Prof. William Nitzky
Assistant Professor
California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States
Participates in 3 items
Dr. William Nitzky is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Chico. His research interests include cultural heritage, museum studies, rural development, and ethnicity. His previous publications include safeguarding living heritage (Museum International, UNESCOICOM), participatory approaches to heritage protection (Cultural Heritage Politics in China), and ecomuseum development in rural China (Urban Anthropology). Since 2012, he has served as a guest researcher at Guangxi Museum for Nationalities and a research consultant for the China National Committee on Ecomuseum and Community Museum Development on community museum and heritage projects.
Sessions in which Prof. William Nitzky participates
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- 09.00 Emergent Heritage: From Sacred to Secular Bronze Drums in Southwest China
- Participant Prof. William Nitzky (California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II
- The earliest bronze drums in Asia date back over two thousand years and symbolized great wealth and spiritual power. Of the 2400 bronze drums fo...
- Paper
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- Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.401
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- To date, there has been much scholarly discussion and critique about how ideas and policies of "heritage" may be operating globally. There have als...
- Regular session
- 13.30 Adopting and Adapting the New Museology Discourse: Ecomuseum Development in Rural China
- Participant Prof. William Nitzky (California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices
- In 1997, China established its first ecomuseum as a new heritage protection and management strategy in the rural sector. China has since experie...
- Paper
Sessions in which Prof. William Nitzky attends
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- Public Debate: Heritage and Tourism | Débat public: Patrimoine et tourisme
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Athanase-David (D) - DR-200
- 11:30 - 13:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What does heritage change for tourism? | Le patrimoine, ça change quoi au tourisme? Ce débat veut interroger les r...
- Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée
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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
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- 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
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- The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...
- Research-Creation
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- 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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- 11.40 They Who Debate the Past Debate the Future
- Participant Dr Helen Graham (University of Leeds) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- The history of York includes many documented instances of activist resistance to the kinds of developments which remove parts of the medieval ci...
- Paper
- 13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices
- Participant Rodney Harrison (University College London) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I
- While it is customary to think about heritage as a series of practical fields oriented toward the past, it is perhaps less often the case that w...
- Paper
- Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Industrial heritage in Britain has tended to be romanticised in museum ‘cathedrals’ and ‘theme parks’ (like Beamish), with workers’ lived experi...
- Regular session
- Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Dans le cadre de cette session, nous souhaitons faire, dans une perspective multidisciplinaire et critique, un état des lieux qui interroge doublem...
- Regular session
- 12.00 Before and After Definition: Transformation of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Local Policy in Xinjiang
- Participant Prof. Kate Hennessy ( Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Canada) | Participant Aynur Kadir (School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Based on fieldwork in Xinjiang, China, this paper will investigate the ambiguities surrounding the government policies that seek to promote econ...
- 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
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- 13.30 The Habitus of Heritage: Class, Memory and Visitor Position-Taking
- Participant Bella Dicks |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- This paper will explore what Bourdieu’s framework of habitus, field and symbolic capital can offer museum and heritage visitor studies. Rather t...
- Paper
- 14.30 Heritage Changes Lives: How Partnerships between Museums and Community Organizations are Making Positive Differences to People’s Lives
- Participant Laura Crossley (University of Leicester) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
- Research has painted an often-gloomy picture of the impact of the financial cuts on museums. A 2014 Museums Association (MA) survey found that 4...
- Paper
- History Museums, Heritage and Visitors UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class
- Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- Nostalgia has a bad press. For some, it is pointless and sentimental, for others reactionary and futile. Where does that leave those of us inter...
- Paper
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- 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
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- 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
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- Around the Université du Québec à Montréal: visit of Chinatown | Autour de l’Université du Québec à Montréal : visite du Quartier chinois
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 8:45 | 1 hour 45 minutes
- (In English) Chinatown, born in the second half of the 19th century, is a hub of commercial and sociocultural activities which showcases Chinese cu...
- Tour
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- La richesse du patrimoine | The Value of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 8:00 - 13:00 | 5 hours
- 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...
- Exhibition
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- 09.00 Empathy as a Register of Engagement in Heritage Making: The Making and Withholding of Compassion
- Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- This paper explores the role that empathy, as both a skill and an emotion, plays in the processes of politicized and self-conscious heritage-mak...
