094 January 2016

The deadline for submitting papers to the Eighth Edition of the García-Diego International Prize sponsored by Fundación Juanelo Turriano is 25 January 2016.

Individuals or teams authoring original, unpublished papers in the Spanish language on the history of any branch of technology are eligible to apply for the prize.

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The Asociación para la Conservación y Estudio de los Molinos [ACEM, Association for the Conservation and Study of Mills] has released a new issue of its online journal Molinum.

This issue on waterworks in abbeys carries an article on the Yuste Monastery water supply system prior to the death of Emperor Charles V. Its authors, Javier Goicolea Zala and García Rueda Muñoz de San Pedro are respectively former General Manager and former Head of the Documentation Department of Fundación Juanelo Turriano. A second article, signed by foundation trustee David Fernández-Ordóñez, provides a photographic overview of the network that supplies water to Guadalupe Monastery.

All the back issues of the journal are also available on the ACEM website.

The deadline for submitting papers to the III Congreso Nacional de Jóvenes Historiadores del Arte [Young art historians’ third national congress] is 1 February 2016. The theme for this edition, which will be held at the University of Murcia on 28 and 29 April 2016, is No se eclipsó tu luz. Las artes que combaten el olvido del artista [Don’t let your light go out: arts that rescue the artist from oblivion].

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