Ms. Erin Linn

Director

Integrated Heritage Project

Erin is the Founder and Director of the Integrated Heritage Project, a nonprofit ngo that seeks to preserve, protect, and promote endangered heritage sites in developing economies while strengthening local communities. A trained archaeologist and heritage professional, Erin has extensive experience working on commercial and academic archaeological and heritage management projects in seven countries. In 2015 She has worked for the Museum of London Archaeology, Heritage Watch International in Cambodia, the Earthwatch Institute, and the Centre for Heritage & Society at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

As the Project Development Officer for Heritage Watch in Cambodia, Erin oversaw the creation and implementation of a heritage protection and education program at the site of Banteay Chhmar, and contributed to the development of a national heritage protection campaign in collaboration with the Cambodian government and UNESCO.

Erin holds an MA in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and an MA in Cultural Heritage from Deakin University, Australia. Erin is currently employed as the Communications Officer for the Center for African Studies at Harvard University.

Sessions in which Ms. Erin Linn attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

11:30

Public Debate: Heritage and Tourism | Débat public: Patrimoine et tourisme

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 - 13:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Athanase-David (D) - DR-200

Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

Mr. Craig Bennett Jr., Bennett Preservation Engineering PC, Charleston, South Carolina (Participant)

Martine Lizotte, École internationale d’hôtellerie et tourisme du Collège LaSalle (Moderator)

Pierre Mathieu, Explorateur Voyages (Participant)

France Lessard (Participant)

David Mendel, Mendel Tours (Participant)

What does heritage change for tourism? | Le patrimoine, ça change quoi au tourisme? Ce débat veut interroger les r...

12:30

Welcome Coffee

5 hours, 12:30 - 17:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

Registration

5 hours, 12:30 - 17:30

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

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...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

8:00

Morning Coffee

2 hours, 8:00 - 10:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

9:00

Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)

1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...

11:00

14.00 Customizable Governance: Context-Specific Regulation and Capacity Building in Canadian Heritage Management

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State I

Paper

Joshua Dent, University of Western Ontario, Department of Anthropology, Canada (Participant)

Canada is not just a patchwork of varying heritage governance delineated by provincial and territorial boundaries, but a maelstrom of contesting...

11.00 Policy Institutions and Policy Agents as Makers of Cultural Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Geir Vestheim, University College of Southeast Norway (Participant)

This paper will depart from the idea that the making of cultural policy, and heritage policy included, takes place within a political system and...

11.30 Heritage Diplomacy and the Border

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine

Paper

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Participant)

Borders—political, institutional and cultural—have been central to the internationalization of heritage in the modern era. The concepts of herit...

11.30 Un-Erasing the Indigenous Paleolithic: Re-Writing the Ancient Pleistocene Past of the Western Hemisphere (the Americas)

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State I

Paper

Paulette Steeves, UMASS Amherst (Participant)

American archaeologists in service of the nation state have long denied an ancient presence of Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere. Sta...

13.30 Full Spectrum Management of Cultural Heritage in Archaeology

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State I

Paper

Erin Hogg, Simon Fraser University (Participant)

Cultural heritage is fundamental to individual and group identity, and is therefore protected, preserved, and otherwise managed through legislat...

14.30 Of, By, and For Which People?: Government and Contested Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Indiana University (IUPUI) (Participant)

Two government-owned and managed heritage sites in Indiana, USA, offer an opportunity to explore the role of governing in adjudicating the compe...

12:30

Heritage as Global Challenge

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518

Talk

kristian kristiansen, University of Gothenburg (Participant)

Prof. Ola Wetterberg, University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation (Participant)

A new Centre for Critical Heritage Studies in partnership between University College London and University of Gothenburg started in April 2016 a...

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

15:30

15.30 Managed Landscapes: The Social Construction of Scale at Angkor

30 minutes, 15:30 - 16:00

Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I

Paper

Rowena Butland (Participant)

In constructing the scales that frame our political, social and cultural lives, we do not neutrally siphon off a particular part of the world an...

Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine : Roundtable | Table ronde

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280

Roundtable

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Participant)

Dr Astrid Swenson, Brunel University London (Moderator)

Rebecca Madgin, University of Glasgow (Participant)

Prof. Dominique Poulot, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France (Moderator)

Dr Elizabeth Vlossak, Brock University (Participant)

Laurier Turgeon, Université Laval (Participant)

17:00

Smoked meat in questions

1 hour, 17:00 - 18:00

Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse

Cocktail

This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

9:00

11.30 Engineering Identity in a New Master-Planned City: Fantasy Islam in Indonesia’s Dompak Island

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies

Paper

Alyssa Wilbur, McGill University (Participant)

After struggling from over three hundred and sixty years of colonialism, Indonesia, similarly to many newly independent states, attempted to rec...

10.00 Demolition and Reconstruction of the City’s Identity: The Heritage Project, Heart of Sharjah

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies

Paper

Dr. Imen Ben Jemia, University of Sharjah (Participant)

In a context of globalization, cities compete to be distinguished internationally for their specific peculiarities. Cities utilize their histori...

