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:

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

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Regular session

Dr Tod Jones, Curtin University, Australia (Moderator)

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

Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...

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...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

14.00 Transitioning into World Heritage: Liminality and Ambiguity in Pasargadae (Southern Iran)

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage

Paper

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

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...

Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.285

Regular session

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

Prof. Nigel Westbrook, University of Western Australia (Moderator)

Heritage has multiple, concurrent origins. It is performed and produced by individuals, groups and organizations, or institutions on various scales...

09.00 Liminality and/in Heritage: Examining the Potentials of a Known Concept

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage

Paper

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

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...

Sessions in which Dr Ali Mozaffari 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

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...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

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

15.30 Pseudo-Religious Intangible Heritage or Intangible Heritage with Religious Characteristics? Conflicts of Interpretations and Definitions in Two Ethnographic Cases

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

Paper

Dr. Alessandro Testa, University of Vienna (Participant)

The literature about the relationship between cultural heritage and religion, if not abundant, is indeed fast-growing. In fact, the debate seems...

14.00 Heritagization and Religionization of Islamicate Culture in Europe

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

Paper

Dr Klas Grinell (Participant)

This paper will argue that European framings of Islamicate cultural heritage shows how interpretations of the secularization and re-sacralizatio...

11.30 Musealization of Religious Heritage in the French Legal Context: A Process in Progress?

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

Paper

Anne Fornerod, DRES (CNRS/Université de Strasbourg) (Participant)

In the French legal context, religious heritage is undeniably characterized by its legally protected religious meaning. This protection derives ...

14.30 Preserving Heritage Across Time and Place: A Study of German Clubs in America

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I

Paper

Larissa Mellor (Participant)

This paper will explore the preservation of tangible and intangible heritage practices by German Clubs in America. Empirical evidence combines w...

16.00 Worshipping the Past, Heritagizing Religion. How did the (Un)Holy Alliance between Churches and Heritage Come to Be?

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

Paper

Helena Wangefelt Ström, Umeå University (Participant)

“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...

11.00 Introduction

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

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

4 hours, 11:00 - 15:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560

Regular session

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Moderator)

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

Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...

Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M320

Regular session

Dr Eva Löfgren, Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (Moderator)

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

Since the beginning of the 19th century religious buildings and artefacts of the West have been involved in a continuous process of musealization. ...

11.30 From Irredentism to Integrationism? Critical Reflexions on the Trajectory of the German Youth of the East (DJO), 1951-2001

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I

Paper

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

This paper draws on an on-going research project studying continuities and changes in the actions, norms, and representations of an ethnic youth...

12.00 "Home is Everywhere and Nowhere": The Critical Heritage of Migration and Belonging in Contemporary European Museums

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I

Paper

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Participant)

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

This paper will analyze presentations of and identifications with scales of “home” and belonging in European museums, which address (hi)stories ...

13.30 Landscape, Emotion and Contested Values: An Autoethnographical Case Study in Migration, Place Attachment and the Spirit of Place

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I

Paper

Ms Claire Johnstone, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

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 ...

13.30 Ecclesiastical Heritage Assemblages in Post-Secular and Post-Christian Sweden

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

Paper

Carola Nordbäck, Södertörn University Stockholm/ The Church of Sweden Research Unit (Participant)

This paper will examine the management of ecclesiastical heritage in post-secular and post-Christian Sweden. A large part of the cultural herita...

14.00 People, Places, and Stories: Culture, Nature, and Associations

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I

Paper

Dr. Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo, Athabasca University - Heritage Resources Management (Participant)

Dr. Manijeh Mannani, Athabasca University (Participant)

Canadian society is diverse, and in it, multiculturalism is well pronounced. Based on the Canadian Multiculturalism Act which recognizes Canadia...

14.30 Preservation as Salvation: Safeguarding the Church of Sweden

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

Paper

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

Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, University of Iceland (Participant)

This paper will investigate how claims to protect religious rites as intangible heritage have been received within heritage and religious instit...

