural Heritage, organized by the University of Bologna – Microchemistry and Microscopy Art Diagnostic Laboratory (M2ADL) in collaboration with the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) and its Division of Environmental and Cultural Heritage Chemistry, is particularly aimed at providing an international platform for presentation and discussion on all the above mentioned issue.

TOPICS:

ChemCH 2020 topics

• Chemical imaging and spectral imaging
• Nanotechnologies and nanomaterials for diagnostics, conservation and restoration
• Sustainable materials and methods for conservation and restoration
• Development of non-invasive / microinvasive analytical methods for artworks
• Alteration phenomena: chemical interaction of environment and artworks
• Data processing and chemometrics for cultural heritage investigations
• Self-boundaries for safe analysis
• Multi and transdisciplinary studies of cultural heritage
• Chemical aspects of biological alteration phenomena
• Environmental chemistry aspects in heritage conservation

AGENDA: 
• Session 1: Advanced diagnostic techniques applied to cultural heritage (Chemical
imaging, Development of non-invasive / microinvasive analytical methods for
artworks)

Dr. Costanza Miliani, Director of the CNR institute of Heritage Science, Naples (IT)

• Session 2: Data processing for cultural heritage investigations (Big data,
Chemometrics, Artificial intelligence)

Prof. Haida Liang, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham (UK)

• Session 3: New materials and methods for the conservation of cultural heritage
(Sustainable materials and methods for conservation and restoration)

Prof. Giuseppe Lazzara, Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Palermo (IT)

• Session 4: Interaction and degradation of cultural heritage and Preventive
Conservation (Alteration phenomena: chemical interaction of environment and
artworks, Chemical aspects of biological alteration phenomena, Environmental
chemistry aspects in heritage conservation)

Prof. Matija Strlic, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (SLO)

• Session 5: Relevant case studies (Multi and transdisciplinary studies of cultural
Heritage)

Prof. Katrien Keune, University of Amsterdam, Conservation & Science Department of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)