Laura Murray

Queen's University

Participates in 2 items

Laura Murray is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She is Program Coordinator of Cultural Studies, and Director of the Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour History Project.

Sessions in which Laura Murray participates

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

11:00

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...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

11.20 Beyond Sir John: Responding to the Macdonald Bicentennial in Kingston, Canada

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

Paper

Laura Murray, Queen's University (Participant)

Kingston, Ontario (three hours drive west of Montreal), was the childhood home and seat of political power of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first p...

Sessions in which Laura Murray attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

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...

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...

Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540

Regular session

Prof. Arthur McIvor, Univ Strathclyde (Moderator)

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

11.40 "It Wis a Healthy and Wealthy Place": The Springburn Winter Gardens as a Symbol of Economic Decline and the Conflicts of Community Regeneration

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland

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...

11.00 "Scrap Heap" Stories: Oral Narratives of Work Loss, Health and the Body in Deindustrializing Scotland

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland

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...

11.20 The Material and the Immaterial: The Curious Case of Clydeside’s Industrial Leftovers

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland

Paper

Martin Conlon (Participant)

As some of the last and most iconic fragments of industrial detritus along the River Clyde, the four remaining Giant cantilever cranes provide a...

12.00 Art, Activism and its Artifacts: Community Arts and the Construction of Cultural Responses to De-industrialization in Scotland c.1970-1990

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland

Paper

Ms Lucy Brown, Scottish Oral History Centre (Participant)

The community arts movement began in the early 1960s and played a significant role in urban life in Scotland throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In ...

What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change?

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2585

Regular session

Prof. Martin Drouin, UQAM (Moderator)

There is no doubt that the involvement of civil society is a key element in the history of heritage. Working upstream, in line with or against the ...

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)

9:00

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

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

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

Regular session

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

Mr Gary Campbell, ANU (Participant)

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...

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

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

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

Regular session

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

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

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, 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...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

12:30

Small (ERA Architects Inc.)

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.445

Talk

Philip Evans, ERA Architects (Participant)

Dr Jessica Mace, University of Toronto (Moderator)

As Canada shifts from a resource-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, small communities that were established to service the primary sect...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

10.00 The Role of Co-Production in Addressing Difficult Pasts and Futures

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary

Paper

Dr Bryony Onciul, Univerisity of Exeter (Participant)

This paper will set out to understand what heritage changes and will ask “can heritage affect reality”? It will explore the way heritage and col...

09.10 “Home is the Streets”: Collaborative Cultural Heritage Work with Contemporary Homeless People and its Function as Advocacy

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority

Paper

Rachael Kiddey, Independent Social Research Foundation (Participant)

The Homeless Heritage project (2009–2013) was a collaborative public archaeology project that sought to document contemporary homelessness from ...

11.00 “That’s Not a Term I Really Use": Investigating Stakeholders’ Understanding of Heritage

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority

Paper

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

Before we can begin to understand what heritage changes, we have to understand the fields of power and significance in which it operates. In the...

14.00 Heritage and the Creation of Rural Identity in Alberta, Canada

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: “For People Then and for People Now”: Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority

Paper

Dr Lianne McTavish, University of Alberta (Participant)

The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum offers a case study for analyzing how heritage was invented both to engage diverse stakeholders and reshape th...

Representing Intangible Heritage of Post-Industrial Waterfront Zones: Politics of Seeing, Ways of Noticing

6 hours, 9:00 - 15:00

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

Regular session

Professor Katarzyna Kosmala, University of the West of Scotland (Moderator)

While intangible cultural heritage is an important factor in maintaining cultural diversity in the face of growing globalization, there is still li...