12.00 Investing Heritage Values in Religious Artifacts or Religious Values in Monuments? Evidence from the Catholic Heritage in the Iberian Peninsula

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

Paper

Dr Cyril Isnart, CNRS (Participant)

Nathalie Cerezales, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Participant)

This paper will study the values and the role given to the Catholic cultural heritage of contemporary Spain and Portugal, which represents today...

11.00 On the Divide between Secular Values and Use Values in Heritage Conceptions of Churches

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

Paper

Dr Eva Löfgren, Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (Participant)

This paper will address the different meanings of the concept of “use” within heritage conservation discourse and practice, and in particular as...

15:30

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...

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)

9:00

11.00 Heritage as a Symbol of Ideology in a Polarized Society: Constructing Bursa City Identity on the Ottoman Past

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II

Paper

Emek Yilmaz, Kangwon National University (Participant)

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...

09.00 The Gateway to Russian Memory Politics, Materiality and Collective Identities: The Lutheran Swedish Church of St. Catherine in St. Petersburg

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Gunilla Gunner, Södertörn University Stockholm (Participant)

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...

10.00 Imported Definitions for Heritage: Development of the Western Idea of Heritage in Turkey since the 1960s

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II

Paper

Mesut Dinler, Politecnico di Torino (Participant)

The strong dominance of European architects in the Turkey Republic, both in academia and professional practice, started in the early decades of ...

10.00 The Role of World Heritage Sites in Urban Revitalization

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Julia Tétényi, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Participant)

Cultural clusters seem to have a leading role in urban and cultural policy decisions. In recent years, more and more cultural clusters attract i...

09.30 Pilgrimage in a Contested Sacred Landscape: A Case Study in Conflict between Culture, Heritage Management, and Development in Native North America

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Dr Kathleen Van Vlack, Living Heritage Anthropology (Participant)

In many societies around the world, religious specialists engage in the act of pilgrimage. While on pilgrimage, specialists travel on long-estab...

11.00 The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Dr Yujie Zhu (Participant)

Heritage development in historical cities is regarded as a vital ingredient of urban regeneration by state and local governments. The inner city...

11.00 Dilemmas of Living: Uses of Heritage in Dispute—The Case of Vila Itororó, São Paulo

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification

Paper

Ms Vivian Legname Barbour, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Participant)

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...

09.00 Heritage Beyond Borders: Australian Approaches to External Built Heritage

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II

Paper

Dr Amy Clarke, University of the Sunshine Coast (Participant)

The rights of the state to assess and protect built heritage within its borders, to ratify international conventions, and to cooperate in bilate...

09.30 The Dilemma between Conservation and Economic Benefit: Designation of Heritage Places as "Renewal Areas" in Turkey

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification

Paper

Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz, Middle East Technical University (Participant)

Özgün Özçakır, METU (Participant)

Conservation of cultural heritage is a “value”-based process. Since the early twentieth century, scholars in the conservation field have been aw...

09.00 Social Resilience Building, a Strategy for Reintegrating Historic City Centres to the Modern Cities: The Case of Tabriz Bazaar, Iran

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification

Paper

Solmaz Yadollahi, Coordinator-PhD candidate, IGS Heritage Studies,BTU-Cottbus (Participant)

Prof. Dr. Silke Weidner, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg (Participant)

The social and economic disintegration and isolation of historical centres of cities from the modern areas is an important cause of their declin...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Regular session

Dr Tod Jones, Curtin University, Australia (Moderator)

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

Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

Heritage and Liminality: Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Perspectives on Liminality and Cultural Heritage

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.285

Regular session

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

Prof. Nigel Westbrook, University of Western Australia (Moderator)

Heritage has multiple, concurrent origins. It is performed and produced by individuals, groups and organizations, or institutions on various scales...