
Susan Ashley is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Management at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Her current research projects study how immigrants and minority groups self-represent through museums, exhibitionary media and memorials. Dr. Ashley's research has been published in books by Routledge and Ashgate, and in peer-reviewed journals such as Organization, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Museum & Society and International Journal of Heritage Studies. She edited the book Diverse Spaces: Identity, Heritage and Community in Canadian Public Culture in 2013. Dr. Ashley holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from York University, Toronto. She also has 20 years of consultancy and government work coordinating projects for culture and heritage sites across Canada.
Sessions in which Dr Susan Ashley participates
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- 15.30 Recognition Politics and Multicultural Heritagization in Canada
- Participant Dr Susan Ashley (Northumbria University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- With Co-author Caitlin Gordon-Walker Ethno-cultural groups in Canada use community centres as cultural spaces to promote a sense ...
- Paper
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- 11.40 Crowds, Events and "Acts" of Citizenship: Heritage-Making at the Chattri Indian Memorial
- Participant Dr Susan Ashley (Northumbria University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Movements such as Occupy Wall Street, embracing the immanent possibilities of the “here and now,” assert the affective presence and radical pote...
- Paper
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- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...
- Roundtable
- [wrong paper] The Royal Ontario Museum, the Dead Sea Scrolls and Critical Public Engagement
- Participant Dr Susan Ashley (Northumbria University) |
- 15:30 - 16:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice
- Public engagement has become a central theme in the mission statements of many museums, and in scholarly research into museums and public histor...
- Paper
Sessions in which Dr Susan Ashley attends
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- 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

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- Around the Université du Québec à Montréal: visit of Chinatown | Autour de l’Université du Québec à Montréal : visite du Quartier chinois
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 8:45 | 1 hour 45 minutes
- (In English) Chinatown, born in the second half of the 19th century, is a hub of commercial and sociocultural activities which showcases Chinese cu...
- Tour
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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)
- Signup required Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
- 14:00 - 15:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- "What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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- Small (ERA Architects Inc.)
- Signup required Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.445
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- As Canada shifts from a resource-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, small communities that were established to service the primary sect...
- Talk
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- Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
- Signup required Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 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...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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- Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
- Signup required Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
- 18:00 - 19:00 | 1 hour
- To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...
- Cocktail