- Paper
- 09.40 Life as Heritage: Narratives, Experiences and Mediated Performances of Transmitters of Intangible Heritage in China
- Participant Marina Svensson (Lund University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage
- This paper will approach the topic “What does heritage change?” by looking at the perspectives and experiences of a special category of heritage...
- Paper
- 09.40 Museum, Heritage and Craft, a Case Study: The Ceramic Collection of the Art Gallery of Burlington
- Participant Denis Longchamps (Art Gallery of Burlington) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Intersecting Discourses: Inflecting Craft and Heritage
- The recent closure of the Museum of Contemporary Craft (February 2016) in Portland, Oregon once again raises the question regarding the future o...
- Paper
- 10.00 "Dealing with the Past" in Northern Ireland: Empathy as Political Engagement in the Memorial Heritage Project
- Participant Prof Elizabeth Crooke (Ulster University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Now in a transitional phase between violence and established peace, Northern Ireland is dealing with the legacy of forty years of conflict. Memo...
- Paper
- 12.00 Discussion with Michael Herzfeld
- Moderator Prof. Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University) |
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour Part of: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II
- Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Digital installations and interventions have been seen as a promising ways to support and foster dialogue in museum exhibitions. How does this p...
- Regular session
- 09.00 Reflecting the "Other": Digital Museum Installations as Sites of Dialogue
- Participant Prof. Rhiannon Mason | Participant Dr Areti Galani (Newcastle University, UK) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
- Liz Ševčenko in “The Dialogic Museum Revisited” (2011) concludes that digital media may become the platforms for dialogue around sensitive/diffi...
- Paper
- 11.00 Experiencing Mixed Emotions in the Museum: Empathy and Memory in Visitors’ Responses to Histories of Migration
- Participant Prof. Rhiannon Mason |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Research involving display analysis and interviews with staff and visitors has shown empathy to be an important feature of interpretative strate...
- 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
- 12.00 The Reconstruction of Zongzu as a Cultural Heritage in China
- Participant Doctor Chong Zhang (Zhejiang University of Science and Technology) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I
- Zongzu (宗族, the parental lineage group) as a traditional Chinese way of holding people together by means of descent lines and blood ties, had be...
- Paper
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- Keynote: Renaming, Removal, Recontextualization of Heritage: Purging History, Claiming the Present, Imagining the Future? (What Change-Role for Heritage Professionals?) (James Count Early)
- Signup required Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
- 14:00 - 15:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- "What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
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- ACHS 2016 General Assembly Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 17:00 - 18:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Talk
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7:00
- Around Concordia: Griffintown | Autour de Concordia : Le quartier Griffintown
- Signup required Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 8:45 | 1 hour 45 minutes
- (In English) Nowadays, Griffintown is under the spotlight due to an urban renewal plan which is transforming the landscape accordingly. Forme...
- Tour
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- 14.30 Reconfiguring the Civic: Urban Heritage Conservation in Yangon
- Participant Ms. Kecia Fong (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- The nascent Yangon preservation movement poses a radical paradigmatic shift in perceptions of history, national identity, and Asian urban modern...
- Paper
- 11.00 Mapping Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Participant Francesca Cominelli (IREST Paris 1) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Sc...
- Paper
- 11.30 Museums, Immigrants and Social Justice: Addressing Issues of Language Barriers and Employment
- Participant Dr Sophia Labadi (University of Kent) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?
- In line with the New Museology approach, museums all over the world have engaged with issues of social justice for at least the past thirty year...
- Paper
- 14.30 Heritage Futures
- Participant Rodney Harrison (University College London) |
- 9:00 - 9:15 | 15 minutes Part of: Posters
- What do nuclear waste disposal, built heritage conservation, endangered language preservation, museum collecting, and the curation of family hei...
- Paper
- 10.00 Reconciling Conflicting Rights: National Indigenous Heritage in Southeast Asia
- Participant Dr Anna Karlström (Uppsala University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?
- Over the last decades a language of rights and human rights-based approaches have been adopted by intergovernmental organizations and are now we...
- Paper
- 09.00 Ethnoheritage: Heritage Theory from the American Anthropological Perspective
- Participant Prof. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels (University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- The discipline of anthropology has been home to some of the most productive elaborations of cultural heritage research in the United States. In ...