12.00 Heritage Revival and "High Islam" in Dubai

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies

Paper

Prof. Sarah Moser, McGill University (Participant)

Dubai’s explosive growth over the past several decades and the proliferation of its urban spectacles have been well documented. The population h...

09.00 Stylistic Dialogue among Iconic Buildings in Vietnam

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies

Paper

Hazel Hahn (Participant)

Vietnam has one of the most dynamic emerging economies in the world, and heritage tourism plays a significant role in this regard. Tourism in Vi...

11.00 Rewriting Geological Time: Kanal Istanbul, a Mega-Project in Istanbul

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies

Paper

Ms Meltem Al, McGill University School of Architecture (Participant)

Prof. Ipek Türeli, McGill University, School of Architecture, Canada (Participant)

In April 2011, in the middle of an election campaign, the then prime minister (and current president) of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced...

09.30 Identity and Heritage Revival in Morocco’s New Master-Planned Cities

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies

Paper

Laurence Côté-Roy, McGill University (Participant)

Since the 1990s, hundreds of new master planned cities have been springing up across the global South, namely in Asia and the Middle East, but a...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

14:00

Keynote: Renaming, Removal, Recontextualization of Heritage: Purging History, Claiming the Present, Imagining the Future? (What Change-Role for Heritage Professionals?) (James Count Early)

1 hour 30 minutes, 14:00 - 15:30

Signup required

Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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

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

"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...

17:00

ACHS 2016 General Assembly

1 hour 30 minutes, 17:00 - 18:30

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

Talk

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Moderator)

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

10.00 Reconciling Conflicting Rights: National Indigenous Heritage in Southeast Asia

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Dr Anna Karlström, Uppsala University (Participant)

Over the last decades a language of rights and human rights-based approaches have been adopted by intergovernmental organizations and are now we...

13.30 Approaching Rights in the World Heritage Arena: Methodological Considerations

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Peter Larsen, University of Lucerne (Participant)

Ms Kristal Buckley AM, Deakin University Australia (Participant)

A number of actors within the World Heritage system have, within recent years, started addressing rights, rights-based approaches and language. ...

09.30 Cultural, Conflicting and Collective Rights in Bagan, Myanmar

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Anne Laura Kraak, Deakin University (Participant)

Following decades of isolation, Myanmar started to re-engage with the UNESCO’s World Heritage system in 2012 at a time when the link between her...

09.00 Heritage Activism and Mass Media in Iran

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

Paper

Dr Ali Mozaffari, Deakin University, Curtin University (Participant)

This paper will build on and develop my previous work on heritage activism (Mozaffari 2015 and in press). I will examine instances of the repres...

09.20 Introduction

10 minutes, 9:00 - 9:10

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

How do Rights Change Heritage?

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.235

Regular session

Anne Laura Kraak, Deakin University (Moderator)

Questions about the repatriation of cultural property, issues of access and exclusion in the World Heritage system, intangible heritage practices i...

Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435

Regular session

Dr Zoe Cormack, The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Harriet Deacon, Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, The Open University, UK (Participant)

Dr Lotte Hughes, The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom (Moderator)

This session will address the potential and limitations of heritage as a tool for leverage, empowerment and dissent in Africa. It is widely a...

Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285

Regular session

Dr Mirjana Ristic, Technical University Berlin (Moderator)

Prof. Sybille Frank, Technische Universität Berlin (Moderator)

This session seeks to explore the role of urban heritage in mediating and contesting political conflict in the context of divided cities. We take u...

An Intergenerational Conversation about Heritage Conservation Education: The Rise, Fall, and (Necessary) Redefinition of Expert Knowledge

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430

Roundtable

Prof. Christina Cameron, University of Montreal (Moderator)

Prof. Nobuko Inaba, University of Tsukuba (Participant)

Angela Garvey, ERA Architects (Participant)

Mardjane Amin, University of Montreal, MSc. A. Aménagement, option conservation de l'environnement bâti (Participant)

Prof. Claudine Déom, University of Montreal (Moderator)

John Diodati architect, Fournier Gersovitz Moss Drolet and Associates (Participant)

Jack Vandenberg, Heritage Conservation Directorate, Public Services and Procurement Canada (Participant)

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Participant)

As recent publications have demonstrated, the role of the expert in heritage conservation is a relevant, indeed imperative topic of discussion. On ...

12:30

ACHS Chapters meetings: ACHS US Chapter

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.255

Workshop

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

11.40 Not All Stakeholders Are Equal: Local, Municipal, and National Conflict in the Public Heritage Square in Cuzco, Peru

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue

Paper

Helaine Silverman, CHAMP - University of Illinois (Participant)

In keeping with the theme of the 2016 ACHS conference, “What Does Heritage Change?,” this paper argues that it can change a society very much, a...