Anita Bakshi

Rutgers University

Participates in 1 Session

Anita Bakshi is an Instructor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University, where she teaches courses on Housing and Open Space Design, Visualization, and Research Methods. She is also an affiliated lecturer for the Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies (CHAPS) Program, teaching courses on Heritage and Planning in Divided Cities and Cultural Heritage and Community Organizing. She has a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California Berkeley. Following several years in architectural practice in Chicago, California and the Foster+Partners Istanbul field office, she received her PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture from Cambridge University. Her PhD research with the Conflict in Cities Research Programme focused on space and memory in divided cities. Her research has focused on questions of mapping and representation for contested environments, and she has exhibited maps and drawings that document ethnographic research in partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). She engages in design research that explores new forms for monuments, memorials, and other commemorative structures. Current research investigates the role of landscape architecture and design in the Anthropocene era through a design proposal for a memorial that marks and describes environmental losses and enables collective mourning and healing. Recent publications include Urban Form and Memory Discourses in Contested Cities in the Journal of Urban Design (2014), and Trade and Exchange in Nicosias Common Realm in Post Ottoman Coexistence: Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict (2016).

Sessions in which Anita Bakshi participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

9:00

09.30 Commemoration at the Edge: From Preservation to Activism

30 minutes, 9:00 - 9:30

Part of: Current Research IV

Paper

Anita Bakshi, Rutgers University (Participant)

With the increased focus on preserving the past has come scrutiny and criticism of commemorative practices and the “heritage crusade.” One of th...

Sessions in which Anita Bakshi attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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

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...

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...

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)

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...

Monday 6 June, 2016

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

11:00

In-community session: Teaching/Learning/Living Post-Industrial Ecologies: Roundtable on Concordia’s ‘Right to the City’ Initiative

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 - 12:30

Signup required

Salon Laurette - Salon Laurette

Roundtable

Simon Bradley (Participant)

Toby Butler, University of East London (Participant)

Dr Kathleen Vaughan, Concordia University, Art Education (Moderator)

Prof. Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University (Participant)

Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Participant)

Professor Edward Little, Concordia University (Participant)

In a collaborative and image-rich conversational presentation, “Teaching/Learning/Living Post-Industrial Ecologies” outlines the potentials and ...

12:30

Small (ERA Architects Inc.)

1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30

Signup required

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB 2.445

Talk

Philip Evans, ERA Architects (Participant)

Dr Jessica Mace, University of Toronto (Moderator)

As Canada shifts from a resource-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, small communities that were established to service the primary sect...

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...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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

13:30

Heritage and the New Fate of Sacred Places | Le patrimoine et le destin des lieux sacrés

3 hours 30 minutes, 13:30 - 17:00

Signup required

Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (St. Joseph Oratory) - Salle Raoul-Gauthier

Regular session

Chantal Turbide, L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (Moderator)

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

While historical churches are being abandoned all over the Christian West, more and more places are growing the opposite way: pilgrimage sites are ...