Get warmed up for Icon26 with an exciting programme of lightning presentations!
Presenting conservation projects and keeping up with research is central to our profession, helping us grow and refine our skills while guiding how we learn and improve throughout our careers. To celebrate this lifelong engagement and ongoing learning, the emerging professionals group would like to invite you to attend our lightning event, where 10 emerging professionals from across the world will give short, zappy presentations about their recent research, treatments, and more.
Event Speakers
We are thrilled to announce our fantastic speakers:
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Hilary Bareiss (she/they), a graduate diploma student at West Dean College studying Books and Library Materials conservation
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‘Addressing Destruction from "Hooky Finger" at Morley Library’
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Amelia Blevins (she/her), Preservation and Conservation Specialist, Penn State University.
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‘Housing Fit for an Emperor: Rethinking Rolled Storage for Premodern Vietnamese Edicts’
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Lucille Bonnier (she/her), Institut national du patrimoine (graduated in 2025)
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‘Aerial Consolidation of Water-Damaged Gelatin Silver Prints by Bettina Rheims: A Comparative Study’
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Kari Cheung (she/her), Advocacy Committee, Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property
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'From Science Class to Conservation Practice: Curriculum-Linked Resources for Schools and Museums'
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Jade Delamer (she/her), C2RCOA (Regional Center for Restoration and Conservation for Works of Art, France)
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‘Unrolling a Conservation Nightmare: to Consolidate and Flatten a Monumental Flaking Painting’
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Anna Lewis (she/her), MSc student University of Leicester and Post-Excavation project assistant at Rubicon Archaeology
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‘Creating a conservation informed framework for disposal policies in Museums and Post-Ex stores, focusing on Archaeological metals - an MSc Research Dissertation’
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Tatiana Shannon (she/her), student in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Art Conservation Program
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‘The Instrumental Analysis of Eighteen Tubes of Winsor & Newton Oil Paint from a late Edward Hopper Paint Box’
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João Vidal, (he/him), NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
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'Retouching in Contemporary Art: A Method to Reintegrate losses without information'
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Luise Wolf (she/they), representing the Art Crime Working Group (ACWG) of the Advocacy Committee of the Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property (CAC).
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‘The Art Crime Working Group (ACWG): A New Project from the CAC-ACCR Advocacy Committee’
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Chloe Wong (she/her), MSc Conservation for Archaeology and Museums, University College London
- ‘Potential for Expanding the Use of Seaweed Mucilage in Consolidating Dried Plant Materials’
