Leah K. Lowthorp

Fellow and Lecturer

Harvard University

Participates in 1 Session

Sessions in which Leah K. Lowthorp participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

12.00 The Tangibility of Intangible Heritage: UNESCO ICH and Material Culture in India

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Le patrimoine culturel immatériel, quels nouveaux défis?

Paper

Leah K. Lowthorp, Harvard University (Participant)

In recent years, global heritage policy has reflected an increasing focus upon the intangible. Part of an attempt to de-centre the hegemony of E...

Sessions in which Leah K. Lowthorp attends

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

13:30

At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance I

3 hours 30 minutes, 13:30 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Session with simultaneous translation / Session avec traduction simultanée

Dr Chiara Bortolotto, Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain, France (Moderator)

Prof. Benedetta Ubertazzi, University of Milan-Bicocca (Moderator)

With sustainable development gaining momentum as a priority of UNESCO heritage policies, an increasing number of food-related nominations are being...

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

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

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518

Regular session

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

Mr Gary Campbell, ANU (Participant)

We would like to propose a session, building on the one we ran at the 2014 CHS conference in Canberra, on how emotion and affect feature in the fie...

Heritage and the Late Modern State II

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Regular session

Dr Richard Hutchings, Vancouver Island University, Canada (Moderator)

Joshua Dent, University of Western Ontario, Department of Anthropology, Canada (Moderator)

This session explores the different ways late modern states control and translate heritage, both their own and that of others. While modern governm...

At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510

Session with simultaneous translation / Session avec traduction simultanée

Dr Chiara Bortolotto, Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain, France (Moderator)

Prof. Benedetta Ubertazzi, University of Milan-Bicocca (Moderator)

With sustainable development gaining momentum as a priority of UNESCO heritage policies, an increasing number of food-related nominations are being...

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)

1 hour 30 minutes, 14:00 - 15:30

Signup required

Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)

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

"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

10.00 Heritage vs Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial Field

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, University of Iceland (Participant)

This paper will examine the relationship between cultural property and cultural heritage with reference to case studies from Greece (Parthenon s...

09.00 Heritage Activism and Mass Media in Iran

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

Paper

Dr Ali Mozaffari, Deakin University, Curtin University (Participant)

This paper will build on and develop my previous work on heritage activism (Mozaffari 2015 and in press). I will examine instances of the repres...

13.30 Heritage and Hospitality: Activists as Uninvited Guests to the Heritage Table

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

Paper

Evren Uzer, Parsons School of Design & University of Gothenburg HDK (Participant)

Hospitality and hostility stems from the root word “hostis,” which could mean guest or host, friend or enemy. Hostis, according to French lingui...

11.40 Crowds, Events and "Acts" of Citizenship: Heritage-Making at the Chattri Indian Memorial

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

Paper

Dr Susan Ashley, Northumbria University (Participant)

Movements such as Occupy Wall Street, embracing the immanent possibilities of the “here and now,” assert the affective presence and radical pote...

11.00 Mapping Intangible Cultural Heritage

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Francesca Cominelli, IREST Paris 1 (Participant)

The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Sc...

11.00 "You Can’t Move History: You Can Secure the Future”: Young People, Activism and the Indivisible Nature of Intangible and Tangible Heritage

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

Paper

Rebecca Madgin, University of Glasgow (Participant)

Debates spanning the value of urban heritage have recently intensified with the increasing belief that tangible and intangible heritage are “ind...

Critical Creation series: The visits (of which there were none) Episode N. 2

8 hours, 9:00 - 17:00

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

Event

Dominique Fontaine / Livia Daza-Paris, A video and photographic installation.

Critical Creation series: Ethical Fashion

8 hours, 9:00 - 17:00

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

Event

Milan Tanedjikov (Concordia University) and six LaSalle College students. A Material Culture & Fashion Exhibit June 6...

Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Regular session

Dr Tod Jones, Curtin University, Australia (Moderator)

Dr Ali Mozaffari, Deakin University, Curtin University (Moderator)

Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...

13:30

Critical Creation Series: “Le Petit coin intact:” A Bilingual Performed Autoethnography

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

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

Event

Creator/performer: Lisa Ndejuru, Concordia University. Soundscape and projections: David Ward, Concordi...

Le Canada doit-il signer la Convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel?

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

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.270

Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)

Christine Bricault, Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant (Moderator)

Pierre Chartrand, Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant (Moderator)

Mme Karine Laviolette, Ministère de la Culture et des Communications (Participant)

Ghislain Picard, Assemblée des Premières Nations du Québec et du Labrador (Participant)

Dr Chiara Bortolotto, Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain, France (Participant)

Antoine Gauthier, CQPV (Participant)

L’objectif de cette table ronde est de questionner une éventuelle ratification par le Canada de cet instrument multilatéral. La réunion se tiend...

15:30

Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)

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

Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Xavier Greffe, University paris I (Participant)

Luc-Normand Tellier, UQAM (Moderator)

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...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

09.30 Cultural Heritage as a Plural and Dynamic Concept between Europe and Asia

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe

Paper

Dr. Marilena Vecco, EUR (Participant)

The notion of cultural heritage is predominantly a European-based concept as it can be perceived through a scan of the literature and the intern...

Le patrimoine culturel immatériel, quels nouveaux défis?

8 hours, 9:00 - 17:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.270

Session with simultaneous translation / Session avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Julia Csergo (Moderator)

Dr Chiara Bortolotto, Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain, France (Moderator)

Antoine Gauthier, CQPV (Moderator)

Le concept de patrimoine culturel immatériel (PCI) a fait l’objet de nombreux colloques et publications depuis la promulgation de la Convention pou...

13:30

14.30 Owning Jerusalem's Past: UNESCO World Heritage and the Struggle for Symbolic Recognition

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations

Paper

Benedetta Serapioni, (IEG) Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz) (Participant)

The aim of this paper is to reflect, from an historical perspective, on the ways the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention opened a new space to...