
Qingkai Ma is a PhD candidate from Zhejiang University. Under the supervision of Professor Wu Zongjie, he has been doing critical heritage studies, aiming at finding discursive resources and proper ways of re-narrating Chinese heritage and establishing indigenous heritage discourse. He has been participating several heritage conservation projects in Zoucheng, Shandong province where Mencius was born and in Hangzhou which used to be the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127 A. D.-1279 A. D.). These research projects provide opportunities for him to reach out from the Ivory Tower and participate in conserving urban heritage in these cities. The projects arise from the current needs of these cities to search for their cultural identity and to reactivate the past of the cities for future development. In his research he combines the following methodologies to make new meanings for different places by forming narratives based on different sorts of data: ethnographic field work,
historical records including local gazetteers and discourse analysis, etc. His research involves lots of ethnographic field work and negotiation with different communities, government agencies and experts from other disciplines.
Qingkai Ma has participated in writing two books entitled Interpreting the Belt and Road Intiative and 100 Questions & Answers About the Belt and Road Intiative. He wrote one chapter in the two books respectively in which he advocated deep understanding of cultures in the countries along the Belt and Road through in-depth ethnographic studies during the realization of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Sessions in which Qingkai Ma participates
9:00
9:00
- 09.30 Spatial Narratives, Deep Mapping and Reactivating the City’s Past for the Future: A Case Study in Hangzhou, China
- Participant Qingkai Ma (Zhejiang University) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives II
- Paper
Sessions in which Qingkai Ma attends
12:30
12:30
- Research Development Seminar with Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell: Heritage and Museum Studies, Sociology
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon du Faubourg (DC) - DC-2300
- 12:30 - 15:30 | 3 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
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
- Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- Memory and Heritage: Oral Narratives and Cultural Representations of Industry, Work and Deindustrialization in Scotland UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1540
- 11:00 - 12:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Heritage and the Late Modern State I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 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
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

7:00
7:00
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 hours
- Tour
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
- The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M460
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
14:00
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

9:00
9:00
- Representing Intangible Heritage of Post-Industrial Waterfront Zones: Politics of Seeing, Ways of Noticing Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 5.215
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication between Global Policies and Local Practices Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S2.401
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Regular session
- Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Challenging a Discourse of Difference: Heritage in Asia and Europe Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.445
- 9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
13:00
13:00
- A Public-Panel-Relay (Moving Memory: Difficult Histories in Dialogue) Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 13:00 - 14:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Research-Creation
13:30
13:30
- 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
- Rights-Based Approaches to Heritage Management: Possibilities and Limitations Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.285
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
8:30
8:30
- Post-Conference Tour: The Mont Royal Summit UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 8:30 - 11:45 | 3 hours 15 minutes
- Tour