A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Collections Management Certification Program SERBIA 2013 – 2014

Fionn Zarubica & Associates in partnership with The Central Institute for Conservation in Belgrade, The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade and The Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Serbia

- Fionn Zarubica & Associates u partnerstvu sa Centralnim institutom za konzervaciju u Beogradu (CIK), Ambasadom SAD u Beogradu i Ministarstvom kulture i medija Republike Srbije

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Collections Management Certification Program

October 7, 2013 – November 1, 2013
February 3, 2014 - February 28, 2014
May 5, 2014 – May 30, 2014

Central Institute for Conservation in Belgrade

Terazije 26
Belgrade, Serbia

Fall of 2013 will welcome the second year of a professional certification program in the pioneering field of Museum Collections Management.

The program is designed for professionals from Serbia and the region already working in museums and heritage protection institutions, and students who have experience in conservation and museum work or wish to enter this new and important profession.

Lead by Fionn Zarubica, the program provides basic and advanced instruction as well as hands-on training in contemporary collections management techniques. Topics include preventive conservation, state of the art registration methods, secure art handling, packing, storing, transportation, and inventive exhibition planning, mount making, installation and de-installation.

The program is a total of twelve weeks; divided into three separate sessions over the course of a year. Each session addresses different collections issues at incrementally complex levels. Beginning with the core issues on how to care for one’s own collections within an institution (Session I), it progresses to working with objects (Session II) and broader issues dealing with the more public aspects of a collection, such as through exhibitions and loans (Session III). Upon satisfactory completion of the program the participants are awarded a professional certification acknowledging their qualifications to attend to the needs of diverse institutions internationally, to address the unique issues and requirements of a wide variety of objects and environments and implement solutions across a broad spectrum of challenges; to ensure up to date, long-term, user-friendly and cost efficient methods for protecting and preserving Serbia’s treasures.

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Program za upravljanje muzejskim zbirkama u Srbiji 2013 – 2014.

„Fionn Zarubica & Associates", u partnerstvu sa Centralnim institutom za konzervaciju u Beogradu (CIK), Ambasadom SAD u Beogradu i Ministarstvom kulture i medija Republike Srbije, trenutno je u procesu prijema prijava za drugu godinu sertifikovanog stručnog programa obuke iz oblasti upravljanja muzejskim zbirkama. Program se odvija u tri sesije i pruža teorijska znanja i praktičnu obuku iz savremenih tehnika vezanih za novi način upravljanja muzejskim zbirkama.

Program vodi Fionn Zarubica, iz Sjedinjenih Američkih Država, stručnjak za upravljanje muzejskim zbirkama i glavni partner u firmi „Fionn Zarubica & Associates".

Cilj programa je da obuči muzealce iz Srbije i regiona koji rade u muzejima i koji se staraju o zbirkama - one koji direktno rade sa lokalnim zbirkama - da konstantno utiču na popravljanje stanja svojih zbirki, čineći ih tako dostupnim kako javnosti, tako i naučnim radnicima i pedagozima. Time ovaj program doprinosi naporima da se zaštiti i očuva značajna kulturna baština u Srbiji i podstakne privredni razvoj.

Sesija I baviće se time kako se starati o muzejskim zbirkama u okviru institucije. Biće obrađene različite teme: kako društvo određuje šta je vrednost koju treba očuvati; razlititi aspekti muzejske profesije; diferencijacija vrsta zbirki i muzeja...Baviće se i metodama registracije i najvažnijim konceptima, principima i tehnikama upravljanja zbirkama.

Sesija II baviće se muzejskim predmetima: osnovnim rukovanjem radi osiguranja bezbednosti predmeta, materijalima i tehnikama za smeštaj kulturnih dobara, skladištenjem i muzejskim depoima, kontrolom štetočina, pripremom i premeštanjem predmeta u okviru muzeja, nalaženjem kreativnih rešenja za metode skladištenja korišćenjem lokalnih resursa, povećanjem zbirki, dokumentacijom i označavanjem. Takođe, tokom sesije direktna pažnja će biti usmerena i na upravljanje rizicima, kao i na zaštitu zdravlja i bezbednosti posetilaca i zaposlenih u muzeju.

Sesija III Na osnovu iskustava iz sesija I i II, sesija III će, kroz teoriju i praktičnu obuku, ponuditi napredna rešenja iz oblasti upravljanja muzejskim zbirkama, uključujući dizajn izložbi, pozajmice značajnih kulturnih dobara, kao i muzejske etike, efikasnog korišćenja resursa, najbolje prakse i održivosti. Učesnici će razmatrati kako muzeji mogu da podstaknu i podrže razvoj i stabilnost lokalne zajednice, kroz promociju nacionalne i lokalne kulture, turizma, obrazovanja, školovanja i građanske svesti. Biće reči i o mogućoj samoodrživosti muzeja kroz aktivnosti u zajednici, uz podrške donatora, kao i angažovanja i obuke volontera.

Učesnici programa su muzejski profesionalci iz Srbije i regiona, koji već rade u muzejima i institucijama zaštite kulturne baštine, kao i studenti sa iskustvom u konzervaciji i radu u muzejima ili željom da počnu da se bave tom strukom.

Predavanja će biti održana u prostorijama Centralnog instituta za konzervaciju u Beogradu. Sve informacije o programu se mogu naći onlajn na fionnzarubica.com i cik.org.rs.


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Bogdan Denitch (born August 9, 1929) is an American sociologist of Yugoslav origin who is an emeritus professor at the City University of New York (CUNY). He is a leading authority on the political sociology of the former Yugoslavia. Active in democratic left politics, Denitch is an honorary chairman of the Democratic Socialists of America, and has served as its representative to the Socialist International. From 1983 through 2004 he organized the annual Socialist Scholars Conference in New York. Since the 1990s he has been an advocate for human rights and an opponent of nationalism in the former Yugoslavia.

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My Brother's Keeper

by Fr. Radovan Bigovic

Rare are the books of Orthodox Christian authors that deal with the subject of politics in a comprehensive way. It is taken for granted that politics has to do with the secularized (legal) protection of human rights (a reproduction of the philosophy of the Enlightenment), within the political system of so-called "representative democracy", which is limited mostly to social utility or to the conventional rules of human relations. Most Christians look at politics and democracy as unrelated with their experience of the Church herself, which abides both in history and in the Kingdom, the eschaton. Today, the commercialization of politics—its submission to the laws of publicity and the brainwashing of the masses—has literally abolished the "representative" parliamentary system. So, why bother with politics when every citizen of so-called developed societies has a direct everyday experience of the rapid decline and alienation of the fundamental aspects of modernity?

In the Orthodox milieu, Christos Yannaras has highlighted the conception of the social and political event that is borne by the Orthodox ecclesiastical tradition, which entails a personalistic (assumes an infinite value of the human person as opposed to Western utilitarian individualism) and relational approach. Fr Radovan Bigovic follows this approach. In this book, the reader will find a faithful engagement with the liturgical and patristic traditions, with contemporary thinkers, Orthodox and non-Orthodox, all in conversation with political science and philosophy. As an excellent Orthodox theologian and a proponent of dialogue, rooted in the catholic (holistic) being of the Orthodox Church and of his Serbian people, Fr Radovan offers a methodology that encompasses the above-mentioned concerns and quests.