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Prof. Tuuli Lähdesmäki

Adjunct Professor / Docent
University of Jyväskylä
Participates in 2 items
Tuuli Lähdesmäki (PhD, DSocSci) is an Academy Research Fellow (Academy of Finland) and an Adjunct Professor / Docent working in the Department of Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Lähdesmäki's major research interests include identity and heritage politics and discursive meaning-making processes in contemporary culture. Her research combines topics, theoretical approaches, and methods from art history, cultural studies, and cultural sociology. Lähdesmäki’s current research projects, funded by the Academy of Finland (European cultural heritage in the making: politics, affects, and agency, EUCHE) and the European Research Council (Legitimation of European cultural heritage and the dynamics of identity politics in the EU, EUROHERIT) focus on the construction and meaning-making of a European cultural heritage in EU heritage initiatives. Her recent publications on the topic are include e.g., following articles: Lähdesmäki, T. (2014): Transnational Heritage in the Making. Strategies for Narrating Cultural Heritage as European in the Intergovernmental Initiative of the European Heritage Label. Ethnologica Europaea 44:1, 75–93; Lähdesmäki, T. (2014): The EU’s Explicit and Implicit Heritage Politics. European Societies 16:3, pp. 401–421; Lähdesmäki, T. (2016): Scholarly discussion as engineering the meanings of a European cultural heritage. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 1-18. DOI: 10.1177/1367549416631996; Lähdesmäki, T. (2016): Narrativity and intertextuality in the making of a shared European memory. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2016.1159544.

Sessions in which Prof. Tuuli Lähdesmäki participates

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Sessions in which Prof. Tuuli Lähdesmäki attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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  • 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
    Heritage as an Agent of Change (Epistemologies, Ontologies, Teaching)
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
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
12:30
12:30
15:00
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15:30
15:30
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
    Festive Event
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
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9:00
9:00
10:30
10:30
12:30
12:30
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
15:30
15:30
Prof. Xavier Greffe
Participant
University paris I
Professeur de sciences é...
Luc-Normand Tellier
Moderator
UQAM
Professeur émérite

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
15:30
15:30