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

Monday 6 June, 2016

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9:00

09.00 Emergent Heritage: From Sacred to Secular Bronze Drums in Southwest China

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies II

Paper

Prof. William Nitzky, California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States (Participant)

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...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

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

8 hours, 9:00 - 17:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.401

Regular session

Dr Yujie Zhu (Moderator)

Prof. William Nitzky, California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States (Moderator)

To date, there has been much scholarly discussion and critique about how ideas and policies of "heritage" may be operating globally. There have als...

13.30 Adopting and Adapting the New Museology Discourse: Ecomuseum Development in Rural China

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Prof. William Nitzky, California State University Chico, Department of Anthropology, United States (Participant)

In 1997, China established its first ecomuseum as a new heritage protection and management strategy in the rural sector. China has since experie...

Sessions in which Prof. William Nitzky attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

11:30

Public Debate: Heritage and Tourism | Débat public: Patrimoine et tourisme

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 - 13:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Athanase-David (D) - DR-200

Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

Mr. Craig Bennett Jr., Bennett Preservation Engineering PC, Charleston, South Carolina (Participant)

Martine Lizotte, École internationale d’hôtellerie et tourisme du Collège LaSalle (Moderator)

Pierre Mathieu, Explorateur Voyages (Participant)

France Lessard (Participant)

David Mendel, Mendel Tours (Participant)

What does heritage change for tourism? | Le patrimoine, ça change quoi au tourisme? Ce débat veut interroger les r...

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...

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)

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

11.40 They Who Debate the Past Debate the Future

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

The history of York includes many documented instances of activist resistance to the kinds of developments which remove parts of the medieval ci...

13.50 Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

Paper

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

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...

Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Regular session

Prof. Arthur McIvor, Univ Strathclyde (Moderator)

Industrial heritage in Britain has tended to be romanticised in museum ‘cathedrals’ and ‘theme parks’ (like Beamish), with workers’ lived experi...

Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525

Regular session

Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal et UQAM (Moderator)

Prof. Jennifer Carter, UQAM (Moderator)

Dans le cadre de cette session, nous souhaitons faire, dans une perspective multidisciplinaire et critique, un état des lieux qui interroge doublem...

12.00 Before and After Definition: Transformation of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Local Policy in Xinjiang

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Prof. Kate Hennessy, Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Canada (Participant)

Aynur Kadir, School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University (Participant)

Based on fieldwork in Xinjiang, China, this paper will investigate the ambiguities surrounding the government policies that seek to promote econ...

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

13.30 The Habitus of Heritage: Class, Memory and Visitor Position-Taking

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors

Paper

Bella Dicks (Participant)

This paper will explore what Bourdieu’s framework of habitus, field and symbolic capital can offer museum and heritage visitor studies. Rather t...

14.30 Heritage Changes Lives: How Partnerships between Museums and Community Organizations are Making Positive Differences to People’s Lives

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: History Museums, Heritage and Visitors

Paper

Laura Crossley, University of Leicester (Participant)

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...

History Museums, Heritage and Visitors

3 hours 30 minutes, 13:30 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525

Regular session

Prof. Raymond Montpetit, Université du Québec à Montréal (Moderator)

13.30 "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class

Paper

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

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...

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)

7:00

Around the Université du Québec à Montréal: visit of Chinatown | Autour de l’Université du Québec à Montréal : visite du Quartier chinois

1 hour 45 minutes, 7:00 - 8:45

Signup required

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

Tour

(In English) Chinatown, born in the second half of the 19th century, is a hub of commercial and sociocultural activities which showcases Chinese cu...

8:00

La richesse du patrimoine | The Value of Heritage

5 hours, 8:00 - 13:00

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

09.00 Empathy as a Register of Engagement in Heritage Making: The Making and Withholding of Compassion

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

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...

09.40 Life as Heritage: Narratives, Experiences and Mediated Performances of Transmitters of Intangible Heritage in China

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage

Paper

Marina Svensson, Lund University (Participant)

This paper will approach the topic “What does heritage change?” by looking at the perspectives and experiences of a special category of heritage...

09.40 Museum, Heritage and Craft, a Case Study: The Ceramic Collection of the Art Gallery of Burlington

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Intersecting Discourses: Inflecting Craft and Heritage

Paper

Denis Longchamps, Art Gallery of Burlington (Participant)

The recent closure of the Museum of Contemporary Craft (February 2016) in Portland, Oregon once again raises the question regarding the future o...

10.00 "Dealing with the Past" in Northern Ireland: Empathy as Political Engagement in the Memorial Heritage Project

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Prof Elizabeth Crooke, Ulster University (Participant)

Now in a transitional phase between violence and established peace, Northern Ireland is dealing with the legacy of forty years of conflict. Memo...

12.00 Discussion with Michael Herzfeld

1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00

Part of: At the UNESCO Feast: Foodways across Global Heritage Governance II

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Moderator)

Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions

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

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950

Regular session

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Moderator)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Moderator)

Digital installations and interventions have been seen as a promising ways to support and foster dialogue in museum exhibitions. How does this p...

09.00 Reflecting the "Other": Digital Museum Installations as Sites of Dialogue

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions

Paper

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Participant)

Liz Ševčenko in “The Dialogic Museum Revisited” (2011) concludes that digital media may become the platforms for dialogue around sensitive/diffi...

11.00 Experiencing Mixed Emotions in the Museum: Empathy and Memory in Visitors’ Responses to Histories of Migration

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Research involving display analysis and interviews with staff and visitors has shown empathy to be an important feature of interpretative strate...

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...

12.00 The Reconstruction of Zongzu as a Cultural Heritage in China

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Doctor Chong Zhang, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology (Participant)

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...

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)

7:00

Around Concordia: Griffintown | Autour de Concordia : Le quartier Griffintown

1 hour 45 minutes, 7:00 - 8:45

Signup required

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

Tour

(In English) Nowadays, Griffintown is under the spotlight due to an urban renewal plan which is transforming the landscape accordingly. Forme...

9:00

14.30 Reconfiguring the Civic: Urban Heritage Conservation in Yangon

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

Paper

Ms. Kecia Fong, Western Sydney University (Participant)

The nascent Yangon preservation movement poses a radical paradigmatic shift in perceptions of history, national identity, and Asian urban modern...

11.00 Mapping Intangible Cultural Heritage

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Francesca Cominelli, IREST Paris 1 (Participant)

The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Sc...

11.30 Museums, Immigrants and Social Justice: Addressing Issues of Language Barriers and Employment

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?

Paper

Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent (Participant)

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...

14.30 Heritage Futures

15 minutes, 9:00 - 9:15

Part of: Posters

Paper

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

What do nuclear waste disposal, built heritage conservation, endangered language preservation, museum collecting, and the curation of family hei...

10.00 Reconciling Conflicting Rights: National Indigenous Heritage in Southeast Asia

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: How do Rights Change Heritage?

Paper

Dr Anna Karlström, Uppsala University (Participant)

Over the last decades a language of rights and human rights-based approaches have been adopted by intergovernmental organizations and are now we...

09.00 Ethnoheritage: Heritage Theory from the American Anthropological Perspective

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

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

Paper

Prof. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States (Participant)

The discipline of anthropology has been home to some of the most productive elaborations of cultural heritage research in the United States. In ...

Critical Creation series: Ethical Fashion

8 hours, 9:00 - 17:00

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

Event

Milan Tanedjikov (Concordia University) and six LaSalle College students. A Material Culture & Fashion Exhibit June 6...

Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285

Regular session

Dr Mirjana Ristic, Technical University Berlin (Moderator)

Prof. Sybille Frank, Technische Universität Berlin (Moderator)

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...

Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435

Regular session

Prof. Melissa F. Baird, Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, United States (Moderator)

Prof. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology, United States (Moderator)

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...

An Intergenerational Conversation about Heritage Conservation Education: The Rise, Fall, and (Necessary) Redefinition of Expert Knowledge

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

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430

Roundtable

Prof. Christina Cameron, University of Montreal (Moderator)

Prof. Nobuko Inaba, University of Tsukuba (Participant)

Angela Garvey, ERA Architects (Participant)

Mardjane Amin, University of Montreal, MSc. A. Aménagement, option conservation de l'environnement bâti (Participant)

Prof. Claudine Déom, University of Montreal (Moderator)

John Diodati architect, Fournier Gersovitz Moss Drolet and Associates (Participant)

Jack Vandenberg, Heritage Conservation Directorate, Public Services and Procurement Canada (Participant)

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Participant)

As recent publications have demonstrated, the role of the expert in heritage conservation is a relevant, indeed imperative topic of discussion. On ...

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...

10.00 Heritage of Penal Labour: Rethinking Work in Tracing Historical Movements within and Beyond Prisons

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Labour, Mobility and Heritage

Paper

Shu-Mei Huang, National Taiwan University (Participant)

To contribute to a better understanding of the heritage of mobility related to labour, work and employment, this paper will focus on how mobile ...

11.30 Revitalizing Feasts: Gastronomic Heritage as a Global Agent of Change

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Food as Heritage: Uses and Consequences of Food as an Object of Cultural Value

Paper

Jonathan B. Mabry, Historic Preservation Office, City of Tucson (Participant)

Teresita Majewski, Statistical Research, Inc. (Participant)

Dr. Michael Di Giovine, West Chester University (Participant)

This comparative paper will examine how discourses and practices concerning gastronomic heritage serve as agents of sustainable change and trans...

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

Engaging Authenticity

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

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Research-Creation

Prof. Austin Parsons (Participant)

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 ...

Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening)

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

Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV

Research-Creation

Prof. Hourig Attarian, Concordia University, Department of Education, Canada (Participant)

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr Nadine Blumer, Centre for Curating and Public Scholarship (CaPSL) (Participant)

Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omissi...

15:30

Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Xavier Greffe, University paris I (Participant)

Luc-Normand Tellier, UQAM (Moderator)

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...

19:00

Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill

35 minutes, 19:00 - 19:35

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 125

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Participant)

Directed by William Shewbridge and Michelle Stefano USA; 35 mins Presented by Michelle Stefano ___ After 125 years o...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

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)

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

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Participant)

As for many cities with strong industrial legacies, including those that were once racially segregated, Baltimore provides profound opportunitie...

09.00 Caring (or Not) about the Beamish Museum: The Co-Production and Co-Enactment of Affective Heritage

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary

Paper

Dr Sarah De Nardi, Durham University (Participant)

The poetics of heritage co-production works as a connective tissue between heritage publics, practitioners and heritage objects through material...

Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401

Regular session

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Nuala Morse, University of Manchester / University College London (Moderator)

Dr Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

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

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...

13.30 A Change in the “Who,” a Change in the “What”: On the Material Practices of Museums in Two Cases of Co-Management

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary

Paper

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Participant)

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...

13:30

Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public

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

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430

Roundtable

Dr. Angela Failler, University of Winnipeg (Participant)

Prof. Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Canada Research Chair in Museum & Heritage Studies, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr Shelley Ruth Butler, McGill University, Institute for the Study of Canada (Moderator)

Heather Igloliorte, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr. Monica Patterson, Carleton University (Participant)

Jennifer C. Robinson, University of Victoria (Participant)

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...