- Paper
- Critical Creation series: Ethical Fashion Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Milan Tanedjikov (Concordia University) and six LaSalle College students. A Material Culture & Fashion Exhibit June 6...
- Event
- Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- This session seeks to explore the role of urban heritage in mediating and contesting political conflict in the context of divided cities. We take u...
- Regular session
- Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- The field of heritage has emerged as a key site of reflection. Influenced by shifts in the academy (e.g., post-colonial, post-structural and femini...
- Regular session
- An Intergenerational Conversation about Heritage Conservation Education: The Rise, Fall, and (Necessary) Redefinition of Expert Knowledge Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- As recent publications have demonstrated, the role of the expert in heritage conservation is a relevant, indeed imperative topic of discussion. On ...
- Roundtable
- Critical Creation series: The visits (of which there were none) Episode N. 2 Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Dominique Fontaine / Livia Daza-Paris, A video and photographic installation.
- Event
- 14.00 Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical
- Participant Mr Gary Campbell (ANU) | Participant Prof. Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
- Theory building in heritage studies in general, and critical heritage studies in particular, has to be eclectic and wide-ranging. However, to ac...
- Paper
- 10.00 Heritage of Penal Labour: Rethinking Work in Tracing Historical Movements within and Beyond Prisons
- Participant Shu-Mei Huang (National Taiwan University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Labour, Mobility and Heritage
- To contribute to a better understanding of the heritage of mobility related to labour, work and employment, this paper will focus on how mobile ...
- Paper
- 11.30 Revitalizing Feasts: Gastronomic Heritage as a Global Agent of Change
- Participant Jonathan B. Mabry (Historic Preservation Office, City of Tucson) | Participant Teresita Majewski (Statistical Research, Inc.) | Participant Dr. Michael Di Giovine (West Chester University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Food as Heritage: Uses and Consequences of Food as an Object of Cultural Value
- This comparative paper will examine how discourses and practices concerning gastronomic heritage serve as agents of sustainable change and trans...
- Paper
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- ACHS Chapters meetings: ACHS US Chapter Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.255
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Workshop
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- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This proposal makes the case that heritage’s capacity for change may be dependent on a paradigm shift in how heritage is interpreted. With this ...
- Research-Creation
- Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening) Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omissi...
- Research-Creation
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- Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
- Signup required Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Le patrimoine fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’attentions autant que d’agressions et de destructions. Cela peut s’expliquer par les difficultés de son id...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
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- Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
- 19:00 - 19:35 | 35 minutes
- Directed by William Shewbridge and Michelle Stefano USA; 35 mins Presented by Michelle Stefano ___ After 125 years o...
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- 09.00 The Pedagogical Benefits of Critical Heritage Studies: Helping Students to Reveal and Engage with the Complexities of Deindustrialization and Urban Change (Baltimore, USA)
- Participant Prof. Michelle L. Stefano (University of Maryland, American Studies, United States) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue
- As for many cities with strong industrial legacies, including those that were once racially segregated, Baltimore provides profound opportunitie...
- Paper
- 09.00 Caring (or Not) about the Beamish Museum: The Co-Production and Co-Enactment of Affective Heritage
- Participant Dr Sarah De Nardi (Durham University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- The poetics of heritage co-production works as a connective tissue between heritage publics, practitioners and heritage objects through material...
- Paper
- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Involving communities, visitors or the public is frequently presented as one of the major tasks of museums and heritage sites in current global mov...
- Regular session
- What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Photography was recognized as an instrument of heritage preservation from the moment of its inception in the early nineteenth century, when proj...
- Regular session
- 11.40 Not All Stakeholders Are Equal: Local, Municipal, and National Conflict in the Public Heritage Square in Cuzco, Peru
- Participant Helaine Silverman (CHAMP - University of Illinois) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue
- 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...
- Paper
- 13.30 A Change in the “Who,” a Change in the “What”: On the Material Practices of Museums in Two Cases of Co-Management
- Participant Bethany Rex (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
- In recent years in the UK, faced with continuing cuts to their budgets, a number of local authorities have been considering new approaches to th...
- Paper
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- Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...
- Roundtable