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

Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430

Roundtable

Dr. Angela Failler, University of Winnipeg (Participant)

Prof. Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Canada Research Chair in Museum & Heritage Studies, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr Shelley Ruth Butler, McGill University, Institute for the Study of Canada (Moderator)

Heather Igloliorte, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr. Monica Patterson, Carleton University (Participant)

Jennifer C. Robinson, University of Victoria (Participant)

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...

Sessions in which Dr Shelley Ruth Butler attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

13:00

What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum

2 hours, 13:00 - 15:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Workshop

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Moderator)

Dr Adèle Esposito, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR AUSser Architecture, Urbanistique, Société, France (Participant)

Zeynep Gunay, Istanbul Technical University (Participant)

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

Pedro Paulo Funari, Unicamp (Participant)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...

17:00

Opening Ceremony and Cocktail

2 hours 30 minutes, 17:00 - 19:30

Signup required

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel

Cocktail

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Potential)

Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Potential)

Dr Clarence Epstein, Concordia University (Moderator)

Christine Zachary-Deom (Participant)

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Participant)

Hon. Serge Joyal c.p., o.c. (Participant)

Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...

19:30

The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises

1 hour 30 minutes, 19:30 - 21:00

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210

Research-Creation

Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Moderator)

Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

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

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance

Jean-François Leclerc, Centre d'histoire de Montréal (Participant)

Le fait d'immigrer engage les individus, les familles et les groupes dans un processus de délestage et de recomposition identitaires. Comme l'a ...

11.00 Seize the Space

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: The Artistry of Heritage

Paper

Jeff Thomas (Participant)

When I first visited the Samuel de Champlain monument in 1992, I never imagined that one day, the kneeling Indian at the base of the monument wo...

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

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance

Prof. Jennifer Carter, UQAM (Participant)

Un survol du paysage muséal global depuis les années 1980 mène au constat qu’un nombre croissant d’institutions culturelles muséalise les événem...

12.00 Healing Heritage: A Case Study Toward Decolonizing Commemoration

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: The Artistry of Heritage

Paper

Trina Cooper-Bolam, Carleton University (Participant)

In anticipation of the “Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,” this paper will examine Canada’s federal place-based...

16.30 Patrimoines en conflit : sur l’« incompatibilité » du génocide arménien (1915) avec le patrimoine lyonnais

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance

Paper

Dr Analays Alvarez Hernandez, University of Toronto (Participant)

Le génocide arménien de 1915 est un sujet sensible. Par conséquent, ce n’est guère étonnant que la patrimonialisation de sa mémoire, par l’entre...

11.40 Embodied Memoration: Unsettling Colonial Forms through Performative Acts in the Everyday

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: The Artistry of Heritage

Paper

Leah Decter, Queen's University (Participant)

This paper foregrounds, as critical “artist-history exchanges,” performative interventions that act upon everyday spaces and objects with the im...

13:30

16.00 Objects and Communities: Re-Engaging African Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors

Paper

Silvia Forni, Royal Ontario Museum (Participant)

This paper will address some of the historical and recent developments of a troubled exhibitionary and relational history involving African obje...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

9:00

09.30 The Rise and Fall of “Mother Canada”: Heritage Out on a Limb

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories

Paper

Lon Dubinsky, Concordia University (Participant)

This paper will examine the genesis, development, and current status of the Never Forgotten National Memorial, the centrepiece of which is a hug...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

In-community session: Walking Post-Industrial Areas

1 hour 30 minutes, 9:00 - 10:30

Signup required

Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette

Roundtable

Simon Bradley (Participant)

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Moderator)

Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Participant)

Toby Butler, University of East London (Participant)

In recent years, there has been a great deal of debate surrounding so-called ruin gazing and the politics of representing industrial or urban ru...

15:30

Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Xavier Greffe, University paris I (Participant)

Luc-Normand Tellier, UQAM (Moderator)

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...

17:00

Lancement de livre / Book launch: Curatorial Dreams by Shelley Ruth Butler & Erica Lehrer

1 hour, 17:00 - 18:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.130

Event

18:00

Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event

1 hour, 18:00 - 19:00

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 123

Cocktail

Dr Jessica Mace, University of Toronto (Moderator)

Gwenaelle Reyt (Participant)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Participant)

Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal et UQAM (Moderator)

To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Repas

13:00

A Public-Panel-Relay (Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue)

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:00 - 14:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Research-Creation

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Moderator)

An experiment in moving memory, this live event bridges public and academic space to re-imagine knowledge exchange, creation and impact...

13:30

16.45 Visite guidée de l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés

Tour

Chantal Turbide, L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (Participant)

16.15 L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal, une mission, une vision, un futur

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés

Paper

Chantal Turbide, L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (Participant)

Cette communication vise à présenter le projet de développement de l’Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal. À l’ère de la laïcisation de la sociét...

15:00

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 15:00 - 15:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB Atrium

Pause

15:30

Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Roundtable

Dr Phaedra Livingstone (Moderator)

Dr Susan Ashley, Northumbria University (Participant)

Dr Marie-Claude Larouche, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Département des sciences de l'éducation (Participant)

Prof. Jennifer Carter, UQAM (Participant)

To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...