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

Registration

5 hours, 12:30 - 17:30

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

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)

8:00

La richesse du patrimoine | The Value of Heritage

9 hours, 8:00 - 17:00

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

Exhibition

Le patrimoine, ça change quoi ? Ou plutôt, qu'est-ce que c'est ? Et pour qui ? Ces questions sont à l'origine de cette exposition conçue par les...

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...

10:30

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 10:30 - 11:00

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

Pause

11:00

Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine

4 hours, 11:00 - 15:00

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

Regular session

Dr Astrid Swenson, Brunel University London (Moderator)

How do borders shape heritage and its potential for change? Despite the growth of international connections in heritage studies, national, linguist...

18:30

Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)

1 hour 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00

Signup required

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

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

7:00

Through the alleys of Saint-Henri - guided by Pohanna Pyne Feinberg

2 hours, 7:00 - 9:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

Movement, stillness, and creation will be combined during this walk as participants are encouraged to attune themselves to the environment through ...

9:00

Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I

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

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

Regular session

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

Mr Gary Campbell, ANU (Participant)

We would like to propose a session, building on the one we ran at the 2014 CHS conference in Canberra, on how emotion and affect feature in the fie...

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

13.30 Making Heritage Minoritarian: A Transnational Recipe for a Socially Useful Past

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Dr Jasper Chalcraft, University of Sussex (Participant)

This paper will ask what does heritage change when it is transnational, and also as it transnationalizes? Drawing on the my work on an EU-funded...

12.00 Muslims at the "Doors of Christendom": The Refugee Crisis and the Heritage of East-West Contact

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Sandra Scham, Catholic University (Participant)

A journalist at a dinner I attended some years ago described the prospect of Turkey being admitted to member status in the European Union as bri...

10.00 Heritage vs Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial Field

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, University of Iceland (Participant)

This paper will examine the relationship between cultural property and cultural heritage with reference to case studies from Greece (Parthenon s...

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...

Critical Creation series: The visits (of which there were none) Episode N. 2

8 hours, 9:00 - 17:00

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

Event

Dominique Fontaine / Livia Daza-Paris, A video and photographic installation.

14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

Paper

Mr Gary Campbell, ANU (Participant)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

Theory building in heritage studies in general, and critical heritage studies in particular, has to be eclectic and wide-ranging. However, to ac...

09.00 Using Deep History in Urban Planning: Urban Archaeology as Cultural Product

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I

Paper

Dr. Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen, Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (Participant)

Politicians and planners have seen the value of investing in applied research that will enhance the ability to activate the past in the planning...

14.30 The Mutuality of Colonial Heritage in Multiethnic Paramaribo: Reality or Illusion?

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities

Paper

Dr. Eugenio Van Maanen, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands (Participant)

Gregory Ashworth (Participant)

Over the last decade the term “mutual heritage” is increasingly used in policy documents in the Netherlands to describe and contextualize Dutch ...

11:00

In-community session: Teaching/Learning/Living Post-Industrial Ecologies: Roundtable on Concordia’s ‘Right to the City’ Initiative

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 - 12:30

Signup required

Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette

Roundtable

Simon Bradley (Participant)

Toby Butler, University of East London (Participant)

Dr Kathleen Vaughan, Concordia University, Art Education (Moderator)

Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Participant)

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

Professor Edward Little, Concordia University (Participant)

In a collaborative and image-rich conversational presentation, “Teaching/Learning/Living Post-Industrial Ecologies” outlines the potentials and ...

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

13:30

Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment

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

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265

Regular session

Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global mov...

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...

20:00

Film Series: Exit Zero

1 hour 35 minutes, 20:00 - 21:35

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 125

Event

Directed by Christine Walley and Chris Boebel Presented by Michelle Stefano When the steel mills began closing on Chicago's Southeast Side...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

7:30

Film Series: Citizen Lambert: Joan of Architecture

1 hour, 7:30 - 8:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV 1.605

Event

(in English, subtitled in French) The documentary Citizen Lambert: Joan of Architecture directed in 2007 by Teri Wehn-Damisch offers a lively...

9:00

13.50 Montreal Mansions: Photography, Architecture, and Heritage

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal

Paper

Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Participant)

“Private clubs and mansions...could [be] interpreted in terms of the masons’ and carpenters’ skills in constructing them, and the maids’ and gar...

What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal

8 hours, 9:00 - 17:00

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

Regular session

Prof. Martha Langford, Concordia University, Departement of Art History, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Canada (Moderator)

Photography was recognized as an instrument of heritage preservation from the moment of its inception in the early nineteenth century, when proj...

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...

09.05 Curating Industrial Wastelands: About Urban Exploration and Ruin Photography

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Devant l’arrêt de monde(s), derrière les ruines, sous les déchets : explorations, traces, fuites | Before the Ceasing of World(s), Behind the Ruins, Beneath the Waste: Explorations, Traces, and Escapes

Paper

Sarah Rojon, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, Centre Max Weber (Participant)

Industrial wastelands seem to have turned into a sort of entertainment zone that attracts unpredictable visitors. By contrast with the ordered u...

16.00 Global Archive, Vying National Identities: Contested Korean Histories and UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices

Paper

Nan Kim, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Participant)

In contemporary South Korea, cosmopolitanism and global status signify the most coveted markers of identity on a personal, institutional, and na...

16.30 The Silk Roads or Economic Belt: An Analysis of the Interaction Between China’s World Heritage and its Economic and Political Ambitions

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices

Paper

Jieyi Xie, Australian National University (Participant)

This paper aims to map how the Silk Roads World Heritage listing has been utilized in diplomatic ways to construct both internally and externall...

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...

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...

19:00

Pawâ

4 hours, 19:00 - 23:00

La Scena - La Scena (intérieur)

Repas

The closing dinner of the conference, called “Pawâ” according to a French-Canadian tradition borrowed from the Native American lexicon, will be an ...