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
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13:30
- Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable
Sessions in which Dr Shelley Ruth Butler attends
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13:00
- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
- Workshop
17:00
17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Signup required Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Cocktail
19:30
19:30
- The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
11:00
11:00
- 14.30 Recomposer et exposer son identité : mieux connaître l’expérience immigrante des adolescents nouvellement arrivés, grâce à une activité du Centre d’histoire de Montréal
- Participant Jean-François Leclerc (Centre d'histoire de Montréal) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance
- 11.00 Seize the Space
- Participant Jeff Thomas |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Artistry of Heritage
- Paper
- 12.00 Healing Heritage: A Case Study Toward Decolonizing Commemoration
- Participant Trina Cooper-Bolam (Carleton University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Artistry of Heritage
- Paper
- 16.30 Patrimoines en conflit : sur l’« incompatibilité » du génocide arménien (1915) avec le patrimoine lyonnais
- Participant Dr Analays Alvarez Hernandez (University of Toronto) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance
- Paper
- 11.40 Embodied Memoration: Unsettling Colonial Forms through Performative Acts in the Everyday
- Participant Leah Decter (Queen's University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Artistry of Heritage
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- 16.00 Objects and Communities: Re-Engaging African Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum
- Participant Silvia Forni (Royal Ontario Museum) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- Paper
9:00
9:00
- 09.30 The Rise and Fall of “Mother Canada”: Heritage Out on a Limb
- Participant Lon Dubinsky (Concordia University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Paper
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
15:30
15:30
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
17:00
17:00
- Lancement de livre / Book launch: Curatorial Dreams by Shelley Ruth Butler & Erica Lehrer Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.130
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
- Event
18:00
18:00
- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 hour
- Cocktail
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
13:00
13:00
- A Public-Panel-Relay (Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue) Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 13:00 - 14:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
13:30
13:30
- 16.45 Visite guidée de l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal
- Participant Chantal Turbide (L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Tour
- 16.15 L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal, une mission, une vision, un futur
- Participant Chantal Turbide (L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Paper
15:00
15:00
- Break | Pause Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB Atrium
- 15:00 - 15:30 | 30 minutes
- Pause
15:30
15:30
- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable