https://www.iiconservation.org/news/call-abstracts-international-symposium-sfiic-2026
The 2026 International Symposium of SFIIC (French Regional Group of the International Institute for Conservation - IIC) will be hold in Paris in January 2026. It is organized by all the Working Groups of SFIIC (Painting, Wood, Plaster and Stone, Textile, Mural Painting and Polychromy, Materials of Contemporary Art, Gilding) in partnership with INP (National Institute for Conservation). The congress will focus on non-invasive methods and tools used for the understanding, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage. We aim to assess their advantages and limitations, to study the extent to which their increasing use has changed our scientific environment and working practices, and to develop a reflective approach to this new paradigm, which tends to move the laboratory towards the workshops and the works themselves.