I am a Senior Research Associate working on the Reinventing Learning Cities project at the University of Bristol.
My doctoral research in anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London investigated the history, heritage and material culture of a museum collection. As part of this research, I co-curated exhibitions at the Constance Howard Gallery and the Horniman Museum in London.
I am also a co-organiser of the Forging Folklore Research Network.
Research interests:
* Heritage studies
* Material culture and ethnography
* Design and innovation
* Urban anthropology and built environment
* Industrial anthropology, resources, energy
My doctoral research in anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London investigated the history, heritage and material culture of a museum collection. As part of this research, I co-curated exhibitions at the Constance Howard Gallery and the Horniman Museum in London.
I am also a co-organiser of the Forging Folklore Research Network.
Research interests:
* Heritage studies
* Material culture and ethnography
* Design and innovation
* Urban anthropology and built environment
* Industrial anthropology, resources, energy
Sessions in which Dr Magdalena Buchczyk participates
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- 11.20 How to Be an Authorized Craftsman? Exploring the Contradictions of Heritage and the Sustainability of Craft Practices in a UNESCO-Designated Ceramic Centre
- Participant Dr Magdalena Buchczyk (University of Bristol) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Intersecting Discourses: Inflecting Craft and Heritage
- This paper will explore the case of Horezu pottery in relationship with craft continuity, history, and heritage. Through an ethnographic study o...
- Paper
Sessions in which Dr Magdalena Buchczyk attends
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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
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11:00
- 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
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- 14.10 L’entretien filmé et les technologies numériques comme outils de patrimonialisation et de partage de la mémoire ouvrière : le cas de la ville de Vierzon (France)
- Participant Nadine Michau (CITERES) | Participant Valentine Carneiro (CITERES Université François Rabelais de Tours) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- Cette communication s’appuie sur un travail de recueil audiovisuel de la mémoire ouvrière et industrielle de la ville de Vierzon (France), mené ...
- Paper
- 14.30 The Architectural Invention of Working Class Memory in Byker, Newcastle
- Participant Dr David Franco (Clemson University School of Architecture) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- In 1953, the Medical Office of Health of the city of Newcastle decided to tear down a good part of the old terraced houses of the inner city com...
- Paper
- 13.50 File Under “Disaster Area, Incredible Ruins”: Landscape as Heritage in Thetford Mines, Québec
- Participant Heather Braiden (University of Montreal) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
- Thetford Mines is a town build upon the shoulders of generations of men, women, and families, interwoven by asbestos, at varying intervals betwe...
- Paper
- 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
- Cultural Heritage and the Working Class UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Many people are actively using working class heritage as a resource to reflect on the past and the present, and there is a growing tendency for the...
- Regular session
18:30
18:30
- 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
9:00
9:00
- Intersecting Discourses: Inflecting Craft and Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Russell Staiff argues that heritage discourse and practice are tightly interwoven with the theoretical legacy of the visual arts, specifically citi...
- Regular session
9:00
9:00
- 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
- Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.115
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Cities are growingly being faced by social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges imposing health and social risks. Rapid urbanization, p...
- Regular session
- Activism, Civil Society and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical and historical contexts. Since the late 1980s, the phenomenon of contestation...
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- 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
9:00
9:00
- Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.115
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Cities are growingly being faced by social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges imposing health and social risks. Rapid urbanization, p...
- Regular session
- 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
13:30
13:30
- (in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The roundtable will explore ideas around the concept of insignificance. That is, how things are judged to be unimportant, not worthy of conserva...
- Roundtable
15:30
15:30
- Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What is the future of the UK and what is the role of heritage in this shifting political landscape? How have debates on heritage in the UK chang...
- Roundtable