
Dr. Monica Patterson
Asst. Professor, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies
Carleton University
Participates in 1 Session
Monica Eileen Patterson is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan. She is coeditor and contributing author of two books: "Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places" (Palgrave, 2011) and "Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline" (University of Michigan Press, 2011). As a scholar, curator, and activist, she is particularly interested in the intersections of memory, childhood, and violence in postcolonial Africa, and the ways in which they are represented and engaged in contemporary public spheres.
Her current book project examines the contested and conflicting constructions of childhood in late apartheid South Africa, from 1976 until the early 1990s when negotiations for the transition to democracy began.
Monica has conducted extensive fieldwork and archival research in South Africa and Zimbabwe, and has worked on a number of public history projects.
She holds a certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan and has curated several exhibits based on her research.
Her current book project examines the contested and conflicting constructions of childhood in late apartheid South Africa, from 1976 until the early 1990s when negotiations for the transition to democracy began.
Monica has conducted extensive fieldwork and archival research in South Africa and Zimbabwe, and has worked on a number of public history projects.
She holds a certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan and has curated several exhibits based on her research.
Sessions in which Dr. Monica Patterson participates
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- Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...
- Roundtable
Sessions in which Dr. Monica Patterson attends
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7:00
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 7:00 - 19:00 | 12 hours
11:00
11:00
- 11.20 Talkin’ Back to Johnny Mac (cancelled)
- Participant Erin Sutherland (Queen's University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Artistry of Heritage
- January 11th, 2015, marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. Kingston, Ontario, commem...
- Paper
- 15.30 Affecting Heritage: "The Servant Problem" and "Museopathy"
- Participant Jennifer Fisher (York University) | Participant Jim Drobnick |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Artistry of Heritage
- This presentation will describe two projects by DisplayCult that have evolved out of our on-going engagement with redefining notions of the aest...
- Paper
- 12.00 Healing Heritage: A Case Study Toward Decolonizing Commemoration
- Participant Trina Cooper-Bolam (Carleton University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Artistry of Heritage
- In anticipation of the “Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,” this paper will examine Canada’s federal place-based...
- Paper
- 11.20 Quotidian Utopia: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence and the Doctrine of Heritage Significance
- Participant Prof. Tracy Ireland |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- The expanding use of heritage methods, governance and policy structures to produce an ever-more inclusive, visible, material heritage that parti...
- Paper
- 11.00 Seize the Space
- Participant Jeff Thomas |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Artistry of Heritage
- When I first visited the Samuel de Champlain monument in 1992, I never imagined that one day, the kneeling Indian at the base of the monument wo...
- Paper
- Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion. As an "Authorized Heritage Discourse" (AHD) (Smith 2006) may define what is considered to be her...
- Regular session
- The Artistry of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M460
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- This session explores artist-history exchanges in the context of heritage sites, venues and spaces, and considers recent curatorial and artistic...
- Regular session
- 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
- 14.00 Disseminating Disgust: De-colonizing Monuments through Affective Atrategies: The Case of Cecil John Rhodes in Cape Town and Oxford
- Participant Dr. Britta Timm Knudsen (Aarhus University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- This paper argues that political mobilization and enthusiasm is created as a consequence of profane strategies of disgust rather than of anger a...
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
13:30
13:30
- 14.30 Heritage Changes Lives: How Partnerships between Museums and Community Organizations are Making Positive Differences to People’s Lives
- Participant Laura Crossley (University of Leicester) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- Research has painted an often-gloomy picture of the impact of the financial cuts on museums. A 2014 Museums Association (MA) survey found that 4...
- Paper
- 16.00 Objects and Communities: Re-Engaging African Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum
- Participant Silvia Forni (Royal Ontario Museum) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- This paper will address some of the historical and recent developments of a troubled exhibitionary and relational history involving African obje...
- Paper
17:00
17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
- This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...
- Cocktail
18:30
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
- 11.00 Experiencing Mixed Emotions in the Museum: Empathy and Memory in Visitors’ Responses to Histories of Migration
- Participant Prof. Rhiannon Mason |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Research involving display analysis and interviews with staff and visitors has shown empathy to be an important feature of interpretative strate...
