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Dr. Cynthia Scott

Independent Historian and Heritage Scholar
Dr. Cynthia Scott is an independent historian and heritage scholar who completed a Ph.D. in Modern European History, and an M.A. in Cultural Studies, at Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles. Her research interests center on post-colonial cultural diplomacy and debates over heritage and memory in comparative international perspective. Her writing is guided mainly by the questions: how do groups create a sense of the shared past, how do they navigate identity in the face of historical change, and how do they negotiate relationships of cultural cooperation and exchange in the aftermath of conflict and historical injustice? Her dissertation on the history of post-colonial cultural diplomacy between the Netherlands and Indonesia, 1949–1979, focuses on how Dutch officials handled demands from Indonesian leaders for the return of cultural property and, in the process, how they gave renewed meaning to the history of Dutch colonialism in the East Indies. She is currently completing a book manuscript that compares how a decolonizing Netherlands and United Kingdom defined the renewal of cultural relations--both with and without the return of cultural property--in ways that gave new meaning to their histories of colonialism in Asia and Africa.

Recent Publications:

“Renewing the ‘Special Relationship’ and Rethinking the Return of Cultural Property: The Netherlands and Indonesia.” Journal of Contemporary History, Special Issue: Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century: Europe in Transnational and Global Perspective (forthcoming).
 
“Sharing the Divisions of the Colonial Past: An Assessment of the Netherlands-Indonesia Shared Cultural Heritage Project, 2003-2006.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 20, no. 4 (February 2014): 181-195. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2012.738239]

 

Sessions in which Dr. Cynthia Scott attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
12:30
12:30
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
  • Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
  • Cocktail
    Festive Event
19:30
19:30

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:00
8:00
9:00
9:00
Lucie Morisset
Moderator
Canada Research Chair in...
Event manager
10:30
10:30
11:00
11:00
  • Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine
  • UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280
  • 11:00 - 15:00  | 4 hours
  • How do borders shape heritage and its potential for change? Despite the growth of international connections in heritage studies, national, linguist...
  • Regular session
    Heritage Changes the Local SocietiesNotions of Heritage
    Heritage changes the local societiesheritage and mobilityPost-colonial heritageGlobal vs local
18:30
18:30
  • Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
  • Signup required
  • UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
  • 18:30 - 20:00  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
  • Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
    Public event
    Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée
Prof. Michael Herzfeld
Participant
Harvard University
Ernest E. Monrad Profess...
Prof. Laurajane Smith
Moderator
Australian National Univ...
Professor and Head of th...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
7:00
7:00
9:00
9:00
14:00
14:00
Prof. James Count Early
Participant
Smithsonian Center for F...
Director, Cultural Herit...
Prof. Michelle L. Stefano
Moderator
University of Maryland, ...
Visiting Assistant Profe...
17:00
17:00

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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
  • 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...
  • Roundtable
    Heritage Changes PlaceCo-Construction and Community Based HeritageIndustrial HeritageOral HistoryUrban HeritagePublic event
    Heritage changes placeCo-construction of heritageCommunity-based heritageHeritage makers
11:00
11:00
13:30
13:30
18:00
18:00
  • Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
  • Signup required
  • Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
  • 18:00 - 19:00  | 1 hour
  • To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...
  • Cocktail
    Festive Event
20:00
20:00
  • Film Series: Exit Zero
  • Signup required
  • Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
  • 20:00 - 21:35  | 1 hour 35 minutes
  • Directed by Christine Walley and Chris Boebel Presented by Michelle Stefano When the steel mills began closing on Chicago's Southeast Side...
  • Event
    Public event

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
7:30
7:30
9:00
9:00
13:00
13:00
15:30
15:30
19:00
19:00
  • Pawâ
  • La Scena - La Scena (intérieur)
  • 19:00 - 23:00  | 4 hours
  • The closing dinner of the conference, called “Pawâ” according to a French-Canadian tradition borrowed from the Native American lexicon, will be an ...
  • Repas
    Festive Event