Dr. Jeremy Wells

Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation

Roger Williams University

Participates in 2 items

Dr. Jeremy C. Wells is an assistant professor in the Historic Preservation Program in the School of Art, Architecture, and Historic Preservation at Roger Williams University, USA and a Fulbright scholar. Previously, he has worked as an historic preservation planner, Main Street manager, and as an architectural materials conservator. He is the co-editor of the book, Preservation Education: Sharing Best Practices and Finding Common Ground published by the University Press of New England. Dr. Wells created the Environmental Design Research Association’s Historic Environment Knowledge Network in 2008 to work with other academics and practitioners in addressing the person/place and environment/behavior aspects of heritage conservation. Dr. Wells is interested in how people perceive, value, and interact with historic environments and how this experience is similar to the experience of natural environments with a focus on place attachment. He uses social science research methodologies, such as ethnographies, survey research, and phenomenology to answer these questions because, fundamentally, he believes that the conservation of the historic environment is an endeavor that should benefit people. He is currently in Brazil conducting research on community participation and heritage conservation planning in Olinda, Pernambuco. Primary publications: Wells, J. C. (2007). The plurality of truth in culture, context, and heritage: A (mostly) post-structuralist analysis of urban conservation charters. City and Time, 3(2:1), 1-13. Wells, J. C. (2010a). Authenticity in more than one dimension: Reevaluating a core premise of historic preservation. Forum Journal, 24(3), 36-40. Wells, J. C. (2010b). Our history is not false: Perspectives from the revitalisation culture. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 16(6), 464-485. Wells, J. C., & Baldwin, E. D. (2012). Historic preservation, significance, and age value: A comparative phenomenology of Historic Charleston and the nearby new-urbanist community of I’On. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 32(4), 384-400.

Sessions in which Dr. Jeremy Wells participates

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

10.00 Is Critical Heritage Studies Theory Incompatible with Built Heritage Conservation?

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage as contributor to policymaking

Paper

Dr. Jeremy Wells, Roger Williams University (Participant)

This paper will explore the relevancy of the nascent critical heritage studies movement to the future of built heritage conservation. This analy...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

12.00 Developing a Pragmatic Tool for Historic Environment Practitioners: A Case Study of the Horto d’El Rey in Brazil

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II

Paper

Dr. Jeremy Wells, Roger Williams University (Participant)

In the past fifteen years, there has been an increasing call for built heritage practitioners to use the values of a broad array of stakeholders...

Sessions in which Dr. Jeremy Wells attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

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

13.30 Participatory, Value-Based Heritage Cultural Landscape Conservation for Sustainable Community Development: The Case of Milton Park in Montreal

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

Paper

Mehdi Ghafouri, Vanier College (Participant)

Given that heritage, tangible and intangible, is considered as a cultural/capital resource, this paper will depart from the premise that partici...

11.00 Policy Institutions and Policy Agents as Makers of Cultural Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Geir Vestheim, University College of Southeast Norway (Participant)

This paper will depart from the idea that the making of cultural policy, and heritage policy included, takes place within a political system and...

16.00 Citizen Groups and Their Vision of Heritage in the Making of the 2012 Quebec Cultural Heritage Act

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

Paper

Prof. Martin Drouin, UQAM (Participant)

The Quebec Cultural Heritage Act, adopted by the province’s National Assembly, came into force in 2012, replacing the Cultural Property Act (197...

14.30 L’approche paysagère : de nouveaux modes d’action citoyenne pour le patrimoine et les paysages

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

Paper

Mathieu Dormaels Ph.D., Université du Québec à Montréal (Participant)

Depuis les années 1990, la notion de paysage s’est développée à travers diverses approches et différentes disciplines. Objet essentiellement géo...

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

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

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

Based on fieldwork in Xinjiang, China, this paper will investigate the ambiguities surrounding the government policies that seek to promote econ...

14.30 Of, By, and For Which People?: Government and Contested Heritage

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Prof. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Indiana University (IUPUI) (Participant)

Two government-owned and managed heritage sites in Indiana, USA, offer an opportunity to explore the role of governing in adjudicating the compe...

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)

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...

15.30 L'appropriation citoyenne comme réponse à la sauvegarde de l’architecture moderne

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

Paper

Marie-Dina Salvione, École de design, UQAM (Participant)

Cette communication propose de questionner l’idée de patrimonialisation comme condition sine qua non pour la sauvegarde de l’architecture modern...

11.30 When Citizens Are Involved in Heritage: A Case Study in Laon (France)

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

Paper

Manon Istasse, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Participant)

As a member of a research group, I investigate the role of associations and scholarly societies in the construction and the promotion of heritag...

14.00 The Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour Heritage Project: Contestation or Contentment?

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

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...

12:30

Heritage as Global Challenge

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518

Talk

kristian kristiansen, University of Gothenburg (Participant)

Prof. Ola Wetterberg, University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation (Participant)

A new Centre for Critical Heritage Studies in partnership between University College London and University of Gothenburg started in April 2016 a...

13:30

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

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...

16.00 Ecological Thought and Cultural Landscapes: Evolving Paradigms and their Potential Application to Heritage Conservation

30 minutes, 13:30 - 14:00

Part of: Heritage vs Ecology

Paper

Cari Goetcheus, The University of Georgia (Participant)

Cultural landscape conservation, as influenced by the US National Park Service and UNESCO/ICOMOS philosophy and practice, has focused to date on...

