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

Sessions in which Dr Shelley Ruth Butler attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises
19:30 - 21:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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
11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes
11.00  Seize the Space
11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes
13.30  Les droits à l’œuvre : la muséalisation et la médiation des droits de la personne et de la justice sociale à l’ère néolibérale
11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes
12.00  Healing Heritage: A Case Study Toward Decolonizing Commemoration
11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes
16.30  Patrimoines en conflit : sur l’« incompatibilité » du génocide arménien (1915) avec le patrimoine lyonnais
11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes
11.40  Embodied Memoration: Unsettling Colonial Forms through Performative Acts in the Everyday
11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes
16.00  Objects and Communities: Re-Engaging African Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum
13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
09.30  The Rise and Fall of “Mother Canada”: Heritage Out on a Limb
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
In-community session: Walking Post-Industrial Areas
9:00 - 10:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette
Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
Lancement de livre / Book launch: Curatorial Dreams by Shelley Ruth Butler & Erica Lehrer
17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.130
Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
18:00 - 19:00 | 1 hour
Concordia, LB Building - LB 123

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch
12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
A Public-Panel-Relay (Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue)
13:00 - 14:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
16.45  Visite guidée de l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal
13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes
16.15  L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal, une mission, une vision, un futur
13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes
Break | Pause
15:00 - 15:30 | 30 minutes
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB Atrium
Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice
15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115