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.

Sessions in which Dr. Monica Patterson participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

13:30

Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430

Roundtable

Dr. Angela Failler, University of Winnipeg (Participant)

Prof. Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Canada Research Chair in Museum & Heritage Studies, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr Shelley Ruth Butler, McGill University, Institute for the Study of Canada (Moderator)

Heather Igloliorte, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr. Monica Patterson, Carleton University (Participant)

Jennifer C. Robinson, University of Victoria (Participant)

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...

Sessions in which Dr. Monica Patterson attends

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

7:00

Registration

12 hours, 7:00 - 19:00

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

11:00

11.20 Talkin’ Back to Johnny Mac (cancelled)

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: The Artistry of Heritage

Paper

Erin Sutherland, Queen's University (Participant)

January 11th, 2015, marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. Kingston, Ontario, commem...

15.30 Affecting Heritage: "The Servant Problem" and "Museopathy"

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: The Artistry of Heritage

Paper

Jennifer Fisher, York University (Participant)

Jim Drobnick (Participant)

This presentation will describe two projects by DisplayCult that have evolved out of our on-going engagement with redefining notions of the aest...

12.00 Healing Heritage: A Case Study Toward Decolonizing Commemoration

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: The Artistry of Heritage

Paper

Trina Cooper-Bolam, Carleton University (Participant)

In anticipation of the “Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,” this paper will examine Canada’s federal place-based...

11.20 Quotidian Utopia: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence and the Doctrine of Heritage Significance

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Participant)

The expanding use of heritage methods, governance and policy structures to produce an ever-more inclusive, visible, material heritage that parti...

11.00 Seize the Space

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: The Artistry of Heritage

Paper

Jeff Thomas (Participant)

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...

Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950

Regular session

Jeroen Rodenberg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Moderator)

Dr. Pieter Wagenaar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Moderator)

Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion. As an "Authorized Heritage Discourse" (AHD) (Smith 2006) may define what is considered to be her...

The Artistry of Heritage

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M460

Regular session

Prof. Carla Taunton, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Division of Art History and Critical Studies, Canada (Moderator)

Dr Andrea Terry, Lakehead University (Moderator)

This session explores artist-history exchanges in the context of heritage sites, venues and spaces, and considers recent curatorial and artistic...

16.00 Mitigating Cultural Contestation: The Case of Black Pete

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Dr. Pieter Wagenaar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Participant)

Jeroen Rodenberg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Participant)

In current cultural heritage literature there is much emphasis on the uses of heritage in the construction of group identities. The (hi)stories ...

14.00 Disseminating Disgust: De-colonizing Monuments through Affective Atrategies: The Case of Cecil John Rhodes in Cape Town and Oxford

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Dr. Britta Timm Knudsen, Aarhus University (Participant)

This paper argues that political mobilization and enthusiasm is created as a consequence of profane strategies of disgust rather than of anger a...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

13:30

14.30 Heritage Changes Lives: How Partnerships between Museums and Community Organizations are Making Positive Differences to People’s Lives

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors

Paper

Laura Crossley, University of Leicester (Participant)

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...

16.00 Objects and Communities: Re-Engaging African Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors

Paper

Silvia Forni, Royal Ontario Museum (Participant)

This paper will address some of the historical and recent developments of a troubled exhibitionary and relational history involving African obje...

17:00

Smoked meat in questions

1 hour, 17:00 - 18:00

Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse

Cocktail

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...

18:30

Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)

1 hour 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

9:00

11.00 Experiencing Mixed Emotions in the Museum: Empathy and Memory in Visitors’ Responses to Histories of Migration

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I

Paper

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Research involving display analysis and interviews with staff and visitors has shown empathy to be an important feature of interpretative strate...

09.00 Empathy as a Register of Engagement in Heritage Making: The Making and Withholding of Compassion

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I

Paper

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

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...

10.00 "Dealing with the Past" in Northern Ireland: Empathy as Political Engagement in the Memorial Heritage Project

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I

Paper

Prof Elizabeth Crooke, Ulster University (Participant)

Now in a transitional phase between violence and established peace, Northern Ireland is dealing with the legacy of forty years of conflict. Memo...

11.20 Pedagogies of Remembrance as Affective Practice: Reading Testimonial Literature of Indian Residential Schools with Future Teachers

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I

Paper

lisa taylor, Bishops University (Participant)

Heritage practices of making meaning through and with the past are inherently pedagogical, bringing the past to bear on the present in ways inte...

09.40 Archival Systems: From "Weapons of Affect" to Tools of Compassion

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I

Paper

Joanne Evans, Monash University (Participant)

At recent Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) and Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ) conferences, powerful presentations...

09.00 Reflecting the "Other": Digital Museum Installations as Sites of Dialogue

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions

Paper

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Participant)

Liz Ševčenko in “The Dialogic Museum Revisited” (2011) concludes that digital media may become the platforms for dialogue around sensitive/diffi...

11.00 To and from Youth: Co-producing a Learning Program on Digital Democracy with Youths

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions

Paper

Torhild Skåtun, Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology (Participant)

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...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

11.00 Moving History and History in the Making: A Contrasting Comparison on Heritage and Memory Culture in Southern Africa

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa

Paper

Mr Matthias Schulze M.A. (Participant)

“Thank God they have taken him off. It reminds me of the colonial past.” (Interview excerpt) These were the words that expressed the gr...

10.00 Heritage as Dispossession: A Critical Legal Ethnography of the Postcolony. A South African Case Study

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa

Paper

Mr Sadiq Toffa, University of Cape Town (Participant)

The year 2015 marks an extraordinary year in the reinvigoration of a public heritage discourse in South Africa. The Rhodes Must Fall campaign ga...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Repas

13:30

Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening)

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV

Research-Creation

Prof. Hourig Attarian, Concordia University, Department of Education, Canada (Participant)

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr Nadine Blumer, Centre for Curating and Public Scholarship (CaPSL) (Participant)

Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omissi...

17:00

Lancement de livre / Book launch: Curatorial Dreams by Shelley Ruth Butler & Erica Lehrer

1 hour, 17:00 - 18:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.130

Event

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

11.20 Heritage, Emotional Communities, and Imaginary Childhood Landscapes

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II

Paper

Christian Widholm, Södertörn University (Participant)

Employing examples from maritime heritage attractions in Sweden this paper aims to analyze how heritage stakeholders situate their enterprises t...

11.40 Immediate Emotion: Articulating Historical Consciousness and Heritage in Oral Histories

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II

Paper

Ms Jessica Douthwaite, University of Strathclyde (Participant)

In this paper I will address ACHS Conference questions surrounding the building of “critical innovations” in heritage and how heritage offers us...

11.00 Found; Finding; Foundling, Mine: Searching for the Voice of the Historical Child in the Foundling Museum

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II

Paper

Miss Rachel Emily Taylor, Sheffield Hallam University (Participant)

Biographical narratives are being used as vehicles for history within contemporary heritage discourse. I am interested in unravelling the dialog...

11:00

"Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 - 12:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430

Regular session

Rebecca Lemire, Concordia University (Moderator)

In November 2014, artists and thinkers including Jimmie Durham, Michael Taussig, Rebecca Belmore and Paul Chaat Smith convened in Calgary and Saska...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Repas

13:00

A Public-Panel-Relay (Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue)

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:00 - 14:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Research-Creation

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Moderator)

An experiment in moving memory, this live event bridges public and academic space to re-imagine knowledge exchange, creation and impact...

15:30

Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice

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

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Roundtable

Dr Phaedra Livingstone (Moderator)

Dr Susan Ashley, Northumbria University (Participant)

Dr Marie-Claude Larouche, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Département des sciences de l'éducation (Participant)

Prof. Jennifer Carter, UQAM (Participant)

To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...