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

Sessions in which Prof. William Nitzky attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Public Debate: Heritage and Tourism | Débat public: Patrimoine et tourisme
11:30 - 13:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
UQAM, pavillon Athanase-David (D) - DR-200
What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises
19:30 - 21:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
11.40  They Who Debate the Past Debate the Future
11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes
13.50  Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices
11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes
Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland
11:00 - 12:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance
11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1525
12.00  Before and After Definition: Transformation of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Local Policy in Xinjiang
11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes
12.00  "Home is Everywhere and Nowhere": The Critical Heritage of Migration and Belonging in Contemporary European Museums
11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes
13.30  The Habitus of Heritage: Class, Memory and Visitor Position-Taking
13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes
14.30  Heritage Changes Lives: How Partnerships between Museums and Community Organizations are Making Positive Differences to People’s Lives
13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes
History Museums, Heritage and Visitors
13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
13.30  "Nostalgia for the Future": Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Class
13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes
Smoked meat in questions
17:00 - 18:00 | 1 hour
Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
18:30 - 20:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Around the Université du Québec à Montréal: visit of Chinatown | Autour de l’Université du Québec à Montréal : visite du Quartier chinois
7:00 - 8:45 | 1 hour 45 minutes
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
La richesse du patrimoine | The Value of Heritage
8:00 - 13:00 | 5 hours
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
09.00  Empathy as a Register of Engagement in Heritage Making: The Making and Withholding of Compassion
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
09.40  Life as Heritage: Narratives, Experiences and Mediated Performances of Transmitters of Intangible Heritage in China
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
09.40  Museum, Heritage and Craft, a Case Study: The Ceramic Collection of the Art Gallery of Burlington
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
10.00  "Dealing with the Past" in Northern Ireland: Empathy as Political Engagement in the Memorial Heritage Project
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
12.00  Discussion with Michael Herzfeld
9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions
9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
09.00  Reflecting the "Other": Digital Museum Installations as Sites of Dialogue
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
11.00  Experiencing Mixed Emotions in the Museum: Empathy and Memory in Visitors’ Responses to Histories of Migration
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
11.00  The Future of the Past: Politics of Urban Heritage in Xi’an
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
12.00  The Reconstruction of Zongzu as a Cultural Heritage in China
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
Keynote: Renaming, Removal, Recontextualization of Heritage: Purging History, Claiming the Present, Imagining the Future? (What Change-Role for Heritage Professionals?) (James Count Early)
14:00 - 15:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
ACHS 2016 General Assembly
17:00 - 18:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Around Concordia: Griffintown | Autour de Concordia : Le quartier Griffintown
7:00 - 8:45 | 1 hour 45 minutes
Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
14.30  Reconfiguring the Civic: Urban Heritage Conservation in Yangon
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
11.00  Mapping Intangible Cultural Heritage
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
11.30  Museums, Immigrants and Social Justice: Addressing Issues of Language Barriers and Employment
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
14.30  Heritage Futures
9:00 - 9:15 | 15 minutes
10.00  Reconciling Conflicting Rights: National Indigenous Heritage in Southeast Asia
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
09.00  Ethnoheritage: Heritage Theory from the American Anthropological Perspective
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
Critical Creation series: Ethical Fashion
9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
Contested Pasts: Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
Critical Heritage Theory: Foundational Cores and Innovative Edges
9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
An Intergenerational Conversation about Heritage Conservation Education: The Rise, Fall, and (Necessary) Redefinition of Expert Knowledge
9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.430
Critical Creation series: The visits (of which there were none) Episode N. 2
9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
14.00  Keeping Critical Heritage Studies Critical: Why "Post-Humanism" and the "New Materialism" Are Not So Critical
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
10.00  Heritage of Penal Labour: Rethinking Work in Tracing Historical Movements within and Beyond Prisons
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
11.30  Revitalizing Feasts: Gastronomic Heritage as a Global Agent of Change
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
ACHS Chapters meetings: ACHS US Chapter
12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.255
Engaging Authenticity
13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue (exhibition opening)
13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Concordia, LB Building - LB 671 CaPSL/CEREV
Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill
19:00 - 19:35 | 35 minutes
Concordia, LB Building - LB 125

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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)
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
09.00  Caring (or Not) about the Beamish Museum: The Co-Production and Co-Enactment of Affective Heritage
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401
What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435
11.40  Not All Stakeholders Are Equal: Local, Municipal, and National Conflict in the Public Heritage Square in Cuzco, Peru
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
13.30  A Change in the “Who,” a Change in the “What”: On the Material Practices of Museums in Two Cases of Co-Management
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes
Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public
13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430