
Carola Nordbäck
Södertörn University Stockholm/ The Church of Sweden Research Unit
Participates in 1 Session
Sessions in which Carola Nordbäck participates
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- 13.30 Ecclesiastical Heritage Assemblages in Post-Secular and Post-Christian Sweden
- Participant Carola Nordbäck (Södertörn University Stockholm/ The Church of Sweden Research Unit) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will examine the management of ecclesiastical heritage in post-secular and post-Christian Sweden. A large part of the cultural herita...
- Paper
Sessions in which Carola Nordbäck attends
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12:30
- Research Development Seminar with Michael Herzfeld
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Hubert-Aquin (A) - A-1875
- 12:30 - 15:30 | 3 hours
- The Research Development Seminars gathers young scholars who will informally present and discuss their research with one of the conference's keynot...
- Workshop
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17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Signup required Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- Cocktail
19:30
19:30
- The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...
- Research-Creation
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11:00
- 16.00 Worshipping the Past, Heritagizing Religion. How did the (Un)Holy Alliance between Churches and Heritage Come to Be?
- Participant Helena Wangefelt Ström (Umeå University) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- “Why museums are the new churches.” This was the title of an essay on BBC Culture (June, 2015), where the author reflected on how museums and ar...
- Paper
- 12.00 "Home is Everywhere and Nowhere": The Critical Heritage of Migration and Belonging in Contemporary European Museums
- Participant Dr Susannah Eckersley (Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK) | Participant Prof. Rhiannon Mason |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I
- This paper will analyze presentations of and identifications with scales of “home” and belonging in European museums, which address (hi)stories ...
- Paper
- 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?
- This paper will study the values and the role given to the Catholic cultural heritage of contemporary Spain and Portugal, which represents today...
- Paper
- 11.00 On the Divide between Secular Values and Use Values in Heritage Conceptions of Churches
- Participant Dr Eva Löfgren (Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Religion as Heritage - Heritage as Religion?
- This paper will address the different meanings of the concept of “use” within heritage conservation discourse and practice, and in particular as...
- Paper
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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
- 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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- 11.00 Living in a Historic House: Meeting the "Other" through Heritage
- Participant Dr Banu Pekol (Ozyegin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging II
- This paper will deal with how the residential urban heritage of religious minorities in Istanbul is being re-used and modified—while at the same...
- Paper
- Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...
- Regular session
- 10.00 From McDonald's to Prayer Hall: "Hybrid" Religious Architectural Identities in the Diaspora
- Participant Tavleen Kaur |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging II
- A McDonald’s restaurant in Wisconsin, a Sam’s Club warehouse in Ohio, a neo-Gothic cathedral in Quebec, and a factory building in Toronto. These...
- Paper
- 09.30 Making and Re-making Russian Old Believers' Heritage
- Participant Miss Cristina Clopot (Heriot Watt University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging II
- This paper will question the current heritagization processes of a displaced community, the Russian Old Believers of Romania. These people left ...
- Paper
- 09.00 The Gateway to Russian Memory Politics, Materiality and Collective Identities: The Lutheran Swedish Church of St. Catherine in St. Petersburg
- Participant Gunilla Gunner (Södertörn University Stockholm) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Current Research II: Engaging and Uncovering Collective Memories
- St. Catherine’s Church, located on a side street to Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, is a property of great interest for the relations between...
- Paper
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- 14.00 To Use or Not To Use: A Question of Protection
- Participant Mr Henrik Lindblad (Church of Sweden) |
- 7:30 - 8:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- In 2010, the Caroli Church in central Malmö, built in 1879 and protected by the Heritage Conservation Act, was deconsecrated and sold to a real-...
- Paper
- 09.30 A Second Life, the Dutch Approach to Transforming Classified Religious Heritage: Process, Challenges, Examples
- Participant Mrs Lilian Grootswagers-Theuns (Erfgoed.nu / council member of FRH (Future for Religious Heritage, European network for places of worship / Vice chair of Task Force Toekomst Kerkgebouwen / member of ICOMOS ) |
- 7:30 - 8:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- Religious heritage and redevelopment is constant and through fast secularization, the number of abandoned churches is accelerating in the Nether...
- Paper
- 10.00 A Future for Our Religious Heritage: A Matter of Co-Operation, Money and Organization
- Participant Peter Breukink |
- 7:30 - 8:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- The preservation of many historic churches is, in these years, under serious threat. Church communities can not afford the costs any lon...