15:30

15.30 Managed Landscapes: The Social Construction of Scale at Angkor

30 minutes, 15:30 - 16:00

Part of: Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I

Paper

Rowena Butland (Participant)

In constructing the scales that frame our political, social and cultural lives, we do not neutrally siphon off a particular part of the world an...

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

Through the alleys of Saint-Henri - guided by Pohanna Pyne Feinberg

2 hours, 7:00 - 9:00

Signup required

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

Tour

Movement, stillness, and creation will be combined during this walk as participants are encouraged to attune themselves to the environment through ...

9:00

11.30 Patrimonialisation et mise en tourisme des centres anciens des petites villes françaises. Un cadre spatial d'analyse qui interroge le lien patrimonialisation / gentrification

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification

Paper

Annie Ouellet, Université d'Angers - UMR CNRS 6590 ESO (Participant)

Les quartiers historiques centraux des grandes villes et des métropoles, souvent très dégradés jusque dans les années soixante et soixante-dix s...

11.30 Tango: Production and Circulations of Heritage Meanings

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Des patrimoines incarnés : les dialogues du vivant et de l’archive | Embodiment Practices of Heritage

Paper

Sébastien Jacquot, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (Participant)

The Argentinian and Uruguayan tradition of the Tango was inscribed in 2009 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Hum...

09.40 A Conceptual Framework for Built Environment Cultural Values

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage

Paper

Mr Colm Murray, The Heritage Council of Ireland (Participant)

You can only manage what you see and understand. For this reason, the values we ascribe to the built environment and the “architectural” heritag...

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)

This paper will approach the topic “What does heritage change?” by looking at the perspectives and experiences of a special category of heritage...

09.20 For a Transdisciplinary Approach to Heritage Conservation: Memory, Aesthetics and the Issue of Authenticity

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage

Paper

prof. Bianca Gioia Marino, DIARC Department of Architecture - University of Naples Federico II (Participant)

The issue of authenticity seems to be currently a real focal point for understanding and also identifying the challenges of historic heritage. D...

10.00 Une ontologie du patrimoine : apport de la sémantique pour une construction argumentative de l’artefact patrimonialisé. Le cas de la base de données de Topic-Topos

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Vers une nouvelle lecture du patrimoine culturel. L’approche sémantique au service d’une ontologie du patrimoine

Paper

Valérie Rochaix, Université de Nantes - CoDiRe (EA 4643) (Participant)

Comme la visite guidée d’un site patrimonial s’appuie sur un récit mettant en œuvre des mécanismes énonciatifs et discursifs dont les enjeux son...

11.00 Les châteaux en France et au Québec

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Vers une nouvelle lecture du patrimoine culturel. L’approche sémantique au service d’une ontologie du patrimoine

Paper

Dr. Stephanie Doyle-Lerat, université de Nantes (Participant)

En France et au Québec, les châteaux représentent des lieux reconnus comme des sites de patrimoine par excellence. Cependant, la fonction premiè...

11.00 Dilemmas of Living: Uses of Heritage in Dispute—The Case of Vila Itororó, São Paulo

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: La conservation des quartiers anciens et le problème de la gentrification

Paper

Ms Vivian Legname Barbour, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Participant)

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the process that turned Vila Itororó, an architectural site in São Paulo, Brazil, into heritage and o...

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

Prof. Rhiannon Mason (Participant)

Research involving display analysis and interviews with staff and visitors has shown empathy to be an important feature of interpretative strate...

11.00 The Case of the Missing "ism"? Modernism and Heritage: A Reflection

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage

Paper

Prof Robyn Bushell, Western Sydney University (Participant)

Dr Russell Staiff, Western Sydney University (Participant)

While “heritage and modernity” has deservedly received considerable critical attention, we have been struck by the fact that this has not been t...

11.40 Favela as a Brazilian Heritage Site: Complexities and Shifting Realities

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage

Paper

Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti, Tu Delft (Participant)

On July 1st, 2012, the Brazilian favelas were considered a world heritage site by UNESCO. What does it imply to those living in these places? Ou...

11.20 Urban Planning and Transformation of Heritage Values

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Re-Writing History in the Time of Late Capitalism : Uses and Abuses of Built Heritage

Paper

Jennie Sjöholm, Linköping University (Participant)

Urban planning means planning for the future and involves visions of how to use and develop built cultural heritage. Conceptions of built cultur...

11.30 Bases de données en ligne et visions du patrimoine. L’exemple de l’hospice en France et au Québec

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Vers une nouvelle lecture du patrimoine culturel. L’approche sémantique au service d’une ontologie du patrimoine

Paper

Ana-Maria Cozma (Participant)

La nouvelle lecture du patrimoine visée par le projet ANTIMOINE – projet associant linguistique, bases de données et réalité virtuelle – sera il...

11.00 Heritage, Stakeholders and Empathetic Interaction in Chinese Cultural Heritage Sites (cancelled)

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I

Paper

Rouran Zhang, Australian National University (Participant)

The tension between tourism and heritage has existed for a long time. From practical-based understanding of heritage, most literature concerned ...

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

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

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...

10.00 Imported Definitions for Heritage: Development of the Western Idea of Heritage in Turkey since the 1960s

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Heritage and the Late Modern State II

Paper

Mesut Dinler, Politecnico di Torino (Participant)

The strong dominance of European architects in the Turkey Republic, both in academia and professional practice, started in the early decades of ...

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...

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

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Moderator)

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

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...