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Prof. Melissa F. Baird

Assistant Professor
Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States
Participates in 3 items
 Melissa F. Baird is an environmental anthropologist and heritage scholar. She is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Michigan Technological University on the shores of Lake Superior. Her areas of interest include Indigenous land rights, cosmopolitan heritage, cultural landscapes, heritage as anthropology, extractive industries, and environmental and CSR initiatives. She recently completed a book manuscript, Critical Heritage Landscapes (in review) based on her ethnographic, archival, and archaeological work on heritage landscapes in Western Australia, Mongolia, Alaska, Paris and Belgium. Melissa received her B.S. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her Ph.D. from Oregon in 2009. From 2011-2013 she was the Postdoctoral Scholar on Global Environmental Heritage at Stanford University in the Anthropology Department, Stanford Archaeology Center, and Woods Institute for the Environment.

Sessions in which Prof. Melissa F. Baird participates

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
Heritage as an Agent of Change (Epistemologies, Ontologies, Teaching)Activists and Experts
Heritage as an agent of changeEpistemologiesOntologiesTeaching

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 feminist theories), heritage scholars are bringing increased attention to the deployment of heritage as both a conceptual category and a contested field of power and discourse. Nevertheless, significant challenges remain in communicating what comprises the theoretical and methodological toolkit of heritage studies. Scholars are still mapping out the nuan...

9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
15:30
15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Heritage Changes the Policies
Heritage changes the policiesHeritage policiesGlobal vs local

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 changed since the influential critiques of Hewison and Wright in the 1980s? How can those engaged in Critical Heritage Studies in the UK negotiate the difficult relationship between academic critique and sector relevance? How do current debates in the UK relate to and differ from those in Western and non-Western contexts? This workshop will bring ...

Sessions in which Prof. Melissa F. Baird attends

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
19:00
19:00 - 23:00 | 4 hours
Festive Event

The closing dinner of the conference, called “Pawâ” according to a French-Canadian tradition borrowed from the Native American lexicon, will be an opportunity to discover, in the heart of the Old Port of Montreal, an original culinary creation by the caterer Agnus Dei, from the renowned Maison Cartier-Besson in Montreal, leader in its field for its boundless creativity and event expertise. The dinner, in the form of stations, will offer delegates an exploration of Quebecois culinary heritage,...