
Kostas is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Museology, Institute for Cultural Practice, University of Manchester. His research interests cross the fields of museology, archaeology, cultural heritage, and digital media. His expertise lies in the area of Digital Heritage that includes the theory and practice of digital technology in museums, galleries and heritage sites. He is particularly interested in the use of mobile and social media in museums for purposes of curation, interpretation and audience engagement. He is currently researching the use of data in capturing cultural experiences and driving data driven decisions/performance appraisal processes within cultural organisations (Culture Metrics Project, funded by the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts: Big Data strand). His other research interests include: how museums have collected, interpreted and exhibited everyday life; professionalism in museums and galleries; and the interpretation and communication of archaeological collections and built heritage.
Sessions in which Dr Kostas Arvanitis participates
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- 09.30 Amphipolis 2.0: Authority, Archaeology and Social Media Activism
- Participant Dr Kostas Arvanitis (University of Manchester) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
- Paper
Sessions in which Dr Kostas Arvanitis attends
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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
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

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- What Does the Heritage Citizens Movement Change? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2585
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 hours
- Regular session
- 11.00 Policy Institutions and Policy Agents as Makers of Cultural Heritage
- Participant Geir Vestheim (University College of Southeast Norway) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Cultural Contestation: Politics and Governance of Heritage
- Paper
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- Alter-Heritagization / Alter-Metropolization ? Objects, Players and Forms of Alternative Heritage Production in Contemporary Metropolises UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1545
- 13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Regular session
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- 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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- Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part I: Co-Production in the Digital Environment Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 3.265
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Regular session
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- 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
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- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Roundtable