
Andrea Terry is an art historian specializing in Canadian material and visual culture, with a particular interest in critical museum studies. Teaching and working with students of all ages is her foremost passion, and she has taught art history classes at universities across Canada, including Queen's University in Kingston, ON, Carleton University in Ottawa, ON, Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB, and most recently Lakehead University. She received her PhD in art history from Queen's University (2010) and earned a Social Sciences and Humanities Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, which she completed at the School of Canadian Studies in Carleton University (2010-2). She is also the author of Family Ties: Living History in Canadian House Museums, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. For more info on this book, see http://www.mqup.ca/family-ties-products-9780773545625.php
Sessions in which Dr Andrea Terry participates
11:00
11:00
- The Artistry of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M460
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- This session explores artist-history exchanges in the context of heritage sites, venues and spaces, and considers recent curatorial and artistic...
- Regular session
- 16.10 “The Lure of the Local”: Unpacking Colville House, Sackville, New Brunswick
- Participant Dr Andrea Terry (Lakehead University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: The Artistry of Heritage
- While Alex Colville’s artworks reside in private and public collections around the world, Colville himself remained grounded in primarily in Sac...
- Paper
Sessions in which Dr Andrea Terry attends
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
9:00
9:00
- 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

9:00
9:00
- 12.00 Mural, Mural on the Wall, Did Scorn and Pretense Make You Fall?
- Participant John Leroux (Canada) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- Throughout its 175-year history, Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, has evolved into one of Canada’s most admired educational...
- Paper
- 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
14:00
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)
- 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

9:00
9:00
- 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
9:00
9:00
- 11.40 Expo 67, Revisited and Recycled
- Participant Johanne Sloan (Concordia University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
- Montreal is just over a year away from celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Expo 67, the world’s fair held in Montreal during the summer of...
- Paper
- 13.50 Montreal Mansions: Photography, Architecture, and Heritage
- Participant Prof. Cynthia Hammond (Concordia University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
- “Private clubs and mansions...could [be] interpreted in terms of the masons’ and carpenters’ skills in constructing them, and the maids’ and gar...
- Paper
- 09.40 Exploring Perceptive Experiences Through Multi-Sensory Learning
- Participant Shauna Rak (McGill University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- This presentation will explore how I learned about my heritage through multi-sensory learning (MSL). Working with my grandmother’s story of surv...
- Paper
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- We would like to propose a session, building on the one we ran at the 2014 CHS conference in Canberra, on how emotion and affect feature in the fie...
- Regular session
- 09.00 Re-activation: Auteurs and Agency in a Photographic Exhibition
- Participant Prof. Martha Langford (Concordia University, Departement of Art History, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Canada) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
- In the late 1960s, the North American field of photographic studies began to develop across a range of practices and institutions. By the early ...
- Paper
- 09.20 Is the Artist an Unreliable Heritage Archivist?
- Participant Clara Gutsche (Concordia University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
- This presentation will include images from the Milton Park series (1970-1973) by David Miller and myself, and excerpts from my recent work (2008...
- Paper
13:30
13:30
- 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
15:30
15:30
- The Neglected Landscape: How Do We Put Canadian Interiors on the Map? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Canada is often pictured as vast territory of wilderness and wide-open spaces. Yet most of Canadian life plays out in interior spaces. These spa...
- Roundtable
- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...
- Roundtable