- Paper
- 09.00 Empathy as a Register of Engagement in Heritage Making: The Making and Withholding of Compassion
- Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- This paper explores the role that empathy, as both a skill and an emotion, plays in the processes of politicized and self-conscious heritage-mak...
- Paper
- 10.00 "Dealing with the Past" in Northern Ireland: Empathy as Political Engagement in the Memorial Heritage Project
- Participant Prof Elizabeth Crooke (Ulster University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Now in a transitional phase between violence and established peace, Northern Ireland is dealing with the legacy of forty years of conflict. Memo...
- Paper
- 11.20 Pedagogies of Remembrance as Affective Practice: Reading Testimonial Literature of Indian Residential Schools with Future Teachers
- Participant lisa taylor (Bishops University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Heritage practices of making meaning through and with the past are inherently pedagogical, bringing the past to bear on the present in ways inte...
- Paper
- 09.40 Archival Systems: From "Weapons of Affect" to Tools of Compassion
- Participant Joanne Evans (Monash University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- At recent Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) and Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ) conferences, powerful presentations...
- Paper
- 09.00 Reflecting the "Other": Digital Museum Installations as Sites of Dialogue
- Participant Prof. Rhiannon Mason | Participant Dr Areti Galani (Newcastle University, UK) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Liz Ševčenko in “The Dialogic Museum Revisited” (2011) concludes that digital media may become the platforms for dialogue around sensitive/diffi...
- Paper
- 11.00 To and from Youth: Co-producing a Learning Program on Digital Democracy with Youths
- Participant Torhild Skåtun (Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology ) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- This paper will present the project “To and from Youth” at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, which allowed a group of eight youths...
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
9:00
9:00
- 11.00 Moving History and History in the Making: A Contrasting Comparison on Heritage and Memory Culture in Southern Africa
- Participant Mr Matthias Schulze M.A. |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa
- “Thank God they have taken him off. It reminds me of the colonial past.” (Interview excerpt) These were the words that expressed the gr...
- Paper
- 10.00 Heritage as Dispossession: A Critical Legal Ethnography of the Postcolony. A South African Case Study
- Participant Mr Sadiq Toffa (University of Cape Town) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa
- The year 2015 marks an extraordinary year in the reinvigoration of a public heritage discourse in South Africa. The Rhodes Must Fall campaign ga...
- Paper
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
13:30
13:30
- Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening) Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omissi...
- Research-Creation
17:00
17:00
- Lancement de livre / Book launch: Curatorial Dreams by Shelley Ruth Butler & Erica Lehrer Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.130
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
- Event
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9:00
- 11.20 Heritage, Emotional Communities, and Imaginary Childhood Landscapes
- Participant Christian Widholm (Södertörn University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Employing examples from maritime heritage attractions in Sweden this paper aims to analyze how heritage stakeholders situate their enterprises t...
- Paper
- 11.40 Immediate Emotion: Articulating Historical Consciousness and Heritage in Oral Histories
- Participant Ms Jessica Douthwaite (University of Strathclyde) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- In this paper I will address ACHS Conference questions surrounding the building of “critical innovations” in heritage and how heritage offers us...
- Paper
- 11.00 Found; Finding; Foundling, Mine: Searching for the Voice of the Historical Child in the Foundling Museum
- Participant Miss Rachel Emily Taylor (Sheffield Hallam University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Biographical narratives are being used as vehicles for history within contemporary heritage discourse. I am interested in unravelling the dialog...
- Paper
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11:00
- "Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In November 2014, artists and thinkers including Jimmie Durham, Michael Taussig, Rebecca Belmore and Paul Chaat Smith convened in Calgary and Saska...
- Regular session
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
13:00
13:00
- A Public-Panel-Relay (Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue) Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 13:00 - 14:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- An experiment in moving memory, this live event bridges public and academic space to re-imagine knowledge exchange, creation and impact...
- Research-Creation
15:30
15:30
- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...
- Roundtable