Armenia to host International Council of Museums conference in 2012September 27, 2010 - 17:51 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia will host the conference of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in 2012, with 200 representatives of foreign museums participating. The conference, to be held for the first time in South Caucasus, will be timed to 500th anniversary of book printing in Armenia. “ICOM conference will cover museum and publishing-related issues,” Emma Nardi, the president of the ICOM Committee for Education and Cultural Action (CECA), Experimental Pedagogy professor at Roma Tre University told a news conference in Yerevan. During her stay in Yerevan, Ms. Nardi, jointly with Marie-Clarte O'Neill, French National Heritage Institute professor, will conduct Hands-on and Minds-on training course for 16 museum employees to boost their presentation skills. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |