Tessa Pijnaker

University of Amsterdan

Participates in 1 Session

Biographical notice: Tessa Pijnaker is a graduate student at the Free University of Amsterdam (VU), finishing her master’s degree in History. In 2015 she obtained her research master’s degree in Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Throughout her studies, she has sought to combine anthropological and historical approaches. Her research interests focus on the historical development of the African middle classes, African heritage and technological developments. For her thesis for the research master Social Sciences, she studied the connections between African heritage, game development and the aspirations of middle-class tech entrepreneurs in Accra, Ghana. She conducted five months of ethnographic fieldwork, during which she did an internship at a game development company and forty life history interviews. For her thesis for the master’s in History, she used UNESCO’s General History of Africa and connected Women in African History: an E-learning tool as case studies to investigate the historical representation of the African subject in a postcolonial context. Academic achievements: 2013-2015 Research Master Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam Interpretative Track – Specialization Globalization, Flows and Localities. GPA: 8.0 (out of 10) 2011-present Master History at the Free University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam Trajectory Global and Local. GPA: 8.7 (out of 10) 2007 – 2011 Bachelor History at the Free University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam Majors: Global History and Contemporary History. Minor: Cultural Anthropology. GPA: 8.0 (out f 10) Research experience: September 2014 – Ethnographic fieldwork in Accra, Ghana. January 2015 Publications: Pijnaker, T. 2013 (Post)koloniaal erfgoed in Parijs [(Post)colonial heritage in Paris], Galapas 34 (1): 16-23.

Sessions in which Tessa Pijnaker participates

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

09.00 The (Re)Presentation of "Fantasy": African Heritage and Middle-Class Formation in Accra, Ghana

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa

Paper

Tessa Pijnaker, University of Amsterdan (Participant)

This paper will explore the class and generation specific ways in which Ghanaian game developers (re)present African heritage to enact their asp...

Sessions in which Tessa Pijnaker attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:30

Public Debate: Heritage and Tourism | Débat public: Patrimoine et tourisme

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 - 13:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Athanase-David (D) - DR-200

Roundtable with simultaneous translation / Table ronde avec traduction simultanée

Mr. Craig Bennett Jr., Bennett Preservation Engineering PC, Charleston, South Carolina (Participant)

Martine Lizotte, École internationale d’hôtellerie et tourisme du Collège LaSalle (Moderator)

Pierre Mathieu, Explorateur Voyages (Participant)

France Lessard (Participant)

David Mendel, Mendel Tours (Participant)

What does heritage change for tourism? | Le patrimoine, ça change quoi au tourisme? Ce débat veut interroger les r...

13:00

What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum

2 hours, 13:00 - 15:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520

Workshop

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Moderator)

Dr Adèle Esposito, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR AUSser Architecture, Urbanistique, Société, France (Participant)

Zeynep Gunay, Istanbul Technical University (Participant)

Rodney Harrison, University College London (Participant)

Pedro Paulo Funari, Unicamp (Participant)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Participant)

This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...

17:00

Opening Ceremony and Cocktail

2 hours 30 minutes, 17:00 - 19:30

Signup required

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel

Cocktail

Prof. Tim Winter, Deakin University (Potential)

Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Potential)

Dr Clarence Epstein, Concordia University (Moderator)

Christine Zachary-Deom (Participant)

Luc Noppen, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Participant)

Hon. Serge Joyal c.p., o.c. (Participant)

Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...

19:30

The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises

1 hour 30 minutes, 19:30 - 21:00

Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210

Research-Creation

Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Moderator)

Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

9:00

Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)

1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Lucie Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...

10:30

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 10:30 - 11:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

11:00

Heritage Futures / Utopian Currents I

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515

Regular session

Ms Elizabeth Stainforth, University of Leeds, History of Art and Cultural Studies, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Helen Graham, University of Leeds (Moderator)

The notion of heritage is closely linked to processes of change. In the Western context, the definition of heritage as "a contemporary product shap...

Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage

6 hours, 11:00 - 17:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1950

Regular session

Jeroen Rodenberg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Moderator)

Dr. Pieter Wagenaar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Moderator)

Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion. As an "Authorized Heritage Discourse" (AHD) (Smith 2006) may define what is considered to be her...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

15:00

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 15:00 - 15:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Pause

17:00

Smoked meat in questions

1 hour, 17:00 - 18:00

Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse

Cocktail

This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...

18:30

Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)

1 hour 30 minutes, 18:30 - 20:00

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University (Participant)

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Moderator)

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

7:30

Discovering katajjaniq – Nunavik’s Inuit throat singing | À la découverte du katajjaniq – le chant de gorge inuit du Nunavik

1 hour, 7:30 - 8:30

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle des boiseries (J-2805)

Event

In English and French The two Inuit artists Nina Segalowitz and Taqralik Partridge are offering us an initiation to katajjaniq, this thousand...

9:00

Empathy and Indifference – Emotional/Affective Routes To and Away from Compassion I

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2518

Regular session

Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Participant)

Mr Gary Campbell, ANU (Participant)

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...

The Cultural Politics of New Built Heritage in Emerging Economies

3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M460

Regular session

Prof. Sarah Moser, McGill University (Moderator)

In many emerging economies of the Global South, new urban mega-projects are strategically reviving heritage into simulacra, copies without original...

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall

Repas

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)

1 hour 30 minutes, 14:00 - 15:30

Signup required

Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Moderator)

"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...

19:00

Film Series: De engel van Doel

2 hours, 19:00 - 21:00

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 125

Prof. Marc Jacobs, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Moderator)

Directed by Tom Fassaert and presented by Marc Jacobs. ___ Doel, a Belgian village near the Dutch border, is disappearing quickly and d...

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

10:30

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 10:30 - 11:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB Atrium

Pause

15:30

Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 - 17:00

Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 1.210

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. Xavier Greffe, University paris I (Participant)

Luc-Normand Tellier, UQAM (Moderator)

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...

18:00

Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event

1 hour, 18:00 - 19:00

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 123

Cocktail

Dr Jessica Mace, University of Toronto (Moderator)

Gwenaelle Reyt (Participant)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Participant)

Dr Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal et UQAM (Moderator)

To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...

19:00

Film Series: Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill

35 minutes, 19:00 - 19:35

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 125

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Participant)

Directed by William Shewbridge and Michelle Stefano USA; 35 mins Presented by Michelle Stefano ___ After 125 years o...

20:00

Film Series: Exit Zero

1 hour 35 minutes, 20:00 - 21:35

Signup required

Concordia, LB Building - LB 125

Event

Directed by Christine Walley and Chris Boebel Presented by Michelle Stefano When the steel mills began closing on Chicago's Southeast Side...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

7:30

Autour de Concordia. Au cœur du Golden Square Mile : explorations de luttes patrimoniales | Around Concordia. In the Heart of Golden Square Mile: Explorations of Heritage Struggles

1 hour 15 minutes, 7:30 - 8:45

Signup required

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)

Tour

(en français) Le centre-ville a été au cœur de nombreuses luttes depuis les années 1970. Le parcours proposé par Martin Drouin, historien, pr...

10:30

Break | Pause

30 minutes, 10:30 - 11:00

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB Atrium

Pause

12:30

Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium

Repas

Wednesday 8 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

8:30

Post-Conference Tour: À la découverte de Kahnawà :ke | Discovery of Kahnawà :ke

9 hours, 8:30 - 17:30

Signup required

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)

Tour

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