
Russell Staiff holds a doctorate in art history from the University of Melbourne and is an adjunct fellow in the cultural heritage and tourism program within the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University and an adjunct professorial fellow in the architectural heritage and tourism program in the Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University, Bangkok. His research interests are two-fold: (1) the various intersections between cultural heritage, communities and tourism with a particular emphasis on Southeast Asia and (2) heritage as a socio-cultural phenomenon. He has recently co-edited a volume on Heritage and Tourism for Routledge (with Robyn Bushell and Steve Watson) and his monograph, Re-Imagining Heritage Interpretation: Enchanting the Past/Future, was published by Ashgate in early 2014. Also in 2014, and published by Ashgate, came two co-edited volumes Travel and Imagination and Travel and Transformation. Another co-edited volume Travel and Representation: Past, Present, Future is in press with Berghan Books.
Sessions in which Dr Russell Staiff participates
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- 11.00 The Case of the Missing "ism"? Modernism and Heritage: A Reflection
- Participant Prof Robyn Bushell (Western Sydney University) | Participant Dr Russell Staiff (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage
- While “heritage and modernity” has deservedly received considerable critical attention, we have been struck by the fact that this has not been t...
- Paper
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- 12.00 Addiction By Choice? Heritage and Tourism in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR
- Participant Prof Robyn Bushell (Western Sydney University) | Participant Dr Russell Staiff (Western Sydney University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe
- Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is 134th on the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Development Index. In other words, in ter...
- Paper
Sessions in which Dr Russell Staiff attends
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- Public Debate: Heritage and Tourism | Débat public: Patrimoine et tourisme
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Athanase-David (D) - DR-200
- 11:30 - 13:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- What does heritage change for tourism? | Le patrimoine, ça change quoi au tourisme? Ce débat veut interroger les r...
- Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

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- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
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- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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11:00
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...
- Regular session
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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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- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas
- ACHS Chapters meetings: Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Research Group UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Workshop
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- 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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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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- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 hour
- Repas