What Will the UK’s Ratification of Unesco’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Mean for the City and County of Durham?
Professor Robin Coningham, UNESCO’s 2014 Chair on Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham
City of Durham Trust AGM and Lecture Thursday 6th June 2024 AGM 7pm Lecture 8pm Elvet Riverside, Room ER140
Twenty-one years after its launch, the UK Government will ratify the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage on 7th June 2024, with the intention of protecting “the crafts, practices, and traditions which are recognised as being key part of national life and providing a sense of identity to communities across the UK” (gov.uk23/12/23).
While the results of the recent public consultation designed to inform UK’s approach to creating a new register for traditions valued by communities up and down the country are awaited, this presentation will discuss the 2003 Convention, and consider what it might mean for the city and county of Durham.
As well as holding UNESCO’s 2014 Chair on Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage, Professor Robin Coningham is also the Chair of Early Medieval Archaeology and is Associate Director (World Heritage) in Durham’s Institute of Mediaeval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) and Co-Director of Durham’s MA International Cultural Heritage Management programme in the Department of Archaeology.
Further details about the AGM will be announced in an additional post.
This year the AGM of the City of Durham Trust will be held on Tuesday 31 October, 7-9 pm in Elvet Riverside ER140, New Elvet.
It is planned to make the meeting available via Zoom. To request a link please email .
Our speaker will be Professor Karen O’Brien, Vice Chancellor of Durham University, who will speak at 8pm about the relationship between the City and the University. Her talk is entitled “The Built Life of a University in its City: Durham University Now and in the Future”.
Detailed agenda, accounts and minutes of the last AGM can be found in the Annual Review.
Agenda
Welcome and apologies for absence
Minutes of the 80th Annual General Meeting (Saturday 1 October 2022)
Matters Arising from the Minutes
Report of the Trustees and Presentation of Accounts of the Trust for the period ended 7 April 2023
Appointment of Trustees
Appointment of the Honorary Officers of the Trust
Honorary Secretary’s Report
Chairman’s Remarks
Any other business which might be brought forward by members
Contact the Chair before the meeting at g if you have items of any other business or interest in applying to be a trustee.
The 80th Annual General Meeting of the City of Durham Trust was held in the Assembly Rooms Theatre, North Bailey, on Saturday 1 October 2022 commencing at 14.00.
The minutes of the AGM have now been approved by the Trustees and are attached below.
The 80th Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday 1 October at 2.00 pm, in the Assembly Rooms Theatre 40 North Bailey. To attend the meeting via Zoom instead, please request a link by emailing .
Interested in becoming a Trustee and engaging with us on the future of the City? Contact our chairman in advance of the meeting on .
At the start of the meeting the Trust’s Architectural Award for 2021/2022 will be presented to Maya Polenz, “Head of Property” at Durham Cathedral, in recognition of the Cathedral’s superb new glazed lobbies.
Agenda
Welcome and apologies for absence
Minutes of the 79th Annual General Meeting (Wednesday 27 October, 2021), see below
Matters Arising from the Minutes
Report of the Trustees and Presentation of Accounts of the Trust for the period ended 7 April 2022: to be presented by the Honorary Treasurer, Malcolm Reed
Appointment of Trustees
Appointment of the Honorary Officers of the Trust
Honorary Secretary’s Report
Chairman’s Remarks
Any other business which might be brought forward by members. It would be helpful if notice of this could be given to the Chair in advance, at
After the formal agenda John Pendlebury, Professor of Urban Conservation at Newcastle University, will present a talk about Thomas Sharp, the town planner and author of Cathedral City – A Plan for Durham.
There will be a reception in Durham Museum after the AGM lecture. This offers a chance to view the exhibition, “How Historic Durham Survived the 20th Century”.
