Dr Shelley Ruth Butler

Lecturer & Principal, Curatorial Dreams: Creative Workshops for Museum and Heritage Professionals, Researchers, and Community Groups
McGill University, Institute for the Study of Canada
Participates in 1 Session
Shelley Ruth Butler is a cultural anthropologist who researches museums, heritage sites, and cultural politics in Canada and South Africa. Recent publications include essays on township tourism in Slum Tourism: Poverty, Power, Ethics (2012) and on reflexive museology in Museum Theory: An Expanded Field (2014).  Her ethnography, Contested Representations: Revisiting Into the Heart of Africa (1999 & 2011) is widely taught in museology and public history.  She is co-editor (with Erica Lehrer) of Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibition (2016).  She teaches interdisciplinary courses with the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and conducts Curatorial Dreaming workshops with museum and heritage professionals, researchers, and community groups. 
 

Sessions in which Dr Shelley Ruth Butler participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:30
13:30

Sessions in which Dr Shelley Ruth Butler attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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13:00
13:00
17:00
17:00
19:30
19:30

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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Sunday 5 June, 2016

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Monday 6 June, 2016

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9:00
9:00
  • In-community session: Walking Post-Industrial Areas
  • Signup required
  • Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette
  • 9:00 - 10:30  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Roundtable
    Heritage Changes PlaceCo-Construction and Community Based HeritageIndustrial HeritageOral HistoryUrban HeritagePublic event
    Heritage changes placeCo-construction of heritageCommunity-based heritageHeritage makers
15:30
15:30
Prof. Xavier Greffe
Participant
University paris I
Professeur de sciences é...
Luc-Normand Tellier
Moderator
UQAM
Professeur émérite
18:00
18:00

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:00
13:00
15:00
15:00
15:30
15:30