
Diyana Sulaiman joined the ARC Discovery Project in February 2015 as a PhD candidate working on the topic of Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Indonesia and Malaysia, related to the ARC Discovery Project. Diyana completed her LLM in Public International Law at Leiden University. Her BLS (Hons) and LLB (Hons) degrees were obtained at Universiti Teknologi MARA.
Sessions in which Diyana Sulaiman participates
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- 16.00 Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Case Study of "Pantun"
- Participant Diyana Sulaiman (Deakin University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations
- This paper will discuss the protection of intangible cultural heritage through the case study of a form of Malay literature known as “Pantun.” I...
- Paper
Sessions in which Diyana Sulaiman attends
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12:30
- Welcome Coffee UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
- Pause
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
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13:00
- Pre-Conference Tour: Mile End, the Crossroads of Three Cultures UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 13:00 - 15:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- The west of Mile End is the fruit of the unlikely encounter between a French-Canadian artisans’ village, a new suburb at the turn of the 20th centu...
- Tour
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17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Signup required Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- Cocktail
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9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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10:30
- Break | Pause UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 10:30 - 11:00 | 30 minutes
- Pause
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11:00
- 11.00 Borders in Heritage: An Introduction
- Participant Laurier Turgeon (Université Laval) | Participant Prof. Dominique Poulot (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) | Participant Dr Astrid Swenson (Brunel University London ) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine
- This paper will provide the conceptual introduction to the panel, drawing on results and reflections stemming from a six-year project on “Fronti...
- Paper
- 11.00 Introduction
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- 14.00 People, Places, and Stories: Culture, Nature, and Associations
- Participant Dr. Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo (Athabasca University - Heritage Resources Management) | Participant Dr. Manijeh Mannani (Athabasca University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Canadian society is diverse, and in it, multiculturalism is well pronounced. Based on the Canadian Multiculturalism Act which recognizes Canadia...
- Paper
- 11.00 Preserving Difficult Heritage in a Neoliberal Context in Asia
- Participant Shu-yi Wang (Chinese Culture University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State I
- After the First International Leprosy Conference in Berlin in 1897, many leprosy settlements in Asia were established by colonialists for medica...
- Paper
- 12.00 Before and After Definition: Transformation of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Local Policy in Xinjiang
- Participant Prof. Kate Hennessy ( Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Canada) | Participant Aynur Kadir (School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Based on fieldwork in Xinjiang, China, this paper will investigate the ambiguities surrounding the government policies that seek to promote econ...
- Paper
- 11.30 Understanding Transitional Heritage: Heritage-Making in Post-Authoritarian Societies
- Participant Laura Demeter (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- The context of transition from authoritarian regimes to democracy post-1989 in Central and Eastern Europe impacted heritage practices, legislati...
- Paper
- 16.00 Mitigating Cultural Contestation: The Case of Black Pete
- Participant Dr. Pieter Wagenaar (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) | Participant Jeroen Rodenberg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- In current cultural heritage literature there is much emphasis on the uses of heritage in the construction of group identities. The (hi)stories ...
- Paper
- 11.30 Heritage Diplomacy and the Border
- Participant Prof. Tim Winter (Deakin University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine
- Borders—political, institutional and cultural—have been central to the internationalization of heritage in the modern era. The concepts of herit...
- Paper
- Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- How do borders shape heritage and its potential for change? Despite the growth of international connections in heritage studies, national, linguist...
- Regular session
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12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
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13:30
- 14.30 Intangible Heritage Foodways and Intellectual Property Rights Protection
- Participant Dr Harriet Deacon (Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, The Open University, UK) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance I
- This paper will critically examine the “creative frictions” between intellectual property rights protection through geographical indications or ...
- Paper
- 13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class
- Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- Nostalgia has a bad press. For some, it is pointless and sentimental, for others reactionary and futile. Where does that leave those of us inter...
- Paper
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15:30
- 16.30 The Politics of Border Heritage: EU Cross-Border Cooperation, Scalar Politics and Cultural Governance in the Spanish-Portuguese Border
- Participant María Lois (University Complutense of Madrid) |
- 15:30 - 16:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I
- This paper will focus on the production of border heritage within the framework of European Union (EU) cross-border cooperation programs. In the...
- Paper
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18:30
- Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 18:30 - 20:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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9:00
- 10.00 Fashioning Leaders in Heritage
- Participant Dr Sharon Peoples (The Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Fashioning Heritage
- Each year from 1993 in Seattle until 2010 in Yokohama, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group met, and a political “fancy dress” was...
- Paper
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14:00
- Keynote: Renaming, Removal, Recontextualization of Heritage: Purging History, Claiming the Present, Imagining the Future? (What Change-Role for Heritage Professionals?) (James Count Early)
- Signup required Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
- 14:00 - 15:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- "What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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19:00
- Film Series: De engel van Doel
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 21:00 | 2 hours
- Directed by Tom Fassaert and presented by Marc Jacobs. ___ Doel, a Belgian village near the Dutch border, is disappearing quickly and d...
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9:00
- 10.00 Reconciling Conflicting Rights: National Indigenous Heritage in Southeast Asia
- Participant Dr Anna Karlström (Uppsala University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Over the last decades a language of rights and human rights-based approaches have been adopted by intergovernmental organizations and are now we...
- Paper
- 09.30 Cultural, Conflicting and Collective Rights in Bagan, Myanmar
- Participant Anne Laura Kraak (Deakin University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Following decades of isolation, Myanmar started to re-engage with the UNESCO’s World Heritage system in 2012 at a time when the link between her...
- Paper
- 13.30 Globalization, Migration and the Heritage of Cross-Cultural People
- Participant Laia Colomer (Linnaeus University (Sweden)) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?
- Modern tradition conceptualizes spaces and territories as equivalent to state-nations and consequently frames cultural heritage in national heri...
- Paper
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- Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
- Signup required Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Le patrimoine fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’attentions autant que d’agressions et de destructions. Cela peut s’expliquer par les difficultés de son id...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