- Paper
- 09.00 Introduction
- Participant Mrs Lilian Grootswagers-Theuns (Erfgoed.nu / council member of FRH (Future for Religious Heritage, European network for places of worship / Vice chair of Task Force Toekomst Kerkgebouwen / member of ICOMOS ) | Participant Édith Prégent (Université du Québec à Montréal, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain, Musée régional de Vaudreuil-Soulanges) |
- 7:30 - 8:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- Signup required Église Saint-Michel - Église Saint-Michel
- 7:30 - 15:30 | 8 hours
- __ Please note that this session is scheduled in a distant location from the main conference; transportation will be provided to regi...
- Regular session
- 11.30 The Heritagization of Religion: Heritagization Processes in Swedish Policies on the Built Heritage of the Church of Sweden since 1920
- Participant Tobias Harding (University of Jyväskylä) |
- 7:30 - 8:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Beyond Re-uses: The Future of Church Monuments in a Secular Society | Au-delà de la conversion: l'avenir des églises monumentales dans une société sécularisée
- Cultural heritage has been defined as “culture named and projected into the past, and simultaneously, the past congealed into culture.” This is ...
- Paper
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9:00
- Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse? Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.285
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- There are many different kinds of migrants in the contemporary world. They include the familiar figures of refugees or undocumented migrants, assoc...
- Regular session
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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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- 09.40 Exploring Perceptive Experiences Through Multi-Sensory Learning
- Participant Shauna Rak (McGill University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- This presentation will explore how I learned about my heritage through multi-sensory learning (MSL). Working with my grandmother’s story of surv...
- Paper
- Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.435
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- 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...
- Regular session
- 10.00 Humorous Becomings: Exploring Empathy Through the Use of "Craic" in Tours of Belfast's Murals
- Participant Ms Katie Markham (sskjm@leeds.ac.uk) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- “Is it a problem . . . that the Irish is always up for the crack?” asked Ali G of Sinn Fèin MLA Sue Ramsey, a mere year after the signing of the...
- Paper
- 09.20 The Role of Empathy and Affect in Pro-Social Museum Transformations
- Participant Mr Lachlan Dudley (Australian National University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Significant debate has occurred in disciplines outside of a heritage framework in relation to the ability of empathy to act as a catalyst for pr...
- Paper
- 11.00 Found; Finding; Foundling, Mine: Searching for the Voice of the Historical Child in the Foundling Museum
- Participant Miss Rachel Emily Taylor (Sheffield Hallam University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Biographical narratives are being used as vehicles for history within contemporary heritage discourse. I am interested in unravelling the dialog...
- Paper
- 11.20 Heritage, Emotional Communities, and Imaginary Childhood Landscapes
- Participant Christian Widholm (Södertörn University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- Employing examples from maritime heritage attractions in Sweden this paper aims to analyze how heritage stakeholders situate their enterprises t...
- Paper
- 11.40 Immediate Emotion: Articulating Historical Consciousness and Heritage in Oral Histories
- Participant Ms Jessica Douthwaite (University of Strathclyde) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion II
- In this paper I will address ACHS Conference questions surrounding the building of “critical innovations” in heritage and how heritage offers us...
- Paper
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- 16.45 Visite guidée de l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal
- Participant Chantal Turbide (L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Tour
- 14.15 Brussels’ Churches: Paradoxical Uses in an International Metropolis
- Participant Prof. Thomas Coomans (KU Leuven, Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- The World Migration Report 2015 revealed that 62% of Brussels’ population is not born in Belgium. Brussels, therefore, is the second migration c...
- Paper
- 16.15 L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal, une mission, une vision, un futur
- Participant Chantal Turbide (L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Cette communication vise à présenter le projet de développement de l’Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal. À l’ère de la laïcisation de la sociét...
- Paper
- 15.45 Talking Infrastructure: Materializing Interfaith Relations on Richmond’s Highway to Heaven
- Participant Dr Justin K.H. Tse |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Interfaith and intercultural dialogues frequently have an air of immateriality about them, focusing usually on abstract concepts in an effort to...
- Paper
- 13.30 Introduction
- Participant Luc Noppen (Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage) |
- 13:30 - 13:45 | 15 minutes Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- 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
- While historical churches are being abandoned all over the Christian West, more and more places are growing the opposite way: pilgrimage sites are ...
- Regular session
- 13.45 Religion-to-Religion Adaptive Reuse: Retaining Sacred Use and Re-conceptualizing Built Heritage in Canada
- Participant Candace Iron (Humber College) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Historically, Canada’s cultural and religious heritage has been associated with Christianity. Contemporary Canada is, however, multicultural and...
- Paper
- 14.45 Le monastère Tam Bao Son, Harrington (Québec) ; microcosme d’un parcours de pérégrination bouddhiste
- Participant Prof. Mathieu Boisvert (UQAM) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés
- Le monastère Tam Bao Son situé à Harrington, Québec, a été inauguré en 1995. Cet exposé vise à situer le monastère au sein de la communauté viet...
- Paper