
Sybille Frank, Prof. Dr. phil., is Junior Professor for Urban and Regional Sociology at the Institute for Sociology, Technical University Berlin. Her work focuses on heritage and tourism studies, on comparative city research, and on the sociology of space and place. Recent book publications include: Turn Over. Cultural Turns in der Soziologie (Turn Over. Cultural Turns in Sociology, ed., with Jochen Schwenk), Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2010; Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment (ed., with Silke Steets), London/New York: Routledge 2010; Städte unterscheiden lernen. Zur Analyse interurbaner Kontraste. Birmingham, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Glasgow (How to Distinguish Cities. On the Analysis of Interurban Contrasts. Birmingham, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Glasgow, ed., with Petra Gehring, Julika Griem and Michael Haus), Frankfurt /New York: Campus 2014. Sybille‘s dissertation on Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie as an international heritage site won the interdisciplinary prize “Humanities International” in 2012. It will be published in English under the title “Wall Memorials and Heritage” in the Routledge Studies in Heritage series in 2016.
Sessions in which Prof. Sybille Frank participates
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- Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- This session seeks to explore the role of urban heritage in mediating and contesting political conflict in the context of divided cities. We take u...
- Regular session
Sessions in which Prof. Sybille Frank attends
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- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 7:00 - 13:00 | 6 hours
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- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...
- Regular session
- Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- With his expression "ceci tuera cela," Hugo established almost two centuries ago a strong link between words and stones as transmission vehicles of...
- Regular session
- The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M460
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- In many emerging economies of the Global South, new urban mega-projects are strategically reviving heritage into simulacra, copies without original...
- Regular session
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- 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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- ACHS 2016 General Assembly Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 17:00 - 18:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Talk
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- 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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- Morning Coffee Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- Pause
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- Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.255
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- In recent decades, the growth of the World Heritage industry has necessitated the reconsideration of scale. Formerly dominated by nation-states, so...
- Regular session
- Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- The field of heritage has emerged as a key site of reflection. Influenced by shifts in the academy (e.g., post-colonial, post-structural and femini...
- Regular session
- Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.115
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Cities are growingly being faced by social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges imposing health and social risks. Rapid urbanization, p...
- Regular session
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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

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- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 hour
- To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...
- Cocktail
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- Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.115
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Cities are growingly being faced by social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges imposing health and social risks. Rapid urbanization, p...
- Regular session
- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global mov...
- Regular session
- “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- In exploring the broader question “What does heritage change?” this session presents work that is extending heritage policies and practices beyond ...
- Regular session
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- The Lost Stories Project Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.130
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What is involved in presenting the past as a physical object in public space? There is a significant literature by scholars in various disciplin...
- Research-Creation
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- Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What is the future of the UK and what is the role of heritage in this shifting political landscape? How have debates on heritage in the UK chang...
- Roundtable