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Dr Jen Ross

Senior Lecturer, Digital Education
University of Edinburgh
Participates in 1 Session
I am senior lecturer in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland,  co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education, and Deputy Director (KE) of Research and Knowledge Exchange in the School of Education. I’m one of the team behind the Manifesto for Teaching Online, and the E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC. I have been working on digital learning and engagement projects with the museum and gallery sector since 2007, when I was part of the research team for the National Museums Online Learning Project. I am principal investigator of the AHRC-funded Artcasting project, and I lead the Digital Cultural Heritage Research Network in Edinburgh.

Sessions in which Dr Jen Ross participates

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:30
13:30

Paper

Dr Jen Ross, University of Edinburgh (Participant)

This paper is based on the 2015-2016 AHRC-funded Artcasting project, which explored how galleries can inventively evaluate young people’s engage...

Sessions in which Dr Jen Ross attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
17:00
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
19:30

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
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
11:00

Paper

Prof. Arthur McIvor, Univ Strathclyde (Participant)

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

Paper

Prof. Tracy Ireland (Participant)

The expanding use of heritage methods, governance and policy structures to produce an ever-more inclusive, visible, material heritage that parti...

Paper

Larissa Mellor (Participant)

This paper will explore the preservation of tangible and intangible heritage practices by German Clubs in America. Empirical evidence combines w...

Paper

Laura Murray, Queen's University (Participant)

Kingston, Ontario, is known for its nineteenth-century limestone buildings and its associations with home-town boy Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada...

Paper

Mr Andrew Clark, Scottish Oral History Centre (Participant)

The existing literature on industrial ruination is focused primarily on sites with a direct connection with work and employment, such as abandon...

Paper

Jennifer Fisher, York University (Participant)

Jim Drobnick (Participant)

This presentation will describe two projects by DisplayCult that have evolved out of our on-going engagement with redefining notions of the aest...

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...
12:30
12:30
Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch
1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

13:30
13:30

Paper

Jana Golombek (Participant)

What is the cultural significance of structural change? How have individuals and entire communities reinterpreted the process of deindustrializa...

Paper

Heather Braiden, University of Montreal (Participant)

Thetford Mines is a town build upon the shoulders of generations of men, women, and families, interwoven by asbestos, at varying intervals betwe...

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...
18:30
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
7:00
Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal
2 hours, 7:00 - 9:00
Signup required

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

Tour

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Moderator)

Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet ...
9:00
9:00

Paper

Rachael Coghlan, Australian National University (Participant)

The rise of web 2.0 (including social media) motivated the museum sector’s embrace of participation, including highly interactive, co-curated ex...

Paper

Torhild Skåtun, Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology (Participant)

This paper will present the project “To and from Youth” at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, which allowed a group of eight youths...

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...
10:30
10:30
Break | Pause
30 minutes, 10:30 - 11:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

12:30
12:30
Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch
1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

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)
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...

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Paper

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Participant)

Dr. Rhiannon Bettivia, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Participant)

Within the last ten years, open-access web-based technologies have provided new methods for fostering engagement between cultural heritage organ...
12:30
12:30
Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch
1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

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

Repas

15:30
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...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

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...
10:30
10:30
Break | Pause
30 minutes, 10:30 - 11:00

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

Pause

12:30
12:30
Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch
1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

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

Repas

15:00
15:00
Break | Pause
30 minutes, 15:00 - 15:30

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

Pause

15:30
15:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215

Roundtable

Prof Elizabeth Crooke, Ulster University (Participant)

Dr Anna Woodham, King's College London (Participant)

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Potential)

Dr Katherine Lloyd, Heriot-Watt University (Moderator)

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Potential)

Bethany Rex, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Potential)

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

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

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Moderator)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Potential)

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Participant)

Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent (Participant)

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Participant)

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

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...