News - Ironbridge Institute - University of Birmingham

Description: During the current academic year the University has been planning changes to the School and Department structure for the academic disciplines of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology.
Date:: 10/05/2013

Description: Ironbridge's renewed relationship with the Historic American Building Survey
Date:: 03/05/2013

Description: It's not often in your life you get to spend two hours with the most important person in the world!
Date:: 29/04/2013

Description: The Ironbridge International Institute of Cultural Heritage held its international conference, Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage: Visiting Pasts, Developing Futures, in Taipei earlier this month.
Date:: 18/04/2013

Description: Conference is Rust, Regeneration and Romance: Iron and Steel Landscapes and Culture, 10-14 July 2013, Ironbridge, UK
Date:: 12/04/2013

Description: Ideaslab speaks with Professor Mike Robinson, Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham. Mike outlines the differences between different types of cultural heritage, distinguishing national and world heritage sites. 2013 sees the Institute running two major conferences. The first, in Taiwan, follows the challenges of balancing tourism and heritage. The second conference, 'Rust, Regeneration and Romance', addresses how we see iron and steel as part of our cultural landscape, and is being held at Ironbridge, itself a World Heritage Site
Date:: 19/03/2013

Description: Academics and professionals working in the fields of heritage and tourism from across the world will convene in Taipei, Taiwan this spring for a five-day conference focusing on the changing ways in which cultural heritage is used, represented and interpreted within the development of international tourism.
Date:: 08/03/2013

Description: The Ironbridge Gorge, home to the World's first cast iron bridge and birthplace of the industrial revolution, has been revealed as the second in the World's most recommended UNESCO World Heritage Sites to visit, according to TripAdvisor travellers
Date:: 21/01/2013

Description: The prestigious Ironbridge Lecture will this year be delivered by cultural object law specialist, Professor Norman Palmer QC on 5 December 2012. Hosted at the University of Birmingham, the lecture entitled 'Who owns, Who knows, Who cares? – Legal milestones on the trail of orphaned and abducted art' will explore the often problematic journey that objects undertake before they arrive in the museum.
Date:: 29/11/2012

Description: Registration is now open for our Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage: Visiting Pasts, Developing Futures conference, taking place in Taipei in April 2013.
Date:: 22/11/2012