
Kayte has worked in the museum field for the last 9 years specialising mainly in audience research and evaluation, exhibition development, co-creation and community-led research initiatives. She worked as Senior Audience Advocate at the Science Museum London for almost 8 years before taking up a post in the Learning and National Partnerships team at the British Museum. She has conducted collaborative research projects under Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts and Humanities Research Council programmes. Kayte also chairs the UK based Visitor Studies Group a professional membership network dedicated to championing rigorous audience research and engagement in visitor studies. She has a Masters in Cultural Heritage Studies from University College London and a Masters in History from Trinity College Dublin
Sessions in which Kayte McSweeney participates
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Sessions in which Kayte McSweeney attends
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12:30
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 hours
13:00
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
17:00
17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Signup required Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
- 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
- Research-Creation
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8:00
- Morning Coffee UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 8:00 - 10:00 | 2 hours
- Pause
9:00
9:00
- 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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

11:00
11:00
- Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- History Museums, Heritage and Visitors UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
15:30
15:30
- Politics of Scale: A New Approach to Heritage Studies I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
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

9:00
9:00
- Reflection, Selection, Deflection: Rhetoric in the Global Pursuit of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2585
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Envisioning the Dialogic Museum through Digital Interventions UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
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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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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9:00
- Reflecting on the Mobile Contact Zone: Cultural Diplomacy, Touring Exhibitions and Intercultural Heritage Experiences Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.401
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Activism, Civil Society and Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- Engaging Authenticity Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
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9:00
- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.401
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
13:30
13:30
- (in)significance: Values and Valuing in Heritage Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable
- Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.430
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable
15:30
15:30
- Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable