Dr Klas Grinell

Associate professor/Curator

Participates in 1 Session

Klas Grinell, half-time associate professor in the History of Ideas at Gothenburg, half-time curator of contemporary global issues at the National Museums of World Culture, Sweden. Coordinator of Religion and heritage in the Globalizing Heritage cluster at Critical Heritage Studies, Gothenburg University, board member of Cultural Heritage without Borders Sweden, secretary of the Nordic Gülen Institute, web editorial board member Museum Ethnographers Group, UK.
Currently leading the Swedish Research Council funded project Museological framings of Islam in Europe.

Sessions in which Dr Klas Grinell participates

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

11:00

14.00 Heritagization and Religionization of Islamicate Culture in Europe

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

Paper

Dr Klas Grinell (Participant)

This paper will argue that European framings of Islamicate cultural heritage shows how interpretations of the secularization and re-sacralizatio...

Sessions in which Dr Klas Grinell attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

12:30

Registration

5 hours, 12:30 - 17:30

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

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

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

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Moderator)

Dr 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)

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

This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...

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...

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)

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...

11:00

Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I

4 hours, 11:00 - 15:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560

Regular session

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

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

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

Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...

16.00 Worshipping the Past, Heritagizing Religion. How did the (Un)Holy Alliance between Churches and Heritage Come to Be?

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?

Paper

Helena Wangefelt Ström, Umeå University (Participant)

“Why museums are the new churches.” This was the title of an essay on BBC Culture (June, 2015), where the author reflected on how museums and ar...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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

9:00

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

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Moderator)

Dr Areti Galani, Newcastle University, UK (Moderator)

Digital installations and interventions have been seen as a promising ways to support and foster dialogue in museum exhibitions. How does this p...

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

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

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

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

The field of heritage has emerged as a key site of reflection. Influenced by shifts in the academy (e.g., post-colonial, post-structural and femini...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

13:30

Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430

Roundtable

Dr. Angela Failler, University of Winnipeg (Participant)

Prof. Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Canada Research Chair in Museum & Heritage Studies, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr Shelley Ruth Butler, McGill University, Institute for the Study of Canada (Moderator)

Heather Igloliorte, Concordia University (Participant)

Dr. Monica Patterson, Carleton University (Participant)

Jennifer C. Robinson, University of Victoria (Participant)

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened to the public in September 2014. Yet this "first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebrati...

Wednesday 8 June, 2016

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

8:30

Post-Conference Tour: À la découverte de Kahnawà :ke | Discovery of Kahnawà :ke

9 hours, 8:30 - 17:30

Signup required

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

Tour

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