Dr Susan Ashley

Northumbria University

Participates in 4 items

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

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

11:00

15.30 Recognition Politics and Multicultural Heritagization in Canada

30 minutes, 11:00 - 11:30

Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

Paper

Dr Susan Ashley, Northumbria University (Participant)

With Co-author Caitlin Gordon-Walker Ethno-cultural groups in Canada use community centres as cultural spaces to promote a sense ...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

9:00

11.40 Crowds, Events and "Acts" of Citizenship: Heritage-Making at the Chattri Indian Memorial

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage

Paper

Dr Susan Ashley, Northumbria University (Participant)

Movements such as Occupy Wall Street, embracing the immanent possibilities of the “here and now,” assert the affective presence and radical pote...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

15:30

Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115

Roundtable

Dr Phaedra Livingstone (Moderator)

Dr Susan Ashley, Northumbria University (Participant)

Dr Marie-Claude Larouche, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Département des sciences de l'éducation (Participant)

Prof. Jennifer Carter, UQAM (Participant)

To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...

[wrong paper] The Royal Ontario Museum, the Dead Sea Scrolls and Critical Public Engagement

30 minutes, 15:30 - 16:00

Part of: Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice

Paper

Dr Susan Ashley, Northumbria University (Participant)

Public engagement has become a central theme in the mission statements of many museums, and in scholarly research into museums and public histor...

Sessions in which Dr Susan Ashley attends

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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

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

Around the Université du Québec à Montréal: visit of Chinatown | Autour de l’Université du Québec à Montréal : visite du Quartier chinois

1 hour 45 minutes, 7:00 - 8:45

Signup required

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

Tour

(In English) Chinatown, born in the second half of the 19th century, is a hub of commercial and sociocultural activities which showcases Chinese cu...

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)

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...

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...

18:00

Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event

1 hour, 18:00 - 19:00

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 123

Cocktail

Dr Jessica Mace, University of Toronto (Moderator)

Gwenaelle Reyt (Participant)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Participant)

Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal et UQAM (Moderator)

To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...