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 William Nitzky participates

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

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

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

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

Yujie Zhu (Moderator)

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

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

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

Sessions in which 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

Craig Bennett, 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)

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

James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)

Tim Winter, Deakin University (Moderator)

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)

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

17:00

Opening Ceremony and Cocktail

2 hours 30 minutes, 17:00 - 19:30

Signup required

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel

Cocktail

Tim Winter, Deakin University (Potential)

Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Potential)

Clarence Epstein, Concordia University (Moderator)

Christine Zachary-Deom (Participant)

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Participant)

Serge Joyal (Participant)

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

Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Moderator)

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)

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

Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

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)

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

Arthur McIvor, Univ Strathclyde (Moderator)

Les patrimoines sensibles : temps, récit, performance

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

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

Regular session

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

Jennifer Carter, UQAM (Moderator)

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

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

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

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

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

Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

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)

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)

History Museums, Heritage and Visitors

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

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

Regular session

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

Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

17:00

Smoked meat in questions

1 hour, 17:00 - 18:00

Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse

Cocktail

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

Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant)

Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

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

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

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

Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

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)

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)

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

Elizabeth Crooke, Ulster University (Participant)

12.00 Discussion with Michael Herzfeld

1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00

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

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

Rhiannon Mason (Moderator)

Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Moderator)

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

Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Participant)

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

Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

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

Yujie Zhu (Participant)

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

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

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

James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)

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

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

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

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

Kecia Fong, Western Sydney University (Participant)

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)

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

Sophia Labadi, University of Kent (Participant)

14.30 Heritage Futures

15 minutes, 9:00 - 9:15

Part of: Posters

Paper

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

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

Anna Karlström, Uppsala University (Participant)

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

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

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

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

Mirjana Ristic, Technical University Berlin (Moderator)

Sybille Frank, Technische Universität Berlin (Moderator)

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

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

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

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

Christina Cameron, University of Montreal (Moderator)

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)

Claudine Déom, École d'architecture, Université de Montréal (Moderator)

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

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

Tracy Ireland (Participant)

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

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

Gary Campbell, ANU (Participant)

Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

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)

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)

Michael Di Giovine, West Chester University (Participant)

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

Austin Parsons (Participant)

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

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

Anique Vered, Concordia University (Participant)

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

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

Xavier Greffe, University paris I (Participant)

Luc-Normand Tellier, UQAM (Moderator)

19:00

Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill

35 minutes, 19:00 - 19:35

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 125

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

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

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

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

Sarah De Nardi, Durham University (Participant)

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)

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

Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

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

Martha Langford, Concordia University, Departement of Art History, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Canada (Moderator)

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)

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)

13:30