Dr Ali Mozaffari
Research Fellow, Adjunct Research Fellow
Deakin University, Curtin University
Participates in 5 items
Dr Ali Mozaffari, Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University (email: a.mozaffari@curtin.edu.au)
Ali Mozaffari is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and the founding co-editor of Berghahn series Explorations in Heritage Studies. His publications include:
Ali Mozaffari is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and the founding co-editor of Berghahn series Explorations in Heritage Studies. His publications include:
- Mozaffari, A. 2014. Forming National Identity in Iran: The Idea of Homeland Derived from Ancient Persian and Islamic Imaginations of Place. London: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd.
- Mozaffari, A. ed. 2014. World Heritage in Iran; Perspectives on Pasargadae. London, UK: Ashgate.
- Mozaffari, Ali. 2015. “The Heritage ‘NGO’: A Case Study on the Role of Grass Roots Heritage Societies in Iran and Their Perception of Cultural Heritage.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 21 (9). doi:10.1080/13527258.2015.1028961.
Sessions in which Dr Ali Mozaffari participates
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- Activism, Civil Society and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...
- Regular session
- 09.00 Heritage Activism and Mass Media in Iran
- Participant Dr Ali Mozaffari (Deakin University, Curtin University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- 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...
- Paper
9:00
9:00
- 14.00 Transitioning into World Heritage: Liminality and Ambiguity in Pasargadae (Southern Iran)
- Participant Dr Ali Mozaffari (Deakin University, Curtin University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage
- Pasargadae is the symbolic capital of the Persian Empire (est. 580 BCE) and one of the most significant World Heritage sites in Iran (listed 200...
- Paper
- Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Heritage has multiple, concurrent origins. It is performed and produced by individuals, groups and organizations, or institutions on various scales...
- Regular session
- 09.00 Liminality and/in Heritage: Examining the Potentials of a Known Concept
- Participant Dr Ali Mozaffari (Deakin University, Curtin University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage
- There is a broad consensus in heritage studies according to which heritage is understood as a socio-cultural process. In part, this is the resul...
- Paper
Sessions in which Dr Ali Mozaffari attends
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12:30
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
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13:00
- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
- This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...
- Workshop
9:00
9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
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11:00
- 15.30 Pseudo-Religious Intangible Heritage or Intangible Heritage with Religious Characteristics? Conflicts of Interpretations and Definitions in Two Ethnographic Cases
- Participant Dr. Alessandro Testa (University of Vienna) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- The literature about the relationship between cultural heritage and religion, if not abundant, is indeed fast-growing. In fact, the debate seems...
- Paper
- 14.00 Heritagization and Religionization of Islamicate Culture in Europe
- Participant Dr Klas Grinell |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will argue that European framings of Islamicate cultural heritage shows how interpretations of the secularization and re-sacralizatio...
- Paper
- 11.30 Musealization of Religious Heritage in the French Legal Context: A Process in Progress?
- Participant Anne Fornerod (DRES (CNRS/Université de Strasbourg)) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- In the French legal context, religious heritage is undeniably characterized by its legally protected religious meaning. This protection derives ...
- Paper
- 14.30 Preserving Heritage Across Time and Place: A Study of German Clubs in America
- Participant Larissa Mellor |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- This paper will explore the preservation of tangible and intangible heritage practices by German Clubs in America. Empirical evidence combines w...
- Paper
- 16.00 Worshipping the Past, Heritagizing Religion. How did the (Un)Holy Alliance between Churches and Heritage Come to Be?
- Participant Helena Wangefelt Ström (Umeå University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- “Why museums are the new churches.” This was the title of an essay on BBC Culture (June, 2015), where the author reflected on how museums and ar...
- Paper
- 11.00 Introduction
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...
- Regular session
- Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Since the beginning of the 19th century religious buildings and artefacts of the West have been involved in a continuous process of musealization. ...
- Regular session
- 11.30 From Irredentism to Integrationism? Critical Reflexions on the Trajectory of the German Youth of the East (DJO), 1951-2001
- Participant Prof. Ullrich Kockel (Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- This paper draws on an on-going research project studying continuities and changes in the actions, norms, and representations of an ethnic youth...
- Paper
- 12.00 "Home is Everywhere and Nowhere": The Critical Heritage of Migration and Belonging in Contemporary European Museums
- Participant Dr Susannah Eckersley (Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK) | Participant Prof. Rhiannon Mason |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- This paper will analyze presentations of and identifications with scales of “home” and belonging in European museums, which address (hi)stories ...
- Paper
- 13.30 Landscape, Emotion and Contested Values: An Autoethnographical Case Study in Migration, Place Attachment and the Spirit of Place
- Participant Ms Claire Johnstone (Heriot-Watt University ) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- When put into the context of cultural heritage, the idea of the emotional value of a landscape can be defined in ICOMOS’s concept of “Spirit of ...
- Paper
- 13.30 Ecclesiastical Heritage Assemblages in Post-Secular and Post-Christian Sweden
- Participant Carola Nordbäck (Södertörn University Stockholm/ The Church of Sweden Research Unit) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will examine the management of ecclesiastical heritage in post-secular and post-Christian Sweden. A large part of the cultural herita...
- Paper
- 14.00 People, Places, and Stories: Culture, Nature, and Associations
- Participant Dr. Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo (Athabasca University - Heritage Resources Management) | Participant Dr. Manijeh Mannani (Athabasca University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- Canadian society is diverse, and in it, multiculturalism is well pronounced. Based on the Canadian Multiculturalism Act which recognizes Canadia...
- Paper
- 14.30 Preservation as Salvation: Safeguarding the Church of Sweden
- Participant Prof. Ola Wetterberg (University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation) | Participant Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (University of Iceland) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will investigate how claims to protect religious rites as intangible heritage have been received within heritage and religious instit...
- Paper
- 12.00 Investing Heritage Values in Religious Artifacts or Religious Values in Monuments? Evidence from the Catholic Heritage in the Iberian Peninsula
- Participant Dr Cyril Isnart (CNRS) | Participant Nathalie Cerezales (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will study the values and the role given to the Catholic cultural heritage of contemporary Spain and Portugal, which represents today...
- Paper
- 11.00 On the Divide between Secular Values and Use Values in Heritage Conceptions of Churches
- Participant Dr Eva Löfgren (Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will address the different meanings of the concept of “use” within heritage conservation discourse and practice, and in particular as...
- Paper
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15:30
- Borders of Heritage | Frontières du Patrimoine : Roundtable | Table ronde UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M280
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable
17:00
17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
- 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...
- Cocktail
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
9:00
9:00
- 11.00 Heritage as a Symbol of Ideology in a Polarized Society: Constructing Bursa City Identity on the Ottoman Past
- Participant Emek Yilmaz (Kangwon National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- A speedy and laborious work on constructing city identity based on the Ottoman past as “The birth of the Ottoman Empire” (as listed in UNESCO WH...
- Paper
- 09.00 The Gateway to Russian Memory Politics, Materiality and Collective Identities: The Lutheran Swedish Church of St. Catherine in St. Petersburg
- Participant Gunilla Gunner (Södertörn University Stockholm) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- St. Catherine’s Church, located on a side street to Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, is a property of great interest for the relations between...
- Paper
- 10.00 Imported Definitions for Heritage: Development of the Western Idea of Heritage in Turkey since the 1960s
- Participant Mesut Dinler (Politecnico di Torino) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- The strong dominance of European architects in the Turkey Republic, both in academia and professional practice, started in the early decades of ...
- Paper
- 10.00 The Role of World Heritage Sites in Urban Revitalization
- Participant Julia Tétényi (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Cultural clusters seem to have a leading role in urban and cultural policy decisions. In recent years, more and more cultural clusters attract i...
- Paper
- 09.30 Pilgrimage in a Contested Sacred Landscape: A Case Study in Conflict between Culture, Heritage Management, and Development in Native North America
- Participant Dr Kathleen Van Vlack (Living Heritage Anthropology) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives II | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones II
- In many societies around the world, religious specialists engage in the act of pilgrimage. While on pilgrimage, specialists travel on long-estab...
- Paper
- 11.00 The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an
- Participant Dr Yujie Zhu |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Heritage development in historical cities is regarded as a vital ingredient of urban regeneration by state and local governments. The inner city...
- Paper
- 11.00 Dilemmas of Living: Uses of Heritage in Dispute—The Case of Vila Itororó, São Paulo
- Participant Ms Vivian Legname Barbour (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification
- The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the process that turned Vila Itororó, an architectural site in São Paulo, Brazil, into heritage and o...
- Paper
- 09.00 Heritage Beyond Borders: Australian Approaches to External Built Heritage
- Participant Dr Amy Clarke (University of the Sunshine Coast) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II
- The rights of the state to assess and protect built heritage within its borders, to ratify international conventions, and to cooperate in bilate...
- Paper
- 09.30 The Dilemma between Conservation and Economic Benefit: Designation of Heritage Places as "Renewal Areas" in Turkey
- Participant Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz (Middle East Technical University) | Participant Özgün Özçakır (METU) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification
- Conservation of cultural heritage is a “value”-based process. Since the early twentieth century, scholars in the conservation field have been aw...
- Paper
- 09.00 Social Resilience Building, a Strategy for Reintegrating Historic City Centres to the Modern Cities: The Case of Tabriz Bazaar, Iran
- Participant Solmaz Yadollahi (Coordinator-PhD candidate, IGS Heritage Studies,BTU-Cottbus) | Participant Prof. Dr. Silke Weidner (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification
- The social and economic disintegration and isolation of historical centres of cities from the modern areas is an important cause of their declin...
- Paper
9:00
9:00
- Activism, Civil Society and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...
- Regular session
9:00
9:00
- Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Heritage has multiple, concurrent origins. It is performed and produced by individuals, groups and organizations, or institutions on various scales...
- Regular session