
Senior Researcher at the CNRS, member of the IDEMEC (CNRS-Aix Marseille Université, France) and research collaborator at CRIA and CIDEHUS (Portugal), Cyril Isnart is an anthropologist and currently works on religion, music and heritage-making in Southern Europe (France, Portugal, Greece). After a PhD at the Université de Provence (Aix-en-Provence) in anthropology of religion (2000-2004), Cyril Isnart studied festivals, musical life and heritage-making in a border village between France and Italy. He is now responsable for the international programme Religious Memories and Heritage Practices in the Mediterranean. Confessional Coexistence and Heritage Assertion (2013-2015), funded by the national research agency of Portugal FCT (PTDC/IVC-ANT/4033/2012) and co-founded the international Network of Researchers on Heritagisations known as Respatrimoni in 2009 (repatrimoni.wordpress.com).
He published his first monograph in 2008, Saints légionnaires des Alpes du sud (Paris, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme) and various papers in the International Journal of Heritage Studies (UK), the Journal of Mediterranean Studies (Malta), Memoria em Rede (Brazil) or ethnographiques.org (France-Switzerland). He co-edited four special issues of Ethnologie Française, Civilisations, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change and Etnográfica and taught cultural anthropology at the universities of Provence, Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Paris V-René Descartes and Evora (Portugal).
He published his first monograph in 2008, Saints légionnaires des Alpes du sud (Paris, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme) and various papers in the International Journal of Heritage Studies (UK), the Journal of Mediterranean Studies (Malta), Memoria em Rede (Brazil) or ethnographiques.org (France-Switzerland). He co-edited four special issues of Ethnologie Française, Civilisations, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change and Etnográfica and taught cultural anthropology at the universities of Provence, Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Paris V-René Descartes and Evora (Portugal).
Sessions in which Dr Cyril Isnart participates
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- 12.00 Investing Heritage Values in Religious Artifacts or Religious Values in Monuments? Evidence from the Catholic Heritage in the Iberian Peninsula
- Participant Dr Cyril Isnart (CNRS) | Participant Nathalie Cerezales (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- Paper
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9:00
- Héritage religieux et patrimoine culturel religieux. Différences et affordances Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.210
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- 11.30 La visite guidée culturelle et le musée municipal comme espace de transmission religieuse. Usages de l’ambiguïté dans l’activité patrimoniale autour d’un sanctuaire portugais
- Participant Dr Cyril Isnart (CNRS) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Héritage religieux et patrimoine culturel religieux. Différences et affordances
- Paper
Sessions in which Dr Cyril Isnart attends
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13:00
- What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
- Workshop
18:30
18:30
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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9:00
- Reshuffling of Knowledge and the Making of Autochthonous Cultural Heritage : Ethnographical Perspectives II | Mise en patrimoine et recomposition de régimes de savoir. Ethnographies d’expériences autochtones II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
17:00
17:00
- ACHS 2016 General Assembly Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210
- 17:00 - 18:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Talk
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9:00
- Patrimoines contestés : réceptions locales, discours, stratégies (études de cas en Bosnie, Irak, Palestine, Syrie, Liban) Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
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15:30
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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13:30
- Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Signup required Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (St. Joseph Oratory) - Salle Raoul-Gauthier
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session