Ms Elizabeth Stainforth

PhD Candidate

University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom

Participates in 4 items

Liz Stainforth is a PhD candidate in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Her research is concerned with the potential of utopia as a critical method in the field of heritage studies. In her thesis, this framework is used to explore the significance of cultural memory in the wake of digital technologies. She has worked as a researcher and teacher and is one of the editors of parallax journal.

Sessions in which Ms Elizabeth Stainforth participates

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:00

Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Regular session

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Moderator)

The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...

11.00 Mixing Memory and Desire: Utopian Currents in Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Participant)

There is a well-established precedent for utopian thinking around cultural heritage, particularly in the institutional context. For example, a n...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents II

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Regular session

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Participant)

The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

09.20 All and Each: The Dynamics of Scale in Digital Heritage Cultures

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II

Paper

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Participant)

Dr. Rhiannon Bettivia, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Participant)

Within the last ten years, open-access web-based technologies have provided new methods for fostering engagement between cultural heritage organ...

Sessions in which Ms Elizabeth Stainforth attends

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2585

Regular session

Dr Felix Girke, Universität Konstanz (Moderator)

The constructed and political nature of heritage claims is now acknowledged across the disciplines, and increasingly even among heritage profession...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401

Regular session

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Nuala Morse, University of Manchester / University College London (Moderator)

Dr Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global mov...

Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285

Regular session

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Moderator)

Felix Burgos, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Moderator)

Among other aims, the Critical Heritage Studies (CHS) Movement, most exemplified by the promotional efforts of the Association of Critical Heritage...

15:30

Ephemeral Sites of Critical Anti-modernism: Exploring the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Experimental 1970s Eco-social Communities

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265

Regular session

Prof. Steven Mannell, Dalhousie University (Moderator)

The 1970s witnessed a flourishing of living experiments in space, place and community sharing broad ambitions to bring about transformed